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How to Get a Response to That First Email
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in Dating and Relationships on November 22, 2012
If there's one thing every Dating Ninja knows it's that first impressions are everything in the world of online dating. That first email you send to someone on an online dating site can make or break your chances of getting a response. But with a little thought and little effort you can increase your chances of getting a response.
These are the DO's and DON'T's for that first email:
- DO personalize the email and mention something from the person's profile and tie it back to you. For example, I notice you like Green Day. Did you see them when they were in town last year? It was a fantastic show.
- DON'T start with, "Hi, how are you?" It's an empty question with a one-word answer – "fine."
- DO keep it short. Three to five sentences is about all you need in a first email.
- DON'T send the same email to every person you write to. It's impersonal and lazy.
- DO check for spelling errors before you click Send.
- DON'T ask a question that is already answered in the person's profile. It is a big red flag that you never actually read the person's profile.
The Formula
If you're not the best with words and you don't know where to start, use this formula:
- First sentence is about the person you're writing to.
- Second sentence is about you.
- Third sentence is a question that gives the person a reason to respond.
Dear Dating Ninja,
I love the photo of you in front of the Trevi Fountain. I was in Rome in June, and threw a couple of coins in the Trevi myself. What was your favorite spot in Rome?
While the above email comments on a photo in the profile, an email that comments on something that you read in the person's profile can increase your chances even more.
Dear Dating Ninja,
I see you have a passport story…me too. I learned that you should always know the expiration date of your passport! What's your story?
The bottom line is be authentic and engaging. Good luck!
Online Dating is Like Test Driving Volvos
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in Dating and Relationships on September 9, 2012
A very good friend of mine in the UK called me last week to tell me he had finally found the lid for his pot, or as they say in Cockney Rhyming slang his perfect China Plate (mate).
We have both been single on and off for the past 10 years, and have had many Skype sessions discussing the various reasons why. But it wasn't until this past week that we came up with the perfect analogy for our unsuccessful dating histories.
Test driving Volvos when you want to buy a Ferrari.
That one phrase pretty much sums up both of our online dating experiences. Online dating sites are chock full of Volvos. There is nothing wrong with a Volvo. It's a sturdy, stable, reliable car, but there's really nothing extraordinary about it. And it's just not sexy.
There are plenty of people who want to drive a Volvo, and plenty of people who want to drive a Ferrari. Me, I'm more of a Tesla girl. The Tesla is a one-of-kind car, a unique driving experience, and very adventurous. Here are some real comments from the Tesla website:
"It's one of the most fun vehicles I've ever driven."
"There has simply never been another car like this one."
"…my eyes are wide and my jaw has dropped."
That is exactly what I'm looking for in my China Plate. Someone who makes my heart pound and my jaw drop. In the words of Jeff Bezos I want someone who's resourceful. Someone who could get me out of a Third World prison. I'm pretty sure a Tesla could do that.
I have been lucky enough to test drive a few Tesla's in my life, and I'm still hoping to find the perfect model. But for now it seems like I'm looking for a Tesla in a city full of Volvos.
What's your perfect model?
Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make Me a Match
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in Dating and Relationships on February 14, 2012
Finding love is something millions of people are willing to pay for, even in a recession. Online dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony have taken that fact to the bank, and with the recent success of Patti Stanger's Millionaire Matchmaker TV show on Bravo, it's no wonder that ordinary people all over the country have started hanging out a shingle proclaiming themselves to be matchmakers. So I wasn't surprised a few weeks ago when a friend of mine told me she had recently been to one. However, I was surprised that said matchmaker was right in my own backyard in Lake Oswego, a small suburb of Portland, Oregon.
The only personal experience I have ever had with a "matchmaker" was the intake interview I had with a 20-something sales associate at It's Just Lunch many years ago. I filled out a form, she briefly interviewed me, and then proceeded to set me up with dates over the next 12 months. Although she did set me up with some pretty interesting men, there was no real coaching or follow up after that initial intake interview. The only real advice she gave me was on what not to talk about on the first date: sex, religion, politics. She set me up and I was on my own.
Enter Jacqueline Nichols, personal matchmaker and proprietor of Intuitive Matchmaking in Lake Oswego. I was very curious about this local matchmaker so I sent her an email and arranged for a visit.
The Intuitive Matchmaking office is located in a small business building nestled in the middle of the First Addition neighborhood in Lake Oswego, and you'd never know it was there if you didn't know exactly where to find it.
Her office space is intimate and colorful with little reminders of that love her clients are so desperately seeking. I notice a stack of brochures featuring photos of happy couples romping on the beach and the tagline "Find love. Enjoy love. Keep love" printed on the cover. Nichols takes a chair and I seat myself on – what else – but a love seat.
I ask the obvious question, why become a matchmaker?
The answer to that question lies in the name of her business, Intuitive Matchmaking. "I have been doing spiritual work for 25 years, and have been a sort of spiritual life coach for so many people through my Gratitude for Success business," she explains. "Part of being a spiritual life coach is helping people find balance and joy in all aspects of their life including their relationships, so it was just a natural instinct to help my clients find love as well as success in other parts of their life." It wasn't until her clients started writing "matchmaking" in the memo on their checks that the light bulb really went on.
"I match people at the soul level," she says. "That's the difference. I pay attention to what chapter of your life you're in right now and find you someone who's in that same place." A lot of her clients come into the service wondering why their relationships aren't working out. "There's a big difference between dating material and husband/wife material, and that's where I can help."
So what do you get when you hire a matchmaker like Nichols? Well that depends on how much you're willing to pay. The Beginners membership to her service starts at $99, which gets you a personal consultation and a spot in her database, where you can search to your heart's content. If you are an Elite member Nichols will proactively search her database for matches and possibly match you with "hidden clients" who are not public in her database. You also get a monthly consultation at this level.
The top level in her service is the Platinum tier. "I am basically your personal on-call matchmaker at this level," she says. "The Platinum clients have access to me 24/7, and I will search outside my database for matches for them if I need to." If you have to ask the price you probably can't afford it.
Although there are no guarantees in the search for love, Nichols claims to have a very high success rate. "I can usually find a match for someone in one to three introductions," she says. But don't expect those introductions to all happen in the first week. "I know your time is valuable, and I will not make an introduction unless I know it would be worth your time."
Her database of clients is small (about 500 people and growing) in comparison to the online dating institutions like Match.com or eHarmony, but consider the fact that Nichols has done her homework on your potential matches up front. "I have met or done a phone consultation with every single person in my service. And I do background checks on everyone as well. It's all about quality not quantity."
Although I have never claimed to be a matchmaker I have certainly become the go-to person in my circle of friends when it comes to questions about dating, especially online dating. So, I was extremely curious to hear Nichols' perspective on the state of dating and courtship in today's society.
"People don't know how to date," she says, and I couldn't agree more. We both agree that people are very quick to judge someone on a first date, which means in the world of fast-food dating (like Match.com) there are very few second dates. And who's quicker to judge on a first date? According to Nichols it's women.
"Men seem to be more forgiving on a first date. If there's no immediate chemistry they will usually give the woman a second chance just to see if there's something there. Women on the other hand usually have a much longer check list in their head, and if he doesn't have that one thing they walk away."
Nichols says people need to slow down and be more patient, and just allow the other person to get to know you. She suggests to give it at least three dates before you throw in the towel, preferably five. And what's the perfect first date venue? "Not a coffee date!" she says with a hint of frustration. "A coffee date just says, you're not really that special, and I want to make sure I can get out of here fast if this date is a disaster."
In her opinion a better choice would be happy hour (2-drink max), or a meeting at a bakery and then a walk, or just a glass of wine and appetizers somewhere. "You need one to two hours with nothing scheduled after the date, so you don't feel like you're constantly looking at your watch because you have to be somewhere else in an hour."
According to Nichols the biggest mistake people make on a first date is being too full of themselves. "They sit there and talk about themselves the whole time, and never really even take the time to get to know the other person." She says men and women are equally guilty of this.
My next question is a hotly-debated topic amongst my wide circle of friends.Why do so many older men only want to date younger women? I think I already know the answer to this question, but I want to hear what she has to say.
"I don't get those men as my clients," she says. "The successful men in my service are looking for a partner not an accessory. Successful older men who only date younger women are doing so because they think they're a great catch, even if they're not."
