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The Art of Meaningful Expansion
I hope 2016 is starting off well for you.
I rang in the New Year by hosting an invasive chest bug that has relegated me to my comfy bed for the past two days. You might think this is bad timing or perhaps an inauspicious way to begin the year, but after the month and a half we have had, I'm happy to lie here, catch up on much-needed planning for 2016, and watch a Flip or Flop marathon on HGTV. I say I'm WINNING! (Well, except for the intense fatigue and this irrepressible cough that I have decided is a jump start on a new ab workout).
Over the holidays, I needed a few quick and easy dishes to please the masses. This one fit the bill. It's perfect for a lite lunch with friends and also works as a balanced family meal. As I reached for the polenta, now a staple in my cooking, I realized just how far our choices have come at the grocery store. The expansion of exotic offerings has grown exponentially over the years and makes it easier than ever to explore and experiment with food as well as accommodate those with dietary considerations.
Our access to almost anything is amazing!
The rapid expansion that exists today in technology, information, and consumer choices can almost seem paralyzing.
That's why it is imperative to stay focused on our own lives and to nourish and feed our own souls.
As a new year is unveiled, I turn my thoughts toward self-improvement. This year I find myself leaning toward what I like to call Meaningful Expansion. Just because the world is exploding around me doesn't mean I have to take it all in.
Meaningful expansion is really about two opposing forces: purging and growth.
The fact is most resolutions or New Year's goals fail in a hurry because we focus on how we will do more of something – or try something new altogether. Losing weight might mean more exercise and a greater attention to diet. Building a business might require time to plan and become bolder. Learning something might involve finding time to discover a passion or pursue a bucket list item.
New resolutions are often about expanding current demands.
For this reason, purging is actually the cornerstone of expansion.
You must purge all the activities and restrictions in your life that no longer make sense or don't feel as satisfying as they once did. By purging, you can open up space for new ideas and activities. It's not unlike making pantry space for new purchases or weeding your closet of clothes that no longer fit. If you have ever purged a closet or a cupboard, you know how satisfying and freeing it can feel.
The same is true for Facebook (friends, newsfeed clutter), your child's activities, work obligations, and personal time. Go through everything and determine what you are willing to leave behind in order to make room for something more dynamic.
The choices can be tough. You may even have to ditch things you've done forever, or things you like.
But since we've done our 2016 Precaps (click to learn more!) it's the perfect time to clean our life space and evaluate what needs to go.
That's what I'm doing this month. I'm weeding out all of the things I keep doing but no longer fit with what I want to have happen this year.
At first, the new space may feel freeing, and eventually it will allow you to add exotic and exciting things to your life!
Out with the old, in with the new.
It will add spice to your life!
My pantry – especially the polenta – will attest to that.
This is tangy and super easy to make. I bet you could even try this with other veggies if you aren't a pepper fan. I make this even quicker by using pre-packaged polenta (available in a variety of flavors!).
What are you making room for?


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Saturday, June 9, 2012
We'll see you in Heaven, sweet little Gabriel...
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I'm so, so sorry for this painful loss, Lisa! There is no greater sorrow. You are right that he is peaceful, healthy, safe with Jesus. It's so hard to wait until we can see them again!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Oh Lisa, I am so sorry. Saying prayers.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Sorry to hear about your loss. Keeping all of you in my thoughts and prayers.ReplyDeleteReplies
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oh, how sad. i'll keep you, esther and little gabriel in my thoughts and prayers.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear about little Gabriel, Lisa. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your lovely comment on my zentangles - coming from such an expert tangler as yourself, that's a great compliment!!
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After an excellent live performance at the beginning of the year System of a Down managed to produce one of the most disappointing albums I've ever heard with Mezmerize. Hypnotize is the second disc in the two album set, and I must say my expectations were very low. Fortunately they have been exceeded, but not by much.
The album certainly starts out reasonably well with Attack, the angry, passionate anti-war song I've been waiting for them to release since the war in Iraq began. It continues in a reasonably competent vein for a few more tracks, Dreaming is a mellower track a little reminiscent of Aerials and is followed by the silly but enjoyable Kill Rock'n Roll and the mediocre single Hypnotize.
From there it goes through a mostly regrettable middle section, the only bright spot being another aggressive anti-war song Tentative which alternates heavy sections full of thrashy tritones and gentle sad parts where Serj sings "Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?"
The album ends on a few high notes however. The obligatory 'Let Serj Do Silly Voices' track Vicinity of Obscenity is a winner (a large step up from Mezmerize's execrable This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song). Lonely Day overcomes some eye-rollingly bad lyrics ("The most loneliest day of my life/ Such a lonely day/ Should be banned") with a truly passionate delivery and a killer guitar solo to be one of the best tracks on the album. The last track Soldier Side isn't too hot, but I'm a sucker for the whole returning to the beginning of the album (or in this case the beginning of Mezmerize) so I'll give it a pass.
Taken together Mezmerize and Hypnotize could have easily fit on to a single album, and it's obvious to me that what they should have done is cut out the crap, released it as a single album and had another worthy addition to their discography instead of a pair of disappointments.


text: I actually saw this on Pintrest, but of course it was to buy one....not directions on how to make your own. So, I came up with my own way! :) First, I bought a wooden plaque at Michaels for $1 or $2. Then, I painted the plaque black using 3 coats. I waited for each coat to dry before I painted another coat. Next, I painted over the black paint with 1 or 2 coats of white paint. The reason I did this is because when I sanded the edges to give it an antique look, I wanted black to show instead of the wood. Then, once all the paint had dried, I sanded down the edges and some of the front to give it an old/antique look. This next step may sound kind of confusing (again, I am really bad about taking pictures as I go). I actually used Microsoft Word to print each word in the font that I liked. Once I printed the words, I taped them onto the plaque to make sure everything was the right size and fit the way I wanted it to. Once all the words were taped to the plaque, I took a pen and outlined the printed letters. When you do this (you have to push hard enough), an outline or indentation of the letters will go onto the wood. Then all you have to do is take the taped paper off and trace the indentation of the letters on the wood using either paint pens or sharpies (I used sharpies for mine) and then color in each letter. If you are like me, I cannot just write stuff like this without using some kind of template. So that is exactly why I created a "template" of the words. If you are confused about making a template, leave a comment, and I will make a separate post with the template I used. Again, everyone's template may be different depending on the size of the plaque you buy and the font you want to use.


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So i was SUPPOSED to start my new job today, BUT i ended up with the flu and had to call off....i feel so shitty....i need money. ugh im so depressed today.
lots of hhhherrrbal tea, Carly and rest and tylenol flu medicine. oh and lots of warm and fuzzys and kleenex and lots of hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz from me.
That's a hard call. I am looking for a job myself and ages ago, when I started a very good job in 1998, my manager told me that we he started at his job, about 3 months before, he had to travel by train to Greenwich CT with a 103 fever. Keep fingers crossed.
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Ok, I've been back from my so-called-vacation. I'm working through a few ideas for new posts, but nothing is complete yet.
News to report:
1) Kimberly-Clark will be letting approximately 200 people go from their Knoxville location. Doesn't look too promising for me. Just pray they keep me until January 1, 2007 so I can be fully vested. Thank you President Bush for signing new laws protecting us after 3 years of employment rather than the traditional 5. WooHoo!
2) Alzheimer's is the cruelest disease. Not to the person who has it because they don't know what is going on. But it is cruel to those who have to care for the person with it. But alas, God will get the glory for everything in the end.
3) B is coming to town this weekend. YEAH! She is bringing her friend S to a ballgame. B and S will be hanging at my house so it will be fun.
4) H moved in this weekend. It is nice having a roomie again. We are going to go on a diet/exercise regime together. I wonder how long we can make it last. I'm sure it will be the subject of future blogs as me having to cut out some of my favorite fast foods will not be fun.
