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"What Rights Do Terrorists Have?" is the title of a talk to be presented Wednesday, Feb. 20.
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I'm getting my Tannehill jersey for free when the Dolphins beat the Texans on opening day 26-24.
After looking at the descriptions of the three kinds of jerseys you can get on Nike's website, it sounds like the "Limited" jersey (for $135) would be a decent comparison to what they wear on the field, if you don't want to shell out $250 for an authentic. For $35 extra, it looks a LOT better than the "Game" replica jersey.
If it said "replica" in the description, you should have known this. The semi-authentic ones will say "EQT" or "Premiere" (or whatever Nike is calling them now). Replicas will always have screen printed numbers in every sport.
I'll buy my Tannehill jersey and Dolphin gear once they change the logo & jersey. I remember how much it sucked buying all kinds of gear when they changed the logo the last time. I'll hold out til next offseason to stock up.
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Where are you hunting on Opening Day, a familiar place that you've hunted many times in the past, or a new spot that looks promising?
I'm headed to the same place I've killed turkeys on Opening Day for the past two years. It has great topography and is in a natural travel route between thick cover, a two year-old cutover, and some 30 year-old timber growth on the adjacent property about 300 yards away.
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|I'm reading about all of these doom and gloom predictions, most of which fail to materialize, and I'm reading about the flooding in parts of the north. Well isn't flooding part of our weather history in the spring, when snowmelt accumulates and flows where it's supposed to? In days passed, the Midwest has always had flooding in spring, but now it's climate change. These blogs and articles on flooding also fail to mention that there's a low pressure system passing through the country at this time, bringing low temperatures throughout the whole nation, including the deep south. In April. What about that, climate-changers? Why not a blog or article on that development?
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This is not this climber's lucky day. After powering through the crux of the Joshua Tree roof-crack More Monkey Than Funky (5.11b), Nick Sullen attacks the route's finishing headwall. But just as he's trying to top out, a tug on his harness from his stuck rope below yanks him from the rock, and due to the stuck cord, the belayer has no chance of giving a soft catch. Ouch!
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We haven't posted an official release announcement, but we did release LNX-BBC 2.1 (get a torrent, or do lame old direct download). They're going to be sold through the EFF store and the FSF membership program, and of course you can sell your own if you like. Business-card CD-R blanks have prices comparable to those of regular CD-R blanks a couple of years ago.
I've had this silly momentary obsession with hacking our releases so that their MD5 checksums start with "bbcbbc", or perhaps so that both their MD5 and SHA1 checksums start with "bbc". I've been experimenting with some Python code which appends bytes to a given document in order to cause it to have a hash with chosen properties. Fortunately, you can't choose more than a few bytes of the hash, as a practical matter, but my success in this makes me want to encourage people to actually read the whole PGP key fingerprint when you're signing a key. Some people sort of doze off in the middle of verifying a fingerprint.
To make a checksum start with "bbc", you only have to examine about 4096 possibilities, and to make it start with "bbcbbc" (or "bbc210") it would be about 16777216 possibilities. Soon after that, we start to run into trouble.
Zack suggested the right approach: you don't hash the whole file every time, you hash the original file, save the current state of the digest, and then see what the output of the digest would be if you updated it with any of some thousands or millions or more of alternatives. In my code this is done with a loop containing a digest.copy(), digest.update(), and digest.hexdigest(), which work properly with Python's md5 and sha modules. It takes only a few seconds to run for a short string.
Bram is famous; Jack Valenti sent personal letters to each of the five Commissioners of the FCC, mentioning BitTorrent downloads of TV shows as an argument for expanding technology regulation. The letters are signed "Warmly, Jack" -- by hand.
I know of two useful BitTorrent patches floating around; I wrote one (to make --responsefile and --url basically optional) and Aaron Swartz wrote another (a command-line downloader with a single status line, like wget).
I'm pretty busy with EFF stuff and still keeping my diary over here.
I got a lot of attention not long ago for my diary entry with notes from our meeting with the Microsoft Palladium developers. That was a surprise; I didn't know that so many people were reading my new diary. I guess even more are reading it now.
The meeting was about four hours at the EFF office in San Francisco, and some of the people who are in charge of Palladium answered our technical questions, with no NDA. So that was interesting, and I see I'm not the only one curious about the results.
We aren't going to have a new version of LNX-BBC ready for LinuxWorld. We'd been hoping to, but we got caught up in the strange world of pivot_root. I did manage to rewrite "rdev" in one line of Perl, even though I'm not a Perl programmer. :-)
We also had a hard time getting in-person meetings together, and our volunteer usability tester got pregnant! At present, we have a rough outline for a revamped boot sequence using linuxrc. The old version simply used an initrd and never changed the root filesystem to be anywhere other than the RAM disk, but now we're getting more ambitious, and we're using an incredible mix of filesystem types. We have found possible uses for tmpfs, FAT, ext2fs, iso9660, cramfs, romfs, and the cloop compressed block device driver all within the same project. So we are becoming true boot sequence geeks.
I do hope that the new LNX-BBC version will be out before people have forgotten about our project. It's gotten some nice reviews in the past, and thousands of people are still carrying them in their wallets, but as the old discs crack, memories will fade, too. We've got a big CVS tree using GAR, Nick Moffitt's cool build system (which is the basis for the much-more-famous GARNOME, even though GAR was actually designed for the LNX-BBC project).
Our GAR tree now builds about 90% of the binaries which we shipped on the previous version -- in a repeatable, reliable way, from upstream sources. As Nick says, it's like an equivalent of BSD ports, but for gmake on Linux.
I'm hoping to be at DEF CON, USENIX Security, and LinuxWorld in the next three weeks. After that, I don't have any concrete plans, but I'm sure I'll be back at CPTWG before long. We need more free software people at standards meetings and consortium meetings where DRM work is being done. A lot of the people who are doing DRM standards have never heard of free software before. (Some of them are actively hostile to it, but not all.)
In other news
You can find out lots of other news by reading Vitanuova. Of some free software interest: we are continuing to fight the "broadcast flag" mandate and other parts of Hollywood's legislative agenda. This also is something I wish more free software people would get involved in. The problem is that, when I describe how the broadcast flag works, people break out laughing. They apparently don't believe that something so silly could become Federal law. But I tell you that it's by narrow escapes and hard work that it isn't Federal law today.
The Palladium people are going to come back during USENIX Security to meet with us again and share more details, which I expect I'll write about in my web diary. I've also put in an inquiry with TCPA to ask the TCPA committee to visit EFF and give us their own overview. (Contrary to what some people believe, Palladium and TCPA are distinct and have different technical characteristics.)
That riddles archive is a lot of fun. I have found a horribly inefficient solution to the "100 prisoners and the light bulb" problem.
Development of the new LNX-BBC is going pretty well, thanks mainly to Nick Moffitt's cool GAR system (an integrated build environment implemented in gmake). I think there will be a new release early this summer. It's been almost a year since the previous release (1.618).
I got a nice new computer at work; our sysadmin put Red Hat 7.3 on it and I realized that it's been a long time since I had a Linux desktop with current software on it. There are unfortunately plenty of things I don't recognize, and features which come as a surprise to me, like large file support.
