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Who needs to drive downtown when you can ride a bike? Taylor Bowen and his daughter, Meg, certainly prefer their four-wheeler to the other, gas-guzzling kind.
The Bowens have had their trailer-bike– or half-bike as they prefer to call it– for several years. And Meg, 6, has been riding the half-bike since before she could ride a two-wheeler.
"I think it helped her to learn balance," says her proud father. "Meg's bike even has gears so she can really contribute to a swift ride."
The downtown residents often bike 6-8 miles– usually around downtown or to Riverview Park.
"Every time we ride it, people stop and stare," Bowen says.
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He enlisted other bike enthusiasts and started organizing bike rides in Charlottesville, Washington, and Lynchburg.
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SYDNEY - From about 250 yards away, thousands of fans perched on the dunes behind the 17th hole could make out the guy in a red shirt posing over his shot, then the ball appearing on the green and racing down a ridge to 12 feet behind the pin.
This is what they wanted to see Sunday at the Australian Open.
Tiger Woods, gone for the most of the year and rarely on the leaderboard even when he was playing, faced an eagle putt late in the final round at The Lakes that would have given him a share of the lead.
Woods missed.
Moments later, three groups behind him, Greg Chalmers hit 7-iron to 18 inches on the par-3 15th for a birdie that put him back in control, and ultimately led to a one-shot victory over John Senden. With a par save from the bunker on the final hole, Chalmers closed with a 3-under 69 to put his name on the Stonehaven Cup trophy for the second time.
Woods now has gone two full years since his last win at the Australian Masters, yet he headed south to Royal Melbourne for the Presidents Cup with reason for optimism.
Two bad tee shots slowed his charge, one of them a questionable decision. Yet there also was a birdie on the second-toughest hole to keep alive his hopes, a chip-in for eagle on the 14th hole when nothing less would suffice, and three solid rounds that gave him his first real chance of winning in nearly a year.
Woods closed with a 5-under 67 and finished alone in third. It was his highest finish since a playoff loss last December to Graeme McDowell at the Chevron World Challenge, and his best result against a full field since his last win in Melbourne.
"I felt great," Woods said. "It's nice to finally be healthy again."
He has talked about his health a lot the last year, though it cannot be written off as an excuse. Woods missed most of the summer while letting injuries to his left leg fully heal, which made him ineligible to play once he was feeling strong. This was only his second tournament in the last three months, and he showed plenty of progress.
For the first time since the Masters, when he was tied for the lead at the turn on Sunday until he stalled and tied for fourth, his name on the leaderboard meant something.
"It's been since Augusta, I had the lead at Augusta on Sunday, that's the last time I've been in that spot," Woods said. "It's been a long time. Unfortunately I haven't played a lot of tournaments in between. But it was great to be out there. I had a chance. Unfortunately, I didn't post the number I wanted to post."
Chalmers kept his wits about him.
He could hear the massive cheer when Woods chipped in for eagle from about 15 feet off the green, loud enough to rattle him. But he realized that he still had the short 13th — the one Woods bungled — and two par 5s.
"I was aware of what Tiger was doing, but I was also aware that I had some birdie holes coming up," Chalmers said. "I thought the advantage was with someone still out on the golf course."
Chalmers was counting on a birdie at the 14th, but he missed his putt. Instead, he picked up a birdie on the 15th to restore his two-shot lead, and settled for par on the 17th because he knew his only blunder would be to go for the green and risk hitting into the water.
The final challenge came from Senden, the 54-hole leader, who hit a marvellous pitch across the 17th for birdie that brought him to within one shot. Needing a birdie to force a playoff, Senden's putt from some 50 feet had a chance until it stayed just above the hole. Senden closed with a 72 and was the runner-up.
Woods had said he needed a solid front nine to give himself a chance on the back nine, which has three par 5s and a pair of short par 4s. That's just what he did, playing the front nine with three birdies and no bogeys.
Two shots on the back nine hurt his chances.
He made bogey on the par-5 11th hole for the second straight day, again hitting it well left off the tee. The ball landed in a patch of sand where spectators had walked all week, and his ball settled in a deep heel print. He blasted out sideways, couldn't reach the green and missed a 7-foot par putt.
Two holes later, Woods again was confused by which club to hit. He went with the driver again, and this time paid for it. It was a high slice, barely cleared the pond and plugged into the muddy bank about a foot short of the red hazard line — on the other side, he could have taken a free drop from an embedded lie.
Instead, Woods blasted a shot well behind the ball to pop it forward, only it hit a tree and came close to going into another pond. His next shot from 60 yards didn't reach the green, and he got up-and-down for a bogey.
"I shouldn't have gone for it in hindsight because I just should have laid up with a 5-iron and a wedge in there," Woods said. "But I figured I needed to shoot somewhere around 31 on that back nine to give myself a chance. I thought 13 or 14 (under) was going to be the number. I had to go get it. Unfortunately, I made a mistake there."
His mistake for the week came on Saturday.
Woods rarely plays four good rounds even in the best of times. He won so often because he was able to turn his one shaky round from a 74 into a 70 to stay in the mix. On Saturday, he took 34 putts and shot 75 to fall six shots behind.
Woods, of course, wasn't the only player who wishes he could have shots back.
Senden bogeyed his first three holes Sunday, as Woods did in the third round, and lost by one shot. Defending champion Geoff Ogilvy had a 74 in the second round, then closed with a 65 on Sunday. Jason Day, one shot behind going into the last day, hit his opening tee shot into the water and made bogey at No. 11.
No one commands more attention than Woods, however, and those watching had a distinct feeling that he is not far off.
"Two holes on the back nine today, and I putted awful yesterday," Woods said. "Or I would have been right there."
His third-place finish should be enough to at least get him back into the top 50 in the world. And any questions about why Fred Couples picked him for the Presidents Cup team should abate.
Woods had the best score among eight Americans on the team who played in the Australian Open.


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Software engineer Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot who intentionally crashed a plane in Texas this morning, did contract work for several companies including Hughes Aircraft, Equinox Industries/Warner Brothers Studio Stores, Sorrento Electronics, according to his business website.He ran a firmware/software development service company called Embedded Art. Here's a description of his business, from his homepage:
Embedded Art is a small independent software house, specializing in process control and automation. In its current form it represents the culmination of 20 years of experience in the software development consulting business. Founded by Joe Stack in 1983 (under the name of Prowess Engineering) in Southern California, the company thrived for 15 years until shifting focus to the Sacramento area to take advantage of growth in the Silicon Valley.
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Here's his list of clients and the description of his projects, according to the site:
Cylink Corporation
Project: The Cylink CY8300 IPSec high-performance security processor
DMC Stratex Networks
Project: The Spectrum and Altium product lines, high-capacity wireless communication platforms (i.e., microwave radios)
Western Digital Corporation
Project: A high-performance multi-function ESDI/SCSI/Floppy controller for the Apollo networked workstations and high-end PCs.
