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Located in the heart of Edinburgh, this magnificently presented duplex apartment will provide all the required home comforts for your stay. Ready for short breaks or longer stay, this property will allow you to unwind in peace after a busy day.
This is a fantastic location for those looking to see the "old" Edinburgh, surround by historical buildings and not far from Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Parliament building, with countless of other attractions a short walk away.
When you enter the apartment you are greeted by the bright and spacious living room. Complete with plenty of seating and, of course, TV, DVD player and sound system for your entertainment needs.
The kitchen contains all the mod cons you would expect to prepare meals for up to four people, there is also a fold away dining table for your use. beside the kitchen, is a separate utility room containing a fridge and washing machine. To get to the kitchen, you will travel through a panelled hallway, with space for bags and jackets, from here you also have access to a bathroom with a shower cubicle.
When you are ready to settle down to bed, head down the stairs to the lower level which contains the bedroom with a double bed and an en-suite. There are doors to close this space off to the rest of the apartment. The en-suite contains a bath with overhead shower.
There is an additional sleeping space on the upper level with a double bed for two additional guests. This is not counted as a bedroom as there is no window and the rates are based slightly higher than a one bedroom due to this extra space.
Towels and linen will be provided for your stay. Upon arrival you will be greeted with complimentary tea, coffee and milk.
On booking, a 25% deposit is required, with the remaining balance due two months before arrival. If your check in date is within eight weeks of booking your will be required to pay the total balance when you book.
Please note that ESC only provides an enquiry & booking service for this property. The owners manage the operation of the property themselves.
Sleeping arrangements The second sleeping area is technically a small bedroom but it does not have a window. It has a double bed in it.
Parking Secure indoor parking is available at an additional cost starting from £15 per day for a 2 night stay and is subject to the same duration discount scheme as the number of nights. Alternatively, Daytime Street parking is available operated Mon - Sat 08:00 - 18:30 but is expensive, various other longer term parking solutions can be found in the area and start form approx 16 pounds per day.
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Gwen Stefani + Baby Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale were spotted playing (and probably sharing baby-raising tips) with mommy-to-be Mirka Vavrinec in the baller box watching Roger Federer dismiss Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in the fourth round at Indian Wells. The 13-time Grand Slammer will next face the streaking Fernando Verdasco in a battle of forehands for a spot in the final four.
Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale. Really? And some of you thought Baby Mango was ridiculous. Think again.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
PHOTO OP: Gwen + Baby Zuma share playtime with Mirka
Labels: celebrity, gossip, Gwen Stefani, Indian Wells, Mirka Vavrinec, photo op, tennis
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Worst. Name. Ever.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Wasn't it supposed to be Mango Blackberry Federer? Well, at least RF's baby has a middle name.ReplyDelete
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You guys know they baby's name will be something so horrible if they're hanging out with Gwen, Gavin, Kingston, and Zuma.ReplyDelete
I'm not thinking post modern weird, I think more like old fashioned trying to be cool weird.ReplyDelete
For Fed's baby name, that is.
Junior World #1 ... Mango Slicesssss Federer! Slices would be pronounced sly cease. Why not, it's just as stupid as Zuma Nestle CrunchReplyDelete
Montezuma Nestlé Rock... what the?!?!ReplyDelete
Was Gwen like stoned when she named her baby?!
Seriously. Love her nail polish though, hehe.
I love Gwen's style - do you think it'll rub off on Mirka? Can you imagine if Mirka showed up to Wimbledon all Gwened-out: the hat, nail polish, superskinny jeans (for pregnant ladies of course), a blinged-out Blackberry?? TO DIE.ReplyDelete
I still can't get over the friendship between RoKa and the Double G's. It's quite fascinating. Like, what the hell do they talk about besides tennis?
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2009 at 10:38 AM
she named as monteZUMA costarican bitchesReplyDelete
- Tennis ObserverMarch 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Baby Zuma is wondering "why they all wear these fuckin big ugly sunglasses?"ReplyDelete
Wow. For someone with a crapload of cash, you would think they could have afforded a Baby name book.ReplyDelete
"I love Gwen's style - do you think it'll rub off on Mirka?"ReplyDelete
Gwen is my personal style QUEEN. Noone can sport red lipstick like her.
Mirka? Not so much. LOL
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Ewwwww - I just noticed for the first time that Mirka has bad teeth.ReplyDelete
I still can't decide if I love the fact that Rog is w/her (despite all her, ummmm, physical shortcomings), or thik it's just not right when he could go make gorgeous babies w/someone who doesn't have those shortcomings.

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Current Issue
Past issues of the Bulletin are available here, or through the ASIS&T Digital Library.
Bulletin, February/March 2014
Inside ASIS&T
2013 Annual Meeting Coverage
In the December/January issue of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, we provided a brief news report of our 76th Annual Meeting in Montreal. But the timing of both the meeting and this publications deadlines kept us from providing full photographic and text coverage of the fun, the substantive, the social and the ridiculous at the successful ASIS&T confab.
So join us throughout this issue of the Bulletin for a look at some of the work and fun that members and guests enjoyed in Montreal at the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Following a photo montage from the meeting, youll find coverage of the ASIS&T Annual Awards presented at the conference and an article by Chirag Shah, winner of the ASIS&T James Cretsos Leadership Award. Also in this issue, other Annual Meeting coverage includes reports from many of the pre-conference workshops and seminars; the plenary session headlined by Jorge García; the Award of Merit acceptance speech delivered by Carol Kuhlthau; and an article by our 2013 Research Award recipient Susan Herring.
2013 ASIS&T Award Winners
One of the highlights of each years ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the presentation of the prestigious ASIS&T Annual Awards.
Award of Merit
Carol C. Kuhlthau, professor emerita in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, is the 2013 recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by ASIS&T. The award goes to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to the field of information science, including the expression of new ideas, the creation of new devices, the development of better techniques and outstanding service to the profession.
Professor Kuhlthau is internationally recognized for her contributions to the study of information behavior. Her best-known work is her book Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services. In her rigorous research she observed student information seeking, developed a model of the information search process and then tested the model in several ways over several studies to validate and refine the model. This model has motivated widespread current research interest in the affective components of the information search process. Her life and work are models in several senses. Personally highly intelligent, judicious and modest, she has earned the highest respect from scholars and students in the field of information behavior as well as from practitioners. Through example, Carol Kuhlthau has taught many in the field how to do rigorous research, how to mentor and how to teach.
