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May 12-14, the 2016 NASP National Archery Tournment was held in Louisville, Kentucky. White Hall Elementary School Archery Team, made history at this event. This was the first Madison County School to bring home the national trophy. Archers from 909 schools in 41 states and Washington D.C. competed at the largest archery tournments.
Due to construction this summer, our office can be accessed through the side entrance lane. Please enter the building through the side entrance, and the office will be in Room 403.
We are now accepting donations of gently used dress code items. If you have any dress code code clothes that no longer fit, you may donate them to Foley Middle School. Donations will be accepted in the office. The Renaissance program will have a yard sale before the beginning of the next school year.
Sign up today to support the Foley Renaissance Program when you shop at Kroger! Kroger will donate a percentage of your total sales to Renaissance. This is at no additional cost to you. Renaissance is a program that rewards our students based on academics, attitude, and attendance. Click Read More and please take the time to follow the directions provided to sign up for this community rewards and help us celebrate students' success.
Click here for Kroger Community Rewards!
May 19th - 6th Grade Awards at 9:00 a.m.
7th Grade Awards at 1:00 p.m.
May 20th - 8th Grade Awards at 9:00 a.m.
8th Grade Promotion Ceremony at 1:00 p.m.
All Awards Ceremonies will be held in MSHS Auditorium. 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony will be held in MSHS Gym. Please enter through back entrance at MSHS.
More than 200 students from across the state attended the event where Vivian Bowles, teacher at Kit Carson Elementary School, was named KGHS Teacher of Year.
There will be no school for students on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.
We would like to invite you to our Spring Band Concert, which will be held on May 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. Don't miss this exciting concert by our distinguished bands!
Foley Middle School will be providing a great opportunity for your student to become acquainted and comfortable with entering middle school. We will be hosting our annual 6th Grade Survivor Camp for all incoming 6th graders to Foley Middle School. The Survivor Camp will be held on Friday August 5, 2016 at Foley Middle School from 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Click the following links for additional information:
Parent Letter Information
Survivor Camp Registration
As summer is quickly approaching, the district has created a page on its website for Summer Opportunities for Kids. This page includes everything from programming at the Madison County Public Library to baseball camps at Madison Central to weekly camps at St. Mark School to vacation bible schools. Please feel free to send any information about summer programs for kids to Erin Stewart. Thank you.
Madison Southern High School has been nationally recognized by US News and World Report, receiving a Bronze ranking for its College Readiness Index. Click HERE for more information.
It is time to begin planning for the Washington D.C. trip for 2017. There will be a meeting to discuss plans for the trip in Foley's Cafeteria on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. If you have any questions, please call our office at (859) 625-6140.
Foley Middle School is the 2016 Technology School of the Year! Our Warriors worked hard all year to create and produce various projects, of which 100 were recognized on Monday, April 18, 2016 at the Madison County Technology Extravaganza as Top 5 finalists in 44 different categories. As part of this tremendous honor, Foley Middle School will receive a $500 grant from Mike's Kids Education Foundation to be used to purchase additional technology resources that will be utilized by our Warriors! We are so proud of our students and faculty at Foley Middle School!
Mid-term progress reports will be sent home on Wednesday, April 20, 2016.
The Madison County Board of Education approved the school year calendar for the 2016-2017 school year at tonight's regular meeting. Click HERE to view the calendar.
Spring Pictures will be taken on Tuesday, April 12th. Please do not wear green.
Cheer Tryouts will be Tuesday April 12th, Thursday April 14th, and Friday April 15th from 3:30-5:30. Location will be at Shannon Johnson Elementary.
You MUST have a school physical to participate.
Monday, April 11th - Softball vs. Rockcastle Middle 5:00 p.m.
Baseball vs. Caudill Middle 5:30 p.m.
This parenting class will be on April 21, 2016 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm with a light dinner served from 5:30 – 6:00 pm. No childcare will be provided.
Sponsored by The Family Resource Centers in collaboration with Madison County Middle School Counselors.
Facilitator: Darcy Miller, LPCC, of Mustard Tree Counseling
Please call 859-625-6078 to register.
Click Here for more information.
Thursday, March 24th - Softball vs. Madison Middle 5:30 p.m.
Baseball vs. Campbell 5:30 p.m.
Friday, March 25th - Softball vs. Clay Co. 5:30 p.m.
Madison County Schools would like to congratulate Tonya Conley of Kingston Elementary and Lauren Cain of White Hall Elementary on earning their National Board certification. Earning National Board certification is a lengthy, rigorous process, and requires a great deal of dedication to the teaching profession.
Monday, March 14th - Baseball vs. East Bernstadt 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 15th - Band Concert in Foley Gym 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 17th - Softball vs. Clark County 5:30 p.m.
Baseball vs. Jackson County 5:30
Friday, March 18th - No School for Students
Calling all ladies! Come out and join us for a fun evening of learning basic self-defense skills at Foley Middle School. All female students at Foley and Farristown are welcome and are encouraged to bring a female parent or other female family member with them. Sign up in the Youth Service Center today or call 625-6150 or 387-8615! The event will be on March 22nd at 6:00 p.m. in the Foley gym.
Foley Middle School
8th Grade Visual Art Class
As Seen Through Their Eyes
After studying facial proportion and all the details that go along with drawing the human eye, I show my students M.C. Escher's Eye drawing that has a human skull inside the pupil. They have always been fascinated by this image and it occurred to me that my students could draw stories within the eyeball "as seen through their eyes".
Melissa Metcalf, science and math teacher at Foley Middle School, has been named a 2016 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator. Metcalf is among a diverse group of tech-savvy educators from across the country selected for her passion and commitment to innovative teaching practices that integrate digital media and technology in the classroom.
Monday, March 7th - Baseball vs Corbin Middle 5:30 p.m.
Friday, March 11th - After School Dance 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Report Cards will go home on Friday, March 11th!
There will be no after-school tutoring on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Tutoring will resume on Thursday, March 3, 2016.
After-school tutoring is available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays beginning March 1, 2016. A snack will be provided free of charge from 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Tutoring will end at 4:15 p.m. Transportation will NOT be provided. Let your teacher know if you are interested or contact email@example.com
We had several students participate with the January Artist Trading Card Contest that was a collaboration with Foley's Cafeteria and Mrs. Weiner. Students were encouraged to create a food related work of art on a card about the size of a baseball card. Students were also given the opportunity to win daily prizes from the cafeteria by turning in their cards daily while going through the breakfast line.
