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E-learning is perhaps IT's greatest endeavour.
Its importance becomes self-evident when organisations or society as a whole are understood to be the product of all the human behaviours interacting within and around them. But organisations typically measure themselves in other ways. The bottom line, for example, can obscure the contribution e-learning makes; the relationship between counting beans and being able to count on people, is only now starting to moderate economic rationalism.
It's not enlightened management that's driving this technology but trainers enthused by the possibilities. E-learning has become a grass-roots phenomenon.
Typically, a line manager contacts a training package developer and, after a few iterations within a test group, the finished product goes live online. This bears a striking resemblance to the introduction of PCs in the mid-'80s, when the first applications were not spreadsheets and word processors, but development tools. If you wanted something done you had to hire a programmer or learn to write programs yourself. But with e-learning, 10 years after the advent of multimedia, line managers can now create their own training packages. E-learning desktop productivity tools are starting to come of age.
One example is Macromedia's RoboDemo, a tool designed to build e-learning simulations - especially how to drive computer programs. This is useful for getting people up to speed with departmental workflows, which often involve multiple computer applications and manual processes. Of course, one can send a worker on a course but they're unproductive for all that time. And someone will still need to hold their hand for a little while when they get back.
But with this tool, line managers can make recordings of their own computer use, which then can be quickly hammered into an e-learning simulation complete with basic quizzes and scoring. These save to Flash presentations playable on any browser or several other formats.
Another example is ToolBook Assistant 4, with this year's release having a maturity making e-learning development accessible to any power user. As an authoring tool, it operates a lot like a drawing package, with no coding required. (It can be extended by hand coding within ToolBook Instructor.) Assistant e-learning programs are built using layers of content placed on pages, ultimately forming a "book" application. This can be saved as a series of Dynamic HTML webpages. RoboDemo, on the other hand, uses a video paradigm with play-through being temporarily stopped for learner interactions.
The two technologies are very different but they share the common trait of being usable by the common people. RoboDemo is faster at courseware development - starting from a couple of hours of work, yet sometimes fiddly to use. Creating an e-learning application in Assistant is slower because it's not based on an initial application recoding. But it's probably better suited for presenting detailed concepts. By saving finished product to Flash and webpages respectively, both systems have facilities to hook into each other.
Assistant is $1495 (academic version) and RoboDemo is $830.
But what's important here is that interesting e-learning applications can be created by any power user and run on any desktop without needing additional software.
The technology has arrived. There's nothing holding e-learning back now except cultural factors.
Most corporate and community leaders don't have an e-learning plan. Yet organisations that do so will be more competitive, able to support more flexible collaborative team-based structures through the rapid dissemination of learning.
In the end, e-learning's competitive advantage will itself weed out managers who don't capitalise on its initially hidden benefits; it's impossible to put this IT genie back in the bottle.


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During this past season Meadowdale wrestling coach Brian Boardman equated Morgan Smith's work ethic with Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.
All that hard work paid off.
On Monday Smith, who won a 3A state title at 160 pounds this past February, signed a National Letter of Intent to wrestle with Simon Fraser University next season.
Simon Fraser is in British Columbia but its wrestlers compete in the NCAA.
Pair headed to Doane
Two local athletes are headed to Nebraska to continue their wrestling careers.
Snohomish's Greg Eagle and Cedarcrest's Carlos Toledano have both signed National Letters of Intent to wrestle at Doane College (NAIA) in Crete, Neb. next season.
Other signees
Meadowdale's Anne Shirey is headed to the University of Puget Sound for swimming … Marysville Pilchuck's Jordyn Nickolson is headed to Olympic College for softball … Mountlake Terrace's Riley Morgan is headed to University of Northern Iowa for swimming.


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Wildcats Post Best Big 12 Finish since 2004
Wildcats Post Best Big 12 Finish since 2004
Feb. 24, 2013
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AMES, Iowa – Kansas State came to the Big 12 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship with the feeling the Wildcats could contend for a men's championship, but came up short finishing in third place with 96 points after an impressive showing at the Leid Recreational Center this weekend. The Wildcat women came away in seventh place with a total of 41 points.
The third-place finish marks the best finish for the men's team since taking second place in 2004, and the 96 points are the most ever scored by the men at the Big 12 Championship indoors. The women's team also finished seventh last year.
"I think the things that's exciting from a team perspective is we don't lose very many points," K-State Head Coach Cliff Rovelto said. "We have a team that a lot of young athletes scored points. We should only lose two of the men who scored for us.
"We had a lot of young guys perform at a high level. I really can't find too much at fault with what we did on the men's team."
After Winter Storm Q caused travel problems for some teams and the postponement of the meet one day, action began on Friday, and K-State and the rest of the conference put up some strong numbers to make it an exciting battle for the championship on both sides.
The depth of the conference was on display as less than 10 points separated first place from third place on the women's side and less than 10 points was the difference between fifth place and eighth. For the men, only six points separated fourth place from seventh.
Erik Kynard and Zack Riley did something no teammates have ever done at the Big 12 Indoor Championship on Sunday afternoon. By claiming first and second place, the Wildcats became the first ever teammates to finish 1-2 in the men's high jump at the conference championship meet indoors.
Kynard set a new championship meet and Leid Recreational Center facility record with his jump of 2.31 meters (7-07.00) to win his third straight Big 12 indoor title. Riley went over the bar cleanly at 2.18 meters (7-01.75) and narrowly missed his attempts at 2.23 meters (7-03.75), which would have put him in contention to go to the NCAA Championship.
"It ended up being a little more difficult than I thought," Kynard said of breaking the Big 12 meet record. "It took a few more tries to get it. It's a nice facility, and it's been quite agitating for me to jump here so to speak because I haven't jumped as well here and today was an alright performance."
Riley, who won NJCAA championship at Rend Lake College before transferring to K-State said finishing 1-2 is a big accomplishment for he and Kynard and demonstrates why they both chose to wear purple and jump for the Wildcats.
"It completely defines K-State's program in the high jump," Riley said. "That's the reason why I came here to K-State was for Coach Rovelto and everything that he's done with the high jump. I knew coming in, Erik and I would be good together, especially in conference, and I'm happy with how it all ended overall for our team."
Just like the women's multi-event, the men's was an area the Wildcats dominated and scored in bunches. The trio of Devin Dick, Tomas Kirielius and Reinis Kregers combined to score 18 team points with Dick finishing second and Kirielius in third. Kregers finished fifth in his first heptathlon as a Wildcat.
Texas freshman Johannes Hock won the heptathlon, but it was an event that had a major impact on keeping the team scores close as Jake Wolhford posted a no-height in the pole vault and did not score any points toward his heptathlon total. Wolhford was in fifth place at the time, and that allowed Kregers to move up the standings and it denied Texas the opportunity to score more points in the event.
Dick posted a score of 5,603 points to rank sixth in school history. It also will come just short of going to the NCAA Championship as it ranks No. 17 so far this season. Kirielius also posted a new PR in the event with 5,537 points. His score places him eighth in school history. Kregers totaled 5,216 points over the two days of action in the heptathlon.
After the high jump and heptathlon, it was up to the remaining Wildcats in action to fight for the men's first Big 12 Conference title.
Carlos Rodriguez finished fifth in the 60 meter dash shortly after Tarique Hill claimed fourth in the 60 meter hurdles. Rodriguez also would go on to finish fourth in the 200 meters later to contribute a total of 10 points to the team total individually.
On the women's side, Richelle Farley finished eighth in the 60 meter hurdles to open the running events for the team. Freshman Tia Gamble scored three points for the team in her first Big 12 Championship meet as she claimed sixth in the 600 yards. Another freshman, Sonia Gaskin took fifth in the 800 meters in 2:09.26, good for four points.
Kyle Hanson ran one of the most exciting races of the day for the men in the 800 meters. Hanson led from gun and into the No. 4 ranked runner in the nation trailing him in Iowa State's Edward Kemboi. Over the final 50 meters it was Texas Tech's Nick Rivera that caught him, though, along with UT's Kyle Thompson and Tyler Payton as Hanson finished fourth in 1:53.16.
In the field events, freshman Alyssa Kelly placed fifth in the triple jump with her leap of 11.99 meters (39-04.00). Fellow freshman Jordan Matthews just missed scoring points as she came in ninth with a jump of 11.65 meters (38-02.75).
K-State's men also made an impact in the triple jump with a trio of newcomers in action. Freshman Devin Field claimed fourth place with a mark of 14.68 meters (48-02.00), and fellow freshman Ifeanyi Otuonye took sixth place with his leap of 14.38 meters (47-02.25). Jharyl Bowry just missed qualifying for the final and scoring points for the team as he placed ninth at 13.89 meters (45-07.00).
Sophomore Joslyn Barnes was in action in the women's high jump a day after finishing fifth in the pentathlon. Barnes managed to clear 1.71 meters (5-07.25) and finish eighth. She scored a total of five points for the team at the meet.
Martina Tresch ran her fastest time of the season in the 3,000 meters as she finished fifth and scored four points. She clocked in at 9:26.58. Her fifth-place finish also ties her placement at the 2011 Big 12 Championship. Sophomore Erika Schiller also had a good race in the event, crossing the finish line in 9:50.40. It marks her fastest time in the event on an over-sized track.
Some Wildcats will be in action next week at NCAA Last Chance meets in an effort to post a mark ranked in the top 16 in their respective events to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championship at Arkansas in two weeks.


