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I'd like drill down on one element of the arguments I made in my last two posts. I alluded to it, and it's an idea that's ever-present in my thinking. It's the idea of layering or separation of concerns. I suspect it is the most common reason that I get myself into trouble explaining my ideas — while I assume it is understood that I'm talking about layered solutions, I don't always make that point explicitly clear.
The idea (and it has some very important implications) is that a solution/technology/standard, etc. needs to address a limited, well-defined problem at the proper level of abstraction. I'm a huge fan of the Unix philosophy: "do one thing and do it well," which captures the idea in its simplest form quite nicely. Tied into the idea of "levels of abstaction," it is a paradigm/pattern that turns up all over the place in computer science: machine code is abstracted into assembly language, which is abstracted into something like "C," which is abstracted into Perl/Python/PHP, etc. Each "layer" need only follow the interface provided by its underlying layer and provide a reasonably useful interface for the layer above. It's a very powerful concept — indeed the Internet itself is built on layers such as this.
But this idea of layered solutions is in no way limited to the "plumbing" of the systems we use. I would contend that all of the work we do as programmers, information technologists, librarians is exactly this: we use the tools and resources that we have available (the underlying layer) to provide a useful abstraction for those customers/clients (the layer above) who will use our systems/collections/guidance, etc. Everywhere I look in my work, whether it be with code, applications, co-worker or faculty interactions, I see this pattern popping up again and again.
I'm actually mixing a few different ideas here — the layers of abstraction pattern and the separation of concerns pattern are related, but not exactly the same thing. No big deal though, since they go together quite well. I'll add a third idea to the mix, since it's an important element of my thinking. It's called Gall's Law (I actually have it printed out and tacked up next to my desk) and says:
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."
We fall into a trap in academia of trying to solve problems vertically (hmm, the image of a silo pops into mind) rather than horizontally. We see a problem, are smart enough to fashion a solution, and so thus solve it. But we run into trouble, because we come upon a related problem and wind up starting the process all over again, fashioning a new solution for this specific problem. Then our users come asking for help solving problems we hadn't exactly thought of, and the problems compound — we're thrashing, constantly on the treadmill of solving today's problem. We typically make two big mistakes. One is not following Gall's Law (and indeed the Unix philosphy). We have not properly decomposed our problem — a working solution to a given problem might very well be a set of of small solutions nicely tied together. Two, we have not adequately abstracted our problem. We simply do not recognize the problem as one that has already been solved in some other arena because superficially, they look different (e.g., not recognizing that the problem Amazon S3 tries to solve is remarkably like the problem we try to solve with our Institutional Repositories).
This also flows into the idea of "services," which we are simply not seeing enough of in libraries and I think it is a key piece of our survival. My "Aha!" moment came a number of years back when I discovered Jon Udell's Library Lookup project. It was the first time I saw the OPAC as simply a service that I can interact with, either with the dedicated interface or with a scripted bookmarklet. It didn't matter to the catalog which I used. It simply filled its role, performed the search and returned a result. Jon Udell had unlocked the power of REST — a theory, derived from HTTP itself and described by the guy who wrote the HTTP spec that elegantly laid out a set of rules (the REST "constraints") that when followed, would result in robust, evolvable, scalable systems. I no longer felt bound to one user experience for web applications I was building. I could begin thinking about an application as a piece of a larger, loosely coupled system. "Do one thing and do it well" in this case was indeed freeing.
But this brought up a whole new slew of problems: how do I know the piece I build, properly abstracted and decomposed, will be useful to the other pieces of the system? If I'm building all of the pieces, no problem, but that sort of defeats the purpose, no? I want it to be useful to some other piece that someone else has built.
This is where my interest in standards and specifications began in earnest. What had seemed utterly mundane and boring to me previously, suddenly seemed really useful and (I hate to admit ;-)) exciting. People get together, compare notes, argue, sweat over tiny details, and end up defining a contract that allows two separate services to interoperate. Maybe not seamlessly and perhaps not without the occassionaly glitch, but ultimately it works and the results can be astonishing (cf. THE WEB).
Let me be clear about one thing: this work of separating concerns, finding the proper level of abstraction, creating useful and useable service contracts is a hugely difficult undertaking. And it's work librarians should be and need to be involved in. No one knows our problems like we do, and while I refuse to believe that our problems are unique, who better than us to recognize that our problem X is exactly the same problem addressed by Y in some totally different realm. No one is going to decompose our problems or hit upon appropriate abstractions for us — that is OUR work to do.
