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In this post I'm going to explore some mysterious patterns in the data of three more articles that were published when Dr. Wansink was still at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). These articles appear to form a family because they all discuss consumer attitudes towards soy products; Dr. Wansink's CV here [PDF] records that in 2001 he received $3,000 for "Disseminating soy-based research to developing countries". The articles are:
Wansink, B., & Chan, N. (2001). Relation of soy consumption to nutritional knowledge. Journal of Medicinal Food, 4, 145–150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/109662001753165729
Wansink, B., & Cheong, J. (2002). Taste profiles that correlate with soy consumption in
developing countries. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 1, 276–278.
Wansink, B., & Westgren, R. (2003). Profiling taste-motivated segments. Appetite, 41, 323–327.
For brevity, I'll mostly refer to these articles by the names of their co-authors, as "Chan", "Cheong", and "Westgren", respectively.
Wansink & Chan (2001)
Chan describes a study of people's attitudes towards "medicinal and functional foods such as soy". It's not clear what a "functional food"—or, indeed, a "non-functional food"—might be, and it might come as a surprise to people in many Asian countries who have been consuming soy all their life to hear it described as a "medicinal food", but I guess this article was written from an American perspective. Exactly what is categorised under "soy" is not made clear in the article, but one of the items asked people how many times in the past year they purchased "tofu or soy milk", so I presume we're talking about those kind of soy products that tend to be associated in Western countries with vegetarian or vegan diets, rather than soy sauce or processed foods containing soy lecithin.
Of interest to us here is Table 2 from Chan. This shows the responses of 770 randomly-selected Americans, split by their knowledge of "functional foods" (apparently this knowledge was determined by asking them to define that term, with the response being coded in some unspecified way) to a number of items about their attitudes and purchasing habits with respect to soy products. Here is that table:
The authors' stated aim in this study was to see whether "a basic (even nominal) level of functional foods knowledge is related to soy consumption" (p. 148). To this end, they conducted a one-way ANOVA between the two groups (people with either no or some knowledge of functional foods), with the resulting F statistic being shown in the right-hand column of the table. You can see that with one exception ("Soy has an aftertaste"), all of the F statistics have at least one star by them, indicating that they are significant at the .05 or .01 level. Here is our first error, because as every undergraduate knows, F(1, D) is never significant at the .05 level below a value of 3.84 no matter how large the denominator degrees of freedom D are, thus making three of those stars (for 3.1, 3.6, and 2.9) wrong.
Also wrong are the reported degrees of freedom for the F test, which with the sample sizes at the top of the columns (138 and 269) should be (1, 405). Furthermore, the number of participants who answered the question about their knowledge of functional foods seems to be inconsistently reported: first as 363 on p. 147 of the article, then as 190 in the footnote to Table 1, which also appears to claim that 138 + 269 = 580. (It's also slightly surprising that out of 770 participants, either 363 or 190 didn't give a simple one-line answer to the question about their knowledge of functional foods; the word "none" would apparently have sufficed for them to be included.)
However, if you have been following this story for the past couple of months, you will know that these kinds of rather sloppy errors are completely normal in articles from this lab, and you might have guessed that I wouldn't be writing yet another post about such "minor" problems unless there was quite a lot more to come.
It would be nice to be able to check the F statistics in the above table, but that requires knowledge of the standard deviations (SDs) of the means in each case, which are not provided. However, we can work provisionally with the simplifying assumption that the SDs are equal for each mean response to the same item. (If the SDs are unequal, then one will be smaller than the pooled value and the other will be larger, which actually exacerbates the problems reported below.) Using this assumption, we can try a number of candidate pooled SDs in an iterative process and calculate an approximation to the SD for the two groups. That gives these results:
The items on lines 1–3 and 26–28 had open-ended response formats, but those on lines 4–25 were answered on 9-point Likert scales, from 1="strongly disagree" to 9="strongly agree". This means that the absolute maximum possible SD for the means on these lines is about 4.01 (where 4 is half the difference between the highest and lowest value, and .01 is a little bonus for the fact that the formula for the sample SD has N−1, rather than N, in the denominator). You would get that maximum SD if half of your participants responded with 1 and half responded with 9. And that is only possible with a mean of 5.0; as the mean approaches 1 or 9, the maximum SD becomes smaller, so that for example with a mean of 7.0 or 3.0 the maximum SD is around 3.5. (Again, it is possible that one of the SDs is smaller and the other larger. But if we can show that the pooled SD is impossible with either mean, then any split into two different SDs will result in one SD being even higher, making one of the means "even more impossible".)
In the above image, I have highlighted in orange (because red makes the numbers hard to read) those SDs that are impossible, either because they exceed 4.01, or because they exceed the largest possible SD for the corresponding means. In a couple of cases the SD is possible for one of the means (M1), but not the other (M2), and if the SD of M2 were reduced to allow it to be (just) possible, the SD of M1 would become impossible.
I have also highlighted in yellow the SDs that, while not strictly impossible, are highly implausible. For example, the most moderate of these cases ("Soy will fulfill my protein requirements", M=4.8, SD=3.4) requires well over half of the 138 participants in the "no knowledge of functional food" group to have responded with either 1 or 9 to an item that, on average, they had no very strong opinion about (as shown by the mean, which is almost exactly midway between "strongly disagree" and "strongly agree"). The possible distribution of these responses shown below reminds me about the old joke about the statistician with one foot in a bucket of ice and another in a bucket of boiling water, who reports being "very comfortable" on average.
Thus, around half of the results—either the means, or the F statistics, or both—for the 22 items in the middle of Table 2 of Chan cannot be correct, either due to mathematical impossibility or because it would require extreme response patterns that simply don't happen in this kind of survey (and which, if they had occurred by some strange chance, the authors ought to have detected and reported).
A demonstration that several of the results for the open-ended (first and last three) items of the table are also extremely implausible is beyond the scope of this blog post (hint: some people spend a lot of time at the store checking that there is no soy in the food they buy, and some people apparently eat dinner more than once a day), but my colleague James Heathers will probably be along to tell you all about this very soon as part of his exciting new tool/method/mousetrap that he calls SPRITE, which he kindly deployed to make the above image, and the three other similar images that appear later in this post.
One more point on the sample size of 770 in this study. The article reports that questionnaires were mailed to "a random national sample (obtained from U.S. Census data) of 1,002 adults", and 770 were returned, for a payment of $6. This number of responses seems to be very common in research from this lab. For example, in this study 770 questionnaires out of 1,600 were returned by a sample of "North Americans", a term which (cf. the description of the sample in Westgren, below) presumably means US and Canadian residents, who were paid $5. Meanwhile, in this study, 770 questionnaires out of 2,000 mailed to "a representative sample from 50 US states" were returned in exchange for $3. One might get the impression from those proportions that paying more brings a higher response rate, but in this study when 2,000 questionnaires were mailed to "North Americans", even a $6 payment was not sufficient to change the number of responses from 770. Finally, it is unclear whether the sample of 770 mentioned in this article and (in almost-identical paragraphs) in this article and this book chapter represents yet another mailing, or if it is the same as one of those just listed, because the references do not lead anywhere; this article gives slightly more details, but again refers back to one of the others. If any readers can find a published description of this "loyalty program survey of current customers of a Kraft product" then I would be interested to see it. (A couple of people have also mentioned to me that a response rate of 77%, or even half that, is remarkably high for a randomly mailed survey, even with an "honor check" as an incentive.)
Now let's look at the other two articles out of the three that are the main subject of this blog post. As we'll see, it makes sense to read them together.
