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The Conservation Board staff reviewed the standards required for conditional use and the Anna Louise Inn's application, concluding that the facility should be allowed to operate as a "special assistance shelter."
The Board is expected to rule on the permit Aug. 27 after receiving the recommendation and hearing testimony from the Inn's administrators and supporters. Representatives from Western & Southern Financial Group, which sued the Anna Louise Inn over zoning violations in 2011, will also have an opportunity to testify.
CityBeat last week reported the details of Western & Southern's failure to purchase the Anna Louise Inn when it had the chance and the company's subsequent attempts to force the Inn out of the neighborhood ("Surrounded by Skyscrapers", issue of Aug. 15).
Tim Burke, lawyer for the Anna Louise Inn, is pleased with the staff's determination that the renovation met all qualifications for conditional use.
"I was certainly optimistic that we would get a positive recommendation," Burke says. "This is obviously an extremely positive recommendation and we agree with it."
The staff recommendation states that the Anna Louise Inn "creates, maintains and enhances areas for residential developments that complement and support the downtown core" and that "no evidence has been presented of any negative public health, safety, welfare or property injury due to the current use." It also notes that "the Anna Louise Inn is a point of reference from which all other new and renovated buildings must be designed in order to be compatible with the district."
The Anna Louise Inn only applied for the conditional use permit because Judge Norbert Nadel ruled in Western & Southern's favor on May 4, determining that the Inn is a "special assistance shelter" rather than "transitional housing," which froze $12.6 million in city- and state-distributed loans for the Inn's planned renovation. The Anna Louise Inn appealed that decision but also applied for the conditional use permit from the Conservation Board under the judge's definition, because special assistance shelters qualify for conditional use permits under the city's zoning code.
Francis Barrett, lawyer for Western & Southern, appears to have taken exception to the Anna Louise Inn's application. He sent a letter to the Conservation Board Aug. 20 stating that "the description of the proposed uses set forth in the application for conditional use approval … is not the same as nor consistent with the Court's decision."
Barrett didn't return a message left by CityBeat with the receptionist at his law firm after a Western & Southern media relations representative directed CityBeat to contact him there. Francis Barrett is the brother of Western & Southern CEO John F. Barrett.
UPDATE: Francis Barrett returned CityBeat's call after this story was published. His comments are at the end.
Burke doesn't know what Barrett meant by suggesting that the proposed uses in the Anna Louise Inn's application for conditional use don't follow Nadel's May 4 ruling.
"We're doing what they argued in court," Burke says. "Judge Nadel's decision doesn't ever exactly say 'you're a special assistance shelter.' It certainly refers to the Off the Streets program that way and it certainly refers to (the Anna Louise Inn) as a single unified use. It says 'go back to the appropriate administrators and seek conditional use approval.' That's what we're doing."
Stephen MacConnell, president and CEO of Cincinnati Union Bethel, which owns the Anna Louise Inn, says the hearing will involve testimony from himself and Mary Carol Melton, CUB executive vice president, along with supporters of the Anna Louise Inn.
"We'll bring a few witnesses just to basically lay out the situation," MacConnell says. "The board will already have the staff recommendation, so the witnesses that we'll bring will briefly testify about how we meet the required standards."
Western & Southern will have a chance to appeal if the Historic Conservation Board grants the conditional use permit. Burke expects that to happen.
"What I'm pissed about is Western & Southern, they don't give a damn," Burke says. "We can do exactly what Judge Nadel told us to do and get it approved as a conditional use. They will appeal it to the zoning board of appeals. We can win it there and they will appeal it and get it back in front of Judge Nadel and then I don't know what will happen."
The hearing is scheduled to take place at 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27 at Centennial Plaza Two, 805 Central Ave., Seventh Floor.
UPDATE 5:36 P.M.: Regarding the letter Francis Barrett sent the Conservation Board Aug. 20 stating that "the description of the proposed uses set forth in the application for conditional use approval … is not the same as nor consistent with the Court's decision," Barrett said Friday evening: "I just felt that the description in the submission was different from the description in the decision. I would say it was just not complete."
When asked for specifics, Barrett said: "I'd have to get the decision out and look at it carefully. I don't have it in front of me I just thought in general."
Barrett said Western & Southern will give a presentation to the Historic Conservation Board on Monday but declined to elaborate because it wasn't finalized.
When asked if Western & Southern will appeal a ruling in favor of the Anna Louise Inn, Barrett said: "It all depends what the decision states."
"The First Energy Family has contributed more than $44,000.00 into re-election campaigns for Justices Cupp and O'Donnell this year alone," O'Neill, a Democrat who is running for the Ohio Supreme Court, wrote. "It is simply wrong for them to continue sitting on First Energy cases."
The Ohio Supreme Court, which has seven justices decide
the state's top judicial cases, is currently handling a case
involving FirstEnergy, an energy company based in Akron. More than
300,000 customers are suing the company over alleged fraud. The 11th
District Court of Appeals previously ruled against FirstEnergy, and the case was appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
The lawsuit is the fifth Ohio Supreme Court case involving FirstEnergy this year.
O'Neill pointed out the lawsuit "could easily be a billion dollar case" before writing, "And the public has a right to know that the ruling was not purchased by one side or another."
Ohio Sen. Mike Skindell, a Democrat who is also running for the Ohio Supreme Court, endorsed O'Neill's letter. In the past, he also criticized Cupp and O'Donnell for potential conflicts of interest.
The offices of Cupp and O'Donnell did not immediately respond to CityBeat's requests for comment on the letter. This story will be updated if responses become available.
UPDATE OCT. 4, 4:12 P.M.: Mark Weaver, spokesperson for Cupp, responded: "Mr. O'Neill previously raised this argument with disciplinary authorities by filing a complaint. It was reviewed by disciplinary authorities, and they unanimously dismissed it as having no merit."
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and several voting rights groups are asking that a special prosecutor drop his investigation into vague, unspecified allegations of voter registration fraud. If the probe isn't ended, the groups hint that they may file a lawsuit against the Prosecutor's Office.
This week's issue of CityBeat features a Porkopolis column detailing the investigation, which was launched by Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters. Deters also is Sen. John McCain's Southwest Ohio campaign chairman, and many people have viewed Deters' action as a partisan tactic designed to suppress the surge in new voters on the Democratic side.
The folks over at Gallup have told us something that some Cincinnatians already believe: Kentucky is a shitty place to live.
The Bluegrass State was ranked as the third-worst in the nation for livability because of its residents' affinity for tobacco, disinclination to go to the gym and for never seeming to find the time to go to the dentist.
The poll asked more than 500,000 adults questions about economic confidence, job creation, whether their bosses treated them like partners rather than underlings, whether they had been to a dentist in the last year and how easy it is to find clean drinking water.
Poll respondents also ranked Kentucky 49th for "learned something new yesterday," and enough Kentuckians complained about finding a safe place to exercise to earn it the 47th rank.
Our friends and neighbors to the south fell amongst such company as West Virginia, Mississippi and Nevada.
Now before we Ohioans get too smug, we were ranked the ninth worst state for future livability.
We were near dead last (47th) for "city/area 'getting better' minus 'getting worse' " and 45th for "low obesity."
The top three states for future livability were places where nobody actually lives Utah, Minnesota and Colorado. Apparently they all like brushing their teeth and exercise more than the Tristate.
The Anna Louise Inn today won another case in front of the Cincinnati Zoning Board of Appeals. The ruling upheld a Historic Conservation Board decision that gave Cincinnati Union Bethel, which owns the inn, a conditional use permit that will allow the social service agency to carry on with a planned $13 million renovation. Western & Southern in a statement given to reporters following the decision vowed to appeal the ruling.
At the hearing, Western & Southern attorney Francis Barrett, who is
the brother of Western & Southern CEO John Barrett, continued his
argument that the Anna Louise Inn is a "high-crime area." The accusation
is meant to disqualify the Inn for the conditional use permit, which
requires that the building's use will not be detrimental to public
health and safety or negatively affect property values in the
neighborhood. During an Aug. 27 hearing, the Historic Conservation Board found no direct evidence connecting residents of the Anna Louise Inn to
criminal activity in the neighborhood.
