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May 16, 2014
On Sunday, May 18, Park City's historic Main Street will offer free and affordable family-friendly activities when the Historic Park City Alliance presents its annual Kids Day.
Main Street businesses will offer everything from cookie decorating to art projects for children of all ages and Miners Park will come alive with a magician, balloon artist and face painter, said Meisha Lawson, of the Historic Park City Alliance.
"We've expanded some of the activities in Miners Park this year," Lawson told The Park Record. "They will be there from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., and all these activities will be free to the public, and certainly for children."
Other activities will include cookie decorating at Java Cow, 402 Main St., for $2 per cookie from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. and the Park City Museum, located at 528 Main St., will feature an Old-West marshal who will be on hand to pose for photos.
This year, just down the street from Java Cow, the J GO Gallery, at 408 Main St., will help children make greeting cards.
"We'll use Styrofoam to make a print," said gallery owner Jude Grenney. "We'll carve the Styrofoam and run paint over it and push it onto a card, sort of like a stamp. We wanted to give the kids something they could make and take with them to show off their creative efforts."
The idea for making cards came from one of the gallery's staff.
"We were thinking of different things we could do for fun that we could manage within the gallery," Grenney said. "We also understand that making art inspires creativity and develops confidence in all areas of people's lives, because there is no right or wrong way to create something."
Grenney said if children learn that, the concept of creativity will stimulate their imagination and that feeling will trickle into all aspects of their lives.
"My partner, Curtis Olson, who is a professional working artist, and I talked about the importance of art for kids and he said that making art is all about problem solving," Grenney said. "He has a vision and has to figure out the steps beginning with nothing to create what he wants.
"If we can get kids interested in the learning and developing process, they can take those skills and apply them to science and other components of their education," she said.
This year is the first time J GO Gallery is officially involved with Kids Day.
"We felt it was important because we wanted to get more involved with the community and have the community engage with us," Grenney said. "This seemed like a perfect way to get kids and families who may not regularly stroll the galleries to come and visit us."
While the kids and families are creating these cards, they will have the opportunity to examine some of the professional art that is on display at J GO Gallery.
"We have several new artists' works up from our last show called 'Inception' by artists Krista Harris, Elaine Coombs and Joey Brock," Grenney said. "We also think the kids will be fascinated with some other works from a show called 'Wonderbox' that is a whole different kind of art that features robots, spider webs and insects."
Artists Billy Wells, Mike Libby and Emil Fiore created the "Wonderbox" works, Grenney said.
"I think there will be some great mixed-media artwork that kids will like to see," she said.
Lawson said the Historic Park City Alliance conceived Kids Day after noticing the town lacked activities for children.
"We have presented a lot of different events for all different audiences, but we noticed, a few years ago, that there wasn't very much for children to do," she said. "We knew everyone liked going to Dolly's Bookstore to visit Dolly the cat, but we wanted to create a day especially for the kids so they could come and enjoy Park City. The goal was to make things a little more fun and exciting for the younger audience."
This year's Kids Day features an added bonus to parents — free parking.
"Since the end of April, there has been free parking on Main Street every Sunday through June 1, and Kids Day is on Sunday this year," Lawson said.
The Historic Park City Alliance will present its annual Kids Day Celebration on Sunday, May 18. For more information, visit http://www.historicparkcityutah.com.


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Both photos were made with Sony NEX-5N and Leica Summilux-M 35 mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens. Maybe the evening light was just perfect but they both look great to me. Dog has tack sharp whiskers and out of focus parts are creamy. Out of focus highlights behind Dino are in perfect circle. Of course I also wanted to see how the lenses perform when recording moving pictures. I put them on Sony NEX-FS100 and point the camera at some swans and other local birds swimming in the cold river Drava.
Weather was perfect. Low sun coming from behind the subject. Quite difficult to focus in glaring sun reflecting from the water. But thanks to SmallHD DP4 new focus assist function shots were most of the time in focus. I shot everything handheld. I helped myself using Half Inch Rails RnG S2 rig, from Sam Morgan Moore.
It was difficult to focus with the lenses being so small, so using them on bigger camera can be challenging. I didn't have any ND filters that small so I had to stop the lens down a bit. I did notice one quirk of the camera thought as mentioned before by my college Frank Glencairn, Green ghost effects.
When there was strong light shining into the camera there were lots of green ghosting seen in the footage. Frank was using different lenses with Heliopan ND filter and it seems that the filter is amplifying the ghosting, but I was using the lenses without the ND filters. So it has got to be some weird coating on the filters in front of the sensor (IR or OLPF). At first I thought I was seeing some burn in in the SmallHD DP4 monitor as the light was quite bright, but then I remembered Frank mentioning it on Twitter the other day. I have to ask some friends at Sony if they know about the issue and what could be the cause for it.
I used Frank's G-log B picture profile for better dynamic range so the footage is coping quite good with extreme contrast. I was using the new 1.1 version of the profile.
I shot everything in 50 fps slow motion. I recorded some sound with the enclosed microphone so that I could use some location sounds. Having the setup so small I could record the people feeding and photographing the birds and they didn't mind or they didn't want to get away from the camera as they just took me for another tourist shooting the scenery.
The video was edited in Final Cut Pro X. I color graded it using Magic Bullet Mojo. Additional sounds were produced on iPad using an app Animoog.


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contact with friction
So I'm trying to model a block sliding on a flat surface with friction.
My setup includes:
a) a block that is .1m tall, 2m wide and 10m long
b) a block that is .1m tall, 1m wide and .75m long
block b is sitting on top of and at the edge of block a.
(there is a .01m distance between the surfaces so that the two blocks do not form a union)
Constraints (structural mechanics):
I applied a fixed constraint to block a
I have the two blocks set up as a contact pair, and have a contact pair constraint set with dynamic friction
I have a boundary load applied to the side of block b that is intended to push it along the length of block a
I have a boundary load applied to the top of block b to assert a gravitational force
I have the materials set as 1018 steel
I have a finer mesh on block a
Here are the problems I'm having:
- the displacement of block b doesn't change as the dynamic friction coefficient is increased.