Wansink & Cheong (2002); Wansink & Westgren (2003)
Cheong (available here [PDF]) reports a study of the attitudes and soy consumption habits of a sample of 132 Indians and Pakistanis who were living in the United States (thus making the article's title, "Taste profiles that correlate with soy consumption in developing countries [emphasis added]", perhaps a little inaccurate) and associated in some way with UIUC. Westgren describes the results of a very similar study, with almost exactly the same items, among 606 randomly-selected North Americans (US and Canadian residents, selected from phone records).
The first thing one notices in reading these two articles is that about 40% of the text of Cheong has been duplicated verbatim in Westgren, making up about 20% of the latter article. We have seen this before with the lead author of these articles, but apparently he considers it not to be a big deal to "re-emphasize" his work in this way. Some of the duplicated text is in the Methods section, which a few people claim is not a particular egregious form of self-plagiarism, but the majority comes from the Results and Discussion sections, which is unusual, to say the least, for two different empirical articles. This image shows the extent of the duplication; Cheong is on the left, Westgren on the right.
The evolution of Cheong into Westgren can be followed by downloading two drafts of the latter article from here (dated May 2003) and here (dated July 2003). The July version is very close to the final published text of Westgren. Interestingly, the Properties field of both of these PDFs reveals that the working title of the manuscript was "Profiling the Soy Fanatic". The co-author on the May draft is listed as JaeHak Cheong, but by July this had been changed to Randall Westgren.
As with Chan, the really interesting element of each of these articles is their respective tables of results, which are presented below, with Cheong first and Westgren second. The first seven items were answered on a 1–9 Likert-type scale; the others are expressed as a number of evening meals per week and so one would normally expect people to reply with a number in the range 0–7.
[[ Update 2017-03-23 22:10 UTC: As pointed out by an anonymous commenter, the above statement is incorrect. I hadn't taken into account that the numerator degrees of freedom are 2 here, or that the threshold for a star is p < 0.10, not 0.05. I apologise for this sloppiness on my part. However, this means that there are in fact two errors in the above table, because both this 3.6 and 5.9 ("Number of evening meals with which you drink wine during the average week") should have two stars. It's particularly strange than 5.9 doesn't have two stars, since 5.3 ("I am traditional") does. ]]
Just as an aside here: I'm not an expert on the detailed eating habits of Indians and Pakistanis, but as far as I know, soy is not a major component of the traditional diet of citizens of either nation. Pakistanis are mostly Muslims, almost all of whom eat meat, and Indians are mostly Hindus and Sikhs (who tend to consume a lot of dairy if they are vegetarians) or Muslims. So I was quite surprised that out of 132 people from those two countries surveyed in Cheong, 91 claimed to eat soy. Maybe people from the Indian sub-continent make more radical adaptations to their diet when they join an American academic community than just grabbing the occasional lunch at Subway.
OK, back to the tables. Once again, it's instructive to examine the F statistics here, as they tell us something about the possible SDs for the samples.
For ease (I hope) of comparison, I have included blank lines for the two items that appeared in Cheong but not in Westgren. It is not clear why these two items were not included, since the May 2003 draft version of Westgren contains results (means and F statistics) for these items that are not the same as those in the published Cheong article, and so presumably represent the results of the second survey (rather than the remnants of the recycling exercise that was apparently involved in the generation of the Westgren manuscript). There are also four means that differ between the May draft of Westgren and the final article: "I live with (or am) a great cook"/"Health-related" (6.1 instead of 5.8), and all three means for "Number of evening meals eaten away from home during the average week" (0.9, 1.2, and 2.0 instead of 0.7, 1.7, and 1.7). However, the F statistics in the draft version for these two items are the same as in the published article.
The colour scheme in the tables above is the same as in the corresponding table for Chan, shown earlier. Again, a lot of the SDs are just impossible, and several others are, to say the least, highly implausible. As an example of the latter, consider the number of evening meals containing a soy-related food per week in the Indian-Pakistani group. If the SD for the first mean of 0.6 is indeed equal to the pooled value of 2.8, then the only possible distribution of integers giving that mean and SD suggests that two of these "non soy-eaters" must be eating soy for dinner eleven and fourteen times per week, respectively:
If instead the SD for this mean is half of that pooled value at 1.4, then a couple of the non-soy eaters must be having soy for dinner four or five times a week. This is one of several possible distributions, but they all look fairly similar:
This "more reasonable" SD of 1.4 for the non-soy eaters would also imply a pooled SD of 3.2 for the other two means, which would mean that about a third of the people who were "unambiguously categorized as eating soy primarily for health reasons" actually reported never eating soy for dinner at all:
To summarise: For five out of 11 items in Cheong, and seven out of nine items in Westgren, the numbers in the tables cannot—either due to mathematical limitations, or simply because of our prior knowledge about how the world works—be correct representations of the responses given by the participants, because the means and F statistics imply standard deviations that either cannot exist, or require crazy distributions.
Similarities between results in Cheong and Westgren
It is also interesting to note also that the items in Cheong that had problems with impossible or highly implausible SDs in their study of 132 Indians and Pakistanis also had similar problems in Westgren with a sample of 606 random North Americans. This might suggest that whatever is causing these problems might not be an entirely random factor.
Two items from Cheong were not repeated in Westgren (in fact, as noted previously, it seems from the May 2003 draft of Westgren that these two items were apparently included in the questionnaire, but the responses were dropped at some point during drafting), but most of the answers to the remaining nine items seem to be quite similar. As an exercise, I took the sets of 27 means corresponding to the items that appear in both tables and treated them as vectors of potentially independent results. The scatterplot of these two vectors looks like this:
This seems to me like a remarkably straight line. As noted above, some of the variables have a range of 1–9 and others 0–7, but I don't think that changes very much.
I also calculated the correlation coefficient for these 27 pairs of scores. I'm not going to give a p value for this because, whatever the sample, there is likely to be some non-zero degree of correlation at a few points in these data anyway due to the nature of certain items (e.g., for "Number of evening meals in which you eat a soy-related food during the average week", we would expect the people who "never eat soy" to have lower values than those who stated that consumed soy for either taste or health reasons, whatever the sample), so it's not quite clear what our null hypothesis ought to be.
> cheong = c(2.8,5.6,7.1,5.6,5.7,4.5,4.9,5.7,7.9,4.9,4.3,5.4,
> westgren = c(2.3,5.8,7.2,5.3,4.2,3.1,3.8,6.3,7.8,4.1,4.6,5.8,
> cor(cheong, westgren)
[1] 0.9731398
Even allowing for the likely non-zero within-item correlation across the two samples mentioned in the preceding paragraph, this seems like a very high value. We already know from earlier analyses that a considerable number of either the means or the F statistics (or both) in these two articles are not correct. If the problem is in the means, then something surprising has happened for these incorrect means to correlate so highly across the two studies. If, however, these means are correct, then as with the brand loyalty articles discussed here (section E), the authors seem to have discovered a remarkably stable effect in two very different populations.
Uneven distribution of last digits
A further lack of randomness can be observed in the last digits of the means and F statistics in the three published tables of results (in the Cheong, Chan, and Westgren articles). Specifically, there is a curious absence of zeroes among these last digits. Intuitively, we would expect 10% of the means of measured random variables, and the F statistics that result from comparing those means, to end in a zero at the last decimal place (which in most cases in the articles we are examining here is the only decimal place) . A mathematical demonstration that this is indeed a reasonable expectation can be found here.
