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Online dictionaries how do users find them and what do they do once they have?
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1 Online dictionaries how do users find them and what do they do once they have? Henrik Lorentzen & Liisa Theilgaard Keywords: online dictionaries, search strategies, query log analysis, information retrieval, user behaviour, user survey. Abstract In general, user behaviour studies on online dictionaries have focused on user behaviour once the user is on the site. But before a potential user even reaches this stage, he or she must succeed in finding the dictionary on the web. In this paper we investigate users linguistic search strategies before they enter our dictionary site, ordnet.dk. What kind of search engine queries are successful and why (not)? Similarly, we have studied the site search queries. Are the search strategies the same? Taking the no-match searches as a starting point, we have asked ourselves if our content and search functionality correspond to the search behaviour of the users, that is if we can give an answer to the users queries and if data is organized and presented in an appropriate way. Given the results of these analyses, we decided to make several changes to the site in order to optimize user access and attract new users. These changes and their ensuing results are presented. Furthermore, we present and discuss the results of a user survey conducted in October-November Background, tools, terminology The website ordnet.dk, which is the object of this paper, consists of three parts: The Danish Dictionary (Den Danske Ordbog, DDO), Dictionary of the Danish Language (Ordbog over det danske Sprog, ODS) and KorpusDK. In the following, we will concentrate on DDO. In our study of user behaviour we have primarily used two tools, Google Analytics and our log files. Google Analytics (cf. Clifton 2010) provides a wide variety of key metrics on user behaviour, for example the daily number of visitors, and on how the users access the site. At the same time we monitor the users through our own log files (cf. Almind 2008, Nygaard and Fjeld 2008, Bergenholtz and Johnsen 2007), in particular so-called no-match lists, that is lists of the items that the user does not find when searching in DDO. The study was initiated in September 2010 and it led to a number of changes to the site. The effects of these changes were measured in January When talking about visits we refer to the number of individual sessions started by a user. If the visitor has been inactive for 30 minutes or more, new activity is counted as a new visit. 2. How do the users find the dictionary? There are three different ways to access the dictionary: (1) The user enters a query into a search engine and clicks a link to the dictionary in the search engine result page. (2) The user arrives directly at the dictionary by clicking a bookmark or by typing the site URL directly into the browser. (3) The user accesses the dictionary through a referring link on another website. In September 2010, 49% accessed DDO with a search engine query (99% Google), 33% accessed DDO directly, and the remaining 18% accessed DDO from a reference in another website. Thus, users apparently prefer to use a search engine as their point of entry when 654
2 looking for linguistic information, which in turn makes it very important to appear as a search result in Google, preferably on the first result page, to ensure that a potential user becomes aware of the dictionary. 3. How do the users search in a search engine? In order to study the users behaviour in a search engine, we have examined all search terms entered by the users in September 2010 which resulted in a visit. We have no access to search engine search logs, so we have no data to study potential search terms not resulting in a visit. Firstly, we looked at the number of words in every unique search term, a word being a string without white spaces. It appears that 60% of the users wrote one word, 23% two words and 17% three or more words, meaning that about 40% search terms contain more than one word. The average query length is 1.69 words, and the maximum number of words is 33. Secondly, we have grouped all search terms into three categories: (1) meta words (e.g. Danish dictionary, ordnet.dk), (2) linguistic phrases (a dictionary word or expression, e.g. insinuate, to be kicked upstairs) or (3) a combination of the two (e.g. nonchalant meaning, i.e. the user is looking for the sense of the word nonchalant) (see Table 1; for ease of understanding, all examples are given in English despite the actual data being in Danish): Table 1. Distribution of search terms from a search engine in September Number of search terms Search terms in % Number of visits Visits in % Pageviews per visit Pageviews in % Meta word 1,160 25% 28,355 64% 47,125 30% Linguistic phrase Examples ordnet.dk, Danish dictionary, ddo 2,220 48% 13,290 30% 104,400 66% dissolve, today to day Combination 1,251 27% 2,780 6% 7,250 5% Total 4, % 44, % 158, % nonchalant meaning, cheat synonym The 4,631 different search terms have resulted in 44,425 visits, that is an average of 10 visits per search term. However, the five most effective search terms dictionary, Danish dictionary, The Danish Dictionary, ordnet and ordnet.dk account for as much as 39% of all visits, and altogether, the most successful search terms are meta words, which in turn has to do with the type of pages the web crawlers were allowed to index. In contrast, linguistic search terms generate far more pageviews per visit (66%) than meta word search terms do (30%). For fear of insufficient server capacity it was initially decided only to allow indexation of the front page, help pages and other material about the dictionary, that is about 25 pages from DDO and about 65 pages altogether in ordnet.dk. Accordingly, no dictionary entry pages were indexed automatically, except for a few in cases where other websites had linked to a particular dictionary entry page. But this is at odds with the users actual search behaviour where linguistic phrases account for 48% of the search terms and 66% of the pageviews per visit so there is a huge user potential in allowing for linguistic phrases to turn up in a search engine result. 655
3 4. How does the user search in the search box? When we compare the users behaviour in a search engine to their behaviour once they have accessed DDO and use the site search box, the picture looks quite different. For this part of the study, we have used data from March 2011 since the logging of search terms from the search box was not yet switched on in Google Analytics in September Here, it appears that 96% of users search for just one word while 2.4% search for two words and 1.6% for three or more words. Compared to the 60% one-word searches in a search engine, it is obvious that the user behaves differently when using the site search box. The sheer number of different search terms (194,660) rules out a quantitative treatment and a systematic classification, but a quick glance through the search terms shows that the vast majority of users search for a linguistic phrase. Wild cards as well as meta searches and combined searches are hardly ever used. Clearly, the user conceives the site search box as a dictionary look-up function as it is generally used in electronic dictionaries as opposed to other websites where it is used for full