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The roster is set and Mike Krzyzewski decided to go with three big men.
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Guards: Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, James Harden, Kyrie Irving, Derrick Rose, Klay Thompson.
Forwards/centers: DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, Andre Drummond, Kenneth Faried, Rudy Gay, Mason Plumlee.
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Coach K went with all four centers men making the team — Davis Cousins, Plumlee and Drummond — a sign that the team is still looking ahead to a potential match-up with Spain in the gold medal game. While Davis will start at center and get the most run the four big men is a sign the team is looking ahead to a potential gold medal game against the host Spaniards, where Team USA will need the size (Spain rolls out Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka).
Team USA will still be a guard-driven team — they will pressure and run and count on nobody being able to slow them much.
Leaving Korver and Lillard home hurts the outside, shooting, but with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving, James Harden and the rest the USA will have no problem scoring from beyond the arc (which is closer in international ball than the NBA).
Team USA is still a gold medal favorite. They are in a soft group and after that the easy side of the single elimination bracket if they win the group. The likely toughest team they face is Lithuania (ranked fourth in the world) — Spain, France, Argentina, Greece are all on the other side of the bracket. But beating Spain in Spain will be a real test.
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"TSMC is dedicated to providing foundry services for logic IC providers worldwide, and mergers in the industry will have little impact on the foundry's operations, said company chairman Morris Chang in response to media queries on Altera's recent announcement of being acquired by Intel.
Many market observers consider that Intel's acquisition of Altera, which makes use of TSMC's foundry services, may have an adverse impact on TSMC.
Intel could also rely on TSMC's foundry services in the future, Chang noted."
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Servers and the IoT. If that doesn't make sense to you then you don't have the brains god give a rubber duck.
The surprisingly smart part of the deal is how it gives Intel a decided edge over ARM's IoT capabilities. If Monk can't figure it out it's no surprise that the rest of the ARM pinheads can't either.
The idea that Intel will add a FPGA to a $2 microcontroller is laughable.
As for servers, there is a clear use case, but that's not going to keep the ARMy out. Why? The ARMy aren't focusing on compute, but IO,
Why not go for a macerating functionality and throw in some testing for blood while you are at it? All possible with a microcontroller as the logic is basic. Infrared sensor to detect someone coming, and weight sensors for the movement, then upload to your physician. You could always connect it to twitter and announce to the world the weight of your new produce. Or how about taking a photo and automatically sending to facebook to show all your friends? Nothing that a raspberry (no pun intended) pi couldn't handle.
Seriously, where is the need for an FPGA in any of it?
I can guarantee know more about IoT than you or some of the articles you have posted about. IoT isn't a new thing, it's a new marketing buzz term.
But you wont read this, as I'm on ignore...
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I made a terrible mistake. Trying to dispel your IoT ignorance. Go away, earwig boy. If I wanted to play this stupid game I would just engage Twink.
Bless. You don't understand, it's OK, it happens.
The author is confused by several things (including the company that Intel actually bought), but let me give you a real world example. Type the following into your favorite search engine.
Spark Photon.
This is a $19 Wi-Fi enabled IOT development platform and contains an microcontroller and is typical of the kind of things that are being built and what the author is talking about.
The author is basically suggesting that the ARM microcontroller ( a 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3 with 128KB RAM) is replace by the (huge) Intel Quark and Intel add in a FPGA which "provides greater flexibility and faster time-to-market for customers". Lets ignore things like the die size (ie, cost), which markets could now be addressed with such a SoC that couldn't be addressed with the Photon above?
The examples, thermostats, toasters, LED lighting, subway systems (?), traffic lights, water hydrants would be addressed with something like the Photon. The only example that makes sense is "medical imaging systems" but here you aren't talking about a humble microcontroller...
[Once again, read the article. You can read, can't you?]
I have, but, like I said, can you give me an example. I can't think of one. You do understand what he was talking about, don't you?
BTW, the author has a terrible mistake on the first line. Did you spot it?
[Read the article, pinhead. Your ignorance of the IoT is only eclipsed by your unwillingness to change your ignorance. ]
I have, which is why I am asking the question. Why would you use FPGA in the IoT space? Can you give me an example?
Servers and the IoT.
Why would an embedded FPGA help in the IoT space?
[LOL. Seriously, you believe this will continue just like before? In that case I've got a watch, a bridge and some swampland you are going to be very interested in!!!]
Yes, I do actually. Do you know why? Intel said so. Why do you think they mentioned it explicitly in the press release...
Surprised ARM hasn't dropped below $50 on the Altera news.
Why? From Intel's own press release:
"Altera will become an Intel business unit to facilitate continuity of existing and new customer sales and support. Intel plans to continue support and development for Altera's ARM-based and power management product lines."
Yeah, Intel's chips...
It is a 2.5 Ghz dual-issue out-of-order ARM chip i.e. one core will be slower than a 2.6 GHz Atom Avoton core. Even with 48 cores @100W it won't beat in throughput a similarly watt-powered Xeon set-up which will have much greater single-thread performance or 40 Avoton cores which you can also get for 100W. Thunder's only real purpose is to replace the similarly designed Cavium MIPS Octeon in-order chip in network chips.