Parent Teacher Conferences have been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 23, 2016. The conferences will be from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Please call (859) 625-6140 to schedule a conference with your child's teachers.
** For Parents of 8th Graders: Counselors from Madison Southern High School will be available during conferences to answer questions about scheduling.
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February 18, 2016 at Safety City, 5:30 PM
Dinner will be provided.
Each attendee will leave with samples of homemade laundry detergent, green cleaning products, and coupons!
Parent Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, February 16, 2016 from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Please call the school at (859) 625-6140 to schedule a conference with your child's teachers.
Congratulations to our 8th grade boys basketball team...Conference Champions! Way to go Warriors!!
Artist Trading Cards
You are invited to participate with Foley Middle School's Artist Trading Cards
What are Artist Trading Cards? Well, they are miniature works of art about the same size as a baseball card.
How do you make one? You can use any kind of material (media) for your card. For example, paint, crayons, coloring pencil, ink, marker, construction paper and so on.
What do I create on the card? Any food related image. If I wanted to draw a slice of pie, I could! If I wanted to draw how healthy eating affects me, I could! If I wanted to draw a detail of my cereal in a bowl of milk, I could! I could create any food related image with patterns, or water color, or an abstract fork! Just go for it!
When are they due? Trading cards are to be turned in daily to the cafeteria during Breakfast from January 11th-January 29th
Can I make more than one? Sure, pick up more cards from the cafeteria
Will there be prizes? Yep, the cafeteria will pick 5-10 random artist cards daily for prizes from the ala carte. Once all cards have been submitted by January 29th, a PEOPLE'S CHOICE voting will begin and prizes will be given for each grade level
Click here for additonal information
The library media center will be having a Scholastic Book Fair December 7th - 11th. Students will visit the Book Fair from their language arts classes. Family Night will be Monday, December 7th from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Come out and join us as our STLP students lead mini classes on different technology topics. Learn how to use Google email, Infinite Campus, and tips and tricks for other programs, such as Microsoft Word. Our first Tech Teaching Night will be Tuesday, December 8, 2015 from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
From Mrs. Weiner (Visual Art Teacher at Foley Middle School):
Cafeteria manager, Linda Hackman, asked me if I would be interested in entering the Made by Milk Carton Contest. It is actually a wonderful STEAM project that promotes recycling. Sculpture Club consisted of fourteen students that stayed after school for eight weeks and together we read through the rules to enter this nationwide contest. Parent volunteer and Industrial Arts teacher, Gin Watts also volunteered her time to assist with the after school club and the project.
There will be a "New Skills for Frazzled Parents" workshop offered on November 19, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. at Galaxy Bowling in Richmond.
Click here for additional information.
This year, Ms. Fergie is using a feature offered by Jostens (publisher of our Yearbook) called "ReplayIt." With this feature students and parents will be able to upload their own photos into a "Time Capsule" that all students and parents will be able to see at the end of year--it will be sort of a like a slide show of the year. This is a great way for your pictures to be seen, and to be used in the Yearbook! If you have a SmartPhone, you can download the "Replayit" App--if you do not, NO WORRIES, click this link and begin uploading.
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Every day, Peace Corps volunteers strive to make a difference and have improved the lives of millions of people not just in communities around the world, but also in their local communities in the United States once they return home. This is the legacy of President Kennedys concept of international service, an idea that continues to capture the imagination of thousands of service-minded Americans today.
About the Peace Corps: Read more or watch a video about how Peace Corps service makes a difference for the communities served, the volunteers themselves, and here in the U.S. Learn what it's like to be a Volunteer including what Volunteers do, where they go, and the many benefits of Peace Corps service. Or apply now to begin your life-defining experience.
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Anyone out there?
Looking for routes with lots of length, and lots of climbing.
I'm a bit disappointed having moved to Burlington - it now seems I have to travel to climb. When I was in S. VT. I had routes with lots of climbing right out my door!**
Point me in the direction of some climbs... share some routes...
Any Brevets in this neighborhood? Upstate NY? Montreal?
I did the Middlebury and App a few weeks ago:
70 miles in a loop starting in Waitsfield, VT.
7,500 feet of climbing - including the 2 passes, with gradients tipping to 20% on Appalachian Gap.
The Green Mountain Stage Race climbs over Middlebury and states in the race bible that the highest grade E-W is 18%.
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Charming Munich Apartment + Balcony
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The lovely apartment overlooks a quiet courtyard and boasts 3 double bedrooms with traditional wooden furniture. Parquet flooring and original stucco ceilings were maintained to keep the charm and character of the dignified building. The living room includes a double sofa bed and a dining area. There is a shower room and a WC.
Located in Maximilian Park, the Angel of Peace is just a 10-minute walk away. The English Garden can be reached within 5 minutes' journey by tram and is best known for its 4 beer gardens. Munich Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof) is just a 10-minute journey by underground (U-Bahn).
The surrounding neighbourhood features Prince Regent Square which hosts the Prince Regent Theatre, many galleries and a selection of restaurants and bars.
Nonsmoking apartment: smoking is strictly prohibited in the apartment and in the hallway. Pets are allowed only on request. Celebrations (birthdays, bachelor parties, New Year's, etc.) are not permitted in this apartment. If that is your intention please refrain to book this apartment. From 9:00 PM to 9:00 AM no loud music and no loud talking in the apartment and in the hallway are allowed. In the house live families with small children, elderly persons and people that need to wake up early. Should the police be called due to peace disturbing behavior, we reserve the right that you have to leave my premises immediately without refund. We ask for appropriate consideration and understanding, and then you are welcome in our apartment.
Important notice:
Although you never have to share the apartment with other guests, you might not have access to the whole apartment. Depending on the number of guests in your booking you will have access to a certain number of bedrooms. Bookings for 1-2 guests will get 1 bedroom prepared. Bookings for 3-4 guests will get 2 bedrooms prepared. Bookings for 5-6 guests get all three bedrooms prepared. Bookings for 7-8 guests get all three bedrooms prepared and the sofa bed in the living room will be prepared as a bed. The guest can get more bedrooms than the ones provided in the booking by paying a surcharge.
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Grße Altbauwohnung in guter Nähe zur Messe. Drei Schlafzimmer, wovon ein Schlafzimmer riesig ist. Die Küche ist klein und das Bad winzig.
Hermoso departamento,cómodo,buen diseño,cercano al metro.es tal como se describe,en una zona preciosa.Altamente recomendable.Gracias Alex por contribuir a una hermosa estancia en Munich.
