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I've lived in Ames for 5 years and still use my old small town bank in Illinois. It's time to switch to a bank here...any suggestions? I'll mainly use it for checking/savings accounts and possibly a home loan. Any good/bad experiences in the area?
I've had & enjoyed Wells Fargo for 5 years. I have checking/savings and my mortgage with them.
Have to definitely recommend the people at First Federal Savings there at the branch in front of Target.
Also, I met a lot of Iowa State fans and I dont want to leave any of that behind. - DARIUS DARKS on Staying a CLONE!!!
Matt (00 Alumn)
Waukee, Iowa
Advantage to a big bank (Wells Fargo, US Bank, BOA)
-They are national banks, so they have ATM's all over the US
-They have branches all over the US - if you are traveling and something happens you can go to the branch.
-They typically offer more products and services in house
Disadvantage - they nickel and dime you to death a lot of times with fees.
Local Banks
-Far more personal service (IMO)
-Not as busy
-Can find better rates on car loans, home loans, etc. because they want your business
Disadvantage - they are not national, so ATM usage may be limited.
I bank with two national banks, and one local bank. The local bank hands down has the best service, but the national banks have far better online tools, and more locations.
I would try Greater Iowa Credit Union in Ames. They have decent locations, have branches in DSM, and typically credit unions have better rates/deals than banks.
I joined USBank when I lived in Ames. Was firstar back then. I never been nickel and dimed for anything. They are everywhere and a big enough and stable enough bank for me to feel confident in their products and services.
I've always been happy with First National Bank in Ames
I'm a fan of Ames Community Bank (and the smaller satellites). I went to a few before I picked that one and it just felt right. I've always been treated really well there and they take good care of you.
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I'm sitting in an milford campsite bathroom right now listening to the sirens and a guy dropping a deuce. Please god don't take me now like this.
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I joined USBank when I lived in Ames. Was firstar back then. I never been nickel and dimed for anything. They are everywhere and a big enough and stable enough bank for me to feel confident in their products and services.
I'll second this. I've used USBank since I came to Ames 5 years ago and have been very happy with their service. The only fee's I've had have been from the occasional use of a non-USBank ATM, but that's to be expected. USBank's nationwide presence was very helpful on my internships as I was never far from a branch (and thus had easy access to free ATM's and whatnot).
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I've always been happy with First National Bank in Ames
One of my absolute best friends works here and he is absolutely one of the classiest, best guys I know and I know he loves it there. I would definitely recommend it to anybody.
Also, don't let the ATM thing with smaller banks or credit unions deter you - they are almost always "priviledged status" ATM's and thus you won't be charged at any privilaged status ATM anywhere in the country. IMO this makes them preferable to major banks, because there are always priviledged status ATM's everywhere.
I've used US Bank for some time now. Their online access is great, and the online bill pay is really handy. I pay my rent and cell phone bills on there and they send a check for me.
#1 on my list of important items is their web site because 99% of the time that is what I'm going to use. I go into a bank about once every 3 years and that's to cash in my change. I have 3 different bank accounts and they are a good mix. One large bank, one online only bank, and one credit union. The large bank(BofA) is nice for things like buying foreign currency but other than that I would drop them. I do all my billpay (free) through my online bank. I've heard good things about ING Direct but have never used them.
For customer service the big bank sucks. Both the online and credit union have excellent customer service.
I agree with the others to find a bank that is "privileged status". They are the easiest atm's to find.
US Bank recently announce you will be able to deposit checks at home with a scanner very soon. this will be nice!
US Bank. They are everywhere (except in SE), and treat their clients well.
EverBank. Pays interest rates far above what any local or national bank will pay. I've banked solely online for almost 10 years and I can't think of one single instance where I wished I had a local bank branch to visit.
And as an added bonus, they just bought naming rights to the Jacksonville Jaguars' stadium. So there's that.
I have to say that I'm going through a refi right now with U.S. Bank and it's been kind of a mess. Never had any problems with them up until now though. Of course this is separate from their banking.
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Company History
We started out in 1896, supplying rugged canvas tents to prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.
For the next several decades, business was good. We continued building tents and the company grew little by little.
Then the government called, in need of tents and tarps for the troops during World War II. We grew some more.
Our current president and owner, Scott Campbell, took the reins in 1984. Under his leadership, the company has grown more and faster, by building a strong team, expanding our product offerings, and strategic acquisitions.
In 1985, Scott acquired Seattle Tent & Awning, which was established in 1897, and was our largest competitor.
Camp Lewis Tent & Awning, which was established in 1911, was acquired in 1993.
In 1994, Olympic Sign was acquired, solidifying Rainier's expansion into the sign and graphics industry.
In 1995, operations were moved to a 72,000 square foot facility in Tukwila, Washington.
Highflying Banners, a company specializing in Sunbrella appliquéd banners, was acquired in 2002.
Later in 2002, Rainier acquired Display Products, a company specializing in visual merchandising and digital wall coverings.
We continued to expand in 2004 with some exciting growth, including the purchase of the Markham Company in Orlando, Florida, an acquisition of Barrett Windows, an acquisition of our competitor in retail awnings and screens, EGE Sun Systems, and the purchase of Nesting Bird Yurts.
We moved into our 140,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility in July of 2008.
Rainier acquired Wave Guide Technologies in 2008 and began manufacturing retractable screen and awnings.
2009 started with the acquisition of Sunblockers NW, a screen and awning retailer in the Seattle marketplace and also the acquisition of The Big Print, a large format digital printing company also based in Seattle and well recognized for their Biographix™ product line.
2012 saw two exciting acquisitions: Big Ink, a Seattle company known for vehicle wraps and other graphic projects; and The SEC Group in Wilsonville, Oregon, expanding our presence in the commercial tent business.
And in 2013, we opened the doors of our new 200,000 square foot facility in Statesville, North Carolina, where we manufacture Rainier screens and awnings for our dealer network on the East Coast.
We like to brag about our years of experience and extensive product offerings, but we know that it takes more than a long history to satisfy customers' high expectations today.
We talk about quality being timeless, and achieving that is a priority every single day. Our formal quality management system and ISO 9001:2008 certification reinforces our goal of being a great supplier to our many clients.
Thanks for your interest in Rainier – we look forward to hearing from you!

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Post time for the Longacres Mile. The 78th running is set for August 18, 2013.OFF & RUNNING AT EMERALD DOWNS!2013 MEET RUNS 75 DAYS, FEATURES 29 STAKES
AUBURN, Wash. (April 16, 2013) – The Northwest's premier racing venue springs back into action Friday when Emerald Downs begins its 18th season of Thoroughbred racing with an eight-race card at 6:45 p.m.
The 75-day season continues through September 29, with live racing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and special Monday holiday racing on Memorial Day, May 27, and Labor Day, September 2. A new Friday post time of 6:45 p.m. will be in effect throughout the season while weekend and holiday first post remains 2 p.m.
The traditional Fireworks Spectacular is set for Wednesday, July 3, with a special 4:30 p.m. post time, followed by the only Thursday card of the season on July 4.
Director of Racing Bret Anderson has composed a 29-race, $1.54 million stakes schedule that showcases the track's top performers in six divisions. The centerpiece, of course, is the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3) for 3-year-olds and up on Sunday, August 18. The Mile features the top middle-distance horses on the West Coast matching strides in the 78th running of the Northwest's premier Thoroughbred event.