I can't disagree with any of the above, but I think you are missing the target market that Cavium is going for with this type of chip. Basically, the workload wouldn't be CPU based, but IO based. Think something like AWS's S3 buckets, minimal CPU, but lots of IO overhead (basically, moving data from disc to network). Assuming these things have hardwired SSL acceleration board, they could do a nice job. I couldn't see the specs of the Asus motherboard, other than it being dual socket but I would expect it to have massive IO links.
There has to be a really, really compelling ROI reason not to use the industry standard x86 solution for enterprise use. Given the very efficient low-power multi-core products coming out of Intel I just don't see the necessary risk/reward benefit.
Why do you think Asus is doing this?
The first question many data center managers will ask is if it's VSphere compatible. If it's not it won't even be considered.
Not if you aren't a VMware shop:)
This isn't destined for typical corporate data centre use.
"TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 29, 2015 ASUS today announced new servers and server boards based on Cavium's ThunderX™ 64-bit, 48-core ARM® platform and designed to deliver extreme efficiency, expandability and enhanced-usability design for premium performance in data centers, high-performance computing and enterprise, as well as small and medium business (SMB) environments."
There is now a full review over at anandtech.
Ash speculates that the new mysterious Intel device might be the Galaxy Tab S2. And he suggested that the reason might be lack of capacity rather than the silliness that Monk suggested and presented as "fact"..
The "silliness" I was talking about is fact. Why would Samsung sell one device for $500 and another for $200 which contain the same SoC?
[Hahahaha. That's hilarious. I can't work out if you are being serious, or just trolling. ]
It's fact.
[Well, Samsung now has the incredible FinFET technology (according to you) and this incredible new smartphone (according to you) and well, incredible everything - which they didn't have in the past. And yet they are apparently doing Intel-based products. Of course, maybe you misrepresented all of this incredibleness and it is just the same as in the past. ]
I can't work out if you are being serious, or just trolling.
Why does Intel have a range of SKU's? Look at the number of Atom, Core and Xeon designs. Look at mediatek, look at QCOM. How many SKU's does Samsung have?
Samsung electronics (typically) produces one exynos version per generation, giving Samsung the device manufacturer little or no ability to differentiate it's offerings across the price/functionality curve. This is why you see Samsung using SoC's from a variety of firms.
Like I said, this is a good win for Intel, and it'll slot nicely into Samsung's mid range tablet offering. If Samsung starts to use a range of Intel SoCs across its product portfolio, then it would be very big indeed.


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Despite shuttering Bostonist earlier this month, Jake Dobkin said his Gothamist network of sites is growing.
Bostonist failed to gain traction after more than six years on the web, he said, bringing in only about 1 percent of total Gothamist network traffic over the past six months. Editor Matthew Gannon announced the end on Oct. 7: "At least we outlasted the 2011 Red Sox."
In an email, Dobkin told me the demise of Bostonist (and, earlier this year, Phillyist) is a pruning. "We call it a hiatus," he said, "because we might return to the cities once we could afford to operate them the way we do in NYC, with multiple full time editors."
Network-wide, unique visitors are up about 40 percent year-over-year, and revenue up about 50 percent, Dobkin said. According to Quantcast data, the Gothamist network attracted 3.2 million unique visitors per month, on average, over the past 12 months.
"Continuing that kind of growth requires focusing on what we do well. And what we do well seems to be the larger cities — NYC, LA, SF, CHI, and DC," he said. "We've been hiring a lot of staff in those five (we've doubled in size the last 12 months), and we plan to continue doing that through 2012. We'd also like to expand the sales team from NYC, where the sales team is based, to also having local reps in each city." Dobkin did not want to go into more detail about money but said he and co-founder Jen Chung fund the enterprise themselves.
For a city so large, Boston is woefully underserved by local news blogs. The most popular is Adam Gaffin's independent Universal Hub. There are a few smaller sites. And WBUR's Hubbub (my own failure, from when I worked at WBUR), folded in August. That's about it.