5) Last home game for UT for a few weeks is this weekend. That means my feet will get a much needed break from standing behind a popcorn stand for 6+ hours until October. I am thankful for the extra money I am making, and thankful for the break I will be getting.
Well, that is more than I intended to post on. Wow! I guess I had more to say than I thought.


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I read that Henri Matisse acquired the fluidity of lines in his drawings through hours of practice copying Persian drawings. My attempts to capture the essence of the line quality of these drawings myself was humbling. One can never quite capture the precision of an ink line with pencil, but the effort and forced observation, I think improves line quality regardless. And I think that was what Matisse was trying for in his own copying - an unfettered unembelished line that could form a delicate bone structure in a drawing. In the appropriated mounted horseman that I drew from a miniature painting most of the lines were drawn from memory, adding structure to a fragmentary notation.
August 20, 2007
Matisse and Persian Drawings
Posted by kozachekart at Monday, August 20, 2007
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- Ebb Tide said...
I like Matisse and his simple lines. Good to know he acquired his fluidity of lines by practicing Persian drawings. Thanks for that art-tidbit.
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We all love "LOVE". We love the idea of love and the beauty in love. Our children, gifts, nature and the list goes on.
But what is the meaning of LOVE?
We all admit that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what is it or isn't.
What is the meaning of this loosely, mysterious few letter word that we use to describe everything from food, shoes, partners, mistresses, animals and from desires to passions? How is it that we use the same word to express feelings for all these things as we do for God? To be honest there are times we use the word LOVE more passionately for these desires then we do for the God that we claim to worship.
We can easily describe what it feels like to be loved, but we have trouble explaining what it means to be- loving. Why is this? We believe one of our greatest needs is to be loved, and personally I don't think we can live happy without it. But unfortunately humans have messed up the true meaning of LOVE. We tend to believe lies about love. That love always comes with great feelings of passion. We don't want to believe that loving another human is difficult and requires wisdom, knowledge, patience, and skills accompanied with emotion. We tend to make ourselves vulnerable to all types of fake expressions of love.
So how do learn the meaning of this word that has been so misused and abused?
The bible describes love in this passage 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 as
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres"
We all want to experience this kind of love, but no human can and ever will provide it. The only person or place to experience true genuine love is in a relationship with the ONE who created and whose very being defines it. Not only is GOD the true example of love, he is LOVE, and apart from his love none of us could love or be loved
(1 John 4:19)
God loves us with his heart, strength and mind, . Being loved means having someone know us so well and care about us so much that he/she uses all their strength, mind and soul to give us what is good and and what is best for us even before we ask, even when we do not know what it is.
That someone is GOD.
To be complete love must flow in two directions.
God's call "of" love is paired with his command "to" love.
Ironically, the only way any of us ever find ourselves is to lose ourselves falling in love with GOD, for that is where we find our true selves and who we were meant to be.
Did you know that you can replace the word God in the bible with "LOVE" and the word "love" in the bible with "GOD" because God is love ….and love is - God.
In a letter Paul wrote to the Christians living in Corinth he said "Love never fails" that equals to "God never fails"
Where am I going?
Well we (Vanessa & Liz) know we are going where God leads us. We may not know where that may be, but we LOVE him enough to trust him with our lives. We know he will not lead us astray.
We are both willing to go into the dark places where evil is causing chaos and confusion, where there is NO LOVE.
If we can master loving GOD, then I believe we will become masters of UNDERSTANDING love.
We have attached a video of TD Jakes (One of our favourite) speaking on "Seeking God"
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
His Love
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- Serena CapabeloNovember 12, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Ohh my God ladies this is beautiful. God, God, this is so beautiful. Thank you. This made my day.ReplyDelete
Thank you. Yes my sister we are focusing to much time trying to figure out the whole love thing without focusing on what and who is important. Without truly falling in love with God, we will never know what true love is. Falling into a deep love with God is work. Its an every day, every moment of the day, non stop desire to get cloer to him. Oh i pray i get there. I really do.ReplyDelete
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Technology at Detroit School of Arts
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I really liked hearing about the arts technology provided at your school. Since you're at a different setting than the rest of us I think it provides another interesting perspective in terms of what this school offers for its students. However, I like the notion that you present at the end about the integration of the arts and academics and I wonder how the technology in the arts can be used in something like your math classroom. I wonder if you could have the students record a video about a math concept? That would definitely be something they might not be expecting from their math class!ReplyDelete
Every teacher in my school has a projector, but unlike other Ann Arbor schools, none of them are attached to the ceiling (budget concerns stopped the installation years ago according to my mentor teacher). But I think this small thing of having it placed on the ceiling makes a big impact on whether my teacher would utilize it more within his practice. He complains that it takes up a lot of room on a cart in the front of the room, so I've only seen him use it once before to give the students a Powerpoint lecture. I wonder how other teachers might be using the projectors at your school. Maybe they are also utilized more by the arts program? I wonder if its a similar predicament to what's happening at my school where my teachers think it's more of a hindrance to set up than delivering the content in a different way. I look forward to hearing more about your experience at the DSA!
I enjoyed reading your take on the technology available at DSA. When I think about my classroom, my teacher typically uses the whiteboard and occasionally uses the projector. I think it would be helpful to have a document camera, but that is something I will most likely have to buy on my own when I start teaching. One thing I really appreciated was the fact that you reminded me about integrating the technology used in the arts classes for academic purposes. There is so much available to students in their arts classes, why not integrate that technology into our own classes? One example might be using the video technology to make a final project about meiosis, or having students record their voice in different areas to study the effects of different mediums on sound waves. I look forward to brainstorming more ideas with you, and possibly incorporating this technology into our classes at DSA.


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A Refereed Monthly International Journal of Management
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SRI Investment & Screening Performance: An Empirical Study
Dr. Subrata Roy
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Department of Commerce
Rabindra Mahavidyalaya (Affiliated to the university of Burdwan),
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The investors generally consider different screens before going to socially responsible investment. The present study seeks to examine the performance of socially responsible investment based on some screening policies. The question here is that whether such screens (ESG) really improve investment performance. To examine this issue the study uses a simple trading strategy based on socially responsible ratings which are obtained from KLD Research & Analytics: buy stocks with higher socially responsible ratings and sell stocks with lower socially responsible ratings (similar to the strategy of market-timing: switch over to the high beta portfolio when market is up and vice versa). The study reports that the trading strategy helps to increase abnormal returns. In addition, when the investors apply the best-in-class screening policy, the abnormal return is found to be lucrative.
Keywords: SRI, Four-Factor-Model, Screening policy, Best-in-Class Approach, Trading Strategy, Long-Short Strategy
JEL Classification: G11, G12, G23, M14
*Contact Author: Dr. Subrata Roy
Socially responsible investment (SRI) is a much studied topic to the financial researchers. It is an investment practice that integrates environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) factors into investment decision making process. Generally, SRI funds consider various investment screens at the time of selection or exclusion of assets based on some ecological, social, corporate governance, or ethical principles. According to the social investment forum (www.socialinvest.org), approximately ten percent of investments in US are managed based on some screening policies. Hence, the investors consider various social and environmental screens during the time of investment decision. The inclusion of such screens raises question whether those screens may help to improve investment performance or not.
The earlier studies have examined and compared the financial performances of SRI with the conventional investments (see. Luther et al., 1992, Hamilton et al., 1993, Luther and Matatko 1994, White 1995, Sauer 1997, Statman 2000, Bauer, Koedijk and Otten 2005, Bello 2005, Geczy, Stambaugh and Levin 2005, Kreander, Gray, Power and Sinclair 2005 and Barnett and Salomon 2006 etc.). Some of the previous studies have examined the SRI performances based on some screening policies and they particularly have focused on environmental screen (See. Brammer et al., 2006, Chatterji et al. 2008 and 2009, Christmann 2000, Gerde et al., 2001 etc). The performances of those SRI funds have failed to provide significant impact on other screens. Where, socially responsible investors usually consider multi dimensional screening criterion and strategies when they go for responsible investment. This study has examined the impact of different screening approaches (positive, Negative & Best-in-Class approach) on various screened (Community, Diversity, Employee Relation etc) portfolios (High-Rated, Low-Rated & Long-Short Strategy) and also examined the impact of various screens when a particular trading strategy is applied.