I'm spending most of my time working on EFF court cases and understanding and fighting Hollywood's legislative agenda. It's extremely worth reading this MPAA document, called "Content Protection Status Report", which sets out quite lucidly what America's most powerful copyright companies want and expect to accomplish in Congress in the near future. Among other things, they'd like to see a watermark detector legally required in every analog-to-digital convertor, in order to deal with the "analog hole" (the fact that you can avoid DRM restrictions by starting with analog media).
I'm calling it "Hollywood's new science-fiction and horror summer blockbuster".
EFF and others are having a party to celebrate Dmitry Sklyarov's return home. The party is in San Francisco on Wednesday evening. Or gurer be or fdhner.
I saw brg yesterday in Berkeley (among other people).
I posted an Advogato article on e-mail privacy and casual PKI, and I'd welcome your comments.
I got a job, as Staff Technologist of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They're down the street from me, so I'll be able to continue living in San Francisco.
As Staff Technologist, among other things, I need to identify civil liberties issues in standards and architecture (a la Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace) and, in general, find civil liberties issues that are of interest to EFF.
I'm still interested in consulting work.
The LNX-BBC project has sent version 1.618 to Hong Kong for duplication. We will be giving out a few thousand of them at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco at the end of August.
You can also burn your own copy and try it out. I didn't choose the image that was sent to Hong Kong, so I don't know which it was yet: but you can try one of the latest of our nightly builds. (Mirrors would be welcome.)
Allegedly, we're giving out advance copies at the BayLISA picnic tomorrow (Sunday). I don't know how we're going to get there, because none of the developers who have cars are free tomorrow.
You can also buy business-card sized CD-R blanks for about $0.49 apiece from various CD-R media vendors. The 50 MB version works fine with our image, if you can't find us at LinuxWorld or in person.
I'm going to post a list of changes for 1.618 here. (I'm afraid there are probably a few more changes that we didn't manage to document.) Your suggestions for future releases are welcome; here's what I have in mind.
In other news
Welcome back to leonardr. (That reminds me: we included robotfindskitten in LNX-BBC 1.618.)
The new LNX-BBC web page is up. I'm going to send an announcement of the project to various places in the next few days. I also created an Advogato project for it.
There is an anonymous rsync module which provides access to our work in progress on that project. However, since our server is currently on an ADSL line, I'm not going to link to that here; if you're really curious to look at it, go look at our project mailing list archives. :-)
I'm also going to give a presentation on bootable Linux CDs (and the Linuxcare BBC and now also the LNX-BBC) at the upcoming LinuxWorld in San Francisco in August, and I'm interested in speaking about it at other conferences, too.
I have other news, which is continuing to go into my other diary, but I thought it would be good to poke back in here and mention what's new in my free software world.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Masa Takayama is renowned for his Japanese restaurant Masa, a serene, 26-seat space in New York City's Time Warner Center where the chef presides over meals made from sublime ingredients and served at a luxurious tempo. His rarefied sushi, which may be lavished with caviar or truffles, and other dishes have garnered three stars from Michelin and put him at the pinnacle of the New York City dining scene since the restaurant opened in 2004; prior to this, Takayama lived in Los Angeles where he ran the equally renowned Ginza Sushi-Ko. In both cities, he is also known for leaving diners awestruck by the bill: Dinner for two at Masa is now easily a $1,500 affair.
When Takayama was asked to name the best up-and-coming chef in the world, it was a surprise to hear his choice was Matt Abergel, the owner of Yardbird, a hip spot in Hong Kong that specializes in chicken. It turns out, though, that Abergel and Takayama share the same culinary philosophy (use the freshest ingredients and express them cleanly and simply), and both value attention to detail in every aspect of their restaurants. Their similarities are partly the result of Abergel's apprenticeship and eventual friendship with Takayama, and of Takayama's help in developing the concept for Yardbird. To this day, Takayama offers advice down to the dipping sauce.
Abergel grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and started out cooking in a grocery store, at age 14. Five years later, he got his first job in a Japanese restaurant, in Vancouver. He continued to cook at Japanese restaurants in the city until he came to New York in 2008, in search of a mentor. With no formal culinary training, Abergel was almost too intimidated to apply as an apprentice at Masa, but with a push from his girlfriend at the time—Lindsay Jang, now his partner at Yardbird—he got the job. He quickly impressed Takayama with his innate understanding of technique, ingredients, and even dining-room aesthetics. In 2008, Abergel left Masa to become head chef at Zuma in Hong Kong, where he remained until opening the yakitori restaurant he had dreamed about for years.
Yakitori, a Japanese dish of chicken skewers grilled over charcoal, may be the basis for the menu, but Abergel prepares them inventively and in every permutation: thighs and wings as well as hearts, gizzards, and tails. In addition to the yakitori, some creative side dishes (such as Korean fried cauliflower, or KFC), a long cocktail menu, and a dining room with a hip-hop and funk soundtrack and a cool industrial design have made the restaurant a sensation from the moment it opened last year. One reviewer gushed, "The chicken here is being treated no differently than the finest piece of toro." No surprise there.
MATT ABERGEL: When I came to New York, I really wanted to find a teacher—someone who would inspire me. And once I got to know you, I learned things that I never imagined I would learn: philosophy and technique, the dedication to every detail, the artistry behind everything you do. Everything in that whole restaurant [Masa] was designed and touched by you. Nothing was ever overlooked; everything was important. I learned an overall love for what you do, a discipline and an enjoyment at the same time.
MASA TAKAYAMA: And the whole time I was yelling at the kitchen, eh Matt? [Laughs] And I'm yelling in the kitchen the whole time.
MA: In the beginning you were, but it showed us how much you cared. There were things like the family meals, the food that we cooked for each other and shared together. We would eat so well as a family, as a group of people who worked 15, 16 hours together every day. You cared about us. You showed us that you can't cook well unless you eat well.
MT: You are very passionate about cooking. Whenever I screamed, you just listened. You tasted, and whatever it was, you would feel it. You would taste it. You would see it. You would understand it. What the shape was, what the beauty is—you would get that,
very naturally. That's very important if you are going to be a chef. Not too many people have this.
MA: There was no hierarchy in that kitchen. No one was more important than another person. In the Masa kitchen, there was no sous chef, no commis, no chef de partie. Everybody is just working as a team. That was the beauty of what our jobs were. I never made sushi, but otherwise, I did everything. I started cooking food for staff meals, cutting vegetables, working everything from the grill to the fryer to the pan. That's the way I run my kitchen now.
MT: All the cooking, all the design—you got it fast. You're a really good student.
MA: I think my whole restaurant is influenced by you. My restaurant is based on yakitori, which is a very basic and casual type of food, but it's the same philosophy: taking one ingredient and expressing it simply. I try to keep it as clean and simple as possible, and use the freshest ingredients and be honest. I think that's the thing I feel most connected with: All your food is very honest. There are absolutely no lies, nothing hiding. That's the most important thing to me; that's what I'm trying to do. Honest and simple and delicious food.
MT: When I was at Yardbird four months ago, I had everything: the chicken gizzards, the heart, yakitori. And of course, the big round of whole-corn tempura. It's beautiful.
When I do that dish, it's one bite-size piece of corn. But you did round, beautiful, almost baseball-size corn tempura. Beautiful, beautiful.
MA: Our restaurants are definitely very different. But there is that similar honesty. I grew up with loud music, and all the things I put in my restaurant are things I grew up with. And I think the same goes for you: What you've been surrounded by is what influenced you. It's just different generations.
MT: You have a very, very popular restaurant.