- block b seems to be protruding through the contact surface of block a
Thanks for any tips or suggestions !
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December 16, 2010 7:18am UTC in response to Andrew Schmalzer
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there was a nice documented model in 3.5a, do not know if it's ported to v4 yet but probably you scould find your answers therein
Good luck
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Hi Ivar,
Whats the name of that model? Is it accessible for 4.2a?
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Let us consider then mussels, clams and misogyny; starting with Sandro Botticelli in 1485. Does his use of a seashell as a visual metaphor for a woman's vulva in The Birth of Venus reveal a hatred of women?
Then again do Shakespeare's "fishy" metaphors warrant him being branded a misogynist? Consider Measure for Measure written in 1604, a play which explores sexual harassment:
Pompey: Yonder man is carried to prison.
Mistress Overdone: Well what has he done?
Pompey: A woman.
Mistress Overdone: But what's his offence?
Pompey: Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
Mistress Overdone: What is there a maid with child by him?
Measure for Measure, 1: ii 83-86.
And moving closer to home we have the hapless hero of the unrefined 1972 satirical film, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Is Bazza to be laughed at or condemned for his utterance: "Spear the bearded clam" as a description of sexual intercourse? And let us not forget, Sir Leslie Colin "Les" Patterson. He first staggered on to the stage at St George Leagues Club in Sydney in January 1974. And for the next 38 years we all loved him. And he was as rough as guts. But did we laugh because we shared with this fictional character an "entrenched prejudice against women"?
The latter will now be the official second definition of misogyny in the next updated edition of The Macquarie Dictionary. "We decided that we had the basic definition, hatred of women, but that's not how misogyny has been used for about the last 20, 30 years, particularly in feminist language," the editor, Sue Butler, told ABC radio on Wednesday.
"Sexist does seem to be moving towards this description of surface features and misogynist applies to the underlying attitude," she said.
But what then do we say about Sharon Osbourne, star of The Osbournes, The X Factor and America's Got Talent, who was in Sydney last Friday speaking at Commercial Radio Australia's National Radio Conference? According to press reports: there were roars of laughter when Osbourne described "feeling Camilla's big old titties" (when she was drunk at a party with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall) and when she described the smelliest celebrity she's ever met – Bob Geldof, that despite being a "lovely bloke" had armpits that reminded her of "a very old vagina". Do these comments reveal an "entrenched prejudice against women"?
There is a big divide between "bawdy" and "misogyny". To get a grip on this we need to go way beyond the spluttering responses to an SMS containing the word mussel.
We have to go back to Shakespeare as examined in Shakespeare's Bawdy * by Eric Partridge, first published in a limited edition in 1947. He cites The Times Literary Supplement leader "Artist and Public" from August 17, 1940: "We have given up supposing that Shakespeare's sensational plots and bawdy jokes were only a high-brow's concessions to the groundlings … the modern consciousness of responsibility to the public in general will incline the large-minded artist … to make the most, not the least, of everything in him which is in common to all men."
Shakespeare struggled to find harmony in carnality.
He was, in Partridge's assessment, a "deliberate sater of that desirous sex-hungry body, yet merciless contemner of his own yielding … never finding the ideal love … expressing the physical aspect of love in its most intimate details, either with frank joyousness and animal spirits or with self-reviling brutality and as if moved by an irresistible need to cleanse, not merely his bosom but his entire system, of this most perilous stuff" but "seeking always a complete and enduring union". He never found that woman. He never felt at home.
Shakespeare had an acute understanding of the ambivalence of male carnality. Do I want her or do I just want it? And if I just want it am I not loathsome?
Shakespeare's Venus recognises this in the hesitant Adonis.
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Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
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Some will say that the metaphors of geography and topography are being utilised by Shakespeare to reduce woman to mere sexual objects.
But Partridge, writing in 1947, had this to say, "That the same [metaphorical language] has, in English, never been done for men's [sexual features] is significant; social inhibitions, the restrictions of women's emancipation to the spheres of politics and the professions, are the main causes: but a female 'geographer' will probably arise in the next 20 years."
Or would misandry, the hatred of men, step in? Enough of this hate-speech!
It has to be asked, is hurling misogyny around letting women down by politicising the term for the wrong reasons?
Real, hard-core hatred of women, as shown by the brutal acts of the Taliban, is driven by their sense of worthlessness. That is the core of their misogyny. To describe the actions of a grumpy male boss with the same word is obscene. Let us be done with this sloppy language.
And what price bawdy? It is a cry, which can be joyous or at times regretful. "This isn't what I wanted!" "There has to be more than this". Australian comedians female and male do it damn well. Let us have more of that,
So did Shakespeare ever find harmony in carnality?
In Eric Partridge's summation he made a strategic withdrawal. Shakespeare resigned himself to an acceptance that "Composition is superior to love-making as a means of satisfying the need for self-expression (or the creative urge); almost equal to it as an anodyne to that loneliness with which all of us, but especially the literary, artistic and musical creators are beset, and as a comfort and solace".
It is, he says, a way "to assuage one's physical desires by that modified form of sublimation which consists in a not ignoble substitution".
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Are we all, in fact, beset by degrees of loneliness, in relationships, partnerships and in marriage?
Do we live our lives with "not ignoble substitutions"?
It is instructive that the "misogyny" debate caught fire on Twitter. But is social media any substitute for face-to-face struggles to attempt to express what is in our hearts? We can't all write like Shakespeare. But we can be honest about our isolation. Loneliness is a truly hateful place to be. And no politician – of any persuasion – can do anything about it.
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Three discrete segments make up Julia Jarcho's Grimly Handsome, and a simple description will make it sound like their main commonality is the company of three actors who perform in each segment. Yet what makes the piece work is the sly and oblique way that the segments do relate and interweave, both thematically and in terms of the plot.