Watson Davis Award
ASIS&Ts Watson Davis Award recognizes the contributions of someone who has shown continuous dedicated service to ASIS&T. In 2013, the person who most effectively lives up to that ideal is Beata Panagopoulos.
Beata has given much to the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Looking at her list of contributions it is easy to ask, What hasnt she done to support ASIS&T and its membership over the past 20 years? On the national level, she has been elected to the Board of Directors as Deputy Chapter Assembly Director and twice as the Chapter Assembly Director. In addition to her many ex-officio committee obligations, she has also served two terms on and chaired the Awards and Honors Committee, five terms on the Leadership Committee, one term on the Nominations Committee, one term on the Award of Merit Jury, and she chaired the Task Force on Chapter Structure and Activity. She has been a leader in the special interest arena by serving SIG/PUB as membership records coordinator, chair-elect and chair. She has made logistical contributions to Annual Meeting planning through the Leadership Development Committee and SIG/PUB. On the local level, she has been elected to nearly every chapter position for the award-winning New England Chapter, including program committee chair, co-chair/chair-elect, chair, past chair and treasurer. She published the chapter's membership directory, helped plan programs and contributed to the chapter newsletter with articles on chapter and national meetings. She has been active on the NEASIST program committee and chairs the Student Travel Award Committee. No surprise that she was honored as the 2013 NEASIST Chapter Member-of-the-Year.
However, Beata is more than the sum of her many volunteer accomplishments. She would be the first person to give a long list of people who are deserving of this award and any other ASIS&T award for that matter. Conversely, she would be the last person to nominate herself for any honor and that is what makes her truly exceptional.
Research Award
Susan Herring, professor of information science and adjunct professor of linguistics at Indiana University, is the recipient of the 2013 ASIS&T Research Award. The documentation nominating Dr. Herring provides strong evidence of her extensive contributions to the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC), and she has also brought hundreds of researchers from different disciplines to CMC research. Her own work has theoretical, practical and methodological implications for the field. Theoretically, her research on the role of gender in online communication opens up a new area of inquiry related to CMC. Practically, Dr. Herrings studies offer empirical results that not only support her theoretical arguments but also practical implications to facilitate computer-mediated communication. Methodologically, Dr. Herring advances content analysis and discourse analysis in the area.
The broad field of information science has always benefited from rubbing shoulders with allied fields and from the cross-fertilization of concepts and methods. Not only is Dr. Herrings research creative and extremely productive and interesting, her work has been recognized widely with a high number of citations, invitations to give important presentations within and outside the field, and research grants. A researcher like Susan Herring should be recognized for extending the boundaries of the field in an original but meaningful way that resonates with developments in the information world as we know it today.
Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher
The 2013 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award goes to Carole Palmer, who has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1996. Dr. Palmers research has examined contemporary problems in scientific data management, cultural heritage aggregation and scholarly communications. She has integrated her research into the classroom through innovative course and curriculum development, particularly in the areas of data curation.
Her work in data curation has been particularly noteworthy. She routinely places her students in prestigious internships at research centers throughout North America and acts as a mentor to students from the University of Tennessee through her work as a principal investigator of the IMLS-funded Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) grant. What is perhaps most important about her work in data curation is that Dr. Palmer not only pushes the boundaries of what her students future careers might include, but as many of her letters of support confirm, she grounds their education in a knowledge base that draws upon diverse information science sub-fields, including scholarly communications, scientometrics, information retrieval, information-seeking behavior and knowledge organization.
As her nominator wrote, Dr. Palmer is an exemplar educator, a passionate and committed mentor and above all else, a profoundly kind and generous human being that has dedicated a significant portion of her own career to the advancement of others. For her ability to mentor and motivate, for her transformative work in curricula development and for her sustained research and service in information science education, we recognize Dr. Palmer with the 2013 ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award.
Best JASIST Paper
The 2013 Best JASIST Paper Award goes to Ling-Ling Wu, Mu-Hsuan Huang and Ching-Yi Chen for Citation Patterns of the Pre-web and Web-prevalent Environments: The Moderating Effects of Domain Knowledge.
In their description of their work, the authors/researchers note that the Internet has substantially increased the online accessibility of scholarly publications and allowed researchers to access relevant information efficiently across different journals and databases (Costa & Meadows). Because of online accessibility, academic researchers tend to read more, and reading has become more superficial (Olle & Borrego), such that information overload has become an important issue. Given this circumstance, how the Internet affects knowledge transfer, or more specifically the citation behavior of researchers, has become a recent focus of interest. This study assesses the effects of the Internet on citation patterns in terms of four characteristics of cited documents: topic relevance, author status, journal prestige and age of references. This work hypothesizes that academic scholars cite more topically relevant articles, more articles written by lower status authors, articles published in less prestigious journals and older articles with online accessibility. The current study also hypothesizes that researcher knowledge level moderates such Internet effects. The researchers chose the IT and Group subject area and collected 241 documents published in the pre-web period (1991-1995) and 867 documents published in the web-prevalent period (2006-2010) in the Web of Science database. The references of these documents were analyzed to test the proposed hypotheses, which are significantly supported by the empirical results.
Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award
The 2013 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award goes to Hilary Zelko, masters student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her paper entitled Reasoning About Relevance.
Completed in partial fulfillment of her degree requirements, this empirical study contributes to research on relevance as multidimensional, dynamic and situational. Hilarys research advisor states in the nomination that the research surpasses in some cases the quality of work of many of our Ph.D. students. Jurors note that the scope of Hilarys research is truly impressive for a masters level project, and they indicate that the research results offer useful suggestions for future research.
James Cretsos Leadership Award
Chirag Shah, assistant professor at Rutgers University, is the recipient of the 2013 James Cretsos Leadership Award, honoring a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities.
Since joining the organization as a student member, Chirag has shown a deep commitment to ASIS&T that is demonstrated in all of his activities involving scholarship, service and above all, leadership. As a faculty member at Rutgers since 2010, Chirag has consistently supported students efforts to attend and participate in ASIS&T Annual Meetings. He recruits students for ASIS&T membership, guides them through the process of submitting and presenting scholarly works at the meetings, and he helps secure funding for their travels. Since 2012, Chirag has also served as faculty advisor of the student chapter, called RU ASIS&T. His advising and support have helped RU ASIS&T establish new collaborations with other groups, such as Usability NJ and UXPA NJ, fostering new memberships and stronger engagement among existing ASIS&T members.
