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ASIS&T Special Interest Group/Information Needs, Seeking and Use (SIG/USE) has a rich tradition of exploring new ways of information sharing, from experimenting with a fishbowl dialogue on the history of information behavior research to [1] extending conversations at the SIG/USE Symposium into the virtual world of Second Life [2]. At ASIS&T's 75th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Baltimore, the SIG/USE Symposium launched a series of lightning talks on innovative research approaches and evolving and emerging research methods.
ASIS&T annual meeting pre-conference activities: Evolving and emerging research methods: 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE symposium
Editor's Summary
SIG/USE celebrated members' work and achievements in research methods at the 2012 ASIS&T Annual Meeting through a keynote speech, brief talks and awards. In her opening talk, professor Lisa Given challenged attendees to expand research methods to engage participants more fully, include qualitative findings and explore information behavior in nontraditional media. The topics of two-minute lightning talks ranged from research techniques for exploring young people's information behavior to imaging brain activity related to relevance decisions. Others addressed incorporating mobile technologies in research, collaborative search, direct interaction with participants in contrast with background server log checks and working with data collections from social Q&A sites. Following the talks, small group discussions further explored topics such as cognitive approaches, content analysis and text analytics and usability. The symposium wound to a close with the 2011 Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award presentation on information strategies of the homeless and a preview of the 2012 proposed study on refugees' information seeking. Additional awards were presented for best paper and poster to support travel and further presentations. Pertti Vakkari was recognized for outstanding contributions to information behavior research and was inducted into the SIG/USE Academy of Fellows.
Lisa Given on New Research Methods
With more than 60 researchers in attendance, Dr. Lisa Given of Charles Sturt University, Australia, delivered a keynote presentation on new research methods incorporating photography, participant-driven methods and arts-based approaches. Given called for researchers to integrate methods that capture participants' experiences in situ – holistic and multisensory approaches engaging participants directly and actively in the research through techniques such as autoethnography, participatory mapping and photovoice, which uses snapshots taken by research subjects as a visual record of information-related activities.
Given identified two major challenges confronting researchers in information behavior, seeking and use: first, how we see the scope and boundaries of information behavior, such as in considering the boundary areas of retrieval in relationship to information behavior research, and second, how information behavior can be represented in context.
Arguing that "our writing tends to be reductionalist, functional, traditional and text heavy" or primarily text focused, Given challenged authors and journal editorial board members to push back for inclusion of qualitative findings sections and for exploration of non-traditional representations in research such as poetry, dramatic scripts and imagery. Given also encouraged researchers to "push the writing envelope" by writing in other disciplines, and she argued for the need to produce more methodology papers.
Lightning Talks
With the challenge set by Given, SIG/USE Symposium participants responded by delivering two-minute lightning talks on new and emerging research methods (for lightning talk abstracts and photos from the symposium, see http://siguse.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/sig-use-12th-annual-research-symposium/). These brief presentations sought to push the boundaries of research in information behavior, seeking and use. Chirag Shah, assistant professor at Rutgers University, moderated two rounds of lightning talks, equipped with a digital klaxon to keep everyone in line, on time and on track. Topics for the lightning talks ranged across a wide spectrum of research approaches, from Foucauldian discourse analysis of rules, norms and power relations to magnetic resonance imaging for revealing neural processes in information seeking and evaluation.
Several researchers discussed new methods of working with youth. Eric Meyers, assistant professor at University of British Columbia, captured video of young people at play in virtual worlds using machinima for analysis of verbal and non-verbal information interactions (Using Machinima to Study Information Exchange in Children's Virtual Worlds). Philip Fawcett of Microsoft Research worked with professor Karen Fisher of University of Washington (Teen Design Days: Lightning and Enlightening) to explore young people's information behaviors as creators, remixers and intermediaries for both information and technologies via social network mapping tools and techniques such as storytelling, images, dramatic play, smartphones and other technology tools. Kyungwon Koh, assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, adapted Dervin's Sense-Making to group interviewing in studying young people and their experiences and perceptions of information activities (Exploratory Application of Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology to Group Interviewing With Teenagers).
Researchers traversed the boundary areas of search, retrieval and relevance mentioned in Given's keynote speech. Jacek Gwizdka of Rutgers University discussed neuro-information science in seeking to determine whether there are fundamental neural processes associated with relevance decisions by using techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (Peeking Inside a Searcher's Brain: Prospects for Neuro-Information Science). Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, assistant professor at University at Albany, SUNY, explored the possibility of retrieval systems accepting input from speech and gestures via a "wizard of Oz" research method with a hidden observer person interpreting and typing information into an interface (Wizard of Oz Techniques).
Chirag Shah extended the exploration of information search and retrieval into collaborative searching and seeking, discussing research in information seeking within both search engines and question-answering online communities (Distributed Searching, United Searchers: Investigating Social and Collaborative Aspects of Information Seeking). Rong Tang of Simmons College examined another aspect of collaboration activity, engagement and problem-solving in the shared use of a Microsoft Surface Table at the Harvard University Library (Towards a Multi-Phased and Multi-Methods Usability Assessment of Microsoft Surface Table (SUR40) in Libraries).
University of North Texas professor Linda Schamber brought mobile technologies and social media into the mix, with considerations of how these new technologies impact information evaluation behaviors and perceptions of credibility (User Information Evaluation Behavior). Lorri Mon, associate professor at Florida State University, discussed research into social media with doctoral student Jisue Lee on the Military Suicide Research Consortium (http://msrc.fsu.edu) with exploration of influence, reach, content, sentiment and self-presentation in information revealed and concealed, suggesting as well that "rulebreaking" in social media highlights areas where information sharing needs are not being met (Information Behavior and Information Seeking Research in New Virtual Environments). Assistant professor Sanghee Oh of Florida State University described challenges of extracting knowledge from a large-scale data collection through content analysis and text mining in the online social question-and-answer community site of Yahoo! Answers (Understanding Health Information Behaviors in Social Q&A: Using the Research Methods of Content Analysis and Text Mining).
Presenters discussed a variety of methods for actively engaging participants in the research. Soo Young Rieh, associate professor at the University of Michigan, used Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Experience Sampling Method [3] in prompting users to answer questions about their information behaviors and online activities at random points throughout the day, which could integrate online and mobile technologies into the prompting and reporting process (Using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) in Human Information Behavior Research). Ji Yeon Yang, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, described using the experience sampling and event sampling with a web-based diary survey method in workplace research tracking advice-receiving and advice-providing (Diary Method: Data Collection and Analysis Strategies). Beth St. Jean, assistant professor at the University of Maryland, integrated card sorting into research on diabetes-related information seeking for people with type-2 diabetes (Developing a Card-Sorting Technique for Use in Information Behavior Research). Shelagh Genuis, postdoctoral research fellow at University of Alberta (Capacity Building through Photovoice), and Rachel Magee, a Drexel University doctoral student (Expressive Methods), spoke about methods such as photovoice, in which the research participants take pictures in a visual record of events and other active approaches to engaging participants in visual record-keeping such as expressive artwork.
Researchers also described more unobtrusive research methods for examining the artifacts of user-generated data in written works, online comments and digital server logs. Sean Goggins, assistant professor at Drexel University, spoke about research with Christopher Mascaro using electronic trace data such as server logs as part of studying information behavior in technologically-mediated online groups and comparing online groups with each other and with face-to-face groups (Group Informatics). Jen Pecoskie, assistant professor of Wayne State University, described research by Nadine Desrochers, Diane Rasmussen Neal and Caroline Whippey on text and subtext in user comments and tags in YouTube, Blogger, Flickr and Twitter. (why am I crying?!:')<3). Pecoskie also presented on her research with Nadine Desrochers (Reading the Writing on the Wall, Page, Book, Site: Using Paratext to Sudy Writers and Readers' Informational Habits), discussing paratext (textual and visual cues), peritext (illustrations and prefaces) and epitext (related material such as metadata, author interviews and reviews of a work).
Several researchers presented on methods involving language in content or discourse analysis. Barbara Wildemuth of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill re-coded a dataset using gerunds in initial coding to reveal activities and processes involved in what people do (Initial Coding using Gerunds: Keeping the Focus on Processes). Leanne Bowler, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, used visual metaphors to reveal metacognition around information behavior in the knowledge and beliefs of participants about their own memories, also referred to as "metamemory" (Using Visual Metaphors to Reveal Metacognition in the Context of Information-Seeking). Michael Olsson of the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia examined power, rules and norms expressed in language (Foucault Power/Knowledge and Critical Discourse Analysis).