Literature Review:
This section has analysed some important theoretical arguments and empirical findings about sustainable responsible investment (SRI) that helps to develop the present study.
The existing SRI literatures are cover with various contradictory theoretical arguments. Milton Friedman has argued that the most important objective of the organisation is to make profit and that's why they avoid any social initiatives that ultimately decrease shareholder values (see. New York Times 1970 cited in: Humphrey et al., 2012). However, in between 1980s and 1990s, some theories have been developed like instrumental stakeholders' theory and slack resources theory which assume a positive relationship exist between the corporate social performance and financial performance. Where, instrumental stakeholder theory assumes that firm's objective is to satisfy the various stakeholder groups that help to develop a healthy relationship between the stakeholder and the management. This initiative assists to monitor and enforce various mechanisms that ultimately create various positive effects like enhancement of firms' efficiency and financial performance (See. Freeman and Evan 1990, Hill and Jones 1992, Jones 1995 and Clarkson 1995). On the other hand, slack resource theory assumes that financial performance allows firms to become more socially responsible because it provides further resources to engage in CSR and to maintain it additional funds are required. (see. Ullmann 1985, McGuire et al., 1988, Waddock and Graves 1997). Some recent studies have examined the effects of exclusionary ethical investing on corporate behaviour (see Heinkel et al., 2001) and discussed the possible conditions by which the firms can increase their values (Mackey et al., 2007). Beside these, few existing studies have pointed out that socially responsible firms can get benefit from various mediating effects like reputational improvement, healthy relation with the financial institutions for easier access of capital, good relationship with the investors and goodwill (see. Spicer 1978, Fombrun and Shanley 1990, Davis 1973, McGuire et al., 1988, Waddock and Graves 1997). In addition, some studies have reported that SRI may lead to poorer financial performance as compared to the benchmarks or conventional investments (see. Minor 2007, Ali and Szyszka 2006 etc). In a nutshell, most of the studies have shown that a positive relationship exist between the corporate social performance and the financial performance.
The research on SRI starts in the year of 1970 and improves significantly during the recent decades. Most of the studies have examined the performance of the SRI funds only. Some studies have analysed the risk-adjusted (financial) performance of the SRI funds and compared the performance with the conventional investment funds (see. Luther et al., 1992, Hamilton et al., 1993, Luther and Matatko 1994, White 1995, Sauer 1997, Statman 2000, Bauer, Koedijk and Otten 2005, Bello 2005, Geczy, Stambaugh and Levin 2005, Kreander, Gray, Power and Sinclair 2005 and Barnett and Salomon 2006 etc.). However, those studies have a limitation that performance of the investment funds depends on the skills of the investment managers (see. Baks 2003). On the other hand, a second strand of literature has examined the SRI portfolio performance based on environmental screening policy (see. Cohen, Fenn and Konar 1997, Yamashita, Sen and Roberts 1999, Darwall, Gunster, Bauer and Koedijk 2005 etc). Today, the investors typically consider a variety of criteria and at the same time the SRI fund managers also employ several screening policies like tobacco, fire arms, alcohol, adult entertainment, community, employee relation, environment and diversity (positive and negative screens) for SRI investments. Although, the above discussion is too narrow. Diltz (1995) and Guerard (1997) overcome this drawback by examining various dimensions of socially responsible investing for the US stock market. Diltz (1995) has reported that environmental and military screens lead to significant positive performance as compared to the other screens. On the other hand, Guerard (1997) has observed that socially screened portfolios don't differ from unscreened portfolios in respect of investment performance. No doubt, numerous studies have examined the relationship between the ethical behaviour of a corporate firm and its financial performance. The first well known study on SRI performance is Moskowitz (1972). He ranks 67 selected firms in terms of their level of social responsibility and reports that highly ranked firms have higher returns than the average. Similarly, in 1978, Alexander and Bucholtz have reported that insignificant relationship exists between the social responsibility and the risk-adjusted return by using the same firms considered earlier by Moskowitz. Although, some studies have reported positive relationship exists between the CSR and financial performance (see Cochran and Wood 1984, Verschoor 1998, Herrmans, Akathaporn and Mcinnes 1993 etc). But, Moore and Robson (2002) have opined that social performance of the supermarket industry is negatively related to financial performance. However, positive relationship may be found if lagged three years financial performance data is used. But the main problem of those studies is the lack of objectivity and inflexibility. Generally, the performance of the SRI portfolio means to measure risk and return and then compared those with the benchmark indices. There are problems with historical analysis namely the ethical criteria of different investors vary enormously due to their perception. Various approaches and benchmarks are used to measure the financial performance of SRI. Beside these, some additional factors such as skill of the managers and the time period over which the performance is measured may also influence the performance of the SRI. Few studies have considered those factors to measure the SRI performances. Among them, Mallin, Saadouni and Briston (1995) have compared the performance of ethical trusts with the non-ethical trusts based on the fund size and date of formation. This process eliminates specific characteristics that exist in the ethical portfolios like small firm effect and short survival period. They report that some funds (ethical & conventional) have outperformed the benchmark indices and majority of them have generated significant positive alphas. But both types of funds (ethical & conventional) have underperformed the benchmark indices when risk-adjusted measures have been used. In the same way, Gregory, Matatko and Luther (1997) have observed that both ethical and conventional trust funds have underperformed than the general market at the time of controlling for a size selection bias in the SRI portfolio and they have argued that SRI funds have produced lower alpha as compared to the conventional funds. Beside these, Bauer, Koedijk and Otten (2002) have applied multi-factor Carhart (1997) model to measure the performance of SRI funds. They have observed a little evidence of significant differences exist between the SRI funds and the conventional funds when risk-adjusted measures are used and also found insignificant differences between the Australian SRI funds and the conventional funds when conditional multifactor model is considered. Several authors have shown that the consideration of survivorship bias influence the average fund performance (see Brown et al., 1992). Similarly, Humphrey and Lee (2011) have observed that insignificant performance differences exist between the SRI and the conventional funds when one factor model of Jensen (1968), three factor model of Fama-French (1992) and four factor model of Carhart (1997) are used.
More specifically the objective of the study as under:
In this study two types of data have been considered namely data on social responsibility (collected from KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. formerly known as MCSI) and financial performance (collected from Data stream). Generally, KLD applies some screening process to monitor the SRI. In 2003 the database includes all stocks from the Russell 3000 index. Here, the study has used rating data of stocks of S&P 500 and DS 400 (650 stocks) indices. In general, KLD uses both positive and negative screens at the time of evaluation. During the study period, KLD identifies seven themes namely community involvement, corporate governance, diversity, employee relations, environment, product and Human rights (see www.kld.com for detailed information about the themes and their strengths and weaknesses). The qualitative criteria are used for positive and best-in-class screening policies. Furthermore, KLD also uses exclusionary screens (negative screening policy) for companies who engage in activities like alcohol, gambling, firearms, military, nuclear power, tobacco and adult entertainment. The stock returns and accounting data have been collected from the Data Stream (namely monthly data on returns, market values, company age, R&D expenditures, net sales, book to equity, number of shares outstanding and net income). The return and accounting data have been linked with the KLD data based on ticker, name (for the oldest data) and on CUSIP code (in case of more recent data). Finally, the data on value-weighted market proxy, SMB, HML and MOM and risk free rate have been obtained from the Kenneth French's website. The study period ranges between January 2003 and December 2014.