MA: The aesthetic is something I like. And I like to take people's minds off things and put them at ease. I'm not trying to confuse people with flavors or textures or anything like that. Everything is very straightforward and clear: no garnishes that you can't eat, nothing superfluous on the plate. If you read my menu it would say knee bone with salt and pepper, and that's exactly what it is: a knee bone with salt and pepper, grilled over charcoal. It's really that simple. And that's what the design is, too.
MT: That idea—what's comfortable for the customer is comfortable for me too—that's an idea I think you learned from me. A very simple, comfortable place where everyone is enjoying themselves—that's very much what your place is like.
Hey, Matt. I have something very special, a nice sauce for yakitori. I want to give you the recipe.
MA: I'm listening.
MT: I found something beautiful with herbs and a lot of different spices. It's very, very incredible and very good for yakitori. I'll see you [soon] in Japan; I'll give it to you then.
MA: Domo arigato.
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Well, hopefully I get some luck and avoid that. I don't like the lack of support buying these, DST makes a lot of promises but has yet to own any of them. My Enterprise A still has missing paint on the tail, I still have a broken stand that they continue to use the design of, and missing details on the Enterprise D that was supposed to be fixed with stickers.
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Did you ever walk into a store that NEVER had anything and see an employee putting out the latest POTJ figs? The last time this store put anything out was the 2nd or 3rd wave of Ep1 stuff. Yesterday I quit trading. This was a sign to not give up. Regardless, I picked up some for trade:
Darth Vader - Emporer's Wrath
Han Solo - Death Star Escape
Luke Skywalker - X-Wing Pilot
All are case fresh, C-9.5, Canadian cards. (he wasn't the most careful of people as he was putting them on the pegs. First come, First served.
Anakin's Podracer MIB
Naboo Fighter MIB
Trade Fed. Droid Fighter MIB
Queen Amidala (Naboo) MOC
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Naboo) MOC
Tatooine Accessory Set (opened but complete on card)
Jar Jar & Kaddu MIB
Darth Maul Sith Speeder MIB
STAP w/droid MIB
Deluxe Obi-Wan MOC
Deluxe Darth Maul MOC
Deluxe Qui Gon MOC
POTJ: Jek Porkins MOC x2
POTJ: Mas Amedda MOC
Han Solo (Endor) MOC
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Early Bird Display
Luke Skywalker (x2)
Han Solo (x2)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (x2)
R2-D2 (x2)
C-3P0 (x2)
Princess Leia (x2)
Stormtrooper (x4)
Darth Vader (x2)
Tuskin Raider (x2)
Jawa (x2)
Death Star Commander (x2)
any vintage figures and vintage weapons (repro's ok)
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TIE Fighter
X-Wing Fighter
Twin Pod Cloud Car
Millennium Falcon parts: chess table, entire gun & chair part, guns, preactice ball on string, landing ramp and struts
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Admiral Motti
AT-AT Driver
Captain Piett
Darth Sidious (Holographic)
Darth Vader with Removable Helmet
Death Star Trooper
Ishi Tib
Pit Droids (2 pack)
Pote Snitkin
Princess Leia Organa with Hood Up
Sio Bibble
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Wedge Antilles (Millennium Falcon Carry Case)
Muftak & Kabe
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Watto's Box
Mynock Hunt
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Wampa & Luke
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To kick off the rafting season, I thought we should have a bit of fun. Last year we took over 31,000 pictures on our daily Badger Run rafting trips! Over 31,000 pictures! Each day after the rafts come back after an amazing day on the river it is my job to build picture and video DVD's for the rafters, so over the course of the summer I spend a lot of time looking at rafting pictures.
After combing through the 31,000 pictures, there are a few that come to mind as being my favourites for one reason or another. Keep in mind that these are not necessarily the "best", they just happen to be my personal favourites. To have a bit of fun I've put together a collection of my favourite rafting pictures from 2010 and built a bit of a contest around it to get our Facebook followers involved as well. I'll be publishing a new Top 30 rafting picture to our Facebook page every day starting with May 2. On June 15th all the people who have been tagged in our Top 30 pictures as well as everyone that has left comments or "Likes" will be entered into a draw for one of two FREE RAFTING TRIPS!
So if you or one of your friends appear in one of our Top 30 pictures TAG them! If you see something you like, click the "Like" button, or leave a comment. It's that easy to enter the draw! Good luck to everyone!
You can follow along on our Facebook page, and also on our Top 30 page on the website.
As a bit of a teaser, these are my favourite staff pictures from 2010. Not part of the contest, but fun pictures just the same.
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SEATTLE - A local mom is outraged after getting temporarily banned from Facebook over a photo she says is completely innocent.
The photo in question shows Lauren Ferrari's 5-year-old daughter pretending to nurse her 2-year-old sister.
Facebook says it violates the company's community standards, but Ferrari disagrees.
"It's not sexual and they were just pretending," she said. "What's obscene about breastfeeding?"
Ferrari didn't think much of it when she uploaded the photo of her two daughters for all her Facebook friends to see.
"When I posted it I said, 'She says she's nursing her baby,'" Ferrari said. "She didn't say, 'Mommy look, she's kissing my boobie.'"
Less than 24 hours later, the image was gone, with message from Facebook claiming Ferrari violated the site's policies.
"They did not say it was child pornography," she said. "They were not clear, they were really vague."
Stefanie Thomas of the Seattle Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children agrees the photo isn't child porn, but she said it's poor parenting on Ferrari's part. She points to the fact that there's no control over who sees the photo and whose hands it ends up in.
"There's no real way of actually getting wherever that image ends up down off the Internet. So that's something that this family, that these girls, are going to have to ultimately deal with," Thomas said.
After the photo was taken down, Ferrari learned she'd been banned from Facebook for seven days.
"I just wish someone would have actually talked to me and asked a question or something. I just felt it was very harsh," she said.
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the heart of the higher Galilee, is the burial site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai,
one of the most important figures of Kabala (Jewish mysticism). Following the
spiritual and political footsteps of his rabbi, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Shimon Bar
Yochai opposed the Romans and hid away from them in the cave of Peki'in. For 13
years he and his son were isolated from the world and devoted themselves to the
study of the secrets of Judaism. According to Jewish tradition, Rabbi Shimon
Bar Yochai wrote these mystical ideas in the book called "The Zohar"
which means the Radiance. According to the Zohar Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai passed
away on "Lag ba-Omer" (27 days after Passover) and was buried at mount
Meron. The white dome and the core of the building over the graves of Rabbi
Shimon and his son were built in the 16'Th century by Rabbi Galanti, who
followed the advice of Rabbi Isaac Luria. The Kabbalist of Safed in the 16'th
Century were also the ones who started celebrating on Lag ba-Omer the gift of
knowledge that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai left the world. Until this day it is a
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There is now extensive evidence on the optimal management of diabetes, offering the opportunity of improving the immediate and long-term quality of life of those with diabetes.
Unfortunately such optimal management is not reaching many, perhaps the majority, of the people who could benefit. Reasons include the size and complexity of the evidence-base, and the complexity of diabetes care itself. One result is a lack of proven cost-effective resources for diabetes care. Another result is diversity of standards of clinical practice.
Guidelines are one part of a process which seeks to address those problems. Many guidelines have appeared internationally, nationally, and more locally in recent years, but most of these have not used the rigorous new guideline methodologies for identification and analysis of the evidence.
