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January 2010 Site of the Month
January 2010 Site of the Month
APA Exposed: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about APA but Were Afraid to Ask
Authors: Deborah Garson, Wendy K. Mages
Interviewee: Deborah Garson
Institution: Harvard University
Interviewer: Genevieve Williams
Q: I'm speaking with Deborah Garson about the APA Exposed tutorial. Deborah, I'd like to start by asking what prompted you to create the tutorial, and what purpose does it serve?
A: Overall we're proactive here on information literacy, and involved in promoting academic integrity and preventing inadvertent plagiarism. So, to that end, we've focused on having information literacy as a key in all the workshops that Gutman Library has done for a very long time. But probably ten years ago, we became very aware that our students were struggling with the APA format, and the rules and citation information. And APA is required, pretty much, here at the Ed school. Not across every single class, but I would say 90-95 percent of the instructors use APA, so it's an important component of our students' work here. We found a graduate student here, her name is Wendy Mages and she is the co-author of the APA tutorial. She had become really quite expert at interpreting the APA citation rules, and knew the manual inside and out. I talked to her, and she agreed to do some on-campus, on-site workshops. So we started those, they were over-subscribed, they were always packed, and we realized that we weren't reaching everybody who needed APA assistance, even with the on-site workshops, obviously, at two a.m., if a student had a question the APA workshop wasn't happening. We had some students at a distance, and we decided that technology was the perfect thing to consider for this. So we sat down and we talked about it quite a bit in the reference department staff, we talked with Wendy about it, and then we involved our learning technology staff upstairs, with thinking about how do we transform a very successful on-site classroom workshop into something that's just as successful as an online tutorial? So that was the impetus behind it: we weren't reaching as many students as we wanted to. And this way it was going to be available 24/7, so if it was two am and the students had a question, they would be able to refer to the tutorial. And even if students took the workshop, and they still had a question, simply because they couldn't remember something, or a new format appeared and they weren't sure, well, do I interpret it this way or do I interpret it that way in order to cite it.
Q: So you've got some indication that even after students have done the in-person workshop, they come back to it for review?
A: Well, it is for review, but I think it's also point of use. I mean, in the workshop, Wendy's emphasis was understanding why one would want to cite to begin with, and the importance of it, and then the how to. But it doesn't always mean that the student walked away saying, "Oh, when I write this paper for Professor X, I can remember now how to cite the PowerPoint that he referred to," or something like that. Initially we thought of it as supplemental, but it became very evident as we went to develop it that it truly could be a standalone, and that's the second version that we're finishing up now, because APA came out with the new edition in July. We just reworked the whole tutorial, and we've been continually working on it because we have feedback built into the tutorial when anyone does it. And it's open, it's not restricted at all to Harvard.
Q: It's been really great to be able to show it to our students, and say here, check this out.
A: Well, it's amazing—I think that's one thing we were absolutely not expecting at all: the number of hits the tutorial has received from non-Harvard users. That was an unexpected and wonderful kind of surprise. And we have gotten e-mails. In fact, when we were beta-testing the online tutorial, in the last seven months of the beta-testing period it got over 7000 visitors. It's been a significant resource for people in the education community, well beyond just Harvard using it. That was pretty amazing and really nice. And the feedback we've received: student e-mails and instructors' e-mails, even some high school students who were required to use it said this is great, this is wonderful. It definitely tied in with all the homework we did about how to create a really effective online tutorial, best practices around it, and things like that. We're pretty pleased with it. But it is a lot of work.
Q: I can imagine. Can you talk a little bit about some of the background research you did in preparing for this, some of the materials that you used? Not necessarily specific citations, but how you went about doing that kind of background research?
A: We looked a lot at the literature around online tutorials, and it was a mixed bag. A lot of the articles talked about the assumption that you can just take paper and paste it up on the Web, that a successful workshop that is taught in a classroom is going to translate just as successfully to an online environment, and that just isn't true. Obviously. Because the big missing piece with any of that is the facilitation that goes on with an instructor being there, so you're missing body language and you're missing other things that really help students stay engaged. And I know, from watching Wendy in the workshop that she did for us, she was very—people just walked out of those workshops saying she's so great, she's really a tremendous instructor and I was thinking, oh my gosh, we're going to lose all that when we go online. So we spent a lot of time working very closely with the learning technologists upstairs, that we luckily had a great working relationship with and they were very interested in doing this, and extremely helpful when it came to developing best practices around it. And then we looked at how to make it as interactive as possible, because again we're missing that in-person instructor or facilitator giving you some clues or feedback. We wanted to make sure that there were multiple means of engagement, so we used a very flexible user interface. And that means that users can elect to skip, or to replay certain topics. They can choose to use the learning checks or not, you know, obviously maybe once they've been through it they look to where they need to go just to refresh their memory or something. We built in the search box, and we wanted to make sure that it would work for different learners. So there's voice in there, people can read the information, they can listen to it, so there's a lot of different ways for people who have different learning styles to access this information and walk away with it. That was really important for us, making sure that was built in. We looked at and integrated the Principles around Universal Design for Learning, which is about offering multiple means of representation and engagement when you're building something.
Q: Initially, who was your target audience for this tutorial?