text search on the whole site. 5. What does the user not find? Using our log files, we have examined all registered site search terms in September 2010, 20.6% of which gave no result. This number is relatively low compared to two earlier studies of Scandinavian online dictionaries: 31% (Nygaard and Fjeld 2008: 59) and 41% (Hult 2008: 78). In their study of a dictionary between Sesotho sa Leboa and English, de Schryver and Joffe (2004: 191) reported success rates from 67 to 75%, allowing us to assume that 25 to 33% of searches gave no match. Secondly, we have analyzed and categorized the 1,000 most frequent unsuccessful search terms into a number of types. The 1,000 search terms represent 12.6% of all unsuccessful search terms. A given search term may occur in more than one category, for example both as a spelling error and as an inflectional form. The most frequent type of unsuccessful search terms was spelling and typing errors (30%) and the second-most frequent was inflectional forms (20%). We were surprised that so many inflectional forms were searched for. One possible explanation is that we offer an open-search function which allows the user to look up any word form on a web page by highlighting it and then right-clicking it to look it up directly in the dictionary. Other types of unsuccessful search terms are (in declining order) foreign words, proper nouns, compounds, new words, multi-word expressions, abbreviations and derivatives types which indicate what users look for in vain and what we should consider providing a wider coverage of in DDO. 6. Changes With these results in mind, we decided to make a number of changes to the website. Above all, we wanted to improve our visibility in search engine results, so we allowed web crawlers to index all individual dictionary entry pages, so that instead of fewer than 100 indexed pages, the total number of indexed pages amounts to approx. 100,000 pages for DDO and 350,000 for ordnet.dk as a whole. Secondly, something had to be done about the large number of inflectional forms. Consequently, we have added the present participle of verbs, which is often used as an adjective, but in DDO it is generally treated in the entry for the verb. Similarly, the genitive 656
4 forms of all nouns have been added. Finally, the results of the latter function is now also displayed in the more prominent middle section of the page (and not only under the search box in the right-hand sidebar) in order to attract the user s attention to the suggestions presented when a search renders no match. 7. Results The indexation of all dictionary entry pages has had a remarkable effect. The number of daily visits has increased from approx. 3,000 in September 2010 to approx. 19,600 in January 2012, and the curve shows no signs of flattening off. Obviously, this impact is also reflected in the distribution of the users path to the dictionary. In September 2010, 49% of the visits came from a search engine whereas in January 2012 it was 84%. Through this indexation we are now visible where users look for information (even linguistic), that is in the search engines, mainly Google. Not only new visitors (84%) access our site through a search engine, even 84% of the returning users use a search engine as their point of entry. And quite often we now figure on the first result page (with ten results): The average position of the top 1,000 daily queries resulting in a click to our web site in January 2012 was 2.4. Add to this that the users are now referred directly to the answer in the form of a dictionary entry page rather than the front page. The number of new users has also increased from 31,190 (34%) in September 2010 to 221,800 (36%) new visitors in January Thus, we have succeeded in attracting more new visitors as well as turning many of them into returning visitors. An analysis of the search terms leading users to the dictionary through a search engine in January 2012 shows the long tail distribution; eleven times as many users access the dictionary through a search result compared to September 2010, but at the same time the number of successful search terms is almost 27 times as high, that is 123,175 compared to 4,631 in September To illustrate this, 2,530 of the search terms in September 2010 or 55% resulted in one visit whereas in January 2012, 84,773 of the search terms or 69% resulted in one visit. This can be attributed to the indexation of all dictionary entry pages which increases the chance of a match with a much larger variety of search terms. A similar observation can be made in the distribution of the types of search terms: before it was primarily meta search terms like dictionary that were successful, but now users are much more likely to get a match with linguistic phrase search terms because the headword is part of the title of the dictionary entry pages. All in all, the indexation of the dictionary pages has been the single most decisive factor in terms of matching the users search behaviour: they search for linguistic information through a search engine and they often use actual dictionary words in their search terms. The addition of inflectional forms has also proven successful. Out of the 1,000 most frequent unsuccessful search terms from September 2010, all inflectional forms except two can now be dealt with, either thanks to the added inflectional forms or through the did you mean function. And when it comes to spelling and typing errors, the search algorithm is often able to suggest the intended word. Furthermore, we refer to ODS (a large historical dictionary with 225,000 entries) if there is no match in DDO. This means that out of the 1,000 most frequent unsuccessful searches from September 2010, we can now handle 45%, 10% being referrals to ODS. Assuming that the result for the frequent searches can be transferred to all unsuccessful searches, we are able to deal with 45% or almost half of the 20.6% unsuccessful searches, meaning that only about 10% of all searches cannot be dealt with and this we find to be a very satisfactory result. 657
5 8. User survey In order to substantiate the previous study and to understand our users better, we decided to conduct an online user survey. The survey was posted on 20 October 2011 and was carried out until 12 November when we reached 1,082 completed questionnaires. It was a voluntary survey; users were asked to participate by clicking a banner link on the entry page ordnet.dk/ddo or on any search results page above the site search box. The survey contains questions about the user (age, gender, education, knowledge of site), use (frequency, situation, information type and success rate), evaluation (quality, usability, intelligibility) and finally an option to give praise and complain in plain text. The survey was designed and carried out by an intern from the University of Copenhagen using SurveyXact developed by Rambøll Management Consulting ( The online survey was supplemented by a qualitative part in which oral protocols were made for ten informants. They were asked to perform six tasks while thinking aloud, thus allowing the conductor of the experiment to log what they were doing and saying. This part was followed by an interview where the informant and the interviewer discussed the tasks and DDO in general. 