Equinox Industries/Warner Brothers Studio Stores
Project: Distribution centre Processing Automation
Interstate Electronics Corporation
Project: IEC 9002 GPS-based Flight Management System
Project: The IEC 9002 Navigation Database Update Processor, a Windows-based, off-line data reduction tool
Project: IEC 9002 MCDU, an ARINC-739 compatible Multi-purpose Control and Display Unit
Project: GPS Satellite Simulator (Military & Commercial unit)
Project: IEC Military Plasma Display, an 80186/82720-based "intelligent" terminal boasting multi-mode text graphics display, ANSI Standard compatibility, multiple virtual screens, and downloadable display generation capabilityEverett Charles Technologies
Project: ECT 9090(tm) Bare Board Tester
MOST, Inc.
Project: 2.6GB SCSI II read/write CD-ROM (Magneto/Optical) drive
Emulex Corporation
Project: SCSI/ATA(IDE) chipset firmware base (early C++)
Design and implement hardware interface library components
Cable & Computer Technology, Inc.
Project: An AMD-2900 based bit-slice magnetic tape controller
Taradactyl Technovation, Inc.
Project: The Mileage Elephant (vehicle usage tracker)
Teledyne Systems Corporation
Project: An AMD-2900 based bit-slice emulation/simulation of IBM's 32-bit AP101-F floating-point processor
Hughes Aircraft, Fullerton
Project: A multi-processor control system composed of six 68000 processors, 20-two 8085
Sorrento Electronics, Inc.
Project: Process Control System
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Bosley Family Genealogical Collection, 1975-1985
Maryland Historical Society
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Container List
Box 1
Family Group Sheets - Joseph Bosley and descendants
Family Group Sheets - John Bosley and descendants
Box 2
Family Group Sheets - John Bosley and descendants (continued)
Family Group Sheets - James Bosley and descendants
Family Group Sheets - William Bosley and descendants
Box 3
Family Group Sheets - William Bosley (continued)
Family Group Sheets - Charles Bosley
Miscellaneous Bosley material
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Printouts of Walter Bosley's descendants by Ann Valois
West Virginia Bosley's - Family Group Sheets
Tennessee Bosley Records
Family Group Sheets - Southeastern Ohio Families
Material from SHIRK'S Talbott Family Records
1850 Census/A Search for Bosleys
Box 4
Bosley Marriage Records, 1851-1985
Correspondence to Dr. Richard B. Miller:
- Southeastern Ohio Families
- John Dwight Bosley
- Gwen Sharples
- Owen K. Lemmon
- Edward Durbek
- Beth Forbes
- Willie May Peckham
- Margaret Reynolds Parks
- Chester J. Whitten, Jr.
- Rita Clarke
- John H. Pearce
- Request for research assistance
- Miscellaneous
Records of St. Peter's P[rotestant], E[piscopal] Church
Rough Drafts of Bosley Family Book
Bosley Family Charts
Bosley Notes by Arthur L. Keith
Flyer for Christmas Fair/Bosley Methodist, Sparks, Md.
Bibliography of the Bosley Family
Bosley Notes by John J. Brinkley
Miscellaneous Family group sheets
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Bosley-Kimbrel Family History
Autobiography of Lola Lea Kimbrel
Genealogical Notes on Anacost, Price and Bosley Families
A Brief History of the Headington Family
Box 5
Index Cards containing:
- Wills of Bosley family members
- Unidentified Wills
- Notes and rough drafts of the Bosley names
- Bosley spouses and Other than Bosley names files
Box 6
Bosley Names
Box 7
Bosley Spouses
Box 8
Bosley Spouses (continued)
Box 9
Other than Bosley Names
Explanation of Numbering in my Bosley Data
I usually use the number 1 (one) to designate the immigrant progenitor of the family. Many people believe that Walter Bosley was the Bosley immigrant, but as I stated in an article in Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin I am far from convinced that this is true, though he was doubtless the first Bosley in Baltimore county. There can be little doubt that he had the five sons named in his will, so it has seemed safest to simply assign the numbers 1 to 5 to these five sons in the order in which they are named in the will, assuming this to be their actual birth order: 1. Joseph, 2. John, 3. James, 4. William, 5. Charles. Following these key numbers, the children are numbered independently, in birth order so far as known. Thus Joseph had children who, on the basis of all available evidence, carry the number 11, 12, 13, etc. as shown on the Family Group Sheet for his family at the front of Vol. 1-I. John had only two children: Walter 21 and Joseph 22.
This same principle is used throughout the data, generation by generation. Thus a person bearing the number 467118 can immediately - without locating him by looking through the files - be identified as the eighth child of the first child of the first child of the seventh child of the sixth child of William Bosley, son of Walter. A problem arises in a family when there are more than 9 children. I have arbitrarily chosen to solve this problem in this way: the tenth child is designated by the digit O, the eleventh by the letter A, the twelfth by B, the thirteenth by C, etc. This system has been found to be workable, though I would hesitate to call it perfect.
For large sections of the family separate cards have been made for the persons who married the actual member of the Bosley family. These I have always referred to as spouse cards. In order to be sure a spouse is not mistakenly
identified as himself a member of the family, he is given the same number as the real member of the family he married I have appended to that number an S. In cases where the family member married more than once, this is indicated by S1, S2, S3, etc.
Inevitably many Bosley records have been discovered in counties all over the country that could not be attached with certainty to any one of the five major groups, yet for which a sufficient body of data were found, sometimes spanning several generations, to warrant or necessitate making up Family Group Sheets. Yet these had to be given a handle by some kind of number. No particular system suggested itself, so I simply numbered them consecutively as they were found. The only distinction is that a number such as 19×27 indicates that this person was found in records that seemed to derive directly from Baltimore county itself, whereas 5Z15 would indicate a person whose record was discovered in some other locality - perhaps Iowa or Montana. Later, if further research revealed a firm placement in one of the five major groups, all such persons would have to be renumbered so as to conform to the basic pattern described above.


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- Defensive Line – I like our D-Line. I like that Pickett's here to stay for a bit, Raji looks to be a nice addition, Jolly is still good and Jenkins is OK. Beyond that though, we are a bit thin. I wouldn't be surprised if TT went after at least one quality pass rusher (lighter DE/LB type guy) and one Jenkins-sized D-lineman. We could use depth here. One thing that wouldn't surprise me is if Justin Harrell ends up playing decently. Because time has passed, I don't think Harrell will feel the negative pressure he felt the first few years on the team. I think he may be able to finally just get in there and play…assuming of course, he stays healthy which considering his past, is a massive assumption.