The first part centers on Alesh and Gregor, two immigrant Christmas-tree sellers on a city street (Eastern European, it seems), one of whom is strikingly good-looking. They ogle the women who walk by their urban forest, especially the lonely-seeming ones like Natalia, and talk about how to seduce them. But when their methods start to sound distinctly creepy, are we witnessing a cultural incongruity, or an intended sexual assault?
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Jarcho often directs her own work. Here, that enables her to crystallize the particular stylization of the language and the character portrayals—though there are moments when I wonder if playing against rather than into the stylization might have added layers of subtlety, especially in the first part. Jenny Seastone Stern (as the mousy Natalia in part one, cop's wife Nelly and witness Nally in part two, and Noplop in part three) seems to do this naturally, and she's a revelation, painting both the broad strokes of character archetype and subtle nuance in each portrayal, giving four utterly different but equally rich performances.


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Melissa Jones Clarke moved to Lafayette this summer as founding principal of Willow Charter Academy, which starts classes in a few weeks. She previously opened another National Heritage Academies-managed school in Atlanta. An award winning educator with 19 years experience, she has been recognized for her skill in closing the achievement gap in urban schools.
The announcement of your selection as principal said you are working on your doctorate in education leadership with a minor in urban education. What's your dissertation on?
It is on "Against the Odds: A Qualitative Study on the Retention of Successful Urban School Leaders." When you walk in schools and you get that feeling of: 'How can I work here? How can I get my kid in this school?' — that building walks in the shadow of that principal. Then, if you add more demographics to it: high free and reduced lunch, high-minority, high-poverty and it's also a high-performing school, you wonder: 'What are they doing? What's the magic behind that? Are there things that those leaders just do? Is it inherent in them?'
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How long have you worked for National Heritage Academies?
This is my fifth year, and I traditionally have worked in public schools, and that experience ranges from outside the city of Chicago to metro Atlanta. My teaching experience was a mix between urban and affluent schools. In my second half of my teaching career, I was placed in more of an urban environment with diverse learners from Vietnam, Mexico — just all types of kids. I had a passion to work with kids who were two to four years below grade level. I learned early on from some great mentors who coached me, it really does not matter the ZIP code of that child. It doesn't matter if they qualify for free or reduced lunch because that just determines how they eat, not how they learn. I learned early on in my career that we don't pity; we teach.
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Maria Bello Added To Prisoners
As Hugh Jackman's wife
Moral drama thriller Prisoners seems to be attracting a great cast, scoring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Viola Davis and Paul Dano. But that's not enough for director Denis Villeneuve, who has just added Maria Bello to the mix.
Written by Aaron Guzikowski, Prisoners follows what happens when a young girl and her best friend are kidnapped in a small town.
One of the girls is the daughter of Keller Dover (Jackman), who decides to act and snatches the bloke (Paul Dano) he thinks is responsible for her disappearance. Trouble is, he may well have taken the wrong man.
Gyllenhaal is playing Detective Loki, a big-city cop who doesn't exactly like pesky civilians messing with his ongoing investigations. We're assured he's no relation to Thor.
Bello is aboard to play Grace, Jackman's wife, who we assume will try to be supportive of her hubby while wondering about his motives. Given that it's Bello in the role, we imagine it's a lot more complicated than that.
Villeneuve is preparing to shoot early next year, targeting a September 2013 release in the States. Bello is currently at work on Paul Haggis' Third Person. She'll also be seen in the Grown Ups sequel, which threatens to strike cinemas on August 9, 2013.


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An Ancient Revolution: The Written Word
Unearthing the Bible
The Legacy of David
In the Days of the Prophets
The Story of Hanukkah
Islam and Judaism: From Muhammed to the Ottoman Empire
The Roadmap to the Jewish Golden Age of Spain
Immigration to the Golden Land: Jewish Life in America
Yiddish Culture: From Europe to America
The Shtetl: An Incubator of Jewish Culture
Memory and History
The Origins of Zionism: 19th Century-World War I
The Jewish Calendar
To the Teacher
Unit 1
Unit 2
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Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
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Offering a Distant-Learning Course
Yiddish Culture: From Europe to America
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Title page of Ku-Buch (Book of Cows), published in Yiddish, Verona, Italy, 1595.
Source: Ku-Buch
Yiddish was the everyday language of most Jews in Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, and parts of Hungary and Czechoslovakia) for 1,000 years.
The term "Yiddish" is derived from the German word for "Jewish." The most accepted (but not the only) theory of the origin of Yiddish is that it began to take shape by the 10th century as Jews from France and Italy migrated to the Rhine Valley. They developed a language that included elements of Hebrew, and French, Italian, and German dialects. In the late Middle Ages, when Jews settled in Eastern Europe, Slavic elements were incorporated into Yiddish.
The period of the early 19th century until World War II could be called "the golden age of Yiddish culture." A literary renaissance produced both Hebrew and Yiddish works by writers such as Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Mocher Seforim, and Isaac Leib Peretz. Hundreds of Yiddish newspapers and journals were published, and during the period between World War I and II, Yiddish school networks were established in Eastern Europe. A lively Yiddish theater emerged and there were even Yiddish movies. The mass immigration of Jews from Europe to America in 1881 to 1924 led to the emergence of New York City as a new center of Yiddish culture.
The destruction of European Jewry during World War II and the subsequent emigration of most of the surviving Yiddish speakers to other countries where they adopted the local vernacular nearly ended the life of Yiddish. Today, the largest concentration of Yiddish-speakers can be found in Hasidic communities in Israel and North America. The language is also enjoying a mini-revival at some universities and Jewish cultural institutions. This lesson explores the influence of the Yiddish language and culture of the past and present.
Grade Level:
High School
Subjects Covered:
Social Studies, World History, American History, Literature and Poetry, History of Language
Students will appreciate the role that Yiddish language, literature, music, and theater played in the lives of Jews in Eastern Europe and Jewish immigrants in America.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
understand the origins and history of the Yiddish language in Europe and America;
become more familiar with Yiddish by experiencing samples of Yiddish literature and music;
analyze the role of Yiddish in the lives of Jews in Eastern Europe and America.
