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From the evening of Sunday, June 16 to the morning of Saturday, June 29, 2019, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will sponsor the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, to be held at Princeton University. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). The co-organizers and principal faculty of the Summer Institute are Christopher Bail and Matthew Salganik. In addition to the event at Princeton, there will also be a number of partner locations run by alumni of the 2017 and 2018 Summer Institute, which will be hosted in Bamberg, Germany (University of Bamberg), Boston, MA (MIT), Cape Town, South Africa (University of Cape Town), Chicago, IL (Northwestern University), Istanbul, Turkey (Kadir Has University), Los Angeles, CA (UCLA), Monterrey, Mexico (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León), Oxford, United Kingdom (Oxford University), New York, NY (Hunter College-CUNY), Research Triangle Park, NC (RTI International), and Zürich, Switzerland (ETH Zürich).
The instructional program will involve lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. There will also be outside speakers who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics. There will be ample opportunities for students to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting speakers. Because we are committed to open and reproducible research, all materials created by faculty and students for the Summer Institute will be released open source.
Participation is restricted to Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, and untenured faculty within 7 years of their Ph.D. Most participant costs during the workshop, including housing and most meals, will be covered, and most travel expenses will be reimbursed up to a set cap. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and fields of study, especially applicants from groups currently under-represented in computational social science. About thirty participants will be invited, and participants are expected to fully attend and participate in the entire two-week program.
Application materials are due Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
Matthew Salganik is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, and he is affiliated with several of Princeton's interdisciplinary research centers: the Office for Population Research, the Center for Information Technology Policy, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests include social networks and computational social science. He is the author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age.
Chris Bail is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University where he directs the Polarization Lab. He is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Data Science Program, the Duke Network Analysis Center, and the Duke Population Research Institute. His research examines political polarization, culture and social psychology using tools from the field of computational social science. He is the author of Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream.
Abdullah Almaatouq is a Research Assistant in the Human Dynamics group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is pursuing a PhD in Computational Science & Engineering. Abdullah's work includes conducting theoretical and empirical research on human behavior using innovative approaches and tools ranging from complex systems theory and agent-based modeling, to network analysis, econometric techniques, and behavioral and experimental methods.
Justin Grimmer is a Professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics. He is the author of Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters and The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability.
Annie Liang is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD from Harvard in 2016, and she spent 2016-7 as a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research-New England. Her research is in economic theory (in particular, learning and information), and the application of machine learning methods for theory building and evaluation.
Alondra Nelson is President of the Social Science Research Council and Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science. Her research focuses on how science and its applications may shape the social world, including aspects of personal identification, racial formation, and collective action. She is the author of multiple books, most recently The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome.
Beth Noveck is a Professor in the Technology, Culture, and Society department at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where she directs the Governance Lab. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state's first Chief Innovation Officer in 2018. Previously, Beth served as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative under President Obama. UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government.
Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. She focuses on the politics of authoritarian countries in the digital age. How autocrats constrain collective action through online censorship, propaganda, and responsiveness. How information proliferation influences the ability of authoritarian regimes to conduct surveillance. How public preferences are arranged and formed. She combines experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to examine these questions.
Eric Schwartz is the Editorial Director of Columbia University Press. He was previously senior editor for sociology and cognitive science at Princeton University Press and psychology editor at Cambridge University Press.
Brandon Stewart is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University. He develops new quantitative statistical methods for applications across computational social science, with a focus on tools that facilitate automated text analysis and model complex heterogeneity in regression.
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. At Columbia he is a founding member of the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, and of the Department of Systems Biology, and is affiliated faculty in Statistics. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY, a nonprofit which since 2010 has organized once a semester student hackathons and the hackNY Fellows Program.
Alex is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He is interested in computational social science, historical sociology, and the formal organization of knowledge. His dissertation traces the development of statistical tools, methods, and standards in applied research since the 1950s.
Danielle is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. She is interested in exploring cultural and economic sociology using computational and network methods. Her current research focuses on the organizational, structural, and cultural determinants of tie formation and multiplexity of roles using data about the popular music industry.
Cambria is a PhD student in sociology at Princeton University. She uses computational methods to study questions in the sociologies of science, medicine, and technology. Her current research explores public understandings of medical knowledge and diagnoses using text and image data from newspapers and crowdfunding campaigns. She completed her B.A. in Social Research and Public Policy at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Tom is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. His interests include culture, networks, social psychology, inequality, and political sociology. Tom's current projects explore predictors of socioeconomic diversity in friendship networks and the ways in which political discourse changes in the presence of (in)complete information.
Simone is a PhD student in sociology at Princeton University. Her research examines how technology is reshaping how people interact with the organizations they encounter in everyday life. She draws on experiments and digital trace data to study the implications of these shifts for social inclusion, socioeconomic outcomes, and trust in institutions.
I am a Post-Doctoral Associate at New York University, Abu Dhabi. I received my PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, and my MSc in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research focuses on using data science techniques to study social phenomena, with a particular emphasis on social and economic benefits of diversity and the dynamics of social interaction and cohesion. I frame social science problems in the contexts of data science, big data, and machine learning. Cumulatively, my work contributes to the fields of computational social science, data science, and machine learning.
Victoria Asbury is doctoral student in sociology at Harvard University. Her research interests include social stratification, immigration, political discourse, and social policy. She draws on sociological, psychological, behavioral economic, and computational methods to explore relationships between discourse, group-boundaries, and social preferences. Before coming to Harvard, Victoria worked as a booking production-assistant at MSNBC. She received her MA in education and BA in African & African-American Studies from Stanford University.
Felix is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Job Market Monitor, University of Zurich. He received his PhD in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. In his dissertation, Felix examined the extent to which gender segregated labor markets produce wage inequality between occupations. In his current position, he builds applications that retrieve large amounts of job ad data from the web in order to monitor labor demand in Switzerland. His main academic interests are wage inequality, gender inequality, occupations, and labor market segregation. In his spare time, Felix thinks about how to use digital tools to solve social problems.
Nick Camp is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in social psychology in 2018. His research examines racial disparities in the everyday encounters between police officers and citizens, bridging psychological and sociological perspectives on these institutional interactions. To understand the causes and consequences of these inequities, his work draws on a range of methods, from computational studies of officer body-worn camera footage, experiments in community and lab settings, to analyses of traffic stop data. Nick received his B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University in 2009.
Karina Caro is an Assistant Professor of Informatics at the Faculty of Administrative and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California in Ensenada, Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Mexico (CICESE Research Center). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Computing and Informatics and in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, accessibility, and videogames for health. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating technology to support cognitive and motor development of children with neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders such as autism, Down Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy. All her current research projects intersect computing, medical and social sciences. She works very closely with specialists in the care of children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as neuro pediatricians and physical and occupational therapists, as well as, psychotherapists and special education teachers. Her overall research aim is to create technology for supporting the care of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, contributing to the acquisition and practice of the necessary skills to achieve children's independence.
Keng-Chi Chang is a PhD Student in Political Science at University of California San Diego. His research interests include political methodology, the intersection of causal inference and statistical machine learning, and political economy. He is broadly interested in all aspects of computational social science. He completed his undergraduate studies in Economics at National Taiwan University.