A: It was definitely our students—graduate students at the school of education. We were continuing to offer the on-site, in-class workshops, but we thought, this is for the students who can't come because they have schedules that conflict with the workshops, so they can't attend them. Or again, that it's two o'clock in the morning, or it's a Saturday, they have a specific question, and the paper's due on Monday. So initially, that was it. But as we got further into developing it, we made an administrative decision to open it up to the public to beta-test it, and that's when we realized that this went way beyond us. Even though there are components that are specifically focused for our students, at the same time we realized that the basic principles easily translate into many other disciplines, not just education. It definitely translates very well into many of the other social sciences.
Q: You mentioned that students have used this tutorial after a library session. Have you had students come to a library session who have done the tutorial already?
A: I think we probably have, though I don't have the statistics in front of me for that. We wanted to see how it was being used. And it was out there both on the external web and on our internal intranet for our community. So I'm sure that students were actually looking at it and then coming to the workshop. And one of the questions that we handed out on the feedback for the in-class workshops was, have you used the tutorial? So I think that some students had actually taken it. But Wendy has such a phenomenal reputation as an instructor that I'm sure that even people who took the tutorial said, I still want to go see her in person. And it would all depend on the timing; they might have assumed that they couldn't make it to a workshop, and so they did the online tutorial and then discovered that their schedule opened up or they were able to attend one of the workshops.
Q: What are some of the ways that you've incorporated core concepts or best practices pertaining to information literacy into the tutorial?
A: We really wanted to build in a flexible user interface. Also building in the learning checks, so that students themselves could check to see, did I really understand what I just went through on the tutorial? And originally the tutorial was at least 40-45 minutes long, the first one that we beta-tested. So then we knew we needed to break it down into modules. Which then means that students could go through it once, but then maybe they're going to realize that they need to just go to the second module because the information they need is there. Wendy was very good about—more than good, she really was very knowledgeable about how to present the information. She built in a lot of examples, and she's very good at explaining without making it seem too overwhelming—why you would cite the author this way, and how to interpret the rule that way, so a lot of the tutorial is filled up with making an instructional point, but then backing it up with specific examples that reinforce it. So somebody may not remember the exact rule, but chances are they will remember the example that was used: "Oh yes, I remember that three authors have to be done this way," or "I remember now that I do have to cite a PowerPoint presentation this way." I think that trying to make it manageable in terms of breaking it down into modules was also very important, because otherwise it can be overwhelming: somebody's going to say, "I can't sit through sixty minutes," but they could say, "Well, I'll do the first two, and then I'll maybe do the next two tomorrow," or something like that. Or, "I'll do the sixty minutes the first time because then I'll know where to find what I need when I'm looking for something specific." We did do a lot of beta testing with it, and got a lot of feedback about people making substantial improvement or some improvement after looking at the tutorial. So it seems to address the needs of both a novice and a more proficient APA user.
Q: Can you talk a little bit more about who was part of the design process and who you collaborated with, aside from Wendy? And how did you all work together?
A: It was myself, administratively and also because I had put the workshop together with Wendy. She was responsible for the content and I got the approval to have her be the instructor for these workshops. Together we built the feedback survey for the workshops that were held on site, because Wendy wanted that feedback. I wanted it, too, to justify continuing to have her as an instructor. When we reached the point of realizing how wonderful the workshops were, but were still having students coming back saying I missed it, or I forgot, or something like that… I had been looking online for awhile because I was very interested in online learning. I had taken a class here on online learning, a graduate school course, in the hopes of thinking about what we do in Reference Services that could be translated into an online tutorial. So these things just kind of meshed, and I thought, well, this is something that I think is doable. I think I didn't realize initially how much work it would be. * laughs * But, you know, I don't know if anybody ever does. So Wendy and I sat down and I talked to her about it, because I wanted to see how she felt about doing it. Because she was going to be the voice, and her content was going to moved into an online tutorial. She was extraordinarily enthusiastic about it, and has worked so hard to make this tutorial what it is, and continues to be heavily invested in it. Then we had a meeting with the learning technologies staff upstairs, who were very enthusiastic. One of them was a graduate of the Ed School in the Technology and Education program. So she really helped endorse what I had learned in my online learning course, about building best practices into any kind of online—whether it's a tutorial or whether it's something more extensive. So it was really a series of meetings, and figuring out what was going to make the most sense in terms of software and hardware, and could we afford to do this or was it going to be free, and so on. So it took awhile, the meetings, but everyone was 100% behind this project and everybody was very enthusiastic about doing it.
Q: When it came to choosing not just to do this in an online format, but the specific presentation technology and media that you used, what were some of the key drivers of what you chose to use?
A: First and foremost was the LTC's recommendations, because they were familiar with certain types of software versus others. Secondly was cost, because we certainly couldn't afford—nor did we especially want to—hire an outside software person or consultant to help us do this. And so, to some extent, our choices were limited by cost and by staffing. But I really trusted that their experience upstairs was going to work for doing this, because they're very knowledgeable and they've done a lot of work around building online assets or products. One thing that we knew was going to be critical was being able to very quickly update this. And add to it, if a new format came along or a student said "How do I cite from Twitter?" or something like that. We wanted to make sure that that was built in. The LTC investigated software and came back with very strong recommendations. We trusted their judgment. None of us have been disappointed at all, it's worked fine. It also has to do with the equipment that's available to do the recording, and so forth and so on.
Q: What were some of the technologies you used to create this tutorial?
A: We used Articulate, and then for the audio we used Audacity, and then of course there's PowerPoint in there, too. And then we have a recording booth upstairs in our building, that's part of the Learning Technology Center. That's where Wendy recorded the content for the tutorial.