Many countries around the world do not have the resources, either in expertise or financially, that are needed to develop diabetes guidelines. Also such a repetitive approach would be enormously inefficient and costly. Published national guidelines come from relatively resource-rich countries, and may be of limited practical use in less well resourced countries.
In 2005 the first IDF Global Guideline for type 2 diabetes was developed. This presented a unique challenge as we tried to develop a guideline that is sensitive to resource and cost-effectiveness issues. Many national guidelines address one group of people with diabetes in the context of one health-care system, with one level of national and health-care resources. This is not true in the global context where, although every health-care system seems to be short of resources, the funding and expertise available for health-care vary widely between countries and even between localities.
Despite the challenges, we feel that we found an approach which is at least partially successful in addressing this issue which we termed 'Levels of care'.
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Ethanol is making a point that Big Oil is receiving subsidies and ethanol isn't
Ethanol is holding one huge, sarcastic birthday party for Big Oil in celebration of its oldest subsidy enacted 100 years ago.
The 100th birthday for oil's oldest subsidy -- which began in 1913 -- will be prepared by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA), which promotes Iowa ethanol and biodiesel growth, and the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), which encourages the
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"And it dawned on us a few months ago that this is in fact the 100th birthday for oil subsidies and this calls for a party, and I think people can assume our tongues are firmly planted in our cheeks when we say we're going to celebrate that fact," said Monte Shaw, executive director of IRFA.
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"What we're saying is, they're there," said Shaw. "And we're sick and tired of members of Congress who don't know any better or don't want to know any better, saying, oh, why do you need the RFS? Why do you this, why do you need that? Can't you just compete on a level playing field? When the fact of the matter is, our competition has had 100 years of subsidization. They've had nearly 40 years of a petroleum mandate written into federal law that says unless you drive a flex-fuel vehicle, you will purchase gasoline with a minimum amount of petroleum (85% percent of petroleum). The playing field is overwhelmingly tilted to the oil industry and that has got to be a part of all discussions around the RFS."
The RFS is the Renewable Fuel Standard, which is a U.S. federal program that requires transportation fuel to have a certain amount of renewable fuels when sold in the U.S.
The birthday party, called "Century of Subsidies," will be held on Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington DC.
There will be cake.
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It has occured to me, whilst trying to track down an omf/scrollkeeper problem, that we don't have docs about the GNOME document system. We have docs on omf files, and on writing style, but nothing on the system it self. I think I'd find this usefull, since I'm basically having to learn alot of this trying to track down the above mentioned problem. So I'll try to keep jotting down some notes and maybe make some sort of outline so that a document could be made.
I've also been amazed at how many "correct ways" there are. Since GNOME 2 has been released, I've seen many emails, and IRC discussions flaming developers, because they didn't implement something the "correct way". Many of these seem to conflict as well: one person says that one way is the "correct way", whilst another informs us of a completely different "correct way". I now have more of an understanding of what the UI teams must deal with. I think they are doing great work.
Speaking of great work, the GnomeICU team is really working hard. The GnomeICU port to Gnome 2.0 is looking really sharp! Things keep changing which makes documenting difficult at times. ;) I'm also looking forward to the next release of this app too. GnomeICU will totally "rock out".


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Simple pulmonary eosinophilia is swelling (inflammation) of the lungs from an increase in eosinophils, a type of white blood cell.
Pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia; Loeffler syndrome
Most cases of simple pulmonary eosinophilia are due to an allergic reaction from:
The symptoms can range from none at all to severe. They may go away without treatment.
The health care provider will listen to your chest with a stethoscope. Crackle-like sounds called rales may be heard. Rales suggest inflammation of the lung tissue.
Chest x-ray usually shows abnormal shadows called infiltrates. They may disappear with time or reappear in different areas of the lung.
A bronchoscopy with washing may show a large number of eosinophils.
Gastric lavage may show signs of the Ascaris worm or another parasite.
If you are allergic to a drug, the doctor may tell you to stop taking it. (Never stop taking a medication without first talking with your doctor.)
If the condition is due to an infection, you may be treated with an antibiotic or anti-parasitic medication.
Sometimes, you may need corticosteroids (powerful anti-inflammatory medicines).
The disease often goes away without treatment. If treatment is needed, the response is usually good. However, relapses can occur (the disease comes back).
A rare complication of simple pulmonary eosinophilia is a severe type of pneumonia called acute idiopathic eosinophilic pneumonia.
Cottin V, Cordier JF. Eosinophilic lung diseases. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus VC, Martin TR, et al, eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 61.
McCarthy J, Nutrman TB. Parasitic lung infections. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus VC, Martin TR, et al, eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 37.
Raghu G. Interstitial lung disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 92.
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ACRL OnPoint Chat Archive December 2, 2009: Job Seeking in a Tough Economy
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Aspiring academic librarians may find job seeking difficult in today's economy, given budget cuts and hiring freezes at many colleges and universities. Join this month's chat whether you're a new librarian looking for tips or an experienced one with advice to share. Discuss how to stay current while "waiting" for your first academic librarian job. Is teaching as adjunct faculty in a subject area an appropriate "path" to academic librarianship? Would it be better to work as any kind of librarian, such as in a public library? What will make your resume shine in the hands of a search committee? This month's chat is convened by: Mara M.J. Egherman, graduate student in Iowa's SLIS school; Karin Durán, Eric P. Garcia, and Mara L. Houdyshell, reference and instruction librarians at California State University-Northridge and authors of "From the inside out and the outside in: The academic library interview process in a tight economy", C&RL News, April 2009, Vol. 70, No. 4.
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Convener Mara E
Good afternoon everybody. Our ACRL OnPoint topic for today is job seeking in a tough economy. New grads and other job seekers may not find an academic librarian position right now.
12:00 Convener Mara E - So what is the best was to position ourselves for a future job? Other, non-librarian academic job, like teaching? Other non-academic library job?
12:00 Convener Mara E - What do those of you on hiring teams want to see on a cv?
12:01 Convener Mara E
Or is everybody else here today seeking employment like me?
12:02 Sabrina - jobseeker here.
12:02 agrundmann - me too.
12:02 Rachel Slough - me too
12:02 Shannon - I'm a recent grad -- jobseeker.
12:02 jkirsch11 - Me too
12:02 monifa.c - Me too.
12:02 BDENS - Job seeker.
12:02 wood9220 - Yes. I'm in Everett, WA. I've been looking for over a year.
12:02 JStrong - Yes, MLIS student here
12:02 nbertolo - Recent grad here.
12:02 JS - Current MLIS student here
12:02 Convener Mara E - Okay well hopefully by the end of the hour we can get input from folks on a hiring committee somewhere...
12:03 anitazavrrr - Also a recent grad & jobseeker
12:03 Sabrina - did anyone invite a hiring team member?
12:03 Stephanielg - Organizer, NYLibrarians Meetup and mentor to many SILS students. Academic Librarian here in NYC.
12:03 Convener Mara E -Several articles point to ways to match skills from job to job, wherever they might be.
12:04 Stephanielg
Have LinkedIn or other social media tools been helpful to those in either interviewing or search committee positions?
12:04 Kara Malenfant - Sabrina, three of our conveners, along with Mara E, have been on hiring teams.