Tolles Apartment! Sehr sauber und gut eingerichtet. Die Betten sind sehr komfortabel. Gerade 50m von der Ubahn Station entfernt. Man kann aber die Stadt auch sehr gut zu Fuß erreichen. Wir kommen gerne wieder.
We had a very enjoyable stay at Alex's apartment. We were a party of 6 and there was plenty of room for all of us. The apartment faces a quiet courtyard. It was clean and well-equipped and the beds were very comfortable. It was easy to communicate with Alex. We had a great stay and everything went so well for us during our visit to Munich!
Perfect size apartment for our family of 6. Clean and good facilities. Great location - close to transport, shops and restaurants.
Perfect location and lovely apartment! Very close to public transit (U Bahn) and exquisite building. Easy access to shopping and tourist locations. Grocery store just around the corner. On busy street but apartment is quiet and serene. Two wonderful balconies (one big one with table and four chairs) , onto private courtyard. We appreciated busy street as it is a safe location , good area of city and yet peacefully quiet. Alex is a wonderful, attentive host. I would definitely rent this unit again and highly recommend it, and Alex! Thank you for an excellent "home" while exploring beautiful Munich!
The apartment is spacious, clean and very quiet gelegen.Allerdings the bathroom is very, very close and at a urinal mounted point failed, because you keep accidentally pressed the flush.
The kitchen is quite small and not ideal for cooking.
At 6 adults a little logistics required.
We loved the nightly rest well.
Something has astonished us repeatedly pronounced in the week and the days prior to arrival Note on the house rules, both of Wimdu, as well as the lessor.
We are often tenants of apartments have, something not experienced in this form.
Die Wohnung ist geräumig, sauber und sehr ruhig gelegen.Allerdings ist das Bad sehr, sehr eng und ein Urinal an angebrachter Stelle nicht gelungen, da man ständig ungewollt die Wasserspülung betätigt.
Die Küche ist ebenfalls recht klein und lädt nicht zum Kochen ein.
Bei 6 Erwachsenen war ein wenig Logistik erforderlich.
Uns hat besonders die nächtliche Ruhe gut gefallen.
Etwas erstaunt hat uns ein mehrfach in der Woche und den Tagen vor der Anreise ausgesprochener Hinweis auf die Hausordnung, sowohl von Wimdu wie auch durch den Vermieter.
Wir sind häufig Mieter von Ferienwohnungen, haben so etwas in dieser Form noch nicht erfahren.
Dear Alex,
We have enjoyed our stay.
Many thanks for the great accommodation.
The following improvements could be considered.
Specify 1. Parking on a plan.
2. ensure WiFi availability in the whole house.
Kind regards and until next time!
Erkan Erdal
Lieber Alex,
Wir haben unseren Aufenthalt sehr genossen.
Besten Dank für den tollen Unterkunft.
Folgende Verbesserungen könnten überlegt werden.
1. Parkmöglichkeiten auf einem Plan angeben.
2. WiFi-Verfügbarkeit in der ganzen Wohnung sicherstellen.
Freundliche Grüsse und bis zum nächsten Mal!
Erkan Erdal
fully equipped accommodation, clean and spacious and very well located in a quiet area with metro stop 3minutes.
with good weather you can enjoy the back deck!
a pleasure to visit munich!
un alojamiento completamente equipado, limpio y espacioso y muy bien situado en una zona tranquila, con parada de metro a 3minutos.
con buen tiempo se puede disfrutar de la terraza posterior!
un placer para visitar munich!
The apartment did what they promised and offered sleeps 8 people, the access to the apartment was well organized, in short: Highly Recommended!
Die Wohnung hielt was sie versprach und bot Schlafplätze für 8 Personen, der Zugang zur Wohnung war gut organisiert, kurzum: Absolut empfehlenswert!
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ROBINSONVILLE, Miss. -- Cell phone-based technology is saving Stan Jones dollars, miles and, importantly, a lot of hours heŌĆÖd otherwise be spending during the growing season checking on irrigation pumps.
The Walnut Ridge, Ark., producer who had 5,000 acres of rice and 2,000 acres of soybeans last year, 100 percent irrigated, uses 40 pumping units to water all those fields. Additionally, he has five 10,000-gallon per minute relift systems moving river water to several large fields, including one thatŌĆÖs 700 acres.
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In addition to reducing the number of trips to check on pumps, Jones says, the system helps him to make more rapid repairs and reduce downtime, which lessens problems that occur from losing a head of water and then getting the field covered again.
The system can also shut down pumps remotely ŌĆö and with electric motors, can also turn them on. But Jones doesnŌĆÖt use the feature on his turbocharged diesel engines because ŌĆ£itŌĆÖs hard on them when they shut down.ŌĆØ
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The monitoring systems are ŌĆ£a great management tool that has helped my production and saved me a lot of miles, hours, headaches, and money.
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Jones, whoŌĆÖs been farming for 32 years, was one of the first producers in his area to adopt no-till for rice. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖve been doing it for 20 years now, and it has brought significant reductions in production costs. Land in our area can make 200-bushel rice, but I donŌĆÖt know a farmer who made money last year, and I could probably count on one hand all those who managed to break even.ŌĆØ
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lube for food slicer
what type of lube do you put on a food slicer
Mineral oil or best--get food service oil at a restaurant supply house.
Mineral oil needs to be applied more often as it gets gummy after a while.--Mike--
what are you lubricating?
If there is any chance of food contamination, it would have to be food safe.
and just to help things; what brand and model is the machine? It might be helpful in determining if there is some specific lube required.
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CROSBY, N.D. (AP) — A crash in northwestern North Dakota involving a semitrailer and a motorcycle has killed an Oregon man.
The Highway Patrol says 45-year-old Shanon Wodskow of Terrebonne, Ore., was trying to pass the semi on his motorcycle on state Highway 5 west of Crosby when the semi turned left in front of him onto another road.
The crash happened about 4:15 p.m. Sunday. The driver of the semi was not hurt and was not charged.


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Amid all the action of Crankworx, we spotted some hot new bars, helmets, tires and other components—Lou Mazzante and Matt Phillips
2014 Mountain Bike Gear Unveiled at Crankworx
Schwalbe Magic Mary
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We also spotted this "First Ride" prototype of a 27.5-inch Schwalbe Magic Mary with the company's Super Gravity (SG) casing on Carl Decker's Giant Anthem Advanced during the enduro race. The SG casing uses four layers of rubber on the sides, as well as Schwalbe's Snake Skin reinforcement, to protect against cuts. But it uses just two layers under the tread, which keeps weight low and the tire supple.