Here is a plot of the number of times each decimal digit appears in the last position in these tables:
For each table of results, here are the number of zeroes:
Chan: 84 numbers, 3 ending in zero (item 21/F statistic, 22/"Some knowledge", and 28/F statistic).
Cheong: 44 numbers, 1 ending in zero ("Number of evening meals which contain a meat during
the average week"/"Taste").
Westgren: 36 numbers, none ending in zero.
Combining these three counts, we have four zeroes out of a total of 164 numbers. We can compute (using R, or Excel's BINOMDIST function, or the online calculator here) the binomial probability of this number of zeroes (or fewer) occurring by chance, if the last digits of the numbers in question are indeed random (either because they are the last digits of correctly calculated item means or F statistics, or because the errors—which we know, from the above analysis of the SDs, that some of them must represent—are also random).
> pbinom(4, size=164, prob=0.1)
[1] 0.0001754387
Alternatively, as suggested by Mosimann, Dahlberg, Davidian, and Krueger (2002), we can calculate the chi-square statistics for the counts of each of the 10 different final digits in these tables, to see how [im]probable the overall distribution of all of the final digits is:
> chisq.test(c(4,15,14,17,15,11,19,20,26,23))
X-squared = 21.244, df = 9, p-value = 0.01161
Either way, to put this in terms of a statistical hypothesis test in the Fisherian tradition, we would seem to have good reasons to reject the null hypothesis that the last digits of these numbers resulted from random processes.
Ignoring the "minor" problems that we left behind a couple of thousand words ago, such as the
unwarranted significance stars, the inconsistently-reported sample sizes, and the apparent recycling of substantial amounts of text from one article to another, we have the following:
1. Around half of the F statistics reported in these three articles cannot be correct, given the means that were reported. Either the means are wrong, or the F statistics are wrong, or both.
2. The attitudes towards soy products reported by the participants in the Cheong and Westgren studies are remarkably similar, despite the samples having been drawn from very different populations. This similarity also seems to apply to the items for which the results give impossible test statistics.
3. The distribution of the digits after the decimal point in the numbers representing the means and F statistics does not appear to be consistent with these numbers representing the values of measured random variables (or statistical operations performed on such variables); nor does it appear to be consistent with random transcription errors.
I am trying hard to think of possible explanations for all of this.
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Main Street in Santa Monica may be known for its proximity to the beach, but I promise you anyone who calls Main Street their home neighborhood is far from being a bum.
Fittingly, M Street Kitchen and Bakery is a mirror of its location and clientele. Up at 8 a.m. for breakfast, turning to brunch and lunch at 11 a.m., winding down at 4 p.m. with happy hour, gearing up for a fun night with dinner, and closing the bar at midnight – the vibe matches the neighborhood, the menu plays to the season, and the pace fuels the people.
As you'd imagine, in order to shoulder the variety, there are nine menus – and the shortest, which is breakfast, offers 44 individual items.
So yes, it goes without saying that there is something for everyone at M Street Kitchen – anytime of day, and impressively, from a multitude of cuisines, as well.
Per my duty, I've been to M Street for every possible meal, including a special event. I've nibbled, munched, crunched, sipped, and swooned – and since few people have the luxury (let's be real, it's an obsession) of finding the best things on a menu, here's a cut to the chase:
Breakfast/Lunch: Courtesy of M Street Bakery, I now know where to find the Best Muffins. Streusel-topped and rich, tender, and moist, you can't go wrong with whatever flavor you pick. Also amazing, the M Street English Muffins (homemade, and the size of a saucer). The Havana Latte (made with condensed milk), the Berry French Toast (caramelized jacket, creamy interior), Farmers Market Root Vegetable Hash (aioli, poached eggs), to name a few more, are all worth getting up and in there before 11 a.m.
Brunch/Dinner: Pulled Chicken Nachitos. Evil Thai Princess Salad. Dixie Pan-Fried Chicken. Cheese Burger, add Fried Egg(!). I advise getting a few plates and sharing. If you ask, they'll even pre-cut the burger (and divide the fries).
Dessert: Take it back to the M Street Kitchen and go for the cookies. Any of them – I love the Snickerdoodle, the Gingersnap, and the Sugar Cookie. Get them plain, warm with ice cream, or (and!) a few to go. If you have some room and a few minutes, order the Campfire Pie (chocolate pudding, toasted marshmallow, graham cracker crust).
Like everyone else on Main Street, M Street Kitchen likes to work hard and play hard. Every few months, the bar hosts Toast of the Coast, a 25-wine (unlimited!) tasting event that includes appetizers (bacon-wrapped figs, mini lobster rolls, sliders, and more) so by the end of the two hours, you can (safely!) make your way home. The next Toast of the Coast is April 10 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sign up early to reserve your spot!
M Street Kitchen
2000 Main Street, Santa Monica
Phone: 310.396.9145
Website: mstreetkitchen.com


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Items where subject is "Databases"
- Library of Congress Subject Areas (33)
- Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources (33)
- Information resources (33)
- Databases (33)
- Information resources (33)
- Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources (33)
Burnhill, Peter and Law, Derek (2005) SUNCAT Rising : UK serials union catalogue to assist document access. Interlending and Document Supply, 33 (4). pp. 203-207. ISSN 0264-1615
Cuenca Grau, Bernardo and Horrocks, Ian and Krötzsch, Markus and Kupke, Clemens and Magka, Despoina and Motik, Boris and Wang, Zhe (2013) Acyclicity notions for existential rules and their application to query answering in ontologies. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 47. pp. 741-808. ISSN 1076-9757
Currier, S. and Revie, C.W. and Tennis, J.; (2004) Who says words are neutral and value free?: User-centred design of a web-based Library for human services educators. In: HUSITA7 - The 7th International Conference of Human Services Information Technology Applications. Haworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7890-3371-0
Dunsire, Gordon (2004) Development of a relational database schema for collection-level descriptions in SCONE, the Scottish Collections Network. In: 7th Seminar on Archives, Libraries, Museums, 2003-11-26 - 2003-11-28.
Gettinby, G. and McKenzie, E. and McCart, K. and Revie, C.W. (2003) Time-series models of sea lice Caligus elongatus (Nordmann) abundance on Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. in Loch Sunart, Scotland. In: 6th International Conference on Sea Lice Biology and Control, 2003-07-01 - 2003-07-04.
Gregory, P. and Cresswell, S. and Long, D. and Porteous, J.; Harvey, W. and Kiziltan, Z., eds. (2004) On the extraction of disjunctive landmarks from planning problems via symmetry reduction. In: Proceedings of SymCon'04. Springer, pp. 34-41.
Gu, Y. and Gettinby, G. and McKendrick, Iain and Murray, M. and Peregrine, A. and Revie, C.W. (1999) Development of a decision support system for trypanocidal drug control of bovine trypanosomosis in Africa. Veterinary Parasitology, 87 (1). pp. 9-23. ISSN 0304-4017
Law, Derek; (2007) Beyond the hybrid library : libraries in a Web 2.0 world. In: Digital Convergence - Libraries of the Future. Springer, Berlin. ISBN 1846289025
Law, Derek (1995) Free of charge: an impossible principle in the digital world? In: Scandinavian Conference, 1995-05-01. (Unpublished)
Law, Derek (1997) National Library initiatives : the UK Higher Education experience. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 23 (2). pp. 127-131. ISSN 0099-1333
Law, Derek; (2010) Sink or swim: digital dilemma in higher education. In: Visionary Leaders for Information. Centre for Information Studies, Wagga Wagga, NSW, pp. 114-120. ISBN 9781876938857
Law, Derek (1994) The impact of CD-ROM on the end user and librarian. In: Computers and the History of Art Conference, 1994-01-01. (Unpublished)
Macgregor, George (2005) Z39.50 broadcast searching and Z-server response times: perspectives from CC-interop. Online Information Review, 29 (1). pp. 90-106. ISSN 1468-4527
Macgregor, George and Joseph, Anu and Nicholson, Dennis; Prasad, A.R.D and Madalli, Devika P., eds. (2007) A SKOS Core approach to implementing an M2M terminology mapping server. In: International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries (ICSD 2007). Documentation Research & Training Centre, Bangalore, India, pp. 109-120.