Q: How easy was this software to work with? I imagine that some of the people who are going to be reading this are thinking about creating something similar. So was it fairly straightforward, or…? How did you find that experience?
A: The advantage we had, and some people will not have this advantage, was having the Learning Technology staff available to us. They really did set this up and guide us through it. At this point with the APA online tutorial, we can do a lot of it ourselves, but thankfully they're still involved. So they're there to guide us if we have a question about it. There would be a learning curve. I think that Articulate and so forth is pretty straightforward. But again, we did have the particular advantage of having staff who already knew the software, and were willing to work absolutely side by side with us in the first building of the tutorial.
Q: About how long did it take you to put the tutorial together?
A: I think it probably took us six months, from the very beginning of sitting down with Wendy and talking to her about doing it. Now some of that is based on her availability, because she was a student at the time—she is graduated with her degree from here. And some of it also had to do with the Learning Technology Center, they had a lot on their plate. So I would say that it was probably six months, but again, you have to factor in that some of that was when we could squeeze it in. And the initial learning curve. Then we beta tested it for almost seven months. So it took awhile, it really did. Having said that, I think we're all just delighted to have such a strong product out there. But even the revisions have taken us—let's see, the new APA came out July 15th, and we're just starting to finish up some of the revisions in the tutorial for the new release from APA. But nobody here is dedicated to it; I don't have a full-time person here who's doing this.
Q: So it's something you have to do as you can make the time for it.
A: Yeah. It is a priority, and as much as possible we have put other projects on the back burner for the time being, because we know how important it is to the community here. But again, it is taking away from other time and other responsibilities for it. And since Wendy is no longer here at the Ed School, she's at Boston University now…you know, she's just been a tremendous trooper about coming over from Boston University to re-record, and to help us interpret some of the new APA stuff.
Q: You mentioned that you did about seven months of beta testing. Did any of the feedback or results you got from that lead to changes in the tutorial's presentation?
A: To tell you the truth, no. I mean, there were some small things, like somebody said something about the typeface, and maybe there were one or two typos that got by us. But overall, no. The initial one we beta-tested did not have modules, so there were one or two comments about it being too long. But at the same time one of the comments said, "It's so long…but thank you so much, because I learned so much from doing it." So, you know, there were some individual comments that we didn't feel necessitated going back and making any changes. Other than we did know long-term that we wanted to break it down into modules. That had been a recommendation from LTC to begin with, but at the time we all felt that we had a schedule to get this out, and we wanted to stick to that for the first round. And then we could go back and break it down.
Q: Have you done any kind of formal assessment of the tutorial, or do you have plans to do that?
A: We have done some, and actually Wendy and I presented at AERA, the American Educational Research Association. We also have an article coming out that does talk about the kind of feedback that we did. [That article is now available. – GW] We looked at the effectiveness of the tutorial. Overall, the majority of the participants, like 79% I think, reported that they found it very useful, and another 19% reported that they found the program useful. We had a survey at the end of the tutorial, an evaluation survey, and we collected sample demographics about people who were using it, and who was using it, and more importantly, how useful they find it. And that's where we began to see that even people who thought they were familiar with APA were saying that the tutorial was helpful for reminding them about certain things, to be able to quickly refer to something that maybe they thought that they knew but they weren't quite sure about. So it was basically just an online survey that we created to evaluate the tutorial's quality and utility.
G: What means of discovery do you have for users to find it? Is it linked from the library website? What are some of the ways that people can get to this information?
D: When we first released it, we did a huge big PR push. I'm a member of SLA, and I let the Education Division know. Also we contacted other education and library associations such as ACRL, EBSS, and so forth. That's where we wanted to target it first, mainly because it was coming out of the library. I wanted feedback on it from the library community, as to what they thought about it. Since then—Wendy and I did a presentation at the last AERA conference in San Diego, about the tutorial. And if you Google it, it definitely shows up. So I think we've done, or tried to do fairly extensive PR for people. Especially since it is open and there aren't restrictions to people using it. And I would say, given the number of people that have used the tutorial, or at least the number of hits on it; we've even had people internationally using it. Canada, Australia…so people are finding it.
Q: Are there ways that you were publicizing it to your student community?
A: For the student community, we put it up on the library's intranet, which our students all go to and use. We have monitors in the buildings on campus, and it was put up on the monitors—and still is, because we remind students about it, and obviously we have new students come in every year. We sent out e-mails to specific segments of the community here, such as doctoral students, master's students, the faculty. I made a presentation to the faculty at a meeting. I'm also in charge of writing services here. I'm always somewhat surprised when somebody doesn't know about it. I do a pretty extensive repeat every year of the fact that the APA tutorial is there, and obviously reference staff are doing presentations, whether one on one or to a class as a whole.
Q: You mentioned earlier that you don't have the numbers in front of you, but are there general trends that you've noticed in the usage statistics, or anything that jumped out at you or was surprising?
A: The outside use just absolutely took us by surprise. And there were some months where maybe the statistics went down a little bit, but then popped way back up, you know, in September or October or November. That was typical, that was kind of what we were expecting anyway. But for sure the number of hits the APA took the first year or two was extraordinary and not expected. And the other thing I think we were hoping for, but maybe not anticipating as strong a response, was even users who felt they were familiar with APA said they found it very useful or useful. So that was really helpful as well.