Due to hurricane Sandy, which was bearing down on the Eastern seaboard at the time of the ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium and hit the area the following day, some of the researchers whose lightning talks had been accepted were unable to travel and speak at the session. The additional accepted talks had included a variety of approaches in exploring information behavior and information seeking. From Emporia State University, Ann L. O'Neill, Sarah W. Sutton, doctoral student Samia Azzouz and masters student Sara de Caro had planned to discuss online research in a social networking site (Use of a Social Networking Site for Health Information about Fibromyalgia). Sanda Erdelez of the University of Missouri had planned to discuss an instrument developed to measure tendencies to engage in opportunistic information encountering, with activities such as noticing, stopping, examining, capturing and returning to the original search task (Development of a Scale to Measure Individual Differences in Opportunistic Discovery of Information). Kendra Albright of the University of South Carolina would have described her work with psychodynamic theory and projective tests in revealing underlying thoughts and inner feelings relevant to information behavior (Investigating the Role of Unconscious Influences in Information Behavior Using Projective Techniques). A cancelled talk by Tiffany Veinot of University of Michigan would have focused on a "whole family methodology" of family group interviews and home tours in exploring family group networks and information activities (Making the 'Meso' Visible: Methods for Investigating Information Behavior in Families and Communities).
Breakout Sessions: Small Group Discussions
Following the lightning talk rounds, SIG/USE Symposium participants joined small groups to engaged in discussions on research methods such as cognitive approaches, social approaches, content analysis and textual analytics, interviewing, diaries, critical approaches, usability and human/computer interaction (HCI), grounded theory approaches and online/virtual research techniques. Members from each group reported out after the discussions on notable issues and challenges that had emerged around the research methods in the small groups. For example, Microsoft researcher Phil Fawcett discussed the diary group's challenge to interpret visual as well as textual data and to deal with stories, music, video, drawings and SMS text messages. Sanghee Oh, assistant professor at Florida State University, noted that the textual analytics group identified a need "not just to stick with the text but to expand the scope to other objects created by users."
Rong Tang of Simmons College reported from the cognitive approaches group on issues of mental models and both group and individual cognition in the investigation of information processing in the mind. Shuyuan Ho, assistant professor at Florida State University, shared two key observations from the usability and HCI discussion group: 1) paired users might be preferable to a solitary individual in implementing think-aloud techniques, since this gives the research participant a more natural sense of talking to another person and 2) eye tracking can be deceptive in that looking at something is not necessarily equivalent to thinking about it.
From the critical approaches group, Maria Souden, postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin, spoke of the need to be more critical about our discipline, our assumptions as researchers and our own power. Gary Burnett of Florida State University summarized for the content analysis group noting the need for careful definitions, as there can be slippage from intention in the encoding of language within documents and texts.
Lynn Westbrook of University of Texas at Austin of the online and virtual methods group noted the issue in research approaches of respect for the authenticity of online worlds. After being challenged to sum up the online and virtual methods group's discussion in just one sentence, Westbrook replied with a haiku:
shadow truth cuts hearts
shoving in old methods
re-create our space.
Westbrook recited a limerick to complete her summary:
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2012 SIG/USE Travel and Research Awards
At the conclusion of the SIG/USE Symposium, awards chair Gary Burnett presented the results of the 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE awards for travel and research (for more information, see http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/). The 2012 SIG/USE Student Travel Award of $500 to help support student travel to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting went to Laura Christopherson, doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose research is in the area of social media and games. Roberto González-Ibáñez, doctoral student at Rutgers University, received $200 for the 2012 Interdisciplinary Travel Award to support travel to alternative conference venues for presenting research. González-Ibáñez studies collaborative searching and computer-mediated communication.
The 2012 SIG/USE Best Behavior Conference Paper of $200 was given to University of Maryland researchers June Ahn, Mega Subramaniam, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Amanda Waugh, Greg Walsh and Allison Druin, who studied youth as online storyteller and information creators in "Youth Identities as Remixers in an Online Community of Storytellers: Attitudes, Strategies, and Values" [4]. The paper examined the remix as an emerging information practice among youth. This award honors the best paper presented on information behavior at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
University of Michigan researchers Ji Yeon Yang and Soo Young Rieh received the 2012 SIG/USE Best Conference Poster Award of $200 for their research using diaries and interviews to examine information seeking and advice provision in the workplace (Dual Roles in Information Mediation at Work: Analysis of Advice-Receiving and Advice-Providing Diary Surveys). The award honors the best poster presented at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting for the area of information behavior, broadly defined as focusing on how people construct, need, seek, manage, give and use information in different contexts.
The 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award of $1,000 went to Joung Hwa "Joy" Koo, Yong Wan Cho and Melissa Gross of Florida State University to support their research on information seeking practices of North Korean refugees (Is Ignorance Really Bliss? Understanding the Role of Information-Seeking in Coping with Severe Traumatic Stress Among Refugees). The award supports and provides funding for proposed research in information behavior, and the winning researchers return to the ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium the following year to give a presentation on the results of their research.
Pertti Vakkari of the University of Tampere in Finland was named the 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Award Winner for Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research, receiving a $500 award and induction into the ASIS&T SIG/USE Academy of Fellows. This award honors scholars who have, over a period of time, contributed in an outstanding way to the development of the information behavior research field. Vakkari's research on task-based information searching and information-seeking strategies has made significant contributions to the field of information behavior research, bridging the interactive information retrieval and information behavior fields, and in recent research he has explored the impact of technology use in public libraries in Europe. Vakkari's international impact on the field of information behavior, seeking and use is also seen in his efforts toward launching and supporting two important conferences in the field, CoLIS and ISIC: Information Behavior in Context.
SIG/USE Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award Presentations
The SIG/USE Symposium concluded with two research presentations delivered by the 2011 and 2012 Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award winners. This year's winner Joung Hwa "Joy" Koo delivered a five-minute presentation on her proposed research, followed by 2011 Chatman Award winner Julie Hersberger with a 20-minute presentation on research completed over the past year.
Joy Koo, a doctoral student at Florida State University, spoke first about her proposed research with Yong Wan Cho and Melissa Gross (Is Ignorance Really Bliss? Understanding the Role of Information-Seeking in Coping with Severe Traumatic Stress Among Refugees). In the tradition of Elfreda Chatman's work on the information worlds of underrepresented groups, the proposed research follows the information seeking practices of North Korean refugees living in South Korea. The work will focus on the relationship between symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the refugees' information needs and seeking behaviors.
Julie Hersberger, associate professor of University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the 2011 SIG/USE Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award winner, closed the symposium with a presentation of her award-winning research on information needs and information-seeking strategies of the homeless (A Resilience and Information Behavior Model: Understanding Information Roles and Use Outcomes in Homeless Populations). Hersberger found that catalysts for the need to be resilient could include disasters as well as life events such as illness or job loss. Those among the homeless that she described as functioning with high affect and low cognition tended to demonstrate denial, a low sense of self-efficacy and an "external locus of control" in perceiving themselves as not in control of their own destiny [5]. Among the homeless that Hersberger spoke with, she observed that "nobody thought that they were not resilient," and those who were chronically homeless believed themselves to be "resilient because they were not dead." Hersberger also commented on an observed phenomenon of "resilience by proxy" in which homeless individuals felt that they needed to be resilient for someone else. Hersberger's work may lead to ways for performing assessments that may be useful in tailoring information services to individual needs.
The 2012 SIG/USE Symposium in Baltimore was the culmination of the efforts of symposium organizer Jeanine Williamson, University of Tennessee, along with planning committee members Karen Fisher, University of Washington; Lisa Given, Charles Sturt University, Australia; Lorri Mon, Florida State University; Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan; Chirag Shah, Rutgers University; Maria Souden, University College Dublin, Ireland; Rong Tang, Simmons College; Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Bo Xie, University of Texas; and Guo Zhang, Indiana University. We look forward to the 2013 ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium in Montreal, Canada.


