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Paul Doty's Legacy Lives on Through Influential Journal
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Spring 2012
Author: James F. Smith, Former Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Quarterly Journal: International Security
As soon as Paul Doty launched what is now Harvards Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 1974, he began planning a scholarly journal on international security. He shrugged off colleagues concerns that there would be little market for such a journal.
Thirty-six years after the first issue appeared in the summer of 1976, the Belfer Centers quarterly International Security consistently ranks No. 1 or No. 2 out of over 70 international affairs journals surveyed by Thomson Reuters each year. In the latest issue, articles by Nuno Monteiro and Michael Beckley have set the scholarly blogosphere abuzz, debating unipolarity and U.S. decline.
International Security is one of the proudest and liveliest legacies of Doty, who died in December at the age of 91. Founding co-editor Michael Nacht, reflecting on Dotys determination to redefine the global agenda on science and security policy, said, I honestly believe that Pauls vision has been fully realized. And the journal is a central pillar of that vision.
Dotys journal long ago silenced the doubters: IS is deluged with submissions; nearly 300 authors submit articles annually vying for about 20 slots per year.
It helps to have one of the most knowledgeable and experienced editorial teams anywhere. Editor-in-chief Steven E. Miller, who also directs the Belfer Center's International Security Program (ISP), joined the journal in 1979, and coeditor Sean Lynn-Jones arrived in 1987. Owen R. Coté, a former Belfer Center research fellow and now assistant director of MITs Security Studies Program, has been coeditor since 1993. Managing editor Diane McCree is the newcomer she joined a mere 15 years ago.
Miller said that in envisioning the journal, Doty saw a niche opportunity and went for it 100 percent. He didnt try to copy existing publications.
Doty declined advice to call the journal National Security because he believed the still-emerging field of international security needed scholarship to assess complex policy questions such as nuclear weapons and arms control. Nacht said: Paul was not a nationalist. He wanted to help humankind.
While the journal is certainly scholarly, it insists on clarity and readability. As Lynn-Jones put it, We dont hesitate to edit or rewrite to make articles accessible. We get rid of the jargon. We have a clear introduction, a roadmap paragraph, a conclusion, and a point.
Miller added: Even for the most scholarly articles, we are always sensitive to the so what question. What impact will it have for the real world?
For example, Monteiro, a Yale professor, challenged the notion that a unipolar world has led to a decline in violent conflict. His article prompted a cover story in the Boston Globes Sunday Ideas section.
Beckleys article questioning American decline had similar impact. Heres a huge debate on U.S. decline and he comes in and takes a big swing at a big question, and he frames the debate in an important new way, Miller said.
The National Interest magazine said of Beckleys article: This is an important and notable piece that shows how rigorous academic research can inform our understanding of major policy debates.
It wasnt surprising that the journal featured work by Beckley, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and an ISP Fellow. I dont think the journal has ever hesitated to publish a young, unknown scholar who has produced excellent work, said Lynn-Jones. Weve had a lot of first articles by people who went on to become very prominent.
Miller added: This is very much in keeping with Paul Dotys legacy that he wanted a vehicle to develop the next generation of scholars in the field.
Stephen Walt, for example, wrote a breakthrough journal article, Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power, in 1985. Walt is now a Kennedy School professor and faculty chair of the ISP.
The journals impact goes beyond the printed copies and online version. IS articles are frequently used in university courses across the country. The program also publishes thematic collections of journal articles called IS Readers.
The ISP fellowships are another Doty legacy. The ISP hosts more than 40 fellows every year, and the program has had nearly 600 fellows since 1973 (Miller was a fellow from 1977-79).
With the fellows program, we are one of the primary arbiters of young talent in the field, Miller said. And with the journal, we are a primary arbiter of scholarship in the field.
Some thought the journal would wither after the end of the Cold War, given its early focus themes such as détente and the Cold War balance of forces. In fact, far from being out of business, we ended up with a much bigger, richer agenda, with issues like, What does it mean for the U.S. to be the sole superpower? Miller said. No one can write about US primacy without studying IS articles.
McCree said the editors interpret the scope of international security broadly. One article discussed human security; another looked at the Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy. The journal evolves with whats happening in the world, she said. Its no longer a Cold War world, but a much more complicated world.
Peter Feaver, a Duke University political science professor and former National Security Council staff member, lauded the journals breadth and quality in a recent blog ForeignPolicy.com post on the strength of the Winter 2011/12 issue.
Feaver called International Security the top academic journal in the field of security studies and one of the highest-impact journals in the entire discipline of political science. I was struck by how policy relevant the issue was, without sacrificing in any way academic rigor.
For more information about this publication please contact the Belfer Center Communications Office at 617-495-9858.
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Lunar Eclipse - Lunar Nursing Tea
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Contents: fennel seeds, raspberry leaves, nettle, dill and anise seeds, orange peel, Chinese star anise, cinnamon bark.
It has a licorice smell, but only slightly in taste. I'm not going to say it's the yummiest thing on the planet. But it isn't bad and I've developed a bit of a taste for it. I'm not taking it for any particular reason other than that a) I'm nursing b) I'm avoiding caffeine c) I thought it couldn't hurt and if it helps, why not?
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I don't watch movies.
Which is weird, because I really like movies. All throughout my childhood and teenage years, I absorbed films like a chubby, pasty, dateless sponge. I watched everything -- good, bad, horribly good, hilariously bad; Rashomon to Fist of the North Star, Casablanca to The Rocketeer -- and I loved everything I watched. But now, even though my whole job revolves around pop culture and my wife has a stack of free movie tickets as her work's way of apologizing for all of the violence and poop, I cannot bring myself to watch a new movie. I'm not just bitter and jaded, either. Because I understand something people don't want to acknowledge: Hollywood sucks.
And it's all our fault.