Furthering his involvement with ASIS&T, Chirag is also spearheading efforts to revive the NJ ASIS&T local chapter. With this role, he is serving as a very important bridge between the local chapter (NJ ASIS&T) and the student chapter (RU ASIST&T).
Chirag has also been very active organizing events at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. He has taken initiatives to organize Rutgers University receptions at the meetings. He has served as reviewer for Annual Meetings and for JASIST. He has led various technical and social events for ASIS&T, including chairing a poster track at ASIS&T 2011, co-chairing a track at ASIS&T 2012, co-organizing SIG/USE 2012 workshop, and organizing the junior faculty lunch at ASIS&T 2012 meeting.
For all these reasons and more, each of which exemplifies leadership on behalf of ASIS&T and its members, Chirag Shah is the 2013 James Cretsos Leadership Award winner.
Best Information Science Book Award
The 2013 Best Information Science Book Award goes to Raya Fidel for Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior (MIT Press).
An elegant, comprehensive, carefully sourced, well-informed look at an area of research that is fast growing and central to information science, this book is also relevant to various related fields, such as information retrieval and human computer interaction. Built on rigorous analysis of research and practice in the field, Fidel provides a fresh and innovative conceptual framework and methodology (cognitive work analysis) to guide research and practice in information behavior (IB). Taking an ecological approach, "Human Information Interaction is one of the few books in information behavior and in the design of information systems that is based on well-defined theoretical and conceptual traditions," as one of the supporting letter states. Human Information Interaction is an important scholarly contribution to information science and will have a significant impact on both research and practice. Clearly written by an outstanding researcher and teacher, the book also fills the need for IB textbooks in education.
Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
The 2013 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship goes to Kaitlin Costello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her proposal entitled Investigating Information Seeking and Disclosure in Online Support Groups for Chronic Kidney Disease. Kaitlin proposes a grounded theory study that focuses on understanding the multiple dimensions of how online support sites may be used for informational and emotional support by patients. This proposal expands upon existing research that looks at the intertwining of information and emotional support at such sites by taking into account the possible processes that initiate and are initiated by self-disclosures of health-related information and the impact of such disclosures on the interactions. This study will provide a preliminary look at these processes as they occur over time among patients with serious chronic conditions.
Kaitlins faculty advisor notes that the research will provide a strong foundation for additional studies into information seeking among users of support groups, as well as studies of health information disclosure. . . . In short, her work will open up fruitful paths for her own and others future studies. Jurors agree with the advisors assessment, adding that the proposal has a high degree of potential for new understanding for researchers, practitioners and users (patients). It is extensible and extremely relevant, particularly in the areas of chronic illness, information behavior, Internet use and privacy/disclosure. . . . This will be . . . very possibly a benchmark for further study and application in multiple topics.
ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award
The 2013 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented to Sebastian K. Boell, University of New South Wales, for the dissertation entitled, Theorizing Information and Information Systems.
Chapter Awards
The European Chapter is the worthy recipient of the 2013 ASIS&T Chapter-of-the-Year Award. This chapter is very active and involved and engages the membership locally and across the Association. During the last year, the chapter brought in 18 new members (with a total of 108 members), held eight meetings and conducted 15 projects and services.
These included workshops and panels, mentoring programs for doctoral students, round tables, oral histories and webinars. Importantly, members of the chapter also played a large role in helping to emphasize the multinational reach of ASIS&T which culminated in the Associations recent name change. In addition, European Chapter members assisted in establishing the nascent Asian chapter of ASIS&T. With 301 non-members attending the various chapter meetings, there is ample opportunity for further growth. The chapter has demonstrated that it can surpass the difficulties imposed by national boundaries and language differences. The European Chapter is an excellent chapter for other chapters to emulate.
Student Chapter-of-the-Year
For 2013, Student Chapter-of-the-Year Awards go to two chapters: Simmons College and
University of Denver.
The student chapter of Simmons has done excellent recruitment through creative methods. They have even developed an impressive FAQs for recruitment. These efforts have resulted in more than 300 memberships. The student chapter also hosted a number of heavily attended events, including a tour of Google Cambridge. The chapter invites faculty from other universities as guest speakers at their regular meetings, which helps broaden students' view of the field. They also actively work with and participate in events with NEASIS&T, the New England Chapter. These activities and efforts have opened the door to many exciting opportunities for its members and propelled the chapter in the direction for continuous growth.
For a chapter of its size, the student chapter at the University of Denver is extremely active. Among the particularly noteworthy activities of this chapter are the number and quality of local events, the frequency and constancy of communication with its membership, the oversight and concern for local chapter finances and the quality administration provided by the officers. The chapter offers many diverse and interesting activities and has attempted to work with other organizations. It has also shown creative use of social media as communication tools. They not only have a well-maintained organization, but also clearly articulated future plans.
For these reasons and others, the student chapters of Simmons College and the University of Denver are the 2013 Student Chapters-of-the-Year.
SIG Awards
The ASIS&T 2013 SIG-of-the-Year Award is presented to Special Interest Group/History and Foundations of Information Science
(SIG/HFIS) for its many efforts toward capturing the historical impact of ASIS&T and its members. SIG/HFIS has, among other things, collected vital oral histories of ASIS&T and explored disparate archives for images that illustrate that history. In addition, SIG members worked tirelessly toward exhibiting and preserving elements of that history with their contributions to both the 2012 Pre-Conference on the History of ASIS&T and the subsequent print and eBook publication of the proceedings of the event. SIG/HFIS also notably continues to develop the Portal for Oral Histories in Information Science and Technology, while maintaining the regular SIG activities of recruiting and publishing for its members.
SIG Member-of-the-Year
Judit Bar-Ilan is the worthy recipient of the 2013 SIG Member-of-the-Year Award. She is noted particularly for her contributions to her SIG as both an officer and a mentor to junior members; for her contributions to publications produced by her SIG; for service in recruitment and promotion of her SIG electronically and in person across two continents; and for a long and continuing history in organizing symposia, workshops and program sessions for her SIG.