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As Michael Laudrup said, it was a fantastic achievement to keep clean sheets against the European Champions in two legs of a semi-final. For all Chelsea's possession, Gerhard Tremmel only had to make one decent save all night.
Fairy tale
As I write, Sky Bet have Swansea 4/11 on to win February's League Cup final against Bradford and I can't say I'm surprised.
But as Laudrup was quick to point out last night, Bradford have already beaten three Premier League sides en route to Wembley and he won't treat them lightly.
I heard one radio commentator say they are going there for a 'day out', that getting to Wembley is their equivalent of winning the Cup. But I disagree.
Bradford will go there with nothing to lose. For a lot of the players - if not all of them - this will be the greatest moment of their careers and as much as I admire Swansea, I wouldn't totally write Bradford off. As Laudrup put it: "This final is between the small fairy tale and the huge fairy tale."
In some ways Bradford's approach against Villa was not dissimilar to Swansea's against Chelsea, in as much as they fought for everything and the final aggregate score of 4-3 to Bradford was flatteringly close for Villa in the end. Bradford created the better chances in the second half, while there seemed to be no rhyme nor reason to Villa's game.
The man who impressed me most was 35-year-old Gary Jones, who has spent all of his career in the lower leagues, playing more than 500 games for Rochdale.
In the last few minutes when Villa had finally got the goal which gave them half a chance, Jones was putting his foot on the ball in the middle of midfield, spraying it around; unlike some of the headless chickens in the opposition, he was calmness personified.
He can't ever have imagined that he'd be leading a team out as skipper in a Wembley final in the twilight of his career. It's one of the great stories in football right now.
Jeff's Gem of the Week
Millwall is no easy place to go, so all credit to Sean Dyche and Burnley for their 2-0 win on Saturday - particularly as their away form has been their Achilles heel in the past. Sean was treated incredibly harshly at Watford but he seems to have put all that behind him now. I've been fortunate enough to meet him on a number of occasions when he's been on the Soccer Saturday panel. He is a bear of a man but also someone who is incredibly tactically aware and knows football's footballers inside out.You could ask him a question about pretty much any player in any of the league teams and he'd know the answer.
I thought that any club that picked up Sean would be very fortunate, so much so that I recommended him to Hartlepool only for Burnley to come along before we got our bid in! Burnley are making light of the fact that Charlie Austin is injured at the moment and are marching up the table regardless. It would be no surprise to me if Burnley finish up in the play-offs and, who knows, they might end up in the Premier League.