4Appealing to Our Stupid Interests
Damn near every movie is successful, in some niche market or another. Whether that's with the nerd crowd, or the sports crowd, or parents dragging hateful children to anything colorful that will get them to shut up for 90 minutes, or foreigners watching American blockbuster garbage because they don't have to understand the dialogue to enjoy it, practically everything seems to be turning a profit. That's why we got three Transformers sequels and a new G.I. Joe movie in the pipes. Do you know anybody, literally anybody, who left G.I. Joe going "Boy howdy, I can't wait to see where the story goes from here!"?
Source."Does Snake Eyes continue punching, or does he switch to kicks? I need closure for his character arc!"
This problem is broader than just Hollywood, though. And I think the Internet is to blame. Back in the pre-Internet days when young boys had to masturbate to clothing catalogs instead of German Pokemon Cosplay Scat Porn, being into anything outside of the mainstream wasn't a hobby, it was an occupation. If you liked anime back in the '80s, you spent every waking moment patrolling the sketchy backrooms of comic book shops, or thumbing through the "beneath the table" bins at the nebulously Asian stall at the local flea market. If you were into the underground comic book scene, you mail-ordered your titles through obscure catalogs found next to free campus maps and STD pamphlets at the college coffee shop. And God help you if you liked indie games: You spent every weekend trading blowjobs for floppy disks behind the town's only computer/vacuum repair store, silently wishing through the tears that you didn't have enough ROM to save this memory.
But you did.
You always did.
"This comes with 4GB, but you only need 128k to carry shame with you forever."
But not now, thanks to the easy connectivity of the Internet. These days, literally any filthy, subterranean Morlock demographic can be easily accessed, informed and exploited. Got a vulgar comedy about a living teddy bear? Twenty years ago, that's a worn cassette in the "cult" section of the video store; now it's a nationwide theater release. Got a disjointed, ranty, philosophical, existentialist character comedy? That used to be called "bombing at the community college fiction workshop's open read night." Now it's a studio-funded, star-studded venture. Sure, nothing is a guaranteed success, but the accessibility of obscure markets makes sure nothing is quite as big a failure as it could have been, 20 years ago.
And that's actually a positive thing, most times.
In theory, a diverse but well-informed audience works to ensure that studios can try risky new properties without fear of catastrophic financial meta-fuckery. But that assumes Hollywood wants to greenlight quality work that appeals to a variegated audience. That is not now, nor has it ever been, the style in which Hollywood rolls.
"I roll three ways, baby: in a pile of coke, over the hopes and dreams of aspiring young actors, and down grassy hills. That shit's just fun."
No, the swagger with which Hollywood staggers is more about rehashed, hastily constructed crap, slapped together out of spare parts and kicked out the door to be devoured by the slavering masses before it even has a chance to curse an uncaring God for giving it life in the first place. That's not news; it's not unique to these modern days or anything. It's always been that way. It's just that the crap used to be a little less fringe, so it skated under the cultural radar. Now we see there's, holy shit, another Madea movie getting a theater release?
Wait, what? Bullshit. Witness Protection? That's the punchline to a joke, right? What's next, Madea Goes to Space?
But no, it's a real thing. It's a real movie, that real people will pay real dollars to see, even though nobody you know has ever seen a Tyler Perry movie, much less any of the 12 that came out this week. There are millio-
Hold on, no. We need to revisit this. Witness Protection? Really?
Jesus Fucking Christ. Is this like the middle-aged black woman's version of Police Academy? Why are there so many sequels to Grown Man Farts into Granny Panties: The Movie?
Ahem. But I digress. The point is, there are millions of viewers out there, wholly separated from the mainstream, who are lining up every other midnight to get them a piece of that sweet, sassy, tranny grandma action. As fringe groups, we used to get one, maybe two movies ever that even mentioned our shamefully specific interests, but now we're guaranteed a slew of cynical attempts to cash in on those interests several times a year. We used to get a Batman movie once a decade, now we get a Green Lantern every financial quarter; we used to get a Tron once in a lifetime, now we get Tron: Legacy every dang weekend.
3Our Obsession With Novelty
As audiences, we prize novelty above all things in our modern movies. It's the reason M. Night Shyamalan briefly had a career, before we all woke up and realized that no matter how impressive it is that you can pull a pile of shit out of thin air, you're still ultimately holding a pile of shit. I'm as guilty of this as anybody: Throw an interesting angle or a novel plot device at me, and I start getting all pre-teen-girl excited for any kind of movie. Hell, I was all stoked to see Surrogates, at first, before I realized it was Surrogates just in time to stop myself from watching Surrogates. It doesn't help that science fiction, my particular jam, is most guilty of the gimmick film: Inception, Chronicle, Looper -- they're all new and novel and inventive enough angles to shove money pistons firmly into our nerdgears, but once the novelty wears off, what's left? I truly enjoyed Inception, I did, but for the life of me I couldn't tell you what it was about. Dreams, right? And like, shooting? That sounds good. I'll go with that: Inception was about that kid from 3rd Rock shooting dreams in the face.
Source."Quick, activate the fourth kick before we start p- nope. Too late. I'm peeing now. Peeing everywhere."
And now I'm all nerd-tumescent for Looper, but why is that? Because 3rd Rock looks like he's in the middle of possessing Bruce Willis' body and something something time travel? That's all I know about it. I'm excited on the basis of nothing, on the very teaser of a premise, because novelty is the only hook movies have left. It's like they've completely ceded character and dialogue and plot in favor of something -- anything -- mind-bending. I don't mean to call out these movies as shitty or anything, I'm just saying that I walked out of Inception going "Whoa! That was amazing!" and now couldn't tell you a single thing about it beyond "Gilbert Grape plays Freddy Krueger." But I've seen The Fifth Element like 60 fucking times. That was an objectively terrible movie, I know, but it at least thought about trying to make me give a shit about the characters.
It didn't succeed or anything, because y'know, Chris Tucker -- but it gets points for effort.