I can offer a bit of empirical evidence to back up my assertion that it is a useful endeavor. Taking Gall's words to heart, we built the DASe project as drop-dead simple as possible, made everything a service and evolved out from there, with modules and clients that can be quickly implemented, designed to do one thing well (the good ones stick around, becoming part of the codebase). I'm not here to promote DASe (that's another topic — my preference would be to see the ideas we have incubated reimplemented in an application that actually has a good solid community already — DSpace 2.0 anyone? :-)), but rather to push the idea that these basic, solid principles upon which the Web itself is based have real value and offer huge return on investment.
And so to answer incisive criticism of my original post: my suggestions are indeed of a technical nature, but that is exactly the layer I am addressing. It's not vertical solutions I am after ("here is a problem…here's how you fix it"), but rather horizontal: if we get the tooling layer right, we will have the opportunity to build, on top of that layer, more robust solutions — solutions which will get down into the nitty-gritty social and cultural problems that can seem at times to be quite intractable. My opinion is that they ARE intractable if they are attempted atop an unstable underlying layer. Let's allow the folks who daily work in the incredibly diverse and challenging social realm to do so without the obstacles presented by tools that are not doing their job effectively.


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Intelligence is a marvelous thing. Those of us with a mind less than dull are blessed because of the ease at which we see and take in knowledge. It is so fluid and magnificent that one can almost see that as a purpose in life; to learn all that one can with the time allotted. Though for all its beauties, it, too, is in intoxicant; Intelligence can easily lead us to indulgence, sloth, aversion, pride, and even paradoxically ignorance. We get lost in our own little world where we can quantify everything and nothing is as important as that knowledge.
But what about when the time comes to act? Do any of these thoughts, these gems, these constructs of illusion help this body? It seems there is a disconnect. The monkey mind doesn't care about your ideals, it wants. Even in understanding the drives and desires of the body, one is troubled with how to control them. Sometimes the mind just wont stop, and all these thoughts rolling through do nothing to help. Other times it comes to a screeching halt when confronted with the daunting aspect of reality.
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Join us for the Taste of Mexico Association's 2nd Annual tasting event held at the iconic downtown landmark, Vibiana, Friday, November 30th.
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Neon Trees' "Pop Psychology" (11/21/14)
It's safe to say that 2014 will be remembered by Neon Trees as one busy year.
It all started back on January 10, when Neon Trees' third studio album was announced. The first single, titled "Sleeping with a Friend," was quickly released for digital download. Not even two weeks later, promotion ramped up when the band performed the single on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." By the end of February, the cut had been pushed to radio by both Mercury and Island Records.
The aforementioned album, "Pop Psychology," bowed on April 22nd. It is said to be based on and is the 'cathartic product' of lead singer Tyler Glenn's therapy sessions. Glenn said he started seeing a therapist after canceling some tour dates in 2012, and was trying to find himself mentally and figure out who he was. He was quoted as saying, "At moments there's a cry for help and sadness… But I think it's a real fun pop record at the heart of it with a message too."
In addition to "Sleeping with a Friend," the album spawned three more singles: "I Love You (But I Hate Your Friends)," "Voices in the Halls," and "First Things First."
While Neon Trees had planned to tour heavily in support of its newest work, they were forced to postpone some dates due to health issues of bassist Branden Campbell, who underwent open-heart surgery for a valve replacement. Doctors deemed the band's schedule too intense for Campbell and advised him to slow down, though he wouldn't let Neon Trees cancel its entire tour.
Neon Trees recently joined forces with Lady Antebellum, Better than Ezra, 311, Fitz and the Tantrums and more to release the song "Must Be Christmas." A portion of the proceeds from each sale of the song will go to nonprofit MusiCares.
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Current authors of the dance-punk movement, the Neon Trees have their roots in California -- but their feet were firmly planed on the ground in Utah when they broke into the big time.
Featuring vocalist/keyboardist Tyler Glenn, guitarist Chris Allen, bassist Branden Campbell and drummer/vocalist Elaine Bradley, the band honed its sound at local venues in the Golden State before their big break in 2008. It was then that the Neon Trees were hand picked as the opening act for the Killers' North American tour. By 2009, they had a deal with Mercury Records and were also voted 2009's Band of the Year by Salt Lake City Weekly. Talk about a fast-track to the top!
The group's debut album, "Habits," arrived in early 2010. Their first big hit was "Lessons in Love (All Day and All Night," and a guitar-heavy cut of the song also appears on the band's latest album "Picture Show." In December 2012, their hit single "Everybody Talks" was used in promos for the new series "The Love Machine," and later featured in the movie "American Pie: Reunion."