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The minute he took this job, Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni shared several friends who are Lakers fans hardly seemed thrilled with his hire. | PHOTOS
As plenty have expressed during recent losses at Staples Center, those fans also wanted Phil Jackson. The Lakers entered Sunday's game against the Cleveland Cavaliers fielding a 10-16 record under D'Antoni. What have those Lakers fans said to him in the midst of their latest struggles?
"I don't talk to anybody," D"Antoni said. "I have friends who call and I might get back to them a month late. They know I'm messed up. I got about 85 calls, but I don't call anybody."
D'Antoni apparently won't hear those friends' voicemails, either.
"I just delete them" D'Antoni said. "I don't respond. I don't want to hear it first of all and I want to talk about something else. So I'm kind of in a cocoon."
The Lakers entered their game against Cleveland with a six-game losing streak, a first since 2007. In those losses, the Lakers allowed an average of 111.83 points per game. Meanwhile, the Lakers have absorbed injuries this season to Steve Nash (left leg), Dwight Howard (right shoulder, back), Pau Gasol (concussion, foot, knees), Jordan Hill (season-ending hip injury) and Steve Blake (lower abdominal strain).
Yes, there's very little positive Lakers news to report these days.
But D'Antoni says he at least feels well physically after having knee replacement surgery in early November,
"Although you might not know it, I'm off medication," D'Antoni said with a laugh. "I might go back on it. I was feeling pretty good about a month ago."
D'Antoni still spends about an hour each day with Lakers physical therapist Judy Seto to make his knee more mobile. D'Antoni joked "I don't think I'll ever be 100 percent" because of his age (61). But he's come a long way since carrying crutches during his first few days coaching the Lakers.
"One of the least problems we have is my health," D'Antoni said. "I'm good. We have other stuff we have to work out."


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Mitral valve surgery is surgery to either repair or replace the mitral valve in your heart.
Blood flows from the lungs and enters the left atrium of the heart. The blood then flows into the left ventricle. The mitral valve is located between these two chambers. It makes sure that the blood keeps moving forward.
You may need surgery on your mitral valve if:
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery is done through several small cuts. Another type of operation, open mitral valve surgery requires a larger cut.
Mitral valve repair - right mini-thoracotomy; Mitral valve repair - partial upper sternotomy; Robotically-assisted, endoscopic valve repair, Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty
Before your surgery you will receive general anesthesia.
You will be asleep and pain-free.
There are several different ways to perform minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.
You may need a heart-lung machine for these types of surgery. You will be connected to this device through small cuts in the groin or on the chest. If you do not need a heart-lung machine, your heart rate will be slowed by medicine or a mechanical device.
If your surgeon can repair your mitral valve, you may have:
You will need a new valve if there is too much damage to your mitral valve. This is called replacement surgery. Your surgeon will remove your mitral valve and sew a new one into place. There are two main types of new valves:
The surgery may take 2 -4 hours.
This surgery can sometimes be done through a groin artery, with no cuts on your chest. The doctor sends a catheter (flexible tube) with a balloon attached on the end. The balloon inflates to stretch the opening of the valve. This procedure is called percutaneous valvuloplasty.
You may need surgery if your mitral valve does not work properly because:
Minimally invasive surgery may be done for these reasons:
A minimally invasive procedure has many benefits. There is less pain, blood loss, and risk of infection. You will also recover faster than you would from open heart surgery.
Percutaneous valvoplasty is can only done in people who are too sick to have anesthesia. The results of this procedure are not long-lasting.
Risks for any surgery are:
Minimally invasive surgery techniques have far fewer risks than open surgery. Possible risks from minimally invasive valve surgery are:
Always tell your doctor or nurse:
You may be able to store blood in the blood bank for transfusions during and after your surgery. Ask your surgeon about how you and your family members can donate blood.
If you smoke, you must stop. Ask your doctor for help.
During the days before your surgery:
On the day of the surgery:
Expect to spend 3 - 5 days in the hospital after surgery. You will wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU) and recover there for 1 or 2 days. Nurses will closely watch monitors that display your vital signs (pulse, temperature, and breathing).
Two to three tubes will be in your chest to drain fluid from around your heart. They are usually removed 1 - 3 days after surgery. You may have a catheter (flexible tube) in your bladder to drain urine. You may also have intravenous (IV) lines to get fluids.
You will go from the ICU to a regular hospital room. Your nurses and doctors will monitor your heart and vital signs until you are ready to go home. You will receive pain medicine for pain in your chest.
Your nurse will help start activity slowly. You may begin a program to make your heart and body stronger.
A pacemaker may be placed in your heart if your heart rate becomes too slow after surgery. This may be temporary or permanent.
Mechanical heart valves do not fail often. However, blood clots can develop on them. If a blood clot forms, you may have a stroke. Bleeding can occur, but this is rare.
Biological valves have a lower risk of blood clots but tend to fail over time.
The results of mitral valve repair are excellent. For best results, choose to have surgery at a center that does many of these procedures. Minimally invasive heart valve surgery has improved greatly in recent years. These techniques are safe for most patients, and can reduce recovery time and pain.
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Business Law Program Welcomes David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group
Pictured L to R: Seth Grae '88, Dean Claudio Grossman, Robert Pence '71, David Rubenstein, Kenneth Lore '73
The Business Law Program at American University Washington College of Law welcomed David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, for a lunchtime presentation in early April on the role of private equity firms and his work in public philanthropy.
"Mr. Rubenstein is an inspiration for all of us, and shows us what is possible with a compilation of creativity, flexibility, education, and service," said Claudio Grossman, dean, American University Washington College of Law in his welcoming remarks.
Rubenstein, a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School, has practiced law in Washington, D.C. and New York, served as the deputy assistant for domestic policy under President Carter, and served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.
Rubenstein is also the chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, president of the Economic Club of Washington, and on the Boards of Directors or Trustees of Duke University, the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He is also recognized in the Washington, D.C. area for his purchases and loans to the National Archives of the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, and Emancipation Proclamation, and for funding of repair of Washington Monument.
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This upcoming Thursday, August 15th, marks the first day of a bike-packed weekend celebrating all things bike in the high-altitude (9,600 ft. elevation) region of Breckenridge, Colorado. The whole community gets involved as the event offers women's mountain bike skill clinics, a youth race series and a happy hour ride with the Breckenridge Mayor himself, John Warner!
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By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — Washington's weary lawmakers may be steered into another special session this fall if House and Senate leaders can bridge their differences on a multi-billion-dollar transportation funding plan.
The governor isn't ruling out the option. And a leader of the Senate's ruling coalition suggested it might be possible in November when lawmakers will be in town for scheduled meetings.
But Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Medina, both know significant hurdles stand in the way of approving what is now a nearly $10 billion proposal anchored by a 10.5-cent increase in the gas tax.
This plan squeezed through the Democrat-controlled House in the final days of the second special session. It died in the Senate where the Republican-dominated Majority Coalition Caucus — of which Tom is a member — didn't vote on it.
Inslee considers it critically important for the state's economic growth and would not discard the idea of bringing lawmakers back if there is something to act on.
"We are going to have to do some deep thinking about what the next step forward is," Inslee said after lawmakers adjourned. "We will be regrouping … and then we'll make those decisions."
Senate majority members opposed inclusion of funding for a new Columbia River bridge and wanted reforms added to speed up completion projects. Those concerns will need to be addressed if the two chambers are to achieve a compromise, Tom said.
Lawmakers are due in Olympia on Nov. 21 and 22 for their annual Committee Days. If an agreement is reached, they could deal with it then, he said.
"We do need to move forward on a transportation package. It's important that we have one," said Tom, who voted for transportation packages with gas tax hikes in 2003 and 2005.
The House and Senate dueled for 153 days before passing a two-year budget and getting out of town. With that done, transportation is now emerging as a focal point for parties in both chambers heading toward the 2014 session.
Members of the Senate Majority Coalition Caucus and Inslee may launch separate tours of the state to build support for their respective proposals.
"We are going to craft a transportation solutions package that all Washingtonians can support," said Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, on a recording released by his caucus last week.
House Democrats expressed frustration at the defeat of the bill but vowed to keep driving toward a politically viable plan.
"I remain hopeful that we can reach an agreement in the coming months that ensures Washington remains a great place to live, work and do business," said Rep. Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island, the chairwoman of the House Transportation Committee and the chief architect of the package. "We can't afford to wait."
Meanwhile, a coalition of cities, counties, business groups, labor unions and environmental organizations are holding out hope a solution can be found sooner than later.
"I think it's a big enough deal that if they can reach a deal they need to reconvene as soon as possible and pass it," said King County Executive Dow Constantine. "I don't see any point calling a special session if they are going to have the same stalemate they've had the last few months."
For King County, the most important part of the package may not be the money that would be spent on highways, bridges and ferries in the next 12 years. It would be the power the County Council could receive to raise new revenues for operating King County Metro Transit.
Without an infusion of money, bus service will be drastically reduced next year, Constantine warned.
"(Lawmakers) need to know that this is urgent," he said. "Their failure to act is going to have real consequences for people and the economy."
The transportation package passed by the House gave bus operators in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties with an option of asking voters to increase their local sales tax to generate money for service.
Community Transit is in a less urgent situation because it already pared service, including on Sundays, in 2010 and 2012 and is not planning any more cuts, said spokesman Martin Munguia.
It receives the majority of its funding through a 0.9 percent sales tax — 9 cents on a $10 purchase — levied within the boundaries of the district. Under the House bill, the district could raise the sales tax by another three-tenths of a penny, with voter approval. That could bring in around $21 million a year which is about the amount of the reductions, he said.
"We are not in a do-or-die situation," he said. "Had the House transportation package passed this year it would have helped us out immensely. We still would have to make the case to our voters but it's still a better position that we are in now."
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The Roseville Fire Department Hazardous Materials Task Force today successfully stopped a leak of liquid propane from a railcar traveling through Roseville on its way to Reno, Nevada.
"It is imperative to get a leak like this closed or capped as quickly as possible," said Roseville Fire Battalion Chief Kathy Finney.
The leak was initially discovered by Union Pacific Railroad. The Roseville Fire Department was called at 8:34 a.m. and responded with an Fire Engine company, Fire Truck company and HazMat unit .
The railcar was stopped under the Foothill Blvd. overpass, between Cirby Way and Atkinson Street. Upon arrival, the Hazardous Materials Task Force confirmed the source of the leak and requested the railcar be moved to a safer location within the open rail yard, away from the overpass, in case of a catastrophic failure of the car.
Once moved by Union Pacific, the Roseville Fire Hazardous Materials Task Force moved in and quickly closed the leak on a liquid valve on the railcar. Normal rail yard operations were then resumed. There were no injuries reported.