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LAS-ELC Awarded Grant to Advance Gender Equity in Sports
We are very pleased to announce that John and Terry Levin and The Jay and Rose Phillips Foundation of California have awarded a two year grant to Fair Play for Girls in Sports, a project of the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center. It will allow Fair Play to continue the important work of providing equal athletic opportunities to low-income girls so they may go on to thrive in the classroom and the workplace.
Two years ago, based on the vision and commitment of the Levins and The Phillips Foundation, Fair Play for Girls in Sports was launched to ensure that girls from low-income families throughout California have the chance to meaningfully and equally participate in school and community-sponsored sports.
Over the course of the project's first two years, Fair Play staff conducted numerous trainings for new audiences of girls, parents, community members, and coaches to raise awareness about gender equity in sports while developing know-your-rights materials and pursuing strategic litigation. During the next two years, Levin Fellow Kim Turner and Fair Play director Elizabeth Kristen will expand the project's activities in order to advance the aims of Title IX and AB 2404, California's initiative to ensure gender equity in athletic leagues run by local Park and Recreation Departments.
We are inspired by the fact that the Levins and The Philips Foundation believe strongly in the power and promise of Title IX and AB 2404. And we are deeply grateful for their generosity and their dedication to improving the lives of disadvantaged girls.


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Two candidates—David Leamon and Martha Tully—will vie for one seat on the Lumberland Town Board. The River Reporter posed the same questions to the candidates. Learn their positions in the interviews presented here.
Martha Tully
What are the three most pressing issues in the town?
1. Keeping taxes low. With the looming possible double-digit county tax increase, it is more important than ever to keep taxes low now and in the future.
2. Economic development to increase our tax base. We need to address the issue of not just being a tourist economy but a year-round economy.
3. The town needs to protect the health of its residents and environment from gas drilling and the water contamination, air pollution and economic impacts that would result. There is no evidence to support that fracking is safe.
What will you do to address those three issues?
1. I would like to see the town's utility expenses be reduced and be more eco-friendly, particularly by converting to solar energy. Municipalities have received state and federal grant money to obtain bulletproof vests, radios and communication towers and funding for emergency shelters. The town budget needs to be managed by eliminating wasteful spending and investing in projects that will benefit the community—like creative purchasing and limited consolidation. Every department needs to be reviewed and budgets scrutinized. I have seen the fiscal responsibility but I have seen the wasted spending.
2. We need to induce businesses to come to Lumberland in order to serve the needs of our residents. I am not looking to see a Walmart superstore come here, but rather mom-and- pop businesses. Grant money is available to attract businesses through the Industrial Development Agency. I would like to see affordable housing for our seniors. I plan on having an open line of communication with residents to obtain input as to how they would like to see Lumberland grow and what businesses would benefit them. I would also like to see a community farmers' market, which would help draw people in to patronize existing businesses.
3. We need to continue to support the ban on drilling and support our surrounding communities who have similarly passed bans on drilling.
What is your position on hydraulic fracturing within the town?
I am against hydraulic fracturing. Natural gas is not a renewable energy. We need to look for alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal. Towns across the nation have preemptively passed local drilling bans or strict zoning laws to protect their citizens. The EPA has found that wells and aquifers have been contaminated as a result of fracking. Rural communities are being transformed into industrial zones. Governments have failed to enforce existing drilling regulations.
Why have you decided to run for town council and what do you hope to accomplish?
I want to be involved in the budgetary sessions and to do what I have done for over a decade when it comes to zoning and planning and getting involved in the growth of the town. I want to be the voice of the people. I am not the type of person who sees an opportunity for improvement and looks around for someone else to take action. I can utilize my experience and knowledge working with various townships to bring creative and efficient ideas to the table and work with the other members of the council to accomplish this.
Martha Tully is a full-time resident of the Town of Glen Spey who relocated three years ago from Suffolk County, NY. She is married and holds an AAS in Interior Design and an AAS in Paralegal Studies, both from Suffolk County Community College. She is a paralegal since 1995 with over 10 years of experience in dealing with various functions of town governments in New York including municipal planning, preservation of natural resources and historic places, code enforcement, public safety, enactment and enforcement of local laws and administrative procedures. Tully can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com [2].
David Leamon
What are the three most pressing issues in the town?
1. Reducing the property tax burden by spending less and spending smarter. While families have had to tighten their belts more and more over the past four years, the town has spent taxpayer money like sailors on shore leave.
2. Reducing crime. Protecting the safety of our residents is of paramount importance. Burglaries and theft are on the rise, which left unchecked will embolden criminals to commit more crimes of increasing seriousness.
3. Encouraging job creation. A key to getting businesses to come to Lumberland is lowering the costs and red-tape hassles of doing business here. Under the recently enacted zoning law, you can be thrown in jail for parking a vehicle at your house that has business lettering on it. That doesn't exactly encourage folks to set up shop here.
What will you do to address those three issues?
1. I will use my knowledge, skills and experience gained from successfully fixing broken and bankrupt companies for over 10 years to identify cost-savings opportunities, eliminate wasteful spending and negotiate tough but fair contracts with town vendors and other parties, all towards ensuring that the town maximizes the value it obtains for every tax dollar it spends.
2. I will work with the chief constable to have our constables regularly conduct patrols and increase their physical presence within the town. I will reach out to the sheriff's office and state troopers in an effort to get them to be present more often in town. I will also focus on pursuing federal law enforcement grant programs that provide rural communities with modern equipment and technology.
3. I will work to lower property taxes and fix provisions of the zoning code that discourage businesses from coming to Lumberland. I would also look into privatizing some jobs currently done by town employees. For example, the town hall and Circle Park custodian services and lawn maintenance services should be put out to bid to private contractors, with a preference given to Lumberland-based contractors.
What is your position on hydraulic fracturing within the town?