The 27.5-inch, tubeless ready Magic Mary SG weighs 1,025g, about 75 grams less than the 29-inch version. That's not light, but ditching tubes cuts 400 grams per tire, compared to the same tire with a full downhill casing and tubes. Schwalbe also will use the SG casing on the Dirty Dan spiked mud tire, the all-conditions Hans Dampf, and the Rock Razor, a low-knob tread designed for slicing through dry dirt.
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Kinki Osaka Bank Ltd. will replace the cars and minibikes employees use to visit clients with a fleet of 220 electric bicycles by the end of September, hoping to cut costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Although some delivery firms have started replacing vehicles with electric bicycles, it is rare for a financial company to introduce them on such a large scale.
Kinki Osaka, a subsidiary of Resona Holdings Inc., had purchased 30 Eneloop bikes from Sanyo Electric Co. by the end of June and will expand its fleet further by the end of September.
It will slash the number of minibikes from 350 to 130, cars from 90 to four and minicars from 250 to 170.
With the planned replacement, the bank is expected to cut ¥47 million in fuel costs a year and reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 290 tons annually.
The Osaka-based bank also aims to focus on local clients it may not have visited as frequently as it could have.


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I need to extract PID, UID and command fields from 'ps' and I have tried it like this:
ps -L u n | cut -f 1,2,13
For some reason, this behaves as there is no cut command whatsoever. It just returns normal ps output. Then, I tried
ps -L u n | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 1,2,13 and this returns total nonsense. Then, I tried playing with it and with this:
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Radio8Ball is a weekly musical divination show hosted by Andras Jones. On the air, Jones randomly grabs a CD, puts it in the player, chooses "shuffle" and lets the musical piece guide him as he answers questions from listeners across the world. Jones believes there's the hand of some invisible disc jockey at work when he's on-air.
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A Mixed Methods Study of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Labor and Delivery Nurses
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To determine the prevalence and severity of secondary traumatic stress in labor and delivery (L&D) nurses and to explore nurses' descriptions of their experiences attending traumatic births.
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A random sample of 464 L&D nurses obtained from the membership list of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) participated in this mail survey.
In the quantitative approach of this mixed methods study, participants completed the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale. For the qualitative approach, the nurses were asked to describe their experiences being present at a traumatic childbirth.
In this sample, 35% of the L&D nurses reported moderate to severe levels of secondary traumatic stress. Content analysis of the participants' descriptions of being present at traumatic births revealed six themes: (a) magnifying the exposure to traumatic births, (b) struggling to maintain a professional role while with traumatized patients, (c) agonizing over what should have been, (d) mitigating the aftermath of exposure to traumatic births, (e) haunted by secondary traumatic stress symptoms, and (f) considering foregoing careers in L&D to survive.
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Unfortunately, it seems like not all people in this world share the same passion for dogs that I do. Hundreds upon thousands of dogs are abandoned each year and end up either dead or in shelters, and many more suffer at the hands of neglectful or abusive owners. Fortunately, we have organizations such as the SPCA around to speak out and help these animals. However, it's recently come to my attention that not all shelters treat certain breeds of dogs the same.
As their press release so eloquently puts it, "2008's 'Best New Bar in Cincinnati' slowly died three weeks ago, and no one seemed to notice. From being consistently full of thirsty bohemian patrons and hosting national up-and-coming bands (Vampire Weekend played a week before their debut on SNL) to a potted-plant-ridden empty mess—The Gypsy Hut's rise and fall was about as meteoric as MC Hammer's. … Luckily, two devoted Northsiders have been working feverishly to reopen and restore the bar to its former glory and more."
Get your glue guns ready, ya'll, because the Crafty Supermarket's about to take over the Northside Tavern. That's right. Your local watering hole (generally full of tight-pantsed drunks at night) will be hosting an indie craft show on Saturday afternoon (noon-6 p.m.) with handmade fine art, recycled goods, home decor, jewelry, children's items, stationery and more.
The masterminds behind this DIY dream are local writer/editor/crafter Grace Dobush and recent DAAP grad/sustainable shoemaker Alisha Budkie. The duo will be bringing together over 20 craft vendors from Cincinnati and the Midwest for a fair inspired by the likes of Renegade Chicago. Along with shopping opportunities there will be "swag bags" for the first 50 shoppers, music from PROJECTMILL, food from Dojo Gelato and others, and a Make It! table where attendees can get crafty with the BYOProjectors (read about them here).
CityBeat recently had a little e-mail exchange with Dobush, whose book, Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash and Basically Have It All, is about to be released, about the Crafty Supermarket.
CityBeat: What is the Crafty Supermarket?
Grace Dobush: Crafty Supermarket is an indie craft show, or a Rock & Roll craft show, which is more appropriate since it's in Northside. This is not your standard high-school auditorium, church-basement craft show: We're having music by PROJECTMILL, rad food from local vendors and 20 hip crafters who will be selling the stuff they make. No packaged stuff, no commercial stuff, no lame stuff—just arts and crafts!
CB: Why are you having a craft show? What's the goal?
GD: My goal is to solidify the craft scene in Cincinnati a bit. There are a ton of really talented crafters and artists here, but none of us seem to know each other! My co-organizer, Alisha, and I had never met until we were in Washington D.C. at the Summit of Awesome (a craft summit organized by the ladies who put on Crafty Bastards, a humongous indie craft show). We really wished there was an indie craft event in Cincinnati, and eventually we realized that we should step up and do it ourselves! It's either the DIY mentality kicking in or a pretty solid sense of masochism, I'm not sure which.
CB: You seem to be an indie craft guru. What is your crafting experience? What inspires you to craft? What crafts do you make/specialize in?
GD: That's the first time I've heard that one! I've just been crafting a long-ass time. I've been printmaking since I was a teenager and then took a course on bookbinding my freshman year of college. It just kind of snowballed after that, and I sought out like-minds on the internet. Right around 2000 was a turning point for indie craft... it got a name, the indie craft shows started coming out, and all the movers and shakers were on these craft message boards and got to know each other. Some of the folks I know from those boards back in the day I ended up interviewing for my book, Crafty Superstar.
I'm not a full-time crafter (I'm a magazine editor and writer by trade) but I love connecting with people and talking to people. There are plenty of crafters who are much more successful than me at being a business, but I saw a lot of word-of-mouth information that hadn't been collected anywhere else. And my book was born!
CB: What role does crafting play in our modern world, so to speak? Why is it important?