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Emma Pullman | November 3, 2011
By Emma Pullman • Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 20:14
The AFL-CIO's America's Building Trades Unions and Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee are attempting to co-opt the Occupy movement with a new initiative to try to get the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline approved. Jobs for the 99% likens the growing celebrity support against the Keystone XL pipeline to an occupation of sorts. "Celebrities are taking over DC" the website says, and "Hollywood's elite 1% should stop flying to DC and speaking out against jobs that help the other 99% of America!"
Pitting celebrity support of anti-Keystone efforts against average Americans, "Jobs for the 99%" tells us that wealthy celebrities are killing valuable jobs, and that by telling the White House to support Keystone XL, "we" can act in solidarity with the 99%.
You gotta hand it to them, it's a bold move. But here's why it's misleading and you shouldn't buy it. Hijacking the occupy movement to create a climate killing pipeline is a boon to the 1% who will harvest the profits. The 99% only get a few short term jobs (or not), not long term sustainable employment. That's why oil and gas companies, some of the largest and most notoriously corrupt corporations in the world, are backing this astroturf campaign with some serious funding.
And they're handing down the public health and environmental costs associated with a potential spill - and the "game over" climate change that expanding tar sands production will cause - back to the 99%.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Corporations trying to
Corporations trying to identify with the OWS protests are crazy. These people don't want jobs, they want to congregate in big groups and not have jobs.
For a month the media has been trying to identify goals and exit stategies of the protesters.
Their goal isn't about getting jobs or changing the tax code or even bringing about socialism. Their goal is to protest, to demonstrate, to congregate - to occupy. Thats the beginning and the end of it.
Corporations need to see that and keep a distance from the whole mess.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
Wow...and you know all this
Wow…and you know all this how? Indepth personal interviews with each protester?
If you look at the site...
You'll realize that it has nothing to do with the occupy movement. Its just a PR campaign grafted on top pretending to represent their interests.
Clearly the protestors concerns aren't being considered. Although I would guess that a few could be swayed by it. Guys looking for heavy construction or other manual labour would be overjoyed. The lack on any real meaningful permanent jobs though is a bigger concern IMO.
RickJames replied on Permalink
In any crowd there are
In any crowd there are individuals with a variety of purposes and motivation but I think we both see what's going on here. A normal protest lasts an hour or two but a tent city that lasts indefinetely is something else. If it happens in Africa, it's a refugee camp and the people are running away from being killed. If it happens all over the place in western society, bored self righteous nuts are trying to be a part of something that roughly equates to Woodstock, the proudest moment of hippiedom where a whole bunch of people sat around in the mud and listened to advice to avoid the brown acid.
I think you're confused.
(I'm a 1%er if you must know.)
This isn't a protest. Its a movement, and like many previous movements, its starting with an aimless wandering.
Many of these folks have been sold a future that never materialized. In the old days, it was a slam dunk. Get an education, get a job, get a mortgage, enjoy your life. These days its not quite the case.
Where I live in Alberta we've got some occupiers (not many), but for the life of me I cannot understand what they are upset about. We have an extremely low unemployment rate, and obviously the future in Alberta is pretty clear. Oil.
Watch that video I posted previously. Again, I'm no marxist but it made a lot of sense. We've squeezed our workers to the point where their futures are uncertain, and their wages are low. Its vicious circle because companies want people to buy things (keeping the economy going), all the while squeezing wages to the point that they can't afford anything.
Solution? Credit. But is that really a solution? Given the global financial melt down I'd say that Credit was a bad solution.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Most people in the world
Most people in the world today are poor and Most people throughout history have been relatively impoverished.
Today - in the west few people are truly poor. For example my boss is possibly a thousand times richer than me but there is nothing she has that I need. I have a good enough car, I have a place, clothes, gadgets, other general stuff and some savings. She's the 1 % but how is her life any better than mine? I'd say her life is better in no way that matters and that's a scenario that is repeated over and over.
Many young people in this movement are upset because they are poor relative to the 1%.
They have dreams of 6 figure incomes and exotic vacations and the best stuff that can be had.
To bad for them. Life isn't fair - some people fly in private jets to exotic places but most people live with less.
The truth is - the ordinary person in the west is fabulously rich compared to most people in poorer parts of the world.
Rick's not being vile...
I feel as though I'm on a tread mill to get ahead. And I don't like it.
This has been coming for a long time. My father always complained about being able to afford less and less as time went by. (He was only a Dentist.)
Compared to the rest of the world we are never the less extremely wealthy. (That's what I tell myself every night.)
However, Rick, you are missing an essential point which is that the 99% can afford less and less in relative terms as the years have gone on. The implication is that our economy is collapsing. Who in our society were we planning to build and sell products too? The 99%?
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
Rick is obviously a seasoned
Rick is obviously a seasoned veteran of protests, having participated in numerous sit-ins, love-ins, be-ins, occupations, Arab rebellions, African revolutions, Latin American counter-insurgencies and even hockey riots. When Rick pretends to tell us what each and every protester does for a living, and guides us as to what a 'normal' protest is, and what kind of demographic makes up any given protest, we should just take his word for it over the internet. Because after all, Rick has the experience and knowledge to make instant judgments about other people's lives.
RickJames replied on Permalink
I guess I'm just prejudiced
I guess I'm just prejudiced against brazen disregard for public and private property, grotesque city camping with open sex and drugs and violence and filth, dead 23 year old women in tents, the shouting of profanities at police and law abiding citizens and the sneering self righteous "world owes me a living" attitude of self important losers. (I watch the news sometimes) This "movement" is lawless and useless and everyday we see evidence that authorities are preparing to end it.
RalphNader replied on Permalink
You nailed it
Rick once again you have summed up the situation nicely. Here we have a bunch of self entitled first world brats seeking attention.
cuffy miegs replied on Permalink
Exactly. Their little temper
Exactly. Their little temper tantrum isn't about getting jobs, because they don't want jobs.
As we can see, professional environmental activists are completely on-board with the occuposers – they don't want them to have jobs, either.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
We're playing stereotypes?
We're playing stereotypes? Ok, let me try…
Elitiist, latte-sipping internet trolls log on to wail and moan about protests they don't undertand and don't want to understand. They sneer at those who deign to stand up and criticize the system. These elitist internet trolls don't want to hear or see anything that contradicts their smug, self-satisfied worldview. The system is perfect, it's the 99% who are faulty.
That was fun, thanks!
The world is struggling through a crisis of capitalism.
I found the following RSA Animate talk quite interesting;
Its a little too anti capitalist for my taste, and even makes it all out like some sort of coordinated conspiracy, however it was still enlightening.
GaryWilliams replied on Permalink
'that was actually very good
Not sure I followed it all but it did indeed illistrate some good points and spelled out some clear problems…
All in all a good vid.
Thanks for shareing
cuffy miegs replied on Permalink
"But let's be clear: if we
"But let's be clear: if we want to create a lot of jobs, we should work to create a a clean energy economy that will create lasting jobs and a sustainable future …"
Yes, just look at how many jobs a boondoggle like Solyndra created – and it only cost over half a billion dollars of taxpayer's money.
"… not more short-term profits for rich oil executives."
Much better the money goes directly into the pockets of 'one-percenters' who are well-connected cronies of the Democrats and the Obama administration, like George Kaiser.
At least when oil companies make a profit, we get something useful in exchange – not a smoking hole in the ground where all the public funds disappear forever.
I don't agree with your math...
How much does your oil cost you? You pay huge amounts in taxes to support the oil industry, and the military. You prop up evil despots and vile tyrants. You've spend much more than some half billion dollars proping them up.
You are paying way more than your pump price for your oil.
This cost is so blatently obvious, that in Canada we have the 'Ethical Oil' campaign trying to tout Canada as being much more ethical to deal with and much less expensive (because you don't need a military) than other countries.
To argue otherwise means you have no ethics. (At least according to Canadian Conservatives.)
RickJames replied on Permalink
We live in an age of American
We live in an age of American imperial strength. For better or worse America sets the world in a certain order and if America adopted Ron Paul policies of international non involvement, the world would be different. I don't know for sure if it would be better or worse but I suspect it would be more dangerous. For example I think the $15B. (wikipededia) annual losses to Sea Piracy would skyrocket without the constant police threat of the American military.
Demonstrated American power may well be keeping a lid on things.
By comparison, if we dramatically scaled back police and prison systems, organized crime would literally take over everything. If there were no police, judges and prisons, crime would rule.
Pax Americana such as it is, runs on oil
Well Said.
I don't know if I really agree, but well said.
I don't think the world needs to run on oil, 'just 'cause.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
"By comparison, if we
"By comparison, if we dramatically scaled back police and prison systems, organized crime would literally take over everything. If there were no police, judges and prisons, crime would rule"
In other words, no different than the way things are now under a different organized crime rule by banksters.
Wonder how we ever managed without police, judges and prisons for hundreds of thousands of years.
RickJames replied on Permalink
The way it was managed was by
The way it was managed was by a system of strong men who gatherered enough support to be the local authority until some other strong man took him out. Local warlords sometimes advanced to fame and started empires. Success as a warlord requires a willingness to fight to the death and inspire the support of others. The warlords word is law and warlord law involves crushing opposition without mercy. Today we call it organized crime. That becomes the system without judges, prisons and police. A "bankster" is not a warlord or a criminal. He's just a guy who has more money than you. No need to whine about it.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
Wow..you managed to prove you
Wow..you managed to prove you know absolutely nothing about history, world geo-politics, anthropology or capitalism—all in one post! Congratulations.
cuffy miegs replied on Permalink
You can disagree with my math
You can disagree with my math all you want, unfortunately math isn't subject to personal opinion.
Either you don't actually understand the ethical oil argument, or you have definitely misrepresented it here. I have never heard any Canadian conservative argue that buying oil from Canada is "cheaper" than buying it from Saudi Arabia.
If anything, a variation on what you have presented, is an actual argument which I have heard ethical oil advocates use. It goes as follows:
IF you accept the classic liberal canard that the US engages in foreign military adventures simply to obtain oil, then you have to accept the costs associated with such operations would be eliminated by doing business with a friendly country like Canada.
This is not to say that any conservative is seriously suggesting that the US is in the habit of invading foreign countries to steal their oil – it is simply to short-circuit a rather laughable, yet often repeated, liberal talking-point. Ie., the old "no blood for oil" slogan.
And your liberal premise is false not only on the face of it, but so are the assumptions on which you build from.
"How much does your oil cost you? You pay huge amounts in taxes to support the oil industry, and the military."
You've got it backwards. Taxes don't support the oil industry. The oil industry is a hugely positive revenue source for the government. In other words, the oil industry supports the government.
"You prop up evil despots and vile tyrants. You've spend much more than some half billion dollars proping them up."
Firstly, I don't know that the US "props up evil despots, etc." more than any other government. Most of your solar panels come from China. How do like propping up those "evil despots"?
In any case, the US doesn't have to invade or support any particular country simply to buy their oil. If they did, then US occupation troops would be in Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela right now. And those, by the way, are the United States' major sources of foreign oil.
"You are paying way more than your pump price for your oil."
Yes, in Canada it's mostly taxes.
Even if what you claim were true (and it isn't), that US taxpayers are being raped to support their military, so they can get oil, then how do you explain the fact that the US overal tax and non-tax government revenue is 28% of GDP, while in Canada it is a whopping 38% of GDP.
And yet, mysteriously, the pump price of gasoline in the US is significantly cheaper than in Canada.
By golly, if less expensive fuel and lower taxes are the result of having our military invade foreign countries to steal their oil, then I say we Canadians should do the same!
"This cost is so blatently obvious, that in Canada we have the 'Ethical Oil' campaign trying to tout Canada as being much more ethical to deal with and much less expensive (because you don't need a military) than other countries."
That highlighted part is pretty much your own embellishment. As I've said, I have never heard that particular argument being made by any ethical oil advocate – mainly, because it's rather stupid.
"To argue otherwise means you have no ethics. (At least according to Canadian Conservatives.)"
No, that would actually be according to you. If you can point out where any notable Canadian conservative has said anything like that, please be so good as to direct us to it.
Sure about that?
(Point taken about the US miltary abroad for oil. I conceed on that.)
However straight from the conservative horses Mouth;
"…Canada's resolve to grow market share in the United States, largely at the Saudis expense, diminishing their influence over a country they counted on for military and political support."
I suppose my comment about 'no ethics' is incorrect. Its definitely implied. If supporting ethical oil is ethical, then supporting the other stuff, is unethical. i.e. Not supporting Oil Sands is supporting the Saudis which; "Human Rights Watch have publicly and thoroughly documented Saudi atrocities while American interest groups have been raising alarms over the royal family's funding of terrorist groups like al Qaeda."
I didn't mean proping up tyrants in a blaming way. Its not like its your fault. I'm trying say that I don't think its right and it does have a cost. This blood cost is very central to the Ethical Oil point of view. [see above] (I'm not so squeamish to think they we don't do nasty things abroad. I just don't like it.)
Taxes… you're comparing apples and oranges, and somehow concluding something.
In Canada, our taxes include medical. Americans pay $500 a month (each) for significantly less coverage that we have. (I hate to say it, but I think we should pay more. And yeah, I really do like some of the things the conservatives are doing, like building up the military. That costs more.)
cuffy miegs replied on Permalink
"However straight from the
"However straight from the conservative horses Mouth;
"…Canada's resolve to grow market share in the United States, largely at the Saudis expense, diminishing their influence over a country they counted on for military and political support."
Yes, so where does it say anything about buying oil from Canada is less expensive than from Saudi Arabia? There are a lot of good reasons to diminish the influence Saudis have on US policy, I hardly think saving money would be one of them – nor does Ethicaloil.org claim that.
"I suppose my comment about 'no ethics' is incorrect. Its definitely implied. If supporting ethical oil is ethical, then supporting the other stuff, is unethical. i.e. Not supporting Oil Sands is supporting the Saudis"
I don't see any contradiction there, and I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make.
"In Canada, our taxes include medical. Americans pay $500 a month (each) for significantly less coverage that we have."
US taxes also go toward health care – in fact, significantly more so than in Canada. US government per capita health care expenditures are 23% higher than Canada.
Radical analysis of Occupy not found in US media
Interesting that I am reading a Univ of Texas journalism professor in Al Jazeera…
"We need to recognise that the crises we face are not simply the result of greedy corporate executives or corrupt politicians, but rather of failed systems. The problem is not the specific people who control most of the wealth of the country, or those in government who serve them, but the systems that create those roles."