Macgregor, George and Nicolaides, Fraser (2005) Towards improved performance and interoperability in distributed and physical union catalogues. Program, 39 (3). pp. 227-247. ISSN 0033-0337
Magona, J.W. and Anderson, I. and Olaho-Mukani, W. and Jonsson, N.N. and Revie, C.W. and Eisler, M.C. (2003) Diagnosis of endemic diseases in village cattle herds in Southeast Uganda : a low technology decision support system. Newsletter on Ingetrated Control of Pathogenic Trypanosomes and their Vector, 8.
Magona, J.W. and Walubengo, J. and Olaho-Mukani, W. and Jonsson, N.N. and Revie, C.W. and Eisler, M.C. (2004) Decision support tools as alternative options to improve diagnostic services for endemic livestock diseases. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 9. pp. 452-457. ISSN 1026-0919
Magona, J.W. and Walubengo, J. and Olaho-Mukani, W. and Revie, C.W. and Jonsson, N.N. and Eisler, M.C. (2004) A Delphi survey on expert opinion on key signs for clinical diagnosis of bovine trypanosomosis, tick-borne diseases and helminthoses. Bulletin of Animal Health and Production in Africa, 52. pp. 130-140. ISSN 0378-9721
McKendrick, I.J. and Gettinby, G. and Gu, Y. and Reid, S.W.J. and Revie, C.W. (2000) Using a Bayesian belief network to aid differential diagnosis of tropical bovine diseases. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 47 (3). pp. 141-156. ISSN 0167-5877
McMenemy, D. and Poulter, A. and Chowdhury, G. and Tomeny, A. (2005) Evaluation of SCRAN subscription to Scottish public libraries. Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Nicholson, Dennis and McCulloch, Emma (2006) Investigating the feasibility of a distributed, mapping-based, approach to solving subject interoperability problems in a multi-scheme, cross-service, retrieval environment. In: International Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006-12-05 - 2006-12-08.
O'Loan, S. and Poulter, A. and McMenemy, D. (2005) The Extent of Sectarianism Online : Project Report produced for Nil by Mouth. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Revie, C.W. and Gettinby, G. and Treasurer, J.W. and Grant, A.N. and Reid, S.W.J. (2002) Sea lice infestations on farmed Atlantic salmon in Scotland and the use of ectoparasitic treatments. Veterinary Record, 151 (25). pp. 753-757. ISSN 0042-4900
Revie, C.W. and Gettinby, G. and Treasurer, J.W. and Ritchie, G.; (2003) The use of a general linear model to identify epidemiological factors affecting the abundance of chalimus stages of the sea louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) on Scottish salmon farms. In: Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Sci Quest.
Revie, Crawford and Gettinby, George and Treasurer, J.W. and Rae, Gordon H (2002) The epidemiology of the sea lice, Caligus elongatus Nordmann, in marine aquaculture of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., in Scotland. Journal of Fish Diseases, 25 (7). pp. 391-399. ISSN 0140-7775
Revie, Crawford and Gettinby, George and Treasurer, J.W. and Rae, Gordon H and Clark, Norman (2002) Temporal, environmental and management factors influencing the epidemiological patterns of sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infestations on farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Scotland. Pest Management Science, 58 (6). pp. 576-584. ISSN 1526-498X
Shiri, A.A. and Revie, C.W. (2005) Query expansion behaviour within a thesaurus-enhanced search environment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (4). pp. 462-478. ISSN 1532-2882
Shiri, A.A. and Revie, C.W. and Chowdhury, G. (2002) Thesaurus-enhanced search interfaces. Journal of Information Science, 28 (2). pp. 111-122. ISSN 0165-5515
Wen, L. and Ruthven, I. and Borlund, P.; Lalmas, M., ed. (2006) The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria. In: Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3936 . Springer, pp. 456-459. ISBN 9783540333470
White, R.W. and Jose, J.M. and Ruthven, I. (2006) An implicit feedback approach for interactive information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 42 (1). pp. 166-190. ISSN 0306-4573
White, R.W. and Ruthven, I. and Jose, J.M. and van Rijsbergen, C.J. (2005) Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 23 (3). pp. 325-361.
White, Ryen W. and Jose, Joemon M. and Ruthven, I. (2005) Using top-ranking sentences to facilitate effective information access. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56 (10). pp. 1113-1125. ISSN 1532-2882
Zhang, Yi and Porter, Alan L. and Cunningham, Scott W. and Chiavetta, Denise and Newman, Nils (2021) Parallel or intersecting lines? Intelligent bibliometrics for investigating the involvement of data science in policy analysis. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 68 (5). pp. 1259-1271. ISSN 0018-9391


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Miller Samuel began preparing market reports for Douglas Elliman in 1994. This initial research effort has evolved into an expanding series covering a wide array of housing types in many markets. The distribution of the series in both print and download exceeds more than 1,000,000 copies per year.
The reports are considered the "report of record" within each market covered and contain a number of innovations, introducing many "firsts" that have been largely adopted by competitors.
The purpose of these reports is to provide clients and consumers greater housing market transparency to enable them to make more informed decisions.
Market Report Series Methodology
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Note: These market studies may not be reproduced or used in whole or in part, except with proper credit as to their authorship.


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I hope this will come in handy for those trying to decipher surgical speak.
Skin grafts
Skin is removed from one part of the body and applied/secured onto another part. Skin is made up of two distinct layers - the epidermis (top layer containing the main skin cells that grow) and the dermis (bottom layer containing hair follicles etc).
1. Split thickness skin grafts (SSG/STSG) are "shaved" off the skin, taking off the epidermis and usually a very thin layer of the dermis. The donor area (where the graft was taken from) is normally left to heal like a big graze and this usually takes 2-3 weeks. The area will look pink at first and then settle within months to a couple of years. The grafted skin may have holes in it to allow any fluid to escape and make it stretch to cover a larger area. This gives it a "string vest" appearance after it heals. The grafted skin will not have normal skin colour because the pigment cells do not tend to survive. It also tends to get dry easily and be crusty or flaky because it does not have the normal glands in the skin that keep it moist. This is why it is important to moisturise and massage the grafted area (and the donor area). These areas need to be kept away from the sun for a couple of years (cover up with clothing and/or sunscreen) as they are more susceptible to reacting to the sun.
2. Full thickness skin grafts (FTSG) remove both layers - the epidermis and dermis, with fat removed. The graft retains hair and tends to be less dry. The colour of the grafted skin could become lighter (hypopigmentation) or darker (hyperpigmentation) with time, compared to the surrounding normal skin. The donor area is sutured into a neat scar that forms a line.