9. Results of the online survey The data showed an even distribution of males (541) and females (541) at an average age of 37.4 years across a wide age span, which implies that our target group is very broad. The respondents were distributed among the following age groups: 0-19 yrs. 17.5%, yrs. 39.6%, yrs. 30.1% and finally 60+ yrs. 12.8% When it comes to educational level, respondents aged 25 and over belong to the well-educated part of the population: 52% with a university-level education, whereas almost every respondent aged under 25 was still at school or college. Being voluntary, the survey is more likely to attract respondents who are frequent users, more interested, informed or concerned about our site and thus have stronger or more extreme viewpoints. And accordingly, our data revealed that only 8% of the respondents were new visitors compared to 36% new visitors in our Google Analytics data. The remaining 92% returning visitors turned out to be frequent users indeed: 44.3% use DDO several times a week, 30.9% daily, 13.3% several times a month and 6.0% once a month or less, and finally 5.5% once a week. The respondents use our dictionary at work or in school, but astonishingly many use it at home as well. This holds especially for our first-time users (see Table 2; means for what purpose are you using the dictionary now ). Table 2. Respondents use. use in general New users At work 37.0% 35.3% 19.8% At home/spare time 30.2% 34.8% 35.8% In school/education 27.6% 24.8% 25.9% Other 5.3% 5.1% 18.5% What do users look up, and why? It is no surprise that a need for knowledge about meaning and use as well as about spelling is reported as a frequent motive for using the dictionary. Etymology is also a popular information type for both frequent and new users whereas the existence of a word, fixed expressions, and inflection seem to appeal more to frequent than to 658
6 new users. The latter category reports a surprisingly great interest in other things which may stem from the fact that they are new to the site (see Table 3). Table 3. Information types looked up. use in general New users Meaning and use 84.9% 69.1% 41.5% Spelling 41.9% 26.5% 28.0% Idiom or fixed expression 29.1% 15.8% 6.1% Whether a word exists 27.3% 17.2% 9.8% Inflection 26.1% 17.0% 7.3% Etymology 24.9% 15.2% 14.6% Part of speech 9.8% 6.5% 3.7% Pronunciation 9.4% 7.3% 6.1% Other 4.4% 8.2% 24.4% Language tips 2.8% 1.8% 0.0% The category other as well as the final option to give praise or complain revealed valuable information regarding information types in demand. Many respondents were looking for synonyms and would like to find more synonyms, idioms and fixed expressions, usage examples, etymologies and a better coverage of LSP vocabulary and foreign words. As far as synonyms are concerned, we are currently working on a conceptual dictionary project (Lorentzen and Trap-Jensen 2011), the material of which will add a new dimension to our online dictionaries by making onomasiological searches possible. 10. Results of the qualitative survey Whereas the online survey yields information about what the users report about their behaviour an approach often regarded as methodologically uncertain (cf. Hatherall 1984, Tarp 2006) the protocol and interview approach is more likely to shed light on actual user behaviour and shortcomings of the dictionary web site. Certain parts of the oral survey confirm results from the online survey, for instance the way users tend to find information on the web. When asked to find the DDO website, half of the informants started by using Google and another 30% used Google when the URL they typed did not lead to DDO. Mostly, the oral survey gives valuable information about the design and structure of the dictionary page. The informants were primarily faced with difficulties when asked to select the correct homograph (out of three) and to locate a fixed expression. Both results have encouraged us to facilitate the lookup process, partly by giving the list of fixed expressions a more prominent position in the search result, partly by adding a gloss to each homograph in order to make it easier for the user to select the right word. 11. Concluding remarks We are thus able to draw several positive conclusions from our preliminary experiences with user studies and search engine optimization: Being a freely available non-profit dictionary site, we have experienced a remarkable success in allowing web crawlers to index all our pages so we can only encourage others to do so, provided you have the hardware capacity. The number of visitors to ordnet.dk has more than quintupled since we started this process in September 2010, and the number is still growing as of January In this paper we have tried to combine the results of statistical analysis with a user survey 659
7 based on a questionnaire, and this combination seems to prove useful in the future development of our dictionary site. In order to improve our web site architecture it will be relevant to focus on a quantative study of the way users navigate through dictionary pages and entries for instance by tracking clicks on internal links; and when it comes to user interface design, another relevant path to explore is eye-tracking studies, cf. Tono (2011: 125): eye tracking can yield much more detailed moment-by-moment observations about how users interact with dictionary information. References A. Dictionaries Hjorth, E., Kristensen, K. et al Den Danske Ordbog. Copenhagen: Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab. (DDO). Accessible online at: Dahlerup, V. et al Ordbog over det danske Sprog incl. supplement. Copenhagen: Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab. (ODS). Accessible online at: B. Other literature Almind, R Søgemønstre i logfiler. LexicoNordica 15: Bergenholtz, H. and M. Johnsen Log Files Can and Should Be Prepared for a Functionalistic Approach. Lexikos 17: Clifton, B Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics. (2 nd edition). Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, Inc. De Schryver, G.-M. and D. Joffe On How Electronic Dictionaries are Really Used. In G. Williams and S. Vessier (eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2004, Lorient, France, July 6 10, Lorient: Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Bretagne Sud, Hatherall, G Studying dictionary use: Some findings and proposals. In R. R. K. Hartmann (ed.), LEXeter '83 Proceedings: Papers from International Conference on Lexicography at Exeter, 9-12 Sept. 1983, Lexicographica Series Maior 1, Tübingen: Niemeyer. Hult, A.-K Användarna bakom loggfilerna redovisning av en webbenkät i Lexin online Svenska ord. LexicoNordica 15: Lorentzen, H. and L. Trap-Jensen There And Back Again from Dictionary to Wordnet to Thesaurus and Vice Versa: How to Use and Reuse Dictionary Data in a Conceptual Dictionary. In I. Kosem and K. Kosem (eds.), Electronic lexicography in the 21 st century: New applications for new users. Proceedings of elex 2011, Nygaard, L. and R. V. Fjeld Analyse av søkelogger for bedre søkmuligheter i elektroniske ordbøker. LexicoNordica 15: Tarp, S Kan brugerundersøgelser overhovedet afdække brugernes leksikografiske behov?. LexicoNordica 15: Tono, Y Application of Eye-tracking in EFL Learners Dictionary Look-up Process Research. International Journal of Lexicography 24.1: doi: /ijl/ecq
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Prior to the recent release of ArKaos MediaMaster Pro 3, the team at BAAC Light in Melbourne, Australia gave the new software – complete with its new Video Mapper extension - the ultimate final beta test.