12:04 Kara Malenfant - They are Mara M.J. Egherman, graduate student in Iowa's SLIS school; Karin Durán, Eric P. Garcia, and Mara L. Houdyshell, reference and instruction librarians at California State University-Northridge
12:05 Kara Malenfant
Check out their article"From the inside out and the outside in: The academic library interview process in a tight economy", C&RL News, April 2009, Vol. 70, No. 4.
12:05 Sabrina - thanks Kara and Stephanie
12:05 Convener Mara E - Stephanielg, do you recommend other strategies?
12:06 Stephanielg - I did read the article in question, but little or nothing is hinted at concerning my question.
12:06 Convener Mara E - I've heard many people have luck with LinkedIn, should that be a focus, as opposed to conference attendance, say?
12:07 nbertolo - I have posted a profile to Linked In but it has not helped me find work yet.
12:07 nbertolo - I suspect face-to-face might be better.
12:07 agrundmann - I'm in the same situation as nbertolo - I think I haven't built up enough of a network yet.
12:07 Convener Mara E - Our co-conveners will be with us shortly.
12:07 Stephanielg - Inovahire.com is a web-based program for online interviewing. Dimdim.com is also.
12:08 JenWaller - I'm not sure you can make any one tool a focus. I'm guessing LinkedIn is helpful, but it's only one piece of a larger job-searching and networking puzzle.
12:08 nbertolo - Yes, I agree with Jen
12:08 wood9220 - I'm looking for free or low-cost tech training...Visio, Sharepoint, etc. Any ideas?
12:08 Stephanielg - Also, by wisely utilizing Web2.0 stragegies, one can push content, be in publications, presentaitons (Slideshare, etc.), wikis with reference tutorials, LibGuides (FB).
12:08 Sabrina - Acad. librarians (university) have laughed in my face at the notion of Linkedin. Though I love it, traditional additions to a CV like conference sessions and published articles have more credence than blogs and Web 2.0.
12:09 nbertolo - It is because traditional work is peer reviewed. The web isn't.
12:10 Stephanielg - But I'm suggesting fusing them with the web. "Shameless self-promotion" if you will. And keep your FB and LI professional. Blogs can be peer-reviewed. An example might be those of professional organizations.
12:10 Sabrina - nbertolo-yup. Unfortunately it can take years to get peer-reviewed articles published. Dilemma for jobseekers.
12:10 nbertolo - How can I get my blog peer-reviewed?
12:10 Stephanielg - I see Yale's Joe Murphy publishing his papers online. Why not?
12:11 Convener Mara E - Utilizing sources such as the ALA NMRT resume reviewing service can help get one ready for the job market http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/oversightgroups/comm/resreview/resumereview.cfm
12:11 Stephanielg - Agreed. nbertolo--Perhaps we should push to get blogs reviewed by peers.
12:11 Convener Mara E - I've been advised to try and have both online and traditional print publications on my cv.
12:12 Sabrina - @Mara E-advised by hiring managers?
12:12 Stephanielg - I know that visualization is critical to self-marketing. Most academic librarians need to know about development, grant-writing, etc. Samples of this may indeed be posted on one's homepage or LI.
12:12 Joni S - I'm still a student, but I've been advised that it would be difficult to make worthwhile connections at national conferences because of the size. Is that true?
12:13 Convener Mara E - Sabrina, yes, by the head of HR of a major research library, and the library director.
12:13 Stephanielg - Start at the chapter level. Get a mentor for national conferences. That's what we do @ AJL. ALA does it for certain.
12:13 Joni S - Thank you.
12:14 anitazavrrr - Joni, I attended ALA in Chicago this summer and it was a great experience in terms of networking
12:14 Kara Malenfant - Hi Joni. I actually got my first job at an academic library because I was at an ALA Annual Conference and used the job placement center. So I had a 15 minute mini interview on site.
12:14 JenWaller - Joni, that has not been my experience. However, I think to get the most out of a national conference it's important to prepare ahead of time.
12:14 Joni S - Great, that's good to know, Kara.
12:14 anitazavrrr - but despite lots of people's insistence that conferences are good for finding a job...not so much
12:14 Kara Malenfant - Not sure my experience is typical, though, Joni,
12:14 Stephanielg - Yes, Ellyssa Kroski once gave a workshop preparing for such conferences using web2.0 technology.
12:14 anitazavrrr - the hiring center was basically empty
12:14 Convener Mara E - ALA has a new "Getting a Job in a Tough Economy" toolkit http://www.getajob.ala.org/
12:15 nbertolo - Is it feasible for a person from Canada to have a mentor in the U.S.?
12:15 Sabrina - Anyone tried this ALA toolkit? No satisfaction here. Maybe I'm missing something.
12:15 Stephanielg - Do people know Ellyssa's book, "Web2.0 for Librarians & Information Professionals." I think because it's a couple of years old it is more moderate in its approach for both networking and project management.
12:16 Stephanielg - ALAConnect seems to be a good forum for the exchange of ideas, especially for SILS students.
12:18 anitazavrrr - I've been having success in getting interviews, but so far no offers. As I finished my MLIS in early august, I'm starting to worry that my experience is getting out of date
12:18 nbertolo - Is it possible for someone who has already graduated to have a mentor?
12:19 Convener Mara E - Our co-conveners are having difficulty getting to the chatroom, perhaps other participants are too...
12:19 anitazavrrr - nbertolo - I have a mentor through NMRT, they sent out some emails a while back asking for interested mentors and mentees
12:19 JenWaller - Anitazavrrr, I have a similar worry. I feel like I'm losing brain cells each day I'm out of school!
12:19 agrundmann - Any suggestions for how to stay relevant since it may take quite a while to find a job? I'd had people recommend volunteering, but in my experience Academic libraries don't take volunteers - especially for professional-level work...
12:19 nbertolo - Thank you anitazavrrr. I will look into it.
12:20 Convener Mara E - nbertolo: Iowa Library Association sets up mentorships, maybe your state org does too
12:20 nbertolo - I have been taking part in web and audio conferences from home. It costs, but ...
12:20 anitazavrrr - I have an "internship" (read: volunteering) at the public library, but it doesn't seem like enough
12:20 nbertolo - Thank you Mara.
12:20 Stephanielg - Public libraries seems to be THE starting place for academic hopefuls. Go for reference, BI, outreach, etc.
12:21 nbertolo - It is also difficult to get into public libraries right now.
12:21 Joni S - Yeah, an academic librarian offered to let me volunteer with her, then her supervisor said she has to prioritize current students, so she had to retract her offer
12:21 Stephanielg - You can also collaborate with academic librarians, too. I attended an unconference in CT in June that did just that. It's the way to get one's foot in the door.
12:21 anitazavrrr - Yes, actually public libraries seem to be suffering even more
12:21 agrundmann - I think I'm seeing fewer public library postings in my area than academic, actually...
12:22 wood9220 - Most of the library jobs I'm seeing are for Managers, Directors and Dept. Heads.
12:22 Convener Mara E - So what about teaching, like as a lecturer at a community college? Does that help a person be prepared for library instruction in the view of those who hire?
12:22 Convener Mara E - Welcome Mara H and Karin, our co-conveners from California.
12:22 Stephanielg - Back on the effectiveness of blogs, they seem like one way the people ARE landing jobs. Community Colleges seem to be good. What about online teaching?
12:22 Joni S - Or maybe teaching in an extended learning or community education class?