3. Mucosal grafts are normally taken from the inside lining of the cheek. This is to replace areas of mucosa like the pink bit of the eyelid and the inside lining of the urethra. The advantage is hairless skin that is similar in texture and function as the areas it replaces. If the donor area is small, it can be left to heal by itself. If it is larger, it can be stitched up. Sometimes, the uppermost layer of mucosal grafts could be slowly replaced with cells that are normally found on skin and eventually take on the appearance of skin in a process called keratinasation.
4. Composite grafts contain other structures apart from skin, e.g. fat, cartilage.
Flaps can contain two or more structures, e.g. skin, fat, fascia, muscle, bone, nerve. If it carries its own blood supply, it is a pedicled flap. If it is lifted from one part of the body and reattached to another part, with its blood vessels reattached (anastomosis), it is a free flap. This is a simplification of flap categorisation.
Terminology - grafts & flaps - what they are
Terminology - grafts & flaps - what they are
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HowTo:De-snake a plane
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Ever since the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903, snakes on a plane have been a common aviation hazard. There are several problems with having snakes on a plane, including:
- Biting
- Eating of children/pets/luggage
- Missing your snake
- Damage to plane
- Death
- Passengers may demand refunds
Now that you are aware of the problems with having snakes on your plane, you can take measures to get rid of them. WARNING!!! Depending on where you live, the danger level of the snake could be very high or very low. The most common snakes that people will find on their plane are the milk snake and the coral snake. They look almost exactly the same, except one is cuddly and harmless, and the other is a venomous killing machine. So you should probably wear some gloves or something.
What you'll need[edit]
You will need the following common items to de-snake a plane:
- Stick (point/curve at one end for impaling/putting snake into bag to be released into the wild)
- Bag (not needed if you have a pointy stick)
- Garbage bag (needed if you have pointy stick)
- Gloves (only necessary if you do not have access to anti-venom)
- Mongoose (see also HowTo: De-Mongoose A Plane.)
- Samuel L. Jackson (only necessary if it is a motherfucking plane, infested with motherfucking snakes)
After you have obtained the required materials, locate the blueprints for your plane. Mark out common places where snakes hide. These include:
- Food and drink trays
- Overhead compartments
- Overhead lighting and wiring
- Cockpits (cobras only)
- Right behind you
- Other wiring
- Luggage and baggage
- Urinals/toilets
- Under seats
- Mouth of dead guy (but first make sure it's not his tongue)
- Ventilation system
- In the case of Samuel L. Jackson being on the plane, motherfucking everywhere.
Get to it![edit]
Now that you have marked out your search areas, suit up. Enter the plane and look around to see if there are any snakes in obvious places, i.e. seats, floors, etc. If there are, do not be worried by them. These snakes are probably harmless milk snakes. Well, you better hope they are milk snakes. Impale them with your stick just to make sure. Once all visible snakes are eliminated (or captured, if you care about the lives of these endangered killing machines), start looking in the places you marked down on the blueprints. Only the most clever, and therefore the most deadly, will have hidden in the places you hastily marked down. If you are unsure on how dangerous they are, stick your hand in there and see if he bites. If he does, then you probably shouldn't have done that. Use your stick to impale the snake (or capture it...I guess...), and then bag it. Repeat this process in all the places you marked on your blueprint, and in some other places that look snakey. Once you are confident that there are no snakes left in the plane, exit the plane and tow it into the hangar. Start the plane in the hangar and leave a door open. The exhaust will kill any snakes that you missed, and you too if you happen to wait in the hangar. Re-enter the plane and remove all the snake bodies. Congratulations, your plane is now snake free! Dispose of the snake carcasses at your local animal carcass dropoff, or in a garbage can in the park at night. You should de-snake your plane every week to avoid a buildup of snakes on your plane.
Alternatively, you could contact a snake removal professional such as Samuel L. Jackson or Saint Patrick. However, be aware that professional snake removal rates are high and rarely guarantee against re-infestation (or sequels). Therefore, it is recommended that you attempt the above method first and only contact a professional if the snakes prove persistent or really, really bitey.
Opening a window while in flight is also a valid alternative.
If all else fails, toss a lit match in the gas tank and collect the insurance.
Related: HowTo DePlane a Snake[edit]
- Catch Snake
- Ponder how a Plane got on a snake
- Remove Plane from snake, Plane may bite
- Call Samuel L. Jackson
- Yell "I'm tired of these Mutha-Fuckin' Planes on this Mutha-Fuckin' Snake!"
- Film the entire process and make a movie of it
- Make millions of dollars
- Go home and ponder why you don't have a life.
- ???
- Profit!


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Officials Must Remove 7.8 Million Gallons of Water After Man Pees in Reservoir
A 21-year-old Portland, Oregon man who relieved himself in the Mt. Tabor reservoir last Wednesday may face serious criminal charges. The reservoir is one of the city's main sources of drinking water and, since the water is now contaminated, officials insist that 7.8 million gallons must be dumped.


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Study reports success in targeted therapy for common form of lung cancer
Clinical trials in patients planned
The most common genetic subtype of lung cancer, which has long defied treatment with targeted therapies, has had its growth halted by a combination of two already-in-use drugs in laboratory and animal studies, setting the stage for clinical trials of the drugs in patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other scientists report in a new study.
The study, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, describes a new tack in the treatment of lung adenocarcinomas – which account for about 40 percent of all lung cancers – that carry mutations in the gene KRAS. While most efforts to target KRAS directly with drugs have not proven successful, the authors of the current study took a more circuitous approach – targeting KRAS's accomplices, the genes that carry out its instructions, rather than KRAS itself.
"About 30 percent of lung adenocarcinomas have mutations in KRAS, which amounts to nearly 30,000 of all patients diagnosed with lung cancer each year in the United States," says the study's senior author, David Barbie, MD, of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. "That represents the single biggest subset of lung cancer patients, if grouped by the mutations within their tumor cells. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a reliable way at striking at the genetic mechanism that causes these cells to proliferate."
Mutations in KRAS cause cancer cells to grow and divide in a wildly disordered way. The lack of drugs able to block KRAS safely has led investigators to look for ways of stifling its effects "downstream" – by interfering with the signals it sends to other genes.
Barbie was studying one of these signaling pathways, which involves TBK1, a protein active in the immune system. He conducted a search of scientific literature to see if there are any compounds capable of blocking this protein. One study stated, deep in the footnotes, that a drug known as CYT387 – already being tested as a treatment for the bone marrow disorder myelofibrosis – is also active against the TBK1 protein.
Barbie and his colleagues tested CYT387 in laboratory samples of lung adenocarcinoma cells and found it to be a potent inhibitor of TBK1 and, as a bonus, an effective suppressor of cytokines, proteins that congregate in the tissue around tumors and help cancer cells survive and spread to other parts of the body. Animal studies produced similarly encouraging results.
Barbie and study co-senior investigator Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD, of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber next ran tests in more aggressive lung adenocarcinomas, which, in addition to having mutations in KRAS, also had mutations in the key gene p53. The investigators tested two drugs in tandem against these tumor samples: CYT387 and AZD6244, which inhibits MEK, another downstream protein of KRAS. Neither drug had much of an effect by itself; together, they formed a potent combination against the tumors, both in laboratory cell samples and in animals with the disease.
"Cytokines play a key role in tumor survival and spread in cells with KRAS mutations," Barbie states, "so blocking cytokine signaling can deprive cancer cells of a critical survival strategy. Because the combination of a TBK1 and MEK inhibitor targets two pathways at once, it shuts off cytokine signaling very quickly." The shutdown of cytokines contrasts with the effects of many other forms of targeted therapy, which impede cancer cells' ability to proliferate.