And what about the older women? "A lot of them want to date their fantasy," she says. "They want to date younger men because they are trying to recapture that feeling they had in college when they fell head over heels in love and everything was so fun and easy.They are trying to make up for all of those lost years." She says a lot of women my age are in that category. "The hardest thing I have to do is tell those women to look in the mirror and be honest with what they see. You may feel younger than you are, but you don't look like you're 25." Oh snap!
Nichols' business currently focuses on the Portland/Vancouver Metro area, but she plans to expand her business in the near future to reach out to clients in Seattle and Medford. Wait, did you just say Medford? Isn't the median age in Medford 75? Apparently retirees in their 60s and 70s are looking for love too, and Nichols aims to help them find it.
In the end her advice is pretty straight forward and simple. Stop watching the clock, stop focusing on the finish line and just enjoy the journey. And if you want to hire someone to ride that roller coaster with you hire a matchmaker.
You can find out more information about Jacqueline Nichols and Intuitive Matchmaking at IntuitiveMatchmaking.com.
Check her out on Facebook at facebook/intuitivematchmaking and on Twitter @imatchmaking.
Tell her the Dating Ninja sent you and receive 25% off one of her Beginners packages.
The Skype Coffee Date
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in Dating and Relationships on January 12, 2011
In the prehistoric dating world we dated people at work, in the neighborhood, or in the same zip code. If we were really adventurous we might venture to a neighboring zip code for a date. Well online dating has expanded that dating radius to every zip code, area code, postal code and country code in the world.
That's great, right? Sure, if you have unlimited vacation time and a bottomless bank account.
What happens when a guy in area code 503 (Portland) meets a gal in area 206 (Seattle)? They exchange a few emails, maybe a phone call, and then one of them offers to make the 3-hour drive to meet for coffee (more likely dinner because it's such a long drive). They meet and immediately realize there's no chemistry. She thinks he looks 10 years older than his profile picture. He thinks she looks 30 pounds heavier. And they are both right. They could have saved themselves a lot of time and money if they would have done one thing: had a Skype coffee date.
All of the emails and phone calls in the world won't show you what Skype will. Skype adds the dimension of body language that you can't get via email or phone. I highly suggest you skip the lengthy emails and phone calls and go straight to Skype.
The First Skype Date
Do yourself a favor and treat the first Skype date like you would any other first date. That is, take a shower, put some clean clothes on, brush your teeth, and pretend you're actually meeting in person. I suggest "meeting" for coffee first, and following the suggestions below:
- Pick an area in your home that is free of clutter, and doesn't have any personally identifying information in it.
- Set your computer on the table facing where you plan to sit, and then walk around to the back of the computer and take a look at what your date will see. Is there some hideous art in the background? Pictures of your kids? Your ex? Take them down or pick another spot.
- Check that the light is flattering. Fluorescent lights and overhead spotlights are the worst.
- Take a picture of yourself with your webcam so you can see the environment and the lighting before your date.
- Make yourself a cup of coffee or tea before the date, and off you go!
The Second Skype Date
If you're still not quite sure if you want to drive the three hours to meet your date in person, or fly 5000 miles as was the case with my first Skype coffee date, have a second date. In fact, make it a lunch or dinner date. You think I'm kidding? I'm not.
Have you ever been annoyed by the way someone eats a salad, munches their popcorn, or slurps their soup? Yep. Have a date that inlcludes food. Set your laptop on the kitchen table and have a meal with your date.
Once you have had a couple of Skype dates you'll know if you actually want to make the effort to meet in person. You will also get the added bonus of not having first-date jitters when you have your first real date, because you've basically already met.
Happy Skyping!
The DOs and DON'Ts of a Main Profile Picture
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in Dating and Relationships on December 22, 2009
I am a registered member of a dating site called OKCupid. One of the unique features of the site is you can write Journal entries, which I occasionally do. I posted the entry below a few days ago and I couldn't believe how defensive some of the guys got. It was like I had personally attacked their masculinity with my simple tips on how to choose the right main profile photo.
Here's the post:
Okay guys, listen up. I'm going to let you in on a couple of secrets about what goes through the mind of a woman when she looks at your profile and decides whether or not to read it or click the dreaded Hide button.
You have less than five seconds to catch our interest. This is the order in which most woman I know would notice things in your profile:
1. The first thing we look at is your MAIN photo.
2. The second thing is your screen name. Screen names like "PatheticLonelyGuy" and "Just4Sex" say a lot about who you are, how you feel about yourself, and what you're looking for.
3. The three adjectives.
4. The first sentence in your profile (if we get that far).
Lesson 1: The Profile Picture
This is all about that very first picture we see. The rest of the photos shouldn't follow all of these suggestions.
These are the DOs for your MAIN profile photo:
1. Headshot that clearly shows you from the shoulders up.
2. Smiling please. No one wants to date a sour puss.
3. Face the camera. No profiles.
4. Make sure the shot is in focus.
5. Recent photo.
6. Look directly into the camera. I realize I violated this with my original profile shot I had up, but there are exceptions to every rule.
These are the DON'Ts:
1. No hats. We want to see your hair or your chrome dome, as the case may be.
2. No sunglasses. We don't trust you if we can't see your eyes. How would you feel if you met a woman for a date and she never took off her sunglasses? Would you trust her.
3. Shot of you from far far away. Save that for the second or third photo.
4. No dead animals land or sea. A shot of you in a fishing hat and sunglasses holding up a dead fish does absolutely nothing to ignite the passions in a woman.
5. No photos of yourself in the bathroom. I take self shots a lot, but you'll never see a bathroom mirror, shower stall or toilet in the background!
To be cont'd…
Is all Really Fair in Love and War? A Match.com Story…
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in Dating and Relationships on December 19, 2008
Originally published on MySpace on December 19, 2008.
Is all really fair in love and war?
I got an email from a good friend the other day. I'll call him Mitch. The email started out on a very positive note. It started out with, Karma is shining her face on me I guess. The subject: Match.com.
But as always, there are interesting twists and turns when you are speaking of the online dating world.
Mitch's email to me went on to say that he had just been thinking it was time to cancel his Match.com membership and give it all a rest for a while, because he just wasn't meeting anyone worthwhile. Then he got an email from Cindy. She winked on a Monday morning, and they exchanged a few emails that day. It seemed she liked "nerdy, shy, intelligent types" (Mitch is), they enjoyed traveling to the same places, and even had the same favorite restaurant.
They arranged to meet for dinner on Wednesday. It all seemed too good to be true.
And it was…
He received an email from Cindy late Monday night, after they had traded emails all day and had planned to meet for dinner.
I would love to post the email verbatim here, but I don't have permission from Mitch to do that. But here's my version of it (grammatical errors and all!).
Hey, I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but don't bother going to our
favorite restaurant on Wednesday – I won't be there. In fact, I was really never planning to be there.
CONFESSION TIME: I put this profile up on Match and started emailing around to get my boyfriend jealous so that he'd get off his duff after 3 years and propose already, and it worked beautifully.
Sorry you got caught in the crossfires, but the emails had to look real. I guess your radar about my profile being to-good-to-be-true, was dead on. But hey, sometimes a gal's gotta due what a gal's gotta due.
If it makes you feel any better, you weren't the only one I was emailing. Just one of the few I didn't have to stand up. Happy Holidays!
Cindy <– Her real name because she deserves to be publicly flogged!
WTF Cindy? You used my good friend and a few other innocent bystanders to get your boyfriend to propose to you? And he actually walked right into your trap and proposed? Let me tell you something Cindy, people don't like to be cornered and given ultimatums. Your boyfriend proposed to you under duress because he thought it was the only way he could keep you. Well guess what, if he's not a dumbass he'll wake up one day soon and kick you to the curb. Who wants to spend the rest of their life with a manipulative woman who acts like she's still in high school? Or maybe you're both dumbasses and you just saved my friend Mitch from a disaster. Good riddance.
The moral of the story? People misrepresent themselves online all the time to get what they want. And they don't give a shit about you, because you're just a fictitious persona they came across on Match.com.
P.S. My friend Mitch is not curled up in a fetal position because of this little incident. It's just one of the many landmines of online dating. He was suspicious from the beginning.
What are the Odds of This Happening?