Generally, KLD uses various criteria like positive and negative screens at the time of firms' performance evaluation. Positive screens indicate strengths and negative screens means concerns or weaknesses. Then the screens are sum up in various groups of corresponding items referring to a new theme. During this study period, KLD has identified seven themes namely community, Diversity, Employee Relation, Environment, Product, corporate governance and human rights. Each theme has strengths as well as weaknesses. The community theme relates to how the firm cooperates with society. Corporate governance deals with the firms' governance and direction. Diversity deals with the composition of the workforce. Employee relation indicates the relationship between the company and its employee. Environment is about environmental management and policies. Product deals with the production process and quality of the product. Finally, human rights deals with the strengths and concerns in relation to sovereignty, land, culture, labour laws and intellectual property.
To observe the impacts of various SRI screens on screened portfolios, two socially screened portfolios have been formed and then compared the performance. Before going to discussion, firstly the study has discussed the procedure of portfolio formation. It has been done by taking into consideration the KLD rating data of stocks and then the performance of such portfolios has been measured through Carhart's four-factor model (1997). Firstly, the portfolios have been constructed based on negative screens. Generally, KLD reports rating of stocks at the end of year t-1. Based on this rating, two value weighted portfolios have been made at the beginning of year t and kept unchanged these portfolios till the end of year t because the portfolios are adjusted once a year when a company disappears from the database and the stocks of that company are sold out at the available market prices and the sale proceeds are invested in the remaining stocks of the portfolios. The low-rated portfolio consists of all stocks which involves at least one controversial business activity. On the other hand, the high-rated portfolio consists of all other stocks. Then at the end of year t, we again consider the new KLD ratings because it changes throughout the year and then constructs the portfolios which are to be maintained in year t+1 finally, that gives a time series of monthly returns for the years from 2003 to 2014. The value weighted portfolios are rebalanced in each year at the beginning of the month January. The time structure remains the same when positive screens are applied. At the end of year t-1 the ratings of all the stocks are taken including environmental screen and given rank of all the stocks. Then two value weighted portfolios are made based on this ranking at the beginning of year t namely high-rated portfolio consists of top 10% of all stocks and low-rated portfolios that consists of bottom 10% of all stocks. The study also uses various cut-offs of stocks like 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%. Both types of portfolios are held till the end of year t and when new ratings are published then the portfolios are restructured and to be maintained in the year t+1. In addition, portfolios have been made based on average positive rating (positive screens) which is called combination 1. Moreover, portfolios have also been made by combining the positive and negative screens. The study excludes all stocks which are enlisted in controversial business activities (negative screening) and then compute the average positive rating of all the remaining stocks (positive screening based on combination 1) which is called combination 2. Here, the industries are not bias free. Therefore, to overcome this problem best-in-class policy has been developed by considering the positive screening criteria. The best-in-class approach has been designed by dividing the companies into ten different industry classes (Auto mobile, Engineering, Chemical, Mining, FMCG, IT etc) based on their SIC code (Standard Industrial Classification assigned by the US Govt.) that has been taken from the Kenneth R. French data library and then rank has been assigned to the stocks according to their SRI ratings within each industry class and then portfolio for every industry class has been formed based on the positive screening policy. Thereafter, another portfolio has been formed by combining the different industry portfolios and imposed weight according to the CRSP industry weights which acts as (best-in-class) industry balanced portfolio. To examine the abnormal return performance of the various screens, the whole period is divided into three equal sub periods. The duration of each sub period is consisted of four calendar years. The reason behind to select equal sub period is that to avoid possible bias in the time period and information. The study doesn't consider separately the effect of recession during the year 2008 because the crisis period has already been included during the sub period from 2007 to 2010.
The study has applied Carhart (1997) four-factor model to measure the performance of the high-rated and low-rated portfolios which controls the impacts of market risk, size effect, book-to-market effect and the momentum effect on return performance. It is assumed that socially responsible mutual funds differ from their traditional counterparts when loading factors are considered. It may be expected that different factor loadings act differently for high-rated as well as low-rated portfolios. To control such differences, the following regression has been estimated:
Rsri,t – Rft = αsri + βsri(Rmt – Rft) + λsriSMBt + γsriHMLt + ϕsriMOMt + esri,t (1)
Where, Rsri,t is the return of the SRI portfolio at time t that acts as dependent variable, Rft is the risk free rate of return at time t (one month treasury bill rate), Rmt is the return of a value weighted market portfolio (CRSP index) at time t, SMBt is the difference between the monthly return of small and large-cap portfolio in month t, HML denotes the difference between a high and low book-to-market portfolio in month t, MOMt is the return difference between the portfolios of stocks with high and low[1] returns over the past twelve months, which captures the risk due to the momentum observed in the stock returns. αsri, βsri, λsri, γsri and ϕsri are the coefficients to be estimated and esri,t is the error term with zero mean and constant standard deviation.
[1] A stock with high book-to-market ratio denotes value stock and low book-to-market indicates growth stock.
Result & Discussion:
Table 1 presents the cross-sectional correlation matrix between different screens (qualitative and negative) based on ratings. It is found that the cross-sectional correlation coefficients between most of the screens are positive and in some cases are found to be negative. The negative correlation coefficients have been observed between the negative as well as the positive screens. The highest cross-sectional correlation coefficient has been found by the negative screens between the alcohol and tobacco (0.51).
Table 1 Correlation Matrix of various Screens
The performance of portfolios (High-rated portfolio, Low-rated portfolio and Long-Short strategy) based on both screens (negative and positive) has been presented in table two. It has
been observed that the market risk of three types of portfolios (High-rated portfolio, Low-rated portfolio and Long-Short strategy) has a significant impact on the excess return and the coefficients are significant in most cases. Hence, the investors can control these effects when they compare the high and low rated portfolios. Thus, the Carhart's alpha is more rational than Jensen alpha to manage these effects. Now, the performance of the portfolios made by negative screens has been examined. Here, the low-rated portfolios consist of all the stocks engage at least one controversial business activities and the high-rated portfolios consist of all other stocks. It has been observed that both types of portfolios (high-rated & low-rated) have delivered insignificant positive alphas. Here, both types of portfolios are part in the KLD universe. Therefore, the alphas of the stocks in KLD universe are positive and produce better returns than the market index (CRSP universe). In case of long-short strategy, (long in high-rated portfolios and short in low-rated portfolios) it has been found that the alpha value is negative. But MOM factor has a significant impact on the long-short strategy. In case of high-rated as well as low-rated portfolios HML has the positive effect on returns and in other cases have negative impacts. In a nutshell, it may be argued that portfolios based on negative screening policy have failed to provide abnormal returns.
Now the study has examined the performance of the portfolios made by the positive screens. The high-rated portfolios have been formed by the positive screens or combinations of screens consist of 10% of all stocks with the highest rating. It has been found that the alpha values of the long-short strategy on community, diversity, employee relation, environment and human rights screens are positive and negative for the remaining screens (product & Governance). It has also been observed that the alpha values of community, employee relation, environment, combination 1 (based on positive screens) and combination 2 (based on positive and negative screens) are statistically significant. Similarly, the alpha values of the high-rated portfolios are significant for community, Employee relation, environment, governance, human rights, combination 1 and combination 2 screens and those have provided to the investors abnormal returns. On the other hand, the alpha value of the diversity and product screens is insignificantly positive. Similarly, the alpha values of the low-rated portfolios are positively significant on employee relation, environment, product and governance screens. In the same way, the alpha value of the long short strategy based on positive screening policy for community, employee relation, environment, combination 1 and combination 2 is statistically significant. But, when the study has examined the performance of the SRI portfolios made by positive screens on different factor loadings like SMB, HML and MOM, it has been observed that a significant differences exist between the high-rated, low-rated and the long-short strategy. Ii has been found that the impact of coefficients of SMB based on positive screening policy are significantly negative on various screens for high rated and low rated portfolios (except diversity screen on low rated portfolio is negative but insignificant) as well as for the long short strategy. In case of book-to-market (HML) factor, the high-rated and low-rated portfolios have shown significant positive impact on human right screen and in other cases they are systematically different and these differences are followed by combination 1 and combination 2 respectively. The HML effect on long-short strategy based on positive screening policy is negatively significant except for human rights screen (negative not significant). Finally, the coefficients of MOM factor on high rated portfolios are negatively significant on the screens based on positive screening policy. Similarly, the MOM factor of low rated portfolios on diversity, employee relation, human rights and both combinations are also negatively significant and the MOM effects on community, diversity, environment, product, human rights and combination (combination 1 & 2) screens are negatively significant on long-short strategy based on positive screening policy. It has been observed that the impact of various factors on portfolios (high rated, low rated & long short) based on positive screening policy, combination 2 screen has performed satisfactory than the other screens.
satisfactory than the other screens.