Q: What was the biggest challenge you encountered in creating the tutorial?
A: There was a challenge in wanting to absolutely ensure that this really successful in-class thing translated just as well to an online environment. Having said that, I think that we absolutely did our homework, in working with the Learning Technology staff here, I think we were successful. I think what none of us was anticipating—we were anticipating it but not to the extent that it required—was the amount of work that it does take. Sometimes you have the impression that people can put these little online guides or online tutorials together very quickly. This wasn't the case. And it might have had to do with the fact that this was a fairly sophisticated thing to move into an online environment. I think we really had very high standards for it, and we did not want to discover that we were just sticking something up on the Web that helped one or two students, but for students who didn't learn as well just looking at text, or students that needed Wendy's voice there, or something—that we hadn't addressed those issues of different learning styles. So would I do it all over again? Yes, I probably would. But it's labor-intensive. I think anything worth doing is labor-intensive.
Q: What advice would you give to someone who was considering creating a tutorial like this one?
A: Collaboration, first and foremost. I think sometimes we don't realize the expertise and the knowledge that a colleague can bring to it. Or even a different perspective, you know. Once we developed it and had the reference librarians look at it, we had some undergraduate students look at it, and that's all valuable feedback. Not that you want to spend six months having people look at it, and you don't necessarily want to go back and totally revise it because somebody said the color of the background wasn't quite right. But collaboration is key, and doing your homework is essential. The more you read and look at other formats and things…and I think that's an important point, too, that the format that works for me might not work for someone else, both in terms of staffing and what my community expects, or what I can deliver in a successful way to my community. And I don't necessarily think that online is always the answer. If there was a way to have Wendy available 24/7, I probably would've done that. But again, it's harnessing technology to our advantage, as long as you're doing it with best practices behind you. And I think a lot of people are willing to help out, depending on how you distill it. So part of it is being a very good salesperson for your own ideas, and saying, this is why I think this is important, and this is what I think it's going to do, and it's important because it's going to revolutionize the world, or something. So even though somebody may at first be reluctant, they may say, you know what, I do have an hour or two that I can contribute, or something. And I wouldn't reinvent the wheel. If somebody else has done something and you can adapt it, I say that you take it—with their permission—and work with it.
Q: Is there anything else you'd like to add that our readers might like to know?
A: No, but they should feel free to email me if they have questions. And the only reason I can't give out some of the results from our feedback and evaluations is simply because it's coming out in an article. But I certainly would share it with somebody over the phone. And I really do want to give huge kudos to Wendy in this, because she is absolutely the voice of the APA online tutorial, as well as its heart and soul.
Q: She did a ton of work and really made this happen.
A: She did, and she made it happen even before we put it online. And that's another place that I think I lucked out. But again, you know, you go out in your community and find those people, because they're there. And that can help all of us in terms of information literacy in our communities.
Q: Thank you so much for your time today.
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Welcome to the Indiana University South Bend eWaste recycling site. We're glad you have taken the first step with us in conserving natural resources by recycling your unwanted end-of-life electronics in an environmentally sound manner.
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The program will be open to you at IU South Bend on May 8th at 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Businesses and other organizations are asked to view maps and information as well as register in advance at http://southbend.indiana.poweron.com/p/register so we may anticipate the volume of drop-offs possible.
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Recycling is a resource conservation issue. Today's consumer electronics contain highly recyclable materials that would otherwise require mining of virgin materials from the earth to meet today's need for raw materials. Today's electronics recycling technology reduces consumer electronics into separated commodity streams of metals, plastics and glass that are processed into raw materials for reuse in new manufactured products. For example, one ton of recycled computers will yield about one ounce of gold. To produce this same ounce of gold from a virgin resource requires mining 7-11 tons of ore and the energy to mine and process this ore. Clearly, recycling helps us save our precious natural resources and the planet we live on.
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Designer Jeffrey Bernett previews the functional offerings coming out of the recently formed Teknion Studio. Teknion Studio is furniture for the new office, one that is a more collegial and communal office, defined by creativity, conversation and connection. Equally, Teknion Studio offers a fresh, contemporary design vocabulary with the potential to blend into hospitality and residential interiors, as well as academic environments and public settings.
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Women's unique business qualities is the focus of women business owners roundtable
"The unique qualities women bring to business" will be the topic of the Small Business Development Center's Women Business Owners Roundtable discussion from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 23, at the Binghamton Regency on Water Street in downtown Binghamton.
Michele Cona, a national certified counselor, will explore the special gifts and talents women bring to the workplace. The discussion will review and celebrate women's unique attributes in the work environment.
Cona is also a certified clinical hypnotherapist and has been in private practice for over 10 years. Cona specializes in both traditional talk therapy and hypnotherapy.
The roundtable costs $7 a person payable at the door and includes a continental breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards and brochures to share.
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On Jan. 14 the GRAMMY Museum hosted the Doors' Robby Krieger as part of its An Evening With series to discuss his first solo album in 10 years, Singularity.
Before an intimate audience of 200, Krieger discussed meeting the Doors' Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison for the first time, playing in his first band and creating Singularity with co-producer Arthur Barrow. Krieger also performed a brief set, including "Let It Slide."
"We formed a group called the Psychedelic Rangers," said Krieger on his first experience playing in a band. "It wasn't a real group because we never played anywhere, but we'd get together and jam."