Posted by Kelly Jo Horton in I can't Categorize This on October 19, 2008
Originally published on October 19, 2008.
I had one of those totally surreal experiences right out of a Meg Ryan movie on Wednesday. First of all I was having very good parking karma that day, being that I had run over my 90-minute meter by 57 minutes by the time I left work, and there was no yellow envelope to be found on my window when I got back to my car. Sweet!
I had finished work a little early and I decided to stop by Cabana Boy's loft before heading home to pick up the kids from school. I drove the short distance from work to his loft in The Pearl and found a parking space right in front of his building. I fed the meter and fished in my purse for the keys to the front door of the building. Let me just say that my keys only work about 50% of the time because the lock on the front door seems to be stripped, and I usually struggle for a few minutes before someone with an electronic keycard comes or goes, and I slip through the door behind them.
Today was no different.
I put the shiny silver key into the lock and started jiggling it to see if I could get it to catch the pins. I've figured out that if I pull the key back just a hair it sometimes works, but not today.
I heard a voice behind me say, "You have an envelope stuck to your purse."
I turned and looked and sure enough, one of the many sticky parking meter stickers floating around my car had found its way to an envelope and then my purse. Lovely.
I looked at the guy and thanked him as I pulled the envelope and parking sticker from my purse.
"Oh my God!" he said, with a huge smile on his face. "You don't recognize me, do you?"
I immediately started scrolling through the list of faces from my 50 first dates of Match.com, eHarmony, craigslist, etc. Nothing registered.
"No, I'm sorry I don't recognize you," I said, just waiting for the embarrassing part that was bound to come next. "Who are you?"
"Sam S*****!"
"No way!" I screamed, as I immediately recognized this slightly older version of this guy I once knew. "But, wait, what? You live in Portland?" I said, completely flabbergasted. Was I on an episode of Punk'd?
"I live in the building," he said.
"No way!" I said in disbelief. "I don't believe this. Hey, can you let me in? My key never works."
We walked in together. He told me about his wife who is expecting twins in January. We exchanged business cards. He got off on the 4th floor, I on the 5th. When I arrived at Cabana Boy's loft I walked into the kitchen with my mouth hanging open and said, "You are never going to believe what just happened to me in front of your building."
You see Sam was my boyfriend when I went to University of New Hampshire in 1983! I haven't seen or been in touch with him since about 1988!
This has to be the most unbelievable case of "small world" that I have ever experienced. Second runner up is when I was walking out into the surf in Puerto Vallarta, turned to my left, and saw my next-door neighbor from my childhood neighborhood.
Have you ever had an incredible small world experience like this?
Sidenote: I was a senior and 21 when I exchanged to New Hampshire for a semester, and Sam was a freshman (save the cradle robber jokes!). We met ..-in day at the dorm. I got written up on my very first day in the dorm because I was drinking in his room with he and his roommates and they were all minors!


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Saturday, June 23 - 8:00am |
8:00am - 10:00am | 2012 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning | Award Presentation, Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 213D |
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After months of deliberation, the AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Committee is finally ready to unveil the AASL 2012 Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning. Join the committee as they share 25 websites that best support the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, inquiry learning and the curriculum. |
8:00am - 10:00am | Embedded Librarian Best Practices: You Can Do It, We Can Help | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 213AB |
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Embedded librarianship is not a new term, however, for librarians being partnered with faculty in online classrooms it is becoming a critical job component. Attendees of the session will contribute a tip or frustration of embedding which will be integrated into the program. Following a brief history on embedding, a panel will discuss different types of embedding models as they involve the audience with interactive audience polling. This panel presentation, facilitated by Debbie Nolan, Dean of University Libraries at Towson University, will present embedded librarian models for distance learning at different institutions. Panelists will give 20 minute presentations on the following topics: Three's Company Going Beyond the Embedded Librarian: Creating Online Classrooms to Teach Teachers About Information Literacy Direct and Repeated Interactions: The Regis Experience with Embedded Librarianship Interests :
Saturday, June 23 - 10:00am |
10:30am - 12:00pm | Back to Basics: Strategies & Techniques for Teaching Basic Digital Literacy to Underserved Populations | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 206A |
Description :
Many different underserved populations often don't possess basic digital literacy skills necessary for 21st century work and life. How are libraries meeting those basic needs? What works and doesn't work? How do you identify patrons in need of remedial and basic computer skills training? How should differences in population be handled (Adult basic education, ESL learners, older adults etc)? Examples of successful programs, customization to fit specific populations' needs and funding strategies will be covered. Interests :
10:30am - 12:00pm | Preparing College-Ready 21st Century Citizens with Integrated Information / Media Literacy Programs in Education | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 204A |
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How can K-12 and academic librarians prepare learners to work successfully in information- and technology-rich environments so they will be college-ready? How can we librarians expand our focus from information literacy to incorporate all 21st Century skills that boost deep content understanding, and successfully collaborate with teachers and professors to truly integrate these skills? This program features school and academic librarians who met this challenge and succeeded in integrating information literacy into their curriculum. Interests :
10:30am - 12:00pm | Science in the Stacks | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 209A |
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A new library service model for children which provides hands on opportunities for science learning for children ages 3-12 in urban public libraries. Science in the stacks is centered around 36 Discovery Exhibits which provide experiential sience learning that is integrated with traditional library resources. Interests :
Saturday, June 23 - 1:00pm |
1:30pm - 3:30pm | Critical Thinking in a Digital Age: The Positive Influence of Web 2.0 Tools | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 303AB |
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Do your students view social networking strictly as entertainment? Does the word "research" invoke yawns? This program examines the use of Web 2.0 tools as a way to foster critical thinking through collaboration. Students from multiple states share knowledge, evaluate information, draw conclusions, and learn about digital citizenship in engaging collaborative projects. Embrace 21st century learning styles as a gateway to higher-level thinking. |
1:30pm - 3:30pm | Discover Tech: How to present exciting engineering programs in your library | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 210C |
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Many libraries want to introduce STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) into their programming to attract new audiences and help stimulate children's interest in science and technology. Discover Tech is a new traveling exhibit for public libraries from the National Center for Interactive Learning/Space Science Institute. Find out about the exhibit, Engineers Without Borders, the Grand Challenges of Engineering and programs in robotics and green energy that will encourage aspiring young engineers and delight adults. The program will also discuss a new STEM Community of Practice for librarians and other helpful ideas and resources for engineering programs in libraries. Interests :
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Saturday, June 23 - 4:00pm |
4:00pm - 5:30pm | But What Are They Learning? | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 205A |
Description :
Some believe that engaging students in authentic learning can be challenging when presented with the 'bells and whistles' of technology, whether equipment or online resources, and they could be correct. But there are strategies and resources which offer the opportunities to do that. Use of student-owned devices and Web 2.0 resources will be discussed as will the ways to integrate the AASL "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner" into innovative learning opportunities. Interests :
4:00pm - 5:30pm | Digital Literacy and Libraries: Designing What Comes Next | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 206B |
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Join a discussion that will challenge you to think strategically about the future of digital literacy services in academic, school and public libraries – and how libraries fit in a larger educational and community context. What do we mean by "digital literacy" and why do these definitions matter? Speakers will address key roles for libraries and present alternative strategies for addressing evolving and shifting literacies. This session kick starts a series of national conversations on this topic. Interests :
Sunday, June 24 - 8:00am |
8:00am - 10:00am | Share the Wealth: Contribute to the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 205B |
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The "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database" is an online resource providing school librarians a user-friendly way to create and share lesson plans with their peers. How can you increase your chances of getting your lesson published? In this hands-on, bring-your-own laptop session, participants will be guided through the process of submitting a lesson. Those interested in volunteering to moderate submitted lessons will also benefit from this in-depth exploration the lesson plan template. Interests :
Sunday, June 24 - 10:00am |
10:30am - 12:00pm | Critical Thinking and Library Instruction: Fantasyland or Adventureland? | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 201D |