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|Omaha Tribe of Indians. Judgement funds.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from the funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska that were appropriated by the Act of June 9, 1964, to pay a judgment obtained by the tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 138, after deduction of attorney fees, litigation expenses, and such sums as may be required to distribute individual shares, the Secretary of the Interior shall make a per capita distribution of no more than $270 to each person living on the date of this Act whose name appears on the roll of the tribe prepared pursuant to Section 1 of the Act of September 14, 1961 (75 Stat. 508), and to each child living on the date of this Act who was born after September 14, 1961, and who possesses aboriginal Omaha blood of the degree of one-fourth or more except for any such child who is enrolled with any other tribe of Indians. The balance of such funds, and the interest thereon, may be advanced or expended for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary. The amount of $150,000 of said funds and any interest thereon shall not be distributed, advanced or expended until said $150,000 and any interest thereon becomes available for disbursement pursuant to the terms of the final judgment dated April 14, 1964, by the Indian Claims Commission in docket numbered 138.
Sums payable to persons or to their heirs or legatees who are less than twenty-one years of age or who are under a legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures as the Secretary, after consultation with the tribal governing body, determines will adequately protect their best interests. Proportional shares of heirs or legatees amounting to $5 or less shall not be distributed and such amounts shall escheat to the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.
The funds distributed under the provisions of this Act shall not be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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One of Latin America's best culinary concoctions is pasta de guayaba, or guava paste. Made from the aromatic and seed-filled guava fruit, this paste is almost as good as candy and incredibly versatile. The Sleep Inn blogging team has a few recommendations for happy guava paste-eating as a great leisure-time activity.
On their own, guavas can be difficult to eat. Their flesh is peach-colored and sweet, but it surrounds a core of pulpy seeds that some people find unnerving. When most people eat guavas right off the tree, they either swallow the seeds whole or spit them out, often making for messy eating. Another drawback to the guava is its attractiveness to worms. Any fruit that lands on the ground almost immediately becomes a home for worms, making tree-climbing a near-requirement for the enjoyment of the fresh fruit.
Guava paste solves all of these problems. Made by cooking the guava flesh with some sugar, the paste has no seeds and, of course, no worms. It's also conveniently available in every grocery store. In Costa Rica, the paste often comes in flat rectangular "bars," perfect for slicing and eating plain. However, several interesting combinations can enliven the basic guava paste.
Some people layer squares of guava paste and cheese, spearing both with a toothpick. Queso fresco, the mild Costa Rican cheese, is an ideal cheese accompaniment to guava paste. The layered mouthful is a charming combination of sweetness and mild creaminess, and it makes a perfect hors d'oeuvre.
Other people enliven their guava paste-cheese combination with a cocktail onion. The addition of the onion provides a tangy and crunchy counterpart to the fruit and cheese.
Guava paste is so mild and sweet that it also pairs nicely with very spicy flavors. Some people like to eat it with jalapeño, a tingling treat for lovers of the classic sweet/spicy flavor combination.
Of course, guava paste can substitute for jam or jelly in any kind of sandwich or bread combination. Some cooks also use it as a glaze for ham or pork, and others use it in the place of jam in baked fruit desserts.
We recommend guava paste in all its forms, and we welcome blog readers to write and let us know about their own guava paste concoctions.
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Twincest; Girls on FilmBy Lorin Stein
The Downton Abbey craze has led to a plethora of recommendations for books on the World War I era of Britain. I'm interested in this era for the States. What good novels are out there about this time frame, preferably set in New England?
Much obliged,
A few near misses: Ethan Frome (1911) begins in 1910 in rural Massachusetts, but the main action occurs in the 1890s. Main Street (1921) describes a small town during the war years, but it's set in Minnesota. Sadie's favorite Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy (1916) is set in Vermont—but it's for children. Our Town is of course a play. Spoon River Anthology is set in Illinois and is, of course, a book of poems … but if you want New England life in the early twentieth century, I can't help recommending the Tilbury poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson, e.g., Children of the Night (1921), which includes the sonnet "Rueben Bright":
Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did right),
I would not have you think that Reuben Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that night,
And made the women cry to see him cry.
And after she was dead, and he had paid
The singers and the sexton and the rest,
He packed a lot of things that she had made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.
Closer to the bull's-eye: The Late George Apley (1938) or Point of No Return (1949), both by John P. Marquand. The former traces the decline of a Boston Brahmin family between the Civil War and the Depression. The latter concerns a Don Draper–ish New York banker, Charles Gray, who has tried to bury his humble beginnings in Clyde, Massachusetts. The past—i.e., the twenties—catches up with Charles in the person of Malcolm Bryant, a sociologist who published a study of Clyde. Point of No Return may be set a little late, but it's funny and evocative and pure pleasure to read.
Previous advice columns have addressed the question of good movie adaptations of novels. What I'm wondering is, what books have you wished would be translated into film?
Sadie writes: I feel a certain kind of nerd (and I'm describing myself) devotes an undue amount of time to pondering these questions. I have never understood, for instance, why Georgette Heyer novels (specifically The Grand Sophy) have never gotten the miniseries treatment—I mean, Netflix tells me that there are dozens of lurid Catherine Cookson adaptations, but the infinitely more clever, subtle, and (I daresay) historically accurate Heyer has generated nary a one? (Okay, that's an exaggeration—a vigilant fan site tells me that there has been a spoof of The Reluctant Widow and a German adaptation of Arabella.)
It is a favored pastime among Barbara Pym fans to ponder wholly inappropriate casting choices for adaptations of Excellent Women. I am not exempt from this practice.
Others I'd personally like to see: The Secret History; the entire Betsy-Tacy canon (also, by necessity, a miniseries. Very high-budget); The Little Stranger; The True Deceiver (in my fantasy world, Bergman adapts this); The Sea, The Sea (I see Ian McKellan in the lead); The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll; The Art of Fielding. Some of these, obviously, are more likely than others. Read More