It is absolutely vital that we do everything we can to make sure our community and regional water supplies are not polluted through fracking and other heavy industrial use. Although I strongly support the rights of individuals to develop their private property as they see fit, the problem with fracking is that when things go wrong, it affects everyone, not just that property owner. Current fracking technology and practices continue to pose too great a risk to our water supplies to permit it at this time, or in the foreseeable future.
Why have you decided to run for town council and what do you hope to accomplish?
I am running because Lumberland's town government has devolved into a toxic culture of bullying, secrecy, back-room dealing and nepotism that needs to be fixed. What I hope to accomplish is restoring transparency, honesty and accountability to town government, so that we have a healthy and ethical foundation on which to tackle the very real problems Lumberland and its residents face.
David Leamon is a full-time resident of the Town of Glen Spey who relocated from New York City in May 2009 and is originally from Texas. Leamon has practiced law for over 10 years, representing a nationwide business client base. His practice focuses on business turnarounds, restructuring and related litigation, and on providing general counsel and special project counsel services. He holds a law degree and an MBA and is a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army combat arms officer deployed overseas. Leamon can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com [3] or at www.facebook.com/groups/voteforleamon [4].


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I used to live and ride in Italy. Now I'm back in the states going school. Time is obviously an issue with me and I'm lucky if I can fit in a couple of hours each day to train. I was able to install all 9 videos with no problem on a windows 7 OS (64 bit)on a Sony E Series Laptop. Simply plug in the disc and follow the instructions. There were comments saying the Real Axiom Trainer only goes to 8% grad. Truth be told, the video has the Zoncolan route which goes up to 22% grade. Also, if that's not enough "resistance" for some folks, I recommend dropping to a 53X12 if you want the full frontal 22% grade experience. I've ridden some of these routes and I've found that the trainer is actually harder than the real life course (My legs got trashed the first time I rode the trainer). Bottom line, this trainer and training videos will hurt you and give you a great workout in a short amount of time. One hour on this trainer is like two on the road, and will dramatically improve your hill climbing skills. This is the best trainer I have ever bought, including the fluids. I was skeptical that a magnetic trainer could simulate the road well, due to my past experience with bad magnetic trainers, but the extra large flywheel really smooths everything out. Best thing of all, every time I long for Italy, I just get on the trainer and I feel a little better.
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Walter Williams, the man who woke up inside a body bag, is home from the hospital.
Family members said the Holmes County man is responding well and eating on his own.
Last week, a coroner pronounced Williams dead before he woke up in a funeral home.
Williams' story went global when word of him "coming back to life" spread online.
Doctors said a mix of medicines may have caused his vital signs to appear unresponsive.
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Seeing America documents the Gallery's outstanding collection of American Art. Preview the catalogue, which examines 82 objects and their connections to American history, culture, literature and politics.
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"I said the %$&* word and now I'm suspended"
Nationwide Series driver Jeremy Clements explained in detail Thursday exactly how he finds himself suspended indefinitely from NASCAR competition.
In a one-on-one interview with ESPN, Clements would not verbalize the specific comments he made, but when pressed for clarity about whether or not it was racial, he paused. Asked again, "Was it racial or not? Maybe not in context, but in term?" Clements replied: "Correct."
"When you say 'racial' remark, it wasn't used to describe anybody or anything," Clements said. "So that's all I'm going to say to that. And it really wasn't. I was describing racing, and the word I used was incorrect and I shouldn't have said it. It shouldn't be used at all."
A source told ESPN.com's David Newton on Wednesday that Clements was banned for using a racial slur while talking to a reporter. NASCAR officials wouldn't offer specifics on what Clements said, only that it was an "intolerable and insensitive remark" that violated the sanctioning body's Code of Conduct for actions detrimental to stock car racing.
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The upcoming war game Medal of Honor is gaining a lot of attention, but perhaps not the kind of attention Electronic Arts would like. The company has come under fire from a variety of sources for the decision to allow players to inhabit the skins of the Taliban in the game's multiplayer. British Defence Secretary Liam Fox even criticized the game, calling on retailers not to sell Medal Of Honor in order to "show their support for the armed forces."
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"At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands. It's shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers," he said in a statement. "It's hard to believe any citizen of our country would wish to buy such a thoroughly un-British game. I would urge retailers to show their support for our armed forces and ban this tasteless product."
EA, however, says it's standing fast on its decision. In an interview with Develop-Online, EA's Games president Frank Gibeau said the decision to allow players to be Taliban is a "creative risk," but he won't allow protests to "compromise our creative vision and what we want to do."
"There's a lot of furor around games that take creative risks – like games that let you play terrorists in airports mowing down civilians," Gibeausaid said. "At EA we passionately believe games are an artform, and I don't know why films and books set in Afghanistan don't get flack, yet [games] do. Whether it's Red Badge Of Courage or The Hurt Locker, the media of its time can be a platform for the people who wish to tell their stories. Games are becoming that platform."
The last time this came up was over another war. Konami's Six Days in Fallujah was canceled due to a public outcry over the game's realistic depiction of events of the Iraq War. Although developer Atomic Games says it will eventually see the light of day.
For now, EA is holding steady with it artistic decisions, and we hope to see this game released, unchanged, on October 12, the expected release date. We also hope that the game, like The Red Badge of Courage and The Hurt Locker, is a great work of art that honors the dead, as opposed to a cheap cash-in.
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|This BIOS Update Utility updates the BIOS (system program including the Embedded Controller (EC) program) stored in the ThinkPad system to fix problems, add new functions, or expand functions as noted below.
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From community to technology...and back again
Part 2: The networked library
In part one of this series, we examined the rise of personal networks. We saw how the giants of the Web−Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon−have succeeded largely by enabling users to create their own personal networks based on preference and need. This strategy rewards the chief difference of the Internet when compared to earlier technological innovations—that there is no center of the network. Or, rather, there are as many centers as there are people willing to define new networks built from the resources and relationships most important to them.