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LIRT provides a forum for conversation and professional development in library instruction and information literacy, key components to lifelong learning. Critical thinking competencies are essential to this process. As librarians move beyond "how to" instruction sessions, incorporating educational principles and practices, such as critical thinking, will help leverage their collaborations with user communities. Join us as we explore how libraries can promote successful information literacy outcomes through theory-based instruction, practical critical thinking activities, and faculty-librarian partnership in pedagogy. Interests :
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10:30am - 12:00pm | Ignite, Interact & Engage Adult Learners: Maximizing the Learning Outcome | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 203B |
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Audience involvement promotes learning. Explore tips and best practices for successfully igniting curiosity, promoting interaction, and engaging adult learners regardless of delivery platform: face-to-face, online, or blended. Discover how to effectively transform existing training into a different platform. Interests :
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Sunday, June 24 - 1:00pm |
1:30pm - 3:30pm | Discover Earth: How to present programs about earth sciences in your library | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 201B |
Description :
Many libraries want to introduce STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) into their programming to attract new audiences and help stimulate children's interest in science and technology. Discover Earth is a traveling exhibit for public libraries which showcases earth science topics such as weather, climate, and polar ecosystems, and pulls together many effective resources to help librarians. Hear from public library exhibit hosts and learn about a Community of Practice for librarians and scientists who want to create innovative STEM programs in libraries. Interests :
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1:30pm - 3:30pm | Learning Styles: Fiction, Nonfiction, or Mystery? | Program |
Hilton Anaheim California C |
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What do we really know about learning styles? This program will examine the conventional wisdom about learning styles and lead us into deeper consideration of how we address learning styles in our online and classroom teaching. A moderated panel of speakers will investigate the relevance and validity of learning styles in relation to information literacy instruction, and lead participants in exercises to reflect on their perceptions of learning styles. Interests :
1:30pm - 3:30pm | Revitalizing the Research Process: Bringing Research into the 21st Century | Program |
Hilton Anaheim Huntington |
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Learn how to embrace blogs, wikis, and other types of formerly taboo Web 2.0 resources as tools students can utilize to complete the research process. Presenters will provide instructions on how to develop a "learning hub" that will assist students in examining scholarly sources, taking annotated notes, organizing their research paper and producing a final multi-media project that will engage all students in a revitalized research process. |
1:30pm - 3:30pm | When Miss Rumphius Meets Hugo Cabret: Scaffolding Using Picture Books | Program |
Anaheim Convention Center 210C |
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Picture books can be used as a scaffold to help students understand new or difficult concepts. A quality picture book engages the reader and listener, helps students to acquire critical thinking and questioning skills and promotes lively discussion in a classroom. This session will demonstrate how picture books can be used to develop Blooming Questions, serve as a bridge to activate a student's prior knowledge and set the stage to integrate new content knowledge. Interests :
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Adult learners are often tasked with overcoming the pressures of returning to college. Students can feel overwhelmed with schedules, studying, and advancing technology. As non-traditional students may experience anxiety from academic stress, a personal touch can help them through the process. This presentation will discuss the process of building relationships with adult learners. Attendees will learn ways to reach non-traditional students and address their research and technology needs. Interests :
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This session is about the use of digital simulations in 21st century skills instruction. A digital simulation is a three-dimensional, computer-based, problem-solving situation that has many interacting variables and a landscape of information resources. Digital simulations are expanding the pedagogical possibilities for school librarians, and this session repositions digital simulations as additional sites for 21st century skills instruction by providing a functional level of interconnectivity among theory, research, skills, technology and grounded examples. Interests :
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Anaheim Convention Center 202B |
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Ninety-six librarians gather to discuss College Readiness: How prepared are our high school seniors for college research? What strengths do they take with them during this transition? What can we do to help them achieve success? Public, private, and alternative schools from Kansas and Missouri were in attendance along with 12 academic librarians from area colleges and universities. And, it was free to attend! Learn about the event, the Wiki, and the evolving workshops. Interests :
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Hilton Anaheim Avila |
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Implodes; Oxblood
Chicago post-rockers Implodes released their debut LP, Black Earth, Tuesday. Check out the lovely ambient soundscape Oxblood from the album.
Implodes; Oxblood
Dirty Beaches @ Holocene 4/24
Dirty Beaches
w/ The Reservations,Tunnels, & DJ Yeti
8:30pm $8
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Portland, OR, USA
Friday, April 22, 2011
Kurt Vile & The Violators w/EMA @ Bunk Bar 4/23
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Doors open at 9pm Show starts at 10pm
$12 at the door
Flashback Classic Tracks-The Jesus & Mary Chain; April Skies
We are posting this for three very good reasons. 1) It's April 2) It's the JAMC & 3) It's rad. You're welcome.
The Jesus & Mary Chain; April Skies
Friday- Featured mp3's; Tom Vek, Deerhunter, Xray Eyeballs, Radiohead
4/22/11- Friday's featured mp'3s are;
Tom Vek; A Chore
Deerhunter; Nosebleed
Xray Eyeballs; Crystal
Radiohead; Supercollider
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Portland, OR, USA
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Spectrum @ East End 4/22 CANCELLED
We went to check on the Spectrum show at the East End Friday, only to find out the show has been cancelled. A full refund will be given to those who have already purchased tickets. #buzzkill #PDX.
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart @ The Doug Fir 4/21
Shoegaze drenched indie pop from NYC quartet
Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm
$15 advance, $15 day of show
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Evil Men Have No Songs EP
Although we are half way across the world, we are quickly falling in love with the indie scene in Budapest. We have already talked about lo-fi noise poppers Zombie Girlfriend and how much we dig their sound. Well recently were turned on to Evil Men Have No Songs, named after a Nietzsche quote, a self described shoegaze-dream pop band with 1960's pop melodies. Take a listen to their 2010 self titled EP, also available as a free download on their Bandcamp page. We can't wait to hear more.
Tame Impala w/ Yuck 4/20 @ Wonder Ballroom
Tame Impala
If you have followed us for any period of time you know one of our favorite new bands is Yuck. They will roll into Portland tonight and open for Aussie psych rockers Tame Impala. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm, $17 at the door.
Fleet Foxes On Jools Holland
Last night Fleet Foxes performed the track Grown Old from their upcoming LP Helplessness Blues on Jools Holland. Check it.
La Sera; Watch Me Jumpstart (GBV Cover)
As part of the compilation album of Guided By Voices covers, Sing For Your Meat, La Sera contributed the track Watch Me Jumpstart. The album was released in support of Record Store Day and included contributions from the likes of Thurston Moore, Superdrag, Lou Barlow, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and The Flaming Lips. Take a listen to La Sera's contribution below.
La Sera; Watch Me Jumpstart (GBV Cover)
Bon Iver Announces New Album
Justin Vernon released his first album For Emma, Forever Ago under the name Bon Iver in 2007. He was picked up shortly thereafter by Jagjaguar and quickly became an indie superstar. He released the EP, Blood Bank in 2009, but has seemingly neglected the project since then. He has released work with the likes of Kanye and Gangs, and released a side project in the interim, but made no mention of the stealth like recording of his sophomore Bon Iver release. Come to find out he and his brother have recorded and mastered an album in an old veterinarian clinic in Wisconsin over the last three years, with a little help from his friends. The new album is scheduled to drop on June 21. Check out the cover art above and the track list plus a brief video preview of the album below.
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03 Holocene
04 Towers
05 Michicant
06 Hinnom, TX
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tom Vek; A Chore
After five long years Tom Vek has announced the release of his sophomore album Leisure Seizure, scheduled to drop June 7th. Check out the first single A Chore.
Tom Vek; A Chore
Explosions In The Sky; Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Streaming
Explosions In The Sky have made their new LP, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care available for streaming, in advance of it's 4/26 release date. You can stream it on their website http://www.explosionsinthesky.com.
New Releases 4/19
Some pretty interesting releases this week. Check out the ones that caught our ears;
Eternal Summers; The Prisoner EP
Eternal Summers; Prisoner
The Head And The Heart; The Head And The Heart (Re-issue)
The Head And The Heart; Down In The Valley
Joel Jerome; When Beck Was Cool
Joel Jerome; Cyanide Breath Mint
The Peoples Temple; Sons Of Stone
The Peoples Temple; Sons Of Stone
Xray Eyeballs; Not Nothing
Xray Eyeballs; Crystal
Eternal Summers; The Prisoner EP
Eternal Summers; Prisoner
The Head And The Heart; The Head And The Heart (Re-issue)
The Head And The Heart; Down In The Valley
Joel Jerome; When Beck Was Cool
Joel Jerome; Cyanide Breath Mint
The Peoples Temple; Sons Of Stone
The Peoples Temple; Sons Of Stone
Xray Eyeballs; Not Nothing
Xray Eyeballs; Crystal
Deerhunter; Nosebleed
One of our nicest Record Store Day purchases was Deerhunter's Memory Boy 7" on white vinyl. Take a listen to the B-side track Nosebleed.