Table 2 Performance of Negative & Positive screening policy
Note: Abnormal return, factor loadings and adjusted R2 for each screen based on four-factor model. High rated portfolio based on negative screen consists of all companies excluding companies which are in controversial business activities. Low-rated portfolio based on negative screen consists of companies which are in controversial business activities. The long-short portfolio is a trading strategy going long in the high-rated and short in the low-rated portfolio. ** & * indicate 5% and 1% level.
The performance of various screens based on best-in-class screening policy has been presented in table three. It has been observed that the alpha values of community, diversity, employee relation, combination 1 and combination 2 screens based on long-short strategy are significantly positive and satisfactory as compared to the negative screening policy in terms of abnormal returns. The R2 values of various screened portfolios based on best-in-class approach are higher than the positive and negative screening policies which indicate that best-in-class approach is superior to the negative and positive screening approaches. On the other hand, the impact of various factors (SMB, HML and MOM) on different screened portfolios based on best-in-class approach is more or less same like the positive and negative screening approaches.
Table 3 Performance of Best-in-Class screening policy
Now the study has examined the impact of transaction cost on various screens that ranges between 0 and 200 basis points when long-short strategy is applied based on different screening policies (negative, positive and best-in-class approach). The transaction cost of the investors includes cost of forming portfolios at the beginning of the year 2003, adjustment cost of the portfolios within the period and the cost of closing the portfolios at the end of the year 2014. The study has considered round-trip transaction cost as suggested by Derwall, Gunster, Bauer and Koedijk (2005) which is ranges between 0 and 200 basis points. Here, the return of the long-short portfolio has been computed by taking into consideration the return difference between the high-rated and low-rated portfolios minus sum of transaction costs for each portfolio. The value of alpha (based on four-factor-measure) of negative, positive and best-in-class screening policies on various screens has been provided in table four. It has been observed that when the transaction cost has increased from 0 to 200 basis points then the value of alpha has decreased based on negative screening approach and this trend is followed by the positive screening policy on various screens and this fact is more alarming in case of negative, product and governance screens. However, some of the screens like Community (0 and 50 basis points), Employee relation (0, 50 and 100 bps), Environment (0), combination 1 (0, 50 and 150 bps) and combination 2 (0) have provided significant positive alpha for long-short strategy.
Similarly, the study has also examined the impact of alpha on various SRI screens at different level of transaction costs based on best-in-class approach. It has been observed from panel B that impact of alpha on product, governance and human rights is negative when transaction cost has increased from 0 to 200 basis points. But some of the SRI screens like community, diversity, employee relation, environment and both the combinations have provided positive alpha comparatively at a decrease rate and in some cases have provided significant alphas that leads to higher returns. The alpha values based on best-in-class approach are positively significant at 0, 50, 100 and 150 basis points for community screen, 0 bps for diversity screen, 0, 50, 100 and 150 bps for employee relation screen, 0 bps for governance screen, 0 bps for human rights screen, and 0 and 50 bps for combination 1 and combination 2 screens as compared to the negative and positive screening approaches for long-short strategy. In a nutshell, it may be argued that best-in-class approach is comparatively satisfactory than negative and positive screening approaches in terms of abnormal returns at different levels of transaction costs when long short strategy is applied.
Table 4 Alphas of the long-short strategy after transaction costs
Panel A: Negative & Positive Screening
Panel B: Best-in-Class Screening
The performance of alpha of the long-short strategy based on positive and best-in-class approaches at various cut-off points (cut-off points based on portfolio chosen) has been presented in table five. Here, the cut-off point ranges between 5% and 50%. It has been observed from the table (Panel A) that very few SRI screens like community (5% & 10%), Diversity (10%), employee relation (5%, 10%, 20% & 30%) and Combination 1 (10%) have offered significant positive alphas based on positive screening policy for long-short strategy. Although their statistical significance has decreased with the enhancement of cut-offs consideration.
Similarly, it has also been found that best-in-class-approach has produced satisfactory alpha on several screens at various cut-offs (Panel B). Although, some of the screens (product and governance) have produced negative alphas at various cut-offs which is almost same like the positive screening policy. The radical change has been occurred in combination 1 and combination 2 in terms of significant alpha (significant at various cut-off points except 40% & 50% cut-offs for combination 2 and 50% cut-off for combination 1) as compared to the positive screening policy. Although, employee relation screen has provided satisfactory performance on long-short strategy when 30% cut-off has been considered based on the positive screening policy as compared to the best-in-class approach. Similarly, best-in-class approach has provided highest significant alpha when 50% cut-off has been considered on community screen based on best-in-class approach as compared to the positive screening policy for long-short strategy. Here, both the combination screens have provided significant alpha when 40% and 30% cut-offs have been considered based on best-in-class approach as compared to the positive screening approach. Finally, it may be argued that SRI screens have played an important role when investors have applied long-short strategy at the time of SRI investment.
Table 5 Alphas of the Long-Short Strategy for Various Cut-off
Panel A: Positive Screening
Panel B: Best-in-Class Screening
The study has also examined the performance of the equally-weighted portfolios based on long-short strategy on different SRI screens and screening policies and also examined the relationship with the value-weighted portfolios. It has been found from table six that the alpha value is negative for long short strategy based on negative screening policy. It has also been observed that the equally-weighted portfolios have provided positive alpha on various SRI screens when long-short strategy has been applied based on positive and best-in-class approaches. Some of the SRI screens like community, employee relation and both the combination screens have delivered significant positive alpha based on positive screening policy. Similarly, community, and both the combination screens have also provided significant alpha based on best-in-class approach. The alpha values of the long-short strategy for equally-weighted portfolios based on positive and best-in-class approaches have found to be positive that is similar to the evidence provided by the value-weighted portfolios. Finally, it may be concluded that when negative screening policy is considered for long-short strategy then the alpha value is become negative but in case of combination of screens the alpha value is found to be positive and the result is quite similar to the result provided by the value-weighted portfolios.
Table 6 Alphas of the Long-Short Strategy for Equally-weighted portfolios
Note: This table highlights for each screen the annualized abnormal return in terms of alpha value based on Carhart four-factor model. The portfolios are equally-weighted.
Finally, the study has examined the performance of the various SRI screens when different screening policies have been considered and their impact on different sub-periods based on long-short strategy. Here, the whole period has been divided into three equal sub-periods. It has been observed from table seven that the alpha values have been found to be negative in three sub periods for long short strategy when considered negative screening policy. Hence, it may be concluded that there is no difference in alpha performance in three sub periods based on negative screening policy. Beside this, some of the screens have provided significant positive abnormal returns based on positive and best-in-class approaches in consecutive three sub-periods (Community, Diversity & Employee Relation). Although, the employee relation screen has failed to provide significant abnormal return based on best-in-class approach during the sub-period 2007-2010. It has also been observed that product and human rights screens have provided negative performance based on positive and best-in-class approaches in three consecutive periods. It may be said that their (Product & Human Rights) impact on SRI portfolios based on long-short strategy is same in three sub periods. In case of other screens like environment, governance and both combinations have provided positive alphas in three sub-periods based on long-short strategy. Although, it has been found that the governance screen has delivered significant positive performance based on best-in-class approach during the period 2011-2014. Similarly, combination 1 screen has also produced significant positive performance based on positive screening policy during the period 2011-2014 as compared to the other sub-periods. In addition, combination 2 has also provided significant positive performance based on best-in-class approach in three sub-periods based on long-short strategy. Therefore, it may be argued that the performances based on long-short strategy for various screening policies don't fluctuate in a rapid way in between three sub-periods. Finally, it may be concluded that the alpha performance based on long-short strategy for various screening approaches don't deviate significantly in three sub-periods.