Barrett also emphasized Western & Southern's stance that continuing on the current path set by the Historic Conservation Board is a waste of taxpayer money because the Inn is receiving public funds. Barrett labeled the funds "excessive expenditures." However, that argument has little bearing on whether the Inn deserves a conditional use permit, because it's not relevant to zoning laws and rules.
Tim Burke, Cincinnati Union Bethel's attorney, began his defense of the Anna Louise Inn by calling the ongoing case one of the most "frustrating" of his career. He suggested Western & Southern is just continuing its attempts to delay the Inn's renovations as much as possible.
Regarding the charge that the Anna Louise Inn has adverse effects on public health and safety, Burke told the Zoning Board of Appeals that the only adverse effect is on Western & Southern because "they want the property and can't get it." He claimed there is no proof that the Anna Louise Inn perpetuates crime in the area, and testimony and evidence presented in the case has proven as much.
The case is only one of many in the ongoing conflict between Cincinnati Union Bethel and Western & Southern, which CityBeat previously covered in-depth ("Surrounded by Skyscrapers," issue of Aug. 15). Cincinnati Union Bethel wants to renovate the Anna Louise Inn in part with $10 million in tax credit financing from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency and a $2.6 million loan funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that was awarded by the city. Western & Southern says it wants to use the Lytle Park area, where the Inn is located, for private economic development.
The series of cases began when Judge Norbert Nadel ruled on May 27 that the Anna Louise Inn classifies as a "special assistance shelter," which requires a different kind of zoning permit than the previous classification of "transitional housing." That ruling was appealed by Cincinnati Union Bethel to the Ohio First District Court of Appeals, which held hearings on Oct. 30 and is expected to give a ruling soon.
With the city of Cincinnati facing a $50.4 million deficit next year, the city's top administrator is recommending City Council end a property tax rollback that's been in effect since 1999. Even eliminating the rollback, however, won't prevent some cuts in city services.
The deficit estimate is considerably larger than the $30 million amount predicted by the city's budget director three weeks ago.


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Captcha and the Alternatives
By Alan Wagstaff
- Introduction -
Most of us have probably encountered a Captcha system on the web in the past few years, sometimes without even knowing it.
Captcha systems are designed to filter out automated "spam bots" from posting to websites that accept submissions such as forums and blogs by asking the user to solve a problem. These problems can range from typing in the letters and numbers displayed in an image to answering a simple math question or selecting the correct image.
- Traditional Captcha -
Traditional captcha systems generate an image with a selection of random letters and numbers which the user is then asked to type in to a box.
These images range from simple images such as:
to more advanced images with multicolor backgrounds and text such as:
These captcha systems developed and even made use of other projects such as the reCaptcha system which takes words from old books that have been digitised. When their OCR system is unable to a word, the word is placed into a database which reCaptcha then uses to generate their captcha images. They use one known word and one unknown word in the image so if the user correctly gets the known word then reCaptcha assumes that they probably got the unknown word correct and updates its database.
Whilst these captcha systems worked well, the downsides soon became obvious. It became fairly simple for spam bots to guess at the correct letters and numbers in the simple images using an OCR-type system. As the images became more advanced and began to make use of colors and distortions visually-impaired users where increasingly affected.
Although not widely used, some sites have also made use of animated images as captchas such as:
- Audio Captcha -
Audio captcha began to appear to solve the problem that visually-impaired users where unable to read the captcha images. Audio captures are rarely seen on their own and are usually combined with a traditional image captcha system.
Audio captchas will often distort the voices, use a number of different voices for each letter, and add a lot of background noise in an attempt to fool the new generation of spam bots that have voice recognition features.
- Image Selection Captcha -
A recent an increasingly popular captcha system asks that users select a few images form a larger selection. For example, the user may be presented with nine images of various animals and asked to select the three rabbits.
A good example of this is the KittenAuth system:
These systems also present problems to visual-impaired users just as the traditional captcha systems did. Many visually impaired users rely on alt-tags in images to explain them. For obvious reasons, systems like KittenAuth are not able to use image alt-tags.
- Human Input and Questions Captcha -
Another increasingly popular captcha system involves asking the user to answer a simple math question, or to fill in the missing word in a sentence.
[I fill my bath with hot ______]
[What is the answer to five plus two?]
The main problem with this system is the limited number of questions. Whilst it is perfectly possible to add 10,000 questions to your captcha system, it is more likely that most website administrators will add a lot less. If the owner of a spam bot was determined enough they could constantly refresh your webpage until they have all of your potential questions.
- Conclusion -
As you have seen, there is no perfect captcha system at the moment. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses. Most website administrators (me included) tend to opt for a traditional capture system with an audio alternative. reCaptcha[link] provide an excellent system which also has the added benefit of helping to digitise old books.
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Posted at: 01/10/2013 4:30 PM
| Updated at: 01/10/2013 5:22 PM
By: WNYT Staff
ALBANY - The governor is defending his call for the toughest assault weapons ban in the nation.
During his news conference Thursday, the governor says there is no doubt the gun issue is controversial, but he believes something has to be done.
"I am sure you will have extremists who say my policies don't go far enough because I allow people to have guns and I'm sure there are extremists on the other side the Republicans are worries about which will argue the government has no right to do this."
The governor wants to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines.
He also wants background checks for those who buy guns privately and increased measures to make sure the mentally ill can't get a gun.
WNYT welcomes a lively and courteous discussion as long as you follow the rules of conduct set forth in our Terms of Use. Comments are not pre-screened before they post. You agree that anything you post may be used, along with your name and profile picture, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the license you have granted pursuant to our Terms of Use.


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He's ready to take on your toughest questions - drop him an email at email@example.com
Q: I have been dating my boyfriend for about nine months. He's almost 30 and still lives at home. He's completed college and had a good job (construction related so he was recently layed off and is looking for work). The problem I have is he still lives at home and has openly admited that he likes it there because it is easy....
Q: I find myself in a situation I've never been in before and I'm not sure how to handle it. I'm in a relationship with a really great guy and we've been together for a little over a year.
Q: So i made a huge mistake. I went to the club with my girls, met a pro baseball player that plays overseas and he told me he was going through a divorce. He has two kids and his wife was cheating on him and they wanted to end things.
Q: My Boyfriend told me he loved me on the fifth date Which was three weeks into dating...I ddidn't say it back because it seemed too soon and I would have been lying.
Q: have a guy friend who I have known for quite a while. In the beginning of our friendship I told him that I liked him alot and that I wanted more. He told me he liked me back but he had a girlfriend who he'd been dating for a year. I didn't know this until then. I decided to keep his friendship anyway and supress my feelings. Things were going ok but whenever we hung out I could feel this chemistry between us that was getting harder and harder to ignore.
Q: There is this amazingly good looking guy at the gym I attend, we are both always there at the same time. Whenever I pass by him he smiles at me, and I smile back at him.
Q: I am 14 years old. I liked this guy for a while and decided to take a chance and ask him out and so i did, he said maybe so i told him to take his time. He hasn't answered me yet but it was like two days ago.
Q: My boyfriend and I have been through some tough times lately. We have decided to work on things, however, last night he freaked out because he realized i talk to my girlfriends about a lot of things and he always assumed everything between us was just between us. I assumed he talks to his guy friends about everything, but he doesn't.
Okay, this has been puzzling me for a long time now. In movies and books you'll see the guy giving the girl flowers and jewellery and all of these wonderful and romantic things. It seems easy! A simple rose could mean the world for the girl in a relationship. But what would be okay for the girl to give her guy?
Q: My boyfriend and I recently had a beautiful baby boy but for some reason just after our son turned one month old he cheated on me, he didn't have full blown sex but he did get oral from another girl. This isn't the first time he has cheated either, when we first found out I was pregnant he made out with another girl.
Q: Why would a guy behave so differently on MSN from real life? For example, on MSN, when you tell him that you're struggling on something or tell him you are sad, he would somewhat comfort you. But in real life, he would say things like 'haha', 'you know you will fail', or many other negative things.