The horse population is up significantly from last year, and many of last year's stakes winners return for another season of action, including Blueberry Smoothie, Champagneandcaviar, D'honorable One, Exclusive Diva, E Z Kitty, Goin to the Window, Kooky Saluki, Makors Finale and Music of My Soul. Makors Finale, a quadruple stakes winner as a 3-year-old and runner-up for 2012 Horse of the Meeting, transitions into the older handicap division for trainer Tom Wenzel.
A pair of 7-year-olds—Winning Machine, voted Top Older Horse last year, and Noosa Beach, the track's all-time leader in stakes wins—also return in 2013. Winning Machine comes off his best season for trainer Frank Lucarelli, a campaign that saw the Kentucky-bred win two stakes and place in two others, including a heartbreaking defeat to Taylor Said in the Longacres Mile. The 2010 and 2011 Horse of the Meeting, Noosa Beach looks to rebound from an abbreviated 2012 campaign in which the 11-time stakes winner raced only twice. Trainer Doris Harwood is taking her time with Noosa Beach, and said the plan is to have the Washington-bred gelding peaking in August for The Mile.
In the jockeys' ranks, Juan Gutierrez will be favored to win a second straight riding title and could reach a career milestone on opening weekend. Gutierrez, who rode 117 winners in 2012, needs just five wins to join Gallyn Mitchell as the only jockeys with 1,000 wins at Emerald Downs. (more)
The 43-year-old Gutierrez has finished in the top five every year since 2002, and the last four years has compiled win totals of 98, 95, 100 and 117.
Other top 10 riders back from last year are Rocco Bowen, Javier Matias, Leonel Camacho-Flores, Debbie Hoonan, Jennifer Whitaker and Jose Zunino. Mitchell, the only jockey to ride every season at Emerald Downs, looks to rebound from a career-low 25 win season in which he missed the final six weeks with a hand injury. Eliska Kubinova, the record-setting apprentice who finished third overall with 75 wins, also returns but must ride without the apprentice weight allowance.
Lucarelli, the 2012 training champion with 43 wins, looks to win a third straight title and his fifth overall in 2013. It won't be easy, as Tim McCanna, Howard Belvoir, Tom Wenzel, Jim Penney, Chris Stenslie, Jim Penney and Harwood all have deep stables, as does Phoenix newcomer Jeff Metz. Between them, McCanna (10 titles) and Lucarelli have captured 15 of the 17 training titles at Emerald Downs, and they also rank one-two all-time in wins with 848 and 719.
There is more to Emerald Downs than racing, of course. A full list of special events and activities complement the racing action on the track, beginning opening night with a giveaway of 30 iPad minis to lucky fans, and continuing throughout the season with handicapping contests and classes, equine art, wiener dog races, live music, food trucks, a morning workout show, Italian and Irish festivals, Fiesta Premio Esmeralda and much more.
Also this year, Emerald Downs will host a basketball tournament that is expected to attract players from throughout the Pacific Northwest. EmD3-ON-3 debuts August 10-11 on 30 courts in the north parking lot, and for a $120 entry fee each team is guaranteed at least three games. The tournament is being modeled after the enormously successful Hoopfest in Spokane, which attracts over 25,000 players annually to the Inland Empire.
Located in Auburn, Emerald Downs is considered the gem of racing in the Pacific Northwest. The facility sees over 400,000 visitors a year, and employs 240 people during non-racing season and 460 during live racing months. Thoroughbred racing in the State of Washington boast an economic impact of $253 million each year. -##-


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When I create an all day event in Zimbra web client then sync my Outlook 2003 client with it the event spans over a two day period even though I only selected a single "all day event".
Furthermore, when I create a single "all day event" in Outlook 2003 then sync it with the web client it syncs without a problem and does not span over two days... HOWEVER, when another user syncs with the shared calendar to which I posted the "all day event" using their Outlook 2003 client the problem shows up in their Outlook 2003 client (a single all day event spanning over 2 days).
Observations... whenever I change the event (after it synched) from an "all day event" to a regular event with start and end time I notice that the times on the "start time" and "end time" field of the event are always set to 3:00 AM to 3:00 PM... regardless of any changes ever made to those fields before. Also regardless of what time o fthe day I perform the syncs, etc.
I'm currently testing the Zimbra client via a hosted solution from Smedia.com and I assume they have the latest software versions and ZCS connector versions. I tested this problem in 3 different PC's all running Outlook 2003 and WinXP Pro... also IE7 as webbrowser.
The bottom line is that this "tiny" sync flaw Zimbra has with Outlook practically renders the calendaring functioning unusable when multiple users share and post to a public calendar (assumin they use alternate usage between their Outlook client and the standard Zimbra web client).
Anyone has any idea on what to do PLEASE HELP! I don't want to go back to my hosted Exchange solution!!!!


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Brunswick charter school wins state's OK
Published: Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 4:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 4:11 p.m.
Brunswick County | A new Brunswick County charter school is among 26 charter schools that will likely open next fall in North Carolina.
If it meets state requirements, South Brunswick Charter School would open in southeast Brunswick County in August 2014 and would eventually serve kindergarten through fifth-grade students. It would be run by The Roger Bacon Academy, an education management group that also runs Charter Day School in Leland, Douglass Academy in Wilmington and Columbus Charter School in Whiteville.
The state Board of Education agreed Thursday to give preliminary charters to the 26 schools' organizers based on the recommendations of an advisory board that reviews applications. Six others were denied charters. The new approvals will likely bring the operating total of charter schools in the state to about 150.
– Pressley Baird
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Geography & Planning
West Chester University's Department of Geography has a Geography Club. What does the Geography Club do? Past activities have included faculty lectures, field trips, camping, canoeing, rafting, hiking, and backpacking. Why should I join the geography club?
"I participated in the geography club because it is a new way to meet people, and experience the fun as we do a lot of things from rock climbing to camping. Everyone has a good time, and the best part is that you don't have to be a geography major or minor to join. If you like to travel and have interest in having enjoyment outdoors, then this is the club for you!"
For more information about current Geography Club meetings times and events, contact Dr. Gary Coutu, advisor. You may also keep in touch and follow us on Facebook.
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Live music listings
Published: Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 2:56 p.m.
CHARLIE HORSE: Big Trouble, classic rock, tonight; All Systems Go, classic rock, Friday; Mt. Rockmore, classic rock, Saturday; Mike and Jim from Aunt Jackie, classic rock, Sunday; blues jam hosted by the Adams brothers, Monday; open jam hosted by Power Play, Tuesday; Stranded, classic rock, Wednesday; karaoke seven nights a week, 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (622-4050)
EL AZTECA MEXICAN RESTAURANT: Mariachi band, tonight; karaoke, 8 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, 4011 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (854-5500)
GHOST RIDERS SALOON: Open jam hosted by Wake n Bake, 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday and 7 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, 9360 S. U.S. 441, Ocala. (693-3388)
HILTON OCALA: Bobby Blackmon, blues, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday; Rudy Turner, jazz and dancing, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 3600 SW 36th Ave., Ocala. (854-1400)
KOOL KATS SALOON: Wake n Bake, rock, 8 p.m. to midnight Friday, 9980 E. County Road 25, Belleview. (245-1099)
OCALA WINE EXPERIENCE: Live music from the '60s, '70s and beyond, 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 36 SW First Ave., downtown Ocala. (369-9858)
O'MALLEY'S ALLEY & OYSTER BAR: Acoustic music, 7 tonight; DJ on the patio, 9 p.m. Friday; rock on the patio, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturday; DJ, 9 p.m. Saturday; DJ, 9 p.m. Sunday; DJ on the patio, 9 p.m. Tuesday, and Acoustic Jam Night inside; DJ on the patio, 9 p.m. Wednesday, and Brandon inside, acoustic, 24 S. Magnolia Ave., downtown Ocala. (690-2262)
OUR PLACE SALOON: Karaoke, DJ and dancing, 8 p.m. to close Friday and Saturday, 7651 SW State Road 200, Ocala. (854-4711)
PATTY'S RAINBOW PUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Tuesday, 19487 Rainbow Lakes Blvd., Dunnellon. (470-4592)
TAVERNA RED: Johnny Ray McCullough, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday; Mike the Knight, 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday. 16770 S. U.S. 441, Summerfield. (693-2006)
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What You Said About the Economic Impact of Mental Illness on Your Life
TRIAD's first nationwide survey of NAMI members told us that mental illness—and the mental health system—creates powerful economic havoc for those living with a serious mental illness. More than 70 percent of those with mental illness represented in the survey have an annual income of $20,000 or less; 20 percent live on $5,000 each year.