Table 7 Alphas of the Long-Short Strategy for different sub-periods
Conclusion & Recommendation:
Today, the investors incorporate various SRI screens before going to invest. The general assumption behind it that inclusion of various SRI screens no doubt affects financial performance of the portfolios. This study has shown that whether investors can increase their performance by employing various SRI screens, different screening policies and by following a simple trading strategy. It has been observed that the performances of the SRI portfolios have found to be lucrative based on positive or best-in-class screening approaches than the negative policies. The performance of alpha based on negative screening policy on long-short strategy has found to be negative in all cases. Although, some of the screens have provided abnormal returns based on positive and best-in-class approaches when long-short strategy has been considered. However, it has been found that best-in-class approach is superior to other screening approaches regarding abnormal returns based on long-short strategy. But, in a nutshell, it may be concluded that past SRI rating is the valuable information to the investors when they go for SRI investments based on various SRI screens and Screening policies and if they consider some trading strategies. Consideration of various SRI screens (Positive screens) improves return performance. Here, is a question whether inclusion of various SRI screens improves return performance or not. The other factors have an impact on the return performance or not. Whether SRI return is predictable or SRI market is volatile is the scope of further research.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Barley & Lentil Soup: Wheat-free
8 comments:
- Hannah said...
That's not Lora Leigh Nash, is it?? I totally know her and I think she lives in NC somewhere...
Glad you found a recipe that works... I LOVE lentils and barley so I'll have to try this one out.
- Apr 25, 2010, 4:15:00 PM
- Ali-kat said...
It is indeed. She lives around the corner from me. How do you know her?
- Apr 25, 2010, 5:02:00 PM
- Joe and Lora Leigh said...
Wow... small world, isn't it? I met Hannah in college when Joe roomed with Garrett. Garrett's mom had me set them up in the same apartment since I was dating Joe and Garrett and I grew up in the same stake... yeh, that's about the simplest way I can think of explaining it. How fun to cross paths in a random place! How do you know Hannah?
- Apr 25, 2010, 9:33:00 PM
- Ali-kat said...
Hannah and I grew up in the same ward, but I was far enough ahead of her that she was one of my first students in the primary when I was 18. I know her whole family pretty well, and she mine. This is a very small world.
- Apr 25, 2010, 10:04:00 PM
- Heather said...
Awesome! So I have to ask you if you are feeling any better yet with the new diet restrictions?! I hope so!
- Apr 26, 2010, 9:24:00 AM
- Ali-kat said...
I am feeling a lot better. My energy levels are way up and I am sickly much less of the time.
- Apr 27, 2010, 9:46:00 AM
Barley is not gluten-free.
- Dec 25, 2010, 10:10:00 PM
- Ali-kat said...
I stand corrected. I changed the title to match that it is in fact free of wheat gluten, which I stated in the body of the text. Thanks for catching the typo.
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Weather and climate are both affected by molecules present in our atmosphere (a thin layer of gases that surrounds our earth). Many of these gases have come to be known as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and include water vapour, methane, ozone, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and chlorofluorocarbons. GHGs are so named because they function analogously to glass in a greenhouse—allowing solar radiation to heat up the Earth and preventing this energy from escaping back through the atmosphere. Currently, the average global temperature is about 15oC but without the greenhouse effect it would most likely be closer to -18oC. The greenhouse effect is important because it makes the temperature of Earth suitable for life forms. Gases that comprise our atmosphere also help to protect us from the Sun's harmful UV radiation.
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ILO-7. Accessing data using web services via HydroDesktop
- Due Nov 1, 2012 by 3pm
- Points 100
- Submitting a file upload
- Available after Oct 25, 2012 at 3pm
Learning Objectives
- Install HydroDesktop and the R statistics package.
- Use HydroDesktop to search for data on the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System,
- Use HydroDesktop to download and visualize hydrologic data
- Use HydroDesktop to delineate watersheds and create maps of a study area
- Use HydroDesktop to analyze data and prepare graphs of results.
Computer and Data Requirements
- You will need to download HydroDesktop from http://www.hydrodesktop.org/
- You will also need to download and install R from http://r-project.org/
The Problem
Using the data and instructions in the attached document, analyze the well data from Jacob's Well. (HydroDesktop Exercise Document Link). Create appropriate graphs and maps indicating the drainage area and monitoring data. Use the R plugin in HydroDesktop to determine the fraction of well water which is likely from surface sources.
Create a one page summary of your results with attachments showing your graph and map results. If you can generate all of the output figures in the exercise you will receive full credit for the analysis portion of this ILO. Additional figures and maps which enhance your presentation will be considered for extra credit.
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ICSTI 2017 GENERAL ASSEMBLY & WORKSHOPS WAS HELD IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON 26th OCTOBER. The meeting was hosted by the Library of Congress and preceded the 80th Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held 27th October-1st November 2017, giving ICSTI delegates the opportunity to attend both events.
Organised as part of this event, the ITOC and TACC Workshops, were prepared by ICSTI's Information Trends and Opportunities Committee and Technical Activities Coordinating Committee, and respectively chaired by Margret Plank (TIB Hannover) and Brian Hitson (DOE/OSTI). Both sessions were open to all.
Next Generation Metrics for Open Science
As science shifts towards collaborative endeavour, transparency of process and increasing significance of data driven research, new modes of work and expertise are emerging in academia. However, common metrics which aim to benchmark the impact and value of research mostly emphasize traditional scientific outputs (publications in high impact journals). Novel bases and methods of research and forms of scholarly communication are not included, e.g. data curation, data publication, new modes of scientific output including video abstracts, blogs, micropublications and the sharing of scientific tools and software. To develop new modes of scholarly communication and activity that ensure transparency, reproducibility and reusability, additional systems are necessary to recognize and value new scientific roles (e.g. data experts) and new incentive/accreditation processes for science researchers. This workshop presents thoughts on how to address these imperatives for change.
Presenters/Slides (Alphabetical Order)
Julia Klebanov, Moore Foundation
Challenges in Evaluating Basic Science Investments : a Funder's Perspective - PRESENTATION*
Julia Lane, NYU Wagner School, Center for Urban Science and Progress
Measurement matters
Vincent Larivière, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal
What do open science indicators measure ? - PRESENTATION*
Daniella Lowenberg, California Digital Library
Make Data Count - PRESENTATION*
Paul Wouters, Director Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University
Next-generation altmetrics :-responsible metrics and evaluation for open science - PRESENTATION*
* In the absence of specific copyright markings, please observe fair use principles or contact the presenter for re-use permissions.
Machine Learning and Its Applications to Scientific and Technical Information
Machine learning may be the next great innovation in knowledge search and discovery. Machine learning describes what happens in machines that get trained to perform a task by exposure to examples of what they're supposed to learn. It's already happening all around us in the development of facial and object recognition ; self-driving cars ; instant language translation ; and speech recognition. This workshop will explore machine learning and its applications relevant to science and, more specifically, to various forms of scientific and technical information, including images, data, and text.
Presenters/Slides (Alphabetical Order)
Lee Angelelli, IBM
Applying Cognitive Computing to Understand and Answer Users Information Needs - PRESENTATION*
Andrew Fast, CounterFlow AI
A Brief History of Machine Learning - PRESENTATION*
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts
AI for Representation and Reasoning in Knowledge Bases of Science
Ray Shan, Yewno
Using AI to Enhance Research - PRESENTATION*
Georgia Tourassi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Deep Learning Enabled National Cancer Surveillance - PRESENTATION*
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Reserved for ICSTI members and invited guests, the General Assembly is a session devoted to the association governance,
As a now regular feature of the ICSTI events, member organisations are invited to share with fellow delegates highlights of projects/initiatives/innovations that they recently completed or are implementing via 10/15-minute member-to-member présentations.
