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Obama today announced his proposal for restructuring the financial sector, and although there are some excellent parts of the proposal, with real teeth on them (new standards on leverage, for example), the overall gist of the package is oversight. His accompanying explanation also focused on oversight:
Mr. Obama told reporters on Tuesday that a "lack of oversight" allowed what he called "wild risk-taking." He said it led to "very dangerous" conditions that imperiled the global economy.
He believes there need to be more guards on watch, in effect. More (and more independent) weathermen and women, more border guards. In this view, the crisis happened--bottom line--because not enough good people were watching out for risk.
Last week, George Will spent his Sunday column in the Washington Post attacking an article I recently wrote in the Cornell Law Review. Of course it is gratifying to have an academic piece be elevated to the public sphere, but unfortunately I don't actually think Will read my article.
The Cornell article is basically a historical piece, with a contemporary claim. I show how the founding fathers wrestled with the concerns that money would have too much influence in the political sphere. I argue that this "anti-corruption" principle should be honored in contemporary legal cases. In particular, I argue that courts, when considering campaign finance laws, laws regulating lobbying, and other political process cases, should be less eager to strike down laws. Courts should give Congress more deference when laws are passed in order to reduce the corrupting influence of money in politics. I do not argue, as Will insinuates, that we should regulate the content or subject matter of political speech.
There are several reasons I do not think Will read the article beyond the introduction, including this passage:
In the last two weeks, there have been two big stories about antitrust law in the New York Times, and one in the Wall Street Journal. As the Wall Street Journal's blog just recommended that law students beef up on their antitrust laws. The Obama administration has openly signaled that they are going to use the existing antitrust laws aggressively.
This is a very good thing for competition law, which has lagged for years behind the creative behavior of corporations. But it is also a very good thing for our democracy. I was just reading Harvard professor F.M. Scherer's antitrust textbook from 1993, and one of the first excerpts in it is James Madison's "Federalist No. 10", perhaps the most famous of the Federalist papers.
In it, Madison describes what he sees as the great threat to democracy: the faction. The faction he defines as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."
Before economics became a separate branch of study, scholars like Adam Smith used to write as political economists, examining the nature of production and its relationship to government. The fields have since split, and while there are those who specialize in political economy, there's a basic divide between political scientists, who study politics, and economists, who study ecologies of production. We see that in our newspapers too--a section on politics, a section on business, and while the twain meet from time to time, they are generally treated as distinct.
This divide is dangerous today--even as fewer and fewer people read newspapers in its section form--because it has reinforced in the culture a sense that economics, and business, is a separate expertise, somehow removed from questions of politics. Of the dozens of panels I've watched on the financial crisis, almost all are populated entirely by people with a financial services background and economists. As Simon Johnson regularly points out, there's a missing element here--this is a political crisis as much as an economic one.
This category choices: the financial crisis nomenclature, the choice of panelists, the choice of experts--it itself reinforces the idea that economics can be understood separately from politics, and that, as so many have suggested implicitly or directly, it would be far better if we could keep this roudy Congress out of it.
I hope you find these apt, and capable of serving two ends--a celebration of good poetry, a reflection on 100 days.
1. Days
-- Philip Larkin
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
The New York Times today has a fantastic profile of Tim Geithner and his thinking. It underlines, through a complex portrait, how urgent it is to replace Geithner with someone whose ideology was not fundamentally created by the institutions he is supposed to be regulating.
But two additional things struck me about the profile. The first is that he comes across as profoundly naïve. At one point he insists that he "would never put [him]self in a position where [his] actions were influenced by a personal relationship," but he has lived most of his life in Washington and New York, in communities where everyone around him has been attempting to use personal relationships to influence his actions. He doesn't show a basic awareness of his position. For such a sentence to be plausible, he would have to demonstrate a canny, rigorous array of defenses against influence. Instead, he sounds like a boy at the beach with some friends.
The second thing is something that has nagged at me about him since his arrival at Treasury, and I'm only beginning to put my finger on it. It's something about the way he talks. These sentences (from today's article) run on like an endless string of pop off beads:
Yesterday's hearing at the Joint Economic Committee, convened by Congresswoman Maloney, gave me some hope that Congress might be thinking about taking some leadership in systematically restructuring our financial system. I highly recommend that everyone watch the video.
Sam Brownback, Republican Congressman Burgess, Democratic Congressman Cummings, Democratic Congresswoman Maloney--unlikely bedfellows, to say the least--all appeared to accept the arguments of Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, and Thomas Hoenig, that the current PPIP and TARP projects are not just foolish but dangerous, and that we need a radical restructuring of the response to the crisis.
The panel starts with discussions of economic failure, but ends with the problems of political failure. As Congressman Burgess said in the opening remarks, "Trillions of taxpayer dollars are at risk, but congressional approval is not needed for the plan to proceed …on its face this is a violation of the democratic process."
Yesterday thousands of people rallied in hundreds of "tea party" protests across the country, expressing anger about the economy, politics, and taxes.
It is easy to make fun of the tea-baggers, to find idiotic quotes, and share pictures of wing-nut signs. It's easy to dismiss the participants as foolish followers of well-paid demagogues. But I'm not going to join the collective progressive dunking of the tea-bagging events. Whenever thousands of people choose to break their usual nonpolitical routine and publicly protest, we should pay attention. We should try to understand, and---for those of who believe that massive structural change of our financial system is in order---we should probably reach out.
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Pavement preservation is a network-level, long-term strategy that enhances pavement performance by using a variety of cost-effective surface treatments that extend pavement life. These treatments must be carefully selected and must be applied before the pavement sustains structural damage.
The benefits of a pavement-preservation program include improved pavement performance, increased roadway safety, higher customer satisfaction and reduced overall life-cycle costs.