SIG Publication-of-the-Year
The 2013 SIG Publication-of-the-Year Award is awarded to Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) for SIG/IIIs 30th Anniversary Commemorative Publication. The SIG is particularly noted for its efforts in gathering and publishing the history, including ensuring contributions with diverse points-of-view across all areas of interest and for innovative and ongoing use and support of social media to communicate with members during research, production and marketing of the anniversary volume.
IA and RDAP Summits Just Ahead
Two huge conferences in the ASIS&T portfolio are just ahead. Mark your calendars and make your plans to participate in the 15th IA Summit and RDAP14 in San Diego in late March.
For its 15th annual gathering, the IA Summit will bring professionals together from March 26-30 to reflect upon current challenges and opportunities, as well as the rich history of the annual gatherings and the conversations that have begun. Under the theme The Path Ahead, organizers of the IA Summit encouraged submissions addressing ways to make the most of the opportunities created by the recognition the field has received. And the results are in a fantastic program is planned for all who join the crowd in San Diego. Get full details at http://2014.iasummit.org/.
RDAP14 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 is once again co-located with the IA Summit. For three days, March 26-28, RDAP14 will feature programming focused on practical approaches to research data management, access and preservation, including success stories and lessons learned, innovative research, and resources and tools developed by and for the RDAP community. The RDAP14 program is online at www.asis.org/rdap/program.
The hotel venue for both summits is the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.
News from ASIS&T Headquarters
A Physical Move in the Works
Around the middle of February ASIS&T HQ will be moving to 8555 16th Street, Suite 850, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Updated information, including phone and fax numbers, will be posted as it becomes available and confirmed.
ASIS&T Constitutional Change Sought
An amendment to the ASIS&T Constitution, mirroring the change made in the bylaws last summer updating the window for voting, will be coming soon. The constitution is a separate document legally and needs to be separately amended.
ASIS&T History Fund Wants Your Help
Established in 2000 by the ASIS&T Board of Directors, the ASIS&T History Fund encourages research in the history of information science and technology. Each year the fund supports various historical projects and research work. In the past year, the fund provided cash awards for its annual research grant and best paper award; supported student travel to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting; and continued its support of the ASIS&T oral history project.
While the History Fund is in the black, there is not enough cash to continue the kinds of historical research projects that the funds board of advisors hopes to support. These projects include the ongoing oral history project, as well as preservation and access to ASIS&T historical resources.
Current members of the Board of Advisors are Sarah Buchanan, University of Texas at Austin, chair; Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley, emeritus; Samantha Hastings, University of South Carolina; Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Drexel University; Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lai Ma, University College Dublin; and Robert Williams, University of South Carolina, emeritus.
The Board of Adivsors urges all ASIS&T members to indicate their interest in preserving the history of the fields of information science and technology as well as the history of the one professional organization that has served the changing foci of research and practice throughout the development of the information age.
How can you help? You can donate in a variety of ways including dedicating book royalties, committing to challenges, providing matching funds and through individual contributions.
Donate today by sending your contribution to the fund:
ASIS&T History Fund
Attention: Richard Hill
8555 16th Street, Suite 850
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Please indicate in your correspondence that the donation is intended for the ASIS&T History Fund. You will receive an acknowledgement of your tax-deductible gift for your tax records.
News about ASIS&T Members
Former ASIS&T president Gary Marchionini, dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named digital preservation pioneer in an article in the Library of Congress The Signal. The recognition notes how Marchioninis interest in information retrieval, human/computer interaction and information architecture grew from his experience as a junior high school math teacher in the days when teletype machines networked to computers were used for electronic drills and practices.
Kenneth R. Fleischmann, University of Texas at Austin, is the author of the latest entry in Morgan & Claypools series on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services. In the authors description,
Information and Human Values seeks to advance understanding of the relationship between information and human values by synthesizing the complementary but typically disconnected threads in the literature.
News from an ASIS&T SIG
SIG/III Seeks Candidates for InfoShare Award
ASIS&T SIG/International Information Issues (SIG/III) will once again in 2014 offer complimentary ASIS&T memberships to a group of information professionals from developing countries. The InfoShare Membership Award is available to masters and Ph.D. students, as well as working professionals. Nominations are now sought for the one-year memberships, renewable for a second year, based on their ASIS&T activities.
Nominations of worthy individuals must include one-page curriculum vita and one-page descriptions of why the nominees are deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks. The deadline for nominations is February 16, 2014.
Nominations should be sent to Devendra Potnis (dpotnis<at>utk.edu) or Selenay Aytac (selenay.aytac<at>liu.edu).
Connecting Collections, Cultures and Communities
77th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology
October 31-November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel Seattle, Washington
No sooner does one ASIS&T Annual Meeting end than a new committee launches headlong into the process of planning the next one. With the successful venture into Canada for the first Annual Meeting since the renaming of our society to better reflect our international interests, now the Association for Information Science and Technology plans to meet in the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington.
The ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people and technology in contemporary society. The meeting gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance and society. The ASIS&T Annual Meeting has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses.
For 2014, ASIS&T will explore the connections among collections, cultures and communities. The conference planning committee welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The Annual Meeting celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks; it has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains.
Four types of submissions that address the broad theme of the meeting are encouraged: papers, panels, posters and workshops.
PAPERS: Papers should discuss, analyze or critique theories and concepts or report original, unpublished research, substantiated by experimentation, simulation, theoretical development, analysis or application. Submissions will be judged on quality of content, significance for theory, method, design, education or engagement, originality and level of innovativeness, and quality of presentation. Papers will be refereed in a double-blind process, and accepted papers will be published the digital conference proceedings. The maximum length for a paper is 10 pages, single-spaced.
PANELS: Proposals for panels, lightening talks, fishbowls, Pecha Kucha, etc., are invited on topics that include emerging cutting-edge research and design, analyses of emerging trends, opinions on controversial issues, analyses of tools and techniques, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary areas of research. Panels are not a substitute for a set of contributed papers, but must have a cohesive theme and promote lively interaction between panelists and audience members. Submit 3-5 pages that provide an overview of the issues to be discussed by the panel. Proposals should also list panelists who have agreed to participate and indicate the qualifications and contribution that each panelist will offer.