12:23 Kara Malenfant - Hi nbertolo. ALA has recently launched "mentor connect" within ALA Connect http://connect.ala.org/taxonomy/term/12176
12:23 mara H.l - Any kind instruction experience is helpful!
12:23 nbertolo - Thank you Mara.
12:24 Kara Malenfant - MentorConnect is an informal mentoring network implemented within ALA Connect that allows all ALA members to participate and only requires that you actively choose to join the network in order to begin serving as a mentor or seeking a mentor.
12:24 karin.duran - Many academic libraries don't want to take professionals as volunteers because of the trianing that might be involved but if you are willing to commit your time for perhaps 6 months or longer, your chances would be better.
12:25 karin.duran - Aslo, you could volunteer with one of the librarian association to help plan programs, conferences, do the website, etc.
12:25 Sabrina Plea to any potential ALA MentorConnect mentors: please don't sign up unless you'll respond to questions!
12:26 agrundmann
-volunteering with library associations sounds like a great idea, thanks!
12:26 Convener Mara E - Karin, yes I've found the state library assn (ILA for me) is very happy to have committee help, and that way I get to interact with working academic librarians.
12:26 Sabrina About volunteering--community colleges need more help than university libraries in my area. Very glad to have project assistance or cede complete project management, esp. with upgrading technology and outreach.
12:26 Kara Malenfant ALA has a program called "student to staff" where students assist and work at the ALA Annual Conference. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/affiliates/chapters/student/studentchapterp...
12:27 Convener Mara E - Sabrina, yes--our local cc has a 54% increase in enrollment for spring!
12:27 Joni S - Were the jobseekers here willing to relocate?
12:27 Stephanielg - Never heard of the "student to staff". This is good!
12:28 karin.duran - Participating in your local, regional associations could also help with developing your network. Colleagues you meet at local events/workshops might provide some good leads or maybe possibilities for collaboration on research
12:28 Sabrina - If nothing else, joining associations gets you away from your computer!
12:28 nbertolo - :)
12:29 Stephanielg - I'm always asking for guest bloggers. My Meetup has positions available as Assistant Organizers. See Meetup.com/nylibrarians for details.
12:30 karin.duran - You might also want explore research and publication opportunities taking advantage of your recent academic experience. Look for possibilities in library literature but also in related fields such as education
12:30 Sabrina - To hiring managers: what do u think of federal librarian experience on a CV?
12:30 Stephanielg - It's also a good way to get support and feedback. We also encourage members to present to our members. See nylibrariansmeetup.blogspot.com/ Our next such presentation will be in March 2010 on Twitter.
12:31 Convener Mara E - Sabrina and everybody, I have also looked at federal jobs. Certainly working at LC would count as "academic," right?
12:31 mara H.l - Sabrina -- are you talking about experience as a gov docs librarian?
12:31 karin.duran - Managemnet experience of all kinds is valuable because there are always common threads, especially in interpersonal relations and communication that work in all environments
12:31 Stephanielg - How many of you out there are second-career librarians? Are you looking for managment positions? Tenure? What if any might be your transferrable skills?
12:31 Sabrina - Also to hiring managers: how long should cover letters be? CVs? (for a recent grad) I've heard the applications are very different than guidelines for public and business sectors.
12:32 nbertolo - Stephanilg. I am a second-career librarian.
12:33 JenWaller - Stephanielg, count me as a second-career librarian with lots of marketing management and project management background!
12:33 nbertolo - I would like to eventually have a management position, but librarianship is quite different from private business.
12:33 BDENS - I'm a 2nd carreer librarian, my prior experience was in arts production, events and education (I browsed). Everything I did was helpful, but for different reasons.
12:33 Convener Mara E - Sabrina, often your campus, whether you are enrolled or alum, has a placement office for cover letter advice. Also ask the head of HR at your SLIS library if s/he would review letters you've sent.
12:33 karin.duran - As a member of seach committees, I appreciate a 1 page letter that concisely connects to the job under consideration and I then look for important details in the CV
12:34 Stephanielg - @Karin do you like this to be electronic with links to additional information, examples, etc.?
12:34 mara H.l - One thing I would add about coming into a management position in the library from the private sector is respect the suppoprt staff!
12:35 Stephanielg - I have issues with HR v. Library search committees. How perceptive are HR staff compared to the "good old days" when librarians searched independetly of HR?
12:35 karin.duran - Stephanielg: Electronic links have been a boon to both the candidate and the reviewers because they save space but provide the opportunity for good detail as needed.
12:36 Stephanielg - Yes!
12:36 JStrong - I am a second-career librarian. I'm currently a Sales Manager in academic publishing. I'm wondering how to make the switch over to libraries (in 1st year MLIS program now)
12:36 Sabrina - @Mara-working with gov docs and many other types for fed. agencies. serving adults: scientists and military.
12:37 Stephanielg - What if any career coaches are available through ACRL or ALA to make the necessary transitions?
12:37 JStrong - (would-be librarian, i should say ;)
12:37 Sabrina - @karin.duran--great idea for saving space on paper w/links.
12:37 anitazavrrr - It seems like, as a recent grad, I'm in competition against librarians with several years of job experience. Anyone have any advice for how to overcome that obstacle? It feels like no one is hiring entry level...
12:37 karin.duran - It would be prudent to ask who is involved with the process so that you can know how to create your cover letter/CV. HR staff are often only looking for buzz words from the job description as they sort so create accordingly.
12:37 Convener Mara E - Stephanielg: it seems that for some jobs you write to the HR office and for some, directly to a librarian. Is it to aggresive to write to the dept directly even when the ad says to submit materials to HR?
12:38 Sabrina - @anitazavrr: I know it's not academic, but look at USAjobs. Govt hiring entry-level.
12:38 Stephanielg - I'm not on a search committee and to be honest, am not up on current legal stipulations, never mind etiquette.
12:39 mara H.l - Sabrina --If you have been able to wrap your head around gov docs you have a very marketable niche. Many of ud tend to roll our eyes when we get gov doc questions, so if you can market your skills well, youi should be in demand.
12:39 karin.duran - antiazavrrr: As a librarian with LOTS of years of experience, I find that newer librarian can and shold focus on coursework and expertise that I don't have such as various levels of technical expertise or research
12:39 JStrong - I like the idea of career coaches available in the library associations to help with transitions -- do they exist?
12:39 Stephanielg - Entry level has always been word-of-mouth. Therefore, again, I say--networking and social media. You need to "know" people (I'm not plugging cronyism). But jobs get filled from the inside.
12:40 Joni S - Is it good practice to "cold-call" a librarian to ask about job openings?
12:41 Sabrina - Do academic jobs get filled from the "inside"? With such a formal hiring process, it seems universities are open to all applicants. I've found an exception with adjunct community college hiring.
12:41 anitazavrrr - well thank you all for doing this, I need to head out but will be sure to check the transcripts later!
12:41 Stephanielg - Karin--nice to know that you value skills that you don't have. Next question, though, will staff be acknowledged for what they contribute? This does not always happen.
12:42 Stephanielg - Adjuncts seem to be the trend, but what about publish or perish and tenure?
12:43 Stephanielg - There is also the area of service, interaction with faculty, outreach to students, liaising with their respective groups. Can this be done by SILS students during their internships?
12:43 mara H.l - Joni -- I don't know if cold calling is the best way to go. I would do that as a "last choice' option. Better to search an organizations web site or contact the HR dept. first.