Prior to the recent release of ArKaos MediaMaster Pro 3, the team at BAAC Light in Melbourne, Australia gave the new software – complete with its new Video Mapper extension - the ultimate final beta test.
Cold Chisel, the Iconic Australian band toured Australia and New Zealand at the end of 2011, for the first time using video as part of their show. This "Light The Nitro" tour was also their biggest Australian Tour to date. The 10 weeks tour has been so popular that the first shows sell out and extra dates were added because of the demand.
International superstar and rock violinist David Garrett is currently touring Europe with the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt for his Rock Anthems Tour, a new show where visuals take an important part to support and enhance the spectacular live act from the violin virtuoso.
Each of the tour's 30 shows gather an intergenerational crowd between 10 000 and 15 000 listeners to which David presents his choice of songs and anthems arranged for the violin, such as Live and Let Die, Highway to Hell or Let it Be.
California based Reggae band Groundation has been using video for the first time in their shows during their first Europeant tour "Tribute to Bob Marley"
The Visuals
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Tsinghua University is a famous school of higher education in China, ranked as the first or second best university in mainland China in most national and international rankings. It is located in west side Beijing, surrounded by beautiful sceneries.
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Food And Herbs That Are Helpful In Treating Arthritis
Foods and Herbs That Are Helpful In Treating Arthritis
Arthritis is one of the most common, disturbing, painful physical problems experienced by men and women. While not oftenly leading to death, arthritis is extremely serious because it causes mild to excruciating pains upon millions of people causing disturbances in their sleep, work and other normal activities.
Medical researches estimate that nine out of ten of those over age forty already have the beginnings of arthritis, the thinning of the cartilage in the joints. Ant three out of five people with arthritis are younger than sixty-five. The following are herbs and foods that are helpful in treating the pains of arthritis.
It is derived from curcuma root and it is also known as turmeric root. Curcumin or Curcuma root has been used for centuries as a painkiller and anti-inflammatory. Scientists at Cornell University made a research on this and discovered that it was COX-2 inhibitor. COX-2 refers to the enzyme "cyclooxygenase-2" which triggers production of inflammation and pain in arthritic joints. A daily dosage of 100mg of curcuma root decreases inflammation and joint pain.
Tart cherries have been also used for centuries to treat arthritis and gout. Once again scientists intrigued by its long-standing usage made a research on this, this time at Michigan State University. They discovered that extracts from the tart cherries also had COX-2 inhibitors, as well as compounds such as ursolic and oleonsolic acids which are ten times more effective than aspirin. To get the needed amount of COX-2 inhibitors to fight arthritic pain, you would have to eat twenty raw tart cherries a day.
The healing qualities of holy basil has been recognized for five thousand years in native India. This herb has also chemical compounds containing natural COX-2 inhibitors with anti-inflammatory effectiveness similar to aspirin and ibuprofen. A daily dose of 150mg is recommended.
Frankincence is a gum resin from the boswellin tree that is usually used as an anti-inflammatory compound. In analyzing this gum resin, a potent anti-inflammatory compound called boswellic acid was discovered. Scientists were so intrigued that they continued on studying boswellic acid and discovered that it blocked the common chemical compound "leukotrienes" in the body. This substance was identified as the one causing inflammation, decreased joint mobility and misshapen and deformed joints. Recommended dosage is 200 mg a day.
Another important compound that prevents inflammation comes from the sea cucumber also known as "beche-de-mer." This compound has been recognized to treat arthritis in China for about a thousand years. Modern research studies revealed that substances found in sea cucumbers are helpful to "musculoskeletal" inflammatory diseases such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers claim that sea cucumbers improve the balance of prostaglandin which regulate the inflammatory process. A dosage of 100mg a day in capsule form will be helpful in reducing joint swelling.
A recent study participated by 212 people demonstrated that those who took 1,500 mg of "glucosamine" per day ( a natural substance derived from tha shells of some deep-sea animals) experienced a 25 percent improvement in joint symptoms. This study has been done for a period of three years. Glucosamine produces compounds known as "proteoglycans." This is a complex hydrophilic compounds that help maintain the thick cushion in cartilage by attracting water.
The threonate compound combined with the ascorbate has a vital role in regenerating cartilage. The role of Vitamin C in joint health has been accounted For many years.
A study revealed that garlic eaters were getting a remarkable decrease in joint pains,particularly the pain associated with degenerative osteoarthritis. Garlic inhibits one of the inflammation- causing prostaglandin hormones.Onions contain a moderate amount of sulfur, which is important for rebuilding the cartilage, bone and various ligaments around the joints.
Sardines has higher content of the omega-3 fatty acids in certain coldwater fish. Themarine fatty acids decrease inflammatory compounds such as "leukotrienes." When these compounds are reduced, inflammation and joint tenderness are also reduced.
Natural D-alphatocopheral is the form of vitamin E one should take daily at a dose of 800 IU. This form of vitamin E, counters the effects of COX-2 and prostaglandin E2 which promote inflammation. One study revealed that arthritis patients taking supplements of natural Vitamin E for four months had a 50 perent reduction in joint pain.
These compounds has anti-inflammatory effect that inhibits the COX-2 enzyme. "Green tea" is an excellent source of these "polyphenols."
This compound is derived from the stem and stalk of the pineapple. Use of theseSubstances has been found to reduce inflammation up to 60 percent by combating prostaglandin E2.
GOD's Pathway to Healing : Joints And Arthritis
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Wednesday the 3rd of September is the next meeting of the First Ladies.