Naniette H. Coleman is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersection of the sociology of culture and organizations and focuses on cybersecurity, surveillance, and privacy in the US context. Her research examines how organizations assess risk, make decisions, and respond to data breaches and organizational compliance with state, federal, and international privacy laws. Naniette holds a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Democracy, Politics, and Institutions from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and both an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Communication from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. A non-traditional student, Naniette's prior professional experience includes local, state, and federal service, as well as for two international organizations, and two universities.
Thomas Davidson is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Cornell University. His dissertation examines why far-right social movements and political parties have been so successful at using social media to build large online audiences and the extent to which these groups have influenced public debates on contentious political issues including immigration, Islam, and Brexit. More broadly, he is interested in combining computational methods and online data with more traditional quantitative methods to study politics and culture.
William Frey (he/they) is a doctoral student at Columbia University's School of Social Work, coordinator of the SAFElab, and researcher in the Cogburn Research Group. His research focuses on race and whiteness within the context of digital technoculture, and the individual and collective role of white people in the perpetuation of socio-technological systems of domination and power (e.g., digital racism). He has expertise in contextual analysis of social media, social media data ethics, and community/domain expert involvement in computational mixed methods research. William received his M.S.W. in community organizing from the University of Michigan's School of Social Work.
Anton Gollwitzer is a PhD student in the Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation Laboratory at Yale University. He completed bachelor's degrees in psychology and computer science at New York University before joining Yale. Broadly construed, his research focuses on social cognition, individual differences, social perception, and motivation. Currently he is working on: (1) How do people think and feel about patterns and pattern deviancy, and how do these judgments impact social phenomena, (2) Generalized person perception: How the individual perceives people in general, and (3) Behavior-change interventions and motivational processes.
Malka Guillot is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Law and Economics at ETH Zürich. She received her Ph.D. in Economics with a focus on taxation and inequality from the Paris School of Economics. Her research applies computational approaches to problems in empirical public finance. She explores both dimensions of big data: its length, by using administrative data such as income tax returns and its width with text corpora such as the tax code.
Jaren Haber is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research applies computational methods to study how organizational contexts shape the impacts of structural inequalities. Jaren's dissertation—a complex project assisted by a dozen apprentices—researches whether ideological differentiation amongst charter schools reflects and reinforces stratification by race and class. In doing so, he uses web-crawling, mixed-effects models, and computational text analysis. Jaren also co-coordinates the Computational Text Analysis Working Group and the TextXD (Text Across Domains) symposium at UC Berkeley.
Masyhur is a PhD student in Economics at Boston University. His research interests include the economics of education, social protection, and migration. He previously worked at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where he was involved in RCTs to evaluate a community block grant program, a nationwide welfare eligibility census, and the expansion of Indonesia's national health insurance program to the informal sector. Masyhur received his bachelor's degree from Institut Teknologi Bandung and his master's degree from Kyoto University, both in Astronomy.
Brooke Jarrett is a doctoral student of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is broadly interested in how technology can lessen inequalities in healthcare access. Her dissertation explores the ethics and mental health impact of chatbots — computer programs that mimic human-to-human conversations. Methodologically, she hopes to use text analyses to quantify and describe potential harms of chatbots. Brooke holds an BS from MIT and MS from Northwestern University in environmental engineering.
Jae Yeon Kim is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, specializing in comparative historical approaches to the study of race, ethnicity, and politics. His research examines coalitional dynamics within minority communities, focusing on the conditions under which ethnic minority groups form a race-based coalition in the United States and elsewhere. Kim is interested in leveraging computational text analysis and machine learning to study how racial solidarity works in the post-civil rights era. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Kim worked in the tech industry.
Monika Leszczyńska is Assistant Professor of Empirical Legal Research at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law, Netherlands. She received her PhD in law from University of Bonn (Germany). In her research, she uses laboratory and online experiments as well as content analysis to deliver evidence-based insights to legal decision-makers on the impact of law on human behavior. She studies how individuals make decisions in the online environment. She is looking at the contractual terms of free and paid digital transactions, how zero-price offers affect people's decisions about their contractual rights and privacy as well as how digital contract formation (e.g., by clicking on OK) influences impulsive decisions. Monika holds also a master's degree in law from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland), LLM degrees from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany) and New York University. In 2016/2017 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the New York University School of Law. During her doctoral studies, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn (Germany).
Katherine McCabe is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on public opinion, political communication, and political psychology. She uses surveys, experiments, and text analysis to understand how people's social identities, attitudes, and personal experiences shape and complicate the ways they engage in politics.
Kevin Munger is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, and will begin as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University in the fall of 2019. He has conducted a series of field experiments on Twitter to study online norm enforcement. His current interests include the heterogeneity of online media effects — moderated by age and digital literacy — and developing a framework for conducting more "temporally valid" research in the rapidly-changing field of online social and political behavior.
Margaret Ng is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current research is on (1) technology use discontinuance, (2) technology and information diffusion, and (3) social media in news contexts. Methodologically, she takes a hybrid approach that combines big data, machine learning, as well as survey, and experimental research on media platforms. She received her Ph.D. in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Ng was an advanced analytics intern at Pew Research Center's Data Labs and worked as a news artist at National Geographic Magazine, The Seattle Times and a data reporter for The Center for Public Integrity.
Nynke Niezink is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on the development of statistical methods for network analysis, with applications in education, health sciences and management. For a recent project on criminal networks, she studied what drives violence among organized crime members.
Amin Rahimian is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). He received his masters in systems engineering and PhD in electrical and systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and masters in statistics from the Wharton School at UPenn. His research interests include network science, statistics, control and decision theory, with applications to social and economic networks.
Sarah Rezaei is an assistant professor at the chair of Microeconomics at Utrecht University School of Economics. Her main fields of interest are Behavioral and Experimental Economics. She is particularly interested in social and economic networks, how they form, why they show certain patterns and how their structure impact on human behavior. Specifically, a large part of her research investigates the impact of the decision context on people's other-regarding and cooperative behavior theoretically and experimentally.
Elizaveta Sivak is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology at Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow. She is also the head of the Center for Modern Childhood Research at the Institute of Education, HSE. Her dissertation project is concerned with modern parenting culture, or parents practices, folk theories on child-rearing, and discourse on parenting. Her other areas of interest include children's everyday practices and well-being, gender bias in education, sociology of science and scientific communities, and the methodology of using digital trace data in social sciences.
Stephanie Teeple is an MD-PhD candidate and doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in how nascent data technologies (machine learning, artificial intelligence) stand to harm marginalized populations in the healthcare setting and how we can do better. Stephanie received her BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and previously worked as a Post-Bachelor Fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, WA.
Andrew Thompson is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. His research interests span public opinion, causal inference, climate change, and immigration. His current work explores how demographic changes affect political attitudes and policy opinion using experimental and computational methods. Andrew holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Marquette University.
Austin van Loon is a PhD candidate in the Sociology department at Stanford University. He's interested in the human search for shared meaning and how this is tied to broader social structures in both determinants and consequence. Using this theoretical lens, he studies organizational culture, political polarization, and interaction within organizations. He approaches these questions using computational methods (especially text analysis, machine learning, and agent-based simulations), experiments, social network analysis, and causal inference.