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Guest Editorial 40 years of Library and Information Studies education in Wales This issue of Education for Information is a 'special' one to celebrate 40 years of library and information science education in Aberystwyth, Wales. The setting up of the College of Librarianship Wales (CLW) in 1964 was, for many people, the realisation of a dream. The initial ideas of a "school for library training" can be traced back as far as 1917. However, it was the appearance of two reports in 1959 and 1962 (generally known as the Roberts report [1] and the Bourdillon report [2]) that provided the necessary impetus for the "establishment in Wales of a school of librarianship providing full-time courses" in order to meet the need for libraries in bilingual communities in Wales to have staff "acquainted with the Welsh language and well versed in the history and literature of Wales." However, there were many problems to be overcome. Some people, including staff from the UK's Library Association (LA) and the Association of British Library Schools, felt that there was no need for another educational establishment dealing with librarianship in the UK - by 1963 there were 11 schools of librarianship and information science (LIS), the one at University College London being the oldest having been established in 1919. Professional opinion in Wales was also against the setting up of the school. After consulting its members, the Welsh Branch of the LA concluded that there would be insufficient students to warrant a school in Wales and in March 1963 the Association of Assistant Librarians (AAL) for South Wales submitted a critical memorandum arguing that "The art and technique of librarianship is the same in any language - German, English or Welsh". Also people felt that if there was to be a college to educate librarians in Wales it should be based in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, situated in the south east of the country close to the border with England, and not in the proposed location of Aberystwyth, a small town on the west coast of Wales. This argument was similar to that which had raged in the early 1900s on the question of the location of the National Library of Wales which finally resulted in its establishment in Aberystwyth. Indeed the AAL memorandum noted that "As for the 'advantage of Aberystwyth, with its variety of libraries', the claim was 'surely exaggerated', indeed 'ludicrous'". Finally, with much help from some visionary senior officers of Cardiganshire County Council (including the County Librarian) and with the support of the then University College of Wales (UCW) in Aberystwyth (and its Principal, Thomas Parry), it was decided that a monotechnic, the first, and only one, for the study of librarianship in the UK should be established, and at Aberystwyth. The plan was for a small college with an intake of up to 30 students per year and a full-time staff of three: one 'head' and two lecturers. It was also felt the new establishment should operate as part of the Birmingham Library School, which would undertake to the train the two lecturers and that the Birmingham School might second one of its senior staff for a period with a view to succession in due course by a Welsh librarian. The appointment of Frank Hogg, then Deputy Head of the School of Librarianship in Manchester, as the first, and indeed only, Principal of CLW, was made in February 1964. At his interview Hogg made his vision crystal clear – he saw not a small localised college catering merely for the needs of Welsh librarianship but a college that would appeal to prospective students from all over the world. As New [3] states, the principle which Hogg adopted was " to think big, for only by being big 1 could CLW prosper." Although at the start there was no land allocated to the college, no buildings, no equipment or potential staff and a very limited budget, the CLW Board of Governors approved Hogg's mission to establish a quality college with excellent resources. Four senior lecturers were the first staff to be appointed and they were made heads of the four planned departments within the college: Welsh Studies (Norman Roberts), Administrative Studies (Ronald Sturt), Bibliographical Studies (Denis Grogan) and Information Retrieval (David Batty). Together these five people devised innovative courses, began the process of planning a brand new campus and in October 1964 the first 12 postgraduate students were enrolled. This 'top downwards' method of appointing staff ensured senior staff of high quality at an early stage in the development of the college, and these people were in a position to then appoint appropriate junior staff members. By 1968 CLW had become the largest library school in the UK with over 400 students and 30 or so full-time academic teaching staff plus a number of visiting lecturers from Australia and North America. A joint honours degree programme (B.Lib.) in librarianship was introduced through a co-operative venture with the UCW, Aberystwyth. As David Stoker, a member of the academic staff in the department since 1987, describes : " This was the first undergraduate 'honours' (as opposed to a 'general' degree course) in librarianship to be offered by a UK institution" [4]. Students combined courses at CLW with a traditional 'academic' subject taught by one of the departments of UCW within the faculties of Arts, Science, Social Science, Education and Law. Hogg, in describing the developments in library education and research to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' (IFLA) annual conference in 1969 notes that "it was no longer sufficient to train librarians only in professional techniques… but it is now essential to inform these techniques with an awareness of the nature and heritage of the society that librarianship serves and the knowledge it controls" [5]. By 1972 there were 38 full-time academic teaching staff responsible for delivering the B.Lib. course, the one- year postgraduate diploma course, a 2-year Professional Studies course and a research degree of Master of Librarianship (M.Lib.), and CLW had become one of the largest schools of librarianship in Europe. The initial challenges of accommodation were solved in the 1970s with the construction of a purpose built campus for CLW and its sister local authority- governed monotechnic, the Welsh Agricultural College (WAC). The purpose built 'library of librarianship' was the first building to be opened on the new campus in 1971; other buildings including a lecture theatre, refectory, halls of residence and an academic block of staff and administrative offices soon followed. The library (now known as the Thomas Parry Library in honour of the Principal of UCW 1958-1969) soon gained a worldwide reputation for its collections. In describing the library collection at CLW, Wise notes that "the acquisition policy aims to collect comprehensively from English-language material, and to select important foreign language materials, especially those in European languages" [6]. In addition to the main collection of conventional publications, special collections of materials directly concerned with librarianship were made available, including library annual reports, library building plans, manufacturers' brochures and press cuttings as well as a collection of library furniture and equipment. The library was also developed as a teaching 'laboratory' for CLW's students using its special facilities including a Cataloguing Laboratory, a Reference area, a collection of children's books and a 2 Welsh collection to reflect CLW's special interest in the development of LIS in Wales. By 1977 the library had a staff of 12 professional