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Makes one wonder about the supposedly "smart" people who intentionally pander to idiots like this.
By Stephanie Pappas
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
"Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said.
Controversy ahead
The findings combine three hot-button topics.
"They've pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics," said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. "When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it's bound to upset somebody."
Polling data and social and political science research do show that prejudice is more common in those who hold right-wing ideals that those of other political persuasions, Nosek told LiveScience. [7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You]
"The unique contribution here is trying to make some progress on the most challenging aspect of this," Nosek said, referring to the new study. "It's not that a relationship like that exists, but why it exists."
Brains and bias
Earlier studies have found links between low levels of education and higher levels of prejudice, Hodson said, so studying intelligence seemed a logical next step. The researchers turned to two studies of citizens in the United Kingdom, one that has followed babies since their births in March 1958, and another that did the same for babies born in April 1970. The children in the studies had their intelligence assessed at age 10 or 11; as adults ages 30 or 33, their levels of social conservatism and racism were measured. [Life's Extremes: Democrat vs. Republican]
In the first study, verbal and nonverbal intelligence was measured using tests that asked people to find similarities and differences between words, shapes and symbols. The second study measured cognitive abilities in four ways, including number recall, shape-drawing tasks, defining words and identifying patterns and similarities among words. Average IQ is set at 100.
Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as "Family life suffers if mum is working full-time," and "Schools should teach children to obey authority." Attitudes toward other races were captured by measuring agreement with statements such as "I wouldn't mind working with people from other races." (These questions measured overt prejudiced attitudes, but most people, no matter how egalitarian, do hold unconscious racial biases; Hodson's work can't speak to this "underground" racism.)
As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.
People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races.
"This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and cognitively draining, and consistent with findings that contact reduces prejudice," said Hodson, who along with his colleagues published these results online Jan. 5 in the journal Psychological Science.
A study of averages
Hodson was quick to note that the despite the link found between low intelligence and social conservatism, the researchers aren't implying that all liberals are brilliant and all conservatives stupid. The research is a study of averages over large groups, he said.
"There are multiple examples of very bright conservatives and not-so-bright liberals, and many examples of very principled conservatives and very intolerant liberals," Hodson said.
Nosek gave another example to illustrate the dangers of taking the findings too literally.
"We can say definitively men are taller than women on average," he said. "But you can't say if you take a random man and you take a random woman that the man is going to be taller. There's plenty of overlap."
Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world.
"Socially conservative ideologies tend to offer structure and order," Hodson said, explaining why these beliefs might draw those with low intelligence. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice."
In another study, this one in the United States, Hodson and Busseri compared 254 people with the same amount of education but different levels of ability in abstract reasoning. They found that what applies to racism may also apply to homophobia. People who were poorer at abstract reasoning were more likely to exhibit prejudice against gays. As in the U.K. citizens, a lack of contact with gays and more acceptance of right-wing authoritarianism explained the link. [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]
Simple viewpoints
Hodson and Busseri's explanation of their findings is reasonable, Nosek said, but it is correlational. That means the researchers didn't conclusively prove that the low intelligence caused the later prejudice. To do that, you'd have to somehow randomly assign otherwise identical people to be smart or dumb, liberal or conservative. Those sorts of studies obviously aren't possible.
The researchers controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status, making their case stronger, Nosek said. But there are other possible explanations that fit the data. For example, Nosek said, a study of left-wing liberals with stereotypically naïve views like "every kid is a genius in his or her own way," might find that people who hold these attitudes are also less bright. In other words, it might not be a particular ideology that is linked to stupidity, but extremist views in general.
"My speculation is that it's not as simple as their model presents it," Nosek said. "I think that lower cognitive capacity can lead to multiple simple ways to represent the world, and one of those can be embodied in a right-wing ideology where 'People I don't know are threats' and 'The world is a dangerous place'. ... Another simple way would be to just assume everybody is wonderful."
Prejudice is of particular interest because understanding the roots of racism and bias could help eliminate them, Hodson said. For example, he said, many anti-prejudice programs encourage participants to see things from another group's point of view. That mental exercise may be too taxing for people of low IQ.
"There may be cognitive limits in the ability to take the perspective of others, particularly foreigners," Hodson said. "Much of the present research literature suggests that our prejudices are primarily emotional in origin rather than cognitive. These two pieces of information suggest that it might be particularly fruitful for researchers to consider strategies to change feelings toward outgroups," rather than thoughts.
You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas
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by George Monbiot
Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence and self-doubt, they will not shout stop. Doing so requires an act of interruption, of presumption, for which they no longer possess a vocabulary.
Perhaps it is in the same spirit of liberal constipation that, with the exception of Charlie Brooker, we have been too polite to mention the Canadian study published last month in the journal Psychological Science, which revealed that people with conservative beliefs are likely to be of low intelligence. Paradoxically it was the Daily Mail that brought it to the attention of British readers last week. It feels crude, illiberal to point out that the other side is, on average, more stupid than our own. But this, the study suggests, is not unfounded generalisation but empirical fact.
It is by no means the first such paper. There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood. Open-mindedness, flexibility, trust in other people: all these require certain cognitive abilities. Understanding and accepting others – particularly "different" others – requires an enhanced capacity for abstract thinking.
But, drawing on a sample size of several thousand, correcting for both education and socioeconomic status, the new study looks embarrassingly robust. Importantly, it shows that prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence are drawn. Conservative ideology is the "critical pathway" from low intelligence to racism. Those with low cognitive abilities are attracted to "rightwing ideologies that promote coherence and order" and "emphasise the maintenance of the status quo". Even for someone not yet renowned for liberal reticence, this feels hard to write.
This is not to suggest that all conservatives are stupid. There are some very clever people in government, advising politicians, running thinktanks and writing for newspapers, who have acquired power and influence by promoting rightwing ideologies.
But what we now see among their parties – however intelligent their guiding spirits may be – is the abandonment of any pretence of high-minded conservatism. On both sides of the Atlantic, conservative strategists have discovered that there is no pool so shallow that several million people won't drown in it. Whether they are promoting the idea that Barack Obama was not born in the US, that man-made climate change is an eco-fascist-communist-anarchist conspiracy, or that the deficit results from the greed of the poor, they now appeal to the basest, stupidest impulses, and find that it does them no harm in the polls.
Don't take my word for it. Listen to what two former Republican ideologues, David Frum and Mike Lofgren, have been saying. Frum warns that "conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics". The result is a "shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology" which has "ominous real-world consequences for American society".
Lofgren complains that "the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today". The Republican party, with its "prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to science" is appealing to what he calls the "low-information voter", or the "misinformation voter". While most office holders probably don't believe the "reactionary and paranoid claptrap" they peddle, "they cynically feed the worst instincts of their fearful and angry low-information political base".
The madness hasn't gone as far in the UK, but the effects of the Conservative appeal to stupidity are making themselves felt. This week the Guardian reported that recipients of disability benefits, scapegoated by the government as scroungers, blamed for the deficit, now find themselves subject to a new level of hostility and threats from other people.