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1.0. Information and technology
Technology changes us. Technology makes us more than we are. Technology gives us the ability to change the world around us and surpass our human limitations. Technology allows us to communicate, to discover, to transcend the physical, and to expand our collective mind. Technology has changed the world and will continue to do so. Technology is a fundamental aspect of modern information provision and librarianship. Computers, digital information, and digital data are an intrinsic part of this profession and have altered the way we think about information; the way we define information. The information world has adapted remarkably quickly to technological advances and, in the wake of this, so too have the people involved in information work. A new category of information worker is emerging that, for lack of a better term, I've called the librarian-IT hybrid (2).
In my career, I've worked in several joint library-IT roles. These roles were either directly funded by both the library and the IT department like my role as Roving IT Support at Manchester Metropolitan University or roles which so heavily involved major IT and coding skills that they can be considered joint roles like my current role working on the Qatar Digitisation Project at the British Library. In this paper, I discuss the emerging role of librarian-IT hybrids, the skills and knowledge that they need to meet the challenges they face, and the implications for the future of librarianship and information management.
According to the old paradigm, libraries, archives, and museums contained information in the same way a cage contains a prisoner: the information was in books, books were in the library, and so, by transference, the information was in the library. In the book The Information, James Gleick argues that around the time of the development of the telegraph, 'information' became separated from the physical objects containing it and our language and thinking adapted accordingly. Information escaped from the cage.
Naturally this changed librarianship. Any change to information – to our defining commodity – changes the profession. Starting with the telegraph, technology changed librarianship. The quantity of digital information now exceeds the quantity of analog information. All this data – this linked data, this Big Data – is more easily accessible, more easily movable, and requires a gestalt shift in our perceptions of its properties. As for the effect on people, computers and an unparalleled communications network make us collectively more intelligent. We are developing what H. G. Wells called a 'world brain'.
It's an exciting time to work in an information field. Digital collections are no longer addendums to print collections: they are integral parts of libraries. Every library – or almost every library – is now a hybrid library mixing print and digital. Access to computers and mobile computing mean that users can access resources 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Users' expectations have also changed. They expect library staff to perform different tasks: connecting to the WiFi on an iPad, setting up an email account, solving problems with the OPAC.
2.0. Library and IT
With the increased reliance on technology for storage of information and access to information, there is a corresponding reliance on IT departments. Librarians in a range of sectors regularly work with their IT departments for assistance, for tech support, and for service development. But library staff and IT staff are often separated in different departments of the same overall organisation. Even worse, many libraries actually have strained or antagonistic relationships with their IT support. At a Digital Skills Sharing Event in Canada Water Library on 17 January 2013, teams of public librarians and publishers presented reports of new digital approaches for public libraries. A recurring theme was the difficulty many libraries encountered working with their council IT departments. See the tweets from Mick Fortune on the day for some examples. Tasks as simple as setting up an account on a social media platform were hindered by council restrictions on communication, IT departments unwilling to support new tech, or librarians' lack of understanding of the technology's requirements.
Librarians and IT staff respect and require one another and yet often have these difficult relationships. I wouldn't like to speculate on why this is – different approaches, different mindsets, the whole Kirk vs. Spock, logic vs. emotion debate, I don't know – but it seems to be there and it's something that I, and those in roles like mine, have to deal with. Librarian-IT hybrids operate in this strange intersection and in the midst of this unusual symbiotic relationship.
3.0. Technology and change
What is the librarian-IT hybrid? It used to be that tech skills were restricted to a subset of information professionals: Systems Librarians, E-resource Librarians, Technical Specialists, etc. But now more librarians at all levels in all sectors are using more technology. Information professionals need IT skills in order to provide information effectively and hence to do their jobs. The digital librarian does not necessarily have 'librarian' or 'IT' in his/her title. The roles may be jointly funded by both the library and the IT department or may be more informal.
In a 2009 study published in College and Research Libraries, Mathews and Pardue performed a content analysis of randomly selected job adverts from ALA's online JobList over a five-month period. 72% of the job ads contained at least one IT skill. They found what they describe as a "significant inter-section between the skill sets of librarians and the skill sets of IT professionals." Skills in Web development, project management, systems development, and systems applications were in particular demand. They concluded that "As IT continues to pervade how patrons access and utilize library resources, librarians continue to look more like IT professionals."
We see further anecdotal evidence of this overlap in the rise of the 'shambrarians'. Not enough research has been done on this strange LIS subculture but it consists of IT and other systems workers embedded within libraries who have not had formal librarianship or information management training. As this rigorously scientific chart from shambrarian, Dave Pattern, shows, they fall within the traditional boundaries of both librarianship and IT and self-identify as shambrarians – a particular breed of librarian-IT hybrid.
Why shouldn't we as information professionals lead this change? Digital librarians use technology to enhance themselves and their service. They can lead the change. Whether it's a formal thing like the joint library/IT roles that universities have pioneered or informal like shambrarians or 'everyday cyborgs', librarian-IT hybrids are a growing subculture within LIS. They will have the skills and the knowledge to lead information management into the future.
4.0. Skills and challenges
So moving away from science-fiction and back to reality, what skills do librarian-IT hybrids have and what unique challenges do they face? Informally, I could answer from my own experience but that would only be my perception. To write this paper, I conducted an informal email survey of six individuals (4) who self-identified as doing "a mix of IT and library work" in response to a tweet. They identified a range of skills required of librarian-IT hybrids and outlined some of the challenges they face.
The first group of skills are traditional library skills. Several respondents mentioned cataloguing skills ("MARC, AACR2/RDA, Dublin Core") as important for their role. Also mentioned was understanding of library licenses, software licenses, copyright, etc. and understanding of technical library services eg. interlibrary loan.
The second group of skills are what Jenica Rogers calls "crunchy tech skills". These range from the ability to troubleshoot users' computer problems to programming skills. Lauren Bradley, based in New York, USA, referred to "Core Technology Competencies... [which include] everything from basic computer skills to Microsoft Office to our ILS." At one end of the spectrum, librarians can be called upon to help users set up email accounts, configure tablets to connect to WiFi networks, search large-scale databases like Westlaw, or other tech-related everyday tasks to help users. At the more advanced end, Goddard (2003) identifies the following 'high-demand skills' for systems librarians: "networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, telnet, ftp and Z39.50), UNIX and Windows/NT operating systems, hardware troubleshooting, database design and administration, Web design and development, and programming in SQL, PERL, C/C++."
Of particular focus – especially for US librarians in the Higher Education sector – are coding skills. Initiatives such as Codecademy, the code4lib community, the Library Code Year Interest Group, and the ALA's ACRL TechConnect blog (Enis, 2013) are enabling and empowering librarians to learn programming skills that help them develop digital services for users. Andromeda Yelton discusses the utility of coding for librarians: "Librarians do a lot of work with data processing and web stuff, frequently involving repeated, predictable, or systematic steps. Edit this whole pile of MARC records to a particular standard. Provide more context in your chat widget. Anything of this nature is amenable to improvement through code, and a lot of the improvements are surprisingly low-hanging fruit — things that could be implemented with a dozen lines of code."
The third group of skills relate to a particular challenge faced by librarian-IT hybrids. Every respondent mentioned challenges related to communication and/or relationship management. As mentioned, the relationships between libraries and their assigned IT departments can often be strained. In my roles spanning two teams, I found it difficult to foster communication between the two groups. "Systems librarians often act as a liaison between the library and the main computing department." (Goddard, 2003) In order to deal with the communications difficulties of a joint library/IT environment, librarian-IT hybrids need communication skills and people management skills. Goddard (2003) argues that technologically-minded librarians can break down the technical language barrier that divides library and IT departments. Gordon (2003) refers to this as "translating IT-speak to librarians and library-speak to IT staff" and one of the email respondents similarly "refer[s] to myself as a "translator"; I frequently have to translate between library jargon and IT jargon..." Similar bridging of communications barriers comes with learning how to code: "The ability to understand code, even if you don't write it, comes with the ability to talk about it intelligently." (Enis, 2013)
The final group of skills are personal skills: skills or personality traits that help one succeed in an environment merging library and IT. These include: research skills and the ability to analytically extract information from sources; curiosity and a willingness to learn; "a strong interest in learning new things" and "an enquiring mind". The ability to self-teach was identified as a necessary skill in response to a particular challenge. Multiple respondents stated that there was no formal IT training in place for library staff within organisations. Hugh Rundle, a public librarian in Melbourne, Australia, said, "I've learned about networking, CSS and XML at work because I simply need to in order to fix things." Lauren Bradley said, "I come from a cataloguing/technical services background, so I had to learn all the tech skills on the job." Rogers identifies the lack of formal training in 'crunchy tech skills' as a challenge for libraries of the future: "our current cohort of librarians ready to move, stretch, and fiddle with interesting projects weren't taught to be software developers..." Even though such skills are valuable and necessary, Rogers says that new librarians are not taught them and it is not being made their job to learn them. "The problem, in re: tech skills, is that we have not, by and large, made it librarians' job to do, learn, and know these things."
5.0. Addendum and retraction
That was the gist of the paper I wrote for the Umbrella Conference Proceedings. And yet, since I wrote that paper, my thoughts have moved on. There's been a massive gap in time – and more importantly for me, in emotional and experiential development – between pitching the session and presenting it. I'm no longer sure that technology is the overwhelmingly positive thing that I've presented it as. Revelations about government surveillance on civilians have left me unsure about the pervasive role of technology in our communications and the role of librarians in managing sensitive information like that handled by Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, or Daniel Ellsberg. Working in the British Library and discovering dysfunctional elements in an institution that I once blindly admired leaves me in doubt that digital information can be neatly corralled and organised even by massive organisations. And both of these are because people are flawed: we are all of us broken and lost and anyone who claims to have any answers is lying or trying to sell you something. Grandiose statements about the future of librarianship sound impressive and prophetic for a moment and will be blogged and tweeted and applauded before being washed away in the tsunami of information now breaching against us.
The librarian-IT hybrid faces an amplification of the inherent risks of integrating technology into our lives. A recent study from the Balance Brain Centre in Seoul, South Korea, investigated 'digital dementia': the deterioration of cognitive abilities and the lack of development of the right hemisphere of the brain due to smartphone use and particularly their use as a replacement for memory (5). xkcd recently pointed out the erroneous nature of arguments decrying the pace of modern life and the effects of technology so I don't want to make that argument: I would sign up for Google Glass in a second were it commercially available in the UK. But I worry about librarian stress, a hashtag that was doing the rounds on Twitter a few months ago, and, more pressingly, librarian burnout. Is it exacerbated by reliance on technology? On being constantly connected to our peers and to a vast information network? Does this increase the anxiety of young professionals. I don't know. Further research required.
Things are changing around us. Librarianship is completely changing and that we work in the shadows of the Googles, the Apples, and the Facebooks of the world. The future of librarianship is technology and the skills and challenges I've mentioned are probably those that the next generation of information professionals will face. But I offer no answers about what this means and I make no judgements. We all of us have to make our own.
(1) And it has footnotes. Only some of which are replicated here.
(2) The term 'librarian-IT hybrid' was chosen purely because it sounds better than such ugly portmanteaus as 'cybrarian', 'Webrarian', or 'digibrarian'. I kind of wish I'd used 'digital librarian' because it's a lot less clumsy-sounding but I submitted the abstract for this paper months before thinking of that term.
(3) You may prefer, as I do, the more subtle and less science fiction-y concept of Luciano Floridi (2007) in which "[w]e are all becoming connected informational organisms" or 'inforgs' (3a). "This is happening not through some fanciful transformation in our body, but, more seriously and realistically, through the reontologization of our environment and of ourselves."
(3a) Which raises the question: why is the paper called 'Rise of the cyborgs' and not 'Rise of the inforgs'? I had to come up with the title before writing the paper and hence before I came across Floridi's work. Plus 'cyborg' sounds cooler and I think we can agree that that's more important than philosophical accuracy.
(4) Thanks to: Lauren Bradley, Patrick Berry, James Fox, Elizabeth Psyck, Hugh Rundle, and Julia Stark.
(5) I'd take this with a pinch of salt because the left brain/right brain thing is actually bullshit.