librarians, a language specialist and translator, and a Media Services Unit (MSU) with a Director and Assistant Director as well as 11 clerical and technical staff. The MSU provided technical advice and production facilities (for tape-slide programmes, videotapes, audio recordings) for teaching staff as well as demonstrations, instruction and supervision in the production and useof non-book media for students. The international character of CLW was evident from the start. At the time of the opening of the college Hogg gave a talk on the BBC World Service - the first ever about a British school of librarianship - and his invitation "we would welcome students from overseas" was heard, and acted upon, by many. A major objective of Frank Hogg's was to maintain the closest possible contact between CLW and the library profession, not just in the UK, but worldwide. By being big CLW was able to justify the appointment of specialist non-teaching staff such as the Liaison and Training Officers (LTOs) who formed the Liaison and Training Services (LTS). LTS staff were responsible for arranging fieldwork visits where students would work in a library or information unit for a period of two months, and study tours, where students would visit a variety of libraries and information-related organisations in a specific area ( e.g. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow), as well as the month-long orientation courses for overseas students to acquaint them with the British LIS environment. LTOs were also responsible for organising short courses for UK and overseas librarians, careers guidance and longer term visits by overseas lecturers. During the 1970s and 1980s there were typically six LTOs, including a Director. Also at this time, many academic staff were seconded to work in libraries, or library schools, in many countries – including Brazil, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Palestine and Peru. Specific links with Africa are outlined by Evans and include: the Seriatim scheme which involved eight members of staff being seconded for a total of 14 visits (at no less that one term's duration) to the universities of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello in Nigeria; short courses on school librarianship run in Zambia and Sierra Leone; consultancies in planning national library and documentation schemes in Libya and the Sudan; the setting up of a library assistants' training programme in Kenya for Unesco [7]. Such international activity was possible at that time as by 1980 there were some 45 full-time teaching staff employed at CLW. The international standing of CLW was also greatly enhanced in 1973 with the setting up of the first International Graduate Summer School (IGSS) in LIS which was then held annually between 1973 and 2001 [8]. During 1969 Frank Hogg had been a visiting international professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in the US and there discussed ideas of a possible international summer school with North American colleagues, Harold Lancour and Clem Harrison. The design of the summer school from 1973 until 1990 (with Frank Hogg as its Director or Co-Director) remained fairly constant with students being expected to study two courses (from a menu of between five and twelve courses on offer at any one time) during the eight-week long summer school. The numbers of students attending IGSS has varied greatly. At the first school in 1973 there were 21 students with most (15) from North America and the remainder from Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Japan and Kuwait. Until the mid-1980s there were usually 3 between 40 and 55 students participating with 20 to 30 countries represented each year although in 1978 there was a record number of 90 students, 15 of whom were from Iran. Over 1,000 students from 70 countries participated in IGSS over the years and many of these have encouraged colleagues to come and study further at Aberystwyth. IGSS was an amazing experience for both faculty and students and provided unique opportunities for professional and personal development for all concerned. After 25 years as an independent establishment CLW became a constituent department of the university in Aberystwyth (now known as the University of Wales Aberystwyth (UWA)) in 1989, firstly as the Department of Information and Library Studies (DILS) and more recently as the Department of Information Studies (DIS). The first Head of DILS, Hywel Roberts, outlines how the 312 funded places for UK and European Union students (awarded by the then University Grants Committee to DILS) as well as the ability to recruit large numbers of overseas students ensured that 26 teaching posts within DILS were funded on a permanent basis [9]. One effect of the merger was that the 'library of librarianship' lost its very close links with the Department and became the responsibility of the University's Librarian and in due time housed the 'agricultural' collection of the university as WAC also became part of UWA and the Institute of Rural Sciences. The library however maintains its strong and deep collection of international LIS materials and is used by many researchers from all over the world. Hywel Roberts was convinced that crucial developments in the education and training of information professionals could be achieved through distance and flexible learning modes and that such a move was essential if DILS was to survive as a separate entity within UWA. The provision of distance learning courses was not entirely new as a specialist masters course on the management of library and information services had been introduced in CLW in the mid-1980s and in 1990 this was followed by another specialist masters course in the area of health information management. In 1993, with specialist funding from the UK Higher Education Funding Council's Flexible Learning Initiative, a specialist team of staff was recruited to form the Open Learning Unit (OLU) within DILS. The OLU staff assisted teaching colleagues in the Department in the development of distance learning courses for an undergraduate programme leading to a B.Sc. (Econ.) in LIS. The first intake of 25 undergraduate distance learners started their programme in December 1993 and since then the Department has enrolled between 50 and 60 undergraduate distance learners every year. Distance learners typically are working in libraries and information services throughout the world and come to Aberystwyth once a year over three years for a week-long intensive study school. Since 1998 there have been sufficient numbers of Irish students to warrant holding specialist study schools each summer in Dublin. In order to be successful the OLU staff had to raise awareness of distance learning needs within the University and implement flexible methods for module payment, deferral procedures, self-set assignment deadlines and so on. In addition teaching staff needed to be trained in the development and publishing of distance learning materials and in using the systems developed to support students at a distance. Gray [10] explains how she has moved from being a distance learner to co-author of the two specialist modules on rare books available as optional courses for the undergraduates. A range of specialist modules is available for distance learners including Music Librarianship with Ledsham [11] and children's literature with Lonsdale [12]. The current head of DIS, Gwilym Huws, recognised that further distance learning programmes were a natural progression and so, since 1998, a further range of 4 masters courses have been developed in: Information and Library Studies, Records Management and in Archive Administration . In 2004 there were over 900 distance learning