Suggested Time Frame:
Two 45-minute to one-hour class periods with optional additional time for presentation of extension projects.
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White Lightning
Amik - jealous, I kind of miss it down there right now. Have fun and stay hydrated!!!
indi - im fine, other than the fact that I'm crazy sore this morning. She said no problem on my back, will take two sessions to get it mobile again as long as my x-ray doesn't have any surprises.
TM later today. Did some pool running last night, surprisingly hard work
Play the Game Hard!
aka - I have some good hills here in Chambersburg too, but at that point in HBG with fighting blisters those hills did me in. I'll run HBG again just because I know in my mind I have a better performance in me there. Same can be said about gettysburg another course that was not kind to me.
Jedi: You're definitely right about the hills at HBG. When I was leaving the race, some lady was telling her family about how the hills at Wildwood were "straight up, straight down, straight up, straight down!" I had to laugh. Coincidentally enough, I'm running Wildwood this morning. Even for short hills, I've found that they prep me well for any other hills in races.
9.7m for me this morning with 40min tempo @ T pace +15 sec. Avg. pace 7:29 which I am happy about as i did bulk of the tempo run on Chambersburg half course and the hills. Tempo done spot on at my goal HMP so happy with a solid run.
Simon - thanks! I feel pretty confident on all my goals, except 10k as 10k's few and far between here in PA.
PR's - 5K - 20:15 (2013) | 10K - 45:14 (2011) | 13.1 - 1:34:40 (2013) | 26.2 - 3:40:40 (2014)
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Morning guys. Ended up taking an USRD yesterday to try to let my cold get better. Seems to have helped as I'm coughing less today and feel a little better. Looking at the plan, I only have 45 scheduled this week per Hansons anyway. (I was planning for 50). 8-10 miles for me later today.
akalei - my Garmin seems to get the signal fairly quickly even on cloudy days but I have noticed it's not as accurate when it's cloudy so there might be something to that.
Rollcast - super cute picture
Cbus - nice job on the 4.
Simon - now I feel less than tough for skipping my run yesterday. But I did run 12 in 38 and raining on Thursday. :P And I wish more RA people would join our group too!
Banshee - very nice run
Indiana - Enjoy the recovery
Ami - sounds like you are ready to kick some butt tomorrow. enjoy the pool time!
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Ami - Have fun! I saw Docket's FB posts and it looks like she had a lot of fun and a decent time for as many pictures as she took!
joshlynn - Are you doing the pool running with a weight belt or anything? I've always wanted to try it.
jedi - woah are you speedy! I think you signed up for the wrong group!
onemile - get well soon!
SRD here. I will probably do some walking or cycling to shake out my legs. I 'only' have a 10 mile long run tomorrow so I'm kind of freaking out about how low this week's mileage is going to be (38.5).
2013 races:
3/17 Shamrock Marathon
4/20 North Coast 24 Hour
7/27 Burning RIver 100M
8/24 Baker 50M
10/5 Oil Creek (distance to be determined)
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Banshee - I saw a youtube video of one of the US Olympic women training and she was doing pool running two different ways. One was regular running motion swinging arms and legs and the other was just legs, no belts. I only did it for about 10 minutes but was more to test if I could get my garmin and HR strap to work underwater, which I was able to do.
Good morning! 1 hour on the stepmill including intervals and stretching at the gym this morning. Super jealous of all the runners out this morning in shorts and t-shirts. It was 59 degrees! I would still have had on capris though being the cold weather wimp that I am. I'm a little sore this morning, but not too bad. More to the touch than anything else. Some lovely bruising too, but again, not too bad really. In my case, I think the actual treatments are more painful than the after effects. Really hope this pays off on another test run next week.
Amik: enjoy that pool! Good luck tomorrow.
josh: so what's the prognosis? Will you be able to conquer some of these issues?
Sprinkles and Roll: nice photos!
Banshee: does your college offer some type of assistance or maybe a payment plan?
PRs: 1:39:24 (HM) 3:47:02 (FM)
mdawg - of course. I'll know more on Tuesday and she encouraged me to keep pushing
Rusk Runner
Josh - that sounds really cool. I watched "spirit of the marathon" the other night and Deena Kastor was running on a underwater treadmill. Pretty cool stuff. Of course, I have access to none of that type of thing. Neat to know its out there though.
Jedi - I am still curious, were you military? Nice tempo! You also post on sub 3:30 thread right?
Amik - Run hard, but run smart. You will know if you are doing anything too aggressive or too passive for that matter. The hard part is answering those assessments with the correct actions. Youre gonna do great!
Banshee - sorry to hear about the school stuff. I have always bemoaned the fact that someone someone who tries so hard to better theirselves with higher education has to overcome so many more obstacles. I was lucky to have the military offer me so much towards an education. I only took that to a two year degree however. I wish I could offer you something that I didnt use. You sound very positive in your approach to things and you have my deepest well wishes in your pursuits.
Ran my scheduled 4 recovery miles on the dreadmill today, 9:14 pace, 1 deg incline w/400m @ 4 deg incline. Looks like tomorrow is going to be 12 miles in cold rain. Cbus, you are in for that too, right? Lets show'em!
PRs...5K - 20:36, 4mile - 26:15, 13.1 - 1:32, 26.2 - 3:42
Just Run!!!
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Indy: Hope you enjoyed the rest.
onemile: Feel better!
mdawg: Same here! I think it was in the high 40s when I went out this morning, and I wore shorts and a long sleeved t-shirt, and my my second mile, I had pushed the sleeves up. I'll take it; though it is supposed to drop back to normal mid 30s for this time of year next week.
josh: hope you can get those things sorted out.
akalei: enjoy your run!
AmiK: enjoy your trip, and good luck tomorrow!!
Jedi: nice run!
simon/onemile: I posed an offer a while ago in the main sub-4 thread on the racing board, inviting people to join in. I don't know if we got any lurkers from that or not.