Our guest on the night will be Mel Rees, author and comedic speaker, who will amuse us with his light hearted look at life.
There will be the usual committee updates, what's happening in our groups, and tea and chat.
Come along to meet us at Eastbury Manor House and see what you've been missing!


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June's Most Inspiring Kids' Rooms
Clearly, using rich, bold color in either small splashes or on a large scale was hot in June. As was showcasing large scale wall graphics or artwork clusters. Check out these selected 10 rooms for tons of inspiration on using color and wall treatments expertly as well as to enjoy all the other wonderful details.
• 1 My Room: Sydney
• 2 Ave's Neutral + Coral Nursery
• 3 My Room: Sawyer
• 4 My Room: Lula
• 5 Ella's Bright & Bold Bedroom
• 6 Claire Elizabeth's Cozy Nursery in a Contemporary Loft
• 7 Eliza's Precious Vintage-Inspired Room
• 8 Gus's Modern Nursery on a Budget
• 9 My Room: Baby Ainslie
• 10 My Room: Levi
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The Immorality of Plagiarism In all of our history we as a nation have not seen the likes of an epidemic as systemic and potentially damaging as the current epidemic of plagiarism. We cannot ignore this blight upon our society any longer. We must take action as a collective society, for that is what we have become a collective society of immoral lazy cheats. We must stand up to the lazy hoard of college and high school students who do not promote original thinking. We must stand up to the self-righteous website publishers who propagate this deterioration of our society. It is our moral war to fight.
In the 1950's the United States went to war with the communists. Those brave men and women were fighting against the future deterioration of society by the larger government which promotes collectivist thinking and the reductions of individualism. Unfortunately, the youth of today have become that type of collectivist society.
They do not think for themselves. They do not do their own work. They buy it. They trade it with others. We have become out enemy.
But worse, we have become the bastardization of our enemy. We have become a capitalistic collective. Students who no longer strive towards individual accomplishments but are willing to buy their way to grades have taken the worst of the capitalistic mentality and the collectivist mentality and have created a new insidious mutation of morality. Who shall prevail? Why the plagiarists? They will succeed over time because there are too many sites and too many essays available for consumption. There are too few ways to catch them at their own game. In the end what is the cost to society? Why their education of course and the education of their progeny. They will be unable to educate...


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Airplane seats suck. Aside from making your body feel like it's in a paused game of freeze tag, there's just no relief in sitting on top of a life preserver, praying not to be slam-dunked into the Atlantic. Traveling 6000 miles, climbing over the Rocky Mountains, skipping the layover in Chicago, zipping over the New York skyline, zooming past where the Titanic sank, and finally, hopefully, touching down in London, happens to be just a little bit unsettling without the constant discomfort of too small seats, a kid crying behind me, and a fat old dude farting the national anthem in the seat in front of me. Throw in the laughing eyes of the flight attendant when I ask for a shot of vodka. She looks me down and up. Her eyes inhale the faded-blue overalls that I tied together with luggage tags this morning when the buckles broke. Stopping at the convenient braids that engage my blond curls and rocks, "Do you have ID?"
"It's in my carry-on," I lie, indicating the overhead compartment.
She flashes me a lipstick-smile, jellied with seasoned-wisdom, all at once reminding me who's boss, then moves her coveted attention to the grandma next to me who let me have the window seat. The old woman orders two 7&7's, instructing the flight attendant to use one glass for ice, one for the seven, and leave one empty. When the bartender-on-wheels moves her cart onto the next victim, my raisin-faced neighbor hands me one of the drinks.
"Whiskey's what you need for a flight. A couple of these babies and you're happier than a pig in a waste dump," she croaks. Her grayed head barely reaches my shoulder; her stomach almost touches her tray table.
"Thank you," I say. "I thought I'd be able to drink on an international flight."
"Budget cuts. Don't worry honey, that's why I'm here." Shaking her wild curls she continues, "I don't understand why a girl can't drink. When I was your age…how old are you honey, 19, 20?"
"18, well, 17."
"Same difference," she croaks, offering a slight tinge of an East coast accent. "At 14, I was slinging Manishewitz with my pop." She picks up her glass, cradling it with both hands as if it was a past lover, and calls, "L'chaim." Downing the entire glass, she presses her pruned finger on the call-button, waves her hands in the air, and snorts, "Name's Mona." I take a sip and cough. Through laughter, she says, "My girlfriend Edith and I went to get tattoos the other week. You want to see it?" Her eyes sparkle with childlike invitation. Without waiting for my reply, she pulls her elastic ballpoint blue pants down over the three-inflated rolls on her stomach, to show me the "mouse." She pushes her bifocals higher on her nose and squints at her midsection, looking perplexed at the unpleasant view of her mounds. "It must be hiding on the other side." She mutters, replacing the top of her pants and revealing the right side of her mountainous terrain dotted with spots and bruises, this time pulling her granny pants low enough to give me a full view of her undercrackers.
"Damn, my pussy must have ate it," she says.
Over our next three rounds, served by the adorable and more importantly, non-carding Roger, Mona reveals the recent escapades at the Old Cedars nursing home in Santa Barbara. She is especially excited to tell me about her friend who started a female stripper class on Tuesday nights. It fits perfectly between Hatha Yoga and Dance Dance Revolution competitions. Adding that the pole-dancing class is nothing like the mud-wrestling competition she won at the Tropicana in Hollywood years and years ago. She says that she debated taking this trip to England to visit her sister and brother-in-law ("who has cancer…but don't tell anyone") because she didn't want to miss her classes. But she had to come, saying, "A lady knows not what becomes of her, as time goes on truckin'—so she takes the trip when it's presented, or she may never live long enough to take it." With that, she sips her fourth 7&7, and starts to snore.