Q: My husband and I just moved into our new home recently. My husband asked me if it was okay if his brother could move in for a while as he's just lost his job and had nowhere to live. I said it was okay, knowing this isn't a permanent arrangement. His brother pays us what he can in rent and buys his own food/necessities. The problem is he isn't cleaning up after himself...
Q: Hi i need your honest oppion on this.... do you think im ugly? and if not why have i only had 2 boufriends. im 16 years old im smart, funny, and really laied back, im not fat and im not too sensitive and i'm not mean im really sweet, i love reading and singing and im doing cheerleading but im not a prepi really need to know whats wrong with me. Don't be afried to tell em the truth i can take it lol :)
Q: What bits of chivalry do you pull out on a first date? How long does that last?
Q: Who's your celebrity crush?
Q: Do you act like a jerk on purpose to get girls? A guy told me this works like a charm for him.
Q: If your boyfriend is watching a lot of online porn without you, what does that say about your relationship? A: Watching porn and having sex are two different and independent channels.
We checked out the male-centric Wakestock Festival in Toronto to see what guys were thinking. Here's what they said.
Q: What's your preference: a full Brazilian wax, a landing strip, or completely natural? A: Natural, with grooming to keep things nice
Threesomes could work, but the best friend angle seems a little dangerous. Tons of weirdness potential coming out of a situation like that.
Q: Are guys comfortable going with their girlfriend or partner to strip bars? Would it make you uncomfortable if it was at her request? A: First Reaction: "You're kidding – I'll get the keys!" Second Reaction: "Hope I have enough cash for the stage show." Third Reaction: "Wait, what's she getting out of this?" Ultimately, we need to know your motivation for wanting to go.
Q: Do you expect a woman to have an orgasm the first time you have sex? Are your feelings hurt if we don't? A: Every woman comes with an Ikea-like set of instructions to assemble an orgasm, and every one is different. Where her spots are, how she likes the lights, what fantasies...
Q: If we had a one night stand, with no protection, and I got pregnant, and didn't tell you, how would you feel? Is that "baby theft"? A: We probably didn't do that one-night stand with the intent of making a baby...
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We asked a few of our favorite Maine writers which books they plan on bringing to the beach —and what literary events were on th
"I recommend Maine writer Lily King's beautiful, riveting novel, Father of the Rain, about the ecosystem of a divided New England family in the 1970s. Out in paperback just in time for the beach."
Susan Conley, Portland
Author of The Foremost Good Fortune
"Some of my favorite Maine summer reading can be found in Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay. From a description of a storm on Matinicus, 'the children whimpered, and the doors blew shut' to wrenching love poems about 'sullen rocks and skies' or meditations on being 'weedily washed ashore,' Millay never fails to bring me deeper into life and into the Maine landscape."
Annie Finch, Falmouth
Director of Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing and author of a collection of poems called Calendars
"I've just gotten back into reading fiction and plan to binge on Richard Russo's Empire Falls this summer, making it the first big novel I've read in years. I love all of Hannah Holmes' books, but my hands-down favorite is Suburban Safari. It's an ingenious mix of science and essentially memoir. I've never looked at a crow the same way since."
Amy Sutherland, Portland
Author of What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage
"I'm inundated with a deadline writing Nature's Undertakers . . . and cutting my wood, gardening, and getting my bees set up. So I'm afraid I have no time for recreational reading. My two most recent books are about summer, though: The Nesting Season and Summer World. I heartily recommend both of them!
Bernd Heinrich, Weld
"Paul Doiron's The Poacher's Son. Smart, suspenseful, and the rare summer novel you won't be ashamed to have on your beach towel."
Elizabeth Hand, Lincolnville
Author of Illyria
"The Maine literary event of the year for me has been the recent launch of Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry, our collaboration with newly appointed Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair. The project puts one poem by a Maine poet into more than two-dozen Maine newspapers each week. That means the poems are being put in front of more that 150,000 readers! The fiction debut of the year in Maine has got to be Sarah Braunstein's The Sweet Relief of Missing Children. Here's how MWPA assistant director Stephen Abbott describes the novel: 'It is unflinching, unfiltered, utterly unique, and crackingly honest.' "
Joshua Bodwell, Biddeford
Executive Director, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
"How about a couple of hours in a hammock with a Tobin James Zinfandel and Edna St. Vincent Millay? 'So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky. . . .' Ol' Edna can get a mite gloomy, so if you're in the mood for something lighter, I'd recommend the same hammock with a Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc and the new Julia Spencer-Fleming (One Was a Soldier) or Paul Doiron (Trespasser) mystery. Cheers!"
Monica Wood, Portland
Author of the forthcoming When We Were the Kennedys
"The book I'm looking forward to getting my hands on this summer is called Moon Watchers. It's a children's book by my great friend Reza Jalali, and my two-year-old daughter, Jai-Yen, I'm sure she will love it. There's so much going on this summer that I look forward to — rumor has it that Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is going to throw down an on the farm summer party in late July; also, the Telling Room's Hive camp for young writers always brings some awesome talent out of the woodwork."
Jaed Coffin, South Portland
Author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
"There are four books authored by Mainers on my summer to-read list: Paul Doiron's Trespasser (second in the Mike Bowditch series); Shonna Milliken Humphrey's Show Me Good Land (a debut novel!); Cynthia Lord's Touch Blue (winner of the Lupine Award!); and Sarah Braunstein's The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (Sarah's a Portland author recently recognized nationally as one of the five-under-thirty-five to watch!). Plus, I'm looking forward to the annual Books in Boothbay event on July 9 at the Boothbay Railway Village, where I'll join dozens of my favorite Maine authors to gather and meet readers."
Maria Padian, Brunswick
Author of Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best


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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — The New York City Ballet's annual upstate summer sojourn will be another week shorter next year.
Officials at Saratoga Performing Arts Center announced Thursday that the ballet company's residency at the Saratoga Springs venue will be reduced from two weeks to one week in 2013. The ballet's longtime three-week season was shortened to two weeks in 2009.
SPAC (spak) President Marcia White blames finances for the decision to stage just a week of performances next summer. SPAC and the ballet company have had financial problems in recent years, and the upstate organization relies on fundraising to cover a major part of the expense of hosting the dance troupe.
White says funding from private and public sources had dried up.
The New York City Ballet has performed at SPAC every summer since 1966.


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Cisco Systems is preparing to sell its consumer networking solutions brand Linksys. The networking major hired the services of Barclays Plc to look for prospective buyers of the division. According to industry analysts, Linksys might fetch much less than the $500 million Cisco paid to acquire it, back in 2003, because its target market is saturated. Linksys sells consumer networking products such as low port-count switches, WiFi routers, and dongles. Other sources believe Linksys could attract buyers from TV set makers looking to add a recognized brand to their ranks. Source: Bloomberg
Linksys is junk, Cisco should have burned the name after they bought them and then Cisco could have started building better products. I cant believe anyone would pay $500 million for a name of a failing company.
I beg to differ nick, Some of the best routers I have used were linksys but yes all companys have their bad apples. The WRT54G was the most popular router ever produced for the consumer market.
beg all you want... this are currently junk. yes I will agree the WRT54G was a good unit but I no longer would recommend or buy a Linksys product.
I stopped using "Linksys" when all of their SOHO/SMB products were put under the Cisco Small Business label. That also may be one reason why it'll go cheap. Cisco has absorbed the products it wants, leaving only the current Linksys line-up as part of the sale?
Cisco sucked the life out of Linksys. They were doing ok when they were independent and allowed to make a router as good as it could be (WRT54G!), but the moment Cisco acquired them they were basically constrained from producing anything "too good" as that might step on Cisco equipment's toes. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks Cisco acquired them just to prevent that scenario from happening. It's not like Cisco was in need of any of Linksys' technology to begin with.
My E4200 works pretty well. I have no complaints about it. I had a WRT300-N that worked really well with DD-WRT, but then it died shortly after the wifi transmitter started acting up.
you are comparing that to what router? you haven't owned any good routers if you think the e4200 or the WRT300-N are good... because they both REALLY suck compared to even much cheaper routers. Even Buffalo makes a better dual band N router.