Krieger released his debut solo album, Robby Kreiger & Friends, in 1977. He earned his first GRAMMY nomination at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards for Best Pop Instrumental Album for Singularity, a 10-track instrumental jazz-fusion album. Krieger has received GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductions with the Doors for the band's self-titled debut album, "Riders On The Storm" and "Light My Fire," a song that has also been recorded by the likes of Shirley Bassey, José Feliciano and Stevie Wonder.
Upcoming GRAMMY Museum events include Musical Explorations: G. Love (April 9), An Evening With Henry Butler (April 11) and An Introduction To Hip-Hop (April 12).
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I had a great time in the Netherlands - both working and having fun. A highlight of the trip was meeting great people like Dave Crossland (minimal web presence) and Jeroen Janssen.
There are a number of basic algorithms needed for any serious curve application, including stroke offset, intersection, and conversion to lower-level operations for rendering. The standard representation for curves is, of course, piecewise (cubic) Beziers, and in this representation the implementation of all these basic algorithms is reasonably well understood.
However, these problem can't yet be considered solved in the free software world, because there is a lot of software out there that implements them badly (including FontForge, which I'd really like to see improved), and there isn't a really good library out there that you can just call. Rendering, yes, Beziers make that really simple. Stroke offset and intersection, though, are considered pretty difficult in the Bezier formulation. Offset, in particular, has a well-deserved reputation for being numerically tricky when starting from Beziers. See Comparing Offset Curve Approximation Methods for a pretty good survey of the problem.
I've been spending lots of time with other curve representations, including the clothoid (spiral of Cornu). My main motivation has been to make a better UI for editing curves, but I'm starting to get the sense that they may be better for the under-the-hood tasks as well. While in the Netherlands, I worked out a closed-form equation (in Cesaro form) for offset curves of the Cornu spiral, and am inclined to believe that it's both simpler to code and likely to give better results (speed, robustness, accuracy) than previous methods.
I'm blogging this partly to test the waters for a collaboration. I can see that happening in a few different ways. Maybe there's someone out there who really needs a solution to problems like stroke offset, and is willing to consider a new approach rather than a rehash of existing techniques. Alternatively, there might be a bright student or two who really want to stretch their numerical and computational geometry skills, and want to work with a mentor who's put a lot of thought into the problem. Either way, the result is likely to be a journal paper and a codebase published under a nice free software license.
Dave showed me screenshots and so on from Xara, for which the source code has just been released. I tried building it on Ubuntu Breezy, but ran into just enough make problems to run out of patience. Even so, it looks very interesting. I was getting something of a "too good to be true" vibe from the preannouncements, but now the code is out there, and the people behind it are showing up at free software events like the Libre Graphics Meeting. This project looks like it may well transform the landscape for free 2D graphics tools.


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Snow shoeing is a great Scouting activity. Giving you the ability to go where you can't wearing a pair of boots. Snow shoes open up trails and adventures that make memories.
But there is a lot of confusion when picking the right pair.
Let me see if I can help a little with that. First of all know that there are many styles, types, and sizes of snow shoes out there. I am going to talk in general terms here, because by and large the sizes, shapes and types are pretty much universal between snow show manufactures.
First of all lets talk about types. The type is basically the type of snow shoe for the type of conditions you will find yourself along with the type of activities you will be engaged in. For example; powdery snow and trail running.
Essentially you have a five categories when selecting the snow shoe right for you; Trail Walking, Mountain Hiking, Back country, Speed, and Youth.
Having picked the activity type, its now time to look at the size and style.
If you are trail running or snow shoe running, you are pretty much looking at getting the lightest shoe you can. The typical length of a snow shoe running snow show is 22″ this length on a durable light weight platform provide a great snow shoe to meet you speed needs.
If you are trekking through the back country, and I mean breaking trail through bush.. you will want a snow shoe that is robust and able to take a beating. Typical lengths of a Back country snow shoe is 24″.
Now for Mountain Hiking and Trail walking the biggest differences are going to be in the frame and platform durability. The Mountain Hiking series's may offer a better crampon style for better traction but by and large these two styles bare similar features. The actual biggest difference is in what you will end up spending.
So when it comes to picking the shoe for you consider this: What am I doing it with it, how much do I weigh, what kind of load am I carrying, and what is the average combined weight?
Your weight is a huge consideration as it will determine the length of the snow shoe.
The average Scout will wear a 25″ snow shoe.
A 25″ snow shoe will carry a load between 120 and 200 pounds. A 30″ snow shoe will host between 150 and 250 pounds. It is important to factor your pack weight in to get the right shoe.
Here is what I know for sure. If you want a good all around snow shoe get a Trail walking/hiking snow shoe. I am 189 lbs and have an average pack weight of about 30 lbs. I own a pair of Tubbs snow shoes they are an 8 25. That means a trail walking 25″ snow shoe. I have worn them in varied conditions and with and with out a pack. They have never let me down.
When we rent snow shoes for our Troop, we always rent 25″ shoes for everyone except the really small guys.. we will go with a 22″ shoe for them (good up to 120 lbs).
The weights are guidelines and obviously not a number that you can not swing one way another… but I would stay in the ball park for the best results.
Snow Shoeing is a great way to keep your Troop active in the winter months. It is a fun and easy way to head out on your favorite trail no matter what the conditions.