Disability combined with mental health policy that deters work and savings and permits exorbitant costs for mental health treatment add up to impoverishment and terrible stress.
Our web-based survey in August 2003 confirm these results. One hundred and four respondents offered insights into the economic struggle people living with mental illness face. In the NAMI web survey, 67 percent of those who responded to the question were individuals with a mental illness, 29 percent were family members or friends.
Nearly one-third of the respondents—30 of 104—reported an annual income of $5,000 or less. 17 percent reported an annual income between $5,000 and $10,000; 21% between $10,000 and $20,000. Two thirds of the respondents had an annual income of $20,000 or less.
Sources of income included: wages from a job (24 of the 55 respondents to the question or 44 percent); SSDI (12 of 55 respondents or 22 percent); SSI (6 of 55 respondents or 11 percent); and money on a regular basis from family (7 of 55 respondents or 13 percent).
Limited income proved a barrier to a variety of treatments and services, including housing (10 of 50 respondents or 20 percent); medication (5 of 50 respondents or 10 percent); counseling (10 of 50 respondents or 10 percent).
The open-ended responses spelled out the importance of government programs as well as the struggle for economic survival and treatment:
Thanks to those who took the survey and had the courage to tell us about their struggles.
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Facilities is responsible for all property services on behalf of the University including: delivery of the Facilities Strategy; refurbishment, development and construction of new buildings; the upgrade and replacement of the infrastructure, cleaning, grounds maintenance, security and portering and all trading activities.
The priorities for the development and maintenance of the estate have been rebalanced to ensure that as well as new builds going forward, we invest in the maintenance of the existing older estate. Facilities on campus are being constantly improved to provide a safe and sustainable work place for students, staff and visitors.


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Pure joy awaits all of us
By Pastor Chris CostriniVenango Community Church
Somewhere along the way we decided that dour, sour looking old men make the ideal Christians. Visit any church; look at the icons, statues and pictures on display. Where are the smiles? Only perhaps on pictures of children will we find smiling faces. Even in our Nativity scenes, this supposed depiction of one joyous occasion, no one is smiling. You would think, if nothing else, Joseph could manage a little grin when that wise man dropped a sack of gold in his lap. I don't know how we got that joyless ideal, but it's unfortunate. Joyfulness pleases God! "For the kingdom of God is … of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God" (Romans 14: 17-18, ESV). Being joyful also makes you easier to live with and makes you feel a lot better. Despite what we might think, joy is not a personality trait. It isn't the person who is giggly and bubbly and seemingly happy all the time. True joy is a response to God. It is a response to who He is: "in your presence there is fullness of joy" (Psalm 16: 11, ESV). A response to what He does: "For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy" (Psalm 92: 4, ESV). We rejoice in His salvation; "May we shout for joy over your salvation" (Psalm 20: 5, ESV). Too often we tie our joy to what is happening in our lives at the present moment. When good things happen, joy follows. When life is rough, joy is absent. May I humbly suggest that we are focusing on the wrong things? We should instead focus on the bigger picture. "Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for you, for behold your reward is great in heaven" (Luke 6: 22-23, ESV). Not much could be more depressing than being hated. But in the big picture it's a cause for joy. "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice" (Philippians 4: 4). God has given us a great salvation, and much beyond our basic needs. Indeed our "cup runneth over." In that we can find our joy.


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Saturday lineup: 12:10 vs. Mariners
Fans were lined up early this morning for today's jersey giveaway (first 20,000 fans, courtesy of FOX Sports Kansas City).
The Royals are 2-0 in the series vs. Seattle. Let's take a look at the lineup for the 12:10 start:
(Dyson – CF), (Getz – 2B), (Gordon – LF), (Butler – DH), (Ka'aihue – 1B), (Cabrera – RF), (Aviles – 3B), (Treanor – C), (Escobar – SS), (O'Sullivan – P)


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Around the Horn with the Royals
Royals outfielder Coco Crisp will be used sparingly in the coming days, if at all. Look for him to be used in the later innings of games as a pinch runner. "It's just too much for him to swing and throw right now, it's quite uncomfortable," says Hillman. Everything went terrific for Joakim Soria down in Arizona with his two rehab outings. So much so that Hillman says, "He is on his way home, things went very well, he could be with the club tomorrow, we just have to wait and see how his body recovers from today's outing." Soria will be back in Kansas City by the start of tonight's game against the Chicago White Sox.


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Bulletin Issues
Current Issue
Past issues of the Bulletin are available here, or through the ASIS&T Digital Library.
Editor's Summary
This special section of the Bulletin explores issues in research data access and preservation (RDAP) and samples the program highlights and attendees reflections of the ASIS&T RDAP13 Summit, the 4th annual meeting, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 4-5, 2013. Contributed papers address the value of partnering with publishers and repositories as a way to address the complexity of data curation and explore the issue of data use and reuse from a data curators perspective. One article discusses the use, benefits and challenges of altmetrics to track citations of research data. Others tackle the need to develop a standard data infrastructure and describe efforts to promote research data management across institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom. Last, a sampling of the posters presented at RDAP13 reflects the scope of the topic, current progress and advances to come.
data curation
research data sets
information reuse
digital repositories
information infrastructure
Bulletin, August/September 2013
Research Data Access & Preservation
RDAP13 Summit: Introduction
by Susan Wells Parham, Elizabeth Rolando and Jennifer Doty, Special Section Guest Editors
The 4th Annual ASIS&T RDAP Summit was held in Baltimore on April 4-5, 2013. In this special section of the Bulletin, we have asked panel organizers, panel speakers, lightning talk presenters and Summit attendees to discuss their experiences at the Summit and to reflect on the remaining challenges and opportunities with respect to research data access and preservation. These authors provide program highlights, while further delving into issues important to the research data curation community. Weve also included links to presentations and a selection of posters on slideshare, as well as information on how to learn about next year's RDAP14 Summit. Special thanks go to the RDAP13 Summit program committee, panel organizers and program chairs Stacy Konkiel and Jordon Andrade.
Gail Steinhart, co-chair of the panel Partnerships Between Institutional Repositories, Domain Repositories, and Publishers, reflects on the advantages of building partnerships to address the complexities of data curation, noting the specific success of panelists providing direct access to tools and services that support researchers. Nic Weber, organizer of the panel on Data Use & Re-Use, discusses highlights and emergent research themes and issues a challenge to the information science community to continue striving to adequately define the research area of data use and reuse. Stacy Konkiel, chair of the Data Citation and Altmetrics panel, provides perspective on recent developments and continuing challenges for accurate citation and tracking of research data.