The buffalo routers are pretty good actually. We deploy these to our VPN locations. In what way are you saying that Linksys is inferior? Any linksys I have ever had work pretty well, they are solid though expensive. And, with DD-WRT you can't argue a lack of options by any means.
That was going to be my point, you should have to buy a over priced paper weight and then hack it in order to get options from a third party software... yes DD-wrt is GREAT on Linksys... why not come stock and save yourself thousands by firing all the idiots that write the firmware that currently comes on Linksys units. Also not have external antennas really makes the Linksys solutions suck, I run a D-link 655 with external antennas and I have compared it next to a Linksys without, world of difference. If I was to buy a unit today I would buy that new Buffalo, half the price and I know from experience it is hands down a better unit, and from the factory more options and quicker setup. I used to love Linksys, but the passed few years I have known 1st hand they are junk. pretty much the 1st unit they sold without external antennas
I see, you are arguing the price point. Cant disagree with you there. It is true that there was nothing stellar about the Linksys products.
Linksys devices are not that bad, but their price is. Actually they are really overpriced for what they are offering...
I don't need to compare it to another router because it works and for me, it works well. Very little is more important to me than stability in a router and the E4200 does a very good job of that despite what your prior experiences with Linksys are. Now if all you're going to do is insult my hardware and say that it sucks because you think it is over priced, you might want to adjust the metrics for how you're rating a router. Yeah, the E4200 was expensive, but I've also barely had to touch it since I got it and I haven't had a single problem with it. Hate to say it, the only thing here that sucks other than the price is your analysis for why Linksys routers suck, and price is a moot point because price doesn't make a router any less reliable. The stock firmware also has enough functionality for me as a residential router. If I need the features DD-WRT offers for my primary gateway, I would sooner build and dedicate a machine to being a gateway and not rely on my linksys router (or any other router,) to do it for me. All in all, price makes hardware expensive, it does not make it suck. I'm also one floor and 3 rooms away from my E4200 and my 2.4ghz signal is still extremely strong. Internal or external antenna shouldn't matter. I also doubt that a thin layer of plastic is going to attenuate the signal from an internal antenna more than stepping away from the router by 3 feet.
I love Linksys Refurbished product, but that is the only way they are worth buying. Normally they are overpriced for wat they offer.
yea the whole no antenae or w/e i always thought had to limit performance compared to other N routers. wonder which big company will acquire Linksys to expand to the wireless market


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I still need to play Lego Lord of the Rings.
I still need to play Lego Lord of the Rings.
Stan Lee better be one of those 100 unlockable characters!
Tubbs has a new home
100 unlockable characters? It better have Dominic Fortune, Rocket Racer and the entirity of Alpha Flight.
"You are cool, bigmf." - TheStuddz
My list of games to buy, released in 2013 is currently at 0. I'm unsure about whether to get Tomb Raider though so at max it would be 1.
I'm waiting for it to go down in price. $20 is my Max.
Tubbs has a new home
SillyStou: What will happen to this place when Rock Band ceases to exist?
RockBandRocker: We will all migrate to the Dance Central forums. It will be like Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.
Munnchy: Only Flashier, with impeccable dance moves.
RockBandRocker: With more glitter and glam. We will survive
I think EU PSN will get "Tighten Up" tomorrow for Rocksmith.


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McConnell, Mitch
The latest news on McConnell, Mitch
McConnell narrowly leads Democratic opponent in Kentucky.
Democrats will rue the day they changed the rules of the Senate.
McConnell could be brought down in death of 1,000 cuts.
The Baldwins also discuss Ted Cruz.
How the GOP learned to stop worrying and love the sequester.
Reagan knew well enough not to mess with the debt ceiling – does the Senate Republican leader?
Calling Alison Lundergan Grimes an "empty dress" isn't sexist.
GOP rift over health care law and government shutdown could weigh on 2014 elections.
Benton under fire for speaking out against boss on recording.
Kentuckians may control the fate of Senate leadership in 2014.


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"weak and under engineered at best."
on by woody87Pros looks great inside and out., very little noise
Cons LG 6920ST Does not clean welll , it does not even remove the soap in the machine after a full cycle with 121 Deg.plus hot water, pot scubber iis the same, we have tried alll lof their suggetions with little effect. too weak
Summary the LG 6920st does not clean well 99% of the time, many times there is still soap on the door and dishes after a full cycle, even on pot scubber cycle iit does not clean well, LG SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON ITS LOOKS AND NOT ON THE POWER TO MAKE IT WORK WELL this machine is only 2 months old , it has not washed the dishes clean since we put it in, with soap and food still on dishes 99% of the time. we have called LG they have sent out repair people to fix it and replaced seveal parts on it with little effect. we belive these machines are under engineered and weak, our 8 yr old GE washer worked well until we put this LG in .would like to know these machines are going to be recallled. you cant telll a dish washer by iits cover
"what a mistake"
on by splash_726Pros looks good
Cons worst cleaning EVER
Summary we bought this machine at home depot on veteran's day in 2010. However, our kitchen remodel was delayed and it wasn't installed until 2/12. so it was out of warranty as soon as we first used it. NO problem right, its brand new. Wrong. nothing gets cleaned. I've heard of rinsing, but this machine really requires prewashing and then you're just hopeing that it sanitizes. that is if the soap rinses cleanly off of it. What a joke. uggggahhhhhh
"If it were a ship would've beaten Titanic to the bottom"
on by graevesPros Leaks quietly. A good gift for your worst enemy.
Cons Bad exhaust design. Replacement after replacement, just give it 6 months and it is leaking again. A stimulis program for service and repair. Note - responsible for ruined floors or weeks out of service.
Summary Absolutely the worst dishwasher I have ever owned. If you feel life has just been to good, and you need balance, buy this.
"Do not buy this junk!"
on by CrumSPCPros It's looks are the only pros.
Cons After four technicians and two months of the worst customer service in history, this dishwasher still does not work. No water, then no heat, then leaking, then tech broke mounting brackets off new cabinets pulling it out, and it still does not work!
Summary Save yourself
"LG dishwasher LDF6920WW worst dishwasher I ever owned."
on by geraldmcgPros It's quiet.
Cons It doesn't clean dishes properly.
It requires you to manually pre-clean all the dishes and it still doesn't cleant them.
Water drains out of the unit right away, causing it to attempt to clean without water.
Customer service leaves you on holdSummary The LG dishwasher (model number LDF6920WW)is by far the worst dishwasher I've ever owned. It's never cleaned the dishes properly. You can pre-wash the dishes before putting them in but it still doesn't clean them. It has some bizarre quirk of draining all the water and trying to clean without water! No wonder it has a stellar reputation for being so quiet. There is no water swishing around to make any noise!
We've had a technician come out 3 times already and none of them can fix it. Yet when I call LG customer service, their solution is to send out another technician. They said there is no lemon law and all they are obligated to do is send out technicians but not to fix it, just to send out technicians! Outrageous!!! They lied. They said if it didn't work the third time, they'd let me talk to their resolution department. But after it still didn't work the third time, they said they can't put me through to their resolution department unless I first talked to a supervisor. When I waited on hold for what seemed to be forever, the supervisor finally came on the line and started me at square one again, sending out a technician. LG? Life is Good? Perhaps they should change their slogan to: "When you own a 'Life's Good appliance' your life may become miserable."