I ran this morning. No pain. Very happy. Crunching my quad with a foam roller a few times was what it needed, I guess. 6.7 @ 8:47. We'll see how this holds up, and what it feels like later on today. I didn't run yesterday, but did stretching and some TLC with a foam roller at the gym for 20 minutes each before and after a swim. 2500 yards in 51:53 total time.
I'm covered in mud after a 12.6 mile run that included 7 miles on the Central Park bridal path with 5 at marathon pace - 5 mile cooldown on the highway all the way home. About to go walk the dog and then go to the movies, walk the dog and then go to dinner- such an exciting life I lead. 10 mile 'race' tomorrow with friends followed by brunch.
I started my workout log on here...not sure if you can see it or not??? Let me know!
13.1: 1:45 | 26.2: 3:55
Yes, 3.5yrs USN '93-'96. I was not a gunner's mate if that's what you're getting at. I was a Operations Specialist. yes post on sub3:30 thread in MRT group.
Sprinkles - nice mud run!
Banshee - no, I just like good running conversation.
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Hi, guys. Quick post. Disney HM done. Stopped by every character to take a pic and had fun with a fellow forumite. It was humid alright to the extend that I was more wet from the sweat of people around me than with mine and I was pretty Soaked.
banshee, you know you are in trouble with DH when you get to the inknburn booth and they recognize you by name and face.
have a nice day everybody!
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
It's always fucking hot in Miami!
Docket - glad you're having fun, that's one I'd love to run one day
Sprinkles - Nice run. Nope, can't see your log yet, you need to change it to public
Flinders - Nice to see your getting back up in mileage a bit
Jedi - great run
Me - Just a very easy 3 mile run on the TM @ 10:33 to keep the legs moving. Legs and hips still very sore from yesterday. 8 tomorrow will put me at 40 for the week. Should be warm enough to get that one done outside. What a roller coaster, looking at 40F by Tuesday. An hour of yoga later tonight
Hey all,
Got in 6 @ 9:53. wore the Elixirs again, and I'm officially in love. So much more responsive than the Precision. Flexible, but still has spring to the step. The stability is not controlling at all. More like a firmer, and therefore more responsive, medial side. Definitely a keeper.
Banshee, sorry to hear about your school/finance situation.
Roll, great pic!
Onemile, get well!
Josh, wow, you sound jacked up! Hope the doc can straighten you out.
Mdawg, I didn't really hurt after Graston, except bruising type sensitivity. The pain was always the treatment itself.
Indi, you and I seem to share similar weather. Looks like storms for us too! Gonna be an adventure.
Docket, glad the half was fun. Post pics when you get a chance. Kick butt tomorrow!
Ami, don't go out too fast tomorrow, and you'll do great. Enjoy it. And smash Mickey's face in!!!
PRs: 21:35 (5K); 1:46:46 (HM); 4:30:46 (FM)
I have some pics in FB but I'll post them when I get home tomorrow, I promise.
Hope AmiK is not freaking out and is having fun relaxing tonight.


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Max Khitrov wrote:
> Just curious, I have no prior experience with PCIe, but I would very
> much like to take advantage its of the bandwidth when my new SC420
> server arrives. So my question is, is there anybody out there who is
> running m0n0wall with a PCIe network card and are there any problems in
> doing so (I guess another version of the question would be does FreeBSD
> support it)?
In my experience PCIe hardware shows up in the PCI bus scan the same way
"legacy" PCI devices do.
In other words, PCIe has been designed to be backwards-compatible with
existing OSs - I've booted my Debian install CDs on Dell OptiPlex GX280s
(PCIe-based P4 machines) and found that the network interface showed up
the way I expected it to.
The biggest thing you will need to worry about is whether FreeBSD
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Sept. 10, 2004 - All but two of the 47 felony indictments handed up by a Hopkins County Grand Jury following its August session were for drug-related offenses, ranging from possession of marijuana to possession or delivery of a controlled substance and possession of anhydrous ammonia, a chemical used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
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Head coach Turner Gill met with local members of the media on Tuesday where he previewed Liberty's Big South opener against Gardner-Webb on Saturday at Williams Stadium.
During the 20-minute press conference, Gill recapped what he team worked on during the program's annual bye week, looked ahead to the Big South season and provided an injury update.
Following a week off from competition, Liberty returns to action on Saturday against Gardner-Webb, capping off the university's annual Homecoming weekend. Game time is set for 3:30 p.m.
This contest will kick off the 11th season of Big South football where Liberty will be looking to claim its fifth Big South title in the last six seasons. Liberty has won the last five meetings between the Flames and the Bulldogs, including the last two at home by a combined 46 points (30-10 in 2008 and 40-14 in 2010).


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"Australia were very physical and carried the ball hard, but the boys stepped up and kept hitting them," Jones told BBC Wales Sport.
"I told them before the game that if we were going to win they had to give everything, and that's what they did. They were shattered at the end.
"It's amazing what you can achieve as a human being when you really want to."
The sides were level as the game reached the final 10 minutes, but a Shaun Connor drop-goal and a Richard Mustoe try ensured the tourist opened their European tour with a defeat.
None of the Australians who will feature against Wales on Saturday took to the field at Swansea's Liberty Stadium, but the side nevertheless included 13 capped internationals.
Ospreys were themselves without 11 of their Wales squad members - as well as former All Blacks scrum-half Justin Marshall - but they proved more than a match for the visitors.
It was the first time a Welsh region had played against a touring international side, and Jones said the victory was a significant milestone for his side.
"I'm very pleased," said Jones. "I'm very proud of the players and I'm very pleased for the everybody in the region.
"It's a very big night for us and I'm just delighted for everybody. It was a tight affair and we held our nerve and nailed them back.
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did you check the md5sum?
Hi there, i'm really happy with this new release of BT!
I downloaded the USB version, copied it to my USB-stick and made it bootable. When i'm trying to boot from USB, i'll get a black screen after i selected the boot option (Tried different ones like Compiz, KDE, text-mode). The only thing i see are those two modules that are loading after i selected a boot option. When the screen turns black and i press the 'off-button' a screen will appear which i recognize from BT2 as the boot screen while loading the hardware, but nothing happens.