Neon Trees recently wrapped up a world tour with Maroon 5 and Owl City. The trek was a 31-date run that kicked off February 13 in Columbus, Ohio and ran through April 6. The final show played to a sold out crowd at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. Glenn was singled out for his impressive vocal performance and eccentric dance moves, and will take that show on the road when the band visits Australia in May.
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Sitting in his home office in Lynnwood, Robert Mower, 90, holds a replica model of a P-47D Thunderbolt, which he flew in missions over France, Germany and Czechoslovakia. The model was made for him as a gift by the head of the San Diego Air Museum. Mower flew several versions of the P47 on 84 missions in Europe, supporting Gen. George Patton's ground troups. Those are pictured on the wall behind his desk.
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Beside the images of P47 Thunderbolts on the wall of Robert Mower's home office is a display with medals and a newspaper story about him after he had flown 83 missions over France, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
After 70 years, others have grown faint.
Bob Mower flew fighter planes on the front lines in Europe during World War II. His squadron provided cover for Gen. George Patton's Fourth Armored Division. He was flying the day Germany surrendered.
Mower, now 90, lives in a senior home on a hillside just north of Lynnwood. The walls of his office are decorated with depictions of all the planes he flew, in training and in the war. A bookshelf keeps photos of several generations of his family. A display case holds medals, ribbons and a clipping from the newspaper in Sioux Falls, S.D., as he neared completion of his 84 combat missions.
Mower grew up in Huron, S.D. His father owned an auto repair shop and gas station, where gas sold for 12 cents a gallon. Growing up, he liked to fish, hunt rabbits and play baseball and football. His father died when he was 14. His mother ran the business and raised the kids. He owes a lot of his success to her, he said.
As the war started, Mower was in engineering college. He wasn't doing too well at his studies, and he worried about losing his educational deferment from the draft. He didn't want to be in the infantry, he said.
He and some classmates went to the recruitment office. At the time, Mower had never been out of South Dakota. Over the next few years, his service in the Air Force would take him throughout the U.S. and Europe.
As a kid, Mower built model airplanes and hung out at the local airport, he said. He thought he might like to fly. He signed up with an aviation cadet program in November 1942.
He was told to expect a six-month backlog before he got summoned for duty. He hoped to finish his degree in that time.
"Two months later, they called me up," he said.
In January 1943, Mower was sent to an Army post at Jefferson Barracks in Missouri. Army officials there weren't sure what to do with the aviation cadets, he said.
"We spent a lot of time marching, marching to chow hall, marching back, drills, marching, marching, marching," he said. "This was in February, mind you, and it was cold."
He went to ground school in California, then flight school near Phoenix, and around the country for additional pilot training. He got his wings and graduated on April 15, 1944.
In combat, Mower flew Republic P-47 Thunderbolts, a single-engine, single-pilot fighter aircraft, "one of the most advanced models for its time," he said.
Mower moved around some more. He waited. Eventually, he was put on a passenger ship that had been converted into a troop carrier.
In England, he and others received additional training from pilots who had just finished their tours of duty. He was assigned to the 379th Fighter Squadron within the 362nd Fighter Group. His group was nicknamed "Mogin's Maulers."
They were based near Reims, France, where he flew his first combat mission. The pilots used temporary air strips, moving as Patton's troops advanced.
"We had to pick up and move so we didn't use all the gas getting to the front line," Mower said. "When his troops would take off, we'd fly cover over them."
At the time, providing ground troops with air support was a new concept, Mower said.
The pilots looked for enemy troops ahead. They also made sure the Nazis couldn't circle around the troops and attack from behind.
"It was a job that we had been trained to do," he said. "It was just there and we were there to do it, and I don't think we thought too much beyond it."
Between missions, they often waited in tents, he said. They slept on cots in sleeping bags, ready to move. In their downtime, they read, they played bridge, maybe a game of softball in a vacant field when possible, he said.
"There wasn't a whole lot we could do," he said. "Winter weather over there wasn't all that pleasant."
Mower remembers two missions in particular -- one that went right, and one that didn't.
Once, during takeoff, Mower was just starting lift off when the plane's control stick snapped over, into his right knee. The plane started to flip. He jammed the control stick back.
Mower heard the control tower order another pilot to steer clear of him. At first, he didn't realize that one of the two 500-pound bombs had dropped from his plane onto the runway.
"It was a scary experience, but mainly it was scary after the fact because I didn't have time to react to what it was," he said.
Another memory is from the Battle of the Bulge, the bloody German offensive that cost the lives of many Allied soldiers. Mower's squadron was grounded by fog the first days of the attack. The battle lasted from Dec. 16, 1944, through Jan. 25, 1945.