Tiago Ventura is a Ph.D. Student in Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research agenda focuses on comparative political economy, politics of crime and violence, with a regional focus in Latin America. His doctoral dissertation uses economic models of welfare to understand the impact of wealth inequality on citizens preferences for punitive policies and in the provision of security by the State. Additionally, Tiago has worked on a variety of projects using network analysis, experiments, and computational methods to understand framing, polarization, and social conflict on Twitter. Tiago is also an affiliated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science at the University of Maryland.
Florianne Verkroost is a second-year PhD candidate in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She holds a BSc in Technology and Liberal Arts and Sciences, majoring in Applied Mathematics and Physics, from University of Twente as well as a MSc in Econometrics and Management Science from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Florianne's main interests are in advanced quantitative methods, machine learning and the use of digital trace data. Given these interests and her interdisciplinary background, Florianne's doctoral thesis focuses on applying such methods and data to questions of the reproduction of inequalities (e.g. gender, wealth and well-being) as a consequence of changes in family size and childlessness in particular.
Yuan Yuan is a PhD student in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. His research aims to understand human behavior on online social networks, with a focus on prosocial behavior and social contagion. His research draws upon ideas from machine learning, causal inference, experimental design, and game theory. Before coming to MIT, Yuan received his Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Tsinghua University.
As we discussed in our call for applications, we have arranged two types of training prior to the event this summer. Some students have more sophisticated coding skills but little exposure to social science; other students have significant exposure to social science but lack coding skills.
The majority of the coding work presented at the 2019 SICSS will employ R. However, you are welcome to employ a language of your choice, such as Python, Julia, or other languages that are commonly used by computational social scientists. If you would like to work in R, we recommend that you complete the free RStudio Primers, which can be supplemented by the open access book R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham. RStudio Primers cover 6 topics: The Basics, Working with Data, Visualize Data, Tidy Your Data, Iterate, and Write Functions. If you already feel comfortable with these topics (either in R or some other language), then you do not need to complete these Primers.
If you would like more practice after completing the RStudio Primers, some other materials that we can recommend are:
The Summer Institute will bring together people from many fields, and therefore we think that asking you to do some reading before you arrive will help us use our time together more effectively. First, we ask you to read Matt's book, Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age (Read online or purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, or Princeton University Press), which is a broad introduction to computational social science. Parts of this book will be review for most of you, but if we all read this book ahead of time, then we can use our time together for more advanced topics.
Also, for students with little or no exposure to sociology, economics, or political science, we have assembled a collection of exemplary papers in the core areas addressed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Neither your work nor the work we develop together at the institute need map neatly onto these categories, but if those with less exposure to social science read these, we will increase the chances of interdisciplinary cross-pollination, which we view as critical to the future of computational social science.
Opening Dinner (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:15 - 9:30 Introductions (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to computational social science Video, Slides
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach Video, Slides
11:30 - 12:15 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty Video, Slides
12:15 - 12:30 Introduction to the group exercise Video, Slides
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)
1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise Case study 1 Case study 2 (Not open to public/No livestream)
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Alondra Nelson. To Secure Knowledge: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:30 - 9:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data Video, Slides, Annotated Code
9:45 - 10:15 Screen-Scraping Video, Slides, Annotated Code
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Application Programming Interfaces Video, Slides, Annotated Code
11:00 - 12:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research Video, Slides, Annotated Code
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)
1:30 - 3:45 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Beth Noveck. Video, CrowdLaw: Computational Social Science, Governments, and Democracy
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:15 - 9:30 History of quantitative text analysis Video, Slides
9:30 - 9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP Video, Slides, Annotated Code
10:15 - 11:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models (Guest Lecture by Brandon Stewart) Video, Slides from Brandon, Slides from Chris, Annotated Code from Chris
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis Video, Slides, Annotated Code
12:00 - 12:30 Text Networks Video, Slides, Annotated Code
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Guest Speaker: Jennifer Pan. What I Have Learned About Trying to Publish Computational Social Science Papers
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 5:30 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:15 - 9:35 Survey research in the digital age Video, Slides
9:35 - 9:55 Probability and non-probability sampling Video, Slides
9:55 - 10:15 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys Video, Slides
10:35 - 10:45 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 Begin group exercise Exercise, Optional datasets: Survey data, post-stratification data (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:15 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
3:15 - 3:45 Discuss activity and open-source data (Not open to public/No livestream) Slides
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Justin Grimmer. Video, Causal Inference with Latent Variables
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Participating in the Fragile Families Challenge Activity Video, Slides
11:30 - 12:30 Working on the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)
3:30 - 3:45 Discussion of the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Annie Liang. Predicting and Understanding Initial Play Video
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:45 - 10:15 Four strategies for making experiments happen Video, Slides
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Zero variable cost data and musiclab Video, Slides
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15 Guest speaker: Abdullah Almaatouq (SICSS 2017) Video, High-throughput behavioral science using virtual labs
12:15 - 12:30 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)
Afternoon off
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
9:15 - 12:30 Research Speed Dating (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch and guest speaker: Eric Schwartz (Editorial Director, Columbia University Press). Why and How to Publish a Book with a University Press. Video, Slides
4:00 - 4:15 Flash talk: Kevin Munger, Digital Literacy and Sampling Slides
4:15 - 4:30 Flash talk: Steph Teeple, Electronic medical records 101 Slides
4:30 - 4:45 Flash talk: Jaren Haber, Web-Scraping a Mess in Python Slides
4:45 - 5:00 Flash talk: Jae Kim, 3 Tips to Teach Computational Social Science
5:00 - 5:15 Flash talk: Keng-Chi Chang
5:15 - 5:30 Flash talk: Tom Davidson, An intro to automated hate speech detection
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Guest Speaker: Chris Wiggins. What should future statisticians CEOs, and senators know about the history and ethics of data? Video, Slides
4:00 - 4:15 Flash talk: Nick Camp Reverse Correlation: A Data-Driven Approach to the Content of Mental Representations Slides
4:15 - 4:30 Flash talk: Austin van Loon, Computational Analysis of Network Data Slides
4:30 - 4:45 Flash talk: Amin Rahimian, Learning from Feedback Generated on Social Networks
4:45 - 5:00 Flash talk: Yuan Yuan Identifying Causality in Large-Scale Online Observational Data
5:00 - 5:15 Flash talk: Nynke Niezink Network analysis: A talk about assumptions
5:15 - 5:30 Flash talk: Alex Kindel, Code as Data
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 1:30 Multi-site panel discuss about navigating the job market featuring Chris Bail, Karen Davis, Ridhi Kashyap, and Matti Nelimarkka (moderator: Matt Salganik) Video
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 12:45 Flash Talk: Monika Leszczynska, CSS & Legal Studies
12:45 - 1:00 Flash Talk: Florianne Verkroost, Monitoring global professional gender gaps using LinkedIn's digital census
1:00 - 1:15 Flash Talk: Victoria Asbury
1:15 - 1:30 Flash Talk: William Frey, Formerly gang-involved youth as domain experts Slides
1:30 - 1:45 Flash Talk: Brooke Jarrett, Infectious Disease Dynamics
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:30 - 1:00 School Websites and Racial Meanings: Evidence from Computational Text Analysis and Online Experiments: Nick Camp, Jae Yeon Kim, and Jaren Haber
1:00 - 1:30 By the Light of a Dumpster Fire: Consuming Political Media with a Live Comment Section: Victoria Asbury, Keng-Chi Chang, Katie McCabe, Kevin Munger and Tiago Ventura
1:30 - 2:00 *Large Scale Scraping of Advocacy Group Press Releases *: Felix Busch and Tom Wolff
2:00 - 2:30 Not in my House? A Big Data Approach to the Impact of Non-discrimination Policy on a Homesharing Policy: Andrew Thompson, Monika Leszczynska, Malka Guillot
2:30 - 3:00 Perceived Facial Similarity and Upstream Indirect Reciprocity: Margaret Ng and Yuan Yuan
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00 The Effect of Departmental Stocks on Academic Collaboration Patterns: Bedoor AlShebli, Nynke Niezink, Amin Rahimian, Sarah Rezaei, Florianne Verkroost
3:30 - 4:00 What is Whiteness?: Naniette Coleman, Masyhur Hilmy, Stephanie Teeple, William Frey
4:30 - 5:00 Anti- anti-vaccine: Toward a digital intervention: Karina Caro, Brooke Jarrett, Elizaveta Sivak
5:00 - 5:30 Populism in the Lab: Anton Gollwitzer, Austin van Loon, Tom Davidson
5:30 - 5:45 Evaluations
5:45 Closing dinner and Group Picture (Not open to public/No livestream)
Participants depart


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Released: 2012
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Kind of Like: Boris, Russian Circles, Red Sparrowes
Genres: Post-Rock, Sludge
I hacen't listened to this band since City of Echoes. Kinda forgot about them. Saw them awhile ago with Russian Circles (while in their prime), and Young Widows. Great show, It's always nice to come back to bands and realize they came out with a new album to explore.