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Jimenez leads Cats in 22-run outburst
Blue Jays prospect sets career highs with five hits, five runs
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | June 16, 2013 4:11 PM ET
By his own admission, it's been a long year for A.J. Jimenez.
The Blue Jays' No. 11 prospect started last season at Double-A New Hampshire as a soon-to-be 22-year-old. He was holding his own through 27 games before an injury to his right elbow required season-ending Tommy John surgery in May and didn't return to the Fisher Cats until last Tuesday after a nearly year-long rehab procss.
"It's good to be here," he said. "I'm glad I'm 100 percent ready to play, and I'm just so happy that I can play now. Now I'm ready to rumble."
He, along with the rest of the New Hampshire lineup, did a little more than that Sunday afternoon.
Jimenez went 5-for-6 with two doubles, five runs scored and three RBIs as the designated hitter in the Fisher Cats' 22-1 shellacking of Erie at Northeast Delta Dental.
The performance was the first five-hit game of his six-year Minor League career and tied the franchise's single-game high. It also marked the first time he had crossed the plate five times in a single contest.
The team's 22-run output fell one shy of its franchise best, established on May 22, 2006 against Connecticut, and came one day after the SeaWolves routed the Fisher Cats, 16-2, on Saturday.
"It was awesome," said Jimenez, who plated the first run with a single in the first inning. "Everybody was swinging early and getting pitches to hit. Just get a fastball early in the count and try to hit it the best you can. That's what everybody was able to do.
"[After yesterday], we always stayed positive, tried to feel good and talked about the pitchers we'd be facing. Even after a bad game, you have to come back and try to have a good day today. It wasn't that much fun yesterday, so we tried to change that today."
That didn't seem to be much of an issue in the first few innings.
Jimenez's RBI base hit in the first was followed by a two-run homer by Brad Glenn and another solo shot from Adam Loewen. The Puerto Rico native doubled in the beginning of a five-run third and added another leadoff two-bagger -- followed by a two-out RBI single -- in the eight-run fourth. His afternoon concluded with an RBI single in a four-run eighth.
The right-handed slugger, who created a reputation as a defensively sound catcher before the injury, took his spot at designated hitter for the second time since his return from the injury. (His first came in a rehab stint with Class A Advanced Dunedin.) Before that, he hadn't worked as a DH since June 15, 2011 in the Florida State League. But that didn't mean he approached the game any differently.
"I had the same mind-set like I was catching," Jimenez said. "I don't entirely know how to work really as a DH, so I just wanted to stay active like a catcher and be prepared for anything because that's what works for me. … I would run inside in between innings because it was warmer in there and tried stretching all the time to stay loose."
The organization's plan for Jimenez going forward is to play him two games in a row before getting a day of rest. Sunday marked the second game of such a cycle, but with a day off for the Fisher Cats on Monday, he will return to the lineup when New Hampshire visits Altoona on Tuesday.
Although his production isn't expected to be repeated in that contest, the 23-year-old hopes it's the stepping stone for what should be a healthier, more productive and overall longer stay with New Hampshire.
"You just have to stay positive," he said. "We'll have a nice day off, come back on Tuesday and plan to do all the same things that helped us out today."
Loewen finished 4-for-6 with two homers and five RBIs. Shortstop Kevin Nolan went 3-for-6 with two doubles and five RBIs. No. 5 Blue Jays prospect Marcus Stroman (3-1) earned the win after giving up one run on three hits and one walk in six innings.
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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5 November 2012
Pattern finished at LAST!
I've been meaning to get this finished for days and finally I've got it up on my site yesterday.
This is the result of making so many Garden Wall motifs!! Brain cell 3 started thinking again while I was doing those and finally came up with the Garden Snowflake!!! I'm really quite chuffed with this design and intend to bore you to death with more pictures. These are going to be my main Christmas giveaways this year.
Meanwhile I'm finishing off two more Christmas projects - only tiddly ones but it's surprising how long they take to 'get right'. I'm hoping to get those up this week too - we'll see!!!
Nearly forgot - here's the link for the new Garden Snowflake pattern.
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But Maureen it can be worked without. Just one cut and tie is all it'll need after the central motif is worked. Mind, it could be your 'excuse' to try the SSSR!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
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Saints can turn up the heat on their promotion rivals by storming back to the top of the Championship table this weekend.
Nigel Adkins' men are in buoyant mood after coming through a tough run of fixtures unscathed and now have the chance to leapfrog West Ham to return to the Championship summit.
Saints host Derby at St Mary's tomorrow and, though the Rams still have an eye on a play-off spot, they are mired in mid-table and could provide ideal opponents.
With West Ham, Blackpool, Birmingham, Hull and Middlesbrough all either in FA Cup action or kicking their heels this weekend, it is the perfect chance for Saints to crank up the pressure by sticking another three points on the board.
Though the teams around them will have games in hand, with several playing in midweek while Saints have free time before travelling to Watford a week on Saturday, every manager would prefer points on the board.
For full story and more Saints v Derby preview news, don't miss today's Daily Echo.