I someone who can help me out with this problem?
Thanks a lot!
did you check the md5sum?
Did you format the usb with the proper file systems? I'm making one right now Ill post the results in a few
Because you get to the boot menu it's rather unlikely but you could try another usb port.
Especially the front usb ports often don't work (but then u usually don't get to the boot menu either).
btw: my usb-stick works
My USB is fat32, like i used with BT2. I'll try ext2 and ext3 and post back my results.
Original bd0d8f507502787184b187f5a39288df
Downloaded bd0d8f507502787184b187f5a39288df
Changing the filesystem didn't solve the problem. Maybe i should try the cd first. If that one is working perhaps it has something to do with my USB drive, which i can't imagine.
I have the same problem. I tried it using both USB and DVD (I haven't tried the CD version). I see the lines for vmlinuz and initrd, then shortly after, the screen goes black and all activity stops, the system becomes totally unresponsive and I have to power it off. I'm not sure whether it gets past initrd.
This is on a Dell Vostro 1000 notebook:
AMD Turion TL-56
2GB DDR2 533MHz
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB
Post or PM me if I can supply any more relevant info. I guess in the meantime I'll download the CD image and try that.
Edit: the CD does the same thing.
Same here, except that the CD is working for me.
Was not able to get BT2 to boot from USB either.
Do I need to partition the Mem-Stick with a Swap-Partition?
To get 1 thing straight: your USB needs to be FAT32. FAT is required for syslinux to work.
Try to get to console mode when your screens goes black: CTRL+ALT+F2
I'm also having a similar problem with both CD and DVD versions (havn't tryed USB yet)
After selecting the environment KDE/Flux etc, presented with a blank screen. Hitting the power button brings up the loading screen and the system locks up
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Glossary terms
- Adverse Drug Event
- Harm to a patient resulting from the use of a medication. (Use potential adverse drug event, or pADE, if harm was likely but did not occur.)
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Programs and practices designed to prevent antibiotic overuse, which can cause dangerous bacteria to become resistant to treatment. The goal of antibiotic stewardship is to ensure that patients get the right drug, in the right dose, for the right amount of time.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Programs and practices designed to prevent antibiotic overuse, which can cause dangerous bacteria to become resistant to treatment. The goal of antibiotic stewardship is to ensure that patients get the right drug, in the right dose, for the right amount of time.
- Beneficiary
- A person who has health insurance through the Medicare program. These generally are individuals age 65 and over, but also include those with end-stage renal disease or certain other disabilities.
- Beneficiary and Family Centered Care (BFCC)-Quality Improvement Organization
- Beneficiary and Family Centered Care (BFCC)-Quality Improvement Organizations manage all beneficiary complaints and quality of care reviews, EMTALA, and other types of case reviews. Two BFCC-QIOs, Livanta and KEPRO, address quality of care concerns and appeals for different U.S. regions.
- Care settings
- Facilities and other channels through which health care is delivered, and with which a specific level of acuity is associated. These range from the most acute: hospitals and other inpatient settings, to the least acute: physician practices and other outpatient settings.
- Care transitions
- A patient's move from one care setting to another, such as from a hospital to a nursing home, or from a rehabilitation facility to the patient's home.
- Catheter
- A tube that can be inserted into the body and is used to either provide necessary fluids or to allow fluids to drain.
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)
- An infection that happens when bacteria enter the urinary tract through a catheter. CAUTI is a particular type of a health care-acquired infection.
- Central line
- A tube placed into a large vein in the body, usually in the neck, chest, arm or groin. Central lines may be used to draw blood or give fluids or medications.
- Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI)
- An infection that happens when bacteria enter the blood through a central line. CLABSI is a particular type of a health care-acquired infection.
- Change agent
- An individual or organization with the power and skills to catalyze and support change by others.
- Chronic condition
- A long-term illness or disease that requires ongoing management by patients and physicians. Examples include diabetes, congestive heart failure and arthritis.
- Clinical performance data
- Measurements that assist providers in determining how well they are delivering health care; for example, the percentage of a primary care physician's patients who receive an annual influenza immunization or a surgeon's infection rate.
- Clinical pharmacists
- Pharmacists who are part of the patient care team in a hospital, nursing home or outpatient clinic. They consult with clinicians about medication options, dosages, and how drugs are delivered to the patient's body.
- Clostridium difficile (C. diff)
- A bacterium that can result from inappropriate use of antibiotics and which can cause severe intestinal distress and debilitation. C. diff is a common, highly contagious health care-acquired infection in both hospitals and nursing homes.
- Collaborative
- A short-term (6- to 15-month) improvement activity that brings together teams from multiple hospitals or other facilities that have similar goals for better performance in a focused clinical area. Group educational events are followed by action periods during which each team applies what it has learned.
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- Testing to determine whether an individual has cancer of the colon or rectum. The most common test used for colorectal screening is a colonoscopy.
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- Convener
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- Electronic Health Records
- Medical records that are kept on a computer system, instead of on paper. This allows patients to have better access to their own health information and allows providers to share information necessary to coordinating care.
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- Go-live
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- Health care or hospital-acquired condition
- An undesirable consequence of receiving health care services that result in harm to the patient, such as a broken hip resulting from a fall in the health care facility.
- Health care or hospital-acquired infection
- An infection that a patient develops as a result of receiving health care services, such as a urinary tract infection caused by a catheter that was left in place for too long.
- Health Information Exchange
The mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system.
- Influenza
- The medical term for the flu, an infectious disease caused by a virus.
- Intervention
- A process, system or tool that is used to improve health or health care, such as a checklist for the proper insertion of central line catheters to prevent infection.
- Learning and action network
- A group of health care professionals and stakeholder organizations, convened by the QIO, which come together to improve patient care or population health and spread best practices through peer-to-peer learning and solution sharing.