She's right. All I know is that I had to get on this plane today, and that I want more out of this life than I am supposed to want. I could care less about a real job, kids, a degree, or a mortgage. I want to live before I have more wrinkles than Mona. A lot of life occurs between 18 and Medicare and I don't want to spend all that time living out society's generic plan for me. I've watched that glacier age that settles over the people who do what society expects them to do. They're frozen in the same latitude and longitude for their whole life, watching the world go by, while they sit on their couch facebooking pictures of their dinners. But I can't do that. When I was seven, I remember walking as far as my feet could carry me to see if there was anything different down the road. When we moved to California, I was the first to pack—a month early—living out of my little Barbie suitcase already. When I got older, my first boyfriend and I would decorate my world map with a happy face in a new country every time we had sex. After two months I had to get a new map. And a new boyfriend.
I guess my parents taught me well. When they were young, they tried to be explorers, abandoning the Midwest, reaching as far west as California, until their car ran out of gas in the San Fernando Valley. They spent eight years talking about the trips they'd like to take. They always made sure that I had the best maps and globes in the house, introducing me to people from all over the world, and making me watch foreign films until I cried for a movie that I didn't have to read.
Next to me on the plane, Mona lets out a huff, picks up her head, sucks down the remnants of her drink and passes out again. I gaze around the tube at the rest of the weary travelers most with their headsets on, immersed in the business of escaping. The kid behind me kicks my seat and whines that he's bored. Suddenly I wished my best friend Jonah were next to me, offering something witty to say about the loud-talker a few seats up front. During the last few months, I spent most of my time in Jonah's pocket-sized studio on Venice Beach, a block from the boardwalk. I tried taking walks along the gray-blue ocean, igniting coffee conversation with the razor riders, skateboarders, actors, artists, and dog-walkers that also felt pulled by the call of the Pacific. But I found that every person I met was so wrapped up in being "somebody" that they didn't have time to just be human. All they cared about was looking perfect when they went out, just in case that one casting director happened to be partying at the same dark club.
Jonah was my savior. I wonder if he'll really show up in Europe like he dared last night after a few too many lemon drops. Koz will freak.
The flight attendant delivers a piece of bland chicken, which I dutifully ignore, and after suffering through some shoot'em-up-bang-bang-movie with a geriatric action star, Mona rises from the dead. I have to admit I sort of missed her. With the same vigor, she downs her final 7&7, orders us Bloody Marys, and immediately returns to telling stories. "One time, I remember, Hawaii. We went hiking. I got a new bikini. Learned to hula. Spent a week getting massages from young hunks in g-strings. I won a wet T-shirt competition. All the Spring Break babies started this-a wet T-shirt contest. I hop on the stage because I'm hot, and they shower me with some ice-cold water." She laughs and takes a sip of her drink. "This song comes on, you know the one with the words, uh, pop that…w-what's a coochie honey?"
"It's what ate your mouse."
"Oh, dear," she pauses then smiles widely.
"So then what happened?"
"I start shaking my tuchass. All those young-un's chanting take it off, take it off. Like a football—well not exactly a football game, but…so slowly, like a girlie in those late-night Showtime shows, did I tell you I used to work at a cabaret? Well it doesn't matter, where was I? Oh, yeah, I took off my shirt, and my golf-shorts too. All those kiddies staring at me, I felt 21 again. Dancing around that wooden stage, wearing my panties. Swinging my brassiere, like I was a cowgirl. All of a sudden I look up and remembered: I wasn't 21 anymore. Honey, all I can tell ya, is life passes so quick, you better live it up before it outlives you…"
The captain interrupts her with his calm voice, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now beginning our descent into London's Heathrow airport. The weather is a chilly 62 degrees, cloudy with a bit of rain. I hope you had a pleasant flight. Sit back and relax and we'll be on the ground shortly."
"It's about time! I'm dying for a cigarette here!" Mona yells. She looks over at me, saying, "What's that?" I look where her finger is pointing and see a small ladybug resting just under my shoulder. "That's good luck honey. My bubbie used to say—ladybugs bring ya safety and great revelations. Not to mention a good rump in the sack." She winks, "I can't wait to get back home. I'm on shiksas already, I think I'm going to try surfing." The woman in the seat in front of us sneezes loudly and Mona calls, "Bless you before the devil gets ya," just as we enter a gray bumpy cloth of sky and bounce downward. I search for any sight of permanence in the blur and as the layers shed, England in all of its dreariness appears before me.
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Many organizations strive to protect the confidentiality of prospects and clients. In this column and the next three, I want to explore issues relating to privacy policies and the sometimes problematic relations between legitimate, well-meaning institutions and the commercial organizations with which they do business - and the criminal organizations which abuse their good names and reputations.
Norwich University's Privacy Policy stands as an excellent example of a clear, well-written and comprehensive document - an example that could usefully be considered by readers of this column who may need a sample policy for their own organization's use.
Links to the policy are available where visitors may enter personally identifiable information (PII); for example, the admissions-related pages have links at the bottom of every page with a data-entry form. Specifically, the policy makes the following essential points (quoting with added commentary in square brackets):
• "Norwich University requests a certain amount of information from our clients in order to provide the online experience." [A privacy policy should begin with a statement of the purpose of data collection.]
• "Although we gather names, e-mail addresses, locations and other personal information (dependent on the platform being used), all information is kept confidential." [The introduction makes the intent of the policy clear.]
• "Information is used for course registration, billing purposes, providing knowledge about our client base, managing our services and to assist us in making the online experience the best possible." [These are useful clarifications of the intended applications for the collected data.]
• "Information about who may log in from time to time is analyzed in order to allow us to monitor and maintain our network. Information about our clients may also be used to provide feedback to our institutional clients; at no time do we share this information with an outside source. We may, from time to time, examine a platform for statistical purposes, but we will not identify any individual in doing so." [These are specific constraints on how the data are to be used.]
• "Information placed on our systems may be available to others on our various platforms, depending on the platform chosen. This information is used strictly to allow a client to participate in their individual course(s) and is kept confidential. We will not divulge private information to any unauthorized person." [These sentences add some more well-defined constraints.]