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planet code4libdel.icio.us: Google Custom Search for Planet Code4LibI wanted to mess around with Google's new Custom Search Engine feature and in casting about for a list of URLs to feed it I thought I'd try the list of blogs at Planet Code4Lib. As it turns out, this might be a modestly useful search if you remember readi
Fiacre O'Duinn: Amber Case at TEDWomenI have been a fan of Amber Case's work for quite a while and was excited to see her talking at TEDWomen on cyborg anthropology. As we move towards a world where mobile is the norm in any urban environment, her conceptualization of what this means can open doors to interesting insights for librarians as we deal with this change, seeking the balance between space for reflection and silence (a traditional role for libraries) and time for information gathering and our online "second-selves". Rochkind, Jonathan: how many use saved records feature?I was interested in how many users of our existing interfaces used a 'saved records' or 'bookmark' feature, to inform how much development time should be put into such for our Blacklight application. In particular, I was interested in how many records users that save records save; because unless your saving more than 20 or 30, a 'tagging' feature or a 'search within my saved records' feature isn't all that useful. So I went about trying to find out by looking directly at the underying rdbms for two systems: 1) HIP, our legacy in-production Horizon OPAC, which offers a 'my list' feature. This feature works in some odd ways I don't entirely understand, and additionally I had to reverse engineer the Firebird rdbms schema and may not entirley be understanding the data, but it seems to be decent. (Thanks RazorSQL for connecting to firebird, woo!). The My List feature is in some ways kind of hard to use, but I know at least some people use it. 2) Xerxes, the front-end for Metalib used for federated searching of mostly article databases. The saved record interface is pretty polished, although it's saving a different sort of thing from HIP, so not entirely comparable. In both cases, I'm not actually sure how big the total number of possible users is, this is harder to find out in our enterprise environment than you might think, so I can't express number of users that have used the feature as a percentage of all users. HIP, the OPAC3611 users currently have a 'My List' existing. Actually a pretty decent number. [Some of these may be old lists for users no longer active, not easy to say. The oldest list in the system was created in 2003]. Oddly, around 100 of them don't actually have any items in their 'My List', probably had them at one time (causing 'My List' to be lazily created), but deleted them.
(Updated, 10 minutes later). While HIP has no tagging feature, it DOES theoretically allow the user to create more than one 'my list', which could be a similar way of dealing with lots of records. However, this feature is VERY confusing in HIP; not only can I never remember how to use it myself, but I think in some circumstances you can accidentally create a second 'My List' without meaning to (I have actually done that before), and in some cases your first list may 'expire' forcing you to create a second 'my list', so I'm not entirely sure what the number of users with more than one 'my list' tells us. However, there are 457 users with more than one 'my list'. 12% of all users who have used 'my list' at all. Xerxes (Metalib, Federated Search)3787 users have at some time saved records associated with their account. Interestingly this is about the same number as in HIP. (On the one hand, Xerxes saved record feature is a lot easier to use; on the other hand I'm not sure if total usage of HIP is greater than Xerxes or not). [Note to Xerxes developers -- remember to filter out username like 'local%' from such queries to avoid counting temporary users which may really be one of your logged in users not yet logged in, just saving records to the session].
So interestingly, Xerxes users save somewhat more records than HIP users, although still a distinct minority save very many. Xerxes already allows the user of tagging. Could that be encouraging more record saving? Not sure, it doesn't seem like you NEED tags just to save 10-20 records, and even 10-20 is significantly higher in Xerxes than HIP. I think it's just Xerxes better interface that encourages a bit more saving, but still mostly moderate. 1855 users have applied at least one tag in Xerxes. 48% of all users who have saved records, somewhat surprising. Again, Xerxes interface makes it very easy and quick to add tags. (Nice job David Walker). I'm not sure that neccesarily means tags are useful; many of those users have fewer than 10- saved records, why do they need tags to distinguish them? Tagging may just be a habit from other applications, or because it's so easy to do they just tried it out, or perhaps they erroneously believe that their tags will be shared publically in a 'social' way. Or they don't realize what they are doing when using the tagging interface. Or they have a use for tagging even with fewer than 10 saved records, I just don't know what it is!
In Xerxes, which supports tagging through a very nice interface, an actually surprisingly high minority use the tagging feature. However, in both HIP and Xerxes, not very many users save more than a couple dozen records — only a distinct minority. The existence of tagging in Xerxes does not lead to a significant number of users saving lots of records (only 10% of all record-saving users with more than 30, only 5% with more than 50). It is unclear to me what the purpose of tagging records is if you only have a couple dozen. My guess is that Xerxes interface makes tagging so easy that people just go ahead and do it even though it doesn't in fact end up being particularly useful to them. However, it would be interesting to find some of those users and ask them why they tag. Enough users use 'saved records' in both interfaces that I think we DO need a saved records feature in new interfaces, such as our Blacklight implementation. However, barring more information on why users in Xerxes tags, the numbers of saved records in both HIP and Xerxes lead me to suggest that we should not prioritize features which are really only neccesary (so far as we know) if you have a large number of saved records, such as tagging and searching within your saved record collection. Some users, although a distinct minority not a vanishingly small one, do save enough records that more complicated organizational features may be neccesary. We should try to serve these users by making sure our systems export as cleanly as possible to existing bibliographic management applications like EndNote, RefWorks or Zotero, that offer more sophisticated organizational features than we are likely to, and which we already need to support good export to for other use cases as well. Filed under: General Open Knowledge Foundation: Introducing Yourtopia.netThe following post is from Dirk Heine, Project Team Yourtopia. Development Economics has for a long time recognised the deficiency of GDP as an indicator of human development but with little reception in policy-circles. Recently, however, the debate changed and no month passes now without a high-level report on "Development beyond GDP". OKFN's new Open Economics Group has now constructed an application to test two solutions to primary problems in this debate, and it is participating in the World Bank's competition "Applications for Development". We are writing to you to introduce the main ideas and also to ask for support since we are quite urgently looking for colleagues for certain programming tasks. Measures of human progress beyond GDP either use so-called dashboards of indicators (e.g. WDI) or composite indices (e.g. HDI or MPI). An openness-problem with the first approach has been that dashboards were so complex that the public was de facto excluded from the debate. The second approach tried to simplify through combining different dimensions into a single index but then suffered from arbitrary assumptions on the choice of weights applied to indices and choice of proxies for different development dimensions. These problems were a significant throw-back and so OKFN created Yourtopia. Yourtopia is the first application that produces a composite index of human development (OpenHDI) without arbitrary choices of indicator-weights and proxy choices. We circumvent these problems simply: by letting the user participate. Rather than the researcher selecting proxies and indicator-weights we let the user choose. The resulting index of human progress is then personalised and contains no arbitrary assumptions by construction. While the constructors of the HDI, for example, was always attacked for their assumption that human progress just depends on education, health and income and that these each carried the same importance, we now let the user decide which dimensions of progress are important and how they compare to each other. We urgently need more programming support and would very much appreciate your support. The application is currently participating in the World Bank's competition "Applications for Development" and there are few hours left to finalise some things. You find more information here and to participate join the open economics list. Related posts: Salo, Dorothea: Syllabus machineSorry for the radio silence this week; I thought it might be a good idea to finish my syllabus for this spring's digital-curation course, seeing as how class starts next week and all. It's pretty much done, finally; I'm working on stuff in the course-management system now. I do intend to post the syllabus online [...]