Mark Parsons, panelist on Global Scientific Data Infrastructure, and his co-author Fran Berman describe in depth the efforts of the Research Data Alliance to address the data infrastructure challenge, and lightning talk presenter Martin Donnelly writes about the Digital Curation Centres efforts to improve institutional research data management in United Kingdom higher education, expanding on his talk given at the Summit. Finally, Jennifer Doty summarizes the poster session, spotlighting some of the unique projects and findings presented at this years Summit.
ASIS&T SIG/DL (Special Interest Group/Digital Libraries) sponsored the Linked Data & Metadata panel and an afternoon break for attendees.
For additional information on the RDAP13 Summit and for plans for the 2014 Summit, please refer to the following resources:
- Slides from presentations and a selection of posters from the Summit are available on slideshare:
- The full RDAP13 program, with additional information on Summit themes and presentations:
- Join the RDAP communitys on-going conversation and stay updated on RDAP14 event information by signing up for our email listserv at http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap
Congratulations to incoming Summit chair Andrew Johnson. We hope to see many of you in 2014 at the 5th Annual Summit in San Diego, California.
Susan Wells Parham is head of scholarly communication and digital curation at the Georgia Institute of Technology Library. She can be reached at susan.parham<at>library.gatech.edu.
Elizabeth Rolando is research data librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technology Library. She can be reached at elizabeth.rolando<at>library.gatech.edu.
Jennifer Doty is a data management specialist with the Emory University Libraries. Her primary focus is developing services and support for the management and curation of research data at Emory. She can be reached at jennifer.doty<at>emory.edu.
Articles in this Issue
RDAP13 Summit: Introduction
Partnerships Between Institutional Repositories, Domain Repositories and Publishers
The Relevance of Research Data Sharing and Reuse Studies
Tracking Citations and Altmetrics for Research Data: Challenges and Opportunities
The Research Data Alliance: Implementing the Technology, Practice and Connections of a Data Infrastructure
The DCC's Institutional Engagements: Raising Research Data Management Capacity in UK Higher Education
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The Ultimate Brain
If you're looking for a relaxing, uplifting, or esteem-boosting sonic experience, I recommend placing yourself on the hold request list for a unique audio box set found in SMCL's catalog, impressively titled The Ultimate Brain. Tom Kenyon's years of research into psychoacoustics and the effects of sound patterns on brain waves has resulted in these powerful recordings, totaling nine discs with accompanying detailed user guides to help the listener choose the right track for the beneficial experience they are seeking.
What's In It For Me?
After listening to the User's Guide CD, you can choose from a wide range of mind-enhancing recordings that use specific frequencies and cycles to achieve particular results. The Ambient Support recordings can be used in the background of your workspace to help with creativity and concentration. For guided or sonic relaxation, the Deep Relaxation and Healing and the Deep Rest recordings are effective in helping you drift into a restful state. The Freedom to Change and Opening the Heart recordings are ideal for self-healing and self-esteem enhancement, and for an opportunity to strengthen your brain and bring yourself to new levels of insight, the exercises found on the Mind Gymnastiks, Enhance Creative Problem Solving, and Activate the Holographic Mind recordings will help you do so.
But, Does it Work?
As someone who has tried most of the recordings on a regular basis for the past six months, I can definitely say that they are extremely helpful and relaxing. I have personally focused mostly on the Deep Relaxation and Healing, Deep Rest, Freedom to Change, and Opening the Heart recordings, and they have been beneficial in improving my mood, aiding me during difficult emotional times, and helping me overcome sleep difficulties.
As a matter of fact, I recently listened to one of the Deep Relaxation and Healing tracks on a cross-country flight, and it helped me zonk right out despite the uncomfortable seats, turbulence, and head lolling! That brings me to another important point--listening to these recordings is best suited for a passive environment, not on your car stereo during a commute! I do plan on increasing my usage of the brain-strengthening exercises in the near future, as the potential of their claims is exciting given the positive results I've gotten from the more relaxing recordings.
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Ronald C. Diebel '62 writes: "Living in San Jose 'significant other' Nancy and three cats. I have been practicing medicine for over 40 years."
Lynn Anglin '62 was a member of the world champion 2014 senior softball 70-plus-year-old team OMEN 70. He also was the MVP of the tournament. This is his 24th year of playing senior softball. Lynn lives with his wife, Judy, in Fremont, Calif.
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Jack Walsh '63 writes, "Married to my wife, Patty for 49 years. We have five children and 16 grandchildren. Still working in my own business and enjoying good health. Life is good."
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Lawrence A. Specchierla '63 writes that he retired in 1999 after a 36-year career in financial management with Texaco, Inc. He lives in Palm Springs, Calif., with his wife, Maureen (Harty) '65, and is the co-president of the Palm Springs Alumni Chapter that covers the Coachella Valley. He spends his time playing golf, traveling, recruiting high school students for SCU in the Coachella Valley, and coordinating the AARP Tax Aide program in Palm Springs. He and his wife will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this year. They have three grown children (two graduated from Santa Clara), three granddaughters, and two grandsons who all live in California.
Dave Rigney '63, MBA '73 and his wife Barbara celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Napili Bay in Maui with their daughters Pam O'Sullivan '90, Sue Hamilton '92, and Patti; their husbands Joe, Gerry Hamilton '92, MBA '03, and Tim; and eight grandchildren. Dave retired 10 years ago after 25 years with the Electric Power Research Institute, 13 years with Silicon Valley Power and PG&E and service with the U. S. Army in Vietnam.
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James B. Fugua '63 has been elected to be Vice Commodore of Stillwater Yacht Club at Pebble Beach.
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William Enright '63 is an adjunct reference librarian at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California.
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Richard Cable '63 writes: "Recently was a playing member of the first American baseball team to visit mainland China to engage the Chinese in baseball games. The Americans took 4 out of 5 games and, at 72, I was the oldest person to ever play baseball in China."
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Missoula's Neptune Aviation Services is fighting mad. NBC Montana told you how the company lost out on a $40 million firefighting contract with the U.S. Forest Service.
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Learning PixInsight
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It's not free though.
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Stack (calibrate+integrate) -> crop boundaries
Gradient removal and color correction (DBE, Color calibration, SCNR)
Noise removal via Atrous Wavelets
Stretch - Histogram transfer (levels)
HDR wavelets to increase dynamic range
LHE Local contrast enhancement
ACDNR, Nose reduction
Saturation Boost via curves
The dashed line separates the first three steps you do on linear data. The latter are done on stretched and therefore non-linear data. Harry has a tutorial for each of these major steps. I do these steps (in addition to others) on every single image I process.
Posted 17 March 2013 - 07:32 PM
Rogelio Bernal Andreo aka my freaking inspiration.
Posted 18 March 2013 - 01:31 AM
+1, in particular I have this one bookmarked so I can refer to it as needed when processing images: Processing a M45 DSLR image There are others dealing with using specific PI processing tools but as a general overall flow I like referring to this one to help me learn to navigate PI.
There are a number of those on the PI site
Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:30 AM
Ajay, your outline is very helpful for someone completely new to this; exactly what I was looking for at this time.