These are the perfect conditions for a billionaires' feeding frenzy. Any party elected by misinformed, suggestible voters becomes a vehicle for undisclosed interests. A tax break for the 1% is dressed up as freedom for the 99%. The regulation that prevents big banks and corporations exploiting us becomes an assault on the working man and woman. Those of us who discuss man-made climate change are cast as elitists by people who happily embrace the claims of Lord Monckton, Lord Lawson or thinktanks funded by ExxonMobil or the Koch brothers: now the authentic voices of the working class.
But when I survey this wreckage I wonder who the real idiots are. Confronted with mass discontent, the once-progressive major parties, as Thomas Frank laments in his latest book Pity the Billionaire, triangulate and accommodate, hesitate and prevaricate, muzzled by what he calls "terminal niceness". They fail to produce a coherent analysis of what has gone wrong and why, or to make an uncluttered case for social justice, redistribution and regulation. The conceptual stupidities of conservatism are matched by the strategic stupidities of liberalism.
Yes, conservatism thrives on low intelligence and poor information. But the liberals in politics on both sides of the Atlantic continue to back off, yielding to the supremacy of the stupid. It's turkeys all the way down.
© 2012 The Guardian
George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Visit his website at www.monbiot.com
by Common Dreams staff
The American Civil Liberties Union has released thousands of emails from a former Arizona legislator which they say prove that the controversial Arizona immigration law SB1070 was racially motivated. The slew of emails sent or forwarded from former Senator Russell Pearce (R), architect of the law, promoted discrimination (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/20/554471/aclu-emails-from-auth...) and racial prejudice and lied about immigration issues, ACLU contends.
The e-mails were acquired through a public records request to the state legislature. The ACLU included many of the emails in a legal filing on Thursday, asking (http://news.yahoo.com/aclu-emails-show-racial-bias-immigration-law-21234...) U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton to prevent the 'show me your papers' section of the law, slated to go into effect.
The e-mails uncovered from Pearce included racial bias and offensive language. Some quotes released to the Arizona Republic (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/07/19/201207...) include:
"Can we maintain our social fabric as a nation with Spanish fighting English for dominance ... It's like importing leper colonies and hope we don't catch leprosy. It's like importing thousands of Islamic jihadists and hope they adapt to the American Dream."
"Last week, Denver's illegal aliens sang our national anthem in Spanish and bastardized the words of OUR country's most sacred song."
"Corruption is the mechanism by which Mexico operates. Its people spawn more corruption wherever they go because it is their only known way of life."
"I'm racist because I don't want to be taxed to pay for a prison population comprised of mainly Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans or whatever else you wish to call them."
On Friday, Pearce denied that he was racist or that the emails show discriminatory intent.
The section of the new Arizona law in question, the "show me your papers" provision, requires police to check the immigration status of people they have stopped if the person appears to be an immigrant. The section was upheld in the Supreme Court last month.
ACLU argues that the law should be blocked because Latinos in Arizona will face legalized racial profiling and discrimination.
Survey: "Climate Skeptics" More Likely to Embrace "Free Market" Ideology, Conspiracy Theories
New study shows correlation between so-called "skeptics" and tendency towards "conspiracist ideation"
by Common Dreams staff
A new survey of so-called "climate skeptics" -- who reject the global scientific community's broad consensus that global warming and climate change are being driven by modern society's emission of greenhouse gasses -- concludes that individuals who hold such views are also much more likely to believe in outlandish conspiracy theories and hold favorable views of the "free market" theory of the economy.
The new research (http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/labs/cogscience/documents/Lskyetal...), which The Guardian reports will be published in the forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, surveyed more than 1,000 readers of websites related to climate change and found that people who agreed with free market economic principles and endorsed conspiracy theories were more likely to dispute that human-caused climate change was a reality.
In addition to rejecting the findings of climate science, the survey found that "endorsement of the free market [...] predicted the rejection of other established scientific findings, such as the facts that HIV causes AIDS and that smoking causes lung cancer."
The findings also showed that endorsement of a cluster of conspiracy theories (e.g., that 9/11 was an "inside job" or that NASA faked the moon landing) predicts rejection of climate science as well as the rejection of other scientific findings, above and beyond endorsement of laissez-faire free markets. According to the researchers, "this provides empirical confirmation of previous suggestions that conspiracist ideation contributes to the rejection of science."
According to the methodology of the survey, the researchers focused on "climate skeptic" blogs, both because of the inherent target group found there and to highlight the enormous power that the culture of "climate change denial" has been able to wield in the internet age. Researchers surveyed over 1,000 users of these blogs on (a) their views on climate science and a range of other scientific propositions; (b) two constructs that the researchers hypothesized to be associated with rejection of science (free-market ideology and a range of conspiracy theories); (c) a construct targeting people's sensitivity to environmental problems (e.g., whether previous concerns about acid rain have been addressed); (d) and the perceived consensus among scientists, which has been repeatedly linked to acceptance of science.
The researchers found that those with a "libertarian streak" are more likely to dabble in conspiracies and to deny widely accepted scientific findings.
"The link between endorsing conspiracy theories and rejecting climate science facts suggests that it is the libertarian instinct to stick two fingers up at the mainstream – whatever the issue – that is important," writes The Guardian's James Corner (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jul/27/climate-sceptics-...). "Because a radical libertarian streak is the hallmark of free-market economics, and because free market views are popular on the political right, this is where climate change skepticism is most likely to be found."
And Corner concludes: "All of this suggests that the battle to overcome climate scepticism – if that is even a useful way of thinking about it – will not be won by simply restating the scientific facts (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/30/belief-climate-change-...). The problem is that "the facts" are not "the facts" for a small proportion of people – and the noise made by this minority group dilutes the otherwise clear signal about climate change received by the wider population."
The researchers offered no simple solution on how to counter the trend of climate change denial. "Conspiracist ideation is, by definition," they write, "difficult to correct because any evidence contrary to the conspiracy is itself considered evidence of its existence."
Suspect mistook GOP pol for girlfriend's sidepiece
JULY 31--Suspicious that his live-in girlfriend was planning an affair, a Tennessee man confronted the woman after spotting a photo of an unknown guy on her Facebook page, according to a police report.
Lowell Turpin, 40, "angrily demanded to know who the male was," reported Anderson County Sheriff's Department investigators.
Crystal Gray, 38, "replied that it was a picture of Mitt Romney."
Despite being informed that the man on Gray's wall was the presumptive Republican presidential candidate (and not some hunky, severely conservative sidepiece), Turpin apparently was not placated. Gray said that he "became upset because she was attempting to communicate with friends through her Facebook account."
In a subsequent tussle over the laptop, Gray's hand was injured as she unsuccessfully tried to stop Turpin form smashing the computer against the wall. Gray told deputies that Turpin, pictured in the above mug shot, also punched her in the face during the encounter.
While denying that he assaulted Gray, the 310-pound Turpin gave probers "multiple contradictory accounts of the struggle over the laptop." Turpin was charged with domestic assault in connection with the July 22 incident at the couple's Clinton residence.