Cohen, Dan: Web Design Job at CHNMA great opportunity to join us at the Center for History and New Media: Do you get as excited about clean mark-up as you do about the latest Photoshop effect? Do you want to be on the cutting edge of web design and digital humanities, and design websites that inform and engage end users? If so, the Center for History and New Media wants to hear from you. CHNM, known for innovative work in digital media, is seeking an energetic, well-organized, and creative web designer with front-end development skills or experience to work on a variety of innovative, web-based history projects. This position is particularly appropriate for someone with a combined interest in technology and history or humanities. The successful applicant will be able to create mockups and wireframes for historical, cultural, and educational websites and bring those ideas to fruition using the latest and highest web development standards. We are looking for a combination of the following skills:
CHNM offers a casual, collaborative work environment, with excellent opportunities for professional growth and development. This is a grant-funded, two-year position at the Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu), located in Fairfax, Virginia, CHNM is 15 miles from Washington, DC, and accessible by public transportation. Apply online (including resume, three references, links to prior web work, and a cover letter describing technology background and any interest in history) at http://jobs.gmu.edu for position #10376z. We will review applications as they arrive and the job closes on January 31, 2011. If you have questions, contact us at email@example.com with subject line "Web Designer." Farkas, Meredith: Collaborative tech, virtual participation, and what is an "open meeting" anyways?Let me say this first. I am not an expert in ALA or LITA (or even ACRL) bylaws regarding participation, open meetings, etc. I'm sure a lot of very experienced and awesome people like Jason Griffey, Aaron Dobbs and Cindi Trainor could speak to these issues from the standpoint of someone who is immersed in this world. I am speaking to these issues as someone who does not have the funding nor the inclination to attend both Midwinter and Annual (since those would likely be the only things I'd do all year), but still wants to contribute to her membership organization and is willing to put in the time and effort. I'm also speaking as someone who has dedicated her professional development work over the years to improving access to professional development opportunities for librarians who cannot physically attend conferences. In fact, I even got an award from LITA for my work in this area. I first heard about the LITA Board shutting down Jason Griffey's live stream of their meeting through Michelle Boule's excellent post on the subject (so nice to see a post like this from you Michelle! You've been missed). Jason is not just some rabble-rouser who is trying to subvert authority; he's an elected member of the LITA Board who has dedicated his time in LITA to making the organization more transparent and responsive to the needs of its members. He has had a part in creating most of the best new things to come out of LITA in the past 4 years. I've been to and participated in a number of events and meetings that Jason has streamed to make them accessible to people who were unable to attend and I think it's wonderful that it extended the reach of and conversation about events at ALA Annual/LITA/Midwinter beyond the physical room. I do agree that Jason should have broached the subject of streaming the meeting with the other members of the LITA Board prior to the meeting, but I'd bet that he'd have been turned down and we'd never have heard about it. Maybe it was important for him to do this and be turned down publicly so that we'd know how open our "open meetings" really are. What I really couldn't understand was the argument that "we paid a consultant to talk to a Board, not hundreds of people." First of all, that consultant was paid with money that came from our dues. Why we are any less deserving of access to that report is beyond me. Second of all, the LITA Board meeting was not "closed doors." It was an open meeting — open to anyone attending ALA Midwinter, so the report couldn't have had any confidentiality tied to it. There legally could have been hundreds of people in the room who weren't even LITA members, and they would have been allowed to hear the report bot not members of the organization who could not attend physically. This doesn't make sense to me other than that it's the way they've done business since before these collaborative technologies existed. While I do think these meetings should be streamed, I don't think it should happen in the way that Jason has been doing things. I think this speaks to a bigger issue — that all of the efforts to make these LITA meetings and events more open have spearheaded by individuals. That does not a sustainable project make. If Jason Griffey and other individuals like him suddenly couldn't attend LITA, ALA and Midwinter, would we suddenly not have any more streaming? This sort of access should happen, but it should be a regular part of how LITA does business. But the way it is now is doomed to failure because it's seen by most people as something extraneous, or even as "entertainment." If LITA wants to be responsive to its membership, when fewer and fewer people can attend conferences but still have not lost their passion for contributing to the profession, then it needs to look at how it can accommodate participation and keeping-up from afar. Jason's done a beautiful job of bringing these issues to the fore, but now it's time to either make it a part of the way LITA does business or make it clear that this is not the way LITA does business. Several years ago, I decided that I wanted to get more involved in ALA. I was asked to be on Jim Rettig's Presidential Initiatives Committee and the ACRL Annual Conference Virtual Conference Committee, so I thought I'd do both. Working with the diverse and impressive group involved in making Jim's presidency awesome was truly a pleasure, but it was the ACRL committee that really changed my view of participation in ALA (or at least in ACRL). I had always heard that virtual participants were never treated like full citizens on committees and it was one of the big reasons why I hadn't previously wanted to get involved. With this committee, at least, that could not have been further from the truth. Around that time I was getting funded by ALA for my travel to Annual and Midwinter as I was covering the exhibit hall for American Libraries, so I was actually able to attend all of the meetings for my committee (until I got too pregnant to do so). However, there were other members of the committee who could only attend a few, one or none of the meetings. At every meeting I attended, we had webinar software set up and were able to have a hybrid virtual/physical meeting. This was more than just streaming what went on at the meeting — the people online were just as active participants as those physically in the room. We also met several times synchronously online to catch up, make decisions and conduct other business. It was nice to feel like I could still be helpful and involved when I was too pregnant to go anywhere. Heck, I was able to give a talk for the virtual conference when I was 9 months pregnant! That whole experience gave me new hope that I could make a real contribution to ACRL; that virtual participants didn't have to be second class citizens. I would have gotten more involved in ACRL immediately after my experience with the Virtual Conference Committee, but I had a baby a month after ACRL's National Conference and have been just a tad bit busy with that bundle of energy and moxie since. Now that he's nearly two, I've decided to volunteer with ACRL again and am eager to see what committees I end up on this time around. I hope that I'll be able to participate through a mixture of virtual and physical participation, since I neither can afford to nor want to attend two ALA conferences each year. I hope that I'll be given the opportunity to do good things for ACRL, because I'm certainly willing to put in the time and energy. And LITA? I decided to let my membership to LITA lapse. From what I've seen, I feel like that division is languishing and that those who want to innovate and make LITA more relevant and accessible are facing one brick wall after another. ACRL has responded in many ways to the needs of its membership (Cyber Zed Shed, OnPoint Chats, Virtual Institute, online classes, National Virtual Conference, etc.), making professional development experiences and participation more interesting and accessible to those who can't physically attend conferences. I feel like I can find a home at ACRL, because I believe that the organization is moving in the right direction (they're not there yet, but I believe they will be). I know there are a lot of really fantastic people working to make LITA better (take a look at the EParticipation Task Force Recommendations), but I get the sense that they are swimming against the tide. ALA, LITA and ACRL are not organizations that embrace or are even structured for radical change, but I think the age that we are in (where people have less funding, more job stress, and more opportunities to participate in professional development, network and make professional contributions online) requires radical change to ensure the survival of the organizations. Enabling more people to participate virtually is not going to kill ALA. People do not just attend ALA and Midwinter because of committee responsibilities and to hear what a Board has to say. They also attend because there is still nothing that holds a candle to attending a conference, learning from someone standing in front of you, seeing old friends, and having long talks with like-minded librarians over sushi and beer. Offering more opportunities to benefit from and make contributions to the organization virtually will increase overall participation and will likely attract members who wouldn't otherwise have joined because they didn't feel like ALA/LITA/ACRL represented their needs. But don't just read my views on this. Here are some other interesting perspectives: How Much Is Enough? at ACRLog Nodalities Talis: A Year of Open Government Data: Transparency, but also InnovationTowards the end of 2010, Wikileaks generates many headlines as it publishes information on the web, causing controversy and leading to talk about politicians hiding information from the public. Reporters and commentators express shock or admiration when telling the story of a rogue organisation making governmental information public. What has not been as mainstream is that for the past year or more, governments around the world have been doing something very similar themselves: publishing information online. Big names like President Obama, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the headliners at big events like the International Open Government Data Conference favour publishing public data for transparency and benefits to society. This all finally began to take off in 2010. Governments from around the world have been developing their public information strategies, with the launches of data.gov and data.gov.uk and data.govt.nz. This is all taking place at a time of economic restraint. Dr Martin Read from the UK Cabinet Office's Efficiency Reform Board explained in a recent interview: "If you are going to improve the efficiency of something, making that change