Everyone, this is just a start; will have more specific questions as I try tackling PixInsight. Keep the discussion going, keep your feedback coming, and let's get more granular as we more forward. If possible and if all goes well, I would like to come up with an instructions doc with your help. Regards
Posted 18 March 2013 - 09:43 AM
Most of my DSLR images were captured with Nebulosity and I saved the images as compressed FITS. Pixinsight's stacking routine has problems with this. So with these images I do calibration and stacking with the new batch process facility in Neb and then move to PI for registration and final stacking.
PI can handle these files if you first convert them, but that takes a while.
Rogelio's site has some great bits of information too, but Harry teaches you the nuts and bolts of various controls in PI with examples.
Posted 18 March 2013 - 09:52 AM
I really need all the help I can get for PixInsight... powerfull... but steep learning curve.
Posted 18 March 2013 - 09:29 PM
I just bought Part 1 and Part 2 from IP4AP .
I really need all the help I can get for PixInsight... powerfull... but steep learning curve.
Just keep on playing with it and you will come to discover that all of your thoughts about its difficulties were a slight exaggeration. I started learning both PS and PI at the same time and quite honestly I prefer the work flows in PI and I absolutely love the scripting aspect of it - so much control. It's fantastic.
You'll never look back
If you have not already signed up on the PI Forums, do so immediately. Wealth of information!
Posted 19 March 2013 - 06:55 AM
what can I do to help make the basics better to understand
Always open to suggestions
Posted 19 March 2013 - 12:49 PM
what can I do to help make the basics better to understand
Always open to suggestions
Hi Harry - thanks for popping up here, I really appreciate your videos/tutorials. They've helped me come a long way in my processing skills. I bought PI about 6 months ago, but I still feel like a newbie.
One item I'm noticing in the tutorials and the videos is the focus on CCD cameras over DSLR cameras. I'm using a modded Canon 450D, I'm shooting inside a white zone, and I'm having a lot of issues dealing with noise. I feel I've got DBE and ABE down, but noise keeps frustrating me. I've read all the threads on the PI forum about noise, but I always seem to overdo it on the noise reduction and end up with lumps.
Not sure if you have the equipment or if someone else can point me to the tutorial, but I'd like to see more examples of processing with DSLRs in bad conditions. The data in the tutorials I've watched/read is so clean to begin with compared to my DSLR exposures, it looks like Hubble data.
(I know I also have my own issues about expecting too much data in the little imaging time I get, but I'm working on that. I must repeat - I can't get 6 hours of data out of 1 hour of imaging time. )
Posted 19 March 2013 - 01:54 PM
I can assure you that I shoot my images from a very orange place:)
we all have to learn to get the best from our images and data , where ever taken .
Could you let me have some of your data and let me look at it and see if I can help
Posted 19 March 2013 - 02:05 PM
what can I do to help make the basics better to understand
Add to that a basic workflow as follows and you are on your way
Stack (calibrate + integrate) -> crop boundaries
Gradient removal and color correction (DBE, Color calibration, SCNR)
Noise removal via Atrous Wavelets
Stretch - Histogram transfer (levels)
HDR wavelets to increase dynamic range
LHE Local contrast enhancement
ACDNR, Nose reduction
Saturation Boost via curves
The dashed line separates the first three steps you do on linear data. The latter are done on stretched and therefore non-linear data. Harry has a tutorial for each of these major steps. I do these steps (in addition to others) on every single image I process.
Harry, thanks for offering to help; greatly appreciated!
For the start, above is a high-level outline by Ajay if you could validate which I am pretty sure would be agreed upon succession and totality of basic processing steps. Once we have this high-level workflow laid down, then we can get into the details and granularity of each in methodical manner. Look forward to your validation and/or suggestions? Regards
Posted 19 March 2013 - 02:40 PM
Yes its about right , but of cousre there may not be a need for hdr wavlets or lhe , depends on your image
And of course sometimes less noise reduction is better than too much
Posted 19 March 2013 - 02:51 PM
I don't mean to cross streams here by referencing another forum, not sure if it's allowed.
From the pixinsight post -
* Orion ED80T
* Orion Sirius mount, unguided
* Canon 450D, modded, using a 2 inch adapter
* 50 x 120 second lights at 400 ISO (1 hour, 40 minutes) over 3/3/13 and 3/4/13
* 20 darks at 400 ISO
* 20 flats at 100 ISO
* 100 bias
* stacked and processed in PixInsight
* imaged in a white zone
This is probably processing attempt #6, and I'm still not completely happy with it. I don't know what I can do or if I can do anything. I started imaging at the meridian and imaged until it was about 25 degrees from the horizon. I'm at 42 degrees North in the US. I'm in a white zone, so I'm wondering if that's an issue.
* stacked using the BatchPreProcessing script - I ended up with average SNR increases of 14, 16, and 13 (RGB)
* integrated using windsorized sigma clipping
* cropped
* used Dynamic Alignment to match a jpeg image from the APOD website to the cropped image as a guide for DBE. I probably put about 10-15 DBE samples in the whole image.
* then processed as I usually do - AtrousWavelets, Background Neutralization, Color Calibration, Histogram, SCNR, ACDNR, HDRWavelets, Histogram, Curves, Histogram, LHE, etc.
I couldn't exactly get the red like I wanted, it's probably over-saturated, and I see I need a field flattener. I'm also wondering if it's a combination of using a dslr and imaging in a white zone that's preventing me from getting a better image. I'm also totally open to the idea that I messed up somewhere. I've tried this object like 3 times over the past few months, and I've ended up throwing it all out because I'm not getting anything good enough to show anyone.
Attached is the best I've been able to come up with so far, and I'm not sure how to proceed - I'm totally open to feedback.
Attached Files
Posted 19 March 2013 - 04:25 PM
Best regards
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Posted 19 March 2013 - 05:21 PM
Ok I will download the files and have a play
Give me a day or so and I will get back to you
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How does DBE Magic compare to GradientXTerminator; are these doing necessarily the same thing or one doing something different/additional than the other? If one had both, would running both be an over-kill/moot? If one had both and were to pick one, which one would be preferred? Thx
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All the images I have posted in this form were acquired with a Canon 350D which is quite a bit noisier than the newer DSLRS most people are shooting with these days. I do an Atrous Wave subtraction as demonstrated by Harry and some times I do a *mild* GreyCStoration correction directly afterwards. This is done on unstretched data. After stretching I do ACDNR for a little more noise reduction.
With this strategy I could retrieve a decent image at the top of this post. To see how noisy the stacked image was before all these routines, scroll down to the bottom of the same post.
Imaging with a DSLR is going to be inherently noisy. Some of Harry's images, I believe were taken with a CCD with a Sony chip.
I think we should probably get back to the question that started this thread.


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Eastern APA Survey
The issue that to my knowledge has not been explored is why the late-December meeting has to be held in the East. Since the December meeting is (for natural reasons) the big job-market meeting, shouldn't it be held in a (geographically) central location? I think so. I also think it should be held someplace that's not so prone to December blizzards as, say, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, D.C., and Baltimore.
Back in the old days, a main reason for holding the big December meeting in the East was that only big cities in the East had hotels large enough for the crowd. But this is no longer the case.
In short, the Eastern APA is wasting time with this survey. What is needed is a change in the location of the late-December meeting, not a change in the date of the Eastern meeting.
54 comments:
Exactly! Location is what matters!
I disagree that it should be in a central location, however. Instead, I think the location of each APA conference should rotate by year. So, one year, the Winter APA is in the East, one year it's central, one year it's in the Pacific, then back to the East. This means that once out of every three years, it will be a total pain to get to the Winter APA... But that would be a lesser pain and one shared by all.