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Steve Blair honored for transformative research
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Dr. Steven Blair, professor of exercise science, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the inaugural Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.
Blair will be honored Jan. 11 in Toronto.
Created by Toronto financier Lawrence S. Bloomberg, the Bloomberg Manulife Prize recognizes research that has the potential to broaden understanding of how physical activity, nutrition or psychosocial factors influence personal health and wellbeing.
"Thanks to Dr. Blair's research, we have scientific proof that the key to living healthier and longer is just 30 minutes of moderate physical activity per day," Bloomberg said. It's this kind of concrete, useful knowledge that we hope to bring to Canadians through this prize."
Blair is widely regarded as one of the world's leading contributors to epidemiological research that links physical fitness with numerous health benefits and decreased mortality, He has been an adviser to government agencies and health organizations, published more than 500 scientific papers and book chapters, and is one of only a few people outside of the U.S. Public Health Service to receive the U.S. Surgeon General's Medallion.
Blair attributed the honor to the outstanding work of colleagues and students. "I am truly honored to be recognized by McGill University," Blair said. "It is a leader in exercise science research and education, and their recognition of my research with the Bloomberg Manulife Prize means a great deal to me. It is a testament to the outstanding colleagues and students I have worked with over the years."
Bloomberg, a McGill University alumnus, chair of the board of BloombergSen Inc. and longtime chair of the board of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, teamed up with corporate partner Manulife Financial to better educate Canadians on health and lifestyle matters. Each pledged $1 million to set up the 10-year initiative
Donald A. Guloien, president and CEO of Manulife, said, "We are convinced that the pioneering work of Dr. Blair will be an important step in creating a better quality of life for Canadians."
Blair was among the first researchers to show that moderate increases in fitness, regardless of one's weight, translate into signi¬ficantly reduced mortality rates. His research has shown that as little as 30 minutes of physical activity a day is enough to decrease mortality rates by 50 percent. He contends that it is the lack of physical activity – not obesity – that is today's single biggest health issue.
A You Tube video that has been viewed by thousands and is titled "23 and ½ hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?", discusses Blair's research findings that 30 minutes a day of physical activity will improve fitness and health.
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Their three children were educated at Marlborough College, where fees are £27,000 a year.
Before buying the priory, the couple had rented a cottage nearby from the Duke of Marlborough on his Blenheim Palace estate.
Kate is a fan and has played since junior school and was captain of the 1st 11 at Marlborough College.
One night late that summer they put him aboard the sleeper for Winnipeg, and when he got off he asked for the Marlborough Hotel.
Kate played hockey since junior school and was captain of the first XI at Marlborough College.
As a statesman the high qualities of Marlborough were owned by his bitterest foes.
There was Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, an absorbing dame.
Marlborough no sooner came in sight of the enemy's position than he formed his own plan of attack.
The Duke of Marlborough was one of the bravest and most kindly-tempered of men.
I have always thought of him and of Marlborough as the two greatest men of that age.


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From Our 2012 Archives
'Chinplants' Fastest Growing Plastic Surgery Trend
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Chin Implants up by 71% vs. 4% Rise in Breast Implants in 2011
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April 16, 2012 -- A chiseled chin may be the latest "must have" body part.
A new report shows "chinplants," otherwise known as chin augmentation or chin implants, are the fastest-growing plastic surgery trend among men and women. The popularity of chin implants rose by 71% in 2011, more than breast augmentation, botulinum toxin injection, and liposuction combined.
Researchers say the trend appears to be fueled by a combination of increasing use of video chats, an aging baby boomer population, and competition in the workplace.
"The chin and jawline are among the first areas to show signs of aging," Malcolm Z. Roth, MD, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, says in a news release. "We also know that as more people see themselves on video chat technology, they may notice that their jawline is not as sharp as they want it to be."
Other cosmetic procedures that experienced the biggest increases in popularity in 2011 also focus on the face, including:
Top Cosmetic Procedures
Although the number of chin implants grew from 12,077 to 20,680 in 2011, those numbers are dwarfed in comparison to the most popular cosmetic procedure, breast augmentation.
The report shows plastic surgeons performed more than 300,000 breast augmentations in 2011, a 4% increase from 2010.
Other top cosmetic surgical procedures in 2011 were:
Researchers say facelifts are back among the top five cosmetic plastic surgeries for the first time since 2004 and knocked tummy tucks out of the top five.
Among minimally invasive cosmetic procedures, laser hair removal and soft tissue fillers were among the fastest growing.
The top five minimally invasive procedures in 2011 were:
Plastic Surgery Among the Sexes
Researchers say women accounted for 91% of all cosmetic procedures, and the majority of procedures were among people between the ages of 40 and 54.
Among women, the most popular cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in 2011 were:
For men, the most popular cosmetic plastic surgeries were:
SOURCES: American Society of Plastic Surgeons, "2011 Plastic Surgery Statistics Report," April 16, 2012. News release, American Society of Plastic Surgeons.