Deerhunter; Nosebleed
The National; Exile Vilify
Stereogum premiered a new track from The National that will be released on the videogame soundtrack for Portal 2. Take a listen to Exile Vilify.
The National; Exile Vilify
Monday, April 18, 2011
Dirty Beaches; Sweet 17 Live In NYC Video
Gems captured Dirty Beaches performing Sweet 17 live at Brooklyn's Grasslands. Check it out.
Dirty Beaches
Portland, OR, USA
Piresian Beach & Zombie Girlfriend; Record Store Day Acoustic Set Video
Record Store Day had all sorts of great moments across the globe. Check out this three song in store acoustic set in Budapest Hungary by one of our favorites, Szabó Benedek aka Zombie Girlfriend, and Németh Zsófia aka Piresian Beach.
Youth Lagoon; Cannons
Boise Idaho's Youth Lagoons, has been garnering some well earned attention in the blogosphere for their track, Cannons off of the upcoming album The Year Of Hibernation, scheduled to drop this summer. Give it a spin.
Youth Lagoon; Cannons
Cat's Eyes; Face In The Crowd
Cat's Eyes are set to release their self titled debut LP in the US on May 3rd. The album is already available in the UK. They released a video for the track Face In The Crowd to help wet your whistle. Check it.
Beige; Folds
Last week was a crazy week for us and we missed a few things. So thanks to the folks over at No Fear Of Pop for pointing out that Brooklyn based psych poppers, Beige, dropped a new track on Tumblr. Take a listen to Folds.
Beige; Folds
Porcelain Raft; Fountain's Head
Mauro Remiddi aka Porcelain Raft released a new three track EP titled Fountain's Head on his Band Camp page. Check it out.
Archers; Evil City Music
Portland's own Archers have dropped a demo for the title track of their forthcoming LP. Check it out. Also, check 'em out live 4/28 at East End or 5/10 at Mississippi Studios.
Archers; Evil City Music
Radiohead; Supercollider/The Butcher mp3's
Radiohead released two new tracks on limited pressings for Record Store Day in the UK. Supercollider & The Butcher will be available in the US in June. Until then take a listen to both of 'em below.
Radiohead; Supercollider
Radiohead; The Butcher
Young Prisms; Breathless Free Download
San Francisco's lo-fi shoegazers Young Prisms have released Breathless as a free download. Pretty good way to kick off the week.
Young Prisms; Breathless
Times New Viking; Dancer Equired First Listen On NPR
We have really enjoyed the new not so fuzzed out tracks we've heard so far off of Times New Viking's upcoming LP Dancer Equired, now you can stream the whole thing over at NPR. CLICK HERE TO STREAM.
Woodsman; Tone Cloak
Woodsman have released a 7.55 minute drone gem on their split release with Tjutjuna. Check out Tone Cloak.
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Deerhunter; Primitive 3D on Pitchfork TV
Deerhunter and Pitchfork have teamed up for a 3D visual adventure with the video for Primitive. Slap on your 3D glasses and check it.
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Work-related asthma in a bathtub refinishing technician prompted measurements of isocyanate exposure in this operation. Very high levels of hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) oligomer, up to 8500 microg/m3 NCO, were found during top varnish spray-painting, whereas the levels of HDI monomer were substantially lower. The results suggest that only full-piece, self-contained respirators would suffice to protect technicians from serious pulmonary disease. |
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Imagine being out of work with no dental insurance.
Now picture yourself having an excruciating toothache. Where do you go?
The pain can get so bad that many patients end up in the emergency room.
To cut costs of expensive ER visits and to help patients in need, Swedish Medical Center teamed up with community foundations to provide specialty dental care.
When you start taking in the emergency room and needing to be hospitalized, it can get into the thousands of dollars just to take care of a simple -- what started as a simple tooth infection, dentist Amy Winston said.
Access to dental care can also help patients beyond relieving pain. John Vaughan, a patient at the new clinic, said he's unemployed. A few things going against me when I go to look for work, my age, my teeth and I figure anything I can do to level the playing field a bit is going to help, he said.
Vaughan is having his teeth removed so he can be fit with dentures.
Participating dentist Bart Johnson said the program is launching with an extraction clinic. Over time we're ramping up where we'll do root canals and other speciality care here that the community clinics can't, he said.
The clinic's organizers estimate it will see up to 450 patients in the first year of operation, and 2,000 in year two. The clinic is located in the Heath Building next to Swedish Medical Center on First Hill.
Patients need a referral through Swedish or from other low-income health clinics in the area.
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"Back Door Santa" is a song written by Clarence Carter and Marcus Daniel, and originally performed by Carter. It was released on a compilation album Soul Christmas in 1968. The track is in a 12-bar blues format. The lyrics are sexually suggestive, not having much to do with Christmas as a holiday.
Run-D.M.C. sampled the song for "Christmas in Hollis".
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There are about 70,000 decline-to-state voters in Ventura County. These independent voters have a lot to offer, but vote in extremely low numbers in primary elections. I believe this is because the current laws and practices bend over backward to protect the political parties at the expense of the independent voter. As it stands today in Ventura County, poll workers are instructed not to mention to the undeclared, or DTS voters, that they have the right to vote in party primaries — unless they ask. This is because there is a fear the poll worker, in volunteering this information, might emphasize one party over another and potentially show bias.
While there is some merit to this argument, it could easily be remedied with proper standards and training. The current practice of not giving this information at the polling place, in effect, suppresses the independent vote in the selection of those who represent us in government.
With California's recent history of passing an open primary, then having it rejected by the courts and replaced with our current "modified closed primary election," and then changing the dates of the primary from June to March and back to June, except for the presidential primary in February, don't we owe it to the voters to make the process a little easier? It's about customer service. And, more importantly, it's about access. Yes, this information is provided in the voter pamphlet mailed out prior to the election. But, given California's complicated primary history, we can do better by informing voters of their specific rights on Election Day as well.
Currently, in California, some counties voluntarily provide this information at the polling place, and some do not, for the reasons mentioned above. This in itself creates confusion for all involved. Fortunately, there is new legislation working its way through Sacramento that addresses this problem. Sponsored by Secretary of State Debra Bowen, and authored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer, AB2953 provides that, "Prior to furnishing a ballot to a voter who has declined to state a party affiliation, a member of the precinct board shall inform the voter that he or she may request a ballot for a political party that has adopted a party rule" — that allows them to vote in their primary. This simple mandate would encourage independent voters to participate in greater numbers in our elections.
Some partisans scoff at the independent voters, saying that they "have no opinion or convictions." But, independent voters very often have a mix of beliefs and principles that don't completely fit into one party's mold. A study done at the New America Foundation shows that the independent voter is generally younger, male, college-educated, a fiscal conservative (willing to accept fewer government services in exchange for paying less in taxes), pro-choice, an environmentalist, pro-securing the border, and growing in numbers of minorities. Sounds like a pretty concerned, informed bloc of voters.
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Running Time: 75
Director: Deidre Von Dutch
Company: Gothic Entertainment
Distribution Companies: GwenMedia
Mistress Gemini, Felix Vicious, Anastasia Pierce, Michelle Lay
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Specialty
Of special interest to rubber and latex fans.
Sumptuous settings, trancelike music and incredible rubber costumes spice up this strangely hypnotic all-female BDSM show directed by Deidre von Dutch (a.k.a. Skye Blue). Anastasia Pierce is "La Marquise de Sade," with a stable of beautiful submissives featuring very sexy Michelle Lay and Felix Vicious. There's plenty of handcuffs, vibrators, pump gags and full-head latex masks for all.
The camerawork is great, and the action is often fascinating, though the pace is slow. Pierce looks great in her shiny rubber gloves and boots, but is really too languid to be a convincing domme. Sultry redheaded Mistress Gemini, however, steals the show with her sharp fingernails and severe manner. When she threatens to punish Lay, there's no doubt she means it.