GD: I think the popularity of craft is a direct backlash to the super-industrialized big-box shopping culture. People are starting to see the value in knowing exactly where the things they buy come from, and there's nothing better than finding an object you absolutely love and getting to talk to the person who made it. Of course, big-box stores recognize that this aesthetic is totally hot, so you see crafty-ish knockoffs for sale that are probably handmade... but by child laborers who may or may not be working against their will.
There are also a pretty big number of crafters who focus on using sustainable, local and/or recycled materials. And of course, when you support an indie artist, you are directly supporting your local economy. I can almost guarantee the $10 you spend at Crafty Supermarket will turn around and get spent on bus fare for the Metro, dinner at Melt or drinks at the Tavern later.
CB: What vendors will be on hand at the market?
GD: We've got a really wide range of crafters—selected from almost 70 applications, which just blew us away. The crafters make jewelry, paper goods, housewares, kid's stuff, clothing, art, knit things—all sorts of stuff. We also tried to get a balance of crafters in terms of wanting this to represent Cincinnati crafters—about three-quarters of the vendors are from the Cincinnati region. And although we have a lot of vendors who are old hands at the indie craft sale thing, we also wanted to make sure to bring in some folks who are doing a show for the first time, because once upon a time, we were the newbies.
CB: What sort of crafts will attendees be able to make at the Make It! Table?
GD: We've got a really random assortment of supplies and guest curation by the crafty people from BYOProject, which is a crafty collective that meets at Happen Inc. in Northside once a month. It's an anything-goes kind of craft situation, but specifically we've got paper to make your own album cover (12-inch, of course), and little paperboard albums that you can decorate to make your own storybook or draw a demented family album. Whatev!
CB: Will this become an annual event? Do you have any other events planned for the future?
GD: From the very beginning Alisha and I have kept saying stuff like "Next year, we are so doing X and Y," or "Next year, we are never doing Z again." It's just felt kind of natural that this would roll into being an annual event. Plus, since the response has been so huge (our Facebook event has 130 guests at this point) that it would be a shame to never do it again!
We don't have any more events planned immediately—we need some recovery time!—but at this point we're totally planning to do something even bigger for next fall. The late fall is primo craft sale time because people are much more willing to spend money to buy gifts for other people. It's pretty safe to say you'll see Crafty Supermarket again next fall.
If Mark Twain was right about Cincinnati being 10 years behind the times nearly a century ago, it would be safe to expect the Industrial Revolution and Internet age by now to have dropped our fair city even further behind society's advancements.
If the Oct. 8 Cincinnati Bike Plan open house at the McKie Recreation Center in Northside is an indication that Cincinnati is finally sincere about promoting bicycles as a legitimate transportation option, that would put us approximately 40 years behind the most progressive American cities in this regard. But it's better late than never, according to the nearly 100 people who showed up to participate in the information-gathering session with city engineers and design groups currently working on the city's first comprehensive bike plan since 1976.
I guess it was only a matter of time. The Shit Girls Say viral phenomenon has sparked hundreds of knock-offs: Shit Black Guys Say, Shit Girls Say to Gay Guys, Shit Nobody Says are among my favorites. Now, we have our own.
Most of us can agree that this Issue 9 business has become a total mess. If passed, this charter amendment won't necessarily stop the streetcar line from being constructed, but it will force a vote before city leaders can spend money on it. It will also force votes on all other rail spending — including regional high-speed trains that Barack Obama wants built. Issue 9 is anti-Obama!
Living with the Amish is a documentary-style show originally aired on UK's Channel 4 in 2011. In that first season, six British teenagers (three boys, three girls) flew across the pond to live with Amish families in Ohio and Pennsylvania. This time, producers have teamed up with A&E for an all-American version.
"Having spent the last three years working with the Amish we have found them to have great wisdom and compassion in the difficult task of raising a family and this is something we will focus on in the new American series. We are therefore looking for families that feel they could learn something from the Amish lifestyle and way of parenting. For example, a single mother struggling to maintain discipline and authority in her household, or parents worried that their teenage son might be at risk of making poor life choices, or a daughter rebelling against her parents' authority. We hope that the time with the Amish will open their eyes to a different way of thinking and will be a positive and enriching experience for all those involved."
Still kicking yourself over missing all the Twilight action during July's Comic-Con International in San Diego?
Well fear not, fanpires, because the Official Twilight Convention is coming to Cincinnati!
Whether you're Team Edward or Team Jacob (Spoiler Alert: neither of them will be there), The Hyatt Regency Downtown is the spot to be Saturday and Sunday for all hardcore Twilight fans. The weekend will include contests, web panels, auctions, music, parties and costumes on mannequins.
Of course, a film saga convention would be nothing without celebrity appearances. Twilight stars making a stop in Cincy include Tinsel Korey (Emily), Boo Boo Stewart (werewolf Seth Clearwater), Kiowa Gordon (werewolf Embry Call), Charlie Bewley (vamp Demetri) and Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen).
Wait a minute…Mike Dexter is Edward's dad?
He's come a long way since idolizing Trip McNeely.
OK, honestly, I've never seen more than a preview for Twilight, so I'm not going to rage about how bad it sucks (see what I did there?) and how cray-cray the fans are. But I must say, the fan photos aren't making a good case for Twi-hards.
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rabidly crazy fans barreling full-speed toward puberty us normal people for a weekend. Apparently these stars will even allow fans to hug:
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The convention runs all day and night Saturday and Sunday starting around 11 a.m. Day passes are $20 and weekend packages run from $39-$219. Autographs, photos, breathing the same air as Peter Facinelli, etc. all are an additional cost. Go here to get the full schedule and ticket info for the convention. And full disclosure, if this was a True Blood convention with supporting characters from the show, I'd be frothing at the mouth like the rest of these crazy bitches.


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I have bought this series of books for my sons to keep them learning through the summer months. We set aside an hour twice a week to do some "homework" from these books and they actually look forward to it. I buy the next grade level so that they will be challenged and ready for school in the fall. I am actually at Overstock ordering the books for this summer today because my 6 year old reminded that I had not bought them yet! Like I said, they really like them! They do a couple of pages each time and seem to like the format, maybe because it is different from what they have a school, but still keeps up with what they should be working on! Bright and colorful pages make the "homework" inviting.