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an additional sum of $35,000 for the purpose of cooperating with Independent School District Numbered 5, Cass County, Minnesota, at Walker, Minnesota, for the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of public-school facilities at Walker, Minnesota, as authorized by the Act of July 1, 1940 (54 Stat. 707, 708): Provided, That the expenditure of the additional amount herein authorized to be appropriated shall be subject to the same terms, conditions, and requests contained in the Act of July 1, supra.
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By John Boyle Herald Writer
RENTON — Thanks to their 2012 success, the emergence of Russell Wilson and some significant offseason additions, the Seahawks have become a popular pick to be Super Bowl contenders next season.
They're also apparently pretty popular with the NFL's schedule makers, who put the Seahawks in four prime-time games for 2013.
The Seahawks were not scheduled for a single prime-time game in 2009 or 2010, though their 2010 season finale that decided the NFC West was flexed into prime time. They also had just two night games scheduled last season, though a third, their late-season showdown with San Francisco, was moved to Sunday night.
This season, however, Seattle plays twice on Monday Night Football (at St. Louis on Oct. 28 and vs. New Orleans on Dec. 2). They also haved one game on a Sunday night (vs. San Francisco on Sept. 15) and one on a Thursday night (at Arizona on Oct. 17).
This will be the first season since 2006 — when the Seahawks were coming off an NFC title — that Seattle plays twice on Monday night. The Seahawks' prime time appearances in the 2013 season also are the most since the five they had in 2006.
The Seahawks open their season on the road against Carolina, and they'll play six games against playoff teams from 2012 — two against San Francisco, and games at Houston, at Indianapolis, at Atlanta and home against Minnesota. That Carolina game is one of five for Seattle that kicks off at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, a slot that historically has been rough on West Coast teams. Last year, Seattle lost three of four regular-season games that kicked off at 10 a.m., winning only at Chicago. Seattle's playoff run also ended in an early game that saw the Seahawks get off to a slow start in Atlanta before storming back in the second half.
In a bit of an odd quirk, Seattle plays the entire AFC South in succession, beginning with a Week 3 game against Jacksonville, which is coached by former Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, and ending with a Week 6 game against the Jake Locker-led Tennessee Titans.
Seattle's bye is in Week 12, and while that's late, the Seahawks get something of a mini-bye earlier in the season when they play at Arizona on a Thursday in Week 7 then play on Monday night in Week 8.
In addition to rivalry games against San Francisco, a playoff rematch in Atlanta, and a game against a former assistant coach, other notable matchups include the Russell Wilson-Andrew Luck matchup in Indianapolis in Week 5; New Orleans' first trip to Seattle since the "Beastquake" playoff game; and a showdown with the Vikings in Week 11 that will match new Seahawks Percy Harvin and Antoine Winfield against their former team.
Seattle's season ends with a pair of tough road games in San Francisco and New York followed by home games against Arizona and St. Louis to close out the season.
Of note
The Seahawks are expected to re-sign kicker Steven Hauschka, according to a league source. Hauschka, the team's kicker for the past two seasons, became an unrestricted free agent following the 2012 season. Hauschka, 27, has made 49 of 57 field goal attempts in his two seasons with Seattle, with a long of 52 in each of the past two seasons.
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General Terms and Conditions
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed) will make up to $200 billion of loans under the TALF. TALF loans will have a term of three years or, in certain cases, five years; will be non-recourse to the borrower; and will be fully secured by eligible ABS. The U.S. Treasury Department will provide $20 billion of credit protection to the Federal Reserve in connection with the TALF, as described below.
Eligible Collateral
All or substantially all of the credit exposures underlying eligible ABS must be exposures that are (1) for newly issued ABS, originated by U.S.-organized entities or institutions or U.S. branches or agencies of foreign banks and (2) for all ABS, made to U.S.-domiciled obligors or, with respect to real property, located in the United States or one of its territories. The underlying credit exposures of eligible ABS must be auto loans, student loans, credit card loans, equipment loans, floorplan loans, insurance premium finance loans, small business loans fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Small Business Administration, receivables related to residential mortgage servicing advances (servicing advance receivables) or commercial mortgage loans.
The set of permissible underlying credit exposures of eligible ABS may be expanded later to include non-Agency residential mortgages and/or other asset classes.
Eligible collateral for a particular borrower must not be backed by loans originated or securitized by the borrower or by an affiliate of the borrower. A borrower, however, is not restricted from using an SBA Pool Certificate or Development Company Participation Certificate as collateral for its TALF loan even if the underlying loans backing the SBA ABS were originated by such borrower or its affiliates, provided that the borrower has no knowledge that the loans were originated by it or its affiliates. A borrower, in all cases, is not permitted to collateralize a TALF loan with ABS that was securitized by the borrower or by an affiliate of the borrower.
A CMBS will not be eligible collateral for a particular borrower if that borrower, or any of its affiliates, is a borrower under a mortgage loan backing the CMBS unless that loan, and each other mortgage loan in the CMBS mortgage pool made to an affiliate of the TALF borrower, together constitute no more than 5% of the aggregate principal balance of the mortgage loans in the pool as of the subscription date.
An ABS backed by commercial and government fleet leases, rental fleet leases or floorplan loans will not be eligible collateral for a particular borrower, if that borrower, or any of its affiliates, is an obligor under a loan or lease backing the ABS, unless the aggregate principal balance of the loans or leases made to the TALF borrower and each of its affiliates in the pool backing the ABS together constitute no more than 10% of the aggregate principal balance of all of the loans and leases in the pool as of the subscription date. In the case of leases, the term "aggregate principal balance" refers to the securitization value of the leases in the pool.
An ABS will not be eligible collateral for a particular borrower if that borrower, or any of its affiliates, is the manufacturer, producer or seller of any products, or the provider of any services, the sale, provision, or lease of which is financed by the loans or leases in the pool supporting that ABS unless the loans or leases relating to such products or services constitute no more than 10% of the aggregate principal balance of the loans and leases in the pool supporting such ABS as of the issuance date of such ABS. For purposes of this requirement, products include financial products such as insurance, and services include education. In the case of leases, the term "aggregate principal balance" refers to the securitization value of the leases in the pool.
A newly issued ABS with a redemption option (other than pursuant to a customary clean-up call) is not eligible as collateral unless the ABS issuer has received acceptance of such redemption option from the New York Fed.
Further information on eligibility requirements for each category of ABS is provided below.
Eligible Borrowers
Transaction Structure and Pricing
TALF loans will be pre-payable in whole or in part at the option of the borrower, but substitution of collateral during the term of the loan generally will not be allowed. Unless otherwise provided in the Master Loan and Security Agreement (MLSA), any remittance of principal on eligible collateral must be used immediately to reduce the principal amount of the TALF loan in proportion to the loan's original haircut (e.g., if the original haircut was 10 percent, 90 percent of any remittance of principal must immediately be repaid to the New York Fed). In addition, for collateral priced at a premium to par the borrower will make an additional principal payment calculated to adjust for the average reversion of market value toward par value as the ABS matures. Also, for five-year TALF loans (which will be available for loans secured by SBA ABS or ABS backed by student loans or commercial mortgage loans), the excess of interest and any other distributions (excluding principal distributions) on the ABS over TALF loan interest payable (such amount, "net carry") will be remitted to the TALF borrower only until net carry equals 25% per annum of the original haircut amount in the first three loan years, 10% in the fourth loan year, and 5% in the fifth loan year, and the remainder of such net carry will be applied to TALF loan principal. For a three-year TALF loan for legacy CMBS, such net carry will be remitted to the borrower in each loan year until it equals 30% per annum of the original haircut amount, with the remainder applied to loan principal. The New York Fed will assess an administrative fee equal to 10 basis points of the loan amount on the settlement date for non-mortgage-backed ABS collateral, and 20 basis points for CMBS collateral.
Further information on transaction structure and pricing for TALF loans secured by each category of ABS is provided below and in the MLSA.
The New York Fed reserves the right to reject any request for a loan, in whole or in part, in its discretion. In this regard, the New York Fed is developing and implementing procedures to identify for further scrutiny potentially high-risk ABS that a borrower proposes to pledge to the New York Fed under the TALF.
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LA Space Salon: The Intersection of Public and Private Spaceflight
LA Space Salon
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The Intersection of Public and Private Spaceflight
The landscape of private endeavors into space has evolved considerably over the past several years and we can not help but feel a sense of accomplishment over acheievments once thought to be unlikely within the scope of non-governmental agencies. As we start to lay claim to new frontiers, it is important to remember the massive foundation, financial incentive, and technical expertise NASA has provided for small space startups and growing companies alike- our January Space Salon will explore the relationship between NASA and SpaceX during one of the most exciting times in human history.
Over the course of 2006 to 2012, $396 million was awarded to SpaceX by NASA, as a part of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. This program culminated with the historic delivery of cargo to and the return of cargo from the International Space Station by SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft- a feat, until this point, only accomplished by a small number of national agencies.
This monumental accomplishment by a relatively small private company was achieved with NASA as a vital partner every step of the way thorugh an innovative approach to a public-private partnership in the space industry. And leading that charge is our esteemed speaker, Mike Horkachuck, the COTS Project Executive for NASA, responsible for leading this partnership from the NASA side. His belief in, and coordination with, SpaceX, was vital in making this all a reality.
Join us as we explore the Intersection of Public and Private Space Flight.
Come prepared with lots of your own thoughts and questions. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Scott Norman, Simone Syed, and Michael Clive
Food and Drinks: Enjoy light appetizers and drinks with us. There is a cash bar for beer and wine as well.
The LA Space Salon is a new and unique social event designed to be a reliable outlet within the space community for people to engage with one another, contribute their ideas, pose questions, hear from industry leaders, and coalesce efforts towards a cultural permeation of the values we share about space exploration. Our objective is simple: bring space professionals, enthusiasts and entrepreneurs together in an open discussion about our shared future beyond this world.
Each month, we will have a featured guest who will help us explore humanity's path forward into space. These events are designed to be deeply engaging and leave time for plenty of mingling. Speakers start their presentations at 8:00 and audience interaction is encouraged. Come with your thoughts prepared and ready to share!
When & Where
Abundant Sugar
618 Moulton Ave
Los Angeles,
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (PST)
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Collegians of the 1960s returning to Fort Lauderdale would be hard-pressed to recognize the onetime "Sun and Suds Spring Break Capital of the Universe." Back then, Fort Lauderdale's beachfront was lined with T-shirt shops, and downtown consisted of a lone office tower and dilapidated buildings waiting to be razed.
The beach and downtown have since exploded with upscale shops, restaurants, and luxury resort hotels equipped with enough high-octane amenities to light up skies all the way to western Broward's Alligator Alley. At risk of losing small-town 45-rpm magic in iPod times—when hotel parking fees alone eclipse room rates of old—Greater Fort Lauderdale somehow seems to meld disparate eras into nouveau nirvana, seasoned with a lot of Gold Coast sand.
The city was named for Major William Lauderdale, who built a fort at the river's mouth in 1838 during the Seminole Indian wars. It wasn't until 1911 that the city was incorporated, with only 175 residents, but it grew quickly during the Florida boom of the 1920s. Today's population hovers around 165,000, and suburbs keep growing—1.75 million live in Broward County's 31 municipalities and unincorporated areas.
As elsewhere, many speculators busily flipping property here got caught when the sun-drenched real-estate bubble burst, leaving Broward's foreclosure rate to skyrocket. But the worst is far behind us. By the time the city began celebrating its centennial in 2011, it had resumed the renaissance that began before the economic crisis. The 20-mile shoreline—with wide ribbons of golden sand for beachcombing and sunbathing—remains the anchor draw for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, but amazing beaches are now complemented by show-stopping hotels, an exploding foodie scene, and burgeoning cultural scene. In a little over 100 years, Fort Lauderdale has grown into Fort Fabulous.
South Broward
South Broward's roots are in early Florida settlements. Thus far it has avoided some of the glitz and glamour of neighbors to the north and south, and folks here like it that way. Still, there's plenty to see and do—excellent restaurants in every price range and a new focus on the arts.