- Linebackers – After cutting Poppinga (which hopefully happens early on), the team should have some room for a younger guy. I still think Hawk is not very good despite his improvement last year. He's adequate yes, but I continue to worry that he's playing in front of not one, but two players who could play better – Chillar, Bishop. Barnett was solid and Matthews was quite good and has loads of potential (though his coverage and run D need some work). Brad Jones held his own and didn't do badly for a rookie, but let's be honest, he has one pass rush move and considering the number of times he was rushing, this is something he needs to improve upon big-time. The tough question with Jones might be: what do we do if he doesn't develop well this year? I would kind of like to see how his development progresses before benching him because again, he wasn't terrible last year for a rookie – he was decent for a rookie. But I also don't want us to be disadvantaged too much on defense because we're trying to develop someone when there are guys behind him who may just plain be better (especially Chillar). Chillar is a decent player and I can't help but wonder how things would be if he were a regular starter. I like him over Hawk (and maybe even Brad Jones as OLB) because of his speed and coverage abilities. I still think Desmond Bishop has the potential to step in and change games and I'd really like to see him be given a better chance this year to prove himself. I think he would outplay both Hawk and even Jones at OLB if he were given the chance. (Imagine the chaos that would ensue if Bishop and Matthews were called upon to rush the QB on the same play from opposite sides. Both have an energy level and a certain tenacity that few others have.) Like I've said before, while there are a number of names we all throw around at the LB position, that doesn't mean necessarily that there is lots of depth. I'd rate 2 starters as above average (Barnett, Matthews) but the other two,Hawk and Jones, are average. I think we should add a LB from the draft to improve our depth and our potential going forward. One guy to keep an eye on this year is LB Cyril Obiozor. He struggled to pick things up early last year, but Kevin Greene has worked a lot with him and if I remember right from last year, Greene thinks this guy has loads of potential. He is a big dude and I think the coaching staff sees him someday filling a role as a punishing hitter having a nasty presence on the field.
- Cornerbacks – Al Harris will be back. For someone whose hair suggests a laid back, Rastafarian, pot-accepting outlook, Al Harris is a hard-working and motivated guy who will do whatever it takes to get back on the field. I like that about him. I wouldn't be surprised if Dom Capers experiments a little bit with Harris this year – kind of like he has with Woodson. Harris is a heady player, smart, savvy, good tackler. I could see Capers working with Harris on dropping off of man coverage on some nickel/dime situations and being more of a freelancer like Woodson. Maybe it wouldn't work and would be too much of a departure for him from his normal gig. And maybe it would be dumb to pull Harris away from his strength which is man-to-man. But his man-to-man skills have declined especially against bigger WRs and I definitely think Harris has a mental understanding/veteran astuteness that might enable him to be a bit of a rover. Offenses have a hard enough time with Woodson improvising, having another veteran doing it could make things really messy for opposing offenses (or perhaps more disorganized for us…). Woodson is unreal – no concerns there at all. Tramon Williams is a guy many of us believe should be a bit further ahead right now developmentally. But whenever I worry about him, I try to remind myself that CB is one of, if not the most difficult positions on the football field and that guys like Woodson, Revis and Asomougha are big-time exceptions. With the precision passing games that so many teams have, even blanket coverage sometimes isn't enough. I still like his potential and was pleased in particular with his ball-hawking/interception improvement last year. I would be a bit surprised if Will Blackmon figures much into the CB rotation, but I wouldn't be surprised if he gets back into returning. We'll see how he's recovered. One guy who could surprise this year because lots of us have kind of forgotten about him is Pat Lee. He looked a bit raw last preseason yes, but he also had flashes of quality play and one big hit I remember. I would love to see him jump right back in and give us a little different feel back there. Just when I decide again that Jarrett Bush should be cut, I think back to when he was a restricted free agent (I believe he was an RFA) a couple years ago and others teams apparently expressed serious interest in him. Must be his special teams work as his coverage abilities remain iffy. Brandon Underwood may be decent yet too – he could figure in there (not so sure about Josh Bell).
- Safeties – Glad we've signed Collins. He's good – he's not a superstar, but he'd pretty solid. I am very curious to see what Atari Bigby brings this season. He's had flashes of tremendous play during his time here and he did show an increased ball-hawking talent last year. But he isn't always steady and I remember him taking some particularly bad angles last year. I don't mind him as the starter opposite Collins and right now, I definitely would prefer him there to any of the other options (Derrick Martin, Khalil Jones, Jarrett Bush). Now, Derrick Martin had a bad go of it earlier in 2009 when he was thrust into starting duty hardly knowing the defense. My guess is that if he ended up having to start, he'd probably do much better now – he's a heck of an athlete and a quality special teamer. Still, I think the Packers should draft a safety. In the near-term, I think picking up a safety with good coverage skills in particular would be smart because having the option to bring a safety up to cover might free up Woodson to improvise leading to many more interceptions returned for TDs.
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Travis Says:
April 19, 2010 at 3:09 pm |
I definitely agree with everything you said. Linebackers is the biggest thing where it's going to be interesting this year. I really wanna see what Bishop can do. Coaches can see more than we can cause we only see the games etc, not the practices and all the behind the scenes. But it just seems like he can do it, and I hope with a year of working on our scheme, Capers has mastered some great ideas and using our entire LB corps very effectively. And if we were able to add a pass rusher opposite clay to that group, I think Dom might really have fun this year. This defense has the potential, if we add the right guys (and don't end up with busts obviously).
RayMidge Says:
April 19, 2010 at 4:43 pm |
Based on the games that GB lost down the stretch to Pitt and Az I think that an OLB opposite Matthews and more help in the defensive backfield should be the priority early in the draft. As horrible as the OL was early last year it did stabilize by the end of the year for the most part (although I cannot argue with anyone who points out that Rodgers is our franchise now and the #1 priority going forward has to be protection to allow him to do his thing).
My hope is that TT has identified his "guys" in these three groups and will take the guy who he sees as the biggest impact player with that #23 pick. If Jerry Hughes is there I'll be pulling for us to take him, but Mays (S, USC) and the CB from Rutgers, McCourty, sound like good fits too. My gut tells me that TT will count on Lee and Underwood to step up and the pick will be that OLB unless a OT falls down and is too good to pass up. In today's game putting pressure on the passer is so important and getting Matthews a counterpart who can get in the backfield is the best way to help the DBs. The pack is young and on the verge of having a really special defense, it would be great to add one more dynamic playmaker to this group.
OL must be addressed, no question, but I think TT probably feels he can get volume and value later in the draft for that position. If Spitz is healthy and Lang keeps progressing, the line will be fine for the short term. I am not a big fan of Colledge, but if he can be serviceable it buys some more time.
If there is a stud punter out there, a 5th or 6th rd pick would seem to fill a need. And more love here for a scat-back/KR . . . I was a little disapppinted that the pack seemed to have no interest in Ted Ginn, Jr. He is a limited player in a lot of ways but he is very explosive and might have been a good fit for this team.