12:44 Joni S - Thank you
12:44 karin.duran - The candidate should be descriptive of specific tasks/duties/skills acquired as part of a previous position. MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS YOURSELF!
12:44 Convener Mara E - Karin, you mean to outline transferable skills in your cover letter?
12:45 Shannon - I work at a University, and I believe it is required that job openings are posted. However, I think a lot of times that's just for show and the job goes to an internal candidate
12:45 karin.duran - Mara E: Yes, make it clear
12:45 Stephanielg - I did that for many years. Trouble was that I was coming from a high-school environment. Rebranding myself was immensely difficulty!
12:46 nbertolo - Shannon. You are correct. I have been interviewed for a position that went to an internal candidate. I was not happy they wasted my time like that.
12:46 karin.duran - Shannon: Yes, that may be true but sometimes the outside candidates are so strong that people might change their mind.
12:46 Sabrina - Stephanie--did you consider junior college as a bridget between HS and Univ?
12:46 JenWaller - nbertolo, look at it as good interviewing practice!
12:47 Convener Mara E - Jen, right, we have to keep our thoughts positive!
12:47 mara H.l - To add to Karin's comment. If you interview and are not hired, they might keep you in mind for the next time around.
12:47 Stephanielg - I was too settld at my current job. I just kept plugging at it. Of course, I applied for everything!
12:47 Sabrina - @JenWaller--the value of looking at the bright side during a tough and long search
12:47 nbertolo - I'm trying but getting jaded.
12:47 karin.duran - Time for another meeting. Thanks for the lively chat.
12:47 Stephanielg - Thank you all.
12:47 Sabrina - Bye karen!
12:48 Shannon - Oh yes, I definitely need more interviewing practice!
12:48 Sabrina - I'm still confused about following unspoken application expectations, but moral support was great here. Thnks
12:49 Convener Mara E - Karin, thanks for your contributions. Conveners Mara H and I (Mara E) are still here if there are remaining comments or questions.
12:49 Sabrina - Re: interviewing--hate the books/blogs that tell you to recite answers from memory. I hope knowledge and enthusiasm will suffice.
12:49 mara H.l - Yes. any other questions?
12:49 JenWaller - I have an unanswered question from above. Would you like me to copy and paste it here?
12:50 mara H.l - Yes -- thanks!
12:50 Kara Malenfant - And if you have ideas foa a future chat, just let me know. Our aim is to do one informal chat per month on a hot topic.
12:51 Convener Mara E - Also we conveners will review the discussion at the end and try to address remaining items for the logged record.
12:52 nbertolo - Thank you all. You have been a big help and I have come away with a few leads to follow. I will sign out now. Cheers and good luck to everyone!
12:52 mara H.l - Sorry, I should have directed my rsponse to Jen -- please copy and paste the question!
12:52 JenWaller - Good luck to you, nbertolo. Keep your chin up!
12:53 Convener Mara E - Don't forget all the tips available on job searching at ALA Joblist, LIBJOBS, and LibGig. Also if you become a fan of ALA JobList on Facebook, you'll get regular, helpful posts on this process.
12:53 mara H.l - Apologies that Eric G. could not be with us today. He had coflicting library engagements.
12:53 agrundmann - I have a last-minute question. How strict is the usual requirement for "2 years experience"? Many times these jobs look entry-level. Am I wasting everyone's time if I apply to these (I'm just graduating this month)?
12:54 Sabrina - The hardest part for jobseeking is never knowing HOW you did or WHAT you did wrong or right during application/interview process! Can moderators tell us any common mistakes of applicants?
12:57 Convener Mara E - Jen, I've scrolled up as far as I can and don't see your question. Are you still there to repost it?
12:57 JenWaller - I will post it a fourth time :-
12:58 Kara Malenfant - Jen, your question may be too long. It may not post to us (but appear to you that it has) you may need to break it up
12:59 Convener Mara E - Thank you Kara, I couldn't figure out why I couldn't find the question.
12:59 JenWaller - Kara, thank you! I'm guessing that's what is happening! I had no idea!
12:59 Kara Malenfant - Wish Meebo would actually give an error message!
12:59 JenWaller - I have heard two conflicting strategies for job searches, and I'm hoping someone here can clarify. Strategy one: apply to everything and cast a wide net....
12:59 mara H.l - agrundmann --- You might want to call or contact someone before submitting your application to see if related, applicable experience can be substituted. It's worth a phone call or an email.
12:59 JenWaller - Strategy two: only apply to positions for which your are exactly qualified, otherwise it's a waste of the search committee's time. Opinions?
13:00 Sabrina - On qualifying w/years exp: I have a year's worth of paraprofessional exp. Does this count as a year of exp?
13:00 agrundmann - Thanks Mara - I'm never sure what the protocol is for contacting someone to ask questions.
13:01 wood9220 - Jen - I asked a hiring librarian at an ACRL conf. about something similar. She said if you have 3 yrs exp. and apply for a job asking for 5 yrs. exp. She assumes you didn't read announcement carefully.
13:01 agrundmann - Sabrina - that's kind of what I'm wondering. Do support staff/student assistant/internship experiences count? Or just jobs as an actual, MLIS-holding librarian?
13:02 Sabrina - Ok, same advice applies to paraprof. exp. Depends on the hiring managers. I'll call/contact ahead.
13:02 JenWaller - wood9220, That's helpful to know.
13:02 JenWaller - Thank you.
13:03 Convener Mara E - Jen, yes your two part question is visible. I would guess Mara H. is working on a response.
13:03 JenWaller - Thanks, Mara E!
13:03 mara H.l - agrundmann -- I would try to contact the committee chair (if a name is give), or if the job posting is through HR, check with them (they may be able to refer you on to someone specific if they don't have an answer).
13:03 agrundmann - Thank you!
13:03 wood9220 - Jen - Especially in today's job market, stick to what you qualify for. You can stretch it a bit, but casting a wide net might just end up exhausting and frustrating.
13:04 Shannon
As a new grad, if I only applied to jobs I was exactly qualified for, I wouldn't be applying for anything. However, I haven't the time or desire for the level of rejection that comes with strategy 1, so I've been working the middle
13:04 Convener Mara E - This is where the "argue for your transferable skills" comes into play...
13:05 JenWaller - Thanks, wood9220 and Shannon. Those are both good things for me to keep in mind.
13:05 Shannon - I never know how transferable skills relates to years of experience.
13:05 JStrong - Yes, I can't tell what I'm qualified for - no library experience, primarily customer service and sales, and lots of database customization... but it sounds like I should not apply for anything until i actually have the MLIS degree still, right?
13:05 mara H.l - jen --I think you could safely apply for both type of positions. It's just with specific positions, you need to carefully sculpt your resume to the job description.
13:05 wood9220 -Can someone tell me the top five "transferable skills" for a librarian? Good communication skills sounds so generic!
13:06 Sabrina - Maybe in your last semester or year, since it takes a long time to hire in academia.
13:06 agrundmann - JStrong, sometimes you can apply while still in school as long as you'll have the degree by the start date. I recently interviewed for a position while still in school.
13:06 Sabrina - I thought any teaching skills help.
13:06 JenWaller - Thanks, Mara. I have one fairly "generic" C.V., but it sound like I probably need to re-think that.
13:06 Convener Mara E - JStrong: Many of the job postings out there are for start dates from Jan-March, so if you're a May grad, it might be a bit early. But study the postings to be ready.