In this issue, we'll look at how an "inside-out" model for getting library resources out into users' workflows and community spaces can succeed in a networked information environment.
No fixed center
We had originally intended to title the second part of this series, "Libraries at the Center," as it would be a discussion of networks built around libraries, in contrast to the personal networks built around individual users as discussed in part one. What we found, though, as we progressed through our research, interviews and writing was that the greatest areas for growth and success for libraries in the networked world occurred when libraries took their materials, services and expertise further away from the center of traditional library contexts. The most profound opportunities for service seemed to occur when libraries placed their resources within the networks and environments already being used and valued by their communities.
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research and Chief Strategist, refers to this model as the "inside-out" library. It's a shift in thinking that requires:
- a willingness to engage with users in the places that library users already frequent
- the ability to adopt community goals within library contexts
- an entrepreneurial spirit, eager to experiment with many nontraditional tools in order to connect with users in new ways.
We'll look at examples of each of these requirements, and then make the case that library cooperation in key areas such as data syndication is essential to helping libraries succeed with an "inside-out" strategy.
The inside-out library
Traditionally, Lorcan points out, libraries have managed "outside-in" resources, acquiring materials from many sources and then providing them from central locations, either in physical buildings or online services. Now, however, as we noted in the first part of this series, information seekers create personal networks in which they find information based on their own individual preferences. "Access and discovery have now scaled to the level of the network: they are Webscale," Lorcan says.
"While much of the discovery focus of the library is still on destination or gateway systems which provide access to its collection, much of their users' discovery experience is in fact happening elsewhere," he continues. "These factors," he explains, "shift the discoverability challenge significantly. In addition to improving local systems, a successful strategy must make library resources discoverable in other venues and systems, in the places where users are having their discovery experiences."
Lorcan believes that there is growing interest in connecting library collections to external discovery environments in order to better release and realize the value of library investments. "There is also now a parallel interest," he says, "in making institutional resources more actively discoverable. In each case, there is a shift toward inside-out thinking, as the library thinks about promotion and visibility in external services."
This kind of inside-out thinking suggests that libraries should consider how their priorities and values can coexist within the workflows and services of disparate organizations and audiences. That will involve working to find intersections between the work that libraries do and that of many different partners, both online and off. We'll look at three examples of how librarians today are making that happen, and also at opportunities for more broad-based efforts to syndicate library data and services into the larger networked information environment.
Libraries should consider how their priorities and values can co-exist within the workflows and services of disparate organizations and audiences.
Where art and libraries overlap
What do libraries have in common with the arts community? Both are often involved in local development, education and personal growth. Both provide lifelong opportunities to expand critical, cultural and intellectual skills. If that's the case, though…why don't more libraries have specific outreach programs targeted at artists and their constituents?
That was the question asked by three recent graduates of the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Library & Information Studies. As a result, they began the "Library as Incubator Project." Its mission is to promote and facilitate creative collaboration between libraries and artists of all types, and to advocate for libraries as incubators of the arts.
While working in the university libraries, Laura Damon-Moore, co-founder and managing editor of the project, says she "…got interested in visual artists and how they use libraries for inspiration as well as information." Teaming up with classmates Erinn Batykefer and Christina Endres, the project started in January 2011 while they were still in school, and went live with a website, Library As Incubator Project, in October 2011.
Library as Incubator Team
Erinn Batykefer
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Laura Damon-Moore
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Their basic idea is to combine noncommercial assets from the art and library communities in ways that provide value back to both, and to the communities they serve. "We look at partnerships as a kind of product," says Laura. "A way to quantify the benefits that libraries provide."
Most communities and universities have active art communities…but often aren't served by library services designed to meet their specific needs. "In some cases, libraries already serve as important anchors for artists' work and research," Erinn explains. "We're collecting examples of these successes so that other libraries can have some practical, actionable ideas on where to start."
"Providing services and resources for the artistic community is a great example of network building that libraries can develop as part of their strategy," Laura says. "Libraries can extend the assets they have to help artists better reach their goals. In many cases, that will give libraries an advocacy boost from an important segment of their community. And it can transform the 'free' nature of library services into something supporters associate with commercial success, too."
By exploring the areas where the library and art worlds overlap, both can learn how to better serve their communities. As Erinn says, "Explorations like this gives libraries a way to try out new things that might be considered, initially, at the fringe of their 'normal' offerings. But you never know what's going to take off and become, over time, a core part of your services."
"Libraries can extend the assets they have to help artists better reach their goals."
Your users' goals are your goals
Another way to connect with other networks, whether online or out in the community, is to look past your organization's internal metrics and try to discover the goals of those you serve. Columbus Metropolitan Library CEO Pat Losinski wanted to go beyond traditional measurements of library success and consider the specific goals of the community his libraries support.
"Our vision statement focuses on community−not the library−and the impact we hope to make," Pat says. "Our feeling is that if we take care of our community, our future will ultimately take care of itself."
When Pat and his team began looking into how they could support the community in new ways, one area that surfaced was kindergarten readiness. They discovered that 34 percent of the children in the Columbus, Ohio area were unprepared for kindergarten, based on state KRAL (Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for Literacy) scores. That's almost double what the rest of the state's school districts experience.
"We took those numbers and we said to ourselves, 'OK, if people tell us we are one of the best public libraries in the United States, what part of this performance does the library own?'" Pat says. "We have kids that come to story time and who participate in our summer reading program. But how do we help prepare those youngsters who aren't coming through our doors? Without the foundation at kindergarten, the lack of preparation continues to reveal itself over time−40 percent of Columbus third graders are not proficient readers, compared to 20 percent of third graders in the rest of the state."
The customers in this equation aren't "library users," or even "students of the public schools," but young kids who need more help before interacting with those organizations. So Pat and his team created a program called Ready to Read−and none of it happens in the library.