students (almost 600 masters and 320 undergraduates) currently studying within DIS. In addition, the teaching of full-time undergraduate courses in LIS and postgraduate courses in LIS, information management, information systems, records management and archives administration continues. The international 'flavour' of the student body has been maintained with students from some 40 countries being currently enrolled on the various courses. Staff, too, still continue the CLW tradition of links with the profession locally in Wales, nationally within the UK and overseas. For instance, in 1999-2002 a number of staff were involved in a European Union- funded project to assist in the professional development of LIS staff in Slovakia [13] and from 2001-3 staff were involved in the provision of training material (written in both English and Welsh) for public librarians in Wales as part of the People's Network [14]. At the masters study school in September 2004 a day of celebrations was held for the 40th anniversary and was attended by current and former students as well as current and former members of staff. Three former students were invited to talk to the current students about their life after CLW. Firstly, Gwenda Sippings ( joint honours with Education 1975-8, and in 1986 a distance learning masters) now Director of Information Resources at the Inland Revenue talked about "From CLW to the Revenue: a librarian's journey". Secondly, Andrew Green (postgraduate student 1974-5) talked about "Developments in academic and national libraries" having worked in academic libraries in Cardiff, Sheffield and Swansea before being appointed as Librarian of the National Library of Wales. The final speaker of the afternoon was Linda Tomos (joint honours with History 1970-3), recently appointed as Director of CyMAL, Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales who covered "Creating CyMAL: the future for museums, archives and libraries in Wales". Further talks were given later in the evening by the Vice Chancellor of UWA, by Frank Hogg, Gwilym Huws, and a former member of CLW staff, Ross Shimmon, recently retired as the Secretary General of IFLA. It seemed fitting that an issue of Education for Information should celebrate this 40th anniversary as the journal was established in 1983 by Fred Guy (postgraduate student 1970-1) and Andy Large, both then members of the CLW teaching staff. Indeed the very first paper published in Education for Information was by one of the initial members of the CLW staff, Denis Grogan [15]. The current co- editor, Dick Hartley, also has strong Aberystwyth connections, having been a postgraduate student (1982-3) and then a lecturer in the department (1985-1994). This issue brings together a number of authors with past or present connections with CLW/DILS/DIS. The first paper is by Ian Johnson, currently Professor and Associate Dean at the Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University in Scotland, and who was the Director of LTS at CLW from 1979-1989. The paper identifies the critical success factors that contribute to the successful initiation of international collaborative projects. The international theme is carried on in the second paper from three authors at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Australia who describe their experiences in providing distance education for LIS students in Asia. One of the authors of this paper, Gayner Eyre, was the Departmental Administrator at DILS (1994-8) before leaving to become a Lecturer in Library and Information Management at CSU ( and who is returning to Aberystwyth in 2005 as a Lecturer in DIS). The third paper provides an overview of the changing nature of LIS work in the 5 UK over the last 40 years and, is based on the dissertation carried out by one author, Anne Andrews (full-time masters student 2001-2 and now Executive Assistant to the Director of Information Services and Systems at King's College London) and supervised by the other author, David Ellis, who joined the staff of the department as a professor in 2000. The fourth paper, written by Geraint Evans ( a former postgraduate student and Lecturer in the department since 1974 and who has much experience as the Postgraduate Admissions Tutor) ) is also national in scope and describes the changing nature of funding for postgraduate education in LIS in the UK. The penultimate paper is written by Mary Ellis a former undergraduate student at Aberystwyth and, until her appointment in mid-2004 as the Archives Development Officer at CyMAL, Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales, the team leader for the Archives Administration and Records Management postgraduate courses within the department. This paper provides an insight into the current state of academic research within archive administration in the UK. The final paper of this special issue is by Hugh Preston, a former postgraduate student and a Lecturer in the department since 1992, and the team leader for the LIS masters courses; it provides a detailed look at the distance learning postgraduate students and courses within the department. Former students and staff from CLW/DILS/DIS continue the strong tradition of involvement with the LIS profession in Wales, the UK and in very many countries around the world. It has been a story of remarkable success based on the visionary ideals of the early staff and leading to the world-class department of today. We hope that this selection of papers, covering a number of themes from the local, to the national and the international, proves interesting for our readers and also reflects some of the work of LIS education in Aberystwyth over the last 40 years. Lucy Tedd, Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth References [1] Great Britain, Ministry of Education. The structure of the public library service in England and Wales : report of the Roberts committee appointed by the Minister of Education in September 1957. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1959 [2] Great Britain, Ministry of Education. Standards of public library service in England and Wales : report of the working party appointed by the Minister of Education in March 1961. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1959 [3] P. G. New, Education for librarianship: decisions in organising a system of professional education. London: Clive Bingley, 1978 [4] D. Stoker, Undergraduate library and information science education at Aberystwyth, Education for Information 15 (1997), 125-137. [5] F. N. Hogg, Library education and research in librarianship in Great Britain, Libri, 19 (1969) 191 - 203. [6] M. Wise, The library of the College of Librarianship Wales, Pakistan Library Bulletin 14 (1983) 40-42 6 [7] D.W. 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July 19 and August 6 gigs have been cancelled! Please note that none of the audio on my website is currently available due to an unannounced change in my music host's policy (thanks a lot, Divshare). Stay tuned while I try to rectify this problem. For my upcoming gigs, check out the right hand margin. My story, "I, Monster" just won the lastest sixfold.org short story contest, with a cash prize of $1000. Nice! More soon on where and when you can read it. I'm hoping to begin recording a CD this fall, and don't forget that you can also catch me most Sundays at 10:30AM at Elmhurst Presbyterian Church, 367 Spring Road in Elmhurst.
July 19 and August 6 gigs have been cancelled!
Please note that none of the audio on my website is currently available due to an unannounced change in my music host's policy (thanks a lot, Divshare). Stay tuned while I try to rectify this problem. For my upcoming gigs, check out the right hand margin.