text: I can't say that I have passed out on a casino floor. I have passed out on hotel convention room floors. There have been too many nights to count where it was far too much effort to climb into a bed when all one needed to do is fall down to the floor. George Lopez was arrested for public intoxication. He passed out on the floor of a casino in Windsor, ON shortly after performing a show there. I'm sure it is not the first time it has happened. It won't be the last. He just happens to be a guy who has a kidney donated by his ex-wife who he dumped in favor of a string of hookers that destroyed his marriage and if you noticed, also hasn't kept him in good standing with his former bff Sandra Bullock. I'm pretty sure that getting so hammered that a casino floor looks inviting is probably not good for the new kidney.


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So riddle me this: will all the icon placement I've done (hours to set up) within folders, etc - be remembered somewhere on my phone after a setup as new and then a sync apps within iTunes? Obviously NOT restoring from backup this time. And I have a bunch of email accounts that are a pain to reset up. There's a sync for that in iTunes too. If I use MAIL ACCOUNTS sync and Apps synch BEFORE the DFU restore - should everything PLUS icon positioning return after DFU restore and then a synch?
Just restore your backup dude. I did. You arent experiencing any issues right?
iTunes won't remember your icon placement if you don't restore from backup btw, that and your emails you say are a pain to setup. I wouldn't bother going setup as new, unless you see some serious issues after.
Restore replaces your entire image as opposed to update which is just a delta
Much cleaner to restore bro!
Thanks, I always forget about specifying the DFU
It was probably still in your phone and in your backup.


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Capri Corner Chair
$990 Final Sale
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A low and deep silhouette and tailored high-performance slipcovers offer casual sophistication and uncommon comfort. As weather-hardy as it is handsome, our collection is outfitted with quick-dry foam cushions. Sectional components are available individually, allowing you to customize the configuration of your choice.
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A Perfect Storm: College Funding, Your Retirement, and
Soon-to-be Aging Parents
The kids are growing, and so is college tuition. You are in or
near your top earning years, and "next year" you will start saving.
You want to pay off the house, but should you? Your insurance needs
haven't changed, or have they? Your parents are doing fine now, but
in 10-15 years, as you head to retirement, that could change. Let's
talk about time, and what you should do about it.
This event is free, but we ask that you please register. Click
here to register online.
Snowdate: Thursday, Feb. 27
Nick Preddice is an engaging speaker and
motivator. In 2002, Nick used his experience to build a financial
planning business, Affinity Group, LLC, with a singular vision: to
make a difference in the lives of clients, the people we work with,
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Author Adam David Miller to give lecture
In celebration of Black History Month, South Carolina native and author Adam David Miller will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Carolina Ballroom at the Inn at USC. A book signing and reception are planned afterward.
His appearance is sponsored by the University of South Carolina's African American Studies Program, the Institute for Southern Studies and Preston Residential College.
Miller's lecture, titled "Exile to Odyssey," will feature readings from his book, "Ticket to Exile," a gripping account of his forced departure from Orangeburg in 1941 and his new volume of poetry, "The Sky is a Page."
Miller, 88, has led a remarkable life and career including serving in the United States Navy from 1942-1946, earning a master's degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and teaching English for 21 years at Laney College in Oakland, Calif. He has published four books of poetry, including one of the first collections of modern African-American poetry, and a memoir about growing up in the Jim Crow South, "Ticket to Exile."
For more information about the Adam David Miller lecture and reading, contact Tiffany Florvil at email@example.com.
'Exile to Odyssey'
- What: Lecture, sponsored by African American Studies Program, Institute for Southern Studies and Preston Residential College.
- Who: South Carolina native Adam David Miller, author of "Ticket to Exile," to deliver lecture
- When: Monday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m.
- Where: Carolina Ballroom, the Inn at USC