- Mammogram
- A test to detect cancer that produces an image of the breast using low-energy x-rays.
- Mammography
A technique using X-rays to diagnose and locate breast tumors.
- Meaningful use
- As defined for CMS' electronic health record incentive programs, the term used to describe consistent use of the full functionality of an electronic health record to improve patient care and safety.
- Patient engagement
- Actions taken by patients, families and health care providers to help patients participate more fully in their own care. Examples of patient engagement strategies include shared decision making and patient portals that facilitate access to electronic health records.
- Patient Safety Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative
- An improvement initiative originated by the federal Health Resources and Services Agency (HRSA) that focuses on reducing the rates of adverse drug events in high-risk, community-based populations.
- Patient-centered
- Driving rapid, large-scale change that puts patients first.
- Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle
- A structured trial of a process change. Drawn from the Shewhart cycle, this model includes: Plan - a time to organize the change in anticipation of its execution; Do - a time to try the change and observe what happens; Study - an analysis of the results of the trial; and Act - devising next steps based on the analysis, such as learning from errors in the trial so they are not repeated next time.
- Pneumococcal
- The medical term for pneumonia-related infections. The pneumococcal vaccine is given to patients in order to prevent pneumonia.
- Post-acute care
- Medical care that takes place after a patient is discharged from the hospital. Nursing home care and home health care are two examples.
- PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System)
- An incentive program sponsored by CMS that ties a portion of Medicare payment to physicians and other clinicians based upon how they report clinical quality data. Formerly called the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative or PQRI. For more information on PQRS go to CMS.gov.
- Pressure ulcer
- Localized injuries to the skin and/or tissue as a result of pressure from the body's weight or from an external medical device. Patients with fragile skin who sit or lie for too long in one position are likely to develop pressure ulcers (also known as bedsores).
- Preventive care
- Methods taken to prevent health conditions before they occur or to prevent health conditions from worsening once they have begun. Examples include getting a flu shot or keeping blood sugar under control in people with diabetes.
- Preventive screenings
- Tests used to determine a patient's risk for certain conditions or to identify disease early, when it can be most treatable, often before noticeable symptoms occur. Examples include blood pressure screening to identify people at risk for hypertension.
The Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center (QIN NCC) supports a national network of 14 QIN-QIOs as they implement the national quality initiatives of the QIO Program. As the QIN NCC, Telligen provides analytic and technical assistance, spreads promising practices and innovative approaches, and facilitates opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and connection.
- Quality Improvement Organization
- A group of health quality experts and clinicians organized to improve the care delivered to people with Medicare. QIOs work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assist Medicare providers with quality improvement and to review quality concerns for the protection of beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust Fund. There is one QIO for each U.S. state, territory and the District of Columbia.
- Quality Innovation Network (QIN)-Quality Improvement Organization
- Quality Innovation Network (QIN)-Quality Improvement Organizations work with providers, stakeholders and Medicare beneficiaries to improve the quality of health care for targeted health conditions. They are responsible for working with health care providers and the community on data-driven projects to improve patient safety, reduce harm and improve clinical care at the local level.
- Rapid-cycle improvement
- The use of standard quality tools, skilled staff members and multiple iterations of the Plan-Do-Study Act cycle (small tests of change) to improve clinical performance in a limited amount of time.
- Readmission
- When a patient returns to the hospital shortly after a recent stay, typically within 30 days of discharge.
- Regional Extension Center
An organization that has received funding under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) to assist health care providers with the selection and implementation of electronic health record (EHR) technology.
- Settings of care
- Facilities and other channels through which health care is delivered, and with which a specific level of acuity is associated. These range from the most acute: hospitals and other inpatient settings, to the least acute: physician practices and other outpatient settings.
- Stakeholder
- Any individual or organization outside of the immediate QIO project team that has a shared interest in achieving the goals of the QIO Program. Stakeholders include other state and federal health agencies, health care providers and community members, Medicare beneficiaries, and national and state associations.
- Technical assistance
- Expert advice, training and hands-on support related to a complex or unfamiliar task. For example, QIOs provide hospitals with technical assistance for reporting data to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), which includes help obtaining access to the NHSN, training for entering data into the NHSN, and tips for using NHSN-generated reports to benchmark their facility's performance in preventing infections.
- Value-based purchasing
- In Medicare, the act of paying health care providers on the basis of a combination of factors that address cost and quality, rather than solely on the volume of services.


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From SuperSymmetry to Artificial Leaves
NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2012-2013 Distinguished Lecture Series begins Monday, Nov. 19
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences invites media and members of the public to attend its 2012-2013 series of distinguished lectures, a slate of presentations that cover a suite of some of the most-discussed topics in science.
The first talk on Nov. 19, 2012, features renowned physicist and science communicator S. James Gates of the University of Maryland, who is also a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Known for his clear and concise explanations of string theory and other cutting edge fields in physics, his current talk will focus on SuperSymmetry and its relation to the search for the Higgs boson.
All lectures will be held in room 110 at NSF, 4201 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Va., which is easily accessible from the Ballston Metro station. Visitors are welcome; no access badges are required. Please note that these lectures are not simulcast or accessible remotely. For additional information, contact Josh Chamot.
Complete Schedule of Lectures
November 19, 2:00 p.m., Room 110
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About the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorate comprises the divisions of Astronomical Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Research, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities. These divisions provide the basic structure for support of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and education. The scope of scientific and educational activity supported is enormous, ranging from phenomena at cosmological distances, to environmental science on the human scale, through quantum mechanical processes in atomic and subatomic physics, to phenomena of the unimaginably small. Researchers explore abstract ideas, concepts, and structures of mathematics as well as more tangible "stuff" that includes the materials used in our everyday lives. Their tools range from desktop instruments to synchrotron light sources, accelerators, radio and optical telescopes and high magnetic fields. The rapid development of computational and communications capabilities also is leading to the development of a new set of tools that support data-enabled science.