POSTERS: Posters are a vehicle for face-to-face presentations and interactions using traditional posters, short videos or live demonstrations. These formats provide opportunities for interactive discussion and feedback about the work. Poster presentations are expected to invite questions and discussion in a personal and less-formal setting. Posters offer a unique opportunity to present late-breaking results, work in progress or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Please note, however, that posters describing work that is simply a proposal will not be accepted. Submissions for refereeing should be in the form of an extended abstract of up to 4 pages.
WORKSHOPS: The purpose of pre-conference workshops, symposia and tutorials is to provide a more informal setting for the exchange of ideas on a focused topic and suggest directions for future work. As such, workshops and tutorials offer a good opportunity for researchers and professionals to present and discuss work with an interested community. Workshops may be mini-focused research presentations, a series of working events, brainstorming and idea sharing, or even teaching/learning a new skill. In particular, SIGs are invited to submit proposals for half-day or full-day events on topics that are pertinent to the goals of the SIGs. Proposals that are not SIG-related or sponsored are also welcome. Only one submission per SIG is permitted for a workshop, and additional participation fees will apply.
Conference Committee
Jens-Erik Mai, University of Copenhagen, chairs the 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The following committee members will assist:
PAPERS CO-CHAIRS: Melanie Feinberg, University of Texas at Austin, and Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles
PANELS CO-CHAIRS: Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman, Indiana University
POSTERS CO-CHAIRS: Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, and Lai Ma, University College Dublin
WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS, LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND LOGISTICS: Richard Hill, ASIS&T
Important Dates and Deadlines
All submissions for papers, panels, workshops and tutorials must be in hand by April 30. Notifications of acceptance will be sent in June. Submissions for posters, demos and videos are due by July 1, with notifications following at the end of July.
Additional Conference Information
As always, please look to the ASIS&T website www.asist.org for additional information and updates on all Annual Meeting-related activities.
Articles in this Issue
James Cretsos Leadership Award: A Tale of Finding My Intellectual Home with ASIS&T
9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium
Information Behavior on the Move: 2013 ASIS&T SIG/USE Research Symposium
Full Room for the Third SIG/MET Workshop
Jorge Garcia Highlights 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
Research: Computer-mediated Communication
Inside ASIS&T
RDAP Review: Educating Researchers for Effective Data Management


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Story by Y. Peter Kang.
A new service in South Korea allows women to flash the latest high-end handbag without forking over a lot of dough.
MBC reports that a luxury goods rental service has customers depositing their own upscale handbagwith a broker which then entitles them to pick out a handbag for a fee of about $20 to $30 per week. If the customer's bag is rented by another customer, they get a percentage of the rental fees. If they don't add a bag to the pool, they can still rent a bag for a higher fee of about $50.
Members are reportedly happy with the service.
"I think it's a great thing, to be able to change up your bag for the price of a cup of coffee," one customer told MBC. "It's fresh and new."
MBC reported that peer-to-peer rental services were first popularized in the United States following the Great Recession of 2008. One notable example of a P2P rental service that has taken off is Airbnb, a site in which homeowners can rent out rooms to cost-conscious travelers.
This story was originally published in iamkoream.com.


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Rachel Maynard is 19, a full-time student and works as a kitchen manager at Pizza Port, a Solana Beach, California-based restaurant and microbrewery. At 19 years old, she is at the leading edge of what generational consultant Tammy Erickson labels as the "Re-Generation"—the next wave of people getting ready to make their mark on the workforce.
Erickson labels Maynard's peers as a generation of individuals shaped by environmental issues as well as the financial crisis of 2008. As a result, members of this generation are committed to sustainability and tend to be fiscally conservative. Compared to the millennials, Re-Gens are reluctant to incur debt, and more likely to save their money.
When asked if she thinks the Great Recession shaped her worldview, Maynard responds: "It does, but I'm not fully informed on it." However, she did say that when her father lost his job around that time, her family wasn't severely affected because her dad had been good at saving money. Maynard says the situation made her realize the value of saving, and that she's becoming more of a saver.
Neil Howe, president and co-founder of LifeCourse Associates, refers to people Maynard's age as late-wave millennials. Howe says an important quality of this cohort is that they place a higher importance on education than older millennials.
"The idea of college and getting a degree is highly important to this group of people," he says.
Maynard emphasized how important college is to her. She's currently finishing her associate's degree and will be starting on her bachelor's soon. From there she says she might even go for her master's degree or maybe even a Ph.D.
"The world is more competitive today, so you need more education," she says.
Max Mihelich is Workforce's associate editor. Comment below or email email@example.com. Follow Mihelich on Twitter at @workforcemax.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Adele is rolling in the records.
The 24-year-old British songstress's album "21" has sold more than 10 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album reached the milestone last week, less than two years after its release.
"21" is the 21st album to sell 10 million copies since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.
Adele's sophomore studio album debuted in 2011 and featured such hits as "Rolling in the Deep," ''Someone Like You" and "Set Fire to the Rain."
It's the third album to reach the 10 million mark in 2012. Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" and Usher's "Confessions" both crossed the 10 million mark earlier this year.
Adele won in all six categories she was nominated in at the Grammys earlier this year, including album of the year.
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Mr. President, I am pleased to report to my colleagues in the United States Senate on the work of the bicameral congressional delegation which I chaired that participated in the Tenth Annual Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE PA, hosted by the French Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate, in Paris, July 6-10, 2001. Other participants from the United States Senate were Senator Hutchison of Texas and Senator Voinovich of Ohio. We were joined by 12 Members of the House of Representatives: cochairman SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. HOYER, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. KING, Mr. BRYANT, Mr. WAMP, Mr. PITTS, Mr. HOEFFEL and Mr. TANCREDO.
En route to Paris, the delegation stopped in Caen, France and traveled to Normandy for a briefing by General Joseph W. Ralston, Commander in Chief of the U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, on security developments in Europe, including developments in Macedonia, Kosovo, and Bosnia- Herzegovina as well as cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
At the Normandy American Cemetery, members of the delegation participated in ceremonies honoring those Americans killed in D-Day operations. Maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the cemetery is the final resting place for 9,386 American servicemen and women and honors the memory of the 1,557 missing. The delegation also visited the Pointe du Hoc Monument honoring elements of the 2d Ranger Battalion.