Turpin remains locked up in the Anderson County jail in lieu of $1000 bond.
The Confederacy of Takers
by Dana Milbank
President Obama's opponents have unwittingly come up with a brilliant plan to avoid the "fiscal cliff." They want to secede from the union.
If Obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he'd let them.
The White House, in one of those astro-turf efforts that make people feel warm about small-d democracy, launched a "We the People" program on its Web site last year, allowing Americans to petition their government for a redress of grievances. Any petition that receives 25,000 or more signatures within 30 days is promised a response (though not necessarily a favorable one) from the Obama administration.
And so a large number of patriotic Americans, mostly from states won by Mitt Romney last week, have petitioned the White House to let them secede. They should be careful about what they wish for. It would be excellent financial news for those of us left behind if Obama were to grant a number of the rebel states their wish "to withdraw from the United States and create [their] own NEW government" (the petitions emphasize "new" by capitalizing it).
Red states receive, on average, far more from the federal government in expenditures than they pay in taxes. The balance is the opposite in blue states. The secession petitions, therefore, give the opportunity to create what would be, in a fiscal sense, a far more perfect union.
Among those states with large numbers of petitioners asking out: Louisiana (more than 28,000 signatures at midday Tuesday), which gets about $1.45 in federal largess for every $1 it pays in taxes; Alabama (more than 20,000 signatures), which takes $1.71 for every $1 it puts in; South Carolina (26,000), which takes $1.38 for its dollar; and Missouri (22,000), which takes $1.29 for its dollar.
Since the effort gained attention this week, copycats in all but a few states have joined the petition drive. To be fair, White House officials could refuse the secession petitions of states Obama won, such as New York (which gets only 79 cents on its tax dollar), Michigan (85 cents) and Colorado (79 cents).
What would be left is a Confederacy of Takers, including relatively poor states such as Alaska, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. One of the few would-be Confederacy members that pays more than it receives is Texas, which because of oil money is roughly break-even at 94 cents of benefits for its tax dollar. (The statistics, from an analysis of tax and revenue data by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, were published in 2006, but the broad pattern doesn't vary much over time.)
Depending on how aggressive a fiscal hawk he wishes to be, Obama could also try to offload onto the Confederacy of the Takers North and South Dakota and Montana ($1.73, $1.49 and $1.58 in benefits, respectively), but this would probably only work if Canada agreed to allow overflight rights for American aircraft to reach the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon and California (88 cents, 97 cents and 79 cents on their tax dollars, respectively).
Possibly, the new United States would need to negotiate certain protectorates in the Confederacy — Austin, New Orleans, South Florida and the like — the way the British did in Hong Kong. Then there is the awkward matter of what the breakaway nation would do to its poor.
But once the handout states left the union (and took with them a proportionate share of the federal debt), the rest of the country could enjoy lower taxes and the high level of government service typical of the Northeast, the Great Lakes and the West Coast.
There would also be non-financial benefits. Tampa's Central Command, now caught up in the David Petraeus sex scandal, would be the new nation's problem. And the exit of several Southern representatives from Congress would give Democrats a solid governing majority.
Of course, secession isn't as easy or as painless as an electronic petition, and Obama couldn't offer a redress of these petitioners' grievances even if he wanted to. Nor should he want to: The Union of the Makers would be fiscally healthy but spiritually poor without the Confederacy of the Takers.
Yet would-be rebels from the red states should keep in mind during the coming budget battle that those who are most ardent about cutting government spending tend to come from parts of the country that most rely on it.
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by Charles M. Blow
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
Those are the opening words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and they seem eerily prescient today because once again this country finds itself increasingly divided and pondering the future of this great union and the very ideas of liberty and equality for all.
The gap is growing between liberals and conservatives, the rich and the not rich, intergenerational privilege and new-immigrant power, patriarchy and gender equality, the expanders of liberty and the withholders of it. And that gap, which has geographic contours — the densely populated coastal states versus the less densely populated states of the Rocky Mountains, Mississippi Delta and Great Plains — threatens the very concept of a United States and is pushing conservatives, left quaking after this month's election, to extremes.
Some have even moved to make our divisions absolute. The Daily Caller reported last week "more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states," according to its analysis of requests made through the White House's "We the People" online petition system.
According to The Daily Caller, "Petitions from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas residents have accrued at least 25,000 signatures, the number the Obama administration says it will reward with a staff review of online proposals." President Obama lost all those states, except Florida, in November.
The former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took to his Congressional Web site to laud the petitions of those bent on leaving the union, writing that "secession is a deeply American principle." He continued: "If the possibility of secession is completely off the table there is nothing to stop the federal government from continuing to encroach on our liberties and no recourse for those who are sick and tired of it."
The Internet has been lit up with the incongruity of Lincoln's party becoming the party of secessionists.
But even putting secession aside, it is ever more clear that red states are becoming more ideologically strident and creating a regional quasi country within the greater one. They are rushing to enact restrictive laws on everything from voting to women's health issues.
As Monica Davey reported in The New York Times on Friday, starting in January, "one party will hold the governor's office and majorities in both legislative chambers in at least 37 states, the largest number in 60 years and a significant jump from even two years ago."
As the National Conference of State Legislatures put it, "thanks to an apparent historic victory in Arkansas, Republicans gained control of the old South, turning the once solidly Democratic 11 states of the Confederacy upside down." Arkansas will be the only one of these states with a Democratic governor.
As Davey's article pointed out, single-party control raises "the prospect that bold partisan agendas — on both ends of the political spectrum — will flourish over the next couple of years." But it seems that "both ends of the political spectrum" should not be misconstrued as being equal. Democrats may want to expand personal liberties, but Republicans have spent the last few years working feverishly to restrict them.
According to a January report from the Guttmacher Institute: "By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at the state level received unprecedented attention in 2011. In the 50 states combined, legislators introduced more than 1,100 reproductive health and rights-related provisions, a sharp increase from the 950 introduced in 2010. By year's end, 135 of these provisions had been enacted in 36 states, an increase from the 89 enacted in 2010 and the 77 enacted in 2009." Almost all the 2011 provisions were enacted in states with Republican-controlled legislatures.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, at least 180 restrictive voting bills were introduced since the beginning of 2011 in 41 states. Most of the states that passed restrictive voting laws have Republican-controlled legislatures.
An N.C.S.L. report last year found "the 50 states and Puerto Rico have introduced a record 1,538 bills and resolutions relating to immigrants and refugees in the first quarter of 2011. This number surpasses the first quarter of 2010 by 358." That trend slowed in 2012 in large part because of legal challenges. Many of the states that had enacted anti-immigrant laws or adopted similar resolutions by March of last year, again, had Republican-controlled legislatures.
We are moving toward two Americas with two contrasting — and increasingly codified — concepts of liberty. Can such a nation long endure?