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Information from your City Offices | Public Notices | Public Announcements | Meetings/Events this Week | Things Happening Around our Community
Toddler Story Time with Molly
Every Wednesday -- 9:40am and 10:40am in the Council Chambers
Join Molly for stories and songs! Perfect for children ages 3 and younger, and their caregivers.
Programs for Adults
New Area Code to be Deployed as an Overlay to Area Code 415
To accommodate the demand for telephone numbers, the 628 area code is being added to the area served by the 415 area code. The 415 area code generally serves the communities of Belvedere, Brisbane, Corte Madera, Daly City, Fairfax, Ignacio, Inverness, Larkspur, Mill Valley, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, Ross, San Anselmo, San Francisco, San Rafael, Sausalito, Stinson Beach and Tiburon. In this case, the 628 will act as an overlay and will be in addition to the 415; thus not requiring customers to change their existing area code.
However, beginning August 16, customers should begin using the new dialing procedure and dial 1+Area Code+7-digit telephone number when placing local calls from within the 415 Area Code. But don't worry, if you forget and use the old way of dialing, your calls will still be completed until February 21, 2015. Beginning in February, 2015, you must dial the full eleven digits for local and long distance calls.
SAUSALITO VILLAGE - Save the Date for a special Pole Walking Training Class - August 20
Sausalito Village will feature a special Pole Walking training class led by Jayah Faye Paley, at the Edgewater Room, Sausalito City Hall, 420 Litho Street, Sausalito, on Wednesday August 20, 11:30 to 2:30 P.M.. This training session will include personalized pole fitting and terrain practice as well as gait and balance exercises catered to the needs of a limited-size group. The class is open to the community and is offered at a special Sausalito Village rate of $27. Contact Sharon Seymour at 331-1362 or email@example.com to reserve a place.
AYAH FAYE PALEY, fitness and wellness educator, presents hiking, walking and fitness seminars for national and state park associations and health related organizations around the country.Jayah, an AFAA & ACE-certified Personal Trainer, is the creator of the only comprehensive educational media on how to use poles, which includes two award-winning DVD's.
For over 15 years, she has trained people of all ages, abilities and physical conditions (such as Parkinson's, MS, arthritis, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, etc.) as well as athletes, trainers and physical therapists to use poles to achieve, regain and maintain mobility for hiking and walking. She has authored and delivers courses which provide continuing education credits for personal trainers.
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aqua green fill, bright purple outline and shadow... tan outline looks good on darker surfaces too
aqua green fill, bright purple outline and shadow... tan outline looks good on darker surfaces too
My piece always end up fucked when i color any tips please ?
dont color
colors should be your last concern anyway.
rock a mean black and white and worry about colors later
Okay thanks phat !
that's how it was before coloring !
Grey, white, with a thin lime green outline.
yellow and purple DDD
bubble gum pink with a deep purple outline, baby blue with a dark blue outline and then white and black is always a good one
Red fill, black outline/3D, white doubleoutline/borderfucking thing. my favorite
Just throwin up some old names. I wasn't serious about the KA, just doin anything i can to get some good can control
Black and chrome all day err day sonnnn
I sever heads, just to sharpen my skills
for throws i like white fill black out line and maybe a blue highlite but my fav colors over all in graffiti is green blue purple yellow
Black outline & White fill or Red outline white fill
-teal background, purple and black 3D, lime green outline, and aqua letters.
-red and silver letters, black outline, with silver and white 3D
-pink, grey, and silver
-blue, black, and silver
-purple, black, white, and silver
-aqua, black, and silver
-just your average neighborhood Spiderman
ALLLL of these!
This isn't the help with colors thread, but a wicked good way for fill ideas is looking at the sunset.I heard this from soemone else. No joke, you get some good fade ideas from that junk
Silver fill,blue outline


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Love Packs & Relief Kits project
When Thursday February 14, 2013 @ 5:30 PM (1625 days ago)
Where University Commons, upper hallway
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
Drop by to help fill RISE Love Packs (food for local families) or MCC Relief Kits (for Syrian refugees) as part of spiritual life week. All of the supplies will be there. We just need people!
What are love packs? http://riseharrisonburg.com/lovepacks/
What about relief kits? http://mcccanada.ca/kits/relief
Funded with contributions from Everence, Park View Credit Union, A Bowl of Good, Campus Ministries.
ALSO, bring glasses you no longer need to be taken to Honduras. You can also bring electronics (cell phones, laptops, ink cartridges) for the YPCA (Y-Serve) fundraiser.
Event Web-site: http://www.emu.edu/studentlife/campus-ministries/spiritual-life-week/
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
Name Campus Ministries
Phone # 540.432.4196


text: Tori Spelling's highly anticipated Little Maven collection launched with an online store last week much to the excitement of the Hollywood mama's fans. The California casual clothes for lil girls ages 6 to 9 months to 6X and boys 6 to 9 months to 4T range in price from $24 to $88. The celebrity designer duds will eventually be sold in department and boutiques across the country, but for now shoppers will have to pick them out online. Here's a closer look at some of the cutest outfits.


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and if your question is chosen, I'll post a personalized response!
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Yes, salted butter can be used to make cakes. Some butters are more salty than others, though, so you may want to reduce the amount of salt in the recipe by half.
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I kicked a kid in his broken leg once. Deliberately shut my little sister's fingers in a door.
I feel bad even thinking about this, never mind writing it.
If any of you are around my age you'll remember the original Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I was 6 when it came out, and by the time it cleared all the censorship and shit, I was around 10 when it was finally released in South Africa.
My best mate and I got the video from somewhere and watched the crap out of it, one time allowing his little sister (who would have been 8 or so) to watch it with us.
She was terrified, as you might expect. My mate was quite a smart little dude, always making things, and he came up with a plan to scare his sister half to death.
He rigged up one of her toy dolls, cutting the head in two and putting strings on the top part to make a rudimentary "mouth opening and closing" action. He recorded the theme music (one two Freddy's coming for you etc..) from the film onto a cassette, put it in his tape player and had it playing on a loop in his sister's bedroom.
We sat the doll on her window ledge, looped the strings outside so we could control the head from outside....and I was armed with a fork to give that authentic "Freddy" screeching noise, like his fingers did when he ran them along a railing. I used the window frame to get the same effect with the fork.
So we shouted through the window for her to come to her bedroom, where she opened the door to find the room dark with just a small lamp pointing at her talking doll, with the theme music from Nightmare on Elm St playing and the scraping noise coming from the window.
I've never seen anyone move so fast and scream so hard. She actually threw up a few minutes later.
His mum beat seven shades of crap out of him after that, while I sat their crying...afraid she was gonna beat my ass too.
The sister went on to be quite a honey, but I had long since blown any chance I might have had :-(
Worth it though.
Set fire to the back of my school
Stole a bag of money from a taxi driver when he was helping my Mum in with the shopping
shagged a 16 year old girl when I was 13
Got suspended for threatening a boy with a knife (on school ground)
loads more!
Super glued a polo mint to somebodies forehead whilst they where sleeping on a school journey.


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So right now I'm thinking about that night I watched my son's intramural basketball team play my nephews' intramural basketball team.
Yes. That's right. Cousins. Playing on opposing teams.
I don't recall who won, but I do remember that every single player related to me managed to go up in flames for all the world to see. You know how cousins are. One minute they're full of brotherly love, playing nice and the next minute they're all, "Dude! You are going down! And after that, you are going down again! And after that, everybody you ever knew in your whole life, including your first-grade teacher, is going down. And after that, I'm gonna steal your bag of Cool Ranch Doritos!
Then suddenly those normally loving cousins are duking it out center court, which makes you feel like a kid watching the Friday Night Fights (live! from Madison Square Garden!) in your Great-Uncle Bob's living room all over again.
The next day, of course, everyone my son and his cousins woke up with a bad case of post-game remorse. They'd behaved badly and they knew it.
Fast forward to Election Night earlier this week. Those same boys were at it again this time on Facebook, calling out each other's choice of candidate (our extended family swings both ways politically) and egging each other on. Finally, I spoke up (why, yes, I do stalk my kids on Facebook, thank you very much) and said, "Hey, guys, this conversation is reminding me of that night y'all got yourselves tossed from that basketball game…"
Hopefully they woke up the following morning with a bad case of Facebook remorse. (See definition below.)
Facebook remorse: a feeling of sorrow associated with having said way, way, WAY more than you should have on Facebook in the heat of the moment.
Frankly, I was a little surprised by the things people were posting as the election results rolled in. Were you? I understand that elections are emotionally charged events, but… wow. Did we all forget that we had an audience? Of actual human beings? Like my friend Wade noted on his Facebook page, "Just wondering … when you post things about how supporters of [insert candidate's name here] are blind, stupid spawn of Satan, you do realize I'll be reading them, right?"
Another friend, Shelley, noted on her page that "politics seem to be an excuse for some to be down-and-out nasty." She went on to conclude that "righteous indignation is not an excuse for incivility, ever."
I think Shelley would have approved of the way my friend Bruce expressed himself, even though she disagrees with his politics: "The American people have spoken. My candidate lost in the race for the presidency, and I am profoundly disappointed. However, I believe America is bigger than any political party … Time to stop the ad hominem attacks and heal. Time to put America first."
It's all about tone, people. T.O.N.E.
I would also take things a step further and argue that you should never say anything online that you wouldn't say straight-up to a person's face. And, in fact, you should think twice about posting anything you wouldn't want certain people to read. Or see. Future employers come to mind, for example. (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, KIDS.)
In conclusion, I'd like to end with a quote by Thomas Jefferson I found on Barb Guy's wall: "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Rock on, Thomas Jefferson. Rock on.
Ann Cannon can be reached at email@example.com or facebook.com/anncannontrib.