Joe Says:
April 19, 2010 at 5:16 pm |
I'm thinking Ted trades out of the first round and we get a bunch of second/third round guys. The talent in this draft seems to drop really fast after the top ten (or so) guys.
Nick Says:
April 20, 2010 at 9:07 am |
I'm sticking with my original recommendation: Myron Rolle, S/DB, FSU
Then we go OT/OLB the next few rounds.
Wild card here…..if Tebow is available in later rounds (third is probably the latest) it would be a great signing as a third string QB/Jersey seller. He would be able to mix it up a bit in the backfield in Wildcat-type situations and mentoring under A-Rodg could make him big time trade value potential/good backup for if Rodg goes down.
Nick Says:
April 20, 2010 at 9:08 am |
Joe –
Im actually the exact opposite of you. I think the top ten will be overrated and the depth here will be fantastic. I dont think we have an '83 on our hands – but I think there will be some future pro-bowlers/game changers taken in the second-fifth rounds this year.
Ron La Canne Says:
April 20, 2010 at 10:08 am |
I believe what TT told us yesterday. The focus will be OT and DB. The higher selections will be spent in those categories and LB and DL at the bottom. Maybe a kicker and punter as Undrafted FA's later.
DaveK Says:
April 20, 2010 at 12:03 pm |
In my opinion, the Packers needs this year are OLB, OT, CB, and S in that order. But, the draft isn't about this year. The draft is finding talent that can play for you for the next 5-6 years. Besides QB, the hardest and most important positions to fill for teams are LT and CB. The offense just doesn't work without a quality LT and a defense without two quality CB's is easy to pick apart. OT and CB are always key cogs to a championship team and they are two positions that team struggle with the most. And with our RT, LT, and two CB's north of 30 you have to think the Packers have to focus on OT and CB in this draft. From what I have read this draft is full of quality 3-4 OLB's and even though that is the biggest need this year in my opinion, let's hope it can be addressed in round 3 or 4 and TT drafts our starting LT and CB for the next decade in the first two rounds!
Joe Says:
April 21, 2010 at 1:06 pm |
Nick – assuming your right, do you think he'll trade down to get more of the underrated talent or stand firm and take less players?
Nick Says:
April 22, 2010 at 3:26 pm |
Joe – thats typical of TT – I would not be surprised.


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Film screening to raise alcohol awareness
"The Anonymous People," an award-winning film about America's addiction epidemic, will be screened at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, at Wilton High School's Little Theater, 395 Danbury Road.
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, created to raise awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding alcoholism. To help educate and raise awareness in Fairfield County, Silver Hill Hospital of New Canaan, the Human Services Council's Mid-Fairfield Substance Abuse Coalition, Wilton Public Schools, Wilton Social Services, Wilton Youth Services and the Wilton Youth Council are sponsoring the screening.
According to the 2011 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 23.5 million Americans needed treatment for a drug or alcohol addiction, but only 11.2 percent received it. While not the sole reason, the social stigma surrounding addiction to alcohol and other drugs contributes to the gap in treatment of substance use disorders.
"This is not your tired old addiction rehab story splashed across reality TV or tabloid magazines," Greg Williams, the film's producer, said in a press release. "There are no needles hanging out of people's arms, pictures of the brain, or fried eggs in a pan."
As a person in long-term recovery himself since age 17, Williams, now 29, added, "We set out to find the answer to one very fundamental question: Why do we treat addiction and people with addiction in this country so dramatically differently than people with any other health issue?"
"The Anonymous People" shines a light on what life is like without drugs or alcohol by telling the stories of real people in long-term recovery.
"Addiction is a disease that affects brain chemistry, not a character flaw," Eric D. Collins, M.D., physician-in-chief at Silver Hill Hospital, said. "These disorders affect people of all walks of life, from teenagers to business executives, and one should not feel ashamed for seeking treatment."
As part of the evening, a number of organizations will participate in a prevention, treatment and recovery services fair beginning at 6 p.m. The film will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Williams and Collins.
Due to the graphic nature of the film, it is recommended for high school students and adults only.


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The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards kicked off with a 'Bang Bang' trio of superstars including Jessie J, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande.
Grande opened the 2014 MTV VMAs show with an "out of this world" performance of 'Break Free.' The 'Problem' singer appeared in a spaceship in the middle of the stage dressed in a sequin dress and immediately broke into her new single co-produced by Zedd.
She was then followed by Minaj, who appeared on stage in a jungle-like setup and dress for her new single 'Anaconda.' Despite the mishap that happened during the rehearsals with a snake bite, Minaj's performance went off without a noticeable hitch as she and her dancers got down to twerk for their booty-licious hit.
We then saw Jessie J belt out the opening verse of 'Bang Bang' as the crowd became even more electrified to see the three female stars assemble together for their new song.
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Need a small screen for quick-n-dirty (and I do mean dirty) distractions while you're on the way to your 9-to-5? A new media player was announced yesterday by Creative Japan to somehow make a stand against Apple's ginormous iPod 5g momentum. The Zen Vision:M 30 GB portable will be able to play up to four hours of you your MPEG-1/2/4, WMV9, MotionJPEG, XVid and DivX 4/5 video files on a bright 2.5'' LCD at 320 x 240 resolution. The company's PR machine claims 13 hours for your MP3, WMA and WAV files.
It's twice as thick as Apple's latest white brick, but it does have other amenities that you've come to love from Creative products such as an FM tuner and the ability to take notes with a voice recorder. The USB 2.0 compatible device will ship with an AV cable, USB cable, leather pouch and a docking station. It will be available in white, black, pink, teal or grassy knoll green (sexy) Mid-December in Japan for 39,800 Yen (US $330). More pictures via MonsterNet.
The player, especially its interface, will definitely take some heat from the lawyers representing the Cupertino company if no drastic measures are taken to change it up. Seriously. It's almost as if they're doing it on purpose. Creative better build up their defenses because, as Engadget reported earlier this month, Apple has taken legal action on less solid ground. If Creative dodges that bullet, it will probably fare well from Jacqui's news that the iTunes video service is doing so well. Go-go-gadget video!