Get out there and snow shoe! Here is a cool web site that you should check out for your next winter adventure. http://www.snowshoes.com/
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I didn't know that about Hasbro and their warehouses. When I worked at Walmart I tried to learn as much about the retail chain as I could, so I know that the usual system is that manufacturers sell to warehouses and those warehouses sell to retailers, who sell to us.
So what was the reason that Hasbro did away with their warehouses? Was it just to reduce costs by eliminating a middle-man?
EDIT: I just thought of this, but wouldn't the 1999 POTF2 "Commtech" figures be another example of Hasbro splitting the line? I remember that line pegwarming pretty hard, because I was able to find about 20 of those Commtech Stormtroopers rotting on the pegs at $2 each back in 2001.


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I finally got that call concerning the house that I've been waiting for all this time, and so I must move out and go back to London. I've been granted an extra week, but this is still only about 10 days notice to move all my stuff 200 miles. Given my position with my PhD write-up this is an awkward problem. It remains to be seen how well I will be able to work from my parents' place, and how much I will be able to get finished before I am forced into taking a job.
Currently, therefore, everything but my PhD and the minimum amount of work I need to do to prepare my OT2000 conference session on emergent properties is on hold. This is a shame, because I am really looking forward to getting some materials online for the open design project.


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Great information guys, I'll stay in touch. Looks like a multiple conflict coming up for August & September.
1- The best time to fish the Bow
2- My annual pilgrimage to the Cape & area
3- Great upland bird time
4- 2 Invitations to do BC Steelies
I may have to leave here in mid August and come back around October 15. Just in time for migratory birds and deer & antelope season.
Your Rock . .
should be big and flat.
Likewise, your rivers should be (1) fishable and (2) infested with Steelhead for a reasonable chance of success.
The problem with July on a high snowpack year is (1). That leaves you the rocky Columbia tribs (especially ones that have dams) and a few Puget Sound rivers like the Sky and NF Stilly if the weather is cool.
Flows usually stabilize by early/mid August. The levels drop and floating line/fly becomes the preferred way to fish. August fishing is usually good in all areas - OP rivers like the Sol Duc, Hoh and Elwah. The Puget Sound and Columbia tribs are all worth a shot as well.
That being said, summer fishing is usually quite a bit more relaxing and productive that winter/spring fishing.
My .02,
It was great fishing with you as well...hope you did not mind the local 'culture' (if you know what I mean).
Anyways, Juro has hit it right on.
I am usually of the Stilly by mid-August (my home river) and have made my way over to the Sky. The Upper Sky is filled with aggresive hatchery steelies in September and the SF Sky above the falls has large numbers of trouty aggresive wild summer-runs.
And then you have the coho in the saltwater which can be awesome...
And sooner or later the Wenatchee will open back up which is arguablly the best summer-run steelie river in the state...especially if you are flyfishing.
The nice thing about September is that the waters have cooled a tad, and late summer showers have woken up the summer-runs from their warm water hiding places of August.
The first two weeks of July can be AWESOME on the Stilly but the river is small and does get crowded...but with the hatchery fish returning again to upper river, July would be an excellent choice and I will do whatever I can, to assure your trip will be a success.
Let the former WA guy spout off a little but feel free to ignore it
September - coho and summer run combination trip. All you need is your striper rod for coho and a floating line for steelhead. Well OK bring some light tips.
What rivers? They're just about all open in the summer and there are king salmon in the tidewater if you want to break your 8wt.
July is a tough time to hook up, although there will be fish in the river from the Columbia Tribs from Camas on up to the Lewis, Kalama and Cowlitz; Cascades - Stilly and Sky, and on the OP: Sol Duc will have good numbers as well as the summer fish shooting up the Bogey for the Calawah. Those honkin Hoh summer natives will be gnawing thru surprised angler's tippets and the Elwha will have a few in it's 4.5 miles to the dam as well. The Green has fish through Auburn with most holding up as they reach the gorge until a little later, the Snoqualmie will have a few around but we won't mention where
All that being said I got my first butt-kicking from a bright summer fish on Father's Day almost every summer in my years of bliss out there. You can tie a knot without a flashlight at 4:30am and to get one of these athletes of the supertrout variety in June you need to be there 15 minutes before that at the latest.
Best chances, if you must go in July, would be on the Columbia tribs IMHO.
Good to hear that the steelies are in the rivers. Hope to connect with you guys again sometime for the summer run.
What would be a good time to plan another week out there?
What would be the "best bet" rivers to focus on?
What about the first 2 weeks in July?
Hey Ryan....
Went to the "site", almost lost my sight!
Hey Brian.....
What color rock works best & can you send the tying pattern?
Thanks for the update, I was worried about it more than anything else and just hope the run is late and not messed up.
Looks like I was a week or two early for the Cascades from the reports. Maybe I will sneak out for the casting clave in May
Another PNW favorite-
Good: There is this chic that fishes
Bad: ................
One of these days I will give it a rest...
Yeah, right!
Hey Pete,
I'd already guessed you were a little Bipolar!
I, along with most steelhead flyfishers, appreciate you're 2(3?) sided approach to fishing conditions.
My favorites are as follows:
Good: They're catching Steelhead in the Sauk
Bad: Bring your own rock
Good: A little rain has finally put a bit of color in the water
Bad: It will be out by the time you get there to fish it
Good: I just found a great new run to fish
Bad: Others know this too
Also glad you hear some other city's meteorologists are as bad as those in Seattle
Hope all is well!!