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Tracey Thorn
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Type of music generally:
Pop, electronica
Most recent release, Solo: Songs and Collaborations 1982—2015 (compilation, 2015); most recent release of new, nonseasonal material, Love and Its Opposite (2010)
See also:
Tracey Thorn's site
Everything But the Girl
Covers/own material:
Own and co-written
General comments:
Best known for being half of Everything But the Girl, Tracey Thorn has released two solo albums, one before and one after her work with Everything But the Girl. (JoAnn Whetsell)
Recommended first album:
A Distant Shore for acoustic fans; Out of the Woods for pop/electronic fans
A Distant Shore
Release info:
1982—Cherry Red—MRED 35
Ecto priority:
Group members:
Tracey Thorn—guitar, vocals
This is the solo album that Tracey made just before Everything But the Girl began. A very sparse album, just one girl with acoustic guitar, but worth it alone for 'Plain sailing', one of my favourite songs of 1982. Way back when...finally got it on cd now. The other tracks on the cd don't really capture my attention very well, but I just wanted to mention it. (Marion)
Out of the Woods
Release info:
2007—Astralwerks/EMI—ASW 83901/0946-383901-2-1
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Tracey Thorn—harmonium, acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar, farfisa organ, omnichord, vocals
Guest artists:
Beki Doe—violin, string arrangements (1, 7)
Produced by:
Ewan Pearson (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10), Tom Gandey (2, 11), Darshan Jesrani (3), Sasse Lindblad (3), Martin Wheeler (6), Charles Webster (8), Alex Santos (9)
I've been listening a lot to the new Tracey Thorn solo album, Out of the Woods, and it's quite a strong recording. I thought I might have had my fill of chilled electronica women.... But good music is good music, and this one is the perfect combination of edgy and predictable. (email@example.com)
Love and Its Opposite
Release info:
2010—Merge Records—673855037929
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Tracey Thorn—vocals, piano, acoustic and electric guitars, Vox Continental, Yamaha CS60, celesta
Guest artists:
Oliver Kraus—cello, string arrangement (1)
Produced by:
Ewan Pearson
I really, really like this album. Musically it's got a mix of styles (some songs are laidback, some upbeat pop, some electronic). Lyrically there's little pretense as she addresses middle age with humor and grace. I don't know how to describe it particularly well, but I highly encourage folks to give it a listen. (JoAnn Whetsell)
Further info:
Tracey Thorn has songs and remixes on several compilations. Collaborations with other artists include:
Thanks to JoAnn Whetsell for work on this entry.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins – A Wake Up Call Into a New NHL
Penguins – A New Reality
Imagine a team full of AHL players all struggling for a spot on the roster. This scenario plays out during the off season every year. However, for the penguins, this was the 2003-2004 season. While they did not make the play offs with this rookie team, and rookie coach they did do something – they were able to compete on an NHL level. Now let's fast forward a bit to now, past the lockout, and past all the arguments. Let's look at the new 2005-2006 NHL. The penguins have acquired leadership, talent, and a will to win. Not to mention hockey's newborn superstar, Sydney Crosby.
Imagine now a team with players like Ryan Malone, who put up competition for rookie of the year, with no one to lend a hand, or even Dick Tarnstrom, who was a defensive leader for the season, on a defensive core that lacked everything from leadership to experience. Imagine if you can… filling the holes, and granting great young stars a bit of experience, coupled with great leaders at every position. This is the New Pittsburgh Penguins, and this is the New NHL.
I start with defense because everyone is looking past the penguins success because they feel the penguins lack defense. I believe this to be a falsity. I believe any Pittsburgh native can easily disagree with this. With a staff of Dick Tarnstrom, Brooks Orpik, Lyle Odelein, Josef Melichar, Ric Jackman, and Steve Poapst, all led by new signing Sergei Gonchar the penguins are far from hurting, in a defensive aspect. They have two of the top offensive defensemen in the league in Tarnstrom and Gonchar. They also have three stay at home bruisers in Jackman, Orpik and Odelein, and they have good two way players in Poapst and Melichar.
Don't believe me? Well its hard to prove to you that Orpik is as good as I believe, but watching him play is the key. He plays with intensity, and with this new speed based offensive system, every team needs an intense player to put some fear into those fast flying offensive players. Don't get me wrong please, this is a young defense, but it is now defense with guidance, and every player fits a role. This is called teamwork, something that has got the devils to a cup year after year. Remember that.
And since the talk is offense, offense, offense this year, let me throw these numbers at you. Gonchar has recorded more goals (74) and more points (241) than any other NHL defenseman since the 2000-01 season, as says the NHL official website. Add to that the fact that Tarnstrom finished with 52 points last year, a leader amongst defensemen. Also Gonchar is at a career total of +57, something that he can teach to players within the pens defense who struggle in keeping up the +/-.
The penguins defense also has something else going for them, everyone doubts them. If teams are going to come into games saying they are going to roll over the defense of the penguins, they will have another thing coming this year, and when they are dropped in the offensive zone, and our speedsters are taking it down the ice, they'll be picking themselves up wondering what just happened.
The penguins received a future in goaltending with the signing of Marc-Andre Fleury, and last year found out what it's like for a rookie goaltender, who has no one to look to. Fleury was fighting against a set of young goaltenders, not learning with them. Now with Thibault signed to the penguins organization, we have a strong starter who can teach Fleury the way to grow stronger, and also win us games until Fleury is ready. Let's face it; in the last few seasons of Thibault's career, if not all of them, he has never had a stellar defense in front of him. This year he will have a growing crew. I'd take Thibault over Burke or Joseph any day of the week. Once again, don't get me wrong, neither of these goalies will be league leaders, but I don't believe we will see the same leaders we are accustomed to anyways with the new rules. New goalie stars will rise, and I feel the penguins have a staff of tenders who can step up to the challenge.
The penguins have one of the strongest offensive threats in the league. Some may argue, and to those of you who do I pose the following. With obstruction being called, everyone knows how dangerous Super Mario is, now add to the mix Crosby, Recchi, Leclair, Palffy, Gonchar, Tarnstrom, Fata, Malone, and Koltsov. I don't need to remind everyone that during the best season the Flyers have had in a long time, there was a guy named Recchi leading the squad in points. Also with a year of recovery, we can start seeing a flash within leclair. A year off of a game where you play day in and day out, is an eternity. Then add Palffy, a player who has no idea what its like to play with a crew that isn't on IR half the season, as the kings led the league, and broke records, in man games lost.
Now I know a lot of people are saying, ok… sure those players are great… but can you really mean it when you say Koltsov, Malone, and Fata? Yes… Yes I can. In this new league speed is going to be something every team will need and fear. Rico Fata and Koltsov are some of the leagues fastest blue line to blue line players. These guys will get fed passes from the Defense from blue line to blue line, beating many opposing teams defense back to the line. With some work on the hands, these three could be a massive scoring threat, especially when they will be paired with a checking or fourth line. Also as stated before, remember that teams cannot forget our defensive presence in the offensive zone. The penguins in my opinion have one of the most dangerous offenses in the league.
Again many people and many NHL teams will disagree, this is where the penguins will thrive, catching these teams off guard.