"Our vision statement focuses on community—not the library—and the impact we hope to make."
Six teams of two are out Monday through Thursday in Ready to Read vans visiting with the parents of at-risk kids. They try to instill an understanding that they, the parents, are their kid's first teacher, not the school or the library. And, that if they don't participate in that process, their child will not be ready for kindergarten.
"I've been out with this team," Pat says. "They are fearless. They will go anywhere. They go to homeless shelters and methadone clinics and laundromats; wherever at-risk people congregate, our team is there. The first thing this program did was dispel the myth that low-income or at-risk parents don't care about their kids' performance. They care deeply. They just don't have the right information or tools to take the first step."
Parents receive three board books, alphabet sponge letters for their child's bath time, and other tools to help kids begin to have some exposure to early literacy.
"Some of the stories that you see are actually pretty chilling," Pat says. "You hand a book to a child and they hold it upside down and you realize that they've never had a book in their home and never held a book. No awareness of letters. No awareness of sounds or rhyming, very simple tests. And this I always say is not a school issue. It is a community issue."
By reaching into the education network a little more deeply, Pat and his team have redefined the library's value proposition, moving the emphasis away from the traditional output measures of library usage to community-based impact and outcomes. "People are less and less impressed with me telling them that 15 million items were checked out of the library. I think a more important and compelling story is how many of those books were read, how many of them were applied, how many of them changed a life for the better, and actually did some good in the community."
"The first thing this program did was dispel the myth that low-income or at-risk parents don't care about their kids' performance. They care deeply."
In the three-year period the Columbus Metropolitan Library has been running the Ready to Read program, it has reached more than 26,000 parents of pre-k kids.
- About 8,000 of these parents have been issued library cards
- 1/2 of the library cards that have been issued have been used at a branch to check out children's materials
- Approximately 60% of the parents surveyed tell the library that they read to the kids every day
The most promising outcome is the KRAL scores. "In some surveying, we're seeing a 2-3 percent increase in KRAL scores, which may not sound like a great deal, but if we can get 2-3 percent a year for five years, we're talking about a 10-15 percent swing, which would be significant in terms of what we're trying to accomplish," Pat says.
Any tool, anytime
The Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives at Bowling Green State University is always looking for new ways to feature its rich collection of pop music, both with its own students, and outside the university. For several years, a dedicated team of five librarians have used blogs and social networking sites−Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, GooglePlus, Flickr−to place their resources and expertise in networks valued by their community. The latest tool? Pinterest, a photo-sharing website where users pin or re-pin images on pinboards in theme-based collections. Launched in March 2010, Pinterest hit 10 million monthly unique visitors faster than any other social networking site and by February 2013 had 48.7 million users.
While all of these social networks are useful for extending the library's reach, Pinterest gave the team the visual impact they were looking for to highlight the largest collection of popular music and historic sound equipment in an academic library in North America−nearly 1 million recordings, album covers, posters, songbooks, turntables, amplifiers and more.
"Our collection is very visual but we have closed stacks so people can't physically browse it," says Susannah Cleveland, the library's director. "When we saw Pinterest we knew this would be the perfect way to organize and present our collection to the public and connect with virtual users. It gave us a way to create a flashy, visual gallery with a compelling browse experience so people could see what is really cool in the collection. And it's fun!"
Susannah, Liz Tousey, the library's social media architect, and their team work with students to create 'sleevefacings,' a process where a person places an album cover in front of his or her face for a photo to go on the library's Pinterest board. Using students opens up relationship with them and makes librarians more approachable, Susannah says. "So many students come and go for months on end, using our library as a study space. This has helped us break down barriers. Once we interact with them in such a fun way, they see us as less serious and more casual and informal."
Like the Library as Incubator Project does with art, the Bowling Green program helps the library expand its reach outside the library to intersect and interact with other people's networks. Their efforts have been noted by Wired, Library Journal and other "sleevefacing" pages. "Pinterest has raised our profile and made the Bowling Green name a little more familiar to some people in circles outside of our most local ones. Anytime someone at Wired is talking about your collection, I think you have a win," says Susannah.
"It gave us a way to create a flashy, visual gallery with a compelling browse experience so people could see what is really cool in the collection. And it's fun!"
Exploring—and erasing—online boundaries
There are, as we've seen, a variety of ways for libraries to interact with the networks that users and communities utilize and create. But on today's Web…is that enough?
"While any library, no matter how small, can easily have a presence on the Web," says Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development, "that doesn't mean that they can easily be found in the online networks their users create and rely on for information. Frequently," he continues, "those networks are built around major network services that serve hundreds, thousands, even millions of times more people than any library. In which case, while libraries are often local hubs for information and study, online they compete with truly massive, global providers."
Any single library is going to have a hard time competing with Web giants like Google and Facebook for attention online. Even when connecting to a local audience, the "gravity" of those services is much stronger than what most local organizations−of any kind−can hope to muster. But to turn their resources "inside-out," as Lorcan Dempsey suggests, and get attention on the wider Web, libraries can find ways to connect their services to those with much larger audiences. And one strategy for accomplishing that kind of task has been around for almost a century: syndication.
Historically, we're most accustomed to hearing about how syndication helps deliver media−like music−to large audiences, using a distribution technology like radio. The term is also associated, of course, with other media such as newspapers, magazines and TV shows. In every case, though, it involves taking content that has been created for a central audience and getting it out to more people, often in widely diverse audiences. In the case of radio, this meant taking expensive content developed for large stations and "syndicating" it to a network of smaller, local stations that then went on to deliver it to their local audiences.
This method has also been very successful on the Web. Amazon, for example, sells products−content−to consumers directly through its Amazon.com website. But it also provides resources for people to build their own stores with the Amazon Associates program. Amazon, as the hub in these relationships, syndicates both services (e-commerce applications and features) and content (books, music, etc.). Associates act as nodes on this network, selling both Amazon content and their own materials to more specific customer bases. By some reports, 40 percent of Amazon's sales happen through associates.