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OU men's basketball gains first commitment for 2010 recruiting class; combo guard T.J. Taylor
Oklahoma may now have a replacement for Willie Warren, should he decide to jump to the NBA after next season. The Sooners gained their first commitment to the 2010 recruiting class Tuesday, with Texas combo guard T.J. Taylor of Denison giving his pledge to OU, according to Rivals.com. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Taylor picked the Sooners over Arizona State and Marquette, among others. Warren strongly considered turning pro this spring, before passing on a chance to skip to the NBA. The lure is likely to only intensify a year from now. Under such a scenario, Taylor would seem to fit as a natural replacement, not only as a near identical size match, but in style as well. "I see myself playing the role of a playmaker," Taylor told Rivals. "I can score when I need to, and I also like to pass the basketball." Taylor also said he was attracted by OU coach Jeff Capel. "Coach Capel was a great player at Duke and was a 6-3 guard like me," Taylor said. "He knows what it takes to be a pro and he can develop me." Taylor averaged 26 points a game as junior at Denison. According to Rivals, Taylor also held offers from Arizona State, Marquette, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU and Iowa State. OU still has one scholarship to give in the 2009 class, due to the departure of Blake Griffin to the NBA.


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Two snapshots from 27 years of Padgetts at Pinehurst:
The first one is from the spring of 1987. Don Padgett Sr., the new director of golf at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, is having lunch in the resort clubhouse and talking about bringing his four-plus decades of experience as a club professional and national officer of the PGA of America to his job at Pinehurst, now just three years into the ownership regime of Robert Dedman Sr. and his ClubCorp empire. Padgett is wearing a white dress shirt, necktie and cardigan sweater.
"This is a multi-million-dollar operation, and I'm administering that business," he says. "I need to look the part."
"I can feel my dad's spirit in here. It's kind of like coming full circle." -Don Padgett II
After lunch, he walks to the driving range, dubbed "Maniac Hill" many years earlier for the fervor with which golfers of all rank and file search for the Holy Grail of the golf swing. Padgett surveys the array of golfers striking balls in early spring sunshine and says, "Anyone important in golf has hit balls right here. If you're a golfer and can't get excited at this, you need to take up tennis."
The second is from his son, Don II, in the spring of 2010, seven years after his father's death and six into taking the reins as the president and COO of Pinehurst. The club is two months into a daring and admittedly risky restoration of Pinehurst No. 2, the idea hatched by Padgett and the project headlined by removing some 40 acres of grass and re-exposing the natural hardpan sand and unkempt look the course's designer, Donald Ross, so embraced in the early 1900s. Recently Padgett's office has been peppered in the height of the spring golf season with complaints that the resort isn't taking proper care of this national treasure, when it fact it was simply in the early stages of retrofitting and rediscovering what Ross left upon his death in 1948.
"I can take the heat," Padgett says. "I can sleep because when I lay my head on the pillow, I know we're doing the right thing."


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We all think we know what it is to have been a pupil. Accounts of that experience abound—fictional, autobiographical, historical, anthropological, poetic, and prosaic. Tangentially there is a substantial literature relating to teachers, much of it filtered through the writers' own memories of fear, humiliation, confusion, unhappiness or, more rarely, self-confidence and success. Some autobiographies and biographies also document the experience of being a teacher and in some of them, teachers (or sympathetic observers) have written accounts of their work. Many of these make good reading; they are touching, humorous, gently-barbed, and evangelical (of a particular educational style or mode). Less appealing to the general public is the mounting literature on teachers written by sociologists and teacher educators. This falls into three categories: books which are directly or indirectly about the classroom work of teachers; those which consider teachers in staffrooms and classrooms as part of case studies of schools; and those which focus on teachers' lives and careers. All of them draw to a greater or lesser extent upon interviews with teachers or on notes of staff room talk, some on classroom observation. Yet very few attempt to portray, as much as any outsider can, an insider's account of teaching. Moreover, with very few exceptions, books and articles published in the past 20 years in England, North America and Australia have been about secondary schools. Primary teachers have been given little opportunity to speak for themselves.
Two books (Gibson, 1973; Huggett, 1986) and the analysis of an open-ended questionnaire survey (Primary School Research and Developmental Group, 1986) do give verbatim accounts by English teachers, some of them primary. These accounts begin to present a living picture of what teaching is like for those who practise it. None of them is, however, set within a theoretical framework which might provide practitioners, parents and decision-makers with a more generalized understanding of primary teachers and the ways in which they experience their work. Nor does any of them consider how teachers or their thinking might change over time.


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Update on OlegOleg sells bicycles and spare parts for them. He needs a loan for the purchase of a batch of spare parts for bicycles: Chains, spokes as well as wheels and tires.
Oleg is a decent and hardworking man, he is never late on payments and he always pays his loan back on time.
Previous Loan DetailsOleg sells bicycles and their parts in a retail outlet that is very advantageously located. His wife helps him with his business. Oleg offers a huge selection of products that are in constant demand from the local populace. Presently, he needs additional funds from Kiva in order to bring in a new... More from Oleg's previous loan »
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About HOPE UkraineHOPE International, a Christian faith-based non-profit organization, has been operating in Ukraine since 1997. HOPE Ukraine was the organization's first international venture. In addition to its core microfinance activities, HOPE also supports an active children's ministry in Ukraine in the form of "Tomorrow Clubs," after-school programs that teach children the gospel through games, skits and songs.
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Where Are the Copy Editors? November 2, 2015Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing.
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As I read Internet comments (forgive me) on news stories, I commonly see that some posts that rail against poor grammar or typos. Where are the copy editors, they ask, in their own superiority of the English grammar.
Well, this isn't a hard one. Copy editors existed when we published, whether daily, weekly, or monthly, for an audience that would pay for content. Remember when you bought a newspaper? I didn't think so. That business model is so dead.
And that is a big part of the problem. The cost structure of today's online news outlets does not permit an army of copy editors to read and mark up editorial copy before it is published. And that puts additional pressure on the writers to get it right the first time. Because we want to see it now, not when on the daily printing cycle.
It's really not a problem, except for the pedantic and inflexible among us. We should recognize that getting real time news, without actually, well, paying for it, is at the expense of other considerations. By and large, those considerations are on the order of getting news out quickly, with accuracy and grammar taking a back seat.
At the same time, I curse the poor grammar and inexplicable typos of the 20-somethings who are minimally-paid assistant writers and editors charged with putting significant and often breaking news online. At the same time, I realize that, even with their level of experience, they should be better. I still have a screen capture of a horribly-formed CNN narrative that purportedly exposed a significant headline story about the auto company "Suburu"; except of course that the company is Subaru.
That is inexcusable, and I hope that the writer and editor involved in that fiasco were summarily fired. Except that I doubt it, because to do so would require them to bring onboard other junior and poorly paid editorial people who are not up to this simple task.