Last but not least, lets remember this is Eddy-O's second season behind the bench, and much was learned from a tough season. With leadership on the team, Eddy can focus on teaching and training these guys, allowing players like Mario, Recchi, Leclair, and Palffy lead them on the ice.
Division Claims
Let's not forget as well that if the penguins can win their division, they are heading to the playoffs with home ice advantage. Many people have dubbed the Flyers winners of the free agent market, I dub them losers. Let me pose this question. If someone sent you a message and it read… "We offer you Peter Forsberg for Tony Amonte, JR, Mark Recchi, and John Leclair" … would you ever say… GREAT! I wouldn't because you take the role players of the team, and replace them with one great player. That is not teamwork, that is not the NHL. Also, as a huge devils fan, I know a hurting team when I see one, with their losses, I think they could be in for a long season, but they always find a way to pull out the W. This division won't be easy to win, but let's not hand it over to the Flyers without playing the games first.
The Penguins are not the maple leafs, avalanche, or red wings… They are a small market team with their hometown support. The same thing they were when they won back to back cups in the early 90's. There will be nay-sayers, however, when its time to play, I feel many people will be stuck with their foots in their mouths and say…. Wow… this team can play. Will we in the cup?… no probably not… do we have a shot? Most defiantly.


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Cosmo Couture 2013
Artist Panel Discussion: November 20, 6:30 p.m.
Please join us for an incredible evening of conversation with D.C.'s most innovative interior designers and architects as they discuss their bird-inspired fashion designs from the Cosmo Couture runway show on view in the Corcoran's Gallery 31. The night's festivities will begin in the Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in Gallery 31 and the North Atrium. Reception is free and open to the public.
Each year, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Mid-Atlantic Washington Metro City Center Chapter brings together D.C. area architecture and interior design firms with local manufacturing partners for a night of creative design talent and runway innovation called Cosmo Couture. On September 19th, the Corcoran College of Art + Design's Interior Design Program was among the participating teams challenged to construct a garment made from materials that are typically seen in the built environment rather than on the fashion runway. The theme, birds of the National Zoo, served as inspiration for some of the best creative talent in the area to design an array of innovative garments that will be on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art's Gallery 31 through December 8th.
Once again, the Corcoran College of Art + Design was the only student team to take part in the competition and consisted of MA Interior Design candidates Blair Bunting, Brittany Bloom, Alexandra Davis, Allyson Jaffee, Martha Mukungu, Lauren Reynolds, and Maureen Ursino.
Read a review of Cosmo Couture 2012 by the Washingtonian here .
To learn more about the Cosmo Couture Runway Show, click here .
All photos taken at Cosmo Couture 2013 runway show by Natalie Grasso.
Also on November 20th, join us for Corcoran Uncorked . Try your hand at fashion illustration, discover some of the most fashionable pieces in the Corcoran's collection and don't forget to grab a featured drink and test your structural design skills with all-you-can-build Jenga in Muse Cafe!


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Wide receiver James Jones has nothing but good things to say about the Green Bay Packers.
I love the city, love the team, would love to come back, Jones was saying earlier this week during an appearance at the Meyer Theatre for the premiere of the Super Bowl XLV Champions DVD.
Yet despite all his genuine goodwill toward the Packers in the aftermath of a championship season, Jones days in Green Bay appear numbered.
Assuming a new NFL collective bargaining agreement is reached, Jones will likely become an unrestricted free agent and can sign with any team. The Packers in all probability wont be high on his list of potential future employers.
It has nothing to do with team chemistry, coaching, personality conflicts, the small-town environment or the Packers organization.
Jones is simply looking for career advancement, and the chances of that happening with the Packers arent great.
Jones has been part of one of the NFLs best receiving groups. With elite quarterback Aaron Rodgers directing coach Mike McCarthys pass-oriented offensive attack, Green Bay should be a receivers dream destination. Except in Jones case, he serves mostly as a role player and desires something more.
Jones wants to become an every-down NFL starter and believes he possesses the skills to make that happen. What he needs is a chance, something that likely wont come anytime soon in Green Bay.
In four NFL seasons Jones has established himself as Rodgers third or fourth option on passing plays. Greg Jennings is the unquestioned top receiver on the team and has the Pro Bowl credentials to prove it. Tight end Jermichael Finley, who sat out most of the 2010 season with an injury, will return with a vengeance and is sure to gobble up a hefty chunk of receptions.
So that leaves 13-year veteran Donald Driver, Jones and Jordy Nelson to fight for the remaining scraps that Rodgers doles out.
Its not a bad gig. Jones caught a career-high 50 passes last season and produced his share of memorable plays. Jones made a crucial third-down catch to keep a Packers second-half touchdown drive alive in the Super Bowl, and had another big reception on the final offensive series against Pittsburgh that helped the Packers chew up precious time.
Jones critics point to his inconsistency and two dropped touchdown passes in the playoffs one in the Super Bowl and another in the wild-card game at Philadelphia. But he also made two difficult post-season touchdown catches one in the same Philadelphia game and another against Atlanta.
Some conclude that since Jones hasnt earned a starting spot yet, hes simply not good enough. But that was the same criticism leveled against Packers linebacker Desmond Bishop, who made occasional big plays as a backup but was considered too inconsistent for regular duty on the No. 1 defense.
Lo and behold, when Bishop finally became a starter last fall in his fourth season due to Nick Barnetts wrist injury, he was so good the Packers rewarded him with a new contract.
This is not to suggest Jones is destined to become a sure-fire NFL receiving star. He still has much to prove, and some team must be willing to make a significant financial commitment.
But from Jones vantage point, he would be foolish not to explore all his options. If another team comes calling with a starting job and sizable raise, why wouldnt he jump at the opportunity?
Jones teammates seem resigned to his eventual departure.
He has to make the best decision for him and his family, said Jennings.
Jones has been a good fit in the Packers locker room and has contributed to a sense of camaraderie and unselfishness rarely seen among receiving groups. The Packers would love to keep him, but it seems unlikely the team would pay what Jones might command on the open market.
Jones readily admits it would be difficult to leave the Packers, who could be Super Bowl contenders for years to come, but its a sacrifice he seems willing to make.
It would be hard to fault Jones for chasing his dreams and attempting to fulfill greater career aspirations.
Mike Vandermause is sports editor of the Press-Gazette.


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FREEPORT — Like all experiments, there must be trial and error, but Jim Estes and his team did not expect things to go like they did after a balloon launch Wednesday at Albertus Airport in Freeport.
FREEPORT — Like all experiments, there must be trial and error, but Jim Estes and his team did not expect things to go like they did after a balloon launch Wednesday at Albertus Airport in Freeport.
It took two tries to get the helium-filled balloon, attached to a payload of digital cameras, to launch. The recovery team from the Boys & Girls Club of Freeport & Stephenson County spent the better part of Wednesday trying to locate the downed balloon with no success. Hope turned into disappointment, but Estes remembered the words of his boss: "Failure is not an option."
The balloon launch was part of a Space Camp Adventure project by a dozen students at the club. Cheers filled the air from the students as they watched the balloon lift off. One student, A'Kia Jordan, cried.