"While any library, no matter how small, can easily have a presence on the Web, that doesn't mean that they can easily be found in the online networks their users create and rely on for information."
Whether through traditional media networks or online, diverse audiences can access resources that would otherwise have been too expensive or hard to find. And local affiliates can improve community relationships by acting on their behalf within these larger networks.
"WorldCat," Chip points out, "is a good model of how library cooperation can create opportunities for syndication." He points out that the technology may have changed in the last 40 years−going from magnetic tapes and dedicated data lines to cloud services−but the fundamentals haven't.
"Libraries start by registering their data in WorldCat via cataloging," he explains. "When enough libraries do that, you have a significant aggregation that isn't just useful to the libraries themselves for activities like copy cataloging and resources sharing−but to 'edge' partners like publishers, search engines and other Web service providers."
It's this combined data−many libraries registering and aggregating their resources in one place−that then makes syndication within larger network hubs possible. "22,000 members have aggregated data within WorldCat in one way or another," Chip continues. "Together, they provide a hub for 290 million records and information to access more than a billion electronic items and 2 billion holdings."
By aggregating shared library data and then syndicating it through other network hubs, each library can get its resources out into the wider information environment. "This kind of cooperation, aggregation and syndication," Chip concludes, "can soften gravitational borders and help users find their way back to libraries. Last year, for example, WorldCat was able to deliver more than 231 million clicks back to libraries from various syndication partners on the Web like Google, Goodreads and EasyBib."
Local efforts, global reach
As libraries seek to create, nurture and improve networks that add value to their users' information-seeking activities, it may be that two sets of strategies are needed to move forward. Local efforts—such as those championed by the Library as Incubator project and Columbus Metropolitan Library−can literally take a library's message and physical materials and services to the streets. This creates opportunities to understand users' needs more fully, establishing local networks that align library metrics with those of the community.
But, as Lorcan Dempsey points out, more of our search behaviors are moving online and diversifying. Cooperative strategies like syndication can help groups of libraries expand their traditional boundaries and interact with online networks in ways that no single location can.
Laura Damon-Moore sums it up nicely: "Many artists and art programs now have both local followers and fans all over the world. Libraries can help them network and succeed online as well as in local classes and galleries. That's a big win for our communities at the street level, and online."
ISSUE 21 contents
- Index
- President's Report
- From community to technology...and back again
- Little Free Library connects local, global communities throughout 36 countries
- EMEA Regional Council Meeting gives members latest in library data research
- Supporting the work of libraries and the global community we serve
- OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grants: 25+ years of cutting-edge library sciences research
- WorldShare Update
- WorldCat statistics
- Updates
About the Author
Andy Havens
Andy Havens is OCLC's Manager of Branding and Creative Services. He is Managing Editor of OCLC's NextSpace magazine, leads the OCLC Cooperative Blog team and is "head tweeter" for the @OCLC Twitter account. He frequently works on the writing, editing, design and production of OCLC Membership Reports, white papers and symposium materials.
Tom Storey
Tom is an Editor at OCLC and works on NextSpace, OCLC's membership magazine, as well as OCLC Abstracts, a weekly e-news update, and the OCLC Annual Report.


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Burdock (Arctium lappa) is native to Europe and Asia, and if allowed, can grow in almost any uncultivated space. It was used by India�s traditional Ayurvedics and by the early Chinese for its very valuable health properties. In addition to its healthful effects, the stalks make a delicate vegetable, similar in flavor to asparagus when boiled, and a pleasant salad when eaten raw with vinegar.
Burdock is greatly cherished in the Orient, especially in Japan, where it is known as �Gobo�, and the root is used in everyday cooking. The name is a combination of bur, from the tenacious burrs, and dock, Old English referring to its large leaves. And, as its name suggests, it is a plant which bears seeds in big round bristly cones that stick to clothing and animal fur. Many modern-day herbalists continue to use Burdock for its health benefits.
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Accounting Students Win Regional Tax Competition, Advance to Final Round
Two teams of accounting students traveled to Boston November 2-4 to compete in the regional Deloitte FanTAXtic Competition, and one of the teams placed first in the region.
The annual competition, which took place in 16 cities across the country, encourages student teams to utilize their growing knowledge and skills to solve real-world, issues-based business tax scenarios. The teams were accompanied by Professor Lynn Mucenski-Keck.
Participants engaged in simulation exercises, role-played with Deloitte tax professionals, and made a presentation to a panel of live and "virtual" judges.
The winning team included Greg Church '13, Katie Frandrich '13, Dan Agan '13, Brendan Hughes '15, and Jadon O'Donnell '15. They will move on to the national round of the competition, scheduled to take place January 18-20, 2013, at Deloitte University, a state-of-the-art learning and leadership development center in Texas. They will compete for over $50,000 in individual scholarships and institutional awards.
Fisher's second competing team included Kristi Jeffres '13, Sarah Fordyce '13, Anthony Venette '13, Michelle Jennejohn '15, and Jessica Martinez '15.
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Colleges who competed alongside Fisher at the regional level included: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and North Carolina State University and will compete against the following colleges at Nationals in Dallas, Texas: Michigan State University, University of Missouri, University of South Florida, University of Southern California, University of Texas, University of Utah, and the College of William and Mary.
Students encourage each other the morning of the competition.
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#76734 - 07/22/02 12:59 PM Re: Napier's Bones
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The part where you mention triginometry seems to be a quote. As you imply later, that quote is wrong. The bones are for ordinary mutliplication, not for trig.
#76735 - 07/22/02 01:03 PM Re: Near
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We had a discussion of this a long time ago, which I am sure nobody remembers.