involves risk and innovation … If they get it wrong, they're hauled up in front of a committee for interrogation." (moderngov, November 2010) It may seem tricky to justify the expense of big projects like data.gov.uk, and there certainly seems to be a huge amount of pressure. Nevertheless, governments are proving themselves committed to prioritising data publishing. Towards the end of last year, the UK Prime Minister announced that every item of governmental spending over £25,000 will be published online, and updated monthly. He emphasised the importance of this publication in terms of transparency, inviting the public to scrutinise the data. Interestingly, he also said: "This scrutiny will act as a powerful straightjacket on spending, saving us a lot of money." So, not only is data publishing seen as a benefit to democracy, but also as a useful way to "flag up waste". While that press conference was taking place, developers and civil servants were gathered together elsewhere at the Open Government Data Camp (disclosure, Talis was a sponsor). At the event, much was made of the modelling and tools which have been developed with open data in mind: particularly the Linked Data API, which allows developers from just about any web background to work with data.gov.uk's data very quickly. Visualisations demonstrated what can be done with well-structured data. One of the things this high-level data publishing has done is raise the standard for what can be published and developed. Last year, we built a proof-of-concept app for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to illustrate the potential of applications of this data. A few minutes spent on DEFRA's UK Climate Projections site shows what can happen when raw data is matched with a plan, and is designed with a citizen in mind. Anyone can check the primary source for their government's climate policy, and it doesn't take a climatologist to understand it. A little further development allows fully-fledged applications to be built that are instantly useful: one available on the front page of data.gov.uk lets me download an app that helps me plan my cycle route! Open government data is probably good for transparency. But it's also got a plenty of potential to seed ideas that add value to this information. Innovators know that there are more people with better ideas outside our organisations than could possibly be in them, so sharing means that they can be developed into products and services that are mutually beneficial to everyone. The web industry routinely works with open-source software that's been at least partly built by others, and this open-source mentality might just be an incredibly useful piece in the public-sector machinery. Open business models work very well with ideas. 2011 promises to be the year when all this data gets put to use. I was recently invited to a press conference at which the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed the UK's commitment to published data as a priority and even a recognised civil liberty. The story will shift to more local applications of big public data tools. January will see the publication of local authority's spending data, and public bodies will be looking to add value to this data, bringing the headlines of open data to life in the places we live. With a bit of thought into how data is published in the first place, and a plan for encouraging people with good ideas to work with this information, this investment in data publishing could be more than just a tick-box exercise for a political transparency agenda. I hope that this year, it won't be Wikileaks-level events that get people talking about open data publishing. We should notice it improving services we use, and see whole new applications for the bits and pieces of information that make up our public lives. LITA: Video: The World (and Jason Griffey) Interview Verner VingeThe video for Saturday's interview with noted science fiction author Verner Vinge is now available on the LITA Ustream Channel. The complete interview runs for about two hours and is available in part 1 and part 2. The work of Vernor Vinge pushes information and technology to its incredible, but possible, conclusions. In A Fire UponThe Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, Vinge examines the concept of the technological singularity, a theoretical point where machine intelligence overtakes human intelligence, and does so in ways that play with information systems and processes. In Rainbows End, Vinge explores one potentially very real future for libraries in which we live in a world of complete information immersion. Jason Griffey interviews Vernor Vinge; futurist, author, thinker, and visionary. This program was recorded live on Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 1pm in the San Diego Convention Center. Sponsored by LITA's Imagineering Interest Group. LITA: Video: Top Tech Trends panel, Midwinter San Diego (2011)The archived video of Top Tech Trends is now available on the LITA Ustream Channel. The bi-annual gathering of library technology practitioners and thinkers, hosted by the Library Information Technology Association, gathers in San Diego to ponder topics ranging from WikiLeaks to Angry Birds, from cloud-based information systems to mobile services. The program was recorded live on January 9th, 2011 at 8am in the San Diego Convention Center Room 26 A/B. The San Diego panelists include: ~Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC The program is moderated by Jason Vaughn, Director of Library Technologies at University of Nevada Las Vegas. Due to network difficulties beyond our control, the recorded program joins the panelists already in progress. Our apologies for the few minutes that are lost. Enjoy the show! Murray, Peter: OCLC Introduces "A Web Presence for Small Libraries" On Sunday evening, the OCLC Innovation Lab held a public demonstration of a project with the working title, "A Web Presence for Small Libraries." It is a templated website that could serve as a library's barest bones presence on the web. The target audience is small and/or rural libraries that may not have the technological infrastructure — human knowledge, equipment, and/or money — to host their own web presence. If it comes to fruition, the basic service would give a library four pages on the web that can be customized by the library staff plus dynamic areas of content that would be generated by OCLC algorithms and optionally placed on each library's site. A more advanced version of the service could include a light-weight book inventory and circulation option.
They created a sample library called Loremville, TN public library to demonstrate key aspects of the service. I did not ask them how long that particular example will be around, so you may follow that link at a later date and not find it. This "Library Website in a Box" is a concept that has been around for many years, and the latest trigger to try something was a resolution from the last OCLC Members Council to make scaled-down versions of OCLC services for "small and rural libraries." The Innovation Lab group conducted some research about the existing state of public library web presences by sorting the IMLS-reported data from 2008 by number of volumes held and number of library staff. They looked at the lowest quartile (roughly 20,000 volumes or less and staff size in the low single digits) and found that there was generally no web presence for these libraries. In the second quartile there were instances of library websites, but they did the library no credit (outdated, poorly constructed, incomplete information — as was said at the meeting, these libraries had a presence on the web but probably shouldn't). Some had automation systems supplied by large groups, but others didn't have evidence of an automation system. So the project charter was to find an easy and inexpensive way for a library in these quartiles to create a desktop and mobile device web presence. One of the unique aspects of the project development was to first set the approximate lower ($5/month) and upper ($40/month) price boundaries and find a way to provide the highest level of service possible at those price points. The Innovation Lab team tried techniques such as a farm of WordPress sites but found they couldn't make the revenue-versus-cost equation to work. In the end they constructed a custom database-driven content system in PHP. Institutional data is initially pulled from sources such as the WorldCat Registry, and there will be some process for a library to "claim" its site. There might also be a way for a library to create a site for itself if no registry data yet exists. There are four levels of site authorization: public (unauthenticated) viewing, a registered patron, a staff member, and an administrator. Content from the pages are edited by the administrator at the subscribing library with a WYSIWYG1 editor. There are content boxes for the library's location, staff/volunteers listing, events calendar and news, hours and phone number, policies, and service information. The library's address is fed into a Google Maps service to display a map of the area surrounding the library. The dynamic parts of each library's website could have a list of books from various sources like the New York Times and Oprah's book group. The service also envisions offering a "default digital collection" using public domain works in text, PDF, and mobile reading device formats from sources such as Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. The inventory and circulation module is simple and straight-forward. Each item has only eight full-text fields with the intention that the description will likely be done by a volunteer without professional library training. Cataloging can be done by typing in the information or scanning the ISBN with an app on a mobile device; item information is pulled from WorldCat if found. The cataloging application does not attach holdings to WorldCat, but the OCLC number is kept and might be used to facilitate offloading MARC records in cases where a library outgrows this simple circulation module to a more functional integrated library system. The circulation functions are check-in, check-out, renew, place hold and cancel hold. There are no financial functions in the system. At these price levels, the system needs to be highly automated and self-supporting. The cost to OCLC of one call to a customer support phone number could easily run through all the revenue OCLC would receive from the subscribing library in a year. A widely adopted implementation at the targeted price points means that OCLC could dedicate one or two technical staff to support and upgrade the system in addition to the hardware and support service amortization. One unresolved issue is domain names — what is the URL that will be used for each library's site. OCLC is investigating options such as partnering with a domain registrar company (someone like GoDaddy), becoming a domain registrar themselves, or putting all the sites under one domain. The economics of each of these options will be a factor. The sometimes cumbersome aspects of migrating domain names from one service to another may make that activity cost-prohibitive as well. Mike Teets noted that this was at a "project" stage, not a "product" stage. My paraphrasing of what this distinction means is that the technology to create a product is largely done, but the decisions on the final formative pieces of the technology and the surrounding support infrastructure — is not yet done (and might never be done). There isn't even a formal name for it yet; it is