Estes and his team left for Mission Control, back at the club, to begin tracking the balloon. It was expected to fall near Big Rock, Ill. That didn't happen. Plus, the transmitter quit working at 1:19 p.m. that day.
"The recovery team drove to Rochelle on Wednesday, waiting to rally with excitement, but the mood was quickly lost," Estes said.
"We knew the balloon was off course," said Becky Spindler, one of the instructors.
"We were determined to keep going," volunteer Brian Livingston added.
The team retuned home that night, having learned the balloon was still up in the air. Mission Control, back at the Boys & Girls Club, had a signal again, but as nightfall approached, the decision to return to Freeport was made.
"We knew by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday it was down," Spindler said.
Balloon retrieved
Estes said local pilot Richard Farmer used a plat map and satellite images to locate the downed balloon. It traveled 129 miles. It had landed in a cornfield near Darrow and Sheldon, Ill., near Indiana. Paper and pencil was used to plot the longitude and latitude course. Spindler said this was the learning curve.
Leaving at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Estes, Livingston, Spindler and Hanny Karakas left in a van for the long drive to the Indiana border.
Farmer helped guide Estes and the team from the sky to retrieve the payload attached to the parachute, which could be seen from the air.
"Because the corn was so high, we had to use an umbrella for Richard to talk to us by radio to find the device, but we did it," Estes said. "Brian and I got lost, but we could hear the beeping from the transmitter."
Returning home Thursday evening, the road-weary team was all smiles. Estes said the next step is to analyze the data and have a documentary ready for the public to see within two weeks.
Page 2 of 2 - "It was quite an adventure," Estes said.
"The one big thing we learned from all this is even with all the technology, it came down to paper, pencil and a map. All our smartphones failed," Spindler said. "It's about basic knowledge and team work."
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Swide were thinking that zombies were overtaking vampires, when it came to TV and film but it seems that our favourite blood suckers are back with Byzantium, the return of Dracula and more…
Twilight saga is (fortunately) finished but if you're out there looking for all new vampire movies to die for, well, in cinema, there is 3-vampire romance and thriller films that we advise you keep your eyes on. Then we'll let you know what's going to be a huge hit on the small screens this year, too. Here is the Swide's list for best new vampire movies and tv series out in summer and autumn 2013.
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jim Jarmush – Release date December 5, 2013 (Russia)
First up is Jim Jarmush's new feature film that stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as centuries old lovers, who fall back into each others' arms as both of their lives seem to be going nowhere. It was just shown at Cannes Film Festival 2013 but, in order to reach that point, it took seven years of hard slogging it. Well, Jim can now have piece of mind that his moody, slow paced vampire romance is done and dusted, for want of an expression. It is set for release at the end of the year.
Byzantium – Neil Jordan – Release date June 28, 2013 (USA)
The man behind the award winning 'The Crying Game' (1992) and one of the top vampire movies of all time 'Interview with a Vampire' (1994) is turning back to the genre with his upcoming romance thriller. Following two women seeking refuge in a run-down coastal resort, Clara and Eleanor befriend Noel and Frank in an effort to find shelter. What they didn't tell the two guys is that they were in fact born over 200 years ago and that their past troubles are following them, bringing deathly consequences with it. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones and Daniel Mays, this thriller of mystical forces, age-old troubles and romance is sure to be a big hit this year, when it is released in June.
The Last Voyage of Demeter – Neil Marshall – Release date (In production)
The man behind the amazing female led horror film 'The Descent' (2005), Neil Marshall, is back with 'The Last Voyage of Demeter'. Starring Viggo Mortensen this follows the ill-fated crew of the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England, arriving at port with no survivors aboard. Strangely though, the script of this film was actually written just under 10 years ago, way before vampires were a huge hit again. Now that the Twilight Trilogy has come to an end, Marshall felt that it was time to get things moving again. There is no release date as of yet but we'll keep you updated.
The Originals – Premiere date October 3, 2013
Over onto the small screen we have a spinoff from Vampire Diaries to get our heads around. The series will follow Klaus (Joseph Morgan) as he returns to New Orleans to try and reclaim rule of the city, which is currently in the hands of his protégé Marcel, played by Charles Michael Davis. All goes to hell when a couple witches rebel against the repression of Marcel… let the undead drama begin.
Dracula – Premiere date october 25, 2013
The big man takes centre stage once again in Cole Haddon's NBC new dramatization of Bram Stoker's Dracula's life, this time in London and posing as an American entrepreneur that wants to bring modern science to Victorian England. In reality, he just wants to seek revenge on those who did him wrong centuries earlier. This all seems to be going to plan until, you got it right, he falls in love with a woman that appears to be his dead wife reincarnated. We can't wait to see its stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Thomas Kretschmann in action when it hits our screens later this Autumn time. Dan Knauf, creator of the cult tv series Carnivàle, will be Dracula's showrunner.
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The Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (M.A.D.RE) stands in the historical heart of Naples, close to the Cathedral and the Treasure of St.Gennaro, a hundred yards from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. The museum is home to contemporary art with a rich permanent collection of works made specifically for this building as well as many periodic exhibitions.
The Museum owes its name to the building that houses it, the Palazzo Donnaregina, which stands next to the Monastery of S. Maria Donnaregina. All that remains today are two churches: the church of S. Maria Donnaregina on Piazza Donnaregina, built in the baroque period, and the earlier church of S. Maria Donnaregina Vecchia, in Quattrocento Gothic, today open to the public during exhibitions and special events organized by the Museum.
In June 2005, the MADRE celebrated its new premises by opening the site-specific installations on its first-floor rooms. This was followed in December 2005 by the inauguration of the historical collection housed on the second floor. The third floor of the building houses temporary exhibitions, current details of which can be found on the museum website.
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This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the treatment of childhood brain and spinal cord tumors. It is intended as a resource to inform and assist clinicians who care for cancer patients. It does not provide formal guidelines or recommendations for making health care decisions.
This summary is reviewed regularly and updated as necessary by the PDQ Pediatric Treatment Editorial Board, which is editorially independent of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The summary reflects an independent review of the literature and does not represent a policy statement of NCI or the National Institutes of Health (NIH).</SummaryAbstract><SummaryKeyWords><SummaryKeyWord>childhood brain tumor</SummaryKeyWord></SummaryKeyWords>
Dramatic improvements in survival have been achieved for children and adolescents with cancer. Between 1975 and 2010, childhood cancer mortality decreased by more than 50%. [1] Childhood and adolescent cancer survivors require close follow-up because cancer therapy side effects may persist or develop months or years after treatment. Refer to the PDQ summary on Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer for specific information about the incidence, type, and monitoring of late effects in childhood and adolescent cancer survivors.
Primary brain tumors are a diverse group of diseases that together constitute the most common solid tumor of childhood. Brain tumors are classified according to histology, but tumor location and extent of spread are also important factors that affect treatment and prognosis. Immunohistochemical analysis, cytogenetic and molecular genetic findings, and measures of proliferative activity are increasingly used in tumor diagnosis and classification.