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The aim of Steven's research is to make aviation cleaner and quieter. He is also interested in reducing pollution from ground transportation. His research areas include:
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Feet Free-Chicago School of Yoga
Chicago School of Yoga is hosting a 'Feet Free Arm Balancing' workshop this Saturday at 3:30pm. Only $20!
Take a trip off of your mat and into the air with your playful pilot. I will lead you safely off of your feet and break down several arm balances like Bakasana (Crow), Parsva Bakasana (Side Crow), Eka Pada Koundinyasana I and II (Pose Dedicated to the Sage Koundinya) and Ashtavakrasana (8 Angle Pose). We will also play with variations and transitions.


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Last week, it was reported that there is a need for additional water infrastructure as the city continues to grow.
As a result, the funding will come from the increase in water bills.
On Monday, city officials will look to implement a five percent increase from the current two percent for commercial businesses and the volume of water rates adjustment from two percent to 20 percent for one year, effective October 1st.
Meanwhile, the commercial base minimum charge and volume water rates adjustment will go up to five percent each year from October 1st in 2020 through October 1st 2022.


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Justin Trudeau's response
Oct 7, 2015 — Canada's current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. It does not prevent young people from using marijuana, and too many Canadians end up with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug.
To ensure that we keep marijuana out of the hands of children, and the profits out of the hands of criminals, the Liberal Party of Canada will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana.
We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code, and create new, stronger laws to punish more severely those who provide it to minors, those who operate a motor vehicle while under its influence, and those who sell it outside of the new regulatory framework. We will also create a federal/provincial/territorial task force, and with input from experts in public health, substance abuse, and law enforcement, will design a new system of strict marijuana sales and distribution, with appropriate federal and provincial excise taxes applied.
The NDP's decriminalization-only program will keep production and distribution in the hands of gangs, will do nothing to keep it out of the hands of children or protect Canadians' public safety concerns, and will allows gangs to collect the proceeds.
A Liberal government will act responsibly and swiftly on this issue.
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Feedback (at time of writing): 11283
Feedback Ratio: 99.96% positive (1 negative ever)
Location: USA, Georgia (peachy)
Prices: Above average
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Order Size: 331 items, 18 lots
Condition: 100% New
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Other: $6 order minimum
Final Cost per Part: $0.12
Order Date: Dec 31
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Why this store: Who else has (had) mass amounts of dark pink wedges?
Packaging: Lots mixed into three baggies, all in cardboard box. Apparently they didn't have a bubble mailer big enough. I checked and a 6x9" just didn't quite make it. The box increased the shipping by 2 more ounces.
Part condition: Very Good
Communication: Polite
Feedback left: Positive
Odd telltale signs: Uses the term "legos" in their Drive Thru notice and "Lego's" on their business card. :-)
Issues: none
Prices were a bit high. Even with a 25% discount. At regular price I don't think I'd shop here. But the selection was good and the discount made prices reasonable. Mostly. There were some things I wanted that even at 25% were higher than average. So I passed. Coupled with the handling/packaging/whatevering charge and liberal lot mixing I'll likely not be back. Sorry Terminator.


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On the 19th of June, AR attended the Facial Aesthetic Conference and Exhibition, with Gilly Dickons delivering a talk in the early afternoon about why clinic front of house staff need telephone enquiry handling skills and training and what the training should cover.
Gilly used a dynamic presentation to address the delegates and to discuss the key skills areas in which staff should be trained. The presentation prompted many questions; Gilly and Pam Underdown of Aesthetic Business Transformations went on to hold an extended Q&A session to further expand on their talks to share with practitioners, clinic owners and practice managers their expertise on lead generation through Video Marketing (Pam), and new enquiry and patient call handling for increased levels of consultation bookings and patient retention.
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Groups guided tours, at the best prices in Iceland.
Guided tour with English-speaking driver guidance. From your hotel or airport. We drive to the beautiful area in the vicinity of thr capital.
Groups private guided tours in a
Luxury Van : Minibus : 4x4 jeep.
Choose one of these travel options. A : B : C : D : E
Or the extra activity.
Pick up and deliver you back to where you want it. ? Hotel, Airport.
Please enter a comment, box with booking, one of the, A-E options Private tours, for you.
A : Drive the magnificent plateau , in the vicinity of the city.
B : Thingvellir National Park and vicinity, volcanoes, geothermal.
C : Hvalfjordur round trip, the wonderful fjord and mountain area.
D : Reykjanes, Kleifarvatn lake, geothermal area and bird cliff.
E : Photography trips for your group.
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Passenger Van 8 pax: Jeep 4x4/LuxVan, 2-6 pax: Minibus 18 pax.
Tour with English-speaking driver guidance.
If you like, we offer music and singing popular songs in our trip.
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Join us for an Ecommerce Lunch & Learn
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You're Invited to an
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Your Brand on Amazon
An Executive's Roadmap to Drive Sustainable Revenue Growth
Can't-Miss Luncheon Briefing:
As a brand executive trying to navigate the ever-changing Amazon challenge, you need a clear, responsive Amazon strategy. Last year we showed 600+ executives across the US how to control their brands on Amazon; this year we're sharing brand new content focused on expanding your brand's market share and maintaining competitive advantage in Amazon search results.
With 54% of all US product searches starting on Amazon1, the stakes don't get much higher. You can't afford to hand this immense market share opportunity over to your competitors. During this casual executive Lunch & Learn, we'll show you how to dominate Amazon through a profitably executed mix of Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Amazon Display ads.