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Jerry Zgoda missed the entire Kevin Garnett era, but he's back covering the Timberwolves after working the beat for their first four seasons two decades ago. In between, he covered a bit of everything: Gopher men's and women's basketball and NCAA athletics, golf, outdoor recreation, sports media and a little Vikings and Twins.
Well, that was easy.
Admit it, fans of the Wolves. The team was coming off a 2-5 road trip, had played a two-overtime game in OKC to finish it, Nikola Pekovic and J.J. Barea were hurt and Denver was in town.
Did you expect this?
Greetings. Kent Youngblood here. I covered today's game. Jerry will be at practice tomorrow, and I will be with the team in Memphis and Charlotte.
This was a pretty gutty win for the Wolves, who won going away, thanks to a 39-9 run that started in the first quarter and ended in the second; the Wolves played great defense early, holding the Nuggets without a point for the first four minutes of the second quarter.
And now the Wolves are 2 1/2 games behind No. 8 Houston in the West. Denver and Phoenix are also ahead of the Wolves. But, given that Denver has opened it's own seven-game road trip with two losses, I'm thinking they could be playing themselves out of the playoff picture before long.
We'll see.
Here are some notes and thoughts from today's game:
--This was the Wolves second victory in 19 meetings with Denver. The win broke and eight-game home losing streak to the Nuggets.
--20,032 fans watched it, making this the ninth sellout of the season and the fourth in five games. it is also the first time in franchise history that 20,000-plus fans have attended three straight home games.
--Kevin Love (ho, hum) was, of course, incredible again. One game after scoring a franchise-high 51 points in OKC, he had his third 30-20 game of the season and the seventh of his career. He also had his ninth 30-15 game of the season, one more than the rest of the league combined.
--The Wolves, 28-point third quarter lead was their biggest of the season.
--Both Luke Ridnour (25) and Wayne Ellington (17) had season highs in scoring today.
--Minnesota's 68 first-half points were a season-high for a half this season.
That's about it for now. Jerry will get back to you tomorrow.


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Science kits these days don't contain many items that you couldn't already find around the house: salt, balloons, magnets and a few odds and ends. But kids who were lucky enough to have wealthy parents in the early 1950s had the unprecedented chance to play with uranium ore in this very cool science kit. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was only sold from 1951 to 1952, and at the time its $50 price tag was too steep for many families. The kit came with four different types of uranium ore, a geiger counter, a miniature cloud chamber, an electroscope, a spinthariscope and an educational comic book called "Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom!" Kids could perform their own experiments at home to discover the secrets of radioactive materials and learn how they made "clean, safe" atomic energy.
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Interesting note: they also sell death ray's, which no Evil Mad Scientist should be without. You can see people testing them out on youtube.
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Interesting note: they also sell death ray's, which no Evil Mad Scientist should be without. You can see people testing them out on youtube.
Why buy a deathray when you can make your own with mirrors and an old satellite dish.
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Hehe good find, I haven't seen those before. I do have a couple of 'science for boys' type books of experiments from the 1940's somewhere, from memory there are instructions for preparing chloroform, and some experiments with white phosphorous, and the thermit reaction is in there too. My favourite though, was 'why does water roll off a duck's back?'. In brackets underneath the title it said "you do NOT need a duck for this experiment". Well it made me chuckle anyway.
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Boy, times have changed!
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Apparently the child could start with this .........
and then work his way up to this kit here.
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Most folks choose to spend their honeymoon lying on the beach, sipping wine or just having a whole lot of sex. Courtney Dillard and Matthew Webber want to spend their honeymoon eating breakfast. For five months.
Their plan is to drive across America in a 1997 Ford Aerostar, having interviewing strangers over breakfast and writing about them in a book called
Breakfast With Strangers
. Dillard, a professor of Communications at Willamette University, and Webber, a community organizer, are looking to Kickstarter to
raise $8,000 to help fund their meals
We spoke to the couple on the phone last week:
: Where did this honeymoon idea come from?
Webber: Courtney and I would just be out to breakfast, and Courtney would see someone sitting by themselves at a table and say out loud, "We should just invite them over and have them join us." And we didn't do that, but when we'd leave the restaurant, we'd pay their bill without them knowing it and slip out the front door. And then it just evolved. We went online and said, "We'd like to take you out for breakfast. Tell us why we should take you out for pancakes." And we put it on Craigslist and got a couple of good responses. Then it stayed dormant for a while, and we thought "What if we did this on a bigger scale?" And it was like "This would be a great honeymoon trip!"
How many places are you visiting?
Dillard: The way we've talked about it is from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, but really, the way we're doing it is snaking across the country, hitting some of middle as we go east, then coming back through the south. So probably 35-40 states in five months.
How do you plan to meet your dining partners?
Webber: It's going to be a mix, we're going to find some of them through online communities—like Craigslist and Reddit. I just put a thread on a food Reddit and we've had 200 plus emails in 24 hours. It's really insane. People are writing us from Portland, Maine to Enterprise, Alabama.
Will that dictate your route?
Webber: I think we're going to leave it up in the air, too. We'll have the knowledge of where some of these folks are through those, but we really want to have some serendipitous breakfasts. I want to get lost in northeastern Montana and just run into some guy in a diner and be brave enough to ask him to have that person be our breakfast interview. 'Cause if we just keep doing it just through online communities, we're going to get a very specific segment of the population. So there's a bit of that; we're doing couch surfing; there's an international nonprofit called
that we're members of that does house stays; just grabbing people at diners—we've done enough travelling before to know that if you just put yourself out there, you're going to meet people.
What are you going to talk about over breakfast?
Dillard: We start off just getting to know what they're about, what they do, some of their perspectives on life, and then we have set up about 25 questions, everything from what's the most influential book you've ever read to tell us about your best friend, to what's your biggest regret. What is right with America? What is wrong with America? I think my favorite question we ask is "what's the nicest thing you've ever done for a stranger?"
So you've had a few breakfasts already?
Dillard: Right, we wanted to get a feel for it by taking a few people in Portland out and see how it went. We've taken five people out, and all have been really wonderful.
Where do you eat breakfast in Portland?
Dillard: My favorite place is our home when Matt makes me breakfast. We eat a lot at
, and we take our old neighbor out to breakfast at some of the old joints around town, like the Overlook.
Webber: There's some old greasy spoons around town—Dotty is this old lady Courtney used to live next to and who is kind of the recluse with several cats kind of lady who wears an overcoat all the time. So we take her out once a month and that gets us out to new places.
Are you worried you'll get sick of eating out?
Webber: I just bought a new pair of running shoes yesterday. There's probably going to be a point where it's just like: oatmeal. Somebody's going to order whatever it is in front of us and we're just going to order oatmeal or fruit. We'll probably go to two meals a day whenever we're doing the interviews.
Can you eat breakfast at people's houses?
Webber: We've had a bunch of different responses from people who want to cook breakfast for us, have us over to their house. There's a couple in Portland, Maine who are going to cook us breakfast on a sailboat.
And if you can find some people of different ethnic backgrounds, you might be able to spice up your breakfast options beyond toast and eggs.
Webber: Yeah I just got an email from a pastor in Denver who sounds fascinating, he does a Monday night service at a bar. Then I had an 18-year-old undocumented kid in Southern California. So we definitely want to reach out of the Portland bubble and the more interesting and diverse stories like that we definitely want to track down and hit their home town.
Dillard: Though it is true that each person seems to have a different "nugget"—that kind of orienting principle to them. So even if all of them are around the same age or have the same outlook. In our five Portland breakfasts, we've had a guy who was bullied and is now a real advocate for sexually abused women, to a guy who left Nebraska and lost 100 pounds and left his old self behind, to a women who tends to the 10,000 corporate plants in downtown Portland, to a women whose work is to listen to the calls of prisoners that are held for domestic violence charges.
Do your friends and family think you're crazy for not just going to a beach resort?
Webber: I think the family is slowly coming around; the fact that we're trying to make a book around it allows them to wrap their heads around it a bit more. There's a business aspect—fathers can understand that.
Dillard: I think for me, the reason why this is an intriguing project, to look across the table to somebody you know has taken a risk, they're kind of proud of themselves for having taken that risk, they wanted to be the person who responded to an ad and went to breakfast with a stranger as much as we wanted to be the people who took them to breakfast. I think our friends get that, like "I think that's a neat idea because there's a part of me that wants to be that person."