Brian in Seattle
Better late than never! Relieved to hear they are showing.
Ryan, how's the Duc doing?
That was too funny!!!!
Good: It sounds like the Hoh is fishing better then it has all year.
Bad: It closes in a week.
Good News - Bad news !
Good - It snowed about 5 inches overnight
Bad - It is April 8 and I'm supposed to be fishing, not shovelling
Good - The Bow was great on Friday, caught 6 fish in 1 hour, 5 Rainbows, 1 Brown, all over 20 inches & fat
Bad - spent more $$ on tackle (well maybe not so bad!)
Good - Bought a new 15 Ft. Clackacraft today
Bad - Have to wait 6 to 8 weeks to get it
Good - Trout fishing with a drifter will not start until May
Bad - That's only 3 weeks from now
Good - Will use the other boat and do some lake fishing in BC for Kamloops trout using chironomids
Bad - Have to stay with my mother in law in BC
Good- Pike fishing starts May 18
Bad - Water is still frozen on pike lakes
Good -Weather forecast is for a warming trend, at last
Bad - Weather forecasts around here are mostly wait & see for it to change
Best - Will get pike fly swap flies real soon
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Legislators left Jackson last week at the conclusion of their 90-day regular annual session without a basic bit of business taken care of: Reauthorization and funding of the Medicaid health care program.
There was the requisite partisan finger-pointing, which is par for the course these days, but ultimately the stalemate boiled down to Democrats' reaction to Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn's use of a time-honored tactic prevalent long before Democrat or Republican meant much at the Capitol.
Gunn sees it as his role to "protect" the membership of the House, that is, to keep them from having to cast politically volatile votes when either the outcome is known ahead of time or the leadership opposes what those clamoring for a vote are seeking.
Minority factions have long sought such votes as a way of getting people on the record on issues – a record that presumably will work to their political advantage later – not only in the Mississippi Legislature but in most other deliberative bodies, including the U.S. Congress. And there's always the possibility of something unpredictable happening when an issue actually gets on the floor for a vote, and the taken-for-granted outcome suddenly is in doubt.
Democrats didn't get a debate and vote they wanted on expanding Medicaid under the federal health care law, so they've blocked the program's reauthorization and funding for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Gunn's view on the Democrats' demand was that they didn't have the votes to win, so why go through a contentious debate and vote?
This paternalistic attitude harkens back to another House Speaker, C.B. "Buddie" Newman, who in 1982 prevented a vote on public kindergartens out of a stated desire to "protect" the House from having to vote on what he called "trash" legislation. A perhaps more compelling reason was that support for that "trash" bill was building, and the outcome was far from certain.
As it turned out, Newman's heavy-handedness was a turning point that helped ensure eventual passage not only of public kindergartens but of a massive education bill that became known as the Education Reform Act of 1982.
Other House speakers before and since have seen their role as being a protective one for the members, which begs the question: Why should people elected to debate and decide public issues be "protected" from difficult, on-the-record decisions?
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Speaker Gunn did show on one central issue in this session a bit more flexibility than is often the case these days in our polarized legislative bodies. He wanted a broader, more sweeping charter school bill than the Legislature eventually approved. But he gauged the membership and knew what was possible.
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and the Senate wanted more than the House was willing to give. Gunn made the matter a simple choice: Do you want to get something passed, or do want to go down in flames with your purity of purpose intact?
Lawmaking is about compromise and consensus, the speaker preached – a sentiment that used to be self-evident but that has given way to insistence on all-or-nothing in so many circumstances.
Gunn was insistent that the charter school legislation that emerged from House-Senate negotiations could actually pass the House. That meant he and other charter school supporters didn't get everything they wanted, but they got much more than they would have otherwise. Legislative compromise – what a concept.
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Gunn's week ended on a sour note when a slim majority on the Senate Education Committee – the vote was 8-7 – kept his nominee, Jackson area businessman Joel Bomgar, off the state Board of Education. Members were concerned, among other reasons, that a man who was to join the statewide public school board was home-schooled and is home-schooling his children.
Gunn should have seen this as a problem. It's not solely a question of diversity of views, as Bomgar and his defenders claimed. There are plenty of people with strong ideas about how to reform public education who haven't shunned it in such a visible way. Why not seek them out?
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text: :smokin: Here is my thoughts for a RI Clave if anyone is interested. First make it one of the last two weekends in September. Doing this is going to get you into some of the best RI fishing of the year. Stripers,Blues, and above all False Albacore.Having it in September allows maybe the catching of False Albacore, ::cool: They will at least be there, the rest is up to you. The beaches will be open to vehicle travel, with a permit. One will be able to park at the parking lot near the yacht club indowntown Watch Hill. Launch kayaks in Little Narragansett Bay fish the bay, if a decent day paddle around Napatree Point paddle down to the jetty near the beach club, if to tired to continue take out and with help be able to carry your kayak over the dunes back to the parking lot. This in my opinion would give you plenty of opportunity to get into hardtails as well as stripers. For thwe ones that are physical fit you could continue around Watch Hill Point and take out at Watch Hill Beach.:D This gentlemen would give you a very realistic shot at the best fishing in RI at this time period. I personally will see that your fishing the south coast of RI will make you believers of fishing in September in RI.:D ArtB who is interested?