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Today's guest blogger is Sharpie Squad member, Linda Ellett of the popular L'Esperence Tile Works on Etsy.com. Linda, who has been on the squad for two years, is a professional artist specializing in decorating pottery with Sharpie markers. Celebrating 31 years of tile-making with L'Esperence Tile Works, every one of Ellett's tiles is handmade and hand-glazed in her upstate New York studios! Take some time to get to know Linda Ellett…
Hello Sharpieland!
I'd like to take a moment and introduce myself…..My name is Linda Ellett, and I live in Rock City Falls, just outside Saratoga Springs, in upstate NY. I'm a ceramic artist who creates handmade tiles for a living, and that's how I got to be on the Sharpie Squad for the last 2 years. I decided to create a line of tiles entitled "A Day in My Life"….and, of course, one of those hand carved tiles was of a Sharpie. Why? Well, I think the inscription on the back of the tile says it all: "I can't live without my Sharpie". And it's true!
I must have a Sharpie near me at all times, even when I'm asleep. My motto "A Sharpie a day, keeps me healthy, wealthy and wise". Or something like that. Sharpie rocks!


text: In the new issue of Star, they claim that Nick Lachey was at a pre-Grammy party and latched onto Stuart Brazell which, I also agree is the most unusual name for a woman I have heard in quite some time. The only thing crazier would be if someone named their daughter Maxwell or something. Anyway, at this party, Vanessa Lachey was nowhere to be found and Nick, who will be away from home all summer long with thousands of women begging to be with him hung out with Stuart for hours. Apparently he would not leave her side and begged her for her phone number so they could continue talking after the party. You know for business. He needs an assistant on the road for the tour or something. Costume mistress?


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Badin, N.C. - Alisiya Klochkova recorded the lowest front nine of the golfers who took the field at the Pfeiffer Intercollegiate at the Badin Resort & Inn and sit in a tie for second overall, one stroke back behind tournament leader Steph Peareth, as the Tornados are third overall in the two-day event.
The Tornados recorded a 351 as a team score in the first round, led by Klochkova's 74, while Marliana Garman is also in the top 10 in the event, sitting tied for 10th overall with a first round score of 88.
Emily Smith finished the opening round tied for 14th overall with a score of 91, while Ashley Allen is 20th overall after a first round 98. Kelsey Wyatt also challenged the field, finishing up the group in 22nd after the initial 18 holes were played.
The Tornados take on the field to conclude the two day event tomorrow morning at the Badin Resort & Inn.


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Bobby Makes Cameo On ABC's Nashville
Bobby's scene in the ABC drama Nashville didn't stay on the cutting room floor.
His quick cameo came at the beginning of episode 5 of this season when he played a reporter asking Juliette Barnes (played by Hayden Panettiere) about Rayna James losing her voice.
And now we're trying to trend the hashtag #BringBobbyBack to get Bobby back on the show!
But it was Deacon (Charles Esten) who gave Bobby the heads up his scene was still in the show!
@mrBobbyBones Feel better and sleep well, co-worker. You're still in, and you killed it.— Charles Esten (@CharlesEsten) October 24, 2013
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is my Chinese name, given to me in 1977 by Frances Yao. Many browsers are now able to display these characters in their typeset form (高德纳); hopefully this will be routinely possible as computers and Unicode help the world to get smaller.
On March 22, 1977, as I was drafting Section 7.1 of The Art of Computer Programming, I read four papers by Peter van Emde Boas that turned out to be more appropriate for Chapter 8 than Chapter 7. I wrote a five-page memo entitled ``Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion,'' and sent it to Peter on March 29 (with copies also to Bob Tarjan and John Hopcroft). The final sentence was this: ``Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.'' (Here's the full story.)


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Hot Links! How To Achieve a Yogasm
Plus: Ideal celebrity roommates, the worst movie boyfriends, and wait… Reebok's won't give you Kardashian ass?
-Nalissa Cuthbert
Sneak a peek at the trailer for "Extremely Load and Incredibly Close," featuring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. If it's anything like the bestselling novel, count me in. (TheBerry)
If given the opportunity, who wouldn't love to dorm with Gwen Stefani or Willow Smith? I'd be the "steal your clothes and makeup" kind of roommate. (CollegeCandy)
There's something called a yogasm, and I'm looking for the sign-up sheet. (YourTango)
Apparently the FTC caught on to Reebok's EasyTones, and their inability to give you Kim Kardashian's body. What? Shocking. (TheGloss)
A nostalgic ode to the happier days of grade school. (TheBerry)
Essential topics every couple should consider adding to their list of pillow talk. (YourTango)
FYI: If your date starts acting like Billy from Scream, forget his number. (TresSugar)
Style icon: Lucille Ball. Yesss. (TheGloss)


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PHILADELPHIA - Sophomores Kelsey Hay (javelin) and Sam Mattis (discus), and senior Maalik Reynolds (high jump)will each represent the University of Pennsylvania track and field teams this weekend at the finals of the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Hay will throw on Wednesday, whileReynolds and Mattis will compete Friday nightat historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
ESPN3 will stream live coverage on Wednesday and Thursday. There will be a live telecast of the NCAA Championships beginning at 7:30 p.m. (EST) on Friday and 5 p.m. (EST) on Saturday.
Hay earned her spot in the NCAA Finals of the women's javelin with a 12th-place finish at the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 29.Hay's second throw of the day landed at 48.89 meters (160 feet, 4 inches) and held on to clinch a berth in the finals. The 2014 Heptagonal champion will compete at 8:15 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday night.
A five-time All-American, Reynolds has reached the NCAA final in the outdoor high jump in each of his four seasons in the Red and Blue. The Atlanta, Ga., native qualified as one of just four to clear 2.17 meters (7-01.50 ft.) in the East Preliminary Round. He will jump at 6:20 p.m. (EST) on Friday night.
Later that night, Mattis will be competing for a national title in the men's discus at 7 p.m. (EST).Mattis broke his own school record in the discus on his first toss of the NCAA East Preliminaries and solidified his spot in the final weekend of the NCAA Championships. The only Penn athlete in history to surpass 60 meters in the event, Mattis did so for the sixth time this year with a throw of 62.13 meters (203 feet, 10 inches) to surpass his previous school record by nearly a foot and placed fourth in Jacksonville.
All three Quakers heading to Oregon this weekend hold the school record in their respective events. This will mark the first trip to the finals of the NCAA Championships for both Hay and Mattis and the seventh of Reynolds' career (four outdoor, three indoor).
The last Penn athlete to win a national championshipwas in 2003whenSam Burley claimed the national title in the outdoor 800 meters and Brian Chaput did so with an Ivy League record in the javelin.
A full recap of the opening rounds of the NCAA Championships will be available at PennAthletics.com shortly after the conclusion of each day's events.


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These incredible ceramic sculptures by Christiane Haase are unlike anything I've ever seen. Wow.
These incredible ceramic sculptures by Christiane Haase are unlike anything I've ever seen. Wow.
"Level quatre – VIII" screen prints on fabric by French artist Damien Tran, one half of Palefroi (with Marion Jdanoff) based in Berlin, Germany. More images below.
Enjoy the mind-melting type work of Amsterdam-based designer Hansje van Halem. I've been staring at these way too long! More images below!
Artist Kamea Hadar has just completed what is now the largest portrait in the state of Hawaii; a 14-story mural of Hina, the Hawaiian Goddess of the moon. Under the guidance of another artist John Hina aka Prime, Hadar's work continues to explore a modern-day form of mo'olelo or ancient Hawaiian storytelling.
See more images (all shot by photographer Andrew Tran) of the massive mural below.
A selection of work by Korean illustrator Bang Sangho. More images below.
A selection of work by illustrator Ward Zwart. More images below.