• "It is understood that information entered on our system(s) may be seen by a variety of people administering, participating in or monitoring any part of the chosen platform, within the reasonable guidelines set therein." [Although this alert may seem obvious to information technology specialists, it is worth reminding non-technical people of the reality of data collection.]
• "[Norwich] will also comply with any legal request(s) made by any body so authorized for information, should proper documentation be provided to us." [This is the get-out-of-jail card that puts users on notice that the University will fully comply with all appropriate court orders and other legal obligations from duly constituted authorities.]
In my next column, I'll look at the problems which can occur when working with independent partner organizations that may have different privacy policies from one's own.
M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP is Program Director of the Master of Science in Information Assurance at Norwich University.


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Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van that was painted with the words People's Temple on the side. I had been advised that he was on his way, and I had been watching for him because the church was typically locked when not in use on Sundays. The pastor of the church had asked me to take on the task because I was employed as sexton of the church and it was a Saturday. I emerged from the Disciples of Christ Church that was located within walking distance of downtown Oakland to greet him, shake his hand and show him around the building. The church was a faux Spanish colonial of large proportions that must have been built during the heyday of the Disciples denomination perhaps in the 1920's. It was large enough to have an auditorium and full stage in the basement as well as a large kitchen for parish festivities and a commodious apartment for the sexton. The sanctuary could accommodate at least three or four hundred people, and behind the altar, covered by curtains was a full-immersion baptismal font that, when in use, seemed to be a cross between a giant aquarium and a wading pool that could be entered down steps from either side. Congregants could watch the drama of full immersion baptism unfold from the comfort of their pews. As sexton, my job was watering the roses, mowing the lawn, opening the sanctuary doors on Sunday and sweeping the floors as needed. In return, I had the use of the apartment that was located near the back door of the building on the lower floor. I was also supposed to check the building once every evening by prowling the dark, labyrinthine halls with a flashlight. The floors and halls resounded with all sorts of creaky and guttural sounds, the source of which was mysterious enough to make it the least favorite of my duties.
Rev. Jones (it seems a bit odd to affix that title to his name given his subsequent history) was interested in the church in Oakland because he wanted to move his base of operations from Redwood Valley to the Bay Area. Many of his parishioners were from Oakland and San Francisco and so it made sense for him to move. He had heard of this church because it was his denomination, Disciples of Christ, and it was a large church with a dwindling membership. When I worked there the church could only count perhaps fifty members virtually all of whom were sixty or older while Jones' flock was growing quickly and numbering in the hundreds. He approached the pastor, Rev. Harold Dowler, to discuss the possibility of merging the two congregations and because People's Temple was far larger, it would essentially just absorb the smaller parish along with its large church building. Rev. Dowler proposed that the leadership of People's Temple make their proposal directly to his parish by visiting and preaching on several consecutive Sundays and then finally put the motion to a vote of his congregation.
I was not a member of the parish even though I had been hired as sexton. At the time I was a student at Pacific School of Religion, an inter-denominational seminary located in Berkeley. I was Episcopalian and had no particular interest in changing denominations. The job of sexton was posted on a bulletin board at school and I followed up because I needed a place to live. I often attended Sunday services there both because I enjoyed Rev. Dowler's sermons and because it could hardly be more convenient.
Rev. Jones was a phenomenon. All about him was a dark, flashing charismatic energy. His sermons usually focused on justice and a new day. Some thought he was a communist, but in fact he was astute politically and was suspicious of both the great economic systems and their accompanying political systems. In retrospect, I can discern that he was a forerunner of the anti-globalism movement and personified the fear of totalitarian world government. Perhaps the early phases of his ministry will ultimately be judged as prophetic. When I met him there were only the vaguest of rumors about his dark side that finally were disclosed as paranoia, licentiousness, sadism and egomania. He preached and Tim Stoen, who was one of his more influential ardent followers, preached. They were persuasive. The old folks in the parish voted. The motion was defeated by one vote.
I have thought about that one vote many times since and thought "but for the grace of that one vote, I might have been in the employ of and swayed by the charisma of Rev. Jim Jones." I could be a rotting, swelling corpse in the equatorial jungle returned to my first home.
Good work Barranca - it's essential to warn students about the dangers cults present beforethey fall foul of them
ex-cult member myself, not of the Jones sect. I went to a talk a few years back bythe daughter of the Congressman, Leo Ryan, who Jones had murdered - your story is fascinating too
This are sone signes of Endtime, am not surprise at this at all, we expect such happening but we don't fall as victims because we see it coming.. just stay alart!!! they are still thousands of them out there in different forms.
The San Francisco,church was in my neighborhood,I heard about him and the Black people that were giving him there
welfare checks.I grew up in a church sort of like that.
after the army my thinking became like Woody Allen,I don´t want to be a member of a grope that would have me as a member.The first time I went to his church,I went with a white friend of mine we both were on LSD they would not let us stay together(we were not gay)They questioned us about race and why we together and how dangerous for us to be friends.So we didn´t get to see Jim that night.The next time I saw him I new he was a very Dangerous person.
the way he control his people with just the wave of his hand ,You could hear a pin drop.The CIA was his friend,check it out.
I was never aware of Jim Jones until the news exploded about the horrible deaths of so many after drinking the koolaid. Several years ago I read something about that incident, saying perhaps the people weren't aware the drink was laced with poison until it was too late. I don't know if the story was true or if all those people willingly submitted to that terrible death. Either way, it is very sad, and even insane. Fasinating that you met that man, and see yourself has possibly being a victim had the vote gone differently. Glad you're still around to write about it. Very interesting article.
I agree Jim Jones was a very persuadable powerful man whom at first seemed like a loving caring individual almost Christ like, I am doing a short bio on him for school and it is very sad that these people needed someone so bad to love them that they would end their life. Yes this man was good at what he did ... but morally it was wrong, yet fascinating to read and do reports on!!!!!!