And that is the real tragedy here. Our news outlets could do better, even with the talent that is available. Most reporters and editors were never well paid, yet often felt a sense of obligation to get this story right. But those outlets show no desire to do so. As our news could be better, much better in some cases, if they would take an interest in selecting and developing their talent. I do not believe that they are doing so.
Because of my significant background in tech publishing, I have an interest in publishing in general. I think I have an understanding of the issues here, and also think that our news outlets are doing it wrong. Very wrong.
I Learned to Type on a Manual Underwood August 28, 2014Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing, Technology and Culture.
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I realize I'm seriously dating myself, but there is a point to this story. At a time when typing was a part of the high school "business track" pursued largely by aspiring secretaries, I was convinced by a friend to use my only open period in my second semester senior year (when I should have been coasting to graduation) to take a course in personal typing. It turned out that I did reasonably well (around 40 words per minute, touch-typing).
I had a typewriter through college, that one an inexpensive electric. In my offices in the 1980s, I had ready access to the ubiquitous IBM Selectric models that made typing easy (as long as you had Wite-Out). I got my first computer (yes, an original Apple Macintosh, which I still own and still boots) in the mid-1980s, and didn't need Wite-Out any more.
Of course, fast forward ten years or so, and personal computers are emerging as a force in business, and traditional secretaries have largely disappeared. And if you didn't know how to touch type, or at least use all fingers (except the left thumb, as my high school typing teacher told us), you were largely left behind in this emerging world. Some learned in mid-career, but most never became that proficient. Today, if you don't type reasonably fast, there are far fewer paths to becoming a professional.
The main point is that you never know what skills you need to move through life. I have certainly written millions of words for work and for pleasure, and the vast majority of those have been written on typewriter or computer. Without the fundamental skills I acquired in an otherwise nondescript existence at Hopewell High School in the mid-1970s, this thing I joking refer to as my career would have stymied long ago.
What is the skill needed by upcoming generations? In general, I don't think it's the ability to navigate social networks. But if I can draw upon my own past (which may not be a good vision of the future), typing is a very exacting skill; you either get it right or you don't. I suspect that it will be more of the same concept in the future. Getting the right answer, or getting the process exactly right, will predominate the skills needed as young workers attempt to enter and advance in the workforce.
The other point is a minor but telling one. When typing using a fixed-space font (such as the IBM Elite), the rule was that every sentence ended with a <period-space-space>. Today, I am given to understand that with proportional fonts such as Times New Roman, the separation between sentences is only a single space.
Yet I can't bring myself to do that. I tell myself that I need the double space in order to gather my thoughts before beginning the next sentence, but the fact of the matter is that it seems to be ingrained into my psyche. For those I have inflicted with my <period-space-space> mentality, I'm sorry, but it will not change.
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I Pushed the Button June 18, 2014Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing.
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While I spend much of my time advocating and evangelizing for technology, software development, testing, and the application lifecycle, I have an enthusiastic avocation, that of a mystery novelist. I simply find freedom and mental escape in building my own worlds, creating complex puzzles, and interacting with the characters I create.
It has been a long time coming, but last night I pushed the button to self-publish my novel Dead Code to the Amazon Kindle platform. As the title implies, it's a tech mystery surrounding a series of murders at a fledgling software company. It weighs in at about 107,000 words, and will be available for download on Amazon for $2.99 US, or the equivalent in other currencies (Amazon sets those prices based on applicable exchange rates).
Dead Code was substantially finished about ten years ago, but I have only recently dusted it off, cleaned it up, and updated it for publishing.
Self-publishing is a challenge, but unless you are an established author, or a brilliant writer, or have a benefactor or simply very good luck, it is probably the best way of getting known as a new author. Now I have to get to work marketing it, which is the real challenge for any author, whether independently published or published with an established publishing company.
I'll have the link to Dead Code up on my website in a day or two. In the meantime, you can read the first three chapters there. I have other works coming, in time, but certainly less than another ten years.
I May Need a Kindle February 15, 2013Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing, Software platforms.
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I don't have anything against a Kindle. Amazon is the world's largest bookstore, the Kindles generally get decent reviews, and the company has released its ebook format so that others can adopt it.
The latter, of course, was my biggest concern about Kindle and Amazon, and it's been over a year, and I'm seeing an increasing number of sites (I mean you, Gutenberg Project) making out-of-copyright books available in the format for free download.
I have a Barnes and Noble superstore down the street, and while I don't browse that much anymore, there is a certain comfort in knowing that I still can.
But more and more interesting books are coming out in electronic, rather than paper form. And more and more are coming out on the Kindle first, and ePub later, if at all. I have already bought one book that is only available on a Kindle, and am considering two others.
I suppose I can get a tablet, and use the Kindle reader. For the Kindle books I have bought so far, that's what I do, on my laptop. But I'm unready to commit to a tablet, wanting to see a little more maturity in the market before I make a selection (it probably won't be an iPad; I just can't see buying into the Apple ecosystem).
But I fear that this trend portends larger issues for Nook, and Barnes and Noble in general. Authors are increasingly going to ebook formats only. That's a good thing, because it's increasingly difficult to get a paper book published without going the self-publishing route. There is nothing inherently wrong with self-publishing, but it does mean that authors are also their own marketers and publicists, which most would prefer not to do.
For those who are seeking an inexpensive way of getting interesting work out to a small audience, the ebook is a natural. But there is a cost and time commitment to place an ebook in multiple formats on multiple reading platforms. Some authors prefer supporting a single platform only. Given that Amazon and Kindle have the majority of sales and readers (65 percent? I've heard various figures that give about two-thirds to Amazon, slightly less than 30 percent to Nook, and a smattering elsewhere.), authors want their works to reach that majority.
As more individual authors make the decision to support the most popular platform, more readers will move to that platform. There will always likely be a place for an alternative, but the best and most interesting work will appear on Kindle, and readers will follow them.
Is E-Reading a Dead End? January 8, 2013Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing.
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Nicholas Carr is the smartest consistently wrong person that I am aware of. He may be contrarian because there is a lot more publicity in being spectacularly wrong than boringly right, but he's still wrong.
You may remember him from his decade-ago tome entitled "IT Doesn't Matter". The thesis was that IT did the same thing for every company, and no one had a competitive advantage, so it didn't matter in the success of a business.
He was wrong, of course. Amazon is a case in point. IT is very much a competitive advantage to those who use it right, and that is impossible to deny today. Why else do we have Facebook? And why is Amazon steamrolling over both online and offline competition?