In Paris, the combined U.S. delegation of 15, the largest representation by any country in the Assembly was welcomed by others as a demonstration of the continued commitment of the United States, and the U.S. Congress, to Europe. The central theme of OSCE PA's Tenth Annual Session was ``European Security and Conflict Prevention: Challenges to the OSCE in the 21st Century.''
This year's Assembly brought together nearly 300 parliamentarians from 52 OSCE participating States, including the first delegation from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following Belgrade's suspension from the OSCE process in 1992. Seven countries, including the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, were represented at the level of Speaker of Parliament or President of the Senate. Following a decision taken earlier in the year, the Assembly withheld recognition of the pro-Lukashenka National Assembly given serious irregularities in Belarus' 2000
parliamentary elections. In light of the expiration of the mandate of the democratically elected 13th Supreme Soviet, no delegation from the Republic of Belarus was seated.
The inaugural ceremony included a welcoming addresses by the OSCE PA President Adrian Severin, Speaker of the National Assembly, Raymond Forni and the Speaker of the Senate, Christian Poncelet. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hubert Védrine also addressed delegates during the opening plenary. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, presented remarks and responded to questions from the floor.
Presentations were also made by several other senior OSCE officials, including the OSCE Secretary General, the High Commissioner on National Minorities, the Representative on Freedom of the Media, and the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
The 2001 OSCE PA Prize for Journalism and Democracy was presented to the widows of the murdered journalists José Luis López de Lacalle of Spain and Georgiy Gongadze of Ukraine. The Spanish and Ukrainian journalists were posthumously awarded the prize for their outstanding work in furthering OSCE values.
Members of the U.S. delegation played a leading role in debate in each of the Assembly's three General Committees--Political Affairs and Security; Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment; and Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions. U.S. sponsored resolutions served as the focal point for discussion on such timely topics as ``Combating Corruption and International Crime in the OSCE Region,'' a resolution I sponsored; ``Southeastern Europe,'' by Senator VOINOVICH; ``Prevention of Torture, Abuse, Extortion or Other Unlawful Acts'' and ``Combating Trafficking in Human Beings,'' by Mr. Smith; ``Freedom of the Media,'' by Mr. HOYER; and, ``Developments in the North Caucasus,'' by Mr. CARDIN.
Senator Hutchison played a particularly active role in debate over the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in the General Committee on Political Affairs and Security, chaired by Mr. HASTINGS, which focused on the European Security and Defense Initiative.
An amendment I introduced in the General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment on promoting social, educational and economic opportunity for indigenous peoples won overwhelming approval, making it the first ever such reference to be included in an OSCE PA declaration. Other U.S. amendments focused on property restitution laws, sponsored by Mr. CARDIN, and adoption of comprehensive non-discrimination laws, sponsored by Mr. HOYER.
Amendments by members of the U.S. delegation on the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions focused on the plight of Roma, by Mr. SMITH; citizenship, by Mr. HOYER; and Nazi-era compensation and restitution, and religious liberty, by Ms. SLAUGHTER. Delegation members also took part in debate on the abolition of the death penalty, an issue raised repeatedly during the Assembly and in discussions on the margins of the meeting.
While in Paris, members of the delegation held an ambitious series of meetings, including bilateral sessions with representatives from the Russian Federation, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom, and Kazakhstan. Members met with the President of the French National Assembly to discuss diverse issues in U.S.-French relations including military security, agricultural trade, human rights and the death penalty. A meeting with the Romanian Foreign Minister included a discussion of the missile defense initiative, policing in the former Yugoslavia, and international adoption policy.
Staff of the U.S. Embassy provided members with an overview of U.S.-French relations. Members also attended a briefing by legal experts on developments affecting the right of individuals to profess and practice their religion or belief. A session with representatives of U.S. businesses operating in France and elsewhere in Europe provided members with insight into the challenges of today's global economy.
Elections for officers of the Assembly were held during the final plenary. Mr. Adrian Severin of Romania was re-elected President. Senator Jerahmiel Graftstein of Canada was elected Treasurer. Three of the Assembly's nine Vice-Presidents were elected to three-year terms: Alcee Hastings, U.S.A., Kimmo Kiljunen, Finland, and Ahmet Tan, Turkey. The Assembly's Standing Committee agreed that the Eleventh Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will be held next July in Berlin, Germany.
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Insurance delays prolong the disaster
(Page 2 of 3)
• Geico –– 3,800 of 32,800.
• Hartford –– 2,500 of 11,500.
• Liberty Mutual –– 8,000 of 28,000.
• Nationwide –– 5,500 of 14,000.
• Travelers –– 18,500 of 37,500.
Many homeowners made the salient point that their insurance policies would be canceled in a heartbeat if they failed to pay their insurance premiums on time. But in their time of greatest need, they feel abandoned. That's just wrong.
Cuomo signed an executive order to cut through red tape, making it easier to temporarily certify qualified, out-of-state public adjusters, who aid homeowners in settling their insurance claims. That's all well and good. Adjusters, who take a percentage of a settlement, can be helpful, but a homeowner shouldn't need an adjuster or an attorney to advocate on their behalf to the insurance companies. People pay good money for insurance, and most of the time they never use it, allowing insurance companies to reap tens of millions, even billions, of dollars in profits. The very least homeowners should expect from them is timely, courteous service in times of peril.
The federal and/or state governments should enact legislation that would set a time frame within which insurers must process homeowners' claims so they receive settlements that help them get their lives back together sooner rather than later. Particularly when it comes to flood insurance, there really should be no argument on this point, considering that flood insurance is a product of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program. The insurance companies effectively act as the government's flood insurance agents.
After Sandy, Cuomo required insurance companies to make their initial inspections of homes within six days after claims were filed. And, according to the Department of Financial Services, once a company makes a settlement offer that is accepted by the homeowner, it has five days to make payment. Other than that, though, there are no time requirements, meaning that months can pass after an insurance adjuster's initial visit before a company makes a settlement offer, during which a homeowner may become increasingly despondent and jump at the first offer given, whether it's fair or not.
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Rust Repair And Restoration - Busted The RustWritten by John McGann on November 11, 2009 It Looked OK In Pictures, But Our El Camino Desperately Needed New Metal. Read How We Busted The Rust.