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Medical Plastics and Biomaterials
Magazine | MPB Article Index
Originally published July 1996
In the early days of its commercial development, polyethylene was widely considered to be inert to all liquids. The supposed inertness of this new material was immediately put to use, as one of the first polyethylene bottle applications was the packaging of concentrated hydrofluoric acid. At this point, the industry was suddenly flooded with reports of polyethylene failure. Polyethylene was reported to be unsatisfactory for cable use, and was found to crack violently on contact with methyl alcohol at room temperature. "Environmental stress cracking" was the term used to describe these failures. This term, however, was not officially defined until 1959, when J. B. Howard, who had pioneered research in the phenomenon, did so. Environmental stress cracking, according to Howard, is the "failure in surface-initiated brittle fraction of a polyethylene specimen or part under polyaxial stress in contact with a medium in the absence of which fracture does not occur under the same conditions of stress."1
Because the environmental stress cracking of polyethylene represented a serious industrial problem, a flurry of research followed in an attempt to make the material less susceptible to this type of failure. Studies conducted during this period included investigations of the effect of melt index,2 molecular-weight distribution,3 crystallinity,4 orientation,5 and rubber-particle toughening.6 Using information reported in these papers, designers in many cases have been able to elude the problem of environmental stress cracking by manipulating one or more of the above material parameters. Despite these empirical approaches, however, there is widespread ambiguity regarding the appropriate way to test for environmental stress-crack resistance (ESCR). There is also a need to clarify the fundamental molecular mechanism underlying this type of polymer failure.
The problem of environmental stress cracking can be an important one for many applications in the medical industry. These include medical labware, caps, closures, and implant components. This article attempts to provide a more fundamental understanding of the phenomenon, in the hope that solutions may become more evident.
ESCR Testing
A present limitation of ESCR testing is its inability to isolate the yield-stress property as a parameter independent of the polymer's mechanical properties. Thus, for example, constant-strain tests (such as the ASTM D 1693--the bent-strip test) have been criticized because of stiffness variations among specimens. Any such variations, of course, give rise to ambiguity when interpreting test results. Do differences among times- to-failure mirror a real difference in ESCR, or do they merely reflect the higher stress levels in the stiffer specimens?
A similar objection can be directed against constant-tensile-load testing. Although load is constant in this type of test, response to the load varies among materials. Therefore, specimen stiffness again figures as a complicating material property that can obscure ESCR as an independent parameter. Does a material fail quickly in this test as a result of its low ESCR, or because its low stiffness allows more deformation under the constant load?
A prime example of the confusion created by this situation can be seen when high- and low-density polyethylene are tested in the constant-strain, bent-strip ESCR test. What happens is that high-density polyethylene fails faster than low-density polyethylene. On the other hand, the same samples exhibit opposite effects in a constant-tensile-load ESCR test in which notched strips are subjected to a constant tensile load. Under the latter test conditions, low-density material cracks first (see Table I). (Tables and figures not yet available on-line.)
The reason for the difference in failure times between the two tests becomes clearer when one considers the influence of mechanical properties on a material's response to a load, as shown in Figure 1. Because of its relative stiffness, high-density polyethylene is stressed close to or beyond the yield point in a constant-strain test; cracking takes place in that portion of the bend in which the material is just below the yield strain. By contrast, low-density polyethylene does not come close to its yield point under the same test conditions. However, just the opposite occurs with the constant-tensile-load test, in which low-density polyethylene reaches its yield point more readily than high-density polyethylene, and is thus more susceptible to failure.
As the above discussion suggests, neither a constant-stress nor a constant-strain test provides a good criterion for discerning ESCR. Rather, the parameter that should be examined as the ordinate of an environmental stress cracking plot in a constant-load situation is percentage of yield stress or reduced stress. For a more realistic comparison of polyethylenes, this percentage should be kept constant, although the actual stress may differ widely among specimens.
The key parameter in constant-tensile-load testing is the so-called "ductile brittle transition," corresponding to that area of the stress-time plot in which a downward inflection, or "knee", becomes evident (see Figure 2). This inflection point represents the region of the curve in which ductile-creep-type deformation ends and brittle-stress-crack behavior begins. The later this transition occurs, the better the resistance of the material to environmental stress cracking.
When polyethylene is tested under constant load in the presence of a surfactant, it can be shown that the time to failure represents an acceleration of the intrinsic brittle-failure process that would take place in air at a later time. The better the ESCR, the better the resistance to slow crack growth in the absence of any obvious accelerating environment. The fracture surfaces of stress-crack failures in Igepal and in the lack of any accelerating environment are very similar (see Figure 3).
It is important to note that ESCR is extremely sensitive to temperature. Crack-growth data generated on polyethylene suggests that for every 7°C increase in temperature, the crack-growth rate is doubled. Increased temperature can therefore be regarded as another type of crack-growth accelerator.
A Graphic Model for Failure
In order to understand environmental stress cracking on a molecular level, one must be able to visualize the structural variables that most directly influence the cracking. In this regard, a review of the fiber-deformation process in semicrystalline polymers presented in graphic form is helpful. The resulting model can then be used to contrast ductile behavior with environmental stress cracking generally observed at lower loading levels in polyethylene.
Although the exact conformation of polymer chains in lamellae is a point of some controversy,7,8 one can for purposes of this model make the simplifying assumption that these chains fold on one another. In conceptualizing the failure mechanism, it is important to consider the intercrystalline or amorphous polymer chains. Figure 4a is a simplified schematic showing three types of intercrystalline material: cilia, or chains suspended from the end of a crystalline chain; loose loops, or chains that begin and end in the same lamella; and tie molecules, or chains that begin and end in adjacent lamellae.
Ductile Deformation. If a tensile load is applied normal to the face of the lamellae, the tie molecules stretch, as shown in Figure 4b. (Note that to facilitate visualization of the model, the tie molecules are illustrated as continuous chains traversing adjacent lamellae. Although in much of the polymer literature tie molecules are indeed conceptualized in this way,9 other reports describe the molecules as entanglements of a number of separate chains.) At a certain point, however, the tie molecules can be pulled out no farther (see Figure 4c), and the lamellae break up into smaller units (see Figure 5a). (According to one explanation, these "mosaic blocks" are then directly incorporated into a new fiber morphology [see Figure 5b]).10 Because tie molecules essentially are the "cement" holding the lamellae "bricks" together, their integrity is critical in order for ductile-type behavior to occur.
Brittle Failure. Brittle-type slow-crack behavior takes place over longer periods of time at lower stress levels than does the ductile deformation discussed above. The first three steps in this process are similar to those illustrated in Figure 4. However, because the material is under a lower stress level, the force necessary to achieve large-scale fiber pullout is not attained. Therefore, the loading situation can be expected to remain as shown in Figure 4c for a relatively long time. However, under long-term, low-level stress, tie molecules can begin to untangle and relax, and after a certain period of time, most of the tie molecules untangle. Ultimately, the load cannot be supported by the few remaining tie molecules, and as a result the material fails in a brittle manner, passing from the state shown in Figure 4 to that of Figure 6.