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Join us and your ecommerce peers for a fun and engaging lunch. Register today, space is limited to 45 executives (max three per company).
1Jumpshot, The Competitive State of eCommerce Marketplaces, Q2 2018
Please note: To ensure the best attendee experience, this event is limited to retail, brand & ecommerce executives directly employed by a company with at least $10 million in annual revenue. Due to the proprietary information being presented, ROI Revolution reviews & confirms registered attendees; we reserve the right to cancel any registration, including but not limited to registrants that cannot be verified as meeting the requirements above or that are competitors to ROI or our attending clients.
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Date: February 22, 2019 (Friday)
Time: 11:45am -1:30 pm
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Who Should Attend: Retail, Brand and Ecommerce executives, including current ROI Revolution clients.
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Date: February 22, 2019 (Friday)
Time: 11:45am -1:30 pm
Location: Maggiano's Little Italy
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Boca Raton, FL 33433
Cost: Free! (Lunch is included; Max 3 people per company)
Who Should Attend: Retail, Brand and Ecommerce executives, including current ROI Revolution clients.
The educational portion of this Lunch & Learn event will be presented by Timothy Seward, CEO of ROI Revolution and author of the Ultimate Guide to Amazon Advertising (Entrepreneur Press, 2019).
As part of the book launch promotion, ROI Revolution is sponsoring this Lunch & Learn event series and covering 100% of the cost of attendance for brand executives.
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Home Shopping Network
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Loyola Press
American Greetings
Family Dollar
Rodan + Fields
Western Digital/SanDisk
Peter Millar
Skip Hop
Hanky Panky
Perry Ellis
Lucky Brand
Mars, Inc.
Totes Isotoner
True Value
Rug Doctor LLC
Contour Products, Inc.
Mud Pie
Boston Proper
Hammacher Schlemmer
Six Flags Theme Parks
US Auto Parts
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Introduction to Finance for Non-Financial Managers
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ChaosSun's Crafts
God's Eye
An oldie but goodie!! I think I've seen these made at nearly every school I attended in life.
So lets get started First off your gonna need a few things!
Items Needed:
*2 sticks (Chop sticks, dowling rods cut to size, popcicle sticks, just to name a few)
*string, ribbon, or yarn ( I like the kind that changes color to create a neat pattern)
*Hot Glue gun or tacky glue (Kids get your parents help with the hot glue gun)
Optional Items:
Small charms or old jewelry
Step 1: using the glue gun cross your stick in the middle using the glue dab a bit so that when it drys you have an even cross.
Step 2: When you have your dried cross, make an X by wrapping your string across the middle of the cross.
Step 3: Wrap the yarn around one stem, then move to the next, stem and wrap the string around it once, move to the next, wrap, and repeat this for the rest of the Eye.
Step 4: now that we are getting to the end it's time to think about where to stop. A good place is to make sure you have at least a centimeter from the end. Make your final wrap, then using the tail (or end) of your string tuck it under the wrap string.
wrap the tail under the opposite string (the one you just wrapped) but hold the middle of the tail up over the stem to make a loop for hanging.
Step 5: Keeping the loop, wrap the rest of the tail around the stem a few times then, pull the tail through the loop and finally tie the loop and tail in a knot a couple of times. Snip the excess and maybe use a dab of glue to secure the loose end.
With all the yarn, string, ribbons, and even rope. You can make a lot of texture and colored Gods Eyes for a theme or holiday!
Use black and orange for Samhain and decorate the four points with tassels to match and hang up. A neat idea is to make the center black and the outer orange…or in the reverse, for a fun candy look use white yellow and orange to look like candy corn! Even for fun, have a black center with green on the outside and call it a Witches Eye!
For Yule make several red, greens, whites, and gold small ones using toothpicks (Be sure not to wrap to tightly otherwise the toothpicks might snap.) You can use them to adorn packages or your yule tree or even a Door wreath. Also, a little glue will go along way in helping with these tiny pieces. Be sure to use small knitting thread or cross-stitching thread.
For Ostara use the pastel colors for your middle and decorate the four points with small colored eggs or bunny figures.
For Beltane glue small flowers to the center when completed or on the stems maybe even place it in the center of a flower wreath.
While wrapping the Gods eye center pause and string a charm or trinket and continue wrapping that way when displayed you have a unique Gods Eye for your home.
Feel free to E-mail me your finished design, I like to see what other people have done with an idea to make it all their own.
Heres a couple I made using fluffy yarn!
Hope you have fun with this small project!
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Oh my it's Granola-licious
I thought I'd start my little health-kick off this week with a healthy granola recipe. My focus is on creating a feel-good, no-fuss, great-tasting breakfast recipe that will nourish and satisfy. With the colder weather (now that winter is almost upon us), I find I'm craving warm, soothing, satisfying breakfasts that will keep me warm and see me right through to lunch time.
This is my favorite homemade healthy granola recipe!! There is nothing more delicious and rewarding than making your own Granola. And the smells that float through the kitchen are AMAZING!!!!!
I've been a late bloomer when it comes to getting on the granola bandwagon but I'm happy I finally made it. The beauty of granola is that you can pretty much create so many different versions of it that are to your own personal liking.
I've gotta to say – I'm a huge fan of dried figs in my granola but I know that many people aren't. So if you're a "No dried fruit for me" type of person, feel free to omit them.
The recipe can basically be made with your eyes closed.
You will need
- old-fashioned oats (not instant oats)
- nuts (my fave, slivered almonds, pecans and walnuts but you can sub in any favorite kind or combination of nuts)
- coconut oil
- maple syrup
- ground cinnamon, salt and vanilla extract (musts for flavour)
- flaked coconut
- dried fruit (optional)
Begin with crushing the nuts slightly with a pestle & mortar. If you like a textured rustic effect, don't grind them too much..
Add all the remaining dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together
Add the maple syrup and coconut oil…
Lay out flat on a tray and bake….
Once it is cooked, take it out of the oven and allow to cool on the baking tray. Don't touch it until it's had time to cool and reaches room temperature. As it cools, some of the granola clumps together which gives the granola a lovely, crunchy texture.
Eat them with yogurt, with your favourite milk or add crunch to your favourite dessert like these simply delicious poached pears.
I hope you enjoy this healthy granola breakfast option. Cheers to a healthy start to the day!!
Health Granola Recipe
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup slivered almonds
- 1 cup walnuts
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 6 dried figs
- 6 dates
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- Preheat oven 180°C.
- Line a tray with parchment / baking paper and set aside.
- With a mortar & pestle, crush the larger nuts. Do not let them get too fine, as one of the great things about this recipe is the different textures.
- Toss all of the nuts in together in a bowl. Chop up the dates & figs roughly and add to the bowl.
- Add the coconut flakes. Add a generous sprinkle of cinnamon to the bowl. Mix well
- In a small pot, add 1/2 cup of coconut oil & 1 tablespoon of maple syrup.
- On low heat, allow the coconut oil to melt and stir well.
- Pour the coconut oil & maple syrup mix over the granola mix and stir well, ensuring all of the mixture is covered.
- Pour the mixture onto the tray and spread evenly.
- Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- Store in a air-tight container or jar.