Editor Glad admits it freely. Our '64 El Camino shop truck is a beater. His prepurchase criterion of having a rust-free cab was validated. There is no rust around the windshield, back glass, and cowl, and that's a major score. But the floorpans and quarter-panels were pretty much junk. Those are big enough flaws to keep us from truly enjoying our Pro-Beater parts hauler. The flappy quarters are an eyesore to all who set eyes on its Shamrock Shake flanks, and the holy rusted metal (Batman!) floors, while novel at first, merely provide an entrée for fumes and road grime that ultimately overwhelm the driver and unlucky passenger.
Rust Repair Time Trust us, we're not getting soft here at CC. Our Elco is first and foremost a parts hauler, not a resto weenie's museum piece, but Fred-Flintstone-feet-through-the-floor driving is not a style we can endorse on a daily bass. The federal government wasn't able to bail us out, but OPGI and Nor/Am did with auto body parts and materials, and the students at Los Angeles Trade Technical College provided the labor to give our Elco the structural stimulus and rust repair it so badly needed. All did not go smoothly with our rust repair, either, but we won't gloss over our mistakes. If torches, sparks, and high-pressure transmission line blowouts light your fire, grab your welding jacket and read on.
Rust Repair: Tools Needed
Cutoff wheel
Angle grinder
Flap disc
Scotch-Brite Roloc pads
Spot-weld cutter
Hammers and dollies
Oxyacetylene torch
MIG welder
Quarter-Panel Repair
Once back in our shop, we got to work on phase two of the Elco autobody rehab. As mentioned before, the quarter-panels were a mess. The left side suffered from serious rot aft of the wheel opening, and the right side had been replaced some time ago but was hung temporarily with only a few tack welds holding it on. We didn't know which one would be the most difficult to fix, so we started with the right side.
|Parts List
|Floorpan, left
|Floorpan, right
|Outer wheelhouse, left
|Outer wheelhouse, right
|Tailgate skin
|Lower fender patch panel
|Quarter-panel patch panel, left
|JC Whitney
|Spot-weld cutter kit
|Pneumatic panel flanger and punch
|*Note: the quarter-panel skins sold through JC Whitney are made by Nor/Am Autobody Parts.
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Here's what our floors looked like prior to surgery. No wonder an EPA hazmat team chased us all the way to Trade Tech. The Elco was a rolling Superfund site.Before cutting any of the original metal, we verified the fitment of the new parts. These OPG stampings replace large longitudinal sections of the floor, leaving the transmission tunnel intact. Other stampings are available, from complete floors to just the footwell sections.We traced around the new part using a marker. Generally, though, you won't be cutting along this line. You will, instead, be cutting about 1/2 to 3/4 inch inside this line. The extra material will be used as a flange to weld the new panel to. The students marked their cut line with tape and used a plasma cutter to remove the old floors.This picture illustrates why it is better to overlap some material from the old panel. Not only is a lap joint easier to weld than a butt joint, but no matter how good you are, it is difficult to cut the old panel to the exact dimensions of the new one. Leave extra material and cut in sections if it's easier to remove the old stuff that way.Be mindful that there may be stuff behind the section you're cutting that you may want to save or need to reuse. In the case of the Elco, there were braces under the floorpan that support the seat mounting bolts. These braces were spot-welded to the floor from the factory. We used a grinder with a Scotch-Brite disc to locate the welds.Drill out all the spot welds. Though you can use a standard drill bit, a spot-weld cutter is faster and more efficient.Once all the bad metal was gone, we began prepping the area for the new parts to be welded in. The students sandblasted the remains of the floor and sprayed the perimeter with a zinc-rich weld-through primer. They also punched (or drilled in some areas) holes to plug-weld the metal in place.To get a final fitment before welding it in, we dropped the new panel in place, holding it with vise grips or sheetmetal screws, in the case of our floors. The new panel probably won't fit exactly, so be prepared to do some bodywork. Here, Omar Martinez hammered a section of the new floor to fit the contours of the transmission tunnel.
After tack-welding, they proceeded to stitch-weld the panel in, closing up the entire gap between the old and new metal. Basically, stitch-welding is a string of tack welds stacked up one after another. This technique is preferable to a single, continuous weld bead because it puts less heat into the panel, reducing the chances of warpage.Jason "Mighty Mouse" Tapapia then ground the welds smooth and the floor was ready for finish work. Since this panel will be hidden under the carpet, we only covered the welds with seam sealer. If this were part of the exterior of the car, we'd have gone over the weld with a coat of filler.Finally, the students welded in the seat braces and installed the floorpan drain plugs. The braces were welded in, but the plugs were glued in with seam sealer.Though it was mentioned earlier, here's another example of why you should take the time to always check what is behind or under the area you are working on. When fitting the floor, we inadvertently punctured one of the transmission cooler lines with a sheetmetal screw and dumped about a gallon of ATF on the floor within seconds of starting the car.The quarter-panel on the right side of the car was actually in good shape. It is either a GM part taken off a donor car or a good reproduction, but we needed to take it off to get to the rotted wheelhouse behind it.The quarter had also been plug-welded in the rear where it wraps around to meet the inside of the bed. We ground the welds flat and whacked each of the centers with a pin punch to give the drill bit something to bite into.There was a string of small tack welds at the seam where the quarter meets the B-pillar that were hard to get to with our grinder. In oddball locations like this, you can sometimes use the cutoff wheel. Hold it perpendicular to the stuff you want to grind off and run it back and forth. Be careful with this technique-it's very easy to cut a huge groove in a part of the panel where you don't want one.As you break through the welds, you'll see a seam form at the spot where the panels separate. Gently pry them apart with a panel separator or screwdriver. You may need to grind more material off in some areas to completely separate the parts. Take your time and soon the panels will split. We were then able to remove the quarter-panel and set it aside.