I'm on the West Coast. This is my third year on the job market. It costs me arms and legs every year to go to the Eastern APA, and almost nothing to go to the Pacific APA... All the same, though, the Eastern is the one I have to ensure I attend, and the Pacific one tends to be optional. This just isn't fair.
From what I understand, the fact that each APA meeting is set in a particular location is a product of the association's history. But, it's really unfair. It's terribly unfair. I feel it puts an unfair burden on me and everyone else in the West, compared to those who live in the East.
- November 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM
I'm with you both. Why not this: An Eastern meeting, a Pacific meeting, and a December meeting that moves around the central regions, including places on the periphery of the West Coast and the East Coast?
- November 1, 2011 at 10:10 PM
San Diego. Nice weather. Cheaper hotels and transportation. Fun places to visit if/when you skip out.
- November 1, 2011 at 11:44 PM
It's in Atlanta next year. Why not keep it there, or add other less-blizzardy Eastern cities? Charlotte, Greenville, etc.
- November 2, 2011 at 12:06 AM
Why do the Florida cities always get left out of the discussion? You can practically buy a whole house in Tampa these days for the cost of a night in a New York hotel. And it is warm and there is an ocean.
- November 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM
Ummm...just a question: I voted for the Dec 15 time because (1) it doesn't ruin Christmas (2) my teaching is done then (luckily I have no grading, but even if I did, it's portable, and if there's an exam, while not ideal, it could be proctored by someone else) (3) it would cost me close to $1000 less to go if it were then rather than on the 27th. I am just wondering why that date is a problem? I would think that is the best compromise (assuming that the job market is still going to be entangled with the Eastern).
- November 2, 2011 at 6:08 AM
- The Brooks Blog said...
One reason I've always enjoyed the APA Eastern dates is because my family is in New England so NY and Boston dates were fine for me. Oh, and I had a job.
I entirely agree with the need to not only revisit the dates, but the location. Central and away from the snow are two important considerations amongst many others. I love NY and being in NY. But I'm from the area. It's time the location changed - even if it means I must travel further .
WF: tropheo
- November 2, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Don't most philosophers live in the northeast? Or anyway a lot more than live in the west. So moving the must-attend meeting to the west coast will greatly increase the total inconvenience.
I have to admit that San Diego sounds good. And I just checked, it's much less expensive at the end of December than it is in April.
What would be a sensible central location? Dallas? Houston? New Orleans is fun, but it's not easy to get there so the point of the central location is lost.
Rebecca, Tampa sounds good too. But do they have big convention hotels that would hold us?
- November 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM
Did 8:24 seriously ask if Tampa has big convention hotels?
Academics are the only masochists who hold their conventions in the Northeast, especially in the winter. Everyone in the private sector holds professional conferences - when they can get away with it - in resort/tourist towns, like Anaheim, Las Vegas, or... Tampa.
Yes, Tampa has convention hotels.
- November 2, 2011 at 11:23 AM
I think Vegas would be an appropriate place to hold the big job interview conference....
- November 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM
Did 8:24 seriously ask if Tampa has big convention hotels?
I did, yeah. I don't know much about hotels. I've never been to a convention besides the APA ones.
Academics are the only masochists who hold their conventions in the Northeast, especially in the winter.
Hm, I wonder if that's true. Let's check.
Nope. Patently, blatantly false.
Yes, Tampa has convention hotels.
I'd take your word for it, except that your reliability on this subject has taken a serious blow.
I know: tell us which hotels you have in mind.
- November 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM
12:51, you empiricists think you're so fucking smart.
Sure, easy enough to find out about Boston conventions if you Google it, but try working it out a priori like the rest of us. Jerk.
- November 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM
OMG seriously? I promise Tampa has convention hotels. No need to take any poster's word for it. GFE, as Dan Savage says.
For what it's worth, and to paraphrase Sarah Palin, I can see the Tampa Convention Center from my back yard.
It's not like I think Tampa is such a fabulous location by any stretch - it was just an example. There are lots of warm, cheap cities the APA snubs. But seriously, that is some hard core northeasterner parochialism there! Tampa is the 19th biggest metro area in the US, according to wikipedia, with almost 3 million people.
- November 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Tampa is home to three professional sports teams, and 4 times hosted the Super Bowl. I'm sure they can make room for the APA.
- November 2, 2011 at 4:49 PM
I know Tampa has a convention center. That's not really relevant -- unless you think the APA could be held in the convention center, which I think is nuts.
I don't understand why you think this is 'parochialism'. I've lived in six different cities, some of them much bigger than Tampa and some of them much smaller, some of them right on the North Atlantic coast and some about as far as a human being can get from the North Atlantic coast. So there's no parochialism involved.
Does having a really big metro area mean that a city has big convention hotels? I don't know. I see that Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario is much bigger than Tampa. Is there a big convention hotel in Riverside?
The more people insist on this without giving an example the more skeptical I am. I've googled this, by the way, Rebecca Kukla (unlike the poster who falsely claimed that only academics have conventions in the Northeast, a foolish claim very easily refuted by googling). I won't say that I've scoured pages of hotels, but I looked over the first page and saw a Westin, a Sheraton, and Hyatt. So I looked at those. And none of them is big enough for the Eastern APA.
- November 2, 2011 at 5:45 PM
On another topic dear to the readers of this blog, the FBI has classified Juggalos as a gang.
- November 2, 2011 at 6:04 PM
How big does a hotel have to be to host the Eastern APA?
- November 2, 2011 at 6:07 PM
- Jamie said...
Richard Bett is the person who decides where the Eastern APA will be held. If there are good, serious suggestions for changes, you might send them to him.
Please keep in mind that Richard is intelligent and sensible, he's been doing this for a while, and he tries to organize things so that they will be best for the membership -- he doesn't have ulterior motives. But that doesn't mean there aren't good alternative locations, and I'm sure he'd welcome suggestions. (Hm, I hope I don't cause him to be inundated by suggestions.)
- November 2, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Those hotels, as well as the Marriott, routinely host conventions. (Others may too, I dunno, but those are the big four.) We might need to co-opt more than one hotel, as we did in Baltimore and Pittsburgh for instance, but that's fine ... especially since in Tampa it is actually pleasant to walk a couple blocks from one hotel to the other in December.
Again I don't mean to fixate on Tampa. Orlando, for instance, has gobs and gobs of convention hotels. It's like convention hotel central. (I hate Orlando, but at least it is WARM and you can bring your kids to the meeting and throw them in the pool, or do other unspeakable capitalist atrocities with them.)
- November 2, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Ohhhhh. So, the answer to my question -- you remember, the one that drew a response of "OMG, seriously?", as if the very question revealed abysmal ignorance -- is no, there are no hotels in Tampa big enough to hold the convention. (Which you could have discovered for yourself, since GFE.)
Now your response is that it would be just fine to split the meeting into two hotels. First of all, the Tampa hotels are smaller than the Baltimore Marriott. (I was not in Pittsburgh so I don't know how that worked.) And second, it is definitely not "fine",as you would know if you had had to race desperately around the Inner Harbor trying to figure out where the fuck your interview was. (I only had three, so of course they were in three different hotels.)
- November 2, 2011 at 9:44 PM
No. The dates suck. Change it to the 15th. And sure, fix the location too. But change the dates.