State and local highway agencies can gain a comprehensive understanding of pavement preservation through a new two-day course offered by NCPP, "Pavement Preservation: Applied Asset Management." The course covers the components of preservation, benefits of undertaking a pavement preservation program and asset management principles and how they can be used to manage highway pavements. Also covered are data inventories, pavement distress identification and analysis, network and project level management and pavement preservation strategies. The course features hands-on group exercises as well, where participants can develop network-level preservation strategies and select treatments to complement the preferred overall strategy.
A new course from FHWA's National Highway Institute, meanwhile, offers strategies for incorporating a pavement preservation program into an overall pavement-management system so that work is coordinated and cost effective. The two-day course, "Pavement Preservation: Integrating Pavement Preservation Practices and Pavement Management" (Course No. 131104A), demonstrates how pavement-management tools can be used to support project-, network-, and strategic-level decision making and details the benefits of including pavement-preservation strategies in the pavement-management process. These benefits include being able to better assess the cost effectiveness of preventive maintenance activities and determine if pavement preservation goals can be met with existing funding levels.
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For states who would like assistance in developing or expanding their pavement-preservation programs, FHWA's Office of Asset Management has launched a Pavement Preservation Technical Assistance Program. The NCPP will work with the individual state department of transportation and the local FHWA division office to conduct interviews with key personnel and assess pavement-preservation procedures and policies.
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Pavement preservation treatments must be carefully selected and must be applied before the pavement sustains structural damage.
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We're chronicling the best of NYCxDesign week on our Instagram page. Here, we've gathered a few of highlights—stay tuned for more, and be sure to check out our list of 17 things to see.written by: Dwell Staff05.16.15
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My Raw Food Superstore!Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Its my garden, but it has been an amazing source of almost all my raw food that Ive been eating this summer.
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Its my garden, but it has been an amazing source of almost all my raw food that Ive been eating this summer.
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I want to thank everyone who has participated in the RawFoodTalk.com forum. There have been some amazing exchanges there and so many words of wisdom spoken. But its time for me to close this board. I am moving on to new ventures and feel that its time for me to let this go. A forum of this size takes loads of money, time and energy. I have not been keeping up with the forum upgrades, the spam problems, etc…. which is resulting in many disgruntled emails and people calling the office daily. I'm sorry to disappoint the many of you who have spent your time and wonderful words of help and inspiration there. I hope that you have all benefited from the board and that it has helped you on your path to optimal health. I know many of you have made lasting friendships there as well. I will leave this board up for a month of so, so that you may copy what you need and any information you would like to save.
Thank you for being part of the RawFoodTalk.com community! It's been a wonderful ride! I'm looking forward to seeing what's next for all of you and of course, you can keep up with my adventures through my blog, Facebook and twitter. I am continuing my certification trainings and there will be some exciting new classes, events and projects coming into fruition in the near future!
Last week I met Leah, my chef that worked for me at Grezzo, for dinner in the North End of Boston. It was all very nostalgic as we were reminiscing about Grezzo and all of the memories of the people that used to come in and the great times we had there. And of course we talked about the food! So the next day I was inspired to make the pancake recipe that's in our book. There are so many incredible recipes in Raw Food for Everyone but this one is so easy and there's no planning ahead. You may want to make a double batch though as they are hard to resist!
Morning, Noon, and Night Pancakes
When you want pancakes for breakfast or dinner, try these. These pancakes are the real deal. They have a maple-pecan flavor and the fluffy texture of real pancakes. Since they're dehydrated ahead of time, keep some on hand for a quick breakfast or dinner.
Makes 10 pancakes
2 cups pecans, soaked for 4 hours
2 cups pine nuts
2 ripe bananas
1 cup agave nectar
Seeds from 2 vanilla beans
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 cups blueberries, muddled
1. Put the soaked pecans and any remaining soaking liquid, pine nuts, bananas, agave, vanilla, salt, and ½ cup water in a Vita-Mix. Blend until smooth. Using a spatula, fold in the muddled blueberries.
2. With a ladle, drop ½ -cup measures of the batter onto Teflex-line dehydrator racks, leaving at least ½ inch between the pancakes. They should be thick like pancakes, about ½ inch thick, not thin like crêpes. Dehydrate for 8 hours. Flip the pancakes onto clean Teflex sheets and dehydrate for 8 more hours.
3. Cover and refrigerate up to 3 days.
"I'm excited to announce the new dates for the Level 3 Living on Live Food Teacher Certifications.
They are:
September 28th-30th
October 19th-21st
The last two were so magical and healing not just for the people who came to the training, but for me as well.
I'm also excited to be teaching these certifications in Gloucester, MA now. We are 45 minutes North of Boston International Airport and there are amazing places to stay and visit while in the area. This 3 day intensive is being held in a gorgeous house wihtin walking distance to one of Gloucesters most beautiful beaches. It is easily accessible from car or public transportation. It is a light, airy, peaceful, open space with lots of room inside and out.
We already have 8 people signed up for September and 2 for October before we have even announced it through email, so these will fill quickly for sure now that we have just sent out a bulk email. There are so many of you I would love to meet. Hopefully we will get the opportunity to spend a weekend together. It's an amazing journey and includes so much more than just food."
Come study with one of the foremost authorities on healthy living. Alissa has been a raw foodist for 25 years, was one of the first people to begin a certification for raw food teachers and has written 2 books on the subject. She is also a skilled energy healer, herbalist, mind body therapist, and yoga and dance teacher.
For detailed information on the intensive level 3Teacher Certification weekends (which include levels 1, 2, 3 and the Weekend to Awaken True Health) please visit rawteacher.com.
You can also call the office for more information and to register at 978-985-7217 or 888-900-2529. We will send you hotel information after registering. We will also help you find rides and roommates if needed along with details about the area.