From the constant-tensile-load data, it appears that immersion in a surfactant (Igepal solution, Rhone Poulenc) accelerates the brittle failure process: the molecular displacement associated with brittle failure seems to be enhanced in the presence of Igepal. Brittle failure in polyethylene is an intrinsic phenomenon, an effect that is merely accelerated by the presence of the surfactant. Interlamellar failure--the proposed rationale for environmental stress cracking in general--can be seen as a rate-dependent process. That is, given enough time at stresses below those inducing ductile failure, tie-molecule entanglements will relax, resulting in brittle failure regardless of the presence of any environmental "lubrication" or plasticization.
Structure-Property Relationships
It would follow from this discussion that polyethylene materials containing relatively few tie molecules are more susceptible to the various brittle modes of failure. Conversely, materials with relatively high concentrations of tie molecules would be more resistant to these types of failures. However, it should be added that if the proportion of tie molecules to crystalline molecules is too high, the materials will display high ductility, but also very low stiffness.
Visualizing the mechanism of brittle failure in light of the model described in this article can help identify several important molecular parameters for optimizing ESCR in polyethylene. These parameters include:
* Molecular weight--The higher the molecular weight, the longer the polymer chains, resulting in more tie molecules as well as more effective tie-molecule entanglements. Because polymers are polydisperse, the entire molecular weight distribution of the material is a critical factor.
* Comonomer content--Because they contain a small amount of comono-mer, such as 1-butene or 1-hexene, medium- and low-density polyethylenes exhibit short branches that tend to inhibit crystallinity. A higher como-nomer concentration results in better brittle-fracture resistance, most likely because the portions of polymer chains with the longer branches (that is, 1-hexene or longer) do not enter the tightly packed lamellar lattice. Thus, the chains with these branches add to the intercrystalline tie-molecule material (see Figure 7).10
* Density/degree of crystallinity--It would be expected that the more crystalline the material, the fewer amorphous intercrystalline tie molecules that hold it together.
* Lamellar orientation--If the lamellae are predominantly oriented perpendicular to the tensile-stress direction, they would be more susceptible to interlamellar failure than if they were parallel to the stress. This effect would be minimized in the case of a spherulitic polyethylene, since the lamellae in spherulites are oriented radially.
Medical Design Considerations
For the medical design community, a number of practical considerations can be drawn from the above discussion. For example, the stiffness of polyethylene is directly related to degree of crystallinity, as measured by density. Designers have a tendency to prefer higher-density material as a means of downgauging parts. However, it is clear that lower density results in better ESCR. Those who specify these materials will need to understand this property trade-off as they define the optimum polyethylene for a specific application.
Another critical trade-off involves molecular weight. In injection molding, for example, a higher-molecular-weight material produces higher melt viscosity, which leads to slower processing and cycle time. As we have seen, however, the higher molecular weight is desirable for ESCR. As a result, there is a need to balance processability and crack resistance for the application at hand. In many cases, resin manufacturers have used bimodal distribution of molecular weight as a means of resolving this dilemma.
As mentioned previously, temperature has a profound effect on ESCR. Crack resistance of polyethylene parts in implants cannot be determined at room temperature if one hopes to get an accurate picture of the service life of the part in situ. As a first, rough approximation of service life, accelerated testing can take place using the rule of thumb that crack-growth rate doubles for every 7°C (11°F) increase in temperature. Rate-process or Arrhenius testing can be used to quantify this accelerating effect.
Finally, it is very difficult to determine a priori precisely which environments are true environmental-stress-crack agents for polyethylene. Alcohols, silicone oils, and surfactants are the most commonly known agents, but this list is by no means exhaustive. For specific cases in which the effect of an environment on polyethylene has not been documented, testing is required to identify any possible environmental-stress-cracking effect.
It is important to note that solvents can also affect polyethylene, but in an entirely different manner than environmental-stress-cracking agents. Solvents such as hexane have a tendency to soften polyethylene, thereby lowering the stiffness of the material. In contrast, environmental-stress-cracking agents do not appreciably diffuse into polyethylene, and stiffness is unaffected. In the case of solvent attack, the best solution is to actually increase the density of the polyethylene so that the penetration of solvent is slowed. Because the mechanisms of failure for solvent attack and environmental stress cracking are so different, the means of optimizing material parameters are different as well.
Environmental stress cracking in polyethylene takes place because of interlamellar failure, which in turn is caused by relaxation of tie molecules. Resistance to this mode of failure can be best gauged through constant-tensile-load testing, while taking into account the differences in yield point among various polyethylenes. The structural variables that most directly influence ESCR include crystallinity, molecular-weight distribution, branch length, and lamellar orientation.
Some of the material in this paper appeared in Chapter 16 of Failure of Plastics, Brostow W, and Corneliussen RD (eds), Munich/Vienna, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1986.
1. Howard JB, "A Review of Stress Cracking in Polyethylene," SPE J, 15:397, 1959.
2. Dukes WA, "The Endurance of Polyethylene under Constant Tension While Immersed in Igepal," British Plastics, 34:123, 1961.
3. Herman JN, and Biesenberger JA, "Molecular-Weight Distribution and Environmental Stress Cracking of Linear Polyethylene," Poly Eng Sci, 6:341, 1966.
4. Howard JB, and Martin WM, "Effects of Thermal History on Some Properties of Polyethylene," SPE J, 16:407, 1960.
5. Howard JB, "Fracture of Polymers: Long-Term Phenomena," in Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, vol 7, New York, Wiley Interscience p 261, 1967.
6. Spenadel L, "Effect of Rubber on Environmental Stress Crack Resistance of Polyethylene," J Appl Poly Sci, 16:2375, 1972.
7. Yoon DY, and Flory PJ, "Small-Angle Neutron Scattering by Semicrystalline Polyethylene," Polymer, 18:509, 1977.
8. DiMarzio EA, and Guttman CM, "Three Statistical Mechanical Arguments That Favor Chain Folding in Polymer Systems of Lamellar Morphology," Polymer, 21:118, 1980.
9. Peterlin A, "Morphology and Fracture of Drawn Semicrystalline Polymers," J Macromol Sci Phys, B8:83, 1973.
10. Hannon JM, "Microscopic Aspects of Polyethylene at Stress Below the Yield Point," J Appl Poly Sci, 18: 3761, 1974.
Arnold Lustiger, PhD, is a staff scientist at Exxon Research and Engineering (Annandale, NJ), where he conducts research on morphology-property relationships in polyethylene. He was previously employed at Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH) and at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ). Lustiger has consulted for numerous companies in the area of polyethylene stress cracking and has published widely on the topic.


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When I went to prison, in 1987, Motorola manufactured the large, gray cellphone that I used. People referred to it as "the brick." It had the capacity to send or receive phone calls, but there wasn't any text messaging back then.
I also had a pager, but it could only transmit digits, as I recall. I had a personal computer manufactured by IBM with a DOS operating system that I didn't really understand and 40 megabytes of memory. I was told that was a big deal. I linked the computer to an Epson dot-matrix printer, and I remember the perforated paper fed through on a track system that easily derailed. It was a hassle.