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Lateral inhibition
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In neurobiology, lateral inhibition is the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. Lateral inhibition disables the spreading of action potentials from excited neurons to neighboring neurons in the lateral direction. This creates a contrast in stimulation that allows increased sensory perception. It is also referred to as lateral antagonism and occurs primarily in visual processes, but also in tactile, auditory, and even olfactory processing.[1] Cells that utilize lateral inhibition appear primarily in the cerebral cortex and thalamus and make up lateral inhibitory networks (LINs).[2] Artificial lateral inhibition has been incorporated into artificial sensory systems, such as vision chips,[3] hearing systems,[4] and optical mice.[5][6] An often under-appreciated point is that although lateral inhibition is visualised in a spatial sense, it is also thought to exist in what is known as "lateral inhibition across abstract dimensions." This refers to lateral inhibition between neurons that are not adjacent in a spatial sense, but in terms of modality of stimulus. This phenomenon is thought to aid in colour discrimination.[7]
The concept of neural inhibition (in motor systems) was well known to Descartes and his contemporaries.[8] Sensory inhibition in vision was inferred by Ernst Mach in 1865 as depicted in his mach band.[9][10] Inhibition in single sensory neurons was discovered and investigated starting in 1949 by Haldan K. Hartline when he used logarithms to express the effect of Ganglion receptive fields. His algorithms also help explain the experiment conducted by David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel that expressed a variation of sensory processing, including lateral inhibition, within different species.[11]
In 1956, Hartline revisited this concept of lateral inhibition in horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) eyes, during an experiment conducted with the aid of Henry G Wagner and Floyd Ratliff. Hartline explored the anatomy of ommatidia in the horseshoe crab because of their similar function and physiological anatomy to photoreceptors in the human eye. Also, they are much larger than photoreceptors in humans, which would make them much easier to observe and record. Hartline contrasted the response signal of the ommatidium when a single concentrated beam of light was directed at one receptor unit as opposed to three surrounding units.[12] He further supported his theory of lateral inhibition as the response signal of one unit was stronger when the surrounding units were not exposed to light.[13]
Sensory inhibition[edit]
Georg von Békésy, in his book Sensory Inhibition,[14] explores a wide range of inhibitory phenomena in sensory systems, and interprets them in terms of sharpening.
Visual inhibition[edit]
Lateral inhibition increases the contrast and sharpness in visual response. This phenomenon occurs in the mammalian retina, for example. In the dark, a small light stimulus will be enhanced by the different photoreceptors (rod cells). The rods in the center of the stimulus will transduce the "light" signal to the brain, whereas different rods on the outside of the stimulus will send a "dark" signal to the brain. This contrast between the light and dark creates a sharper image. (Compare unsharp masking in digital processing). This mechanism also creates the Mach band visual effect.
Visual Lateral Inhibition is the process in which photoreceptor cells aid the brain in perceiving contrast within an image. Electromagnetic light enters the eye by passing through the cornea, pupil, and the lens (optics).[15] It then bypasses the ganglion cells, amacrine cells, bipolar cells, and horizontal cells in order to reach the photoreceptors rod cells which absorb light. The rods become stimulated by the energy from the light and release an excitatory neural signal to the horizontal cells.
This excitatory signal, however, will only be transmitted by the rod cells in the center of the Ganglion cell receptive field to ganglion cells because horizontal cells respond by sending an inhibitory signal to the neighboring rods to create a balance that allows mammals to perceive more vivid images.[16] The retinal ganglion cells will still receive an excitatory neural response but only from the center rod. The central rod will send its excitatory neural response directly to bipolar cells which in turn will relay the signal to the ganglion cells.[17] This inhibition produced by horizontal cells creates a more concentrated and balanced signal for the retinal ganglion cells to send to the cerebral cortex through the optic nerve.
Tactile inhibition[edit]
Sensory information collected by the peripheral nervous system is transmitted to specific areas of the primary somatosensory area in the parietal cortex according to its origin on any given part of the body. For each neuron in the primary somatosensory area, there is a corresponding region of the skin that is stimulated or inhibited by that neuron.[18] The regions that correspond to a location on the somatosensory cortex are mapped by a homonculus. This corresponding region of the skin is referred to as the neuron's receptive field. The most sensitive regions of the body have the greatest representation in any given cortical area, but they also have the smallest receptive fields. The lips, tongue, and fingers are examples of this phenomenon.[18] Each receptive field is composed of two regions: a central excitatory region and a peripheral inhibitory region. One entire receptive field can overlap with other receptive fields, making it difficult to differentiate between stimulation locations, but lateral inhibition helps to reduce that overlap.[19] When an area of the skin is touched, the central excitatory region activates and the peripheral region is inhibited, creating a contrast in sensation and allowing sensory precision. The person can then pinpoint exactly which part of the skin is being touched. In the face of inhibition, only the neurons that are most stimulated and least inhibited will fire, so the firing pattern tends to concentrate at stimulus peaks. This ability becomes less precise as stimulation moves from areas with small receptive fields to larger receptive fields, e.g. moving from the fingertips to the forearm to the upper arm.[18]
Auditory inhibition[edit]
Similarities between sensory processes of the skin and the auditory system suggest lateral inhibition could play a role in auditory processing. The basilar membrane in the cochlea has receptive fields similar to the receptive fields of the skin and eyes. Also, neighboring cells in the auditory cortex have similar specific frequencies that cause them to fire, creating a map of sound frequencies similar to that of the somatosensory cortex.[20] Lateral inhibition in tonotopic channels can be found in the inferior colliculus and at higher levels of auditory processing in the brain. However, the role that lateral inhibition plays in auditory sensation is unclear. Some scientists found that lateral inhibition could play a role in sharpening spatial input patterns and temporal changes in sensation,[21] others propose it plays an important role in processing low or high tones.
Lateral inhibition is also thought to play a role in suppressing tinnitus. Tinnitus can occur when damage to the cochlea creates a greater reduction of inhibition than excitation, allowing neurons to become aware of sound without sound actually reaching the ear.[22] If certain sound frequencies that contribute to inhibition more than excitation are produced, tinnitus can be suppressed.[22] Evidence supports findings that high-frequency sounds are best for inhibition and therefore best for reducing some types of tinnitus. This research is still in the early stages of development and has yet to establish any concrete connections or solutions, but hopefully will in the near future.
In mustached bats, evidence supports the hypothesis that lateral inhibitory processes of the auditory system contribute to improved auditory information processing. Lateral inhibition would occur in the medial and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate nucleus of mustached bats, along with positive feedback.[23] The exact functions of these regions are unclear, but they do contribute to selective auditory processing responses. These processes could play a role in auditory functioning of other mammals, such as cats.
In embryology, the concept of lateral inhibition has been adapted to describe processes in the development of cell types.[24] Lateral inhibition is described as a part of the Notch signaling pathway, a type of cell–cell interaction. Specifically, during asymmetric cell division one daughter cell adopts a particular fate that causes it to be copy of the original cell and the other daughter cell is inhibited from becoming a copy. Lateral inhibition is well documented in flies, worms and vertebrates.[25] In all of these organisms, the transmembrane proteins Notch and Delta (or their homologues) have been identified as mediators of the interaction. Research has been more commonly associated with Drosophila, the fruit fly.[26]
Neuroblast with slightly more Delta protein on its cell surface will inhibit its neighboring cells from becoming neurons. In flies, frogs, and chicks, Delta is found in those cells that will become neurons, while Notch is elevated in those cells that become the glial cells.
See also[edit]
- Optical illusion
- Mach band
- Cornsweet illusion
- Grid illusion
- Range fractionation
- Edge effects
- Simultaneous contrast
- ^ Yantis, Steven (2014). Sensation and Perception. New York, NY: Worth Publishers. p. 77.
- ^ Shamma, Shihab A. (3 January 1985). "Speech processing in the auditory system II: Lateral inhibition and the central processing of speech evoked activity in the auditory nerve". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 78: 1623. doi:10.1121/1.392800. Check date values in:
(help); - ^ Alireza Moini (2000). Vision Chips. Springer. ISBN 0-7923-8664-7.