Primary central nervous system tumors are a diverse group of diseases that together constitute the most common solid tumor in childhood. The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS) estimates that approximately 4,300 U.S. children are diagnosed each year. [2]
The classification of childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors is based on histology and location. [1] Tumors are classically categorized as infratentorial, supratentorial, parasellar, or spinal. Immunohistochemical analysis, cytogenetic and molecular genetic findings, and measures of proliferative activity are increasingly used in tumor diagnosis and classification and will likely affect classification and nomenclature in the future.
Primary CNS spinal cord tumors comprise approximately 1% to 2% of all childhood CNS tumors. The classification of spinal cord tumors is based on histopathologic characteristics of the tumor and does not differ from that of primary brain tumors. [1]
Infratentorial (posterior fossa) tumors include the following:
Supratentorial tumors include the following:
Parasellar tumors include the following:
Spinal cord tumors include the following:
Important concepts that should be understood by those treating and caring for a child who has a brain tumor or spinal cord tumor include the following:
(Refer to the PDQ summary on Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer for more information about possible long-term or late effects.)
Presently, there is no uniformly accepted staging system for most childhood brain tumors. These tumors are classified and treated based on their histology and location within the brain (see Table below). However, with advances in molecular data, it is conceivable that genomic factors will refine classification approaches for certain groups of tumors, such as medulloblastomas [1] [2] and low-grade gliomas. [3] [4]
|Tumor Type
|Pathologic Subtype
|Related PDQ Treatment Summary
|Astrocytomas and Other Tumors of Glial Origin
|– Low-Grade Astrocytomas
|Diffuse fibrillary astrocytoma
|Childhood Astrocytomas Treatment
|Gemistocytic astrocytoma
|Pilocytic astrocytoma
|Pilomyxoid astrocytoma
|Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
|Protoplasmic astrocytoma
|Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
|– High-Grade Astrocytomas
|Anaplastic astrocytoma
|Childhood Astrocytomas Treatment
|Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma
|Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
|Giant cell glioblastoma
|Gliomatosis cerebri
|Brain Stem Glioma
|Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
|Childhood Brain Stem Glioma Treatment
|Focal or low-grade brain stem glioma
|CNS Embryonal Tumors
|– Medulloblastomas
|Childhood CNS Embryonal Tumors Treatment
|Large cell
|Medulloblastoma with extensive nodularity
|– CNS Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNETs)
|CNS ganglioneuroblastoma
|CNS neuroblastoma
|– Pineal Parenchymal Tumors
|– CNS Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
|Childhood CNS Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor Treatment
|CNS Germ Cell Tumors
|– Germinomas
|Childhood CNS Germ Cell Tumors Treatment
|– Teratomas
|Immature teratoma
|Mature teratoma
|Teratoma with malignant transformation
|– Non-Germinomatous Germ Cell Tumors
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OCLC WorldShare Management Services and What it Offers Library Staff and Their Patrons
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OCLC WorldShare Management Services and What it Offers Library Staff and Their Patrons
Craig Johnson, OCLC. Location: L206
OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) are an integrated suite of cloud-based library management and discovery applications. They are packaged together to give librarians a comprehensive, cost-effective way to manage library workflows and improve access to library collections and services. The applications include acquisitions, circulation, license management, metadata management, interlibrary loan, analytics and discovery. WMS offers libraries cost savings, workflow efficiencies and the ability to deliver new value to users by sharing the work with other libraries. With WMS, libraries free up resources so they can focus on the higher priorities that make their institutions unique and serve their users better.
"Repositories, from Flophouse to 5-Star Resort: The Model Matters"
Dave Stout, bepress. Location: Harmon Room
The concept of the "institutional repository" has changed greatly over the past seven years. As a community, we've gone from being the "Innkeeper at the Roach Motel" (see: https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/22088) to seeing that these services are critical to promoting student and faculty achievement and as such vital to recruitment, retention and funding. Today, many libraries describe Digital Commons as the most important investment they've made, with the most significant impact on campus. Join us to learn why, and how the bepress model helps libraries provide digital scholarship showcase and publishing services campus-wide in a scalable, sustainable manner, with maximum success and impact.
NO HAND-HOLDING NEEDED: When Technology Meets Patrons
Ed Berkowitz, Crowley. Location: Field House.
Today's patrons are generally tech-savvy and demand digital options, but there are those who still think a mouse is furry (and who can suck the day out of library staff). Crowley representative Ed Berkowitz will demonstrate two of today's most popular systems that meet the needs of all patrons. The Zeutschel zeta, a touchpad overhead book copy system, digitizes easily while reducing wear and tear on bound books and loose documents. The Crowley UScan reads, digitizes and prints from any microform via a simple interface. Both units are ILL-compatible and can be fitted with pay-per-use systems for a quick return on investment. Discover how selecting the right technology can simultaneously enhance library services and librarian's schedules.


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Briefly: Ting supports iPhone 5, Skrillex hides album in mobile game
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Ting adds support for iPhone 5, could add iPhone 5s, 5c in September
Ting has started to support the iPhone 5 over its Sprint-based network, as rumored last month. The MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) already provides support for compatible iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S handsets, with the iPhone 5 bringing it closer to current generation devices, but not by much. A blog post advises that, since the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c reached Sprint in late September last year, support for the devices is expected to occur at "about the same time this year."
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Skrillex promotes album via Easter egg in mobile game
Dubstep music producer Skrillex is promoting his upcoming album, by hiding it within a game for mobile devices. The Verge reports that players of Alien Ride, available for both iOS and Android, can unlock and listen to the entire 11-track album, titled "Recess," as an Easter egg before its release on March 18th.


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More than 1.8 billion Christians around the world - including thousands in Southern Utah and the surrounding area - are waking up this morning to celebrate what is to them the most important holiday on the annual calendar: Easter.
For Christians, this is the day they commemorate the resurrection of Jesus, the man they believe to be the son of God who came to Earth to die for the sins of man, serving as a lasting sacrifice for the salvation for all mankind. Indeed, followers of the faith, regardless of denomination, will flock to churches and other venues for celebrations today to hear songs and messages that center on the key word for this holiday - "hope."
The story of Jesus' death on a cross and resurrection seems too farfetched for some skeptics. In fact, it is the reason for scorn for some who choose to mock the beliefs of others. But for many other people, the story of life after death provides a kind of peace, a comfort that allows them to endure the harsh realities of this life.
For that reason, the Biblical story of hope deserves at least some respect.
As historians examine the life of a man from Nazareth and who was executed by Roman officials in Jerusalem in the historically war-torn country of Israel, they note a man who many revered as a prophet and who some others - particularly the people in power at the time - viewed as a threat.
He was a threat because he challenged the cultural norms at the time. The Bible records that he ate meals with sinners. He put the well-being of the people he encountered over the Jewish laws of his time by healing the sick and encouraging his followers to love others, even - actually, especially - their enemies.
Whether you are celebrating this Easter holiday or not, whether you buy into the concept that Jesus is the savior of mankind or not, whether you buy into there being any kind of deity at all or not, this man who so many Christians are celebrating today can serve as a positive example of how to interact with our fellow man.