My story, "I, Monster" just won the lastest sixfold.org short story contest, with a cash prize of $1000. Nice! More soon on where and when you can read it. I'm hoping to begin recording a CD this fall, and don't forget that you can also catch me most Sundays at 10:30AM at Elmhurst Presbyterian Church, 367 Spring Road in Elmhurst.
Introducing Block 37
With one gig and dozens of rehearsals under our belts (and five - count 'em - FIVE upcoming gigs scheduled) I figure it's high time to promote my latest band, Block 37, a five-piece act hell-bent on not boring you to death the way so many other bands do. Seriously, I'm really excited about this venture for several reasons, three of which I'll highlight today.
1) The band's mission to stay clear of classic rock and over-played hits and instead focus on fun, upbeat power pop gems, many of which you might have forgotten all about. So yeah, we'll play some great tunes by bands you know like The Clash, The Cars, The Black Keys, White Stripes and the like, but then we'll perform that one tune that needs to be exercised from the recesses of your mind. Songs like "Save it for Later" by The English Beat, "Here It Goes Again" from OK Go (which I just heard on an episode of Scrubs!), "Ah, Leah" by Donnie Iris, "A Million Miles Away" from the Plimsouls. And Wilco. And Elvis Costello. Any Joe Jackson. Vampire Weekend. The Kings. Fountains of Wayne. The Knack. And, and, and...can you tell I'm really excited about our set list?
2) So our current selection of songs is excellent, but what's really cool is we're learning new material all the time, which not only keeps us excited, it also means that our shows will constantly evolve so that you'll never get the same set list twice. I've been in bands that are very reluctant to learn new material. Not Block 37. We are here to explore the vast soundscape of power pop gems from the last four decades.
3) The musicianship of this band is ridiculous. How Phil can remember all the lyrics to these tunes is beyond me, and Matt's spot-on guitar solos kills me. Add to that a thumpin rock-solid rhythm section by Johnny and Doug, and it's a pleasure for me to add some keys to what's already a great sounding arrangement.
WHAT DO WE NEED FROM YOU? First please go to our Facebook page and like us. We're at 163 likes but we need more. You can also check out our ever-changing website for news, videos and photos.
Second, come out to one of our shows! As of this writing, you have five opportunities to hear Block 37 play:
Fri, July 31: Block 37 will be performing power pop gems for an evening gig at Phyllis's Musical Inn in Chicago, 10 to 1.
Sat, Aug 1: I'm back with Block 37 at Bono's in Lisle from 9:15 to 12:45 or thereabouts.
Sat, August 22: Block 37 is heading to Palos for a rip-roaring night of power pop favorites. At Trio in Palos, 9 to really, really late.
Sat, August 29: My newest band, Block 37, will be performing at the Highland Avenue Block Party in Elmhurst Illinois. Details to follow.
Fri, Septmber 18: Block 37 is back at our regular gig at Bono's in Lisle. 9:15 or so to the wee hours.
So come on out and see what all the hub-bub is about, help us grow, and with any luck, one day we'll play during daylight hours!
Squire's Death and Concert Memories
I was shocked upon hearing the news earlier this week of Yes bassist Chris Squire's death at age 67. I didn't worship or even revere Squire – the last time I saw him perform, my main impression of him was that he could lose about fifty pounds and definitely lose the leather pants – but he was one of those guys back in the early 80s that inspired me and my love for music. And as I read the details of his passing, it occurred to me that this is only the beginning. If you're a music fan of the old bands from the 60s and 70s, the next couple of decades are going to be rough.
I went through a mental list of all the performances I've seen since I saw Billy Squire at Summerfest in 1981 with my buddy John, followed by Crosby, Stills and Nash and Rush the following year. The truth is that except for a few supporting members like Clarence Clemens and Danny Federici of the E Street Band, Howie Epstein of the Heartbreakers and two of the Wilson brothers of Beach Boys fame, the guys I've watched perform are still around and still performing, which is something I never fathomed. When I saw Yes for the first time in 1984 I recall thinking that a whole fifteen years had passed since the band originated and that I was lucky to be seeing them before they call it a day. Well, now more than double that period of time has passed, and lo and behold, Yes will be performing this August in Chicago. Crazy. I mean, who would have thought back in 1982 that in 2015 you could see The Who, Rush, Yes, Paul McCartney, Elton John, and CSN? Insane.
But here we are in 2015, and Squire's passing has prompted me to try to recall all the concerts I've seen over the years. Unlike some of my prolific concert-seeing buddies, I've never been a huge live music guy. I see a few big concerts a year, maybe a small one every couple of years, and that's about it. And with me, I tend to see the same bands over and over (Rush, Rufus Wainwright, Bed Folds). I'm happy to say that most of these guys are still around (I just remembered seeing Big Country in 1993, and sadly, Stuart Adamson is no longer with us). It'll be very sad to see more of these guys go, as more and more of my record collection turns into a sort of memorial to artists of yesterday.
Here's my list. Not included are the 12 or 13 times I saw Pat McCurdy, and many of the bands listed were opening acts or part of a larger event (Steve Miller in 1994, for example).
'80 – Off Broadway (from the back! I didn't realize kids got discounted tickets for lower grand stand seats).