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Skip to comments.Forgotten vials of smallpox found in storage room
Posted on 07/08/2014 11:39:19 AM PDT by chessplayer
ATLANTA (AP) A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.
The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus MIGHT have been dead, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
Unlike Joe Biden's hair which is dead but which he insists is alive.
I would like to point out that all VIRUSES are dead to begin with. It is only in the presence of 'food' that they 'activate'. They're similar to vampires.
By the description these are lyophilized (freeze dried) samples and there is some possibility they could still be viable. This process is used with bacteria as well and is how bacterial and viral samples are shipped to other research facilities. The writer uses the term storage room but I doubt very much that this was some broom closet.
This might be useful since the concept of smallpox being truly eradicated is ridiculous. There are many parts of the world remote enough still have carriers who are dormant and we could never be assured that all of the samples throughout the world were indeed destroyed. Having samples might be useful in recreating vaccines for it.
Vampires and democrats
Don't you just hate when that happens? Details, details. Maybe the filled viles didn't have a government inventory numbers, or maybe they did and that's how they came to find them.
The whole question of whether viruses are are alive or dead is up for debate, probably permanently:
Viruses have no way to replicate themselves outside of a host —they require infection so as to hijack the host's organelles for that an other purposes.
Even dead scabs that fall off of a dead host are infections and on average each Smallpox victim infects TWELVE other hosts.
We may have to resurrect cowpox and horsepox!
Do cows and horses still get the pox?
One reason for retaining the remaining stocks of smallpox virus is for the purpose of making vaccines. However, we do not actually need smallpox virus to make a vaccine. All we need is vaccinia virus, which is commonly used to make vaccines. Everyone who is immune to vaccinia is immune to smallpox.
I will certainly be looking forward to the viability test results on these samples.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Good thing he didn't decide to make a quick buck on Craig's List!
They use cow pox to immunize against small pox. The guys on their first tour got about 3 "jabs." Since I had been previously immunized I got around 21.
If small pox is wiped out why did I have to get immunized?
I was immunized as a baby (born in 1955). Everybody was immunized until sometime in the 1970's. Son was immunized while in the navy (2005-2008) and I, too, wondered why it was necessary. I wonder if it wears off or if you are permanently immune.
Thanks for the ping!
This news story makes me uneasy.
I was born in 65, and every single boy in our class had a round scar on our left shoulder, most of the girls did too but some got it elsewhere so you didn't see it.
They were as common and as overlooked as a belly button.
You're Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
The actual virus would be more useful in characterization and identifying the changes from when the virus was put into storage to any new variant or outbreak of the same strain. Characterizing the genetic makeup against a base strain can help in creating a more effective vaccine than just using vaccinia alone.
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Property Location With a stay at Lifestyle Hotel in Prague, you'll be connected to a shopping center and minutes from SAPA Asian Trade Center, and close to Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine. This 4-star hotel is within the vicinity of Chodov Fortress and Golf and Country Club Hodkovicky. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 27 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Windows open for fresh air and city views. Computers with complimentary wired and wireless Internet keep you connected, and cable programming is available for entertainment. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations with handheld showerheads and hair dryers. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Try your luck at the casino and enjoy other recreational amenities, which include a nightclub. This Art Deco hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, wedding services, and barbecue grills. Dining Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, where you can enjoy drinks at a bar, take in a garden view, or dine alfresco (weather permitting). Dining is also available at 3 coffee shops/cafés. Relax with a refreshing drink at one of the 2 bars/lounges. For your convenience, a complimentary breakfast is served daily. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and an Internet point. Planning an event in Prague? This hotel has 1291 square feet (120 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center, banquet facilities, and a meeting/conference room.
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10 Things I Learned When I Became A Christian: (#3) Money Money Money
Every service is crafted around money, there is an obsession with money in the church that is palatable. I have gone to many churches and the one thing that is common in all of them is the need to give money.
There is an easy to follow pattern, when it comes to money in the church. Guilt, Fear, and Freedom.
Approach 1 – Guilt: I remember this clearly, that feeling of seeking God. I went out with a new understanding, very peaceful, happy and excited to find God. People all around me, greeting me at the door, smiling and saying how great God is and how everyone is loved. You feel like you are in the right place.
Then it happens, collections! You want to do what's right but when you don't have any money with you (either on purpose or by accident) you feel guilty and you feel like everyone is watching you, judging you. But wait, it's all in your mind, everyone here loves you right? But when the preacher starts talking about money, you're going to hear one of the following.
- "You have X so why not give": They say, "You have a phone but you can't give to God?", "You can make car payments but you don't have any to give?", "Who do you think gives you money to pay your bills and buy food, but you don't give any back?" It makes you feel like the worst person in the world. It sucks the joy out of you. A guilty giver is a miserable person.
- "You love money more than God": The idea is that your love for God is shown in how much and how often you give money. This makes a direct connection between God and money. It claims that money buys God's love.
- "You are stopping all the good we could do": This one depends on the church. The claim is that God is waiting on you before he can feed and clothe the poor. Your lack of giving is the reason so many people don't have what they need.
Approach 2 – Fear: This is the primary way of motivating people to give. You convince them that their soul is on the line. That money can save them from damnation. The more you give the closer you are to God and safety. You will hear one of the following.
- "Money or heaven": The most direct message. The claim is that you make a choice every Sunday between money or God. Heaven or hell. This is the most effective because you are scared crazy. You will give out of fear to ensure you go to heaven. Pay your way in.
- "You are stealing from God": This one started coming up a lot in the newer churches I've visited. The idea is that it's not your money, it belongs to God and when you don't give you are then stealing his money. So give it back!
- "If you hold on to money it will corrupt you": This one works on a simple premise, money is evil (when you have it), so give it up to stay clean.
Approach 3 – Freedom: If you give your life will be fuller. Your family will have what it needs. Your burdens will be removed. Your bills paid and your pantry full. Giving is faith and faith is security.
- "Give money and more money will be given back": This one is more complex. The more money you give the more money you will receive but if for any reason you don't get money back then you did it wrong or you lack faith.
- "Give and you will be blessed": Simple concept, the more you give the bigger the blessing. If you have great needs, then give large amounts of money.
- "Prayer objects": If you need prayer then there are special napkins (prayer cloth) or bottles of blessed water to answer your prayers.
There are also many ways to give:
- Tithe — Give 10% of your money earned each pay period. The claim is that the Bible requires this through special interpretation mixed with modern times.
- Gifting — Give more to God above the "requirement" of the tithe. This shows love above just plain old obedience.
- Donation — These are one-time payments to show your support of the ministry but still needed on a semi-regular basis.
- Special Need — This comes up from time to time when someone in the congregation is in need. Money is needed to help that person, or they will suffer.
- Special Project — Money is needed for special projects like repairs to the church building, mission trips, etc.
- Guest Speaker — Special preachers can visit your local church for the right funds. It's like a revival to get the energy in the church up to full speed. Very effective.
Consumer support is also very active:
This is very new to me and it works like this: After service, there are consumer items to support the church or church members. Church members can purchase items to show their support for God and the many ministries of faith.
- Books
- Cups
- T-shirts
- Posters
- CD's
- Movies
If you have been to a sports game or amusement park, then you know what to expect. It's like having a small store next to the exit. A final chance to show how much faith you have.