Near Side and Off Side. Left side and right side. Near wheel means that to the coachman's left hand;
and near horse (in a pair) means that to the left hand of the driver. In a four-in-hand the two horses on
the left side of the coachman are the near wheeler and the near leader. Those on the right hand side of the
coachman are off horses. This, which seems an anomaly, arose when the driver walked beside his
team. The teamster always walks with his right arm nearest the horse, and therefore, in a pair of horses,
the horse on the left side is nearer than the one on his right.
In a discussion for reasons UK vehicles drive on left side of road, it seemed logical to me
to think it had started with drivers of carriages using right hand to lead horses when it
was necessary, and wanting to be close to shoulder of road, rather than in middle where
they would be in danger from oncoming vehicles. Nobody agreed with me.
#76736 - 07/22/02 01:15 PM Re: Nebraska
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Nebraska U.S. A word of Indian origin, meaning the shallow river.
#76737 - 07/22/02 03:17 PM Re: Nine
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Nine Points of the Law Success in a law-suit requires (1) a good deal of money; (2) a good deal of
patience; (3) a good cause; (4) a good lawyer; (5) a good counsel; (6) good witnesses; (7) a good jury; (8)
a good judge; and (9) good luck.
#76738 - 07/22/02 03:28 PM Re: Noel
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Noel Christmas day, or a Christmas carol. A contraction of nouvelles (tidings), written in old English,
A child this day is born, A child of high renown, Most worthy of a sceptre, A sceptre and a
crown. Nowells, nowells, nowells! Sing all we may, Because that Christ, the King. Was born
this blessed day. Old Carol.
#76739 - 07/22/02 03:34 PM Re: Non Sequitur
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Non Sequitur (A). A conclusion which does not follow from the premises stated.
#76740 - 07/22/02 03:36 PM Re: Nonce
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Nonce For the nonce. A corruption of for then anes (for then once), meaning for this once. An apron
for a naperon is an example of n transferred the other way. We have some halfdozen similar examples in
the language, as tother day- i.e. the other or &that; other = the other. Nuncle used in King Lear, which
was originally mineuncle. An arrant knave is a narrant knave. (See Nag .)
#76741 - 07/22/02 03:50 PM Re:Nostrum
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Nostrum means Our own. It is applied to a quack medicine, the ingredients of which are supposed to be
a secret of the compounders. (Latin.)
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Nottingham (Saxon, Snotingaham, place of caves). So called from the caverns in the soft sandstone
rock. Montecute took King Edward III. through these subterranean passages to the hill castle, where he
found the gentle Mortimer and Isabella, the dowager-queen. The former was slain, and the latter
imprisoned. The passage is still called Mortimer's Hole.
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Nunation Adding N to an initial vowel, as Nol for Ol[iver], Nell for Ell[en], Ned for Ed[ward].
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Christmas week is notoriously slow, news-wise — so slow that I will now report on Justin Bieber's hamster. Via TMZ:
FEAR NOT JUSTIN BIEBER FANS … his former pet hamster (ya know, the one he gave away) is now living in the lap of luxury with its new owner … who has vowed to treat the little guy like a tiny rodent king!!! …
We spoke to 18-year-old Tori — huge Bieber fan — who tells us she was shocked when the Biebs randomly offered her the cage … but is excited about looking after the lil' guy and assures us he's in great hands.
Now PAC will live happily ever after — except in the delusions of animal rights moonbats, who are screeching in outrage:
Justin Bieber issued a DEATH SENTENCE to his pet hamster PAC when he gave it away to a screaming fan (who promised to love and cherish it forever) outside of a concert earlier this month … this according to the California Hamster Association (yes, there's actually a California Hamster Association).
TMZ spoke to a rep for the group … who tells us Bieber committed an act of "animal cruelty" when he gifted away the animal … even if his intentions were good.
The CHA tells us … hamsters are fragile creatures that "often succumb quickly to illness and death," especially when faced with "sudden environmental change."
In short … "The moment that hamster was handed off to a screaming girl in a harsh, frenzied environment was likely the moment it gazed at the short path to its doom."
According to the moonbats, the hamster should have been incarcerated in an official animal shelter or rescue center, instead of being given to an adoring fan. With progressives it always comes down to internment camps, even for hamsters.
On tips from Ummah Gummah. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Family Art Night
The Piazzetta, Venice, Looking North, early 1730s
Giovanni Antonio Canal called Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768
Oil on canvas
29-7/8 x 47-1/8 in. (75.9 x 119.7 cm)
The Norton Simon Foundation
The Art of Building
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Teacher: Staff Educator
Type: Family Art Night
Canaletto and Giovanni Pannini were known for their paintings of Italian cityscapes. Both artists had a profound admiration for architecture, and they created images of famous landmarks found throughout Italy. Explore paintings of old Venice and design a unique building of your own.
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Theme: Game
Level: Intermediate
Price: £160 weekends, £140 mid-week
Please note that the December course is now fully booked!
Game is one of Britain's most delicious natural ingredients and one for which the Swinton Estate is justifiably renowned. From pheasant, partridge, grouse, pigeon and wild duck, to rabbit and venison there is a breadth of choice to suit every taste and budget. Being lower in cholesterol and fat than most meats, it is a healthy choice too.
Game is extremely versatile and can be used in wide variety of dishes from traditional roasts and casseroles to terrines, tagines and curries. In the past, people have been put off by concerns about strong taste, tough meat and fiddly bones but these are all easily avoided with some simple guidelines.
This game cookery course will delight both experienced game chefs and novices with chef's delicious recipes and professional tips for making game easy to prepare, cook and serve.
Dishes typically covered in this course include:
Venison Stew
Game Parfait
Roast Partridge with Garlic Confit
Roast Pheasant with Watercress and Lentils
A selection of rabbit dishes
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Game Chips
Fondant Potatoes
Celeriac Purée
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Savoy & Red Cabbage
Braised Endive
Techniques covered by this course include:
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- Making the finished sauce and flavouring variations
- Preparation of traditional accompaniments
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