'81 – Billy Squire
'82 – CSN, Rush
'83 – Beach Boys, Supertramp, Genesis
'84 – Yes, Bruce Springsteen, Spyro Gyra, Rod Stewart, Elton John
'85 – Jean Luc Ponty, The Tubes and Utopia, Til Tuesday and Tom Petty, Patrick Moraz and Bill Bruford, Supertramp
'86 – Leo Kottke, Marillion and Rush, GTR, Julian Lennon, The Moody Blues
'87 – Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Tom Petty
'88 – Sting, Bruce Hornsby
'89 – Elvis Costello, BoDeans, Violent Femmes and Cowboy Junkies and Edie Brickell, Joe Jackson
'90 – Innocence Mission, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffet, Rush
'91 – Blake Babies (I think this year?), Elvis Costello, Al Stewart, The Guffs, Innocence Mission, Rush
'92 – Genesis, John Mellencamp, Indigo Girls, Randy Newman, Wallflowers and 10,000 Maniacs
'93 – Michelle Shocked, Da Da and Sting, Big Country, The Connells
'94 – Rush, Melissa Etheridge and Steve Miller and Natalie Merchant, The Pretenders
'95 – Van Morrison, They Might Be Giants, Elvis Costello
'96 – Wynton Marsalis, James Taylor
'97 – Bar Scott (I think this year?). Generally lost in parenthood, Broadway plays and living in Allentown
'98 – Lost in parenthood, Broadway plays and living in Allentown
'99 – Bruce Springsteen, but generally lost in parenthood, Broadway plays and living in Allentown
'00 – Joe Jackson, but generally lost in parenthood, Broadway plays and living in Allentown
'01 – Eve 6, Joe Jackson, Paul Simon, Yes, Ben Folds
'02 – Harry Connick, Jr., Rush, Paul McCartney, Yes, Ben Folds
'03 – Joe Jackson, Leo Kottke, Tom Petty, The BoDeans, Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Randy Newman
'04 – Yes, Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds, Patti Austin, Harry Connick, Jr., Barenaked Ladies, Marc Cohn
'05 – Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Indigo Girls
'06 – um…what the heck was I doing?
'07 – Rufus Wainwright, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
'08 – Randy Newman, Yes
'09 – Steely Dan
'10 – Company of Thieves, Craig Ferguson, Rufus Wainwright
'11 – Yes, Weird Al Yankovic, Rufus Wainwright, Paul Simon, Sting
'12 – The Hush Sound, James Taylor, Rufus Wainwright, Bruce Springsteen, Rush, Joe Jackson, Ben Folds Five
'13 – Sara Bareilles, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, Paul McCartney, A Silent Film
'14 – Roger Hodgson, Devo and Arcade Fire, Jackson Browne, James Taylor
'15 – The Who, Rufus Wainwright, Graham Parker, Rush
Rush's Last Stand
Watching Rush last Friday at the United Center in Chicago for what will likely be the last time, I was torn between the tale of two sets: one predictable and lackluster, and one that left me wishing the band would stick around for another tour or two. The trio performed a reverse chronological set, but rather than mining deep into their catalog during the first half, they relied heavily on songs that were mainstays of their concerts for years (and they also skipped too many stops along the way). The second set helped redeem the evening, and if this is truly the band's last stand, it was an impressive way to end a forty plus year run.
One can forgive Rush for wanting to play three songs from their highly regarded last studio effort, Clockwork Angels, and though "Far Cry," off of Snakes and Arrows was an uninspired choice since they just performed it two years ago, it's still a great track. So far so good. However, the inclusion of "The Main Monkey Business" off the same album was a complete waste of time – an uninspiring instrumental that pales in comparison to some of the band's other work.
Then Rush did what they often do, relying on what I refer to as the "first-track syndrome." Literally every other track of the first set (and the first of the second set) was taken from the first track of one of their albums, so instead of getting a surprise or two, we instead heard songs that have been performed numerous times in the past: "One Little Victory," "Animate," "Roll the Bones," "Distant Early Warning" and "Subdivisions." How much better would the concert have been if Rush had instead performed "Ceiling Unlimited," "Between Sun and Moon," "The Big Wheel," "Kid Gloves" and "Digital Man"? On alternating concerts, Rush has been performing "How it Is" from Vapor Trails and "Between the Wheels" from Grace Under Pressure, and both would have been better choices the night I saw them.
On a night that could have showcased each album of the band's career, the most glaring error of the evening was skipping entirely the albums Test for Echo, Presto and Hold Your Fire. Ignoring Power Windows made sense since the last tour highlighted five songs from that effort, but leapfrogging over the other three was unfortunate, especially since these are all strong albums that could have offered some interesting selections.
Then the band came out for the second set, and though I would have preferred a few additional surprises, the truth is that it was incredible from start to finish. I also got lucky and got to see them perform both "Natural Science" and "Jacob's Ladder," whereas on other nights they've substituted the former for "The Camera Eye" or for nothing at all. My second set went as follows:
Tom Sawyer
The Spirit of Radio
Natural Science
Jacob's Ladder
Hemispheres, Part 1: Prelude
Cygnus X-1, Part 1 and 3
Closer to the Heart
2112: Overture, The Temples of Syrinx, Presentation, Grand Finale
Lakeside Park
What You're Doing
Working Man
Geddy Lee had to screech his way through much of the latter part of the set, and I would have been just as happy hearing an instrumental medley, but overall he did a pretty solid job with the tunes. The big surprises were "Jacob's Ladder," which hadn't been performed live since 1980, and "Lakeside Park" and "What You're Doing," which hadn't been played since 1978 and 1977, respectively. It was also very cool hearing the first part of "Hemispheres" for the first time since the Counterparts tour.