This time in Washington, we were pleased to listen to presentations by :
Donna Sheeder – IFLA : Her talk focused on the some key IFLA initiatives : IFA's international advocacy program for Access to information through Libraries as critical to the achievement of the the UN Sustainable Development Goals, IFLA's global vision program, and the Library Map of the World.
Regina Romano Reynolds – ISSN : Regina provided an overview of the ISSN Network's strategy to provide enhanced access to ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) data will include plans for enhancing the ISSN International Centre's operations, infrastructure, data, products and services, communications, and partnerships.
Tomoko Steen – LoC : Tomoko's short presentation introduced LC's new approach to digital preservation of rare and historical materials at the Library of Congress and other digital initiatives with some examples.
Thanks to all for a a highly informative and enlightening day !
Held as an Associated Event with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 9th Plenary meeting , the ICSTI 2017 Annual Members' Meeting & Workshops took place on Tuesday, 4th April 2017 at the Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
As is now customary, this ICSTI Annual Members' Meeting & Workshops comprised three parts : the Members-only session, the ITOC Workshop, and the TACC Workshop, both workshops being open to ICSTI and non-ICSTI delegates.
ITOC and TACC WORKSHOPS
The ITOC and TACC workshops, organised by the Information Trends and Opportunities Committee and the Technical Activities Coordinating Committee of ICSTI were respectively chaired by Margret Plank (TIB) and Carly Robinson (DOE/OSTI)
Workshop Title
'Enhanced Publications : Approaches to Maximising the Value of Digital Assets to Enhance Scientific Publications'
Workshop Description
Current research is presented by a variety of digital assets. Besides text research also includes visualized research data, video, graphics, models and even software code. These digital assets are an important element of contemporary scientific outputs and thus part of our cultural heritage. Unfortunately, no sustainable standard has become established for handling these important assets. Only a negligible proportion of those digital assets are accessible at present, whilst scientific texts are, in principle, sufficiently well-documented and available. This can lead to serious problems when it comes to verify, reproduce and reuse the research results. In this workshop we'd like to focus on approaches and strategies for integration, re-use and re-purposing of data and digital content within scientific publications.
Workshop Speakers - Alphabetical order
Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute - Software - a different type of research object ?
Maarten Cleeren, Elsevier - Elsevier : Elsevier's Article of the Future
Markus Kaindl, Springer Nature - Springer Nature SciGraph – Building a Linked Data Knowledge Graph for the scholarly publishing domain
Marco Stella, JoVE - Our Shared Role in Solving Science's Reproducibility Crisis
Final workshop program and embedded presentation slides >>>
Workshop Title :
'Scientific Data Repositories : Use Cases, Innovation, and Best Practices'
Workshop Description
Research funding in recent years often comes with the condition to make some of the resulting data openly available. Scientific data can be made available through a number of mechanisms, including being hosted in general scientific data repositories. This workshop will explore various data repositories and data discovery tools, their plans for long term preservation and access to the data they host, provenance and updating/versioning of data, and cross-repository integration and search.
Workshop Speakers - Alphabetical order
Amir Aryani, ANDS - Research Data Switchboard
Ingrid Dillo & Peter Doorn, DANS - FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories : Everybody wants to play FAIR, but how do we put the principles into practice ?
Angelina Kraft, TIB - Establishing a generic Research Data Repository : RADAR
William Michener, DataONE - Supporting Data Discovery, Sharing and Reproducibility to Enable New Science
Tim Smith, CERN - Zenodo : A Research Data Repository for All
Dan Valen, figshare - Active Research Data Management Workflows through to Preservation
Final workshop program and embedded presentation slides >>>
Reserved for ICSTI members and invited guests, the Members-only session is devoted to the association running and governance,
As a now regular feature of the ICSTI events, member organisations are invited to share with fellow delegates highlights of projects/initiatives/innovations that they recently completed or are implementing via 10/15-minute member-to-member presentations.
In Barcelona, presentations were provided by :
Jan Brase – Goettingen State and University Library
>>> More on Jan
Kathleen Shearer – Confederation of Open Access Repositories. (Guest presentation on key RDA Interest Groups)
>>> More on Kathleen
Jiao Li – Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
>>> More on Jiao
Member-to-Member presentations can be downloaded from the Members' page.
Impressions of the workshops
The ICSTI 2016 General Assembly & Workshops meeting took place on Saturday, 10 September 2016 in Denver, Colorado, USA, immediately preceding the International Data Week (11-17 September) organised by CODATA, ICSU World Data System, and RDA, associate members and partner of ICSTI.
This ICSTI event comprised three parts : the General Assembly - reserved for ICSTI Members - and two workshops organised by our Information Trends and Opportunities Committee (ITOC) and Technical Activities Coordinating Committee (TACC). Both workshops were open to any delegates.
Thanks to all our speakers, member and non-member delegates, chairs of the ITOC and TACC workshops and our International Data Week partners for a wonderful ICSTI General Assembly 2017 !.
Presenter slides can be downloaded from the Member's page.
Workshop title
'Enabling Innovations for Researcher Workflows and Scholarly Communication'
Workshop description
The way science and research are organised and communicated has changed massively over the last couple of years. Driven by the globalisation of the scientific community, new approaches and tools are used for information-sharing and collaboration. Made possible by digital network technologies, they have an impact on the entire research cycle, from inception to publication as well as on the way in which the research cycle itself is organised. This workshop provides a platform for presenting, sharing and discussing best practice regarding the application of innovations for researcher workflows and scholarly communication.
Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer, 101 innovations in scholarly communication - 'Innovations in scholarly communication : openness, efficiency and reproducibility drivers'
Cameron Neylon, Force 11 - 'From Principles to Action - The FORCE11 approach to innovation in scholarly communications'
Lambert Heller, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) - 'Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as a platform for collaborative annotation and reuse for scientific data'
Courtney Soderberg, COS-Center for Open Science - 'An Open Science Framework for managing and sharing research workflows'
Alex Viggio, University of Colorado Boulder - 'Lessons Learned from the OpenVIVO Experiment'
To read the ITOC workshop program, click the corresponding icon below.
Presenter slides can be downloaded from the Member's page.
Workshop title :
'Trends in Scientific Software Development, Sharing, and Use'
Workshop description
This session will explore the role of software in science. Specifically, the evolving role of software developers in the R&D landscape will be examined, and trends in coding practices, remote collaboration, and software sharing across vast, science-focused enterprises will be explored. Use cases for open source versus proprietary software will be provided as well as illustrations of commonly-used tools and platforms for collaboration and sharing. Emerging methods and practices for measuring the impact and use of scientific software will also be discussed, along with practices for linking software and related research objects (e.g., papers, datasets, multimedia, etc.). The needs and expectations of scientists and other patrons of technical libraries and information tools will also be discussed in the context of scientific software and related research objects.
Jay Billings, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information - 'The New Department of Energy Software Center'
Andrea Ross, Eclipse Foundation - 'Eclipse Foundation : A symphony of R&D collaboration'
James Willenbring , Sandia National Laboratories - 'The IDEAS Scientific Software Productivity Project'
Fernando Pérez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - 'Project Jupyter : from interactive data science to reproducible computing in HPC environments'
Eleonora Presani, Elsevier - 'SoftwareX – A new Open Access software journal'
To read the TACC workshop program, click the corresponding icon below.
This year's General Assembly was worth attending for at least two reasons :
The election of the new ICSTI Governance for the 2016-2019 triennium took place during the meeting
Member organisations were invited to share with fellow delegates highlights of projects/initiatives/innovations that they recently completed or are implementing via short 10-minute presentations during the meeting.
Member-to-Member presentations can be downloaded from the Member's page.
The ICSTI 2016 Annual Members' Meeting & Workshops meeting took place on Saturday 20 February at the DoubleTree Hotel in Philadelphia, PA, USA, immediately preceding the NFAIS Conference on 21-23 February.