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Few IT projects are more frightening than data integration and reconciliation. Actually, let us rephrase that. One thing is more frightening -- when data integration goes bad.
Data projects can go bad in many ways. Here are five of the most common: what went wrong, what happened as a result, and what you can do to avoid having the same thing happen to you. The names of the companies involved have been obscured to protect the guilty. Don't let your own project become someone else's horror story.
1. The "Dear Idiot" letter
Be careful where you get your data – it may come back to haunt you. This tale of terror comes from the customer call center of a large financial services institution. As in nearly all help desks, service reps take calls and enter customer information into a shared database.
This particular database had a salutation field that was editable. Instead of being constrained to Mr., Ms., Dr., etc., the field could accept 20 or 30 characters of whatever the rep typed. As service reps listened to the complaints of angry customers, some of them began adding their own, not entirely kind, notes to each record, like, "what an idiot this customer is."
This went on for years. No one noticed because no other system in the organization pulled data from that salutation field. Then, one day, the marketing department decided to launch a direct mail campaign to promote a new product. They came up with a brilliant idea. Instead of purchasing a list, why not use the service desk database?
So the letters went out: "Dear Idiot Customer John Smith."
Strangely, no customers signed up for the new service. It wasn't until the organization began examining its outgoing mail that it figured out why. The moral of this story?
"We don't own our data any more," says Arvind Parthasarathi, vice president of product management and data quality for data integration specialists Informatica. "The world is so interconnected that it's likely someone will pick up your information and use it in a way you never anticipated. Because you're pulling data from everywhere, you need to make sure you have the right level of data quality management before you use it for anything new."
What constitutes the "right level" will vary depending on how you use the data. "In the direct mail industry, getting 70 to 80 percent of your data correct is probably good enough," he adds. "In the pharmaceutical industry, you want to be at 99 percent or better. But no company really wants, needs, or will pay for perfect data; it's just too expensive. The issue always is, how will it be used and at what point is it good enough?"
2. Dead men cast no votes
Data cleansing can be a matter of life and death -- literally. PR specialist Nancy Kirk was volunteering in the congressional elections of 2006, calling registered voters to get them to the polls, when she noticed something odd: Three out of ten voters she dialed were deceased and thus ineligible to vote (except in certain precincts in Chicago).
The problem of having data that is literally dead is not uncommon in the commercial world, and it has real consequences for the living.
Jim Keyser, president of The Keane Organization's Investor Retention and Communication Solutions division, has spent the past year rolling out an investor data quality program for Keane's clients, which include major insurance companies, mutual funds, and Fortune 500 firms.
Keyser says they often find 8 to 15 percent of clients' data records contain anomalies such as mistyped Social Security numbers or outdated addresses. But about one in five of those anomalies is a shareholder who's been dead for more than five years. In one case, a client had an "active" account for a shareholder who last drew breath more than 72 years ago.
"This isn't client negligence, it's just a naturally occurring problem," Keyser says. Private companies go public, change names, get acquired, or spun off, and their shareholder data follows along, often for decades.
But the consequences can be greater than just money wasted on unnecessary mail. The biggest concerns are fraud and identity theft. Some stranger could be cashing the late shareholder's dividend checks, the rightful heirs could be denied their inheritance, or confidential company info could leak out.
The solution? Software such as Keane's Score application can identify data anomalies across different systems and flag them for review. But all companies must exercise due diligence, have good internal controls, and scrutinize their data on a regular basis, says Keyser.
"Virtually every business has this problem to some degree," he says. "From a risk management point of view, the best practice is to make sure you're keeping it in check. Understanding how this natural phenomenon impacts you is a good first step."
3. Duped by duplicates
User error is bad. User ingenuity can be worse. Take the case of the major insurance carrier that kept most of its customer data within a mainframe application from the 1970s. Data entry operators were instructed to first search the database for existing records before entering new ones, but the search function was so slow and inaccurate that most operators gave up and entered the records from scratch.
The result? Individual companies ended up in the database 700 or 800 times, making the system even slower and less accurate.
Unfortunately, the application was so deeply embedded in the company's other systems that management was reluctant to spend the money to rip and replace. Finally, the carrier's IT department made the business case that the company's aging data app would ultimately prevent it from being able to add new customers, costing it $750,000 a day in new premiums.
At that point, the company used SSA-Name3 by Identity Systems to clean the data, ultimately weeding out 36,000 duplicate records.
Dupes are one of those problems that keep IT managers up at night. The larger your database, the worse the problem usually is, says Ramesh Menon, a director at Identity Systems, which provides identity searching and matching software for organizations such as AT&T, FedEx, and the Internal Revenue Service.
Unfortunately, nobody knows how big their problem is, he says. "If anybody tells you 'I have exactly 2.7 percent duplicates in my customer database,' they are wrong."
There's no magic bullet, either. Menon says the solution lies in using data matching technology to isolate "the golden record," a singular view of information across multiple data repositories. Even then, the hardest part may be getting all the vested parties in an organization to agree on what data they're willing to share, as well as what constitutes a match.
"Two different sections of the same organization may have completely different definitions of what a match or duplicate contact is," he says. "These kinds of integrations fall apart because people can't agree about who owns the data or what information can be exchanged with others."
4. When data decays
Remember text-based adventure games such as Zork? Apparently, somebody somewhere is still making these things. Worse, they're using data that's equally ancient.
MailChimp co-founder Ben Chestnut tells the story of an old-school games developer that used MailChimp's e-marketing service to contact 10,000 previous customers, alerting them that he'd finally finished version two. Most of the addresses were at least 10 years old -- some of them Hotmail accounts discarded so long ago that Microsoft was using the addresses as spam traps. Within a day, all MailChimp e-mail was blacklisted by Hotmail's spam filter.
Fortunately for MailChimp, the developer had kept pristine records, down to the IP address each customer had used to download his games. That's what saved them, says Chestnut. "We fired off a quick note to Hotmail's abuse desk -- proved they were legitimate customers, just old. The next day we got delisted. That's pretty rare."
All data ages quickly, but contact data ages faster than most.
"You have to make the assumption that data decays like a radioactive sample," says Informatica's Parthasarathi. "You have to go into every system and periodically update it."
Jigsaw.com, an online contacts database geared toward sales professionals, takes a Wiki-style approach to data cleansing. Its 335,000 members get points for uploading their own contacts to Jigsaw and correcting others. Every record must be complete, and if Jigsaw users enter information that's incorrect or old, they lose points. Members spend their points by buying information for people they want to reach.
Jigsaw CEO Jim Fowler says an Atlanta-based technology company recently asked his firm to compare its contacts databases to Jigsaw's and weed out the bad data.
"They had 40,000 records," he says. "Only 65 percent of them were current and 100 percent were incomplete. We're finding that most of our corporate customers have sets of data so cruddy no one can match to them. Corporations spend millions on CRM, and it's amazing how bad that data is."
The real value is not the data itself, but the ability to keep up with how quickly it changes.
"The power of Jigsaw is complete data and self-cleansing," says Fowler. "If our self-correcting mechanisms don't work, we're just another crappy data company."
5. The war on error
The difference between good data and bad can be as small as a single dot. Penny Quirk, principal consulting manager at Robbins-Gioia's Records and Information Optimization Practice Area, says she once consulted on a major data integration project where everything seemed to go fine. Six months later someone opened a data table and found rows of symbols but no data.
"It was a character coding error," says Quirk. "They used ellipses in some fields, and wherever someone had entered two dots instead of three it triggered the whole line of data to go corrupt."
The company had to painstakingly re-create the database from a backup, searching for the ellipses, then replacing them with the actual data.
More often than not, the problem is more than mere data entry errors or garbage in/garbage out. Most organizations fail to adequately plan when moving data between different operating systems or upgrading from older versions of SQL, says Quirk. They'll do it too quickly, using whatever resources are available now with the hope of cleaning it up later. (A bad idea, she adds.) Worse, their test environments and production environments may not match, or they may test using a small subset of data, only to have big problems arise later with the data they didn't test.
"Organizations making dramatic changes in technology without putting forth the necessary time and effort to manage the data reconciliation, integration, and conversions can become victims of bad data," Quirk says. "As data is moved from one source to another, the number of chances for it to become bad is astronomical."
Quirk's advice? Don't expect IT departments to validate your data set. Get the power users who work with the data to help plan and test the integration. Before you decide to consolidate, look at all your data fields and identify the applications that may be pulling data from them. When possible, test with all your data, not just a subset because even the tiniest errors can send you and your data into a world of pain.
One final horror story illustrates just how big a small error can become.
Peter Teuten, president and CTO of Keane Business Risk Management Solutions, tells of a client that created an application to determine whether corrupt files were circulating in their systems. If the amount of corrupted data exceeded a certain threshold, the company would know to implement data protection processes.
The problem? They accidentally inverted the rule set for the data protection system; the more corrupt data it found, the better their systems appeared in the reports.
"The network was eventually infiltrated by a worm, which corrupted their files," says Teuten. "They had to rebuild most of them from scratch, which cost them millions of dollars. All from a very simple configuration and management error -- two numbers were reversed."
If that doesn't scare you into approaching your next data management project with caution, nothing will.