- November 2, 2011 at 9:52 PM
I'd agree that having the conference at more than one hotel, while sometimes minimally acceptable, is not good. It should be avoided if at all possible. It makes it really hard to get between sessions, makes session held at the "lesser" hotel less well attended, and is especially hard for people doing interviews. It's probably also more expensive. If a city doesn't have a single hotel that's big enough, it should be very low down on the list. It's hard for philosophers to grasp how big the hotel must be sometimes, but just saying "we have a big hotel!" won't do. (It was a Palinesque statement, but not in a good way.) So, it sounds to me like Tampa should be a last-resort type location.
As for switching which division has the "winter" conference each year, that sounds like a logistical nightmare. It take a huge amount of time to put the program together for these things. There's a reason why papers must be submitted so long in advance. If the date switched all the time, it would mean the submission date for papers would switch all the time, too, and the program committees would have to do work at different times. It doesn't sound plausible to me. Perhaps it's best to have the winter meeting be in the West, but not switching. The suggestion sounds like it comes from someone who has no idea how much work this conference is.
As for having the winter meeting in the central, Chicago and many of the other big "central" cities are just as bad for snow as the North East. Chicago was shut down worse than any of the NE cities this last winter with snow, after all. Really only the west coast cities and Atlanta are safe from snow, and who wants to go to Atlanta all the time. Mostly, I think people are over-reacting from a particular unfortunate experience this last winter.
(This says nothing, of course, about the particular time in the winter when the conference should take place.)
- November 2, 2011 at 11:53 PM
Oh for god's sake. I don't care about having the conference in Tampa. It was just an example. Tampa, like all such cities, is perfectly used to having conferences as big as the APA and bigger. Orlando is even more so. If walking across the street in 78 degree sunny weather is so burdensome for philosophers, pick another warm city. Move the damn meeting somewhere warm. There are plenty of options. That was my only point.
- November 3, 2011 at 12:40 AM
- Michael said...
Why oh why is it a given that at least one conference has to be in between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1? Do we have to go over this again and again?
MLA: Jan. 5-8, 2012. Dates do not conflict with Central or Pacific APA. Literary theorists not noticeably financially better off than philosophers.
AHA: ditto (sub historians for literary theorists).
AAR: Nov 19-22, 2011. Otherwise ditto (sub religion scholars for literary theorists and historians).
Just f'rinstance.
- November 3, 2011 at 2:00 AM
- Michael said...
Michael Kremer (to be precise).
- November 3, 2011 at 2:01 AM
Rebecca, you left your comment complaining about Florida cities being left out of the discussion right after a comment suggesting the continued use of Atlanta as a good idea, and adding Charlotte and Greenville as other good ideas. What I guess you failed to see was the "etc." that followed those two, which would not preclude, but would in fact include, "another warm city." You are the one who couldn't stand that no city from Florida had been mentioned; there's no reason to pretend otherwise.
- November 3, 2011 at 3:37 AM
Finally, someone who thinks the date should move. H/T to Kremer. And while, we're on it, could someone else say something about the dates? And stop beating up on Kukla for crying out loud! Direct that anger and bitterness towards the APA -- in a friendly non-aggressive fashion, of course :)
- November 3, 2011 at 4:43 AM
ps: perhaps this is more appropriate elsewhere, but maybe we could see a thread on the new specializations on this year's job market that I never heard of. For instance, what is the Philosophy of Engineering or Engineering Ethics? Inquiring minds want to know. Is there really anyone with this specialization? Is this coming from the departments or the higher ups? I'm curious because, as I said, I have NEVER heard of it.
wv: ingshist -- the word used for an event semanticist.
- November 3, 2011 at 5:03 AM
- The Brooks Blog said...
My silly comment of the day: why not hold the big meeting in mid-August?
1. This would put the conference before the teaching term begins maximizing potential attendance. 2. The weather is better in August (even in the northeast). 3. It ruins family holidays *less* (in general) than 27-30 December. 4. It may be a few months earlier than December meeting, but potential job candidates would have the summer (June-July) to draft and submit applications (instead of drafting/submitting during beginning of term).
The more I think about it, the more I like it.
WF: headde
- November 3, 2011 at 5:57 AM
- Michael said...
@The Brooks Blog:
Your August proposal would require search committees to put in a lot of hours of committee work during the summer. I doubt that many faculty would be excited about that. I also think pushing the job market that much further back would be problematic for many students.
In contrast, a date in early January does not conflict with term for many US schools (it does for me, actually, but after all the AHA and MLA somehow manage), and leaves everything else pretty much the same.
Michael Kremer
- November 3, 2011 at 8:46 AM
I would also have to object to changing to August, but for perhaps a rather stupid reason: assuming the worst happens, and I do not get a tt job this year, I would have to go on the market again in less than a year. I say, looking at things from a short-term perspective :P
I don't mean to nag, but I still haven't heard anything about the Dec 15 date. It sounds perfect to me. Plug! Plug! Plug! Or, if I am the hamster on the Geico commercial: Row! Row! Row! -- don't ask ;)
- November 3, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Are there really more schools that are in session in very early January than in mid-December? This strikes me as a surprising claim. At any of the institutions I have been either educated or employed, December 15 would be just terrible - right in the think of final papers or exams.
- November 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Hey Anon 8:55am, this is Anon 9:52pm: I voted for the 15th!
Really, just about any date would be better than the Dec. 27th one. We can quibble about which one--but let's just change it. And I agree with what others have said above: some fields interview and meet in August. Some interview and meet in January. Some in Oct/Nov. If they can do it, we can do it.
- November 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM
@John: I was actually torn between the mid-december/jan dates, but I usually need a bit of recoup time just before I go back to teaching and I would rather grade while traveling than do prep, but that's just me. I would prefer either of those dates to the current one.
- November 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM
in re: skepticaler and skepticaler
Wow - at first I thought he (she?) was being a troll, but I think now he (she?) really is just a humorless, clueless dipshit.
- November 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Skepticaler and skepticaler seems to be right on the money, actually. Perhaps it's you who's the dipshit, MORON.
- November 3, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Did anyone notice that the poll was designed to minimize the chances the date would have to be moved? In particular, the poll did not invite us to *rank* the dates in our order of preference. So if 1/3 of us pick the current dates as our first choice, 1/3 of us pick early January, and 1/3 of us pick mid-December (just as an example), the APA won't be forced to change the dates . . . even if both the second groups--that is, 2/3 of the voters--would prefer early January to the current dates!
- November 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM
I initially just asked a question: whether hotels in Tampa could accommodate the Eastern APA. I got two responses intimating that even posing this question demonstrated that I am ignorant beyond belief (including one saying that I am parochial, and further intimating that if I just used Google I would find the answer to my question).
But it turns out that the answer to my question was not what the respondents thought. The answer is that the Tampa hotels could *not* accommodate the Eastern APA. I don't see why it's relevant that Tampa "is perfectly used to having conferences as big as the APA and bigger." Yes, Tampa had the GOP convention, which was much, much, much bigger! Nevertheless, it has no hotel that can accommodate the Eastern APA meetings.
Rebecca Kukla said that it's just fine to have the convention spread over different hotels. I think that's definitely not fine, but I can see how this is a matter of weighing competing concerns. (Having got badly hosed by the multi-location Baltimore meeting, I am particularly sensitive to that particular problem; I think I'm not alone, but I recognize that others won't care as much about it.)
Now I'm a troll and a clueless dipshit! Or maybe it turns out I'm not a troll, and merely a clueless dipshit. Oh, sorry, humorless clueless dipshit.