Technology has changed considerably during the 25 years that I served. I read extensively during my term of incarceration, but reading about technology felt a bit like reading about typing. Regardless of how much I read, I wouldn't grasp the power of technology until I started using it. Forget the power, I don't even understand the language of technology. For example, I never understood what people meant when they spoke of a "browser." In fact, I just asked my wife to define a browser, and when she described it as a program that would allow me to access the Internet, I gave her a blank stare.
"But I thought the browser was the little text box on top of the screen, where I type in what I'm looking to find on Google."
"No honey," she said. "That's the URL bar."
I served more than 25 years in prison, and I haven't yet been free for five full months, so maybe others can understand my ignorance on the subject of technology. I can accept that volumes of basic information are beyond my ability to comprehend right now, but with everything I have to learn, I don't know whether I'll ever grasp all that I need to know. I don't have any idea what a "server" is, and I don't know much about how to make my content available to the people who need it. Truthfully, technology isn't the only area that makes me feel as if I'm living in a time warp, but I'll post a different response for those areas of my ignorance.
With regard to technology, I sense a real handicap because I envision technology as being a central component of the business that I want to build. I consider myself as having a responsibility, or duty, to help others understand prisons, the people they hold, and strategies for growing through confinement in ways that will help people emerge with values, skills, and resources that translate into success. Technology could really help me succeed, but since I don't understand how to use it effectively, I'm kind of in a lost world.
Prior to my release from prison, I gave considerable thought to a technology strategy. My wife was used to using Microsoft products, but everything I'd read indicated that Apple products offered a much quicker learning curve. On the day she picked me up she handed me an iPhone 4S. During my first week of liberty, we purchased a MacBook Pro and iMac desktop system. I hoped they would all work seamlessly together. But since my wife wasn't as comfortable with the Apple products, she insisted that I load them all up with Microsoft products so she could rescue me when I had problems. I've had a lot of problems coming up to speed with simple tasks like email, or synching all of my computers together. I've also had a problem remembering all of the passwords she assigned to me. I keep arguing that we should use only one password, but that only brings forth her arguments on the dangers of identity theft. Since I met many men in prison who served time for identity theft, I trust that my wife has a point.
I enjoy the Quora platform because it is rather simple. People ask questions and I respond. But I don't know what all of the features mean. I don't know anything about how to use credits to promote my work, or how to use the platform in ways that will help me strengthen my personal brand or bring more awareness to my domain expertise. Some people who work at Quora have offered to provide insight on best-practice use of Quora, so I'll appreciate that guidance. For now, all I know is that by responding to people's questions I am providing some insight into the obscure world of confinement.
Besides Quora, I use other forms of social media to broaden my reach, and I retained a developer to build a website that I hoped would bring more attention to my work. With such a limited understanding of technology, however, I don't feel as if I'm reaching as many people as I possibly could. Since I'm not reaching as many people as I possibly could, I'm not able to build the traction that I need. I am trying to resolve these problems quickly, but my limited knowledge of how to use the power of technology effectively makes me move cautiously.
I look forward to learning more about technology and social media effectively, but with everything else that I must learn, I don't know what level of progress to expect as being reasonable.
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This article was republished from Quora with kind permission from Michael Santos. You can read about his 25-year journey through prison, from arrest on August 11th 1987 to release on August 13th 2012, in his new book Earning Freedom. You can follow him on Twitter here.


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Lecture by Architectural Historian Antoine Picon: Ornament
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 12 - 1:30pm
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The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union cordially invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a lecture by Antoine Picon entitled "Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity" on Tuesday 2 April at 12noon in Room 315F.
Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design where he also co-chairs the doctoral programs. He holds simultaneously a research position at the Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He has published numerous books and articles mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture and technology, among which: French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment, Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la curiosité d'un classique, L'Invention de L'ingénieur moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851, La ville territoire des cyborgs, Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie. Published in 2010, Picon's book, Digital Culture in Architecture proposes a comprehensive interpretation of the changes brought by the computer to the design professions. His new book, Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity was just published this month.
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I came across a recent article about an initiative between the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the US Dept. of Labor to "train students at community and technical colleges for health IT jobs at hospitals and clinics in rural areas."
The struggle for rural healthcare facilities to find qualified candidates – in healthcare IT or otherwise – has been well-documented, as has the struggle that healthcare IT students face when it comes time to find a job. Prospective vendor employers typically require that job candidates have experience working with their systems, yet few make those systems available to academic institutions via internships or technology donations.
The rural health IT training program highlights specific objectives that I think would apply to health IT workforce development in any area:
- Reach out to potential workers and employers to inform them about career pathways in health information management and technology
- Support employers in educating potential health IT workers, which would include current staff that need training and newly recruited staff
- Support employers in staffing health IT positions
This disconnect between academia, graduates and employers is one that I think all healthcare IT education programs are facing, no matter what area their students will eventually end up working in. Another of which I was recently made aware is the lack of communication between academic institutions and the employer community. There are several schools in my home state of Georgia that currently have HIT programs in place, but the surrounding business community is not aware some of them exist, and therefore completely overlook graduating classes full of job candidates.
The Technology Association of Georgia's (TAG's) Health Society is working with several area schools including Georgia Tech, Georgia Perimeter and Southern Polytechnic to help bridge this gap, and hopes to bring graduates and employers together at its HIT Job Fair on March 23rd.
In talking about the upcoming event with Deleise Lindsay, Founder and Principal of Well-Change Group and a member of TAG Health's Board of Directors, she explained that not only do we need to make HIT job candidates and employers aware of each other, and ensure that graduates have proper training on software systems, but we must also equip them with the necessary professional skills that will make their transition into HIT that much quicker.
She highlighted three main challenges that academia and business currently face:
- Building awareness of HIT job opportunities
- Determining who is a viable candidate for these types of jobs – typically folks with clinical or IT backgrounds
- Educating graduates on how to market themselves by equipping them with resume-building and networking skills
I'd love to hear from readers – job candidates, recent hires or employers – as to what you believe the secret to job hiring success is, and how you would recommend academia and employers work together to clear up this mystery.


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WordPress, Blogging, & Archiving – BlogBooker FTW!
I have mentioned before how I temporarily lost a post I wrote for another, now defunct, blog and then found it in a random file on my computer so I was able to re-post it here. It was when that happened that I realized the importance of archiving my work that I post on this blog and any other blog on my computer or on some form of removable media. Not that I don't love The Cloud, I do. In fact, my personal Microsoft Word has the Google Docs plugin installed which syncs all my Word documents to my Google Docs account.
So you can be sure that before I hit the "Publish" button on this post I am going to be saving it in Word as a separate document for future reference. In fact, I have decided to move the bulk of my blog writing to Microsoft Word and then copy/pasting the words in to a "New Blog Post" in WordPress. It is then fairly simple to add in all the pictures and go from there.