What I decided to do in my faith:
I decided to simply read the Bible. To my surprise, the actual scriptures are more often the opposite of what is happening in the church. So over time, I learned to forget about the money and focus on the belief. You can't buy God.


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Putting up bird houses so our feathered friends can find a place to raise their young is something lots of gardeners regularly do. But how about providing the same amenities to our native bees? Besides filling the garden with native plants that offer food and habitat to these important pollinators, you can also add some constructed nesting boxes to your landscape. The wooden boxes offer nesting spots for the many native bees that nest in hollow or pithy stemmed woody plants, such as carpenter, leaf cutter, masked and mason bees.
Pollination Guelph, a Canadian organization that is dedicated to the conservation and development of pollinator habitat for current and future generations, has put together some easy instructions for building, placing, and maintaining the bee nests. Early spring is the best time to put out new nests, so now is a great time for a fun weekend project -- and a great one to do with kids -- that will help our native pollinators.
For instructions on building nest boxes, go to: Wooden Bee Nest. For more information on Pollination Guelph and its other resources, go to Pollination Guelph.


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Madrid Spain does not celebrate Halloween with too much attention like the other countries particularly like America. But the people are trying not too miss the fun on putting on some special halloween costumes or fancy dresses. Every year I tried to go out and join the people celebrating halloween on the streets of Madrid. Cneck out the series...
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Philippe Maurice Schober
Wehrschach is a long forgotten chess like game that was developed and released prior to the Second World War and promoted by the German military, the Wehrmacht. The game features a 11x11 squares board and 18 pieces per player, five distinct unit types and different square types on the board. The rules are more complex than that of chess without losing its tactical challenge or charm.
While almost forgotten one day un unmarked game board was found while searching through the attic. As the box, rules and pieces were missing a long research was required to find the name of the game. Thanks to BoardGameGeek.com the name was found but the rules were still missing. After further research we stumbled over a YouTube video of an American who got the whole game from a Second World War veteran who found the game in a German bunker during the offensive. While the American didn't understand the rules due to his lack of understanding of the German language he filmed the whole manual. Thanks to his efforts we were able to restore the rules and develop this App which is currently the first and only way of playing Wehrschach online. It even includes the rules of the game in German and English with a more modern description.
The App allows for offline or online play and matchmaking via Google Play Services.
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Webtorials is run by a pair of long-time industry analysts, Steven Taylor and Jim Metzler, who know of what they speak (and write). The survey is essentially a repeat of one they conducted 2 years ago, both of which targeted companies with 1,000 or more employees. That target audience certainly colors some of the responses.
For example, 72% of respondents say they've either partially or fully deployed UC solutions, up from 68% in the December 2012 survey. That is a relatively high rate of adoption, but as the survey says, "the community surveyed is known to have a high number of thought leaders and early adopters."
But it's the sections on SIP and SBCs where the findings really get interesting. Asked which UC functions they would be implementing using SIP now or in the future, respondents reported dramatically more interest than 2 years ago. At least 70% or more plan to use SIP to implement softphones, enterprise voice, audio and web conferencing. And 60% or more plan to use SIP for video conferencing (both desktop and room), instant messaging and unified messaging.
Many of these figures represent dramatic increases from the 2012 survey, with web conferencing taking the top prize with a 133% increase, from 30% to 70%. As the report says:
Rather than being viewed as mostly for voice and voice-related functions, SIP is now being viewed on both an absolute scale and a relative scale as a part of overall UC, and indeed as a part of an overall computing architecture.
Respondents also seem to recognize that if they're using SIP, they should also be using an SBC. Some 56% of respondents are either quite or extremely familiar with the roles and capabilities of SBCs, up from 45% in the last survey. Another 28% are "kinda" familiar, which means a total of 84% of respondents have at least some idea of what an SBC is all about, which is a pretty good number. What's more, the number of respondents who are "extremely familiar" with SBCs grew by 84% from the previous survey while the "kinda" and "not at all" familiar numbers dropped a combined 44%.
Why are SBCs important for SIP-enabled applications? Respondents have a good handle on that question, as well. The top reasons were to "secure endpoints and mobile devices" along with "network protection against malware/attacks," which the report notes are "classic" reasons for employing an SBC – a point we've covered previously. But the respondents also noted that SBCs help ensure a high quality of service and "efficiently integrate business processes and applications" with UC. The latter gets to the role of SBCs in providing transcoding between equipment from different vendors, such as video codecs, and different implementations of SIP, another point we made in that previous post.
The summary to the report hits the nail on the head with respect to UC and SBCs:
Unified Communications continues to be on a roll, with a major shift toward UC solutions being implemented via SIP. In looking at the plans for implementing a wide variety of UC functions via SIP, there is a clear indication that Session Border Controllers will be the enabling technology that provides the necessary interoperability among diverse functions along with the requisite Operations, Administration and Management (OA&M) necessary for a secure, reliable, and highly functional network.
Click here to download a copy of the survey results and let us know in the comments below which results jump out at you.


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Open Call for Schmiede19: better
gennaio 2019
Since 2003, every year, an abandoned industrial salt refinery on an island in Hallein, Austria, opens up, for ten days, to host around 300 Smiths and their ideas. We physically gather in order to get inspired, network, create, present and share. Schmiede provides a basic cooperative prototyping environment and an infrastructure full of impulses and passionate people.
The program of Schmiede is work in progress till midsummer. The reason for this is that what actually will happens depends heavily on the projects and people participating each year.
To participate in Schmiede 19:better, please send your application until the 31st of May.
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Thursday, January 26:
The thermometer on the front porch reads forty-one degrees. The snow banks are sagging under a chilly rain which scours them into pits like those made in a white salt block by a cow's slow tongue. Someone with a cement hoe scraped a drainage ditch from the yard gate to the edge of the driveway, redirecting a stream of water brown with silt, shed by the long slope of drive up to the road. Even at the exit of the culvert over Jeddo's run, where in shade the icicles usually grow unchecked until April, a bucket to water the young steers can be filled without entanglement. Is this really winter?
Pulled from the low tunnel twenty-five carrots weigh six pounds, bright orange, crisp, sweet, and juicy. The green tops and small roots are fed to the cows, who have seen us in the garden and are waiting at the bridge for the expected treat.
A carefully knitted ball of grass is retrieved from the low tunnel along with the carrots, and since it seems to be uninhabited we bring it up on the porch and unravel it.
We can find no clue about the identity of the little homemaker, but someone has been keeping warm inside this nest, probably the same creature which has been tunneling from root to root eating carrots from the bottom up. We hope without his nest he will find the carrot tunnel too chilly to linger in.


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Thursday 9 December 2010
The latest version of TinyBrowser is now released into the wild. v1.42 is available for download.
TinyBrowser File Manager Features
The TinyBrowser file browser has the following features:
- Integrates as a custom file manager within TinyMCE for image, media and 'all' file types
- Adobe Flash based file uploader, supporting multiple file selection and upload with file type and size filtering (permission based)
- Security / vunerability audited code
- Browse files with a list view or as thumbnails (images only)
- List view has image thumbnail on hover
- File display order customisable e.g. by name, type, size, date
- Find function to filter results by search string
- Display detailed file information such as type, size and dimensions (images only)
- File deletion facility (permission based)
- File edit facility (permission based) - rename, resize and rotate (last two images only)
- File storage location user definable for each file type
- Optional session control
- Folder support, including rename, move and delete
- User storage quota limits
- Multi-lingual support, with several languages supported (and modular addition of others)
- Many user definable settings, all from central configuration file
tinybrowser is a great all round addition for any cms system which utilises TinyMCE plugin. Derek used the plugin to great effect when it was integrated into the back of their website.