The drug combination didn't produce any notable side effects in the animal models," Barbie notes. He adds, however, that after about eight weeks of treatment, the cancer cells became resistant to the regimen, highlighting the potential need for additional drug combinations to produce lasting remissions.
"The next step will be to take these results to the clinic, where the combination can be tested in lung cancer patients," says Wong. "We're in the process of developing a clinical trial. Because KRAS mutations are also common in colon and pancreatic cancer, we're hopeful that trials will be organized for these patients as well."
Research for the study was provided by grants KO8CA138918-01A, P01CA154303, R01CA130988, R01CA122794, R01CA166480, R01CA163896, R01CA140594, and U01CA141576 from the National Institutes of Health. Additional support was received from the V Foundation, the GTM Fund for Lung Cancer Research, the Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Uniting Against Lung Cancer.
The lead authors of the study are Zehua Zhu, PhD, Amir Aref, PhD, and Travis Cohoon of Dana-Farber. Co-authors are Yu Imamura, MD, PhD, Susan Moody, MD, PhD, Rhine Shen, PhD, Anna Schinzel, PhD, Jacob Reibel, Zhi Rong Qian, MD, PhD, Asher Page, PhD, Mary Labowsky, Lior Rozhansky, Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, Suzanne Gaudet, PhD, and Michael Eck, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber; Shenghong Yang, PhD, Tran Thai, Edmond Chan, MD, and William Hahn, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Pablo Tamayo, PhD, Whitney Silkworth, and Jill Mesirov, PhD, of the Broad Institute; Karolina Maciag and Nir Hacohen, PhD, of the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital; Thanh Barbie, MD, and William Gillanders, MD, of Washington University; and Jeffrey Engelman, MD, PhD, and Ryan Corcoran, MD, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital.
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"The Dish": Fact versus Fiction — a quick comparison
(Refer to "Parkes: 30 Years of Radio Astronomy" available through Visitors Centre, $30).
Several true things in the film:
- we did point at the Moon, and, as arranged, did take signals, and successfully, for the moonwalks
- we normally park our dish at 35km/hr. On the day of the moonwalk it was gusting 100km/hr.
- Goldstone (USA) signals did "disappear into the ground" on the day
- there is a visitors centre nearby
- staff do take "hayrides" as one means to get equipment up onto the dish
- Parkes did use an "off-axis" feed to acquire signals of the first few minutes
- the astronauts did go outside ahead of schedule
- we do have a UPS and backup diesel generator
- NASA did get coordinates wrong occasionally on very early missions
- the control room set and operation of the dish was very realistic representation of 1969
Pure fictions (to make a good story)
- there was no power failure
- there was no animosity with Americans; we are accustomed to sharing expertise both ways
- the Prime Minister visited Honeysuckle Creek, not Parkes
- staff names and personas: Director, John Bolton died in 1993. Letty Bolton lives in Queensland and visits occasionally
- there are no tours of the telescope for visitors
Understated/overlooked aspects
- the first few minutes of the televised broadcast originated from Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra
- more NASA staff and OTC (Telecom) staff were present; it was a larger team effort
- the congratulatory telegram included a lot more players than just Parkes
- quality control and foresight at Parkes were much greater than as portrayed. The Director had actually calculated how fast for teams of men to wind the electric motors in the event of a total power failure.
- it was quite normal to scan side to side to find a source and strongest signal
- the wind kept blowing a gale during the moonwalks
- our then-Director, John G Bolton, made the decision to keep pointing in the wind. In this universe he got away with it!
- Parkes Radio Telescope is a valuable astronomical instrument, ten thousand times more sensitive than when first commissioned in 1961. No time is wasted on the dish, one the the best radio telescopes in the world.
Puzzling aspects
- Prime Ministerial ignorance (we were well known — half the construction funds were from Commonwealth Government)
- as big as a football field. (it's big, but not that big; what footy field is that small?)
Cricket on the Dish
- It never happened. True the actors went up there for about an hour, but they were told where they could stand, what they could do, what they could throw (a tennis ball). So, it wasn't a "stunt-double" dish, it really was the Parkes dish they were standing on, but neither was what the film showed "highlights of a day's play"!


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Hello! Before I begin, I would just like to say a big ((THanK YoU)) for the great response to my Year End Reviews. It was a totally indulgent pleasure-fest putting those posts together, and I'm glad you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed making them.
I received a great many enquiries about the little Heart Hanger I showed in my crochet review, so I thought it would be good to share some info on that sweet make.
The heart pattern is not mine, it was written by an amazing Dutch hooky lady who goes by the name of BeaG. A good friend discovered this pattern a few years ago (she made some red hearts with white embroidery to hang on her Christmas tree), and I stashed the info away in my Creative Mind to be brought out at some Future Date. Roll on a year or two and there I was, looking for something suitable to create as a Birthday gift for my wonderful friend and neighbour who lives at number eighteen.
The pattern is written up on Flickr, you can find it HERE. Please note :: the pattern is written in US terms, so where it tells you to SC throughout, that means Double Crochet for us Brits. You start at the bottom point and work your way up for twenty rows. After that you work first one round part, and then the other on the opposite side. It's not hard, so long as you know how to increase and decrease in double crochet.
So I made two identical hearts from a bamboo/cotton yarn on a 3.5mm hook. I gave the hearts a light press with the steam iron as they ended up very curly when first made. The rose and leaves are from my own pattern which you can find HERE.
Ta-dah! A very simple idea, but very sweet. It turned out good!
A few things to say about the making up...........
1. You will need to stitch on the rose and leaves before you join the two hearts together.
2. the hanger is a simple crochet chain, which I also attached to the back of the front heart before joining the two hearts together. I've made other Heart Hangers where I've used a short length of narrow spotty ribbon instead, which looks very pretty.
3. To join the hearts together :: begin at the top/centre (the bit where the hanging loop is) and work around the shape in double crochet, inserting hook through the stitches of both hearts. Work with the front facing you and keep your tension quite loose so that the shape doesn't pucker. You might need to add in a few extra stitches as you work around the bottom point.
4. Don't forget to add the stuffing before you get to the end of the joining! I used a polyester toy stuffing which I scented with rose essential oil, but it would also work really well stuffed with dried lavender.
I added a very sweet little message to my heart which reads "There is no set path just follow your heart". Isn't that lovely? I bought it from a local shop along with a few others, but just had a quick search online (they are produced by gift-ware company "East of India") and found a supplier for you....see here and here.
I think the Heart Hanger would look just as lovely without the message though. Maybe even with a double rose, or perhaps a little posy of teeny tiny flowers and leaves?
I also want to show you this...I've used the May rose with my triple-leaf pattern (find it in this post) to add a decorative touch to some gift wrapping. Cute idea eh?
Well I think that's about all I can think of to tell you about the Heart Hanger, I hope it's been helpful if you fancy giving it a go.
I think being able to gift someone a little bit of heartfelt creativity is a very special thing indeed. Yay for Hooky Handmade!


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SUPERNATURAL Episode 9.15 Promo #THINMAN : THE GHOSTFACERS RETURN — A teenage girl (guest star Ali Webb) is killed and the final selfie she took before the attack shows a ghostly figure in the background. Looking for something to keep them busy, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) head to Washington to find the ghost. While the two interview the girl's mother, Betty (guest star Maria Marlow), they are surprised when she starts talking about cold spots and fritzing. When they ask her about bringing up paranormal signs, Betty replies that the "supernaturalists" who called earlier brought it up. Enter Harry (guest star Ryan Moss) and Ed (guest star A.J. Buckley), the famous supernaturalists. Jeannot Szwarc directed the episode written by Jenny Klein (916).