being called "A Web Presence for Small Libraries." One desired additional feature is to add e-mail boxes for library staff/functions to the site. Those in the room, including me but more importantly others who are more closely aligned with the target "small and rural" public library population, were pretty excited about it and wanting to talk further about if what we saw could be made a reality. Personal ImpressionsLike others in the room, I came away impressed by the project demonstration. It is definitely fits the bill as a basic library website and even a starter inventory and circulation management system. I see that libraries could start with something like this for the cost of a couple of books added to the collection (roughly estimated at $60/year). At this price level, OCLC thinks they could sustain the costs of operations plus have some left over for investment in incremental improvements. I also think that because a library would pay a minimal fee for it, they would feel a tangible sense of ownership over the site and would keep them up-to-date. From this a library could "graduate" to another service — their own Drupal or WordPress site, to a shared ILS or Webscale Management Services. The content areas seemed the most appropriate for the target audience. The web page design is modern, and I could see options for future enhancements as time and revenue permit such as providing limited options to personalize the template (change colors, adding picture — or adding links to pictures that might be stored on services such as Flickr). One attendee at the session suggested that rather than OCLC prepopulating a digital content library of all public domain content that the set be limited to those that are the most downloaded so as not to overwhelm the user with a lot of unused (and/or unusable) digital content. That sounds like a good suggestion to me. OCLC Staff are looking for feedback on this project. They say that the system is "production ready" with all the software controls and data recovery features of OCLC behind it. What they think is missing is community support to have local engagement with the targeted libraries to show them what is possible. That is an area where OCLC needs help. (I can only imagine the shocked silence of a volunteer at a small library to get a call from OCLC — if they even knew what OCLC was — with an offer to create a website for the library. "Only $5/month…sign up now and we'll throw in a second one for free!") There is an e-mail address — firstname.lastname@example.com — that goes to all the OCLC Innovation Lab members, and a WebJunction group for public discussion. About the Innovation Lab For this project, the Innovation Lab sought out cooperation from OCLC staff to build prototypes and components of the service in their spare time. Each Monday the self-selected group would get together to show what had been built and discuss ways to move the project forward in the following week. In this way they rapidly iterated over ideas to come up with what was ultimately proposed. The text was modified to update a link from http://expreimental.worldcat.org/ to http://experimental.worldcat.org/ on January 12th, 2011. The text was modified to update a link from http://www.webjunction.org/923 to http://www.webjunction.org/923 on January 12th, 2011. Footnotes
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Brett, Bill, and I talked about how to define digital humanities, the use of text mining, visualization, and digital mapping, problems associated with the abundant digital record, collaboration in the digital humanities, and questions of publishing, open access, and tenure. We also took numerous questions from callers. I thought the show had a good vibe. So, worth a listen: The Kojo Nnamdi Show: "History Meets High-Tech: Digital Humanities" Today was also a moment to reflect on the fact that the last time I was on the Kojo Nnamdi Show was exactly five years ago, with Roy Rosenzweig. Our book Digital History had just come out. It was just before Roy got sick. Probably said a lot on the broadcast today that Roy would have said. Fiacre O'Duinn: Tuesday Tech Links: EfficiencyI thought it was time to revive the Tuesday Tech Links on my blog, and since it is the New Year I've decided to focus on technologies that allow us to work smarter and give us the extra time needed to achieve some of those non-work related resolutions, or at least time to talk about them. 1) Dropbox is a free web-based service that allows you to synchronize your files automatically. When you sign up Dropbox gives you 2GBs of secure storage that can be shared between two computers. This "access anywhere" folder saves you from all those "I'll email it to myself" moments. It includes automatic backup of your files, allow you to restore previous versions of your files, and offers 30 days of undo history so you don't have to recreate a document because you were too hasty with the delete button.It is available to download for Windows, Mac, Linux and also has a mobile app (for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android). You can get more space by participating in their incentive based program or by paying a monthly fee. 2) RescueTime is for all those people who can't figure out where their time vanishes to online. It is a service that installs software to track every task you perform while on your computer and returns a detailed report of your activity, allowing you to manage your time effectively. You can, for example, voluntarily block distracting sites for any period you wish and even track your time offline when you are taking a call or in a meeting. RescueTime offers a free bare-bones version or you can pay a monthly fee for the full suite of tools. Download the 14 day free trial and find out how you really spend your time. 3) Instapaper is a free service that is great for catching up on all those articles that you find online, bookmark, but never get back to. It allows you to save on-line articles and view them in a text-only reformatted version, that can be read off-line. It is ideal for effectively using those free moments during the day, when you are waiting for a bus or grabbing a quick coffee, by reading an article or two on your mobile. Wildcard) Real paper won't be going anywhere soon. While it is often associated with inefficiency Scott Belsky, author of the book Making Ideas Happen, has some interesting insights into the positive role that "analog rituals", such as physically writing to-do lists, can have on productivity The manual labor involved with productivity is valuable. Repetitive rituals will make you pause. You will feel burdened, but you will also catch a glimpse of just how busy you are and what you should prioritize. In light of this at the beginning of the year I began an experiment involving a Molskine and a very light weight version of GTD. I'll let you know later in the year how this goes. So, reorganize your computer storage, track your internet usage, bookmark those articles you always wanted to read and make your to-do lists and lets see what we can get done. Open Knowledge Foundation: Who wants to build an open social bookmarking service?The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. As you may well have heard, in December there were rumours that the Delicious social bookmarking service may be discontinued. This has caused a flurry of activity in the online world to back up bookmarks and to look for alternative similar services. Hence we've started a page for a new social bookmarking web service which would be 100% open, so that anyone could use the code or the data for any purpose: Would you like to work on this? Would you support it? Do you think it is a good idea? Do you know of similar initiatives that are out there already or underway? Got a better idea? If you have any ideas, suggestions or links, or if you'd like to volunteer to help build such a service, we'd be grateful if you could drop a note on the idea page via the link above! Related posts: Nodalities Talis: European Summer SchoolTalis is delighted to be one of the sponsors of the 8th European summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011). There will be more about this in coming posts, but just to start off: We are sponsoring it for a very simple reason. The mix of theoretical, practical and collaboration skills used by all the students involved from across Europe directly corresponds to how we work at Talis. It's an environment of support and challenge, contribution and connection that has proved beneficial for all involved over the years. Talis is proud to contribute and participate to further the aims of the community. Talis is a small and ambitious company of likeminded, motivated people. A phrase we often use here is Human Scale. Culturally what we mean by that is we like working closely with people who we all know, whether as employees of Talis or (more likely) over time collaborating as partners in joint endeavours. We want to grow our company and contribute to the communities we belong to. We know that it is by fostering relationships with others driven by the same passion to collaborate and learn that we can build on the ambitions we have for ourselves and for the communities we belong to. One particular aspect of the Summer School is this same notion of social connectedness, a personal network of trusted relationships that challenge and enhance the experience for everyone. threepress: Read free Baen books in Ibis ReaderThanks to Hatgirl on MobileRead for this great tip on integrating Ibis Reader with Baen free books: If you use Ibis Reader, you will have seen the "Get Books" link. This allows you to view OPDS catalogs (lists of web-accessible ebooks). The Feedbooks catalogs are pre-installed, and some of you may have set up a Calibre/Dropbox OPDS catalog of your own library. On a whim, I used the "Add Your Own Catalog" link to add the WebScription Stanza link, http://www.webscription.net/stanza.aspx?feed=free It worked! I can access the Baen Free Library directly from Ibis Reader! In "Get Books" I click "Baen" (or whatever you named the OPDS link), then "Baen Free Library", then the "Read" button next to the book I want to add to my Ibis Reader library. Yay! Edited the above URL to go straight to the free books, bypassing the top-level catalog. The Stanza catalog is an earlier form of OPDS, so some features like cover images won't work in Ibis or other OPDS readers. If Baen updates their catalog to OPDS 1.0 then those features will be enabled, and we'd definitely consider adding it as a built-in catalog like the Feedbooks ones. Please share any other OPDS catalogs that you'd like to see added (or at least listed as optional catalogs users can add themselves). Bigwood, David: OPDSAdd Open Publishing Distribution System(OPDS) to the slew of metadata acronyms to be aware of.Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content.How this compares to OAI-PMH I'll have to investigate. When would one or the other be most appropriate? What tools are there to create it and use it?
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He was one of hundreds of residents who fought an intense battle back in 2007 to keep an asphalt plant out of the Mulford Quarry at Charles St. and Mulford. Now, four years later, their efforts might have paid off.
"Our plans right now are to see the zoning process through, and if its approved by the county, we would not put an asphalt plant at Mulford."
Instead, William Charles announced today it plans move that asphalt plant to this quarry along East State Street.
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