Visually, the concert was appealing in that the band's crew gradually simplified the stage, so that what started as an intricate steam punk theme slowly evolved into a simple stage with a few amps on chairs and a screen backdrop make to look like a gymnasium, a sort of Benjamin Button for the stage, if not for the performers themselves.
As always, the band employed a great number of prerecorded tracks triggered via foot pedals, from backing vocals to keyboards and sound effects. I've learned to accept this over the years, though it detracts from the musicianship of the band. I would have much prefer to see three guys on stage playing everything live. Nonetheless, the band will largely be known for its solid live performing, and last Friday's show was no exception. I bid Rush a fond farewell.
My Rush Wish List
The band Rush is notorious for sticking to the following script: play most of the new album, the first track off of another 11 or 12 albums, one or two surprises, and call it a tour. Though I've seen them do this eight times (82, 85, 90, 91, 94, 02, 12, 13), rumor has it that the current tour could provided more in the way of surprises, and since this will be the last time I see the band I'm hoping to go out on a high note. While I could check the set list on-line, I've decided to go to Friday night's show at the United Center in Chicago cold, because anticipating what song comes next is half the fun.
Recognizing that I'm reaching here, below is my Rush Wish List, and I'll check back after Friday to see what part of my wish comes true. I suspect very little, but one never knows. I'm going to go in reverse chronological order.
20) from Clockwork Angels: Headlong Flight
19) from Snakes and Arrows: nothing really, but if I had to pick, Spin Drift would be okay.
18) from Feedback: nothing.
17) from Vapor Trails: Ceiling Unlimited
16) from Test for Echo: Half the World
15) from Counterparts: Between Sun & Moon, Everyday Glory
14) from Roll the Bones: The Big Wheel
13) from Presto: almost anything, but Chain Lightning and Superconductor would be cool.
12) from Hold Your Fire: Prime Mover
11) from Power Windows: Territories (yeah, they played this song on their last tour, but it's soooo good)
10) from Grace Under Pressure: Kid Gloves
9) from Signals: Analog Kid (again, yeah…played on last tour, but…)
8) from Moving Pictures: Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ
7) from Permanent Waves: Spirit of Radio, Freewill, Jacob's Ladder, Natural Science
6) from Hemispheres: would love to hear the Prelude and The Sphere from Hemispheres, maybe part of La Villa Strangiato
1-5) Look, it's no secret that Geddy Lee can no longer hit the night notes, which is fine. So rather than screech his way through a bunch of old tracks, I'd love to hear a musical medley that includes some of the following:
5) from A Farewell to Kings: A Farewell to Kings, Cygnus X-1
4) from 2112: A Passage to Bangkok, Something for Nothing
3) from Caress of Steel: The Fountain of Lamneth
2) from Fly By Night: Fly by Night
1) from Rush: Before and After
So there you are. I understand that on this tour there are a number of songs that Rush will be substituting between gigs. I'll cross my fingers that I get the better of the two setlists, but either way, it's been a hell of a ride for this band and this fan. My son and I will take it all in one last time.
The Dreaded Bucket List
Many of us have become adept at selling an image of ourselves – our brand, if you will – especially since the advent of social media. We want to show the world that our lives are exciting, our kids are brilliant and that we're well on our way to checking all the boxes on our bucket lists. When I jumped out of an airplane in 1988, I took pictures, but I had nowhere to post them. Today, if I were to jump out of an airplane, every person I've been in touch with in the last decade would know about my feat within seconds, and they might even get the false impression that I'm daring and interesting.
(This reminds me of my favorite line from the 1987 movie, Broadcast News. When William Hurt's character asks, "What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?" Albert Brooks answers, "Keep it to yourself.")
The problem is that we're constantly exposed to other people's accomplishments, and I find myself reading other people's posts and thinking I don't measure up. What's particularly bothersome to me are the dreaded Bucket Lists whose entries make me question whether the happy life I'm leading is all a fraud. I resent the implication that I haven't lived until I've (fill in the blank: scuba dived, bungee jumped, swam with whales, dolphins, sharks or any other large aquatic creature, gone on safari, traveled to anyplace that takes longer than a ten hour flight to get to, rock climbed, run a marathon or any other kind of "thon", attended the Kentucky Derby, deep-sea fished, fished anywhere for anything, eaten liver or tongue…).
Sure, my life is tame compared to some, but so what? Well, social media keeps telling me what, and I start to get defensive. I'll even catch myself comparing my life to the lives of fictional characters while watching TV ("I don't see Andy Taylor training for a marathon, and he seems pretty happy.")
Yeah, it's come to that.
So, in the spirit of the old t-shirt that displays an unemotional face with the caption, "Have a day," I'd like to share my bucket list that mostly involves not dying:
1) Live at least another three and a half decades.
2) Stay happily married until death do us part.
3) Maintain a good relationship with my kids for the rest of my life.
4) Regularly challenge myself in small ways.
There. Throw in taking dance lessons someday and traveling to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I think that just about covers it. And lest you think my goals aren't aiming high enough, I leave with a question: how many people live to be eighty-two, happily married, and still have good relationships with their kids?


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