13:07 BDENS - Woof9220: committee work is a huge thing, I'd emphasise any collaborative work you've done.
13:07 Sabrina - transferable skills differ depending on tech svcs or public svc positions
13:07 Shannon - I have a generic CV/resume, but I put a "relevant skills" section at the top that I tailor for each application. I figure this cuts down on the risk of typos
13:07 JStrong - Thanks for the feedback. I won't be graduating for another couple of years... just have my 15 years of book publishing experience.
13:08 Sabrina - What do hiring managers think of "Relevant Coursework" section on a CV?
13:08 wood9220 - Shannon - great idea!
13:08 mara H.l - wood9220 -- I think if you state that you have "good communication skills" you should give a few concise, specific aeamples (can't think of a "top five")
13:09 Convener Mara E - Thanks everybody for participating. There is an opportunity to "chat about the chat" later on the ACRL site, but I forget what its called. Kara or David, do you know what I'm referring to?
13:09 mara H.l - JenWaller: Sometimes having someone else read the job sdescription then read your resume is a good way to get feedback on how the two match
13:10 JenWaller - Good suggestion! Thanks, Mara H.
13:10 Sabrina - Good communication skills demonstrated in cover letters, publications, and presentations. Would a blurb from a satisfied customer do well for verbal communication skills?
13:10 David Free - Mara - I think you are referring to the earlier Insider post. I'll add a note to the archive post to continue the convo there. And link from OnPoint page
13:10 David Free - http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/
13:11 JenWaller - I'm signing off. Thank you all for the discussion and for your opinions. Greatly appreciated!
13:11 Kara Malenfant - Again, if you have ideas for other topics in the future just let us know.
13:11 agrundmann - Yes, thank you to everyone and good luck to my fellow job-seekers!
13:11 Convener Mara E - David, yes, ACRL Insider--that was it. This is clearly a topic that will be relevant for awhile...folks don't forget to send chat topic ideas for the coming months to Kara.
13:12 Sabrina - thanks. bye!
13:12 Shannon - Yes, thanks and good luck to everyone!
13:12 Joni S - Thank you!
13:12 Convener Mara E - Thanks for the mentoring by you all on hiring committees. Good luck to employment seekers. I enjoyed co-convening this session.
13:13 mara H.l - Sabrina : I don't think that would be the best way to go. It sounds sort of like, "and here's another satisfied customer." Definitey don't think it would be appropriate for an academic position app.
13:13 wood9220 - Thank you all.
13:13 mara H.l - Thanks Mara E. From Mara-to-Mara
13:15 JStrong - Thank you!


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Arthur Miller's The Crucible was a seminal work of American theater, taking a shameful passage of history — the Salem witch trials of the late 17th century — and melding it in the audience's consciousness with a contemporary parallel — the Red Scare hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which prompted a Hollywood blacklist of suspects.
Trinity Repertory Company is staging The Crucible February 4 to March 13, and its director, Brian McEleney, thinks the play is, unfortunately, particularly appropriate for us today. He came to that conclusion a year and a half ago when he and Trinity artistic director Curt Columbus were considering what to stage this season.
"It was during the time when all those health-care town meetings were going on," he says. "And people were screaming and shouting, and every manner of lie was being shouted from the housetops, and it was just chaos. I said, 'Well, that's The Crucible if there ever was The Crucible.' "
The play is about a time when the church and state were the same in America, when Massachusetts was a theocracy.
"It's dangerous conflating those two things, law and religion — one of the points of the play is that nobody really knows the truth, and when we behave as though we do, we get into trouble," McEleney points out. "The play is telling us to be very careful about the way that we deal with the truth. The play is asking us to be very careful about, to use a current phrase, the level of discourse that we engage in."
The director wants audiences to understand that the value of the play is not simply its political message, but also that it is a compelling drama.
"It's so well written, and the characters are so amazing," he says. "John Proctor is a flawed hero, and we watch him go from somebody who really doesn't want to be a hero, from somebody who has done something really bad, which is the predicating event of this play: he had sex with his teenage servant. That was the basic cause of all of this. Then he has to step up to the plate and take responsibility."
In considering how to present the story, McEleney started thinking about how effective and immediate the production of The Laramie Project Revisited had been recently, staged simply by Brown/Trinity theater students, without a lot of scenery.
"It was done just with actors getting up and giving voice to characters," he recalled. "I said, 'That's what political theater should look like, it should look like we're just seizing the moment, with a minimum of spectacle, a minimum of production values.' "
So, although The Crucible is a realistic play, the director decided to take it out of realism. "We are doing it on the steps of City Hall. Eugene Lee has come up with a fantastic scaled-down replica of the steps of Providence City Hall. So we're doing it as though we are a guerrilla street theater."
But we are living 300 years after the time of the play. Did the actors have difficulty getting into the 17th-century state of mind that resulted in 19 hanging victims?
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Women Business Owners present assertiveness discussion
BINGHAMTON, NY – A discussion of "Saying Yes…but Meaning No" is on the agenda for the next Binghamton University Small Business Development Center's Women Business Owners (WBO) roundtable, at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 23, at the Binghamton Riverwalk Hotel and Conference Center (formerly known as the Binghamton Regency) on Water Street in downtown Binghamton.
Diane Lange, a certified leadership coach, will teach participants how to express their needs and communicate assertiveness through body language. Lange has over ten years of experience in organizational development and owns a private practice specializing in employee development, morale and performance.
The roundtable costs $10 per person, payable at the door and includes a full breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards and brochures to share. Advance registration is required. Call Binghamton University's Small Business Development Center at (607) 777-4024 or e-mail email@example.com to register.


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A character, male or female, gets excited—often sexually excited. Blood dribbles, or squirts, out of the character's nose.
The notion that arousal or excitement induces bloody noses (hanaji or "鼻血") isn't just part of anime or manga iconography. It's also become an old wives' tale of sorts. But is it true?
Japanese site Netallica put the question before a otolaryngologist to see if the ear, nose, and throat doctor could confirm whether or not sexual arousal causes bloody noses.
According to Dr. Kouichirou Kanaya, "The notion that sexual arousal causes the heart rate and blood pressure to rise is something that's a well documented fact; however, in actuality, sexual arousal and bloody noses have no direct connection."
Bleeding in the front of the nasal septum often causes nosebleeds. In the case of kids, picking might cause bloody noses. There's a whole host of other reasons that can cause bloody noses that range from dry air to cocaine use and from allergies to hemophilia—and more (the Mayo Clinic has a much more detailed list).
"Bloody noses," the doctor adds, "are probably used to show in a powerful way just how excessively large the change induced by sexual arousal is." It's a climax, and in manga, it often seems to be code for ejaculation.
The trope is very much a Japanese one, appearing throughout the country's popular culture and with various nuances in anime and manga. It is not a new trope and has existed for years.
Manga artist Yasuji Tanioka is believed to be the first one to introduce the motif with his early 1970s manga Yasuji no Mettameta Gaki Dou Kouza. Other manga artists liked the expression and began replicating it in their own work.
While sexual arousal induced nosebleeds don't seem to be backed by medical science, they have become shorthand for stimulation. If they've made it this many decades, don't expect the bleeding to stop any time soon.
「エッチな想像で鼻血が出る」本当 or ウソ? [ネタりか via オレ的]
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