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At the 2010 Anarchist Bookfair in London there was a discussion with independent journalist and filmmaker John Pilger (which was recorded -- listen below) and one of the questions from the audience was about the attacks on 9/11. The following is a transcript of the question and his reply:
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Successful applicants will pursue research, in collaboration with members of the HAO scientific staff, related to solar/stellar interiors and variability (including asteroseismology and the solar-stellar connection), the lower solar atmosphere, corona and heliosphere, terrestrial and planetary atmospheres, and ionospheres and magnetospheres. Projects involving radiative transfer, hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, radiation hydrodynamics, plasma physics, and other topics are pursued both out of fundamental physical interest and for their application to the above areas of research.
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Net neutrality: A made-for-web debate
The complex issue of net neutrality is not likely to be dinner conversation for many in the U.S. Still, the Federal Communications Commission vote expected today could dramatically impact the flow of digital content Americans receive, not to mention the bottom line for many major U.S. technology and content companies.
So, where could the public find news about this issue? A new analysis of media attention to the topic from January 1 – May 12, 2014 finds coverage in national television news all but absent, and sparse in most major newspapers. Instead, during key developments, interested members of the public turned to Twitter and online searches to learn more or share their own insights.
Net neutrality is the principle that all digital information should be treated equally by companies that provide the cables and networks that make up the Internet. The FCC is expected to vote today on whether to propose new rules announced last month by Chairman Tom Wheeler that included a "fast track" provision which would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to charge companies fees for faster access to the ISP's customers. The decision could impact the speed and quality of different kinds of digital content (such as video and music) that consumers receive. It could also dramatically affect the economics and balance of power of technology and content companies – so much so that 150 technology companies, including Google, Amazon and Twitter, signed on to a letter that strongly opposed the new rules.
In order to determine how much the general public was being exposed to the issue in the mainstream media, Pew Research Center examined news coverage in 23 of the largest circulation daily newspapers and on major broadcast and cable television networks. We also analyzed Google search data using Google Trends and Twitter posts to compare news coverage with how much the topic was being searched for and discussed on social media. The period studied began shortly before a January 14, when the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that the FCC overstepped its legal authority by attempting to enforce net neutrality. Our period of analysis ended just before the FCC vote expected this week.
For a subject that may seem esoteric to many Americans, we found that people interested in net neutrality news found ways to converse and learn about it outside of mainstream media coverage. Our analysis found:
- So far in 2014, coverage of net neutrality has been all but absent from network and cable news coverage. An analysis of 2,820 news programs from January 1, 2014 through May 12 across eight different network and cable news channels found just 25 programs mentioned the term net neutrality. What's more, six of those programs, the most of any channel, were on Al Jazeera America, a new channel that is not available in many American households. On, CNN, the second-largest cable news network, we found just a single program mentioned net neutrality in the 658 programs on CNN studied since January.
- Top U.S. newspapers devoted somewhat more attention to the topic than television, but the majority of it was concentrated in six daily newspapers. In total, 203 stories about net neutrality appeared in the 23 top newspapers during the 18 weeks studied according to Lexis Nexis. But two-thirds appeared in just 6 papers: three local papers – San Jose Mercury News (32) and Los Angeles Times (22), The Boston Globe (17), and three national papers – The New York Times (29), The Washington Post (22) and USA Today (17). (Note: The Wall Street Journal was not included in the analysis because it does not list its content in Lexis Nexis.)
- When major federal action occurred, followers of the net
neutrality issue found a forum on Twitter—and virtually all of the commentary expressed support for the concept.
Overall, 643,284 tweets including the term net neutrality appeared
from January 1 through May 12. Nearly 30% of those appeared in just six days—the day of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision on January 14 and the following two days and the day of the FCC
announcement of its new rules on April 23 and the following two days. An examination of the comments shows near unanimous support for net neutrality. In fact, researchers were unable to even find enough tweets in opposition of net neutrality to run the kind of computer analysis on tone that Pew Research has done for other issues.
- Similarly, in Google, searches for the term net neutrality spiked during the two major net neutrality decisions. According to Google Trends, searches for "net neutrality" increased dramatically during the week of January 12-18 when the district court ruled against the FCC. They rose again the week of April 27-May 3rd after the FCC announced its new rules and the technology companies came out against it. In the interim periods, the searches dropped off as the news events died down.
Even with the spikes in social and search activity the segment of the population following the issue is relatively small. Still, a comparison to the debate over the Keystone Pipeline speaks to the distinction in this case between mainstream media and digital activity. The overall number of tweets during the 17 weeks studied was similar to the volume of tweets containing the term Keystone Pipeline (757,916). And the number of searches were similar as well for both topics. National television, however, devoted far more attention to Keystone than to net neutrality: 340 programs mentioned Keystone Pipeline during the time period studied, compared with the 25 that mentioned net neutrality.
The methodology for this report can be found here.
Topics: Digital Media, Newspapers, Social Media, News Content Analysis, Television
Kenneth Olmstead is a research associate focusing on internet, science and technology at Pew Research Center.
Paul Hitlin is a senior researcher focusing on internet, science and technology at Pew Research Center.
Nancy Vogt is a research analyst focusing on journalism research at Pew Research Center.
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I asked about Net Neutrality at a dinner of seven average adults a week ago (my wife and I, and brother and his wife, my 27-year old daughter and her partner, and my 21 year-old son).
None of them had ever heard of NN. I had heard of it, but that's because I am actively involved in telecom policy issues, so I don't count myself as "average" on this issue. The fact is, most people haven't heard of it. Only telecom policy wonks and activists (those who rush to sign every NN online petition) have ever heard of it. That's not to say it isn't important. But my priorities are not everyone else's priorities.
The fact is, television caters to eyeballs, and I can understand them not talking about an issue that only a fraction of a fraction of Americans care about.
That first pair of bar graphs, under the title "mentions of "Net Neutrality' in Google searches, Twitter"
needs a legend. I see no explanation of the difference between the two shaded halves of the bars. Both halves have the essentially the same balloon caption, "# articles in # newspapers mentioned net neutrality".