As part of the 2016 Annual Members' Meeting (AMM), the ICSTI ITOC and TACC committees organized two workshops. Both explored the common theme of
Text and Data Mining.
Open to all ICSTI and non-ICSTI delegates, the workshops provided a forum for presenting how a number of different communities are exploring TDM opportunities. Attendees were offered the chance to interact with and learn from eminent experts covering a number of domains - including libraries, publishers and scientists - who addressed the theme from multiple perspectives. A wide range of disciplines, such as the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, were represented, discussing new solutions, challenges and strategies focusing on TDM.
Chairs of ITOC and TACC, Margret Plank and Brian Hitson welcomed the presenter pannel including Justin Fessler, IBM Watson Solutions ; Heather Joseph, SPARC ; Peter Mutschke, GESIS ; Chris Shillum, Elsevier ; Alex Wade, Microsoft Research ; Chuck Koscher, Crossref ; Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge ; Babis Marmanis, CCC ; and Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University.
Presenter slides can be downloaded from the Member's page.
ICSTI sincerely thanks our Sponsors whose generosity in providing financial support contributed significantly to the success of this event.
The ICSTI 2015 General Assembly & Workshops meeting took place on Saturday, 4 July in Hannover, Germany at the Hannover Congress Centre - www.hcc.de. The event was held in co-location with the 36th Conference of the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL), an Associate Member of ICSTI, organized on 5-9 July under the heading 'Strategic Partnerships for Access and Discovery'.
Following the General Assembly session reserved for members, the workshops organized by the Information Trends and Opportunities Committee (ITOC) and the Technical Activities Coordinating Committee (TACC) gathered a panel of international experts addressing the themes of Open Science and Open Data and Innovation. Those two attracting and thought-provoking sessions were open to non-ICSTI delegates.
Retrieve the event schedule and the workshop programs in the respective headings below.
The workshop presentation slides are available in the ICSTI website Member's Area for members to download.
Report drafted by the JST representative at the meeting, Ms Akiko Fujii — Japanese version
The ICSTI 2015 ANNUAL MEMBERS' MEETING —AMM— took place on 19 January in Berlin. The meeting was organized in conjunction with the 10th APE Conference titled 'Web25 : The Road Ahead. Exploring the Future of Scholarly Communication & Academic Publishing' and was held in parallel with the APE 2015 Pre-Conference Day.
A one-day event, this year AMM was composed of member-only sessions devoted to business affairs and also presented two workshops organised by the Information Trends and Opportunities Committee (ITOC) and the Technical Activities Coordinating Committee (TACC) open to non-ICSTI delegates.
DATE : Monday, 19 January 2015
VENUE : NH Hotel Berlin Mitte (Room Friedrich 3), Leipziger Strasse 106 -111, 10117 Berlin, Germany
ITOC WORSHOP : Themed " Managing 'Real' Impacts of Science in the Digital Age ", this workshop gathered policy experts, publishers, and creators of web tools who presented their views on the challenges and potential solutions for effectively evaluating and measuring the impact of scientific research in the digital age. Speakers included experts from EMBO, Kudos, and SPRU/University of Sussex. ITOC Workshop description
TACC WORSHOP : Titled " Innovations in Search and Analysis ", this workshop focused on techniques, technologies and tools that make text or non-textual information more discoverable or that help guide users across different forms of scientific and technical information (STI) - text, multimedia, numeric data, etc. The speakers included experts from the German National Library of Science and Technology-TIB involved in non-textual searching tools and from FIZ Karslruhe in the mathematics area. TACC Workshop description
Report drafted by the JST representative attending the event, Ms Yuko Endo — Japanese version
We are very grateful for the financial support towards the ICSTI 2015 Annual Members' Meeting provided by :


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In this unique collaboration, world history author Christopher Lloyd introduces 10 key moments in the history of science and the sounds used to represent them, before an extraordinary 21-minute soundscape written by composer Jill Jarman is performed by sound artist and musician Evelyn Glennie.
This event is part of Cambridge Science Festival 2017.


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Starring: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel and Knud Rex
Hunger is not just about food. Per Oscarsson plays the lead character, Pontus, who appears to be a writer, but never seems to write very much. He's a very odd character, prone to disputing with police the time of day, occasionally looking for a regular job, following women, but always wandering about the capitol, Kristiania (what would later be called Oslo) with his paper and pencil jotting down strange things. But the title refers to much more than the obvious, for Oscarsson not only hungers for food, but for a job, for money, for love, for . . . dignity.
Though he is staying in a cheap room in the beginning, he soon becomes homeless. But ultimately food is the primary focus of his all his attention. He frequently stops in front of store windows, staring at the food. He goes to the meat market, the bakery, restaurants, but the only thing he ever chews on is paper. What's interesting is that he refuses to get in line at the soup kitchen and get a hot meal. Instead he lies to everyone he knows, saying that things are much better than they are, unwilling to admit to anyone that he needs help. At one point he chases down a dog for the bone in its mouth but the animal is too fast. It takes a while for the significance of the title to really penetrate the viewer's consciousness, probably not until he begins hallucinating from the lack of food. It's not until then that the character begins to makes sense.
Though set in 1890, this is very much a sixties film: crisp, clear, almost video quality black and white, with all of the sound effects and dialogue dubbed in afterward. The actors, while costumed appropriately also feel as if they are from a different generation, in this case two. Director Henning Carlsen, who also adapted the novel into a screenplay, displays some distinctive Scandinavian traits, one of which is liberal use of quick pans to show what the characters are looking at instead of cuts. It's a very subjective use of the camera, one shared by Carl Theodor Dreyer. The soundtrack, by Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda, is angular and sparse, in instrumentation as well as usage, giving the film a very haunted feel. Komeda would go on the next year to compose the score of Rosemary's Baby for Roman Polanski, but died at age 37 in 1969.
The story is based on the novel Sult by the famed Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun, and the film sort of suffers for it. Hamsun's novel is very much in the tradition of Russian writers like Dostoevsky or Chekov in that the bulk of the narrative is internal dialogue by the protagonist. As such, a visual medium like film can't begin to convey the richness of character simply by showing the events that happen to him. In addition, there's a strong sense that the essence of the character was left out in the selection of scenes that were chosen for inclusion, and that much more could have been revealed by things that were left out. It's a difficult thing to assess. Carlsen does a nice job and it is a film worth watching, such as it is. Ultimately, however, Hunger is probably best viewed after reading the novel, allowing the viewer to fill in for themselves the prodigious gaps in the story that would probably leave those not having read the story wanting.


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1. Zac Efron searches for his lucky charm in THE LUCKY ONE. He returns from three tours of Iraq and travels across the country to search for the woman, whose picture he found during battle. This one picture, he believes, kept him alive. Also starring: Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner & Riley Thomas Stewart. A love session for the weekend?
2. The class of '99 return in AMERICAN PIE: REUNION. All of the old gang are back with more hilarious results I'm sure. This time they meet at their old school reunion and realise despite their new maturity, things are still pretty much the same. Starring: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Sean William Scott & Chris Klein. Fancy a cringe worthy Jim moment?
3. Jason Statham kicks more serious ass, all for the sake of a young girl, in SAFE. The memory of this girl holds a priceless numerical code causing the Triads, Russian Mob and corrupt NYC cops to hunt her down. Cue Mr Statham as the only man willing to protect her. Also starring: Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon & Robert John Burke. See Statham doing what he does best?
4. Finally is a film shot in real time, SILENT HOUSE. The 85 minute run time is the actual 85 minutes taking place in the film. It sees Elizabeth Olsen trapped inside her family's lakeside house unable to contact the outside world as strange beings begin to stalk her from inside and outside the house. Also starring: Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens & Julia Taylor Ross.
There are you 4 releases of the week. I think it will be a mixed bag to what people will see, all depending on your age and your gender. Come back Monday and read what film I went to see.


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