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RockYou admits security snafu exposed email login details
Suitably contrite over 32m credential breach
Social media application developer RockYou has vowed to improve its security and apply encryption following a breach that exposed 32 million user login credentials to hackers.
Sensitive login credentials - stored in plain text - were left open to attack as a result of an SQL injection vulnerability in RockYou's website. In a statement, RockYou said the exposed password credentials applied to widgets it develops and potentially exposed user password and email addresses. The developer said user credentials about RockYou applications on partner sites - including Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut - was not exposed by the admitted breach.
Our users' privacy and data security have always been a priority for RockYou and we strive to keep them secure. Our users have confidence in our services and we will continue to ensure that confidence is deserved.As we previously explained, one or more individuals illegally breached one of our databases that contained the usernames and passwords for about 32 million users in an unencrypted format. It also included these users' email addresses. This database had been kept on a legacy platform dedicated exclusively to RockYou.com widgets. After learning of the breach, we immediately shut the platform down to prevent further breaches.
Importantly, RockYou does not collect user financial information associated with RockYou.com widgets. In addition, user information for users of RockYou applications on partner sites, including Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Friendster, Bebo, Orkut, Mixi, Cyworld, etc., were not implicated by the breach. The platform breach also did not impact any advertiser or publisher information, which we maintain on a separate and secure system that is not a legacy platform. Lastly, the security breach did not affect our advertising platform or our social network applications.
However, because the platform breached contained user email addresses and passwords, we recommend that our RockYou.com users change their passwords for their email and other online accounts if they use the same email accounts and passwords for multiple online services. Changing passwords may prevent anyone from gaining unauthorized access to our users' other online accounts. We are separately communicating with our users so that they take this step and are informed of the facts.
RockYou added that it was investigating the causes of the breach. In the meantime, the application developer is applying security improvements. These include encrypting all passwords and upgrading its legacy platform to the "same infrastructure and industry standard security protocols we employ on our partner applications platforms". ®


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Sew Peachey
Friday, December 20, 2013
Christmas cookies
Just wanted to let you all know I'm guest posting over at
Lilla Luise
today! So head on over to find out two of my favorite cookie recipes!
Merry Christmas!!
Monday, December 9, 2013
Its Giveaway Day!!
Welcome to my little corner of blogging land!! Today is a fun day of hopping from blog to blog & entering all the fabulous giveaways & getting to meet new crafty folk!
Sew Mama Sews
giveaway day!!!
My treat for you is a charm pack of the lovely Central Park by Kate Spain!
Just leave me comment telling me where you are visiting from & good luck!
International entries are welcome & I'll keep it open till Dec. 15, 5pm.
EDIT: the giveaway is now closed. CONGRATULATIONS to Swedish Scrapper who stopped by from Sweden!
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A Girls Twirly Skirt!
Today I have a wonderful little skirt to share with you! My lovely friend Kat of
Flutter Kat
has just released her new Girls twirly skirt pattern & we were honored to get to test it for her this past week! I cant say enough about this pattern & if you have little girls to sew for I highly recommend you go & purchase it right away! I made the size 3 for Anna & it took just under a half yard of fabric & less than 45 min. from start to finish to sew! I told you need it! It will be so easy to whip up a bunch to match all those cute tops you have!
Anna was thrilled with her new skirt & yes she helped me "pick out" the fabric & proudly showed it to her daddy when he came home!=)
I love the tip from Kat on stretching out the elastic & sewing a line down the center to keep it from rolling. Genius & more professional finish as well!
Forgive the 3yr. old action shots! It is so hard to hold still you know! =)
Now head on over to
& get yourself one of these easy peasy twirly skirt patterns!
Happy sewing!! xKaren
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Congratulations to
on being lucky number three & winning the Scrap Happy purse pattern!!
Cant wait to see the fabulous bag you will create!
Happy Sewing! xxKaren
Friday, October 11, 2013
A bag & a {giveaway}!
I am super excited to be sharing this finished bag with you all today!!
It was over a month ago when I got lucky & noticed
Amanda Jeans
request on IG for people to test out her new scrap happy purse pattern. I jumped at the chance & was thrilled when I received it & looked it over. It looked like the perfect bag pattern I'd been in search of!!!
One of the things I did different is use low volume strips I had already cut & leftover from my string quilt (which is still a wip). They are a bit wider than the called for ones but I think it still turned out fabulous! I also cut my batting the length of both pieces & that way I could easily quilt it as if it were one big piece. Really this bag went together so quickly I was almost shocked!
{in progress}
{meet my fabulous new bag in all her glory!!!}
pockets in the lining & my tag plus a fun sewing tag for added charm.}
I used so many of my favorite low volume prints in here!}
{magnetic snap closure is perfect for keeping your bag from gaping open.}
I also chose the option of using premade leather bag handles instead of making my own. This was an interesting experience & if you peek inside they are far from perfect, but I'm happy with how it turned out either way. I also have to thank
of the lovely Schnitzel & Boo for helping a girl out & sending me these gorgeous red handles!!! They are so perfect!
And Now for the EXCITING news!!!!!
Amanda has kindly offered a PDF pattern for me to give away to one of readers!
(If you cant wait & just HAVE to have the pattern right now, you can find it
1. Just leave a comment on this post letting me know what you think of the bag!
2.Become a follower for a second chance! or let me know if you already are.
I'll pick the winner next wed. Oct. 16.
Good luck & happy sewing! xKaren
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
scrappy pumpkins
It's one of my most favorite times of the year & a few weeks ago I got a serious case of the "fall crafting bug"!! =) I just HAD to sew something Autumny!
That's when I saw a friend on IG making these adorable little pumpkin blocks & I just new what I had to make!! In a few hours I'd whipped up a bunch of these little pumpkins, using mostly scraps & bits of leftover fabrics.
After all the blocks were made I just sewed a strip in between each one & ended up with a runner almost 6ft. in length! And Boy, is it hard to photograph something this long! Any tips you could share with me?
I decided I wanted a more natural & organic type of quilting so I went with this organic line. I am really happy with how it turned out & love the modern movement it brings to the runner!
I had the perfect basic orange dot for the binding & what better print for the back than Lizzy Houses candy corn?! you might find this hard to believe, but candy corn is definitely not a favorite fall candy of mine. I'm a chocolate girl all the way!! lol=)
I think this Heather Ross wildflower pumpkin has to be one of my favorites! Its just so cute & chubby.
I'd love to see yours if you make some of these! They are just so easy & satisfying!
Happy fall Sewing!! xxKaren
Monday, October 7, 2013
The Shop is OPEN!!
So I've finally taken the plunge & opened up my esty shop!
I have a bunch of Heather Ross FAr FAr Away 1 that I'd love to see enjoyed in a new home so head on over & let your friends know too!! =) xx
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HAMHUNG, North Korea – North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year's crucial rice planting season: possible bonuses that are part of an economic shift echoing ally China's steps three decades ago toward embracing capitalism.
Details about the changes are emerging nearly two months after the regime unveiled dual goals of building the economy and nuclear weapons in the first concrete economic policy laid out by leader Kim Jong Un since he took power in December 2011.
Farmers say they have begun working under the new policies, which are designed to boost production by giving managers and workers financial incentives. Foreign analysts say the moves to spur North Korea's moribund economy suggest Pyongyang is taking cues from Beijing on how to incorporate free market ideas within its rigid socialist system.