Still, my skepticism turns out to have been well-founded, and apparently some other philosophers share my concern about spreading out the meeting. So I guess I can live with the "dipshit" label, and shrug off the "seriously?" and "oh for god's sake" dismissals.
I have fairly strong opinions about the dates, but I think I've contributed enough. Yeesh.
- November 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM
Did anyone notice that the poll was designed to minimize the chances the date would have to be moved?
Hanlon's razor suggests that the claim implied by your question is unfounded.
- November 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- The Brooks Blog said...
Michael - I'm not so sure and still think it's worth a try.
- November 4, 2011 at 5:24 AM
To follow up on 1:38PM: The poll also just had a yes/no option for whether we wanted the APA involved in job crap anymore, which I think also favors the status quo. You might think they should be involved in some way or other, but differently from the way they are now. Ugh. The survey felt more like appeasement rather than an actual investigative tool.
- November 4, 2011 at 6:30 AM
I don't understand 1:38's complaint. I thought (I can't go back and look at it now) we were asked to say how likely we were to be able to attend if the meeting were on such-and-such a date at such-and-such a price. That seems to me like the right way to do it.
Some of the commentary here looks like a caricature of complaining philosophers. Here's the Executive Committee, finally looking into changing the dates, and the comments are just more complaining. (Although I do take Spiros' point that location is at least as much of a problem as timing -- I guess that view has not been so loudly espoused in the last few years.)
- November 4, 2011 at 7:09 AM
Hi 7:09:
I was particularly surprised by the absence of a question asking us to rank options because not too long ago a philosopher who had been on the Eastern committee that decides these things (what is that? The executive committee?) reported, on a blog, that a while ago they polled on this and found that while (a) a majority prefers that the dates be changed, nevertheless, (b) there is no alternative time that a majority prefers to the current time.
This blog comment seems to reveal that at least recently the APA Eastern was aware that (b) was the important issue. If a previous poll actually did investigate (b), why didn't this poll.
Also, I strongly disagree that asking whether people are able to go is helpful. I interpreted that question to mean, "honestly, would you go if the meeting were at this time?" and I answered honestly. It's very important to me to support my students on the market and to see people at the Eastern, so I'd go even if it's incredibly inconvenient.
The complaints have not been that too few people are going, but that the Eastern is so important that people (job candidates in particular, but also interviewers and placement officers) are effectively *forced* to go at a deeply inconvenient time.
-- 1:38
- November 4, 2011 at 8:04 AM
As I see it, the main problem with holding "the big meeting" in mid-August is that this would require departments to get hiring approvals more than a year in advance: Departments would have to get approval sometime around May and interview in August for a job that starts the next September—that is, thirteen months later. I know that my university doesn't (can't?) make decisions that far in advance. We just got permission to hire for next fall last week!
Even if American universities were as efficient in hiring as I'm told British universities are, I don't think you could do first-round interviews in mid-August and have new faculty in place the following month—or the following week for some universities.
This constraint is, I assume, why the range of dates in the APA poll was restricted to a relatively small part of the calendar. As long as the "big meeting" is tied to the job market, it can't go very far.
- November 4, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Jamie Dreier said...
I think the actual survey is a reasonable way to get some important information. I suppose it's true that a lot of people will just go pretty much no matter when and where it's held, but I bet the results of the survey will not be indiscriminate "I would definitely go" for every slot. Suppose they instead asked for a ranking of the various slots, and found that although a plurality of people prefer the current dates to, say, the early Jan. dates, more ballots had the Jan. ones ranked top-two than the current dates. What should be done, in that case? Not obvious.
1:38, there is no way to avoid the possibility that X is chosen even though a majority prefer Y to X. (I should get my social choice theory class to work on this.)
It's the Eastern Executive Committee that's running the survey. If the dates are going to change, that's the body that will change them. As I said earlier, the person who chooses the cities and hotels is Richard Bett, who is Secretary-Treasurer. But of course he will take policy from the Executive Committee. The idea of rotating the job market meeting through the different divisions would obviously have to be discussed and voted on by all three divisions (wouldn't you just love to be in charge of organizing that?).
I don't know who's on the Executive Committee right now (because the New and Improved APA Website doesn't have the information), but last year it was Robert Bernasconi, Michael Della Rocca, Howard McGary, Tommie Shelby, Ted Sider , and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; plus the Pres., VP, and Past-Pres and the Sec-Treasurer and Nominating chair ex officio. And I'd like to say say (trying to be irenic not inflammatory) that the idea that this group is trying to maintain the status quo or has some other ulterior motive is not sensible. They aren't stupid or venal. Which is not to say they aren't making some mistakes here, of course.
Disclosure: I've never been on the Executive Committee, but I was on the Program Committee a few years ago.
- November 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM
OK. Well, I didn't mean to imply the committee members themselves are committed to the status quo. I meant to complain only that the question itself is too coarse grained and because probably many people think that the APA should somehow be involved in job market stuff that the answer is biased in favor of yes. It's badly designed.
- November 4, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Jamie Dreier wrote:
1:38, there is no way to avoid the possibility that X is chosen even though a majority prefer Y to X. (I should get my social choice theory class to work on this.)
That's true, but my point was that there might be one listed alternative X to Dec 27-30 such that a majority prefers X to Dec 27-30, and such that there is no other listed alternative Y that a majority prefers to X. Having everyone rank the listed alternatives would reveal this, but the current poll might fail to reveal it.
Also, I'm sorry for attributing bad intentions. My complaint is with the content of the poll.
-- 1:38
- November 4, 2011 at 2:04 PM
This is the sort of thing I hate about philosophers. Skepticaler who obviously feels very strongly about this issue comes in here and voices a different opionion and you guys all gang up on him with your cute and hostile little insults and comments. That's terrible. To make up for it I think you should all pitch in and buy skepticaler a couple tix to the next Bucs home gome. But he'll need a place to stay. Now, does anybody know if they have hotels in Tampa? Anyone? Hotels?
- November 4, 2011 at 2:55 PM
I have an excellent a priori argument that there are no hotels of any worth in Tampa.
- November 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM
No more!
I didn't know the Piranha brothers commented at PhilAnon. I'd pull my own head off rather than be subject to this kind of abuse!
- November 4, 2011 at 7:10 PM
You don't come here often, do you?
- November 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM
"Here" being "the internet."
- November 4, 2011 at 9:42 PM
- Eric said...
Don't like going to a Northern city in December/January for the APA? Me neither.
So: instead of Pacific/Central/Eastern divisions, we should have Northern/Central/Southern divisions. Then, schedule the December/January meeting in the Southern Division (San Diego, New Orleans, Tampa).
Problem solved.
- November 5, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Re: Proceedings no longer distributed to APA Members at Registration
I noticed an odd email in my inbox today (with the subject line given above). What a strange and disorienting thing it must be to show up at a conference with such a variety of planned activities, and not be given a guide as to what is happening where, and when. Add this to the fact that online registration isn't possible, and one would almost think the APA is telling us all to FOAD.
I'm not going, but I'm willing to donate my copy of the recent Proceedings to a good cause. What could such a good cause be? For example, let's suppose that a justifiably 'motivated' philosopher wanted to collect a few dozen copies of the Proceedings, and then show up at the APA with said materials in a manner that highlights the performance of the APA. If such a philosopher existed, I'd certainly donate my copy of the Proceedings to their cause.
- November 29, 2011 at 1:41 PM


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