For IT Services and computer services you can still use a CMS system to manage your website.
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Marsh Road Days (Furtive Aching Painting I)
Alan Rankle
- Art Funded
- 2010
- Dimensions
- 80 x 80 cm
- Presented by
- Tramman Trust through The Art Fund
Rankles work links landscape art to changes in attitude to the environment, manipulating and cross-referencing styles and techniques from diverse periods and cultures.
Elements of traditional Chinese painting have been combined with more modern concepts, such as Abstract Expressionism. Although Rankle presents his work in different formats, he typically paints within a traditional picturesque framework. This painting is part of a gift of six paintings to five museums through the Art Fund.
Tramman Trust.
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Bohemia Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1ET
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Descending into a picture-postcard Rougemont, Switzerland, Margaret McGuire comes face to face with the bucolic beauty and growling cows who reportedly produce the best quality milk in the world.
So there I was, standing in the middle of a Swiss dairy farm, surrounded by mountains and admiring the lush pastures and the freshest, cleanest air imaginable when I was monstered by a herd of cows.
Huge cows. Eye-rolling cows. And I swear, one of them growled at me.
My hosts said it was just a tummy rumble, but I doubt that – those cows wanted me out of their way so they could go back to grazing on the summer alpine flowers and grasses which make Swiss cheese so utterly delectable, and I wasn't about to stand in their way.
Cows here know their place and it's at the top of the animal ladder, so much so that when the Swiss government wanted to honour Roger Federer, they gave him a cow.
I found myself in Rougemont, in the Pays-D'Enhaut area, almost by accident. I decided that a hot-air balloon flight over this very rural region of Switzerland would be just the thing for a woman with a fear of heights. The farm visit was an entertaining detour.
There are loads of farms across the country that are open to the public, where you can get up close and personal with the animals that produce what some say is the best quality milk in the world.
Many offer up the opportunity to feed the cows, watch them being milked, and even sample their wares, fresh from the source.
The village of Rougemont itself is captivating.
Traditional chalet architecture has been lovingly preserved. The façades of the buildings are protected by local law, so the result is picture perfect.
Window boxes overflow with flowers, and decorative detailing on the chalets includes the dates they were built, while all around the mountains seem to hover protectively.
The end of summer is celebrated in this region with a procession and festival as the cows leave their alpine pastures to spend the winter in the valley.
Decorated with garlands of flowers, they make their stately way through the streets while leaving plenty of evidence of their passing – watch your step.
This end-of-summer event includes entertainment and the chance to taste the local cheese, which is delicious!
At the restaurant Le Chalet in Chateau-d'Oex, you can see the cheese being made over an open fire while sampling other local products.
But my favourite spot in Rougemont is the church of Saint Nicolas. Built in the 11th century, around the time the village was established, it breathes peace and serenity.
Light through the stained-glass windows burnishes the arched stone pillars with jewel colours that glow in the dim interior.
Of course, there are plenty of outdoor activities on offer here too, but if you just love a sojourn in the country and a glimpse of rural life lived at a slower pace, complete with growling cows, then this little corner of the world is well worth a visit.


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John Rossiter, Assistant Minister for Education 1965
Back Row: Peter Charleston, Chris Robertson, Peter Abery, Kevin Long, Ian Hall, Ray Garland, Laurie Rainbow, Geoff Arnold, Graham Douglas, ? , ? , Trevor French
2nd Back Row: John White, Peter Pooley, Doug Robertson, ? , ? , ? , Vivian Lock, Elin Taig, Winton McColl, Richard Snape, Alan Ashmore
2nd Row: Sandra Wiggins, ? , ? , Alison Taylor, ? , ? , Tessa Johnson, Margaret Lewis, ? ,? , ? , Linda Lennox
Front Row: Bert Hopman, Barry Davis, ? , Doug Walton, Ken Hender, Willie Wissmer, David Godfrey, Rodney Hawken, Jan Jasinski, Colin Murdoch, Wayne Jacobs, Murray Champion
Back Row: ? , ? , Jim Carlisle, Paul Evans, Colin Broberg, ? , ? , ? , ? , ? , ?
Middle Row: ? , Wayne Hawken, ? , ? , Barry? Wright, Ken Downs {?}, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
Front Row: ? , David Adams, ? , ? , ? , Ken Hender, ? , ? , ? , ?, Tony Murphy, ? , ?
On 12 February 1922 the Yallourn State School No 4085 was opened with 13 pupils. The first school building was a weatherboard cottage at No 4 Hillside. By 1923, enrolment had reached 139 pupils; they came from the Camps and outlying areas, so a move to new and bigger buildings in Outlook Road was needed. This would become the Secondary School when a new Primary school was opened in 1932, on the corner of Fairfield Avenue and Banksia Crescent.
1940 Yallourn State School - Grade 5
Back Row: Bruce Machin, Frank Randall, Bill Jones, Twin Harkin, Bob Connely, Peg Welfare, xxx Parry, Frank Sutton, Stan Wright, Gerald Knight, Warwick Squires, Merv Price, Bill Whately
2nd Back Row: Lauris Stanger, June Mould, Wilma Irvine, Fae Lawson, Mary Sutton, Doreen Powell, Shirley Whitmore, Meryl Johnstone, Irene Hull, Barbara O'Brien, Kath O'Brien
2nd Row: Kath Hayes, ? , Lois Evans, June Pettigrew, Chris Garvin, Beryl Tremain, Eunice Densby, Bernice Leiper, Gwyneth Griffiths, Tom Oswald
Front Row: Bill Laurie, Max James, ? , Maurice Kitney, Jim Holyoak, Bob Selby-Hele, Bob Amos, Bill McLarty, Albert Troak, Ray Bolger
Photo provided by Lauris Stanger
Letter received with photo 2016:
Dear Julie. I am a librarian at Newman College, Parkville and we came across the attached photo in our archives. I wondered whether you may be able to help with identifying some of the children.
(The fact that is was found in our College archives suggests that one of the students may have attended Newman
College later on.)
Kind regards, Rhonda
Librarian - University of Melbourne
There may have been others but I do know that Annaliese Kohler attended Newman in 1937 or 1938...RS


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Magento Open Source 2.2.x
Inserting a Variable
Your store includes many predefined variables that can be incorporated into content pages and other communications. In addition, you can include your own custom variables that are specific to your needs.
To insert a variable on a page:
|Do one of the following:
- Open an existing page.
- Create a new page.
|In the panel on the left, choose Content. Then from the editor, do one of the following:
- Position the cursor where you want the variable to appear, and tap Insert Variable.
- If you prefer to work with the code, click Show / Hide Editor. Position the insertion point in the text where you want the variable to appear. Then, tap Insert Variable.
|In the list of available variables, choose the one you want to insert into the page.
|When complete, tap Save.