At 5 a.m. one day, someone rapped on the pilots' door. The skies were clear. They loaded up for the 10-minute flight to Bastogne, Belgium. They caught a convoy of German gasoline tankers heading up switchbacks, out of a canyon and toward the Allied troops.
The Germans' "objective was to move so fast to get to the coast that they didn't bring their antiaircraft guns with them," Mower said. In addition to bombs, his squadron's planes each carried eight 50-caliber machine guns, four in each wing. The guns fired simultaneously, he said.
In their own way, the flames were beautiful, he said.
Mower's service earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and 14 Air Medals, among other distinctions. He destroyed more than 300 Nazi military vehicles, according to news clippings at the time.
Mower left the Air Force as a first lieutenant in October 1945. He married his fiance, Shirley, and got a degree in chemical engineering. For a time, he worked as the chief chemist at the state-owned South Dakota Cement Plant.
Mower kept his eyes on a job with the DuPont chemical company and eventually was hired. He worked for the company 32 years, becoming a chemical plant manager in northern California.
He and Shirley raised two boys, both of whom went to college.
After the war, life wasn't easy, he said. The couple spent the first few months of their marriage in a motel, then a rental. After he got the DuPont job, they "resumed what you would call a reasonably normal life," he said.
"The G.I. Bill of course was a big help, but life was pretty basic for several years following the war," he said. "You didn't enjoy too many luxuries. Our entertainment for several years was television."
Mower retired from DuPont in 1984. His wife, Shirley, died in 1995, three months before their 50th anniversary.
In 1998, Mower married Patricia, a woman from Seattle. In recent years, Patricia Mower was diagnosed with dementia. She lives at a separate care facility. Still, the sign on his front door says "Bob + Pat." He hopes to move her closer soon, when his home adds services she needs, he said.
"We can't be together, but at least she can be where I can keep an eye on her, manage her affairs and see that she's taken care of," he said.
These days, Mower likes to rearrange his new space, trying to get everything right. Some of his former neighbors from Edmonds live at the same place.
Mower keeps a meticulous calendar on the kitchen counter. The home is neat.
Birds fly in art on the walls, and his plane drawings and miniatures decorate his office. Patricia Mower liked birds, he said. He liked planes.
Mower goes to the Edmonds Library, and he reads a lot, he said. He tries to keep himself healthy, so he walks.
"It's good for me," he said. "I don't walk very fast at 90, but I do walk."
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Victims of identity theft who say they received shabby treatment from the IRS got a personal and public apology from the agency's commissioner on Capitol Hill Thursday as lawmakers explored ways to tighten the agency's internal controls to reduce the number of refunds it sends out to scammers.
In addition to testimony from Douglas Shulman, the IRS chief, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Government Organization heard from three victims of identity theft of a very specific kind. Scammers had stolen enough personal information to file phony tax returns in their names and get refunds.
When the real taxpayers tried to file, the IRS told them their returns were duplicates. That led to, in at least one case, more than a year of waiting and hassle before they got the refunds they were due.
"I just want to personally apologize to the taxpayers sitting behind me," Shulman said. "I know they had a very frustrating experience with the IRS. I always stress to our employees that we need to walk in each taxpayer's shoes and understand their specific situation and needs."
But the victims who testified said that's not what they encountered.
Sharon Hawa, of Bronx, N.Y., first had her tax return rejected as a duplicate in 2009. She said she was scared and in shock.
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But that wasn't the end. This year, someone got a fraudulent refund using her social security number once again. Hawa said she has yet to successfully reach an identity theft specialist at the IRS for this year's case.
The IRS stresses that it is not the cause of identity theft in these cases. Thieves have stolen personal information in some other way and then used it to file for a fraudulent refund.
But Shulman said the agency is focused on improving its ability to automatically spot those phony tax returns before a refund is sent out, a task made more difficult by the fact that the IRS typically does not know a taxpayer's true earnings at the time he or she files the return.
"We put markers on accounts, which puts heightened scrutiny on the accounts (when they have been involved in fraud)," he said. "The key to those markers is setting up the right filters that block the criminals and don't put too much burden on the victims. While not perfect, we've gotten a lot better. Two years ago, 80 percent of the returns that were tripped by our filters ended up being legitimate tax returns. This year, that's almost reversed. 75 percent of the tripped returns ended up being the fraudulent taxpayers. So we're going to keep getting better every year."
The IRS will need to, since the crime is growing every year. According to the Government Accountability Office, there were nearly 52,000 identity theft-related fraud incidents on tax returns in 2008. In 2010 however, the number grew to 248,000.