I have often watched documentaries on Jim jones, David Koresh, The group in california that killed themselves and often wondered what it is about them that would make otherwise intelligent people follow them to the point of death. Its not like they are charismatic, charming or even intelligent. I just don't get it.
Beam me up scotty!!
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A very late comment - I think the confluence of fervor and and a serious self-esteem neediness leads some great people to lose the plot and become psychotic, defined as a "mental disorder characterised by delusions ... without insight into their pathological nature." Such people have difficulty testing their perceptions with reality and therefore start to believe the hype about themselves and start to believe they are on a mission to "save the world" without really understanding the consequences of their often destructive actions in pursuit of their mission.
Thanks for a thought-provoking Hub which reminded me of the horror of that Time magazine cover and accompanying article.
I mistrust saviours!
Love and peace,
Hullo!Hullo! All this talk back, there is hardly time for me.
Very good subject.
Neither of those two gentlemen appeal to me.
Hub is great.
I tend to think that too. I do not believe Bush has the native intelligence to have engineered this on his own.
I don't think Bush had good intent, ever. Of course, I can't judge him, but it's certainly my opinion. I think he never had an intent to do anything but line his and his cronies pockets nomatter whose blood it required. And yes, I think there is eternal answer for that too.
If intent is all that countz though, all the believers went straight to Heaven. That is what I believe anyway. Life is fleeting and generally painful, and we all go somehow in the end, but there is something beautiful after.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to believe as long as it doesn't hurt another human being in the process.
Fascinating story. The videos are worth watching. They capture the horror of Jamestown. Is that where the expression "Don't drink the Koolaid!" comes from?
yeah, it's a real soul-sucker. I think the lack of sleep contributes to the delusional qualities that keep people from quitting. I was personally never drawn to it, it's for people with low self-esteem, makes them feel like kingz when they are on it, and I have a remarkably high self-esteem. perhapz too high :D
however, I worked in clubz off and on for 20 years and it was certainly the DOC for most of the women there that chose the drug route. I watched it destroy hundreds of women over the years. you couldn't pay me to do it.
I flipped through and I'd have to read it again to find out, but one chapter started by suggesting the first publicly noticeable fallout began in 1977 at the San Francisco Temple.
hehe. oh that one is easy. rage. ;) yeah, I think there are socio-biological reasons too, psych 101 eh, the old caveman theory, women seek men whom they believe are capable of protecting them during their pregnancies and their offspring. the study suggests it's innate. but then you have to throw in environment, too and that's where I think desire for stability gets misdirected.
I hope you do write that up for Hubs, your experiences at Folsom. You have a sure reader.
I admit I have dismal taste in men. Yeah, that sounds about right. :p
I've considered what I would have thought of Manson, and I don't think I would have fallen into that one. I do find him to be a compelling speaker even now though. I watched his interviews and parole hearing the other night and agreed with like 90% of it, but his lack of self-control is unappealing to me personally.
I satisfy myself by adoring my own demi-god who is not a cult leader :p and making my own mini-Fads for group fun with words and poetry.
on topic, I have a copy of "The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the People's Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana."
authors are: Marshall Kilduff and Ron Javers who are staff correspondents of the San Francisco Chronicle.
you can probably find it in a used book store - true crime, for next to nothing or I could send you. it implies the downfall was meth addiction creating delusions, paranoia and volatility.
well, he was a charasmatic, and certainly had the qualities I like, arrogance, intelligence, wit, charm, spontaneity, passion and a genuine interest in others combined with a strong capacity for communication skills and a willingness to buck the system and just that hint of ... dangerousness.
I think power does corrupt, sadly. It's even happening to my beloved Chavez. :(
He had a nice mix, quasi-socialism, respect for all human life, antirasicm, govt FOR the people, and God. He seemed to me to have been sincere and maybe just nutzed out later on meth-type drugs.
He was fascinating, although I never met him in person. I've read up considerably. I probably would have been suckered in. I'm fairly gullible at times.


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MAUS Theater of Berlin's COME THICK NIGHT Opens Tonight at FringeNYC
MAUS Theater of Berlin presents COME THICK NIGHT, A Shakespearean Gruselkabinett at the New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. A production of The Present Company, the show runs tonight, August 19, through August 24th.
All performances are at Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th St., New York. Dates: TUE 19.8. WED 20.8. FRI 22.8. SAT 23.8. SUN 24.8. Tickets: $18 - $24. For tickets, visit www.FringeNYC.org.
In this darkly comic, postmodern "chamber of horrors," a young woman wakes from a nightmare about killing her father- -- only to find she's still in it. Written and directed by FringeNYC veteran John Crutchfield, the play features a top-shelf international cast: Laura Tratnik of the Berliner Ensemble and Niels Bormann of the Gorki Theater, both in their New York debuts. With sound design by Mary Zogzas, lighting design by Abby Hoke-Brady, stage management by Lisa Smith.
MAUS Theater is a small, Berlin-based collective devoted to the creation and production of new, interdisciplinary, English-language theater.
Laura Tratnik (actor) was born in Frankfurt, Germany and educated at the Ernst Busch acting school in Berlin. She has been a company member of both the Schaubühne and the Berliner Ensemble, where she has worked with many of Europe's leading directors, including Thomas Ostermeier and Claus Peymann. She has also worked in the United States with Burning Coal Theatre Company and The Magnetic Theatre.
Niels Bormann (actor) was born in Bremen, Germany and studied acting at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He worked for many years in Berlin's independent theatre scene before becoming a member of the Schaubühne. He is also a well-known film and television actor in Germany. Most recently, he has worked at the Gorki Theater, and starting next summer, he will be joining the Kammerspiele in Munich.
John Crutchfield (writer, director) was born in Austin, Texas and grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. His one-man show, The Songs of Robert, won a Judges Award for Outstanding Solo Performance at FringeNYC in 2009.