Still, it made a name for this Harvard Business School professor, and he seems to have found a way of keeping himself relevant through provocative but strongly misguided conclusions.
Well, he's at it again. Now he's into e-reading, claiming that it will be a complement to paper books, not a replacement. Certainly, his data offers pause, as he notes that e-books sales have slowed, and weren't that large a part of the reading market to begin with. I can appreciate this straw man idea.
But he once again doesn't take into account the longer trend, rather focusing on a shorter-term blip. Paper remains expensive, and the longer trend is toward low-cost delivery mechanisms. Paper is also slow, and we are increasingly a society that values speed in our information.
And he offers no justification as to why paper may ultimately win out. That's even worse than the silly justifications I hear from my former colleagues in publishing; the best they can muster is that "they like the feel of paper in their hands." That's just stupid.
Carr isn't stupid, but there's no substance behind his argument.
Apps Won't Save Publishing May 13, 2012Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing, Technology and Culture.
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What is it about the publishing industry that makes it so resistant to radical change? Despite the clarity of changes surrounding the environment in which publishing operates, there has been little effective effort at transforming publishing in response. According to one source, newspaper circulation and revenues continue on a downward trajectory.
There have been some successes at the edges, with a few digital models working adequately. But MIT's fabled Technology Review honestly recounts its unfavorable experience with its digital app, demonstrating that simply porting your paper (or HTML) version to an iOS or Android app is both expensive and unsatisfying for both readers and advertisers. Ultimately, Technology Review dropped its app entirely.
There is certainly some question as to whether Technology Review approached the app question correctly, and whether it executed the strategy well, but this unusually frank commentary provides a picture that is probably pretty typical of the thought and effort a traditionally print publication might put into an app version.
I don't think publishing professionals are any less smart than those in other industries that have had better success in adapting. But there does seem to be a lack of imagination on how to leverage one or more digital platforms as both a reading and advertising platform. Or how to find significant revenue streams outside of the advertising realm. Until this happens, I think we had better prepare ourselves for the day when we as a society can't afford an independent news and information service in the digital realm.
The Encyclopedia Britannica Has Gone Out of Print March 17, 2012Posted by Peter Varhol in Education, Publishing, Technology and Culture.
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Kid Dynamite noted that the 2010 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica will be the last one printed. According to the publisher, only 12,000 sets were printed, and only 8000 sold so far, for the somewhat lofty price of $1,395 a set. At its height, in the early 1990s, 120,000 copies were sold. About half a million households pay a $70 annual fee for the online subscription.
This article largely lays the blame at the feet of the wisdom of crowds in general and Wikipedia in particular. While Encyclopedia Britannica disagrees, at least one study has found that the number of factual errors between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica were similar.
But accuracy is only one part of the equation. Encyclopedia strive for a neutral tone, but the Wikipedia reader is still getting discussion pages that often carry out a debate on facts and perceived bias. It shows you the seamy underside of the so-called pure information presented in books.
I grew up learning facts that seemed to be more-or-less black and white. As my education progressed, the facts became less absolute and more nuanced, and I gradually learned that the truth was considerably more ambiguous than had first been presented to me. But it was a learning process that took years. I wonder if my learning would have been accelerated if I had access to multiple points of view earlier in the educational process.
Print encyclopedias hold a special place to me. As a youth with limited educational and experiential opportunities, I read encyclopedias – the ones my parents managed to acquire on a very limited budget, and after I obtained my driver's license, those that were available through the local Carnegie Public Library in the western Pennsylvania steel town in which I was raised.
Reading encyclopedias didn't make me a better person, but it did make me a different one. I don't regret the passing of print information such as the Encyclopedia Britannica. In fact, when information first became available on products such as Microsoft Encarta, I marveled that I no longer had to read sequentially. Instead, hyperlinks took me to related information far afield of the original topic, providing a sense of discovery that I didn't experience in reading encyclopedias.
The Future of Advertising and Privacy February 25, 2012Posted by Peter Varhol in Publishing, Technology and Culture.
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I've always hated dependence on advertising revenue. When I was in publishing, that's how we made our money, and I always thought it to be a cheap and fickle revenue stream. I am, however, smart enough to know that I didn't have any actionable ideas to improve upon it. Publishers in effect leased out their mailing lists to companies that wanted people on those lists to buy their products.
In short, the mailing list was the publisher's product – our names and addresses, specifically. Early on (Byte, PC World), the volume of advertising was based entirely on numbers – hundreds of thousands, or even millions, who subscribed to these publications. We didn't know very much about them, but advertisers liked the numbers.
Somewhere in the latter part of the 1990s, advertisers became more discerning. It wasn't enough to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the subscribers view a succession of full-page ads. We needed to know if they had the potential to consider purchasing our product or service.
Now we have Facebook. The goal of Facebook is "frictionless sharing", meaning that every single activity of our lives is available for sharing online. Yes, everything we do. In fact, Zuckerberg once famously claimed that if we didn't want some information about us public, we must be engaged in something inappropriate.
Robert Scoble loves Facebook and the concept of frictionless sharing, but he acknowledges that there is a "freaky line", as he calls it. The freaky line is the point at which we get freaked out by what we expose to others.
He notes that Facebook routinely crosses the line, possibly to determine just where it is for many of us at that particular moment, so that it can gauge just how much information it can routinely share about its users. For some reason, despite the mountains of criticism, users just keep coming back to Facebook.
I have a few takeaways from the ongoing debate about publishing, social media and privacy.
- Nothing will ever completely replace advertising as a media business model. A few people will pay enough for certain types of content to be able to have a niche business, but that's about it.
- Print publications were never free twenty years ago, and social media isn't free today. We're paying for them with our information.
- We as individuals don't own the data on ourselves that we provide or otherwise make available to social media sites. The best we can hope for is to someday have visitation rights.
- This disclosure of information to advertisers is simply the next step in a long history of exchanging our information for value of some sort. Nothing new here, folks. With about 200,000 (give or take on any particular day) hits on my name on Google, I have long since abdicated any notion that I remain anonymous.
My problem with social media is not really any of this, per se. I may have privacy in my own home (well, until I installed the IP camera last month), but I can't count on no notice once I leave the house.
My problem is that I don't really care what my friends and acquaintances are doing at any particular moment, what music they are listening to, what TV shows they are watching, or what bar they are at. I simply don't have the time to wonder about it, let alone track them through social media. I marvel at people who do, and wonder what they are losing in the quest to have such knowledge.
I think the Toyota Venza commercial of last year hit the nail on the head here.


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