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Last year, I made a New Year's resolution that I thought wouldn't stick because most people's don't. I was salivating over Alissa Cohen's new book, Raw Food For Everyone. I'd been to Grezzo, I knew how good the food was, and I knew how good the recipes would be from Alissa's new book.
One night while Rob, my husband, was out at his martial arts class I finally got around to watching Julie & Julia. I'd read the book a few years before and wanted to see the movie but I hate dragging Rob to the movies to see a chick flick.
I watched the movie with Raw Food for Everyone open on the table in front of me and I figured out how I could teach myself amazing raw food cooking tricks and save thousands of dollars by teaching myself. I'd just cook my way through every single recipe in Raw Food For Everyone, and like Julie, I'd do it in a year. I convinced myself that it would be easy. I would only have to make 300 recipes while Julie had over 500 to make. Easy enough, right?
The more I thought about it, the better the idea seemed and I started coming up with all sorts of reasons to follow this through to the end. One of my other big reasons is that I am a cookbook collector. I've got so many raw food cookbooks and yet I only ever make a handful of recipes from each book. What was the point of having all of those books around if I only made one or two recipes from each book? I needed to expand my horizons, try some new foods, and really get to know a cookbook for once.
I officially started Dec 1st and didn't tell anyone about my plan. I like to start New Year's resolutions early so that if they don't stick by the end of December I can still come up with a good resolution just in time for the New Year. I didn't put too much effort into that first month; I think I only made about 20 recipes. 20 x 12 = 240. If I stuck to 20 new recipes a month I'd fall way short of the 300 I was hoping to make in a year.
It took me 11 months to cook my way through all 300 of Alissa's recipes in Raw Food For Everyone. With each new recipe I was learning something new. Alissa's book is a great go-to book for easy gourmet dishes. Some recipes may seem daunting at first, but with just a little planning it's simple to have a gourmet raw food meal every night.
I'd spend every Sunday morning with a pad of paper in one hand and Raw Food For Everyone in the other. It became my ritual to make my grocery list and menu and then to go grocery shopping. I'd start soaking nuts and seeds before leaving for the market so they'd be ready to go by the time I was. I'd spend Sunday afternoon in the kitchen, making as much as I could for the week ahead. From sauces to soups, crackers, cakes, cookies and ice cream, there's a recipe for nearly everything you could possibly want to make in Alissa's new book.
I feel like I've grown in my understanding of raw food preparation and techniques by cooking my way through Alissa's book. I understand the principles behind what makes her food so great, fresh ingredients, amazing spices, some creativity and lots of love.
To me, raw and living foods are inspirational. Before I embarked on this crazy year-long project I'd often get into ruts where I wouldn't know what to make. But thanks to Alissa's book, I'm never at a loss now; it only takes flipping through the pages to come across a recipe that I truly loved or looking at the tantalizing photos I took of nearly every recipe from her book.
There is no other book that I would recommend more for delicious recipes than Alissa Cohen's Raw Food For Everyone (other than her first book, Living on Live Food!). It's the crown jewel of my raw food cookbook collection.


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Without hardware security for mobile devices, apps for mobile commerce, mobile money and mobile wallets will have "difficulty getting off the ground and finding adoption by credit card providers," judges ABI Research.
Hardware security for mobile devices involves the use of hardware-rooted security employed in PCs and laptops. The National Institute of Standards and Technology says (.pdf) that hardware-rooted security for mobile devices have three components: roots of trust (RoTs), an application programming interface to expose the RoTs to the platform and a policy enforcement engine.
The increasing need to have hardware security for mobile devices is forecast by ABI to generate $1 billion by the end of this year.
At the same time, ABI identifies obstacles for growth of the hardware security market, including a fragmented mobile device market with numerous suppliers both on the OEM side and the silicon IP side. Firms in this space include ARM, Trustonic and Samsung.
These efforts are "colliding head-on" with work by the PC industry to adapt existing hardware security methods to the mobile market. Companies in this space include Intel and Microsoft.
"Interesting partnerships are being formed in the market, with players still unsure which technology will ultimately prevail. Yet all are aware of the pressing demand for security and that they will need to dive into the turbulent waters soon if they want to stay ahead of the game," says Michela Menting, ABI's senior analyst in cybersecurity.
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Hey, that wasn't you I saw last week, sitting in front of the principal's office, in trouble for planting that plastic snake in the hamster's cage? Oh, it was you? My God, what were you thinking? You do know what's fresh in everyone's minds, don't you? Yes, I do refer here to the Inky-Spitball Incident, the debacle concerning the Mud in Locker 13, and even, yes, the Paper Airplanes of Catastrophic All-School Assembly Disruption. Yes, people do still remember that one. Grownups, you know, remember all kinds of unpleasant things.
Oh, don't get your slingshot all in a twist. Just go on out there and find an old lady's yard to rake, and fast--because, kid, there is a new cupcake in town, and trust me, you want in.
Oh, did I say a new cupcake? I meant 30 new cupcakes. Like the s'mores one, in which a puck of chocolate cake, as lush as pudding, as rich as Al Gore's sense of irony, crouches beneath a marshmallow topping as thick, sweet, and sticky as Tammy Faye Baker in a bathtub full of honey. And it doesn't end there. Oh, no. At the crown of this rich, thick, sweet, sticky whopper of a humdinger is a cute little rectangle of graham cracker, and a darling little square of chocolate bar. Is this cupcake worth $2.95? If you need to ask, you obviously haven't considered the price lately of baseball cards, Barbie clothes, or pure unadulterated joy.
I mean, cupcakes, people! Or rather, Cupcake, a new coffee shop on University Avenue in the Prospect Park, Midway, and east University area. The place has been brought to us by Kevin VanDeraa, a recent Chicago transplant who came to our fair city after fleeing a corporate career in PR and having a transformative experience. "I was at the gym, on the treadmill, and saw an ad for culinary school, and then I just couldn't stop thinking about pastry. Next thing you know, I'm enrolled in pastry school." (Now, see how productive Kevin is? And all I ever do when I'm at the gym thinking about pastry is to throw my barbells over my shoulder as I clatter out the door in pursuit of some damn pastry.) Anyhoo, when Kevin got out of school he spent some time working in the kitchens at Chicago's Ritz-Carlton and a wedding-cake specialist called the House of Fine Chocolates. Then he moved here, mounted an insanely large blue coffee cup on the corner of his building, and threw the doors open at Cupcake.
Now, if you are over 12 years old, or are burdened with such folks and their dull issues as you attempt to enjoy your day, you will be glad to hear that in addition to cupcakes, this place has healthy salads, simple and likable homemade soups, all the regulation coffees, teas, lattes, and such, and some very nice baked-to-order pizzas, which come on light, fluffy, fresh crusts and are topped with grown-up things like asparagus and prosciutto. In fact, it is possible to enjoy Cupcake, with its high ceilings, cheerful and modern design (it seems like a great set for Lisa Kudrow in a Friends spinoff) and healthful salads without ever trying a cupcake. And it's probably possible to sail across the ocean without ever considering the water.
I mean, how about that chocolate mascarpone cupcake? Drier than the s'mores one, but more purely, more fragrantly chocolatey, boasting an elegant profile and a decorous hat of three dried cherries. This chocolate mascarpone sometimes sits in the case next to the red velvet cupcakes, which are topped with jester's hats of wildly splaying conical cream cheese icing spires, and choosing between them is almost physically painful. The red velvet is a Southern specialty in which red food coloring makes a subtly cocoa-inflected chocolate cake glow like fireplace embers. But it's the cream cheese icing that's the big draw here; the stuff is pure and fresh, full of vanilla and clean as a dawn sunbeam.
If that doesn't seem like enough draw for you, maybe a little terror will motivate you: Why, even as you read this, evil despots are trying to ban our cupcakes! It is true. Why, just last month the Associated Press ran a wire story exposing the fiendish exploits of one Robert Davis, a principal at Meadowside Elementary in Milford, Connecticut, who has forbidden the transportation and distribution of cupcakes within his school walls, ordering that children must instead celebrate their birthdays with crafts and games.
Educational games, no doubt.
No, I can't believe it myself. I agree. A birthday without cupcakes is like a frog without the hop, like a water slide without the drop, like a sock puppet robbed of its sock. And if you want to ride your scooter out to Connecticut to barrage the place with spitballs, I can't stop you. But I can recommend that you stock up your knapsack with cupcakes before you go.
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My first visit to Athen's will most definitely be my last. I know that things happen and I am perfectly fine with that fact but a simple apology would go a long way. I went in for lunch 8/4/8 and ordered a gyro and a drink. When I opened the sandwich I found a nice, big, greasy looking hair stuck to my pickle. I motioned for one of the waitresses to come to my table. When I pointed out the hair I got no response. Not a single word! The young lady simply took my sandwich and passed it back through the window to the kitchen. I approached the counter and simply asked for a refund. As my hairy sandwich made its way back to the kitchen what appeared to be the donor of the hair in question simply asked the silent young waitress "So, what does he want another pickle!"
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Recording names containing a surname (9.2.5-9.2.9)
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9.2.5 General guidelines on recording names containing a surname
220.127.116.11 General guidelines
Some Task Force members think it clear to uniformly place a comma following the recorded surname. They wonder whether, should a comma after a surname be omitted when the first element is the surname, film director Ang Lee would be "Lee Ang" but NOT "Lee, Ang" or whether his name is considered an English name and thus be recorded as "Lee, Ang". Then, there would be a variant form "Li An", since this is purely the transliteration of his Chinese name. On the other hand, some other Task Force members think that adding a comma after a surname that is initial is Eurocentric (i.e., follows practices of Western Europe) and might create confusion. "Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976" implies/suggests that the name is Zedong Mao. Some Task Force members recommend that comma should be placed as usual for transliterated or English form of Chinese and some other Asian names and that a comma should be omitted only where non-roman scripts are recorded for such names and when the first element of the names in non-roman scripts is surnames. On the other hand, some other Task Force members recommend that the 3rd sentence (If the first part of the name is the surname, follow it by a comma and the parts of the name that follow it.) should be deleted. Those Task Force members preferring not to place a comma for names, the first part of which is the surname, note that no comma conforms to practice used for names lacking a surname (e.g., Ethiopian, Icelandic and Zaire names), which is a distinction that escapes the average user. Suzuki for CC:AAM TF on RDA Feb. 4, 2008
"Record the surname as the first element. If the surname is not the first part of the name, follow it by a comma and transpose the parts of the name that precede it …" This all speaks to encoding. It's a particular way of recording a name in a single string heading. RDA was not supposed to specify encoding Digital projects of all sorts have already split up last name/first name into parsable bits. There are real issues with doing that and they do need to be discussed. But acting as if it's a decision for us to make now is silly. Most systems/projects are already doing that. How can we help provide them useful guidance? The RDA draft talks all about direct order. Enter Elizabeth II in direct order. Well, what do you do when you've designed your system as <name type="last"> & <name type="first"> or surname/given name? On the one hand, it's just XML, just add some other attribute. But changing your practice affects your indexing & your stylesheets (both for data transformation & for display). It's not trivial to make a different decision later even in an XML world. Arguing about whether or not it should be done (as was happening on the RDA list) is pointless. It's already happening. Discussing how RDA can provide useful guidance to those doing such things would be worthwhile. Expecting that systems are going to parse on a comma & have that work always is wrong. Using phrases like "direct order" is wrong. If we want RDA to be useful to other metadata communities, let's actually provide them something useful! This is an area where the other-metadata-communities are actually crying out for help. For many projects, this is number one on their list of concerns: should they split apart names? For a lot of the humanities-medievalists, what to do about terms of royalty or land-ownership or complex compound names ... are all their questions. RDA needs to find a way to help specify the bits of a name without specifying how they be encoded in a heading (including the instructions for direct order and the use of commas). Under this category the following rules are problematic: 22.214.171.124.1, 220.127.116.11.1, 126.96.36.199.4, 184.108.40.206 , 126.96.36.199 de Groat for NRMIG 2/8/2008
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08
Problem: This is a bad idea. In the days of cards, we didn't have a choice. But we should be able to create MARC subfielding to take care of this now, and indeed other flavors of MARC in Europe do have subfield markers for surnames, given names, etc. Punctuation should be left to the ISBD appendix. You can see the problems created by commas in our current practice in the displays found in worldcat.org. Worldcat.org has the (deplorable) practice of creating "statements of responsibility" on the fly by reordering the elements of access points. And the results for many non-English names are really bad.
Solution: If we want to be able to manipulate displays accurately, we need to rely on accurate machine coding of elements, not punctuation meant for the days of cards. Though this might seem like a MARC issue, it would help if RDA described personal names in terms of elements and subelements. -Theroux for D. Brooking, ACRL/SEES/Automated Bibliographic Control Committee, 2/9/08
Strongly agree. Weiss 2/18/08
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
NLM believes that a comma should not be used in this case and names should be recorded directly. KINCY, MedLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 2/10/2008
188.8.131.52 Surname represented by an initial
It might be useful to have a reference to 9.2.17 here, since the reader of the rule is bound to wonder what to do if the surname is represented by an initial and no other part of the name is given in full. Bob Maxwell, Jan. 1, 2008.
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
Should have an instruction to record the name in direct order as a variant. KINCY, MedLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 2/08/2008
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
184.108.40.206 Part of the name treated as a surname
Should have an instruction to record the name in direct order as a variant. KINCY, MedLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 2/08/2008
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08; Weiss 2/18/08
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
"If the parts of a compound name are regularly or occasionally hyphenated, record the first part as the first element (Day-Lewis, Daniel)" Suggested change: If the parts of a compound name are regularly or occasionally hyphenated, consider the entire name to be the surname, beginning with the first part. de Groat for NRMIG 2/8/2008
Agree. Weiss 2/18/08
(Should be entered under 184.108.40.206.) Agree with suggested change to that instruction. Glennan 2/16/08
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
Problem: How are we to know when an element "functions as a surname"? Solution: Please give guidance. Possibly if the element is treated as a surname in reference sources? -Theroux for D. Brooking, ACRL/SEES/Automated Bibliographic Control Committee, 2/9/08
220.127.116.11 Persons known by a surname only
This violates the principle of Common usage or practice. Make this parallel with 184.108.40.206.2: switch this with the relevant part 9.3.7, so that "Dr. Seuss" is the preferred form, and "Seuss, Dr." is the variant form. Weiss 2/10/08
184.108.40.206 Married woman identified only by her husband's name
Enclitic is an obscure term, unlikely to be known to users. Can this be reworded? KINCY, MedLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 2/08/2008
Disagree; just explain what it is. Weiss 2/18/08
I assume that the enclitic here is "ne." Give an explanatory note about that, please. Knop for Fieg, ATLA, 2/10/08
22.214.171.124 Words indicating relationship following surname
Could the rubric specify that these are *familial* relationships? Scharff, MusLA 1/25/08
Agree. Weiss 2/18/08; Maxwell 2/18/08
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
Hurray! Finally a common sense loosening of the strictures of AACR2 22.19B1. Does this include non-royal usages of II, III, IV though? -- MYERS (John F. Myers, IV to be specific), 1/17/2008
Does this rule include the use of numerals (II, III, etc.)? Should it? de Groat for OLAC, 2/9/08
I would hope so. Glennan 2/16/08 (wife of a III; daughter-in-law of a Jr. Somehow it wouldn't seem appropriate to treat these differently....)
Agree; Weiss 2/18/08
This is a change from current practice, which is to use these terms only to resolve a conflict. Knop,ATLA,2/9/08
When we use Jr., Sr., etc., do we also add the dates? See AACR2 for order of preference. The only modern person I can I think of who is in the NAF who as "Jr., with the dates is Martin Luther King, Jr. There used to be explanatory note in that record that stated that "Jr." was added since that was the name he was chiefly known by. Knop for Fieg, ATLA, 2/10/08
If the intention is to change from current practice (i.e., include "Jr." etc. whether or not it is needed to break a conflict), then why are numbers excluded? They serve the same purpose as "Jr." etc. For example, "Rock, Monti, III" (AAC2 also leaves this out). Also, "Jr." is considered part of the name, whereas words such as "Saint" are not considered part of the name, yet both are entered in subfield $c in MARC 21; is this something that should be brought up with MARBI? Randall, ALCTS/CRS, 2/10/08
188.8.131.52 Saints
This is another of those places where name and heading and attributes may eventually be clear but aren't at the moment. At first I thought it was giving contradictory instructions -- don't add it but do add it. Then I realized it was distinguishing between Saint as part of the name element and as an additional attribute. Then I was asking, "and what if the name lacks a surname?" before realizing that 9.2.5 is all about names with surnames. The rule heading should be "Saints with surnames" or some such to make this more clear.
9.2.6 Compound surnames
The rules in this section are overly complex. The heart of the rule at 220.127.116.11, with the preceding rules as exceptions to it. To program a computer to apply these rules, requires this reverse treatment to winnow out the exceptions, but a human-read rule structure can be read straight forward. Why not something like this:
126.96.36.199. General rule
126.96.36.199.1 Other than the exceptions noted in 18.104.22.168-188.8.131.52, record the first part of a compound name as the first element. (BTW, we are inconsistently using element here, where it otherwise refers to a distinct attribute).
184.108.40.206.2 Subject to the exceptions noted in 18.104.22.168-18.104.22.168, if the parts of a compound surname are regularly or occasionally hyphenated, including place names connected to the surname by a hyphen, record the first part as the first element and retain the hyphen between the parts.
126.96.36.199 Established usage/Known preference
220.127.116.11.1 If the person bearing a compound surname has a known preference to be listed under a part other than the first then use that preferred part as the first element.
184.108.40.206 Married women ...
188.8.131.52.1 In cases other than where either the person's language is Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, or Spanish or the name is hyphenated, record the husband's surname as the first element.
18.104.22.168 Portuguese compound surnames
126.96.36.199.1 If the person's language is Portuguese, record the last part as the first element.
The fourth example, Smith W., Alan, seems to contradict your instruction in footnote 7 on the previous page. Knop for Fieg, ATLA, 2/10/08
126.96.36.199.2 If the name of a person whose language is Portuguese includes a word indicating relationship, follow the instructions given under 18.104.22.168.
188.8.131.52 Nature of surname uncertain in English, Danish ...
188.8.131.52.1 If the person's language is English, Danish, Faroese, Norwegian, or Swedish, record the last part of the name as the first element. --MYERS, 1/17/2008
188.8.131.52 General Guidelines
Editorial: There is an artifactual AACR2 reference that is not suppressed at the end of the rule. -- MYERS 1/17/2008
[EDITORIAL]: {Echoing Myers' comment} There is a reference in the text to [22.5.C1]. This is a reference to AACR2 and should be removed from the text. KINCY, MedLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 2/08/2008
188.8.131.52 Established usage
With regard to reference sources, I have already mentioned my experience at Encyclopaedia Britannica. Also, why not use the name on the item in hand as the first instance of usage? The instruction makes sense except for the fact it ignores the name on the resource itself. We do record in the bibliographic record the name, title as it appears there, right? Knop for Fieg, ATLA, 2/10/08
220.127.116.11 Hyphenated surnames
220.127.116.11 Married women whose surname consists of surname before marriage and husband's surname
Contrast with LCRI 22.5A on Filipino names: "The names of many Filipino women give the paternal surname, also as a kind of middle name, followed by the husband's surname, the two being linked by a hyphen. Although the hyphen causes the combination of names to look like a compound surname, Philippine sources consistently list these women under the husband's surname. Enter these also under the second surname, i.e., the husband's surname. Add an exception to 184.108.40.206.1 on hyphenated surnames for Filipino names. Suzuki for CC:AAM TF on RDA Feb. 4, 2008
Does seem that this should be included. Weiss 2/18/08
220.127.116.11 Other compound surnames
Why is the most basic rule way down at 184.108.40.206? It seems a "standard" compound surname wouldn't be thought of as an "other" compound surname by a cataloger. Shouldn't 126.96.36.199-126.96.36.199 be exceptions? Randall, ALCTS/CRS, 2/10/08
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08; Weiss 2/18/08;Maxwell 2/18/08|5UPB
220.127.116.11 Nature of surname uncertain
18.104.22.168 (p. 9-27) The main exceptions are the same and 22.214.171.124a.2 is covered by 22.214.171.124 (as written, or 22.214.171.124 in my rewrite) and the references to 9.3.7 are redundant. Collapse the rules. -- MYERS, 1/17/2008
Agree. Weiss 2/18/08
Agree. Randall 2/18/08
"If a name has the appearance of a compound surname but its nature is not certain, treat it as a compound surname." This is fine so long as it is commonly understood that what goes before the comma is the full compound surname. Again, it leaves questions about how to encode this if you are splitting your text into <name type="last"> & <name type="first">. Is the whole compound name "last"? Suggestion: Maybe surname (or family name) & given name needs to be defined at the beginning of this discussion and then the RDA language could simply be "treat as surname" and "treat as "given name" according to your encoding system of choice. Again, "first element" is not a useful phrase in other encoding systems (220.127.116.11.1). de Groat for NRMIG 2/8/2008
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08
184.108.40.206a Names of persons whose language is English
188.8.131.52b Names of persons whose language is Danish, Faroese, Norwegian, or Swedish
The IFLA publication Names of Persons (4th ed., 1996) gives national usages for compound names:
Denmark: entry element according to person's preference, if known; hyphenated compounds under first element; if unhyphenated and second part is Møller or ends in -sen, entry under first part; other unhyphenated names not linked by preposition, enter under second part; two surnames linked by preposition, entry under first part.
Norway: hyphenated, entry under first part; unhyphenated, entry under second part.
Sweden: entry under first part of compound, or under person's preferred form if known, "but for practical reasons a middle name followed by a surname is usually treated as a compound surname, e.g. De Geer Bergenstråhle, Marie-Luise; Lärn Sundvall, Viveca"
--Hostage, IFLA, 2/6/08
Therefore eliminate relevant instructions in RDA, and just refer to the IFLA document. Weiss 2/18/08
126.96.36.199 Place names added to surnames
9.2.7 Surnames with separately written prefixes
188.8.131.52 General guidelines
126.96.36.199 Articles and prepositions
184.108.40.206 Other prefixes
How does one know if a prefix includes a patronymic and therefore should follow rule 9.2.15 rather than this rule? For example, what is the difference between the example of Ben Harosh, Mosheh in this rule and Isaac ben Aaron in rule 9.2.15? KINCY, MedLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 2/08/2008
In the third example, is "Al" in "Al Yasin" a preposition? In the examples starting with "Fitz" and "Mac" would these names be combined into one named in variant access points? Knop for Fieg, ATLA, 2/10/08
9.2.8 Prefixes hyphenated or combined with surnames
This rule needs to be qualified by "if considered important" or something like that. As it stands we are instructed to make references in all cases from the form following the prefix--i.e., from "Gerald, Colin Fitz-", "Donald, William Mac-", and "Bure, Guillaume De-" which hardly seems reasonable. Bob Maxwell, Jan. 1, 2008.
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08; Weiss 2/18/08
9.2.9 Surnames of members of royal houses
This is the exception to the rule. Shouldn't it be stated last, not first? Bob Maxwell, Jan. 1, 2008.
Agree. Glennan 2/16/08; Weiss 2/18/08
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The New York State Department of Education has granted approval for Daemen to offer the MSW degree that's designed to provide advanced training for experienced professionals and students with a background in liberal arts who are looking to further or begin their education in the field.
In light of the worsening Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Daemen College will host a panel discussion of experts and also offer a personal perspective on the crisis from a native Liberian at the event scheduled for Oct. 20.
The panel discussion, which is part of the Daemen History and Political Science Speakers Series, will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Wick Campus Center Alumni Lounge. The event is free and open to the public.
"In addition to the health care threat of this deadly disease, the Ebola epidemic involves many political, cultural and government policy issues," said Dr. Joseph Sahr Sankoh, Daemen associate professor of political science/African affairs and panel chair. "The range of expertise from the panelists will help put the public health impact of the Ebola outbreak into perspective and examine the broader implications of the virus as we face this international crisis."
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Dinner will include a half chicken, spud potatoes, coleslaw, roll and beverage. Guests can dine in or order takeout, and dinners are just $10 per person.
Learning Choices Network (LCN), a community partnership that provides alternative educational opportunities for local youth, will host its second annual Regional Gathering Nov. 8-10 in the Buffalo History Museum, One Museum Court, Buffalo. The event will offer a wide variety of topics and workshops of interest to families, homeschoolers and educators who value rich learning experiences. Distinguished speakers will include progressive educators from New York, Washington, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vermont.
Daemen College's newly refurbished Veteran's Center, which provides a welcoming campus space devoted to students who have served in the military, has been named in honor of alumna Nancy Haberman Gacioch, a long-time supporter and friend of the college.
The 500-square-foot Nancy Haberman Gacioch Center for Veterans was officially dedicated at a Sept. 12 ribbon-cutting celebration attended by Daemen President Gary A. Olson, veterans and others from the college community. Bill Gacioch, who surprised his wife with the event, was also in attendance along with their three children and family friends at the dedication for the center.
With the fall semester getting underway Sept. 2, Daemen College hosted a variety of campus activities for returning and incoming first-year students, including Fall Convocation to welcome more than 550 new students to the college community and to celebrate the start of the new academic year.
"The most important ability you will acquire in your college years is the ability to think critically and analytically about the world," Daemen President Gary A. Olson said in his address to students at the all-campus event on Sept. 4. "As college-educated individuals, you will have the ability and the responsibility to always exercise your critical thinking skills.
Buffalo's economic growth over the past decade was described as transformational by Mayor Byron W. Brown as he pointed to the city continuing its positive momentum with a strong, workable plan at a recent lecture held at Daemen College.
As featured speaker on Sept. 2 in the college's latest Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series, Brown talked about major economic development efforts that have improved the city's vitality and the overall impact the revitalization has had on the region.
"There are visible signs of progress and growth throughout the city, which has experienced $4.4 billion in economic development since 2012, with more than 12,000 new jobs expected to be created over the next few years," said Brown. "These major investments are changing the city for the better and making it a destination where people want to work, live and play."
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Rosemary Clarke, Director of Bookstart and Bookgifting, unveils some exciting plans for celebrating Bookstart's 20th birthday next year. Find out how you can get involved, and read other news.
20 years of Bookstart: 1992–2012
Bookstart began in Birmingham in 1992 with just 300 babies, and look how we have grown! 20 years on, Bookstart is committed to supporting every child in the country on their reading journey – because a love of books really is a gift for life.
Bookstart 20 is our birthday celebration that will look back at the huge achievements of Bookstart, and ask how can we safeguard the programme for another 20 years.
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Each child earns special pawprint stamps for activities, such as visiting the library, borrowing or returning a book, or attending a Rhymetime event. Children who collect six stamps are rewarded with a certificate, and there are ten to collect. This means that 60 activities are needed to complete the Club. The 10th certificate is particularly splendid with a special gold embossed effect.
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BLAKELY - With the Bread Basket of Northeastern Pennsylvania being hit with cuts in state funding as the demand for food to help needy families grows, supporters of the network of food pantries began to look for fundraisers, and came up with a walk at Robert Mellow Park in Blakely.
The inaugural walk drew about 40 participants Saturday morning who donated or raised money to help the network of food banks.
While many hunger walks and runs are 10 kilometers - the average distance someone in the developing world must walk to get fresh water - Bread Basket organizers decided their walk would be a shorter, two-thirds mile loop and people could go around as many times as they liked, explained the Rev. Virginia Miner.
It also made the event more accessible. One woman in her 90s completed the loop using a walker. Some parents brought children in strollers.
Among the most aggressive walkers were the mother-daughter team of Shelly and Skyler Evans of Jessup, who set out to complete the loop 19 times during the three-hour event. While they were having fun on the sunny, chilly day, they knew the cause was serious.
"I can't bear to know that people are hungry and not do something to help," said Skyler Evans, who learned about the walk from her CCD class at St. Michael's Church in Jessup.
NEPA Bread Basket has seven community pantries that have served 7,000 families in its 2011-2012 fiscal year. The demand on local food banks has continued, even as the recession has receded, Executive Director Sandra Roberts noted. The state cut funding and support for the food bank, she said, just as it cut programs to help the indigent.
The group raised about $1,000 through the walk and donations. Organizers say the walk will become an annual event.
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The date is fast approaching; my 5K race is on Sunday morning!
This is only my second race ever (the first being this same race that I ran last year). I'm really excited for it because I remember it being a really fun experience last year, but I've got some serious nerves happening here too. I guess this is because I put some pressure on myself by setting two goals for the race;
1. Lose 5 lbs by race day
2. Complete the race in under 30:00
Looks like I'm going to be close to the first goal. Tomorrow is my official* weigh-in day (*totally arbitrary day of the week that I chose would be my weigh-in day) and this morning I was down a total of 4.5 lbs, so hopefully that holds. It'd be nice to lose the full 5 lbs but heck, 4.5? I'm not going to complain!
The second goal makes me a little more nervous. Last year I had the same goal and came really close to achieving it with a race time of 30:05. I have successfully put in 5K practice runs in the past couple weeks in which I got times around 29:00 but these included a minute of walking. I was hoping that the under 30 min goal would be achieved with running the whole thing too.
Thinking back to last year, I ran a lot faster than I thought I could/would at the race with a lot less pain than I thought I would. I guess my last practice run that I did on Monday this week made me more nervous because, I while I completed 5K in 29:20, it nearly killed me! It was a sweltering hot day and I felt like I was wheezing for the last 0.5 mile! I'm just hoping everything comes together on Sunday so that I can give it all, achieve my goal and still have fun.
I think today will be my last run before the race because I would normal run Mon, Thurs and either Sat or Sun. My running buddy is going to come into town Sat afternoon and we're going to pick up our race packets, grab some dinner and go for a nice long walk to keep our muscles moving but not tire them out. Hopefully picking up our race packets the day before the race will help us on race day.
Last year we ended up starting in the back of the pack and had to do a lot of weaving around those walking the race and I think that really slowed me down. This year we can start a bit closer to the front and hopefully find others with our pace. Last year I had a friend who is a serious runner doing the race with me for support and she acted as my pace car. This year it will be just us newbies running so we're both really nervous about trying to pick the right pace!
Anyway, over the last week I've learned how important sleep is so in the days leading up to the race I'll make sure I get a couple good nights of sleep and fingers crossed that all goes well on Sunday!!
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How TheLadders pushes us to conquer more than we thought possible.
TheLadders is in the business of conquering goals. We set very small and very large business goals, and work as a team to break through barriers and achieve what we set out to achieve. And while we're busy doing that, we also have the encouragement from all our managers and coworkers to excel in our own, personal goals as well.
Having already accomplished a huge career goal through TheLadders – moving up the ranks to become an event coordinator on the PR team – I was inspired by co-workers to challenge myself to a new opportunity: Completing the New York City Triathlon with several of my colleagues (including our CEO!).
Having previously run a few 10-mile races, I was semi-positive I could physically manage the feat: Swimming nearly a mile in the Hudson River, biking just under 25 miles up the West Side Highway and topping the workout off with a 10K through the topographic anomaly that is Central Park (Giant hills?! New York is supposed to be flat!).
The distances all sound easy enough (given proper training) but I had a few challenges to overcome, which I couldn't have gotten through without the help of TheLadders' IRONMAN CEO and the people who make this company so great.
Challenge 1: I know how to "swim," but I've never swam any distance competitively or have access to a pool in NYC…
Technically, this is challenge 1.5. Apparently, the first challenge is getting into the triathlon itself. More than 20,000 applicants register, but less than 5,000 are chosen in a lottery, or compete by raising money for a charity. TheLadders made challenge 1 magically disappear. So on to challenge 1.5…
Having never taken formal swimming lessons, I'd consider myself a swimming novice. After revealing this to my co-worker Sarah (who had done the race before), she was insistent on helping me become the best swimmer I could be before the race. A free one-week NYSC membership later, we were in the pool practicing strokes and technique and learning what made me comfortable in the water (i.e. me floating on my back). We decided that my safety stroke should be the back stroke, which proved to be my approach the whole time swimming in the Hudson.
When the week was through, I was feeling much better about the swim, and grateful to have a friend and colleague willing to help me out. She was even a good sport when I beat her by 5 seconds in the official swim!
Challenge 2: Biking is easy! But how to do it if I don't own a bike…
I buckled down and bought one. In all aspects of life, they say you only get better with practice. So that's what I did when I purchased my Cannondale at my local bike shop. Between biking 22 miles roundtrip to and from work and doing a few loops through Central Park, I was feeling confident and started to get better.
Challenge 3: I have to do all these sports in one outing somehow?
As it turns out, getting down the logistics of a triathlon in New York City is a sport in and of itself. This is really where my team came through for me. I couldn't believe the support. It ranged from colleagues emailing and texting and sitting down to answer questions, to other first-time triathletes sharing their worries with me, to our CEO, Alex Douzet, making sure we were outfitted in the best race gear and arranging a nice pasta dinner the night before the race to rally each other and answer any questions new athletes had. Somehow, everyone at TheLadders helped me to get everything in its place the day before – and 4:30 a.m. the morning of – the event.
As I crossed the finish line, I was filled with a surprising amount of emotions. I was exhausted from the exertion, excited to have my friends and colleagues waiting at the finish for me, and proud and grateful to have accomplished something that I wasn't sure I could.
In the end, it was my team and co-workers that motivated me to achieve something greater than I'd previously thought I'd do, and I couldn't have done it without the help of my company – from its CEO all the way down to the teammates sitting next to me. We at TheLadders strive every day to achieve something greater for our job seekers and recruiters, and likewise are encouraged to do it within our personal lives. On to my next goal: Beating 3 hours and 14 minutes in the triathlon next year!
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