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|Name chg. of 3400:400 Women in Revolutionary China
|Submitting Dean
|Ronald Levant
|Submitting College
|Arts & Sciences -- Annabelle Foos x7937
|Departments Generating the Proposal
|Objection Deadline
|March 25, 2008
|Proposal Status
|Final Approval Granted
|Proposal Last Updated
|May 02, 2008 by PR Rex Ramsier
|Effective Date
|Fall 2008
|Brief Summary of Proposal
|We are updating the course names of our courses in East Asian, and particularly Chinese, history because of the significant changes in those parts of the world in the last decade. The new course name will be Gender and Culture in China. See AS-08-114 for the 500-level equivalent.
|Type of Proposal
|Course changes only
|Graduate School Endorsement Status
|Not required
|Graduate School Endorsement Updated
|February 27, 2008 by GS Heather Blake
|Institutional Research Status
|Approved with comment
|IR Comment
|Includes change in prerequisites in addition to a title change.
|IR Status Updated
|March 11, 2008 by IR Eric Sponseller
|Library Status
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|February 28, 2008 by UL Mike Tosko
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|General Education Advisory Committee Status
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|February 27, 2008 by PR Rex Ramsier
|Resource Requirements
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|February 27, 2008 by AS dean's ofc Cathy Moore
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Moving Day® DC
of Goal
$198,606 Raised
Saturday, June 3, 2017
National Sylvan Theater (Washington Monument Grounds), Washington, D.C.
Number of Teams: 78 | Event Details
To benefit the Parkinson's Foundation
Moving Day News
Saturday, June 3rd, was a day to remember. The DMV communities joined together at the National Monument at Sylvan Theater to "MOVE" for the third annual Moving Day DC. Our community was represented by 78 teams and both of our Centers of Excellence Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University Hospital and over 1,000 participants.
We are pleased to report that over $190,000 has been raised to help to improve the quality of care for people with Parkinson's disease through research, education and outreach. You still have until June 30th to raise funds to qualify for incentive prizes. Event day donations will be uploaded to the website momentarily.
Photos will be posted here soon! If you have photos of your own please post them to our Facebook at National Parkinson Foundation DC Metro Area
Everyone got moving with WERQ, JCCGW Rockville, Rock Steady Boxing Rockville, and Tai Chi in the Movement Pavilion and continued on to our 1 mile or 3 mile walk. It didn't stop there! People continued to "MOVE" throughout the morning while gathering information on local programs and services from our Resource Pavilion.
This great day would not have been possible without the work of our committee, teams, volunteers, instructors, local partners, and Sponsors: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, NeuroDerm, INOVA Health Systems, Lundbeck, Right at Home, UCB, AbbVie, Target, Home Depot, Wegman's, BJ's, Walmart, and Giant Foods.
Many thanks to our Top Performing Teams:
Shake it Off – Support Stephanie
Shaken Not Stirred
All For Ashley
We Choose Joy
Thank you all so much for your continued support and for your help in making our event a success!
It will be 'A day to move, a day to move others, a day that moves YOU!'
What does my donation help support?
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For more information about our local programs funded through Moving Day®, please click here.
Raise $500 or more and qualify for one of our great incentive prizes! To learn more about the Moving Day® Fundraising Rewards Program
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Shake it Off - Support Stephanie ($72,540.35)
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3 - All For Ashley ($10,740.00)
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The Mathematical Formula For The Perfect Family Day Out!!
Nothing makes family outings more fun than math, right? A psychologist in England came up with a mathematical formula for the perfect family day out.
Basically, enjoyment goes up based on things like spending the right amount of time together, visiting places you all like, and how much you laugh. And it goes DOWN based on things like bad weather and technology getting in the way.
Here are the seven ideal conditions for the perfect family day out, based on his formula.
1. Spending about four hours together. Kids only want to spend one or two hours with their parents, but parents want five or six. So, compromise.
2. Going to the beach, and then a fair or carnival.
3. Laughing 11 times.
4. Kissing your kids five times.
5. Hugging them six times.
6. Sunny weather.
7. No more than seven photos.


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Apparently AnnaLynne McCord is embracing the new trend of luggage styled like old boxes from your garage.
Amy Adams takes her daughter shoe shopping.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth on a beach in Costa Rica.
Marcia Cross tries to help her daughter out on the rings.
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher now get the same drinks at Starbucks. Shake things up. One of you get a latte or something.
Nicole Kidman looks pretty good here.
Same with Paula Abdul.
Anna Paquin does the solo stroll with her twins.
You know it is true love when you let your girlfriend take your son out for the day. Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson's son also seems to love guns.


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The real location of The Simpsons' Springfield revealed!
After 25 years of secrecy, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has revealed to Smithsonian Magazine that the show's fictional town of Springfield was actually based in… wait for it… Oregon!
Eventhough I stopped caring about the show a long time ago it was my favourite show growing up and revealing this is almost blasphemy! What do you think?


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Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin to speak at Mines commencement
GOLDEN, Colo., April 30, 2008 – Daniel Yergin, an internationally respected authority on energy, international politics and economics, will speak during the Colorado School of Mines commencement ceremony – where the Mines Board of Trustees will award 512 bachelor of science degrees, 125 master's degrees and 17 doctorate degrees – on May 9 at 9 a.m. on Kafadar Commons, 1500 Illinois St. in Golden.
Yergin won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which was also made into a popular eight-hour PBS/BBC television series. His subsequent book, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, was also turned into an award-winning PBS television series on globalization. Currently, he serves as CNBC's global energy expert.
He chaired the U.S. Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development, is a member of the board of the United States Energy Association, and is a member of the U.S. National Petroleum Council. Yergin recently served as vice chair of the National Petroleum Council study, "Facing the Hard Truths about Energy." He is the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas and is one of the "Wise Men" of the International Gas Union.
During the 134th commencement ceremony, honorary degrees will be awarded to Yergin, James W. Cronin, a Nobel Prize-winning emeritus professor of physics at the University of Chicago, and Mary F. Wheeler, a world-renowned expert in massive parallel-processing and a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin.
A Distinguished Achievement Medal will be presented to Vernon A. "Bud" Isaacs Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of the RIM Companies and a 1964 Mines graduate.
Founded in 1874, Colorado School of Mines was established to serve the needs of the local mining industry. Today, the School has an international reputation for excellence in both engineering education and the applied sciences with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's resources. For more information about Colorado School of Mines, visit www.mines.edu.