The North's policy enshrining its provocative push to build atomic weapons as a national goal has complicated international efforts to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program and dominated international discussion about the country. Pyongyang's economic priorities have drawn far less attention but some experts think important reforms could be unfolding.
Impoverished North Korea has not released economic data for decades. South Korea's central bank estimates the North's gross national income, an indicator of the average standard of living, was $1,250 per person in 2011 compared with $23,400 for South Korea.
In the past, the North Korean state set workers' salaries. Under new measures announced April 1, the managers of farms, factories and other enterprises have been given leeway to set salaries and offer bonuses to workers who help drive up production.
"This is definitely significant," said John Delury, an assistant professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
Providing material incentives and loosening central control over economic decision making are two key elements in the transition from a command economy to a market-based system, he said.
Also announced April 1: the reappointment of Pak Pong Ju as premier after his dismissal from the post in 2007. Pak was central to attempts at economic change more than a decade ago.
"You just wouldn't bring back Pak Pong Ju unless you were going to try readjusting economy policy. There would be no reason to do that," said Delury, calling it a strong sign of Kim Jong Un's interest in lifting living standards.
North Korea's policy changes find an echo in China's market reforms that have transformed it into a manufacturing powerhouse and world's second-largest economy while also lifting several hundred million out of grinding poverty.
Beijing dismantled the centrally planned economy slowly. In the 1970s, it began allowing farmers to keep more of their harvests, giving them an incentive to grow more to sell on newly permitted free markets. Food production soared.
In the mid-'80s, the government gave state enterprises the authority to link bonuses and salaries to better performance. Those changes were mostly aimed at managers, but they cracked a communist-era preference for egalitarianism.
New rules in the early 1990s gave state enterprises full flexibility to set wages, widening the use of performance incentives. In that decade, China truly broke away from its centralized "iron rice bowl" system of guaranteed employment and state-set incomes.
Delury and others cautioned that if the North is intent on economic reform, it is likely to be a fitful process.
"We have to be careful not to say: Aha, it's all change, it's finally here," he said. "The point is, and we see this from the Chinese case, this is a process that unfolds over time and there are starts and stops, too. But this is a strong signal of a push."
The Associated Press reported last September that farmers were notified of upcoming management changes at collective farms that would put decision-making and responsibility for crops in the hands of local officials and give farmers the right to hold onto surpluses.
"Last year, we studied reasonable economic management methods in different fields of economic work, and introduced it to some units on a trial basis," Ri Ki Song, an economist from North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences, told AP this week.
North Korea formally announced the policy, and its expansion to include factories and other enterprises, a day after holding a plenary session of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party. Rodong Sinmun, the party paper, called it a "new strategic line."
Ri, however, dismissed characterizations of the changes as reform.
What's new, he said, is allowing managers to dole out goods and cash as incentives. In addition, after meeting a state quota, managers can set their employees' salaries and offer bonuses to those who help drive up production, he said.
The main goal: to encourage "greater profits" and solve North Korea's chronic food shortage, Ri said.
Ri said North Koreans work hard, but the new incentives give them motivation to work even harder. "They are saying that higher salaries and shares will improve their life."
Political and military expert Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Hawaii, noted that North Korea has rolled back past attempts at economic reform.
"The North Koreans have played reform games before and then just sort of pulled the rug out from under it," he said. Cossa cited NGOs as saying the military is pressuring farmers to donate their portion to the army.
Last year, a farmer's wife in Sariwon, south of Pyongyang, told the AP she planned to donate any surplus harvest to the state as a token of her patriotism.
At the Tongbong farm in the eastern city of Hamhung, farmers are in the midst of a busy rice planting season after a long, cold winter.
This year, things are being managed differently, said Kim Jong Jin, deputy chairman of the farm's managing committee.
He said the state provided the farm with the rice seedlings, which farmers are now transplanting to paddies by hand. Farmers are on smaller teams that have direct responsibility over their plots.
After the rice is harvested, farmers must "repay" the state for the seeds. At Tongbong, that means giving the state about 193 kilograms of rice as payback for every 140 kilograms of seedlings they received.
But any surplus can be kept by the team to sell, barter or distribute — a change from past policies that required farmers to turn all harvests over to the state.
"This encourages enthusiasm for production and we get more of what's produced," Kim said.
Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee, Foster Klug and Sam Kim in Seoul, South Korea; Kwang Hyon Kim in Pyongyang, North Korea; Charles Hutzler in Beijing; and Margie Mason in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.
Follow AP's Korea bureau chief at www.twitter.com/newsjean.


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LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Lee Anne Branch and Kyle Branch, both 41 of White Hall, Arkansas appeared before United States District Judge D. P. Marshall, Jr. to be sentenced for theft of government property. Judge Marshall sentenced Lee Anne Branch to 30 months' imprisonment to be followed by 3 years' supervised release. Kyle Branch was sentenced to 20 months in prison followed by 3 years' supervised release. Judge Marshall also ordered the Branches to pay $248,535 to the NCTR.
On November 21, 2013, the Branches waived indictment and pled to an Information charging them with one count of theft of government property. When entering their pleas, the Branches admitted that they voluntarily, intentionally and knowingly stole items of value that belonged to the United States with the intent to deprive the owner of the use or benefit of the items taken. At the time of their plea, they also agreed to forfeit all interests in all property that was used to commit their theft and any proceeds of their sale of government property including a 1998 Baja Outlaw Boat with a Mercruiser motor and SPRS Trailer. When pronouncing the sentence for the Branches, the Judge stated that he took into consideration Kyle's medical condition, namely cancer. Judge Marshall recommended that Kyle be placed in a medical facility close to Central Arkansas. Lee Anne was ordered to report to the Bureau of Prisons June 9, 2014, and Kyle was given until September 30, 2014 to report.
The charge was the result of a scheme to steal property that was being transferred from the Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) as they were breaking down buildings and equipment associated with the chemical weapons destruction. Lee Anne Branch was employed at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR). She was in charge of property and the process of obtaining property from other federal agencies. Lee Ann stole the transferred property, by personally picking up pallets of items from the PBA in a box truck. The truck would be driven to a private storage unit she rented in White Hall instead of taking them to the NCTR and entering them into the NCTR inventory. Kyle Branch then sold the stolen items from the storage unit through multiple means including sales on eBay and Craig's List.
A third defendant, Travis Love Donald, age 38, of Sherwood, also pled guilty on November 21, 2013, to the theft of government property charged in the Information. He is scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr. on May 22, 2014.
The United States Attorney acknowledges the valuable assistance of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Army CID, NCTR, and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office for their dedication to this investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Edward Walker prosecuted this case for the United States.


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- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- HBS Case Collection
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Charles C.Y. Wang and Esel Cekin
This case centers around the shareholder dispute between three major shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully-functioning board. The battle for control of the Turkish telecom giant led to several years in which the company could not hold annual shareholder meetings, renew its board of directors, or pay dividends, and lacked a board-approved operating budget. Nevertheless, it maintained its majority market share and was the only telecom player with positive EBITDA in the market. What were the implications of this dispute for Turkcell's broad ambitions? How would the continuing battle affect management, talent, and the company's financial performance?
Financial Performance; Regulatory Environment; Telecommunications; Marketing; Value Added; Pricing; Shareholder; Boards Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Shareholder Relations; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Esel Cekin. "Turkcell." Harvard Business School Case 715-009, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)