Indeed, if we all followed his example - again, whether you believe in him being a God-like figure or not - there likely would not be any wars. There would be no hungry, no homeless, no people left to fend for themselves.
This man who so many Christians are celebrating today serves as a positive example of how to interact with our fellow man.
Even if you don't believe in the story behind the holiday, follow Jesus' example of compassion for others.


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I'm not a breakfast person and I try to watch the carbs. Eating soup for breakfast helps me take in more veggies ,and is warm and comforting in the morning.
Some soups help you feel more satiated, make you eat less, avoid blood sugar and insulin spikes, target belly fat & burn more fat. Try Beef Barley, Lentil soup, Black Bean Soup, tart cherry soup, chili, chicken soup with barley, HAM AND BEAN, Eating foods like cooked carrots, broccoli or cauliflower can provide you with up to three to five grams of fiber SO TRY VEGGIE SOUP.
Soup is a blank canvas - capable of leaping across tables and cookbooks in a single bound to rescue you from hunger. To prevent myself from making gallons of cream-based soups, I tell myself that VEGETABLE Soup is a blank canvas. And in thinking about it, it truly is! Chicken soup is vegetable soup with chicken. Gazpacho is a vegetable soup served cold. The possibilities are endless and the combinations are oh-so delicious! 481
Frozen Veggies are fairly low in calories, but they can be so bland. Butter or margarine will add lots of calories.Lower-calorie soups like the Progresso Light series offer a serving of soup at under 100 calories.So,,, If you take half-a-package of frozen veggies and dump it in a bowl (with a lid), then open the can of soup & pour only the liquid part over the veggies, you can cook up a good lo-cal meal (or half-meal, if you're really hungry). THEN I can cook/eat the rest of the soup!


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Four new red light cameras have been installed in Jacksonville, and the warning-grace period will start at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
New cameras were installed at the following locations:
- Beach Blvd. and San Pablo Road eastbound
- Beach Blvd. and St. Johns Bluff Road, both east and westbound
- Gate Parkway and Southside Blvd. eastbound
ONLINE:Complete list of active red-light cameras in Jacksonville
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said it will notify residents via social media when the warning-grace period will end and when the notice of violations will begin for the new approaches.


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Your car mechanic will be able to diagnose your car repair issue, and they should give you a quote at the time you request service. If you are not happy with the quote, don't be afraid to get a second opinion, and remember, good car servicing will also avoid unexpected breakdowns and costly car repair.
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Consider learning where your vehicle's dipstick is and checking the oil regularly. If you notice anything strange, such as oil deposits under the vehicle, white spots or flecks of steel in the oil or an unusual amount of oil use, contact your auto mechanic.
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Glen Rock native Summer Britcher has yet to return to the United States since competing in the Winter Olympics.
The 2012 Susquehannock High School graduate decided to go on a week's vacation in Barcelona, Spain, shortly after attending the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
"People were telling me about post-Olympics depression, so I decided to go on vacation to avoid it," Britcher tweeted from her Twitter account Feb. 24.
Her mom, dad, older sister and two older brothers, however, returned home about two weeks ago.
"Apparently they got their flight back paid for so they figured why not do a stop-over in Spain on the way back?" Bill Britcher, Summer's dad, said of her mini-vacation. "Go ahead and do that. They pitched in, about four or five of them, and rented an apartment over there."
Britcher said his daughter is expected to return home sometime next week. In the meantime, he and his family have already gotten back to civilian life.
"It's amazing how many people in the area enjoyed it (the Winter Olympics) and enjoyed watching it and stuff," Britcher said of the reaction he's received since returning home. "I knew family and friends knew (Summer was competing in the Olympics), but once it spread more it was amazing hearing the local people have someone from their town to cheer for in the Olympics."
Becoming the first York County native to compete in the Winter Olympics, Summer Britcher placed 15th in singles women's luge. Teammate Erin Hamlin, competing in her third Olympics, made history by finishing third to become the first-ever American women's singles luger to medal.
On TV: The Britcher family could be seen on the NBC live feed cheering at the bottom of the luge track, wearing red shirts with white lettering on the front reading "Team Summer." The shirts were made by one of Britcher's colleagues from the firehouse of Engine 29 in Baltimore, where he has served as captain for 10 years. One of Summer's brothers, Alex, stood out from the crowd wearing a latex suit in the design of an American flag.
"At first, I thought it was gonna be squirrely," Britcher said. "Then everybody was asking to take a picture with him, even people from other countries."
One Russian man even went so far as trading a jacket for Alex's red, white and blue ballcap designed like an American flag.
"I think the guy was drinking and he wanted it (the hat) so bad. There's a custom over there where if you give somebody something then they have to give you something back in return. He gave my son a leather jacket for the hat," Britcher said.
Security: The Britchers didn't get much of an opportunity to spend time with Summer in Sochi.
"The way they had security locked down, we couldn't get to see her and she couldn't get to us. Then the next night we made arrangements to meet for about an hour," Britcher said.
Britcher said he felt safe the entire time in Russia.
"I guess going into it I was a little bit more worried or paranoid about the security," he said. "Once we got through security, we felt welcome. They just seemed like normal people going about their day. The only problem we had was the language barrier. Just trying to communicate with people. One thing, if I ever go to something like that again, I would take more of an initiative to learn more of their language."
Britcher said he'd also find lodging closer to the Olympic events if he had to do it again. The Britchers stayed on a cruise ship in the port of Sochi and had to take a train ride to just about everywhere.
"Somehow, going into it, I thought it was going to be this big family vacation, but it was exhausting. It was a lot of work," Britcher said. "I knew there was going to be travel. But I didn't realize there would be a lot of waiting in lines. We'd easily be eating up to five hours a day traveling. So there was that along with the jet lag. Still, it was enjoyable."
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Blog Archives: September 2011
The Cove comes to Thailand
Taiji Sick Dolphin in Captivity
Tia reports on a captive dolphin in Taiji, Japan in trouble.
Solomon Islands Dolphin Captures
Help stop the export of up to 50 dolphins from the Solmon Islands to China.
THAILAND WARNED! Don't Traffic in Live Dolphins (Bangkok Post Link added)
Press Release: Proposed new Dolphinariums Threaten Wild Dolphin Populations and Thailand's Reputation as a Dolph
In Taiji, Wild Dolphins Refuse to Leave Their Captive Mates
Tia Butt, our volunteer Cove Monitor in Taiji, reports on the latest, including two wild dolphins that refuse to leave their captive mates.
SeaWorld's Hypocrisy
SeaWorld is putting out a press release to emphasize their "rescue" work with dolphins, whales, and seals, but don't buy what they are trying to sell.
MasterCard Exploits Dolphins in Singapore!
Join me in telling MasterCard to stop supporting the exploitation of dolphins by Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore, and other captive dolphin facilities!
Traveling Dolphin Circuses in Indonesia - A Call to Action!
Traveling circuses in Indonesia feature dolphins as the main act. Watch this heart-wrenching video and take action.


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