But what about all the posts I (or you) have already done? Can you get those off of your WordPress account easily and with no hassle? If you google "wordpress export" you will be given as the first hit the WordPress tutorial on how to export your blog. Seems simple right? The problem with the Export tool that WordPress provides is that it assumes that you are going to be using the exported data as part of a new blog. As such, it only spits out an XML file of ALL of your blog's content. Useless to someone who wants to be able to show all the writing they have done or be able to recover a post later if it gets deleted for one reason or another.
Of course there is the option of manually going through each and every post you have ever written, highlighting all the text, copying it, and pasting it into individual Word documents (or whatever word processing program you use). That is quite the arduous task so I figured there HAD TO BE a better way. Thankfully, I know the awesome tweeps Laura aka @lmmandell and her husband Sam aka @SamTitle. I was randomly speaking about this quandary of mine with Laura when she mentioned that Sam had faced a similar issue a little while back and she remembered he had found a way to resolve it. I got in touch with Sam via the interwebs and he pointed me to an amazing website called BlogBooker at http://www.blogbooker.com/. The best part about this site? It is completely FREE! (Although they always appreciate donations!)
Crowdsourcing FOR THE WIN!
What BlogBooker does is it takes the content from a WordPress, Blogger, or LiveJournal blog and turns it into a "PDF Blog Book". Originally, what I wanted was each of my posts to be individual Word documents but this works just as well in my honest opinion and I can always separate them into individual files later quite easily. For my WordPress blog all that BlogBooker required me to do was download the aformentioned XML file (a whopping 2.46 MB) from WordPress and upload it into BlogBooker. Once that finished, BlogBooker started processing it and within a few short minutes it spat out an 18.6 MB PDF file for my saving pleasure. Fantastic!
The file comes complete with a Table of Contents which is clickable to jump to each post.
It makes each year's worth of posts into a chapter and each month's worth of posts into a sub-chapter. Because it is a PDF you also have the option of – if using Adobe Reader – jumping easily between posts with the lists in the sidebar. Truly amazing if I do say so myself.
If you are a blogger and are reading this and realizing that you too never backed anything up from your blog and feel that now might be a good time to start I highly recommend checking out BlogBooker. This blog's BlogBooker blog turned out to be a whopping 503 pages (even I am amazed by that) and I could only imagine the horror that I would have felt if I ever lost all of that hard work writing. I feel like a broken record here but I really cannot stress enough how much I endorse checking this site out and backing up your blog to a BlogBooker PDF file.


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The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal?
from the so-what-exactly-are-libraries-for? dept
One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain. The technology is there � scanners are now relatively fast and cheap � but the legal framework is struggling to keep up. That can be seen in the continuing uncertainty hovering over Google's massive book scanning project. It can also be observed in some recent digitization projects like Cambridge University's Digital Library:
Over the course of six centuries Cambridge University Library's collections have grown from a few dozen volumes into one of the world's great libraries, with an extraordinary accumulation of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. These cover every conceivable aspect of human endeavour, spanning most of the world's cultural traditions. While parts of the Library's manuscript collections have already been published in print, microfilm and digital formats, we are now building a substantial online resource so that our collections can be much more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public.
That's obviously a highly laudable aim. But the strict terms and conditions are not so praiseworthy:
Subject to statutory allowances, extracts of the Content and University Material from the site may be accessed, downloaded and printed for your personal and non-commercial use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the site. Unless explicitly licensed or permitted by us, you may not:
One of the jewels of the Cambridge University Digital Library is a collection of Newton's scientific papers. So far, a selection of important mathematical works from the 1660s has been digitized. These date are from well before the first modern copyright act, the 1710 Statute of Anne. So it's an interesting question -- what is the copyright situation of these papers and their digitized images?
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If you print, copy, download or use any part of the site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the site will cease immediately and you must at the option of the University return or destroy any copies of the material you have made.
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Assuming that copyright dates from the "fixing" of the work, or from the date of the Statute of Anne, they would clearly have passed into the public domain long ago. One technique that libraries have tried to employ in order to maintain their control is to claim that the act of digitizing creates a new copyright, although this seems dubious. After all, the whole point of digitization is to capture as faithfully as possible the physical appearance of a text: an artistic interpretation of that physical appearance would defeat the object of the exercise. But without that artistic element there seems to be no grounds for claiming copyright.
Moreover, even if there were copyright in the digitized image, it's hard to see how there is any basis for stopping people from transcribing the text, since that is undoubtedly in the public domain. But that's precisely what Cambridge University is trying to do in its conditions quoted above.
At least the Cambridge University Digital Library allows "personal and non-commercial use" for free; the British Library's new British Newspaper Archive doesn't even permit that:
The index of the newspaper archives featured on the website can be searched for free, from any location. If you are using the website in premises owned or operated by the British Library, you can view the images of the newspapers themselves for free also. If you are using the website anywhere else and want to view the images of the newspaper archive or use some features of the website you will need to buy either a Credit Package or a Subscription. You have to register with us and be signed in to buy credits or a subscription.
Here's what the British Newspaper Archive encompasses:
The British Library's newspaper collections are among the finest in the world, containing most of the runs of newspapers published in the UK since 1800.
Clearly, most of that material will be in the public domain. But as a result of this digitization project, the British Library is actually removing physical access to some of its public domain holdings, replacing it with virtual access through images it claims are under copyright:
The scale of the newspaper publishing industry from the early 19th century onwards is enormous, with many cities and towns publishing several newspapers simultaneously, often aimed at distinct audiences depending on social status, geographical location and political affiliation. The first stage of this project focuses on runs published before 1900 and will include titles from cities such as Birmingham, Derby, Manchester, Nottingham, Norwich, Leeds and York, along with local titles from London boroughs.
We have even scanned single pages more than two feet wide! These publications are now not available for public view or access through the Library's reading rooms; however, they will be available to view on this website.
And to those who say that digitization costs money, and that those costs must be recouped in some way, consider this: holding books in a library, and making them available to the public, costs money too, but that did not prevent the great libraries of the past from providing access to their holdings for free. Those trail-blazing institutions knew that charging people to read would have been a negation of their central role in making knowledge freely available to all. And so it is today: a key part of the modern library ought to be making digital knowledge available to all, without charge, and without limitations.
This current trend to limit access to digitized versions of public domain materials is a real betrayal of the original mission of public libraries like the British Library. These made possible the opening up knowledge to huge numbers of ordinary people who otherwise would never been able to access these materials. Today's massive digitization projects, which ought to be building on and extending that great tradition, are actually reversing it by seeking to take texts out of the public domain and charge for access to them. That's not just a shame, it's a scandal.
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