Shulman said that since identity theft is now a major organized crime, syndicates may be responsible for many of those numbers, meaning the 2010 crimes were not committed by 248,000 individual criminals. But lawmakers are concerned that a lack of prosecutions in refund fraud cases is providing a big incentive for criminals to keep doing it.
Edolphus Towns, the ranking member of the subcommittee, said that's somewhat understandable from the IRS' point of view, given its limited investigative resources.
"I mean, how much do you want to spend to collect $500? I think we have to look at this, and I think we have a role here, and it's not just the blame game," he said. "I think it's that we do some things legislatively to make it possible that anybody who takes somebody else's money is charged."


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My son wanted one thing for his birthday - this cologne. It's perfect for a man who is confident, career oriented and moving in the business world. As a woman, I love the scent - and have purchased it for a romantic interest in the past. Seriously guys - try this scent, you will get compliments!
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I have been complimented and asked so many times what cologne I am wearing, usually by women who want to buy it for their significant other. This is a great
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I will purchase Gucci by Gucci again. Spices and wood smells are strong, throughout the duration of the application. I like to spray it behind my neck and around the ear so when ladies come in to talk to me in a loud setting, such as a nightclub, they notice the scent. I receive positive reviews every time and they always ask what I am wearing. It must not be widely known by woman because they always give me a look of surprise when I tell them what I am wearing. It's a great way to stand out and do recommend it for evenings or for romantic scenarios.
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Story and art by Ken Akamatsu.
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|LECOM School of Pharmacy faculty and students met with the Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy during the board's visit to the school Oct. 21.
The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and the School of Pharmacy played host to a general meeting of the Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy on Oct. 21. First- and second-year pharmacy students, along with School of Pharmacy faculty and staff, watches as the board conducted its meeting.
The board members took time to introduce themselves to the assembled audience and talked a little bit about what drove them to become members of the state board. After conducting their formal meeting, several LECOM students and administrators joined the board on a tour of the school.
The group concluded its visit with a luncheon hosted at the school.
Members of the board include Michael A. Podgurski, RPh, Chairperson; Edward J. Bechtel, RPh, Independent Rep; Carol S. Goertzel, Public Member; Juli Miller-Robinson, PhD, Public Member; Paul J. Miller, EdD, Public Member; Pauline R. Montgomery, Independent Rep; Michael J. Romano, RPh, Secretary; Richard R. Smiga, RPh, Vice Chairman and Retail Chain Rep; and David Sumner, Consumer Protection Rep.


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"We asked if anybody had not registered and we would assist in registering," McIntosh said. "We never tell anybody what party to register for."
He said, when requested, inmates were given help with the forms and McIntosh will turn them in to the board of elections.
"They were glad to do it," McIntosh said. "The majority of them said they had never thought about voting."
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McIntosh said he hopes it will be a starting point for not only Cleveland County but the state.
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"We turned 100 people away who wanted to vote," Blanton said. "We don't start early voting until next Thursday."
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This deeply moisturising yet light textured body hydrator leaves skin lightly fragranced, soft and soothed. Complimented by a delightful fragrance combining tuberose, jasmine and pink pepper, this gorgeous moisturiser will get your mind wandering to a Mediterranean getaway.
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Do you have a yen for the glamour days of yesteryear, when the crowds gathered outside the velvet ropes at Studio 54, and high-fashion beauties vamped in nostalgic black and white as well as disco color? If so, get thee to FIT's Gladys Marcus Library on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, where photographer Rose Hartman's exhibition of 60 works documenting the biggest and brightest in New York glamour, "Incomparable Women of Style: Selections from the Rose Hartman Photography Archives, 1977-2011," is on view through Jan. 20, 2012.
The library's first large-scale installation celebrates Hartman's gift of her complete photography archive to FIT, and includes rare vintage silver prints as well as her most well-known images of her most well-known -- and "well-dressed" -- subjects. Organized by FIT Master's candidate Anna Yanofsky and FIT's Karen Trivette Cannell in collaboration with Hartman, the show marks Hartman's evolution from English teacher to preeminent chronicler of New York's style world, and traces her transition from analog to digital. Pictured in elite venues like the Mudd Club, behind the scenes at exclusive fashion parties and on the street at Chelsea gallery openings, Hartman's iconic women include Bianca Jagger, Vivienne Westwood, Margaux Hemingway, Naomi Campbell, Lauren Hutton, Madonna and many more.


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Genzyme was one of the first companies to develop therapies for ultra-rare diseases with fewer than 10,000 patients worldwide, demonstrating our commitment to creating treatment options for even the smallest patient groups.
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