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After announcing 12 of the 16 competitors for the round of 16 of their Under-22 Supernova Tournament on October 10th, Krush has announced the final 4 participants. The first is Silver Wolf's Shota Fukuda. Next is K&K Boxing Club's Hiroshi Matsui who is an interesting choice considering he's a welterweight and won a J-NETWORK rookie tournament at the weight. Hopefully, he'll be on weight. The last two competitors are Yukimitsu Takahashi and a fighter that goes by the name Violence. Honestly, I know nothing about any of these four, but if any were to make a splash, I'd say Matsui has the best credentials.
Also announced were the round of 16 matchups. The event on October 10th will be split into two segments, with blocks A and B holding their round of 16 and quarterfinal matchups during the day while blocks C and D will hold their two rounds in the evening.
Starting off block A, K-1 golden boy HIROYA takes on NJKF amateur prospect Hiroki Hoshikawa. In the other half of block A, K-1 Koshien product Sho Ogawa takes on Tang Tang Fight Club's Fumiya Osawa. From what I know of the fighters, this might be the hardest quarter of the bracket so it'll be a good test for HIROYA who's one of the tournament favorites. Hoshikawa could give HIROYA problems and so could Ogawa if he makes it past Osawa, but with the way HIROYA looked at the K-1 63kg Japan GP, I don't see him having much trouble.
Block B consists of K-1 Koshien 2009 champ Masaaki Noiri taking on Violence while Team Dragon's Daizo Sasaki takes on Shota Fukuda. Much like HIROYA, Noiri should get through with little trouble. I'd take Sasaki winning his fight over Fukuda, but losing to Noiri in the quarters. If HIROYA and Noiri win thier brackets, it'll mean another semifinal matchup for the two and the first time they've met since the K-1 Koshien 2009 semifinals at Dynamite.
Block C contains tournament favorite Koya Urabe taking on Yuta Otaki while Shimpei Keita goes against Hiroshi Matsui. Urabe should undoubtedly be favored to win his quarter with ease. The winner of Keita-Matsui won't be a pushover, but Urabe's beaten much better kickboxers.
Finally in block D, J-NETWORK Flyweight champion Tsukasa Fuji takes on Kengo Sonoda while Yukimitsu Takahashi fights Kazuma. The winner of Fuji-Sonoda should win this quarter easily. I would be a lot more confident in Fuji's chances if he didn't fight at such a low weight. Despite size, I'd put my money with Fuji to go on and face Urabe in the semis.
The structure of the brackets heavily pushes the odds onto Urabe's side. He was already the favorite heading into the tournament, but with a possible HIROYA-Noiri rematch on the other half of the bracket in the semifinals, Urabe should be the fresher fighter should he make it to the semifinals and win. {jcomments on}


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What the heck as of 12:45 Monday 3/26 there are 58,737 unsold permits/ tags available in units 1thru 5.
This is good news, maybe, for us hardcore hunters; BUT.....
Very bad for the long term outlook of WI turkey hunting.
Are WI hunters losing interest in turkeys?
Is it the economy?
The early spring causing hunters to think there is no point because the turkeys will be all bred by the time the seasons open? Especially the later seasons.
Who's got a theory?
Please refresh my memory- Why do we go through all the expense and hassle of drawing when there are so many leftover tags? Both in the spring and fall.


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Comics Jay Mohr and Tracy Morgan will headline a show presented by the Undergraduate Student Government on Thursday, April 18. The production, entitled "Thursday Night Live," begins at 10 p.m. in Dillon Gym.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: The pass list for the July 2012 California Bar Examination can be found on, and downloaded from, the State Bar's home page: www.calbar.ca.gov on Nov. 18, 2012 at 6 a.m. The list will be organized both alphabetically and by ZIP code.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2012, 6 p.m. – The State Bar of California's Committee of Bar Examiners reported today that 55.3 percent of the applicants passed the July 2012 General Bar Examination (GBX). If the 4,834 people who passed the July 2012 exam satisfy other requirements for admission, they will become members of the State Bar.
Preliminary statistical analyses show that of the 8,737 applicants who took the GBX, 74.2 percent were first-time takers. The passing rate for 6,485 first-time applicants was 68 percent overall. The passing rate for the 2,252 applicants repeating the examination was 18 percent overall.
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Earth Day/Chernobyl Day 2009 Honors Fran Macy In schools in Novozybkov and surrounding Bryansk region, Viola organization celebrates Earth Day and Chernobyl Day 2009, with teaching about staying healthy amidst contamination and with honoring of Fran Macy. Fran visited these schools and encouraged Viola's work over the years. Pictured at the head of the class is Ludmilla Zhirina, founder-director of Viola.
Bryansk in the Aftermath of Chernobyl by visiting scientist, J. Donald Hughes
The following is a chapter in the book: An Environmental History of the World: Humankind�s Changing Role in the Community of Life by J Donald Hughes; London and New York: Routledge, 2002 (available in paperback); used by permission of the author.
Sitting in my friend's apartment kitchen, I look through a stack of school children's drawings and paintings from the Bryansk Region, the section of the Russian Republic that received the highest level of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. One depicts two little hedgehogs in a forest, with suspiciously dark clouds overhead. The first hedgehog has picked some mushrooms, a favorite activity of all Russians. The other hedgehog asks, "Zachem ty nes�sh' gribok? On zhe radioaktivnyi," that is, "Why are you picking mushrooms? They're radