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Each One, Reach One
This past year, the Admissions and Retention Committee of the New York Faculty Council launched a new and innovative program called Each One, Reach One.
"There are approximately 1,300 first year students on our New York Campus. Last year, only 72% of them stayed til their second year. In our view, the fact that one out of four first year students does not return is deeply troubling," wrote the Admissions and Retention Committee of the New York Faculty Council in their address to faculty. Through their research, which found that everyone on campus impacts retention rates (faculty in particular), they have developed this new faculty-led initiative which is designed to improve the experience and retention of first year students.
The fundamental idea of Each One Reach One (EORO) is simple: engaging first years in positive activities will create stronger bonds to Pace and lead to greater retention. This idea is supported by research, and builds on the good work already being done by many members of the faculty. The committee has identified and defined 10 ways for faculty to cultivate a bond with students, including: taking a group of first-year students off campus for lunch; organizing an advisory session targeted to first years; taking a group of first years to a local museum, concert, theater, arts and crafts workshop, or exhibit; adding at least 3 more office hours per week on campus, plus many others.
These activities are simple, varied enough to appeal to people with different interests and capabilities, and for the most part—fun. Participation in the EORO initiative isn't mandated, required, or an extra burden you must assume.
Please join us in this new and exciting initiative designed by the NY Faculty Council's Committee on Admissions and Retention. Pick one of the 10 EORO activities and join Each One Reach One. While most of the activities do not require extra funds, if you do need funding for your event, go to Support for EORO.
To learn more about the Each One Reach One program and how you can get involved, visit www.pace.edu/eoro.
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"Love the series! Good listen."
Yes, great series.
The characters.
All of them, I can't wait to get back to it.
The book just brings you in and time flys by. I listen on the treadmill and I almost forget what I am doing!
"a great read"
The way the author use people from legends like Gilgamesh and Odin.
When Josh was awakened by Mars Altor.
My favorite character was Dr. John Dee.
I didn't have a strong reaction having read others in the series like The Necromancer.
I am Max, Merrill's younger brother.
"captivating !"
I didnt read the first book but enjoyed this one and look forward to the series!
clever development of charachters
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"Great series overall"
A lot of repeating the character information, however the whole series is very good and fun listening.
"Great story, great narrator"
This is one of the best audiobooks I have purchased. I really am a fan of the series.
I think the when Lucie has her powers awakened...
Possibly the "Doctor D" but he was really good at all of them
a little expensive but worth the investment. I would love to purchase the hard copies...
I am a person that tries and get through 1 book a week if possible. I am Dyslexic so this is really the only way I can get through a book. I have listened to more book in a year than I read my first 20 years of my life. I found the joy of audio books in the early 2000 and have been a audible customer since 2000 or 2001. I have over 490 books in 2 different accounts and listened to 90%.
"Nice second book to the series"
It is a great series book I am ready to start book three in less than week and half.
The spider elder taking the side of the humans.
Spider elder. Sounded so dumb he was great.
"Anmature Writing at BEST."
The storyline and plot isn't original. It's taken two books to tell a part of a story that could have been told in three chapters. Repeated thoughts, and feelings occur so often that you can quote word for word what is going to be said after the second and even the third time of hearing it! The writer has a limited vocabulary, and lacks the ability to describe feelings and actions of the characters in basic conversation. Most of the time he overstates actions and feeling. DUDE, WE GET IT...HE'S MAD! It reads like I write...which isn't good and should not be published. Honestly – the author has a good idea for a story, with interesting facts, and creative interpretations of myths and mythical creatures (although some facts are overstated, and farfetched); however - I think this writer would have been better off submitting his idea for the books to a good writer so the story could be told well. I'm half way through listening to this book and nothing has changed at all; well nothing that couldn't be told in one chapter, or maybe even in a half chapter.
I'm not listening to book three in this series. My ears are bleeding already and I'm half way through book two. I just have to finish it...because I paid one credit for it. I suggest, if you like mythical creatures, you read some of Tamora Pierce's books like "Wild Magic". I started with "The Circle of Magic" series. Now, that's a great writer!
The performance is great considering the material.
I'd cut the brother - or give him some other personality besides - village idiot. He is probably the most predictable character I've ever had the displeasure of listening too. This character repeats himself more than any other character in the book...and that's saying something. Also, he contradicts himself continuously. I assume this is the author's way of stating he is confused...but believe me...WE KNOW HE'S CONFUSED! That was well covered in the first book.
I don't like to tell people not to support a writer. But if you value your dollar...don't waste it on this book. Sorry. I feel bad for this review, but honesty is always best. It is possible that the writing gets better as the series progresses, but I'd rather not risk it.
"Wonderful science/fantast story."
This is a story of ancient immortals giventhe gift of immortality by the Dark Elders with one exception, Nicholas Flamel and his wife, Paronelle. John Dee's purpose is to return the elders who left millenia ago to this world believing that this would bring about peace and prosperity again. He is relentless and evil and will stop at nothing. The Alchemist, Nicholas, is on the side of good and has found the "Twins" of legend. They are the world's only hope of protection from John Dee. This is the second book in the series and will hold your interest well. I have read fantasy and science fiction all my life and this is a great book. It will have you returning eagerly each time you have a moment to listen.
"There'll never be another Harry Potter"
Recognizing the name Nicholas Flamel from Harry Potter, I thought I'd check these out. Have read all 5 available so far - have also recently read other kids' books in the similar style - these books are interesting with great characters and it's fun that I recognize them from history so get to explain to my daughter who they are. There is interesting action and secrets and adventures. All that being said, not only Scott's books, but all the children's fantasy books (excluding, of course, Wrinkle in Time set) just FAIL next to Harry Potter. I think we really have to stop thinking of HP as children's books or something - I keep trying to decide what it is. There's just so much MORE to love about Harry Potter!! Anyway, kids who liked HP will probably like these, and I'll keep going with the series...but JKR - something else for us maybe?
"Teenage boy needs to grow up"
The plot advances each time the teenage boy (Josh) decides to listen to the smooth words of the devil - we'll call him Dr. D - or when he decides that anything that might possibly have some danger associated with it must be bad. For myself, I prefer characters with more common sense. Like his sister, although even she gives in too frequently to paranoia. I don't know how many of the series one has to read to get to the conclusion but I'm jumping off here.
Compare Thorby in Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy to Josh. Who does a better juevenile?

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Not Like This
I can't be the only one disturbed by the video of Qaddafi's dead bloody body being thrown around and beaten for the camera. As one Lebanese-American journalist and activist I follow on twitter tweeted, @iRevolt: "It's one thing to feel elated at the ousting, removal, etc. of a dictator; turning death into a corpse-whoring party is another."
I thought of the sickening hanging of Saddam Hussein, where the rope tore through his throat. Although we didn't witness it or see it, I imagine the shooting of Osama bin Laden wasn't pretty either.
My mind tells me that these brutal monsters deserved all this and more, but my heart tells me that we lose something of ourselves in enjoying these things. My heart tells me that we should be better than that. For years I heard from the left how waterboarding made us less of who we should be, but isn't killing worse? Isn't taking a life the ultimate final torture?
At least with Saddam there was a trial, and he was found guilty and sentenced. But the barbaric way Qaddafi was killed, and then his corpse brutalized, made me sick to my stomach. Did those who shot him unarmed, and then kicked and spit on the dead body, not become a little of what Qaddafi was? A monster?
I know. I know. He was evil. As was Saddam and Osama. But still…….. I know in my heart this is not what God wants of us. Yes, we can arrest, try, and find someone guilty. That is humane. That is what separates us from chaos. It is what makes us a civil society. I'm one of those conservatives who doesn't believe in the death penalty. I just think that there is something wrong with "the state" killing a person, when it is not in self defense. I see the other side, I really do. They say that these people have lost their right to live among us. But the whole idea of us deciding who gets to live and who gets to die, is disturbing to me whether it is an unborn child, the elderly, or a convicted murderer.
There is great suffering in living with one's demons in a dark prison cell. I would imagine to the monsters of this world, death is a release, a relief. We believers know that their suffering will continue after death, but I just can't bring myself to believe that we should push them there.
Many would argue that Saddam, Osama, and Qaddafi were just casualties in war. No different than if they had been on the battleground. But they weren't on the battleground. They were, all three, hiding or running. No great warriors here. No bravery. They were, in the end, not leaders, but cowards. Yet for all the wrong they did, I still feel that we could doled out justice in a civil manner.
Not like this. Just not like this.
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - International TrailerReported by Outsiders - 12:27 PM 2013.01.31
Ever wished you could see Steve Carell and Jim Carrey dressed in the most ridiculous outfits ever? Well, here's something that you might want to check out. It's a new international trailer for their upcoming comedy "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone." Considering that the movie is set in the gaudy world of Las Vegas, and has Carell and Carrey starring as a couple of rival magicians fighting for the limelight, this may be their most outrageous film to date. And we're just talking about their goofy costumes. Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt's growing ego. But lately the duo's greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they've grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show looks stale. But there's still a chance Burt and Anton can save the act -- both onstage and off -- if Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone stars Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin, Jay Mohr, Gillian Jacobs, Brad Garrett, David Copperfield Release: March 15th, 2013
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Concerned citizens in Fairfax County, VA are protesting as librarians rapidly shrink the book collection. Here are some numbers from the article:
The library's total collection has decreased from around 2.75 million items in 2004 to 2.4 million items in 2013, a drop of about 350,000 books, magazines and online materials, even as Fairfax added two new branches and electronic items to its system. The number of printed items, mostly books, has dropped by about 440,000 in that time, replaced by about 100,000 online items and e-books. If a book hasn't been checked out for two years, Fairfax library officials review it for possible elimination in order to keep the collection fresh…
440,000 books gone, which even with the addition of "online items and e-books" still means a cut of 340,000 titles. The children's sections seem to be the worst:
The number of children's books in Fairfax's 22 branches has also plummeted, particularly outraging the activists. The library had about 1 million ...
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Every once in a while the blog gets a comment that makes me laugh out loud. Here's one from last week from someone who's apparently a bigger fan of Facebook than I am:
Your blog is a sad wasteland of miserableness. Do you think this is clever? Yes, people do these things but you are basically doing the same grandstanding here on your blog, minus the food. Maybe if you enjoyed something you'd be a happier person. Perhaps you should look up narcissism in the dictionary. I don't want a librarian who thinks that the idea of anyone encouraging reading is a bad idea, that seems a little counterproductive to me.
What would make someone leave a comment like that? What would anyone expect from a blog called "Annoyed Librarian"? Chirpy life advice? Videos of puppies?
Maybe the commenter wanted me to take a good hard look at myself, to really explore the emotional depths of a blog called "Annoyed Librarian."
Okay. Here goes.
Is this blog a sad wasteland of miserableness? Has the ...
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Strong Healthy Families @ Your Library
It's a small irony of life in the U.S. that people who probably react in horror at groups like the Taliban or Boko Haram don't see anything wrong with trying to turn their religious beliefs into laws.
Which probably has nothing to do with a defeated book challenge reported at a website called "Christian News," but it might. Reported might be a bit too strong a word, since it seems to me like an advocacy article in the form of a news story, but I'm not sure exactly which side it's advocating so I could be wrong.
The story involves the school board in Superior, Wisconsin voting 5-1 not to withdraw from the library a book entitled "Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story." A lone rube had complained that the book was promoting homosexuality to the kiddies, and wanted that nonsense stopped immediately.
It's a typical story in many ways, and it's pretty rare for a children's book to be removed from a library because of such complaints, rarer than having a book removed from the ...
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The Year of Books
The big news in books recently has to be Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that he was making 2015 a "year of books," and was going to try to read a book every two weeks. That doesn't sound like much of a challenge to me, but I'm not busy running a multibillion dollar corporation.
He says he's excited, and that he's "found reading books very intellectually fulfilling. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."
For a guy who went to Harvard, it seems a bit late in life to make that discovery.
If his thousands of followers take up the challenge, that'll certainly be a lot more books read, and more book reading is good for everyone who deals in books, from book stores to libraries.
It does seem slightly ironic, given that Zuckerberg is responsible for providing access to the shallowest, stupidest reading possible to millions of people through Facebook.
On the occasions when I wander into the Facebook domain, I see my ...
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Ahh, the first post of a new year. A year full of hope and promise and all that kind of thing.
Being the first post of the year, I'll keep up with a tradition that I may or may not have started in the past. It's time to make some predictions about libraries for 2015.
Librarians, and apparently most other people, like to take the arbitrary starting date of a new year and pretend things will be a lot different than they have been for the previous 12 months and the 12 months before that and...etc..
Prediction #1: The vast majority of public libraries won't close, which is the opposite of what people have been predicting since 2008.
Except in Great Britain, where they probably will. The British public library experiment seems to be nearing the end.
Prediction #2: There will be a lot less hype about libraries from librarians than in past years.
For some unknown demographic reason, a whole bunch of excitable young librarians started inflicting their social media presence on ...
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Another Year Gone
Happy New Year!
I'm glad it's almost here. What a long, strange year we've finished. I might think of it as the year of engaging the outsiders, but that was only in a few posts and it's a terrible name for a year so I probably won't really.
There did seem to be a lot of people who wanted to set me straight on whatever they were passionate about. Those people who hate weeding library collections, for example.
The most fanatical were probably the gun-toting folk who don't feel safe walking into a public library without being armed to the teeth. Some of the emails and the more outrageous, and unapproved, comments on that were hilarious, if you don't mind laughing at aggressive monomaniacs, which I don't.
They kind of reminded me of the science-hating homeschoolers from a couple of years ago, in that there seems to be a network of people with nothing better to do with their time than trolling social media with their obsessive commentary. Fascinating stuff from a sociological ...
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Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an unexpected visitor. Tom doesn't know who the stranger is or what he wants, but the Spook suddenly decides it's time to travel to his winter house, Anglezarke. Tom has heard it will be a bleak, forbidding place, and that menacing creatures are starting to stir somewhere on the moors nearby.
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California must guarantee "basic civil right" of marriage
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I was very pleased to read & hear of this today – & yesterday in the New York Times. This has has so far changed my possible move from London, UK to San Francisco rather than Fire Island, Suffolk County, NY, once my current partner has passed on.
Hi Paul, Harvey Milk would be proud of California today to know our State Supreme Court overturned the Gay Marriage Ban, voted in on Prop 22, several years ago, and have now legalized it!
We are making such wonderful headway. Still a bit to go. Now we have to worry about those Jerk Off Religious Right Thug Groups putting together another voter imitative to change our Constitution to say that marriage is between a Man and Woman Only, which would defeat the Supreme Courts decision. The last hurdle we have to win is to make sure that the initiative will not make it to the pools and if it does, by some stupid freak of nature, It Gets defeated there and that will be done once and for all.
Our next task is to get New York on the bandwagon and I think that should be done ASAP while you have a very sympathetic Governor sitting in office now! -
Bravo California, absolutely marvellous! California has finally ditched domestic partnerhips (civil partnerships for UK readers) just as the state of Massachusetts did, in addition to countries such as Canada, Holland, Belgium, Spain and South Africa. All have proved that these unions are not and never will be equal to full marriage recognition.
To Dominick, the problem with New York State is that the senate is controlled by arch homophobe Joseph Bruno, they have a majority of two. If the democrats are able to unseat them, which I doubt, then New York State will join the rest of those countries and states that confer full marriage rights on gay couples. New Jersey on the other hand will have an easier time of course, your civil unions aren't working either and Governor Corzine has already stated that he's prepared to sign a bill to upgrade to full marriage. Well done! The horse is out of the barn once and for all, there will be no turning back.
California, with the eighth largest economy in the world, is also a leader in pro-GLBT legislation.
California had a form of civil parterships called civil registries, but the booming GLBT communites there wouldn't stand for second class citizendhip and wouldn't take no for an answer. Their voice became so powerful that even the Republican ruled Supreme Court (six Repugnants and one one Decietocrat) came out for same sex marriage and first class citizenship. So much for the theory that we have to vote Democratic (sic) to force judges and legislatures to pay attention to us.
Needless to say Equality California, much slandered by christists and reactionaries, played a leading role in all this.
Bill, interesting too that girlie man said that he'd not support any decision to overturn the court's decision. I wonder what brought about the sudden change? Maria Shriver his wife, perhaps? Its amazing that republican judges voted in favor of marriage equality. You can bet that they will pay dearly for that once the loony conservative rightwingnuts begin their anti-marriage equality initiative for November's ballot. Arnie has already told them not to waste their time or money in trying to overturn it. Lets hope their evil doings will be undone come November.
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Timeline: America's Air-Traffic Controllers Strike
Voices From 1981
In August 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired thousands of unionized air-traffic controllers for illegally going on strike, an event that marked a turning point in labor relations in America, with lasting repercussions. In the decades before 1981, major work stoppages averaged around 300 per year; today, that number is fewer than 30. A look at key events before the strike, and after:
1968: The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is created.
February 1981: New contract negotiations open between PATCO and the Federal Aviation Administration, which employs the air-traffic controllers. Citing safety concerns, PATCO calls for a reduced 32-hour work week, a $10,000 pay increase for all air-traffic controllers and a better benefits package for retirement. Contract negotiations with the FAA stall.
Aug. 3, 1981: About 13,000 PATCO members go on strike after unsuccessful contract negotiations. In doing so, the union technically violates a 1955 law that bans strikes by government unions. (Several government unions had previously declared strikes without penalties.) President Ronald Reagan declares the PATCO strike a "peril to national safety" and orders the controllers back to work.
Reagan warns that striking is illegal for public employees, and that anyone who does not return to work within 48 hours will be terminated. A federal judge finds PATCO President Robert Poli to be in contempt of court, and the union is ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for each day its members are on strike. About 7,000 flights are canceled.
Aug. 5, 1981: Most striking air-traffic controllers are fired. Reagan bans them from ever being rehired by the FAA. They are initially replaced by controllers, supervisors and staff personnel not participating in the strike and in some cases, by military controllers.
Aug. 17, 1981: The FAA begins accepting applications for new air-traffic controllers.
Oct. 22, 1981: The Federal Labor Relations Authority de-certifies PATCO. Later, new air-traffic controllers, hired in the wake of the strike, organize a new union to represent them, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
June 19, 1987: NATCA is certified as the sole bargaining unit for air-traffic controllers employed by the FAA.
Aug. 12, 1993: President Clinton ends the prohibition on rehiring any air-traffic controller who went on strike in 1981. (To date, the FAA has rehired about 850 PATCO strikers.)
Oct. 3, 1996: Congress passes the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act, which codifies NATCA's ability to bargain collectively with the FAA for wages and personnel matters.
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Is it bad that the pic of Becks with his hands in his pants is turning me on?! :rotfl:
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Jake's such a cutie!
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I love Kelly Ripa, she's such a cutie and so fun!
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This photo is timeless, could have been taken anytime in the last 100 years.
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Andrew! Thank you for you visites! Greetings from Hungary! Laci
pretty shame that this place is in such bad condition.. however, very good moment and pov
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Greetings from Hungary!
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b/w fits perfectly here. And the square format as well. Vertical lines very well balanced. A picture that I look at closer. And I like to know the history behind it. In the next few days I'll find out
Thank you Lilastone!
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Deltic Announces Preliminary First Quarter 2012 Results
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Net sales | $ | 30,639,000 | 29,395,000 | ||||
Net income | 97,000 | 92,000 | |||||
Earnings per common share | |||||||
Basic | .01 | .01 | |||||
Assuming dilution | .01 | .01 | |||||
Average shares outstanding | 12,628,282 | 12,533,013 | |||||
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ray C. Dillon, of Deltic Timber Corporation (NYSE:DEL) announced today that preliminary net income for the first quarter of 2012 was $.1 million, $.01 a share, the same as reported for the first quarter a year ago. The Company's Mills segment reported improved operating income due to an increase in sales volume, a higher average unit sales price, and a lower average cost per unit sold, when compared to the first quarter of 2011. The improvement in results for the Mills segment was essentially offset by increased Corporate general and administrative expenses and a lower equity in the earnings of Del-Tin Fiber, Deltic's joint venture to manufacture medium density fiberboard ("MDF"). Net cash provided by operating activities was $2.1 million in the first quarter of 2012, which compares to net cash required of $1.2 million a year ago.
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Twitter Attempts To Turn Back The App Tide
Twitter's recent interface update is probably the single biggest change to the site since its launch. By expanding its columns to see multimedia content straight from tweets, it shows that Twitter is looking at how to engage a wider audience, and to provide a richer experience for advertisers.
By keeping the roll-out to Twitter.com, it also suggests that Twitter wants to turn back the tide which has seen a massive part of its user-base accessing the service via 3rd party mobile and desktop apps, such as Tweetdeck, HootSuite and others. Although Twitter has released its own official apps for iPhone and Blackberry, many of these 3rd party apps still have very large audiences.
If Twitter wishes to thrive, it has to be able to successfully monetize its audience, which is the reason that they've launched Promoted Tweets & Trends. These are not currently live on 3rd party apps, but will be at some point soon. However, Twitter has said that it will share 50% of revenue with the developers of the apps where the ads appear, and for this reason it seems obvious (to me at least) that it is in Twitter's interest to retain as much direct traffic as possible, and hang on to the revenue with it.
By giving people more reasons to visit Twitter.com, and a more compelling, deeper experience when they're there, Twitter obviously has its eyes on a larger audience, and the bigger ad budgets that come with them. Of course, whether they succeed is another matter entirely.
In many ways, Twitter's success has been based on its ad hoc nature. As users found a need for something, they also developed a solution: retweets, hashtags, etc. However, as Twitter has grown it has often tried to take control of these things that its users created. The most obvious example of this is its changes to the retweet system, which stopped people being able to edit retweets before sending them. I'm sure that I'm not alone in hating this new system, and have refused to use any of its official apps because they bind you to it.
As Twitter continues to grow, it will have to balance its desire to have control of its ecosystem with the benefits it accrues by allowing people to evolve the service.
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- Manipulating deformable linear objects - Vision-based recognition of contact state transitions - (1999)
- A new and systematic approach to machine vision-based robot manipulation of deformable (non-rigid) linear objects is introduced. This approach reduces the computational needs by using a simple state-oriented model of the objects. These states describe the relation of the object with respect to an obstacle and are derived from the object image and its features. Therefore, the object is segmented from a standard video frame using a fast segmentation algorithm. Several object features are presented which allow the state recognition of the object while being manipulated by the robot.
- Force- and Vision-based Detection of Contact State Transitions (2000)
- A new and systematic basic approach to force- and vision-based robot manipulation of deformable (non-rigid) linear objects is introduced. This approach reduces the computational needs by using a simple state-oriented model of the objects. These states describe the relation between the deformable and rigid obstacles, and are derived from the object image and its features. We give an enumeration of possible contact states and discuss the main characteristics of each state. We investigate the performance of robust transitions between the contact states and derive criteria and conditions for each of the states and for two sensor systems, i.e. a vision sensor and a force/torque sensor. This results in a new and task-independent approach in regarding the handling of deformable objects and in a sensor-based implementation of manipulation primitives for industrial robots. Thus, the usage of sensor processing is an appropriate solution for our problem. Finally, we apply the concept of contact states and state transitions to the description of a typical assembly task. Experimental results show the feasibility of our approach: A robot performs several contact state transitions which can be combined for solving a more complex task.
- CRATER: Case-based Reasoning Framework for Engineering an Adaptation Engine in Self-Adaptive Software Systems (2015)
- Self-adaptation allows software systems to autonomously adjust their behavior during run-time by handling all possible operating states that violate the requirements of the managed system. This requires an adaptation engine that receives adaptation requests during the monitoring process of the managed system and responds with an automated and appropriate adaptation response. During the last decade, several engineering methods have been introduced to enable self-adaptation in software systems. However, these methods lack addressing (1) run-time uncertainty that hinders the adaptation process and (2) the performance impacts resulted from the complexity and the large number of the adaptation space. This paper presents CRATER, a framework that builds an external adaptation engine for self-adaptive software systems. The adaptation engine, which is built on Case-based Reasoning, handles the aforementioned challenges together. This paper is braced with an experiment illustrating the benefits of this framework. The experimental results shows the potential of CRATER in terms handling run-time uncertainty and adaptation remembrance that enhances the performance for large number of adaptation space.
- Empirical Evaluation for the Conceptual Interoperability Analysis Approach: A Controlled Experiment Design (2014)
- Building interoperation among separately developed software units requires checking their conceptual assumptions and constraints. However, eliciting such assumptions and constraints is time consuming and is a challenging task as it requires analyzing each of the interoperating software units. To address this issue we proposed a new conceptual interoperability analysis approach which aims at decreasing the analysis cost and the conceptual mismatches between the interoperating software units. In this report we present the design of a planned controlled experiment for evaluating the effectiveness, efficiency, and acceptance of our proposed conceptual interoperability analysis approach. The design includes the study objectives, research questions, statistical hypotheses, and experimental design. It also provides the materials that will be used in the execution phase of the planned experiment.
- Manipulating Deformable Linear Objects: Characteristic Features for Vision-Based Detection of Contact State Transitions (2003)
- This paper deals with the handling of deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as hoses, wires, or leaf springs. It investigates usable features for the vision-based detection of a changing contact situation between a DLO and a rigid polyhedral obstacle and a classification of such contact state transitions. The result is a complete classification of contact state transitions and of the most significant features for each class. This knowledge enables reliable detection of changes in the DLO contact situation, facilitating implementation of sensor-based manipulation skills for all possible contact changes.
- Information Extraction on the Semantic Web (2012)
- Dealing with information in modern times involves users to cope with hundreds of thousands of documents, such as articles, emails, Web pages, or News feeds. Above all information sources, the World Wide Web presents information seekers with great challenges. It offers more text in natural language than one is capable to read. The key idea for this research intends to provide users with adaptable filtering techniques, supporting them in filtering out the specific information items they need. Its realization focuses on developing an Information Extraction system, which adapts to a domain of concern, by interpreting the contained formalized knowledge. Utilizing the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which is the Semantic Web's formal language for exchanging information, allows extending information extractors to incorporate the given domain knowledge. Because of this, formal information items from the RDF source can be recognized in the text. The application of RDF allows a further investigation of operations on recognized information items, such as disambiguating and rating the relevance of these. Switching between different RDF sources allows changing the application scope of the Information Extraction system from one domain of concern to another. An RDF-based Information Extraction system can be triggered to extract specific kinds of information entities by providing it with formal RDF queries in terms of the SPARQL query language. Representing extracted information in RDF extends the coverage of the Semantic Web's information degree and provides a formal view on a text from the perspective of the RDF source. In detail, this work presents the extension of existing Information Extraction approaches by incorporating the graph-based nature of RDF. Hereby, the pre-processing of RDF sources allows extracting statistical information models dedicated to support specific information extractors. These information extractors refine standard extraction tasks, such as the Named Entity Recognition, by using the information provided by the pre-processed models. The post-processing of extracted information items enables representing these results in RDF format or lists, which can now be ranked or filtered by relevance. Post-processing also comprises the enrichment of originating natural language text sources with extracted information items by using annotations in RDFa format. The results of this research extend the state-of-the-art of the Semantic Web. This work contributes approaches for computing customizable and adaptable RDF views on the natural language content of Web pages. Finally, due to the formal nature of RDF, machines can interpret these views allowing developers to process the contained information in a variety of applications.
- Supporting Virtual Software Projects on the Web (1999)
- A growing share of all software development project work is being done by geographically distributed teams. To satisfy shorter product design cycles, expert team members for a development project may need to be r ecruited globally. Yet to avoid extensive travelling or r eplacement costs, distributed project work is preferred. Current-generation software engineering tools and ass ociated systems, processes, and methods were for the most part developed to be used within a single enterprise. Major innovations have lately been introduced to enable groupware applications on the Internet to support global collaboration. However, their deployment for distributed software projects requires further research. In partic ular, groupware methods must seamlessly be integrated with project and product management systems to make them attractive for industry. In this position paper we outline the major challenges concerning distributed (virtual) software projects. Based on our experiences with software process modeling and enactment environments, we then propose approaches to solve those challenges.
- Induction and Case-Based Reasoning for Classification Tasks (1999)
- We present two techniques for reasoning from cases to solve classification tasks: Induction and case-based reasoning. We contrast the two technologies (that are often confused) and show how they complement each other. Based on this, we describe how they are integrated in one single platform for reasoning from cases: The Inreca system.
- Evaluating Case-Based Reasoning Systems (1995)
- Evaluation is an important issue for every scientific field and a necessity for an emerging soft-ware technology like case- based reasoning. This paper is a supplementation to the review of industrial case-based reasoning tools by K.-D. Althoff, E. Auriol, R. Barletta and M. Manago which describes the most detailed evaluation of commercial case-based reasoning tools currently available. The author focuses on some important aspects that correspond to the evaluation ofcase-based reasoning systems and gives links to ongoing research.
- Case-Based Reasoning for Decision Support and Diagnostic Problem Solving: The INRECA Approach (1995)
- INRECA offers tools and methods for developing, validating, and maintaining decision support systems. INRECA's basic technologies are inductive and case-based reasoning, namely KATE -INDUCTION (cf., e.g., Manago, 1989; Manago, 1990) and S3-CASE, a software product based on PATDEX (cf., e.g., Wess,1991; Richter & Wess, 1991; Althoff & Wess, 1991). Induction extracts decision knowledge from case databases. It brings to light patterns among cases and helps monitoring trends over time. Case-based rea -soning relates the engineer's current problem to past experiences.


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Along with Ralph Blaine, Hugh Martin wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The song was made famous in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis, but since then, many different versions have been recorded with changes in lyrics. Martin also wrote music for Broadway productions including Best Foot Forward, Look Ma, I'm Dancin' and the stage version of Meet Me in St. Louis. Martin is 94.
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This past weekend, the NY Times Book Review included this interesting essay by Rachel Donadio about reading Alberto Moravia:
In its culture as in its politics, Italy lives under the shadow of Silvio Berlusconi. With his endless legal entanglements and sexual imbroglios and his colorful manner of governing (or not governing), it often feels as if the prime minister has taken all the oxygen out of the room, the airwaves, the entire republic. "How did we get here?" is the dominant — indeed often the only — topic of conversation in Italy today.
The novelist Alberto Moravia, a 20th-century giant whose work is generally overlooked today, offers one key to unlocking the mystery. Born in 1907, Moravia came of age under Fascism — he belonged to a generation of writers, including Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante (Moravia's first wife), who found global audiences after the Second World War. In his most important novel, "The Conformist" (1951), Moravia explored the complicated links between sex and politics in a nation of cynical opportunists. The formative moment in the life of the protagonist, Marcello Clerici, comes at age 13, when he shoots a defrocked priest who has tried to seduce him. True to the novel's title, Clerici, whose name means "clergy," later joins the Fascist Party more out of boredom than conviction. In addition to exploring the homoeroticism of power (a theme that later captivated Pasolini), Moravia's novel also delved into a careerism and even nihilism that he identified just below the surface of Italian society, reaching far deeper than any ideology.
Moravia died in 1990, a many-laureled man of letters. Several years later, three unpublished novellas were found by chance in a suitcase in his Rome residence. The manuscripts, which offer variations on a love story set during World War II, were most likely written in the early 1950s, between "The Conformist" and "Contempt," a brutal 1954 account of a disintegrating marriage. Now they have been published under the title Two Friends (Other Press, $18.95), in an excellent translation by Marina Harss, offering a fascinating glimpse of how Moravia's writing evolved. In one particularly revealing moment, the mother of a middle-class Roman family cries, "For all I care, the English can win, or the Germans. . . . I just want someone to win so we can forget all this!" Reading this today, in the long twilight of the Berlusconi era, the line is almost haunting.
Moravia (and his first wife, Elsa Morante) are both fantastic writers, and it's great the Other Press has brought out this recently discovered series of novellas. For those interested in taking a closer look, Two Friends was one of the first books included in Read This Next, so you check out a preview by clicking here, or you can read an interview with Marina Harss. We also have a full review of the book by Acacia O'Connor.
The last five days of the eleventh-century Icelandic politician, writer of sagas, and famous murder victim Snorri Sturleleson (the Norwegian spelling, Snorre, is preserved in the book) make up Thorvald Steen's most recently translated historical fiction, The Little Horse. Murdered. . .
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-Élysées. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre's novel, Guys Like Me, we're shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying. . .
One hundred pages into Birth of a Bridge, the prize-winning novel from French writer Maylis de Kerangal, the narrator describes how starting in November, birds come to nest in the wetlands of the fictional city of Coca, California, for three. . .
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map. . .
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin. . .
Marie NDiaye has created a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green. In it she explores how our private fears and insecurities can distort what we believe to be real and can cause us to sabotage our intimate relationships.. . .
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Antoine Volodine's vast project (40 plus novels) of what he calls the post-exotic remains mostly untranslated, so for many of us, understanding it remains touched with mystery, whispers from those "who know," and guesswork. That's not to say that, were. . .
It hasn't quite neared the pitch of the waiting-in-line-at-midnight Harry Potter days, but in small bookstores and reading circles of New York City, an aura has attended the novelist Elena Ferrante and her works. One part curiosity (Who is she?),. . .


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LAWRENCEVILLE - A 7-year-old girl believed to be the victim of genital mutilation at the hands of her father took the stand Wednesday morning as a witness for the prosecution.
The victim answered yes to the question of whether her father, Khalid Adem, cut her genitals in 2001 when she was 2 years old, as asked by Assistant District Attorney Marty First. Adem, a native of Ethiopia, is being tried on charges of aggravated battery and cruelty to children for allegedly using a pair of scissors to mutilate his daughter's genitalia, an act known as a female circumcision. Adem is facing up to 40 years for both charges. The circumcision is an African tradition used to limit sexuality and promote virginity in females. Adem is believed to have performed the procedure between September and October 2001. Adem denies the allegations, and believes ex-wife Fortunate Adem or someone associated with her is responsible for the mutilation, according to defense attorney W. Mark Hill. Adem also alleges that the accusations were brought up during a custody battle. Hill asked the victim a series of questions during cross examination, which included questions like what did Santa Claus bring her and what did she get for her birthday that year and in the two years that followed. The victim could not remember. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said evidence will show that there were two people involved. "We believe our evidence will show the father as one, but we don't know who the other one is," Porter said. Another witness for the prosecution on Wednesday was Fortunate Adem, who said her ex-husband had mentioned the procedure in the past that it was a custom in Ethiopia. Fortunate Adem said in court that she told Adem that she did not want the procedure performed on their daughter. Hill spent the better part of cross examination going over the former couple's timeline, which included their courting period, their on-and-off marriage, the birth of their daughter and the time before and after the discovery of the scars on their daughter's genitals by a doctor. When drilled by Hill if Fortunate Adem was involved in the procedure, Fortunate Adem answered no. Sometime in early 2003, Fortunate Adem's family accused Adem of performing the procedure at a family get-together, said Hill, which was confirmed by Fortunate Adem during cross examination. "My family asked him if he knew that (she) had been circumcised," Fortunate Adem said. "(Adem) said, 'No, I didn't do it.' " Fortunate Adem later filed a restraining order against Adem around February of 2003, her second against Adem in three years, Hill said. Porter said the victim's testimony was important on Wednesday. "Physical evidence that (the procedure) was done is clear, but the evidence that he did it is circumstantial, and the jury is going to have to believe (the victim) beyond a reasonable doubt," Porter said. The case is expected to continue through the week and possibly into next week, Porter said. While this isn't the first time this type of mutilation has happened on U.S. soil, it is "clearly the first prosecuted case," Porter said. Porter also said that when this case first came into the spotlight, physicians nationwide contacted the DA's office claiming they had seen similar situation with young girls, especially among those of Ethiopian descent.More like this story
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It's the first thing you see when you get up in the morning and the last thing you see when you go to bed at night. It should be a space that really expresses you, not just a collection of random backpack kibble.
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These enduring stories were created as we know them by a brilliant man who lived in 17th-century France. Although similar, but simpler stories were gathered more directly by the folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century, it was Charles Perrault's addition of delicate and amusing words, crafted to entrance a noble audience, that caught fire with readers' imaginations and were the basis for the way these stories are remembered today. It is easy to see the difference between a story collected by Grimm and a tale sculpted by Perrault. A Grimm tale is simple and direct and sometimes alarming while Perrault's are laced with details that still fire modern imaginations.
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Popcorn was grown by Native Americans long before the Europeans came to the New World. The Aztecs used it, strung into garlands, in their religious ceremonies. Peruvians toasted and ate their popcorn, which was called pisancalla. During the 1830's, it was "discovered" by American farmers who, using a new kind of plow, planted acres and acres of it during the 1850s. By the turn of the 19th century, popcorn vendors could be found in every big city. They'd sell their wares by the bag or the ball and make a profit of about 70 cents on every dollar!
Wilbur Munro Leaf is best known for his beloved book, The Story of Ferdinand. It's the tale of a peaceful yet rebellious bull that would rather enjoy the flowers in his meadow than fight in an arena. Munro Leaf and his friend, award-winning artist and writer Robert Lawson, had been talking about the kind of book they would want to write if they could get past the publisher's ideas of what made a good book. It took him less than an hour—"25 minutes on a rainy Saturday"--to scribble down the story on a yellow pad of paper. With Lawson's illustrations, the beatific bull was on his way to becoming internationally famous for his peaceful message in 1936--a time when the world was coming apart in war.
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It's Maggie's favorite day of the year in Wende and Harry Devlin's Cranberry Thanksgiving. She and her grandmother live on a New England cranberry farm. It's lonely and cold at the edge of the sea, but on Thanksgiving the house is warm with lots of good cooking. As part of their family tradition, Maggie and Grandma have each invited someone who otherwise would have to spend Thanksgiving alone.
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