- ^ Christoph von der Malsburg et al. (editors) (1996). Artificial Neural Networks: ICANN 96. Springer. ISBN 3-540-61510-5.
- ^ Alireza Moini (1997). "Vision Chips" (PDF).
- ^ Richard F. Lyon (1981), "The Optical Mouse and an Architectural Methodology for Smart Digital Sensors" (PDF), Xerox PARC report VLSI-81-1
- ^ RHS Carpenter (1997). Neurophysiology. Arnold, London.
- ^ Marcus Jacobson (1993). Foundations of neuroscience (2nd ed.). Springer. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-306-44540-8.
- ^ Yantis, Steven. Sensation and perception. New York, NY: Worth Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7167-5754-2.
- ^ G. A. Orchard and W. A. Phillips (1991). Neural computation: a beginner's guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-86377-235-1.
- ^ Shaw, ed. by Gordon L.; Gunther Palm (1988). Brain theory: Reprint Volume (Reprinted. ed.). Singapore [u.a.]: World Scientific. ISBN 9971504847.
- ^ Goldstein, E. Bruce (2007). Sensation and perception (7. ed. ed.). Wadsworth: Thomson. ISBN 9780534558109.
- ^ Hartline, Haldan K.; Henry G Wagner; Floyd Ratliff (20 May 1965). "Inhibition in the eye of Limulus". The Journal of General Psychology. 5 39: 651–671. Check date values in:
(help); - ^ Georg Von Békésy (1967). Sensory Inhibition. Princeton University Press.
- ^ Heller, Morton A.; Edouard Gentaz (Oct 2013). Psychology of Touch and Blindness. Taylor and Francis. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9781134521593.
- ^ Yantis, Stevens (2014). Sensation and perception. Worth Publishers.
- ^ Levine, Michael W. (2000). Levine & Shefner's fundamentals of sensation and perception (3rd ed. ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198524670.
- ^ a b c Heller, Morton A. (2013). Psychology of Touch and Blindness. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis. p. 20.
- ^ Fox, Kevin (2008). Barrel Cortex. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 127.
- ^ Bernstein, Douglas A. (2008). Psychology. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 118.
- ^ Shamma, Shihab A. (3 January 1985). "Speech processing in the auditory system II: Lateral inhibition and the central processing of speech evoked activity in the auditory nerve". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 78: 1622. doi:10.1121/1.392800. Check date values in:
(help); - ^ a b Moller, Aage R. (2011). Textbook of Tinnitus. New York, NY: Springer. p. 96.
- ^ Gallagher, Michela; Irving Weiner; Randy Nelson (2003). "Biological Psychology". Handbook of Psychology 3: 84.
- ^ Alfred Gierer and Hans Meinhardt (1974). Donald S. Cohen, ed. "Biological Pattern Formation Involving Lateral Inhibition". Some Mathematical Questions in Biology VI: Mathematical Aspects of Chemical and Biochemical Problems and Quantum Chemistry (American Mathematical Society) 7. ISBN 978-0-8218-1328-7.
- ^ Haddon, C.; L. Smithers; S. Schneider-Maunoury; T. Coche; D. Henrique; J. Lewis (January 1998). "Multiple delta genes and lateral inhibition in zebrafish primary neurogenesis" (PDF). Development: 359–370. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^ Jorg, Reichrath (2012). Notch Signaling in Embryology and Cancer. Springer. ISBN 9781461408994.
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Johan Santana got his no hitter :D the first in mets history!!!
Votes 1 Posted by googoohump
Green grass and brown sand in the infield, sitting behind and above home plate and the ump with my fellow score keeping/data gathering buds, temperature in the 80's but the low humidity and slight breeze making it a most incredible "day in the park" afternoon little league championship play offs game Spring/Summer day 1989, and we WON WON WON!!! YEAH, GO MUSTANGS!!!! Houston/Alief, Texas. (Thanks to my son and 11 other great kids who at the beginning of the season, according to the "regulars" didn't have a snow balls chance to even win one game, and thanks to Coach... the Bad News Bears Incarnate!!!) Yeeaahh, memories :-)
Votes 1 Posted by rmichaels
1993 when i was born!
Votes 1 Posted by pinkylady
Day game, 1989, Fenway Park, Red Sox/Indians. My 15 year old son and I arrived wearing our brand new Yankee jackets. No sooner had we found our seats a Boston thug threw a half-eaten hot dog at us splattering mustard all over Jamie's new jacket. He threw it back and hit the guy in the back of the head. I hustled us out of there. Why would Yankee fans give a **** who won between the Indians and Red Sox anyway? We enjoyed the lobster dinner before we left town.
Votes 1 Posted by Manorkill1
Well, the first game I ever went to was pretty memorable. We're from the southwest corner of Louisiana, not too far from Houston and the Astrodome was called the Eighth Wonder of the World back in the late '60s. Anyway, I went with my parents to see the Astros play the Pittsburgh Pirates. Unfortunately Pittsburgh won the game, but I remember being amazed by the Astrodome. I'd have to say that the most memorable game I ever went to was a few years later in 1973. I was 12 years old and my dad took me to see the Astros play Cincinnati. The Reds had won the N.L. pennant the year before and although the Astros were my team, it was a lot of fun watching players like Pete Rose and Johnny Bench. After the game we waited outside the Dome so that I could get autographs. I remember Pete Rose and Sparky Anderson being really nice to the fans. However, it was kind of late in the summer and we had to hurry back home afterward when the news announced that a hurricane was in the Gulf and may hit either the Texas or Louisiana coast. I sure do miss those days when going to a game at the old Astrodome was a real treat.
Votes 1 Posted by Ridgerunner72160
I have been to see major league games but none of those experiences, as great as they were, compare to my old days playing softball. I have never been much in my life... I was a loner and painfully shy but when I was playing softball I was happy. I was good at it :) My dad taught me how to catch a ball starting at age 3. We would sit on the back porch and he would toss it to me gently and I would catch it. Once I had caught it 100 times, I was pleased. The game was my idea, don't think my father put pressure on me to excel in sports! He was and is a good father and man. So I had been preparing to play softball since age 3, joined an all boys tee ball team at 4 and then finally moved on to "big girl's" softball. At 10, I discovered I could pitch too. The last year I played, I went up to bat, first pitch I hit a perfect line drive straight into left center. I made it all the way around to 3rd base before they got the ball back infield but made it to home plate in time but had to slide and I hated sliding! The game began great but our defense was terrible that day. I wasn't pitching that game and the girl who did pitch kept walking everyone. She would walk them or throw a perfect pitch so they got a great hit. We were losing bad - embarrassingly bad! Finally, my coach put me in. I threw my first pitch... strike, second pitch... strike and then finally a third strike. The rest were the same and we were finally up to bat and our batting was awesome that day so we came up from way behind to actually win and I was actually "someone" and I was proud of myself and happy... a very rare thing for me.
Votes 1 Posted by karakara1
When i snuck into Fenway Park for a Red Sox/ Yankees game, ended up sitting in field box seats behind home plate and Jacoby Ellsbury stole home.
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Votes 1 Posted by etman
My cousin,Alan, and I got up very early to be able to get to Wrigley Field in Chicago to stand in line for tickets to the World Series game between the Cubs and Detroit Tigers. That was in 1945 when I was 15 and Alan was 16. After standing in line for many hours, the tickets were about to be placed on sale when we were told to step out of line by a cop. The first thing we thought was we were in trouble for truency. But, the cop made us a proposition: Buy the maximum amount of tickets allowed per person, which, if I remember correctly, was four per person, and he would send people who got there too late to by tickets over to us and we could "scalp" the tickets and split the money with him and his partner. That worked out great since the cops were our benifactors. We made a lot of money but, didn't get to see the game because we'd rather have the money than keep two tickets for ourselves. As it turned out, Chicago lost the game and the series anyway. Just a lesson in Chicago political corruption that continues to this day.Chicago has been in the World Series since then but has not won since I can't remember when.
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I loved going to A's games years ago with my ex. We were broker than broke, but would make a day of it. We sneaked dollar burgers from McDonalds in my purse, bought cheapie nose-bleed seats, and splurged on drinks and garlic fries. When the beat of the sun became unbearable, we'd sneak down to the lower section. Oh, the good memories.
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