The inner and outer wheelhouses were joined together in a way we'd never seen before. It looks like the two were passed through some sort of roller that acted similarly to a spot welder. Each of the shiny spots on the arch was a fused joint. We decided to try and separate them with a chisel attachment on our air hammer rather than drill out each one of those spots.Our El Camino had been hit in the side some time ago, and the inner structure was a mangled mess. We began straightening out these sections with a big slide hammer to get them roughly back to where they should be then a hammer and dolly to get them as close to straight as possible.Yes, we love our acetylene torch, but this is more than just a gratuitous fire picture. Excessive hammering, bending, and pulling actually hardens metal, causing it to become brittle. Just like a wire coat hanger will eventually break if you bend it in the same spot over and over, the same can happen with automotive sheetmetal. Heating steel up to a dull red color softens it and makes it more compliant, allowing you to shape it more easily and without cracking or breaking it.Check your progress often as you work. Though still not great, our rocker panel support piece is straightened out and now aligns with the mounting flange on the new outer wheelhouse.Things weren't so rosy on the backside of the wheelhouse. The lower inner extension panel was totally caved in and required more metalworking skills than we possess. We decided to cut that section out and weld in a new piece.While digging around the backside of the wheelhouse, we also discovered a section of the inner wheelhouse that had rotted away and led to a rust hole forming in the side of the bed.To fix this, we cut that rusty section out as cleanly as possible and made a cardboard template to fit the opening.We transferred the shape of the template to a flat piece of steel, tracing the line with a scribe. A Sharpie would work just as well, too. We then cut the shape out with a pair of shears.OK, that was easy, but how do you get your flat piece of steel to fit the shape of the opening it needs to weld into? We used a section of welding filler rod, bending it to fit the contours the patch panel needs to follow. A section of coat hanger would work well, too. Use something that is easy to bend but holds its shape well.
We also needed to find something to use as a form to bend our patch panel around-something that was at least as wide as the patch so that when bent, the curve was uniform across the whole patch. We found that one of our 8mm sockets matched the curve perfectly.To make the bend, we clamped the socket to our piece of steel with a pair of vise grips, then clamped the whole thing into our bench vise. We used a pair of flat-bladed panel-gripper vise grips to bend the steel evenly around the curve of the socket.With the bed repair welded in place, we could now address the rotted section of the inner wheelhouse.We did this in a similar though less exacting manner as the bed repair. We eyeballed a section of steel, tack-welding and trimming it to fit as we went along.We purposely left extra metal sticking out from the repair area so we could hammer it over to form part of the missing section of our inner wheelhouse mounting flange. We stuck a big body spoon behind the flange, using it to hammer against.We decided to reuse what was left of the old mounting flange that we took off with the chisel rather than making a new one. We cleaned up the flange, hammering it flat and grinding away the old primer and parts where the inner and outer panels were still stuck together. The problem with this was we hammered and heated the flange enough to change its shape. Notice how the curve of the flange no longer fits the arch of the wheelhouse?We used a stretching technique to change the arc of the bend in the flange. When backed up with something as hard or harder than the metal you're working with, sheetmetal will stretch when you hit it with a hammer. You can really stretch it out when you use something sharp like a chisel. The metal under the point flattens and squishes outward. Do this along the edge of a piece of steel and it will start to curve. To stretch our flange, we hammered along the inside edge (the part facing down to the ground). You can see the sections where the metal is dimpled in the photo on the right. Doing this opened up the curve of the flange and we were able to match the shape of the wheelhouse. Remember, you have to hammer against something hard or this will not work. We used the flat section of our vise as an anvil.
After that, we welded in the final section of missing sheetmetal just past the wheelhouse. We left extra material at the bottom that we will trim off at the point where it connects to the quarter-panel. Now we could begin to treat the area prior to hanging the quarter back on. We first took a wire brush to all the loose rust and scale.We then treated the whole area with Eastwood's Fast Etch rust converter. It's really easy to use: spray or brush it on, let it sit for half an hour, and wipe clean with a towel and some Eastwood PRE solvent cleaner.To keep this area from rusting again, we sprayed it with a couple of coats of Rust-Oleum. Then we clamped our outer wheelhouse in place with vise grips to verify that the quarter-panel fit over it correctly.We clamped the quarter-panel back on the car and were grateful to see that the wheel opening in the quarter matched up the wheelhouse.We pulled the quarter back off, drilled some holes in the mounting flange on the outer wheelhouse, and plug-welded it onto the car. This is as far as we got before we had to break off the attack to come back to the office and write the article. To finish, we will plug-weld the quarter on at the top of the bed, along the bottom at the rocker panel, and at the back by the taillights. But we'll flange- and stitch-weld it at the B-pillar. Once we grind the welds and Bondo the seam, our repair should be factory fresh.


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The targeted disease is retinitis pigmentosa (RP), is a severe form of blindness that runs in families. This disease is not overly common, yet represents an attainable near term target for stem cell therapy for a number of reasons: 1) RP destroys the light detecting cells of the retina but generally leaves the rest of the visual system and body unharmed, so the clinical goal is circumscribed; 2) RP is prototypical of degenerations of the nervous system, so a cure for this less common disease would accelerate progress towards new therapies for a range of more familiar conditions; 3) scientific research has shown that degenerating rods and cones can be spared in animals by transplanting particular types of stem cells, so the scientific feasibility of treating RP in this way has already been established in principle.
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In the town that I grew up in, there is a little girl named Hannah who has an inoperable brain tumor. She has about 12 weeks to live. Her mother died 2 years ago from breast cancer. The Rose Radio station tries to fill Christmas wishes of people in need, they also reach out to the community to get help. This little girl's wish for Christmas and her dying wish is she just wants Christmas...
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Yeah she was trashed. I lost my wedding ring though. That did not passover to well with the wife. I got the show on video. I got incredible footage. Are you going to the stoudsburg show? Meeting them again was nice too. I am glad you got your spot back on the wall. You should of pulled that girls pigtails.


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This is more of a comment than a question.
My experience with trying to get Zimbra working has been a little troubled starting by my inability to spell zimbra correctly (zimba instead of zimbra).. Two uninstall/re-installs later I have it working after starting to dig into some of the innards.
1. Since a lot of people seem to be having problems with the ldap server still running after an uninstall/re-install, maybe the installer should check for slapd running.
2. Here is a problem with the installer, (I think).
During part of my troubleshooting installs I added a mysql user. The last install generated this problem in the log.
and found that the zimbra users have a new UID however the owners of /var/spool/mail/postfix and zimbra are the old users.Oct 16 17:02:25 zimbra postfix/smtp[20594]: 6DFC02DD27: to=
, orig_to= , relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=1296, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.6.0 Failed, id=02822-06, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 451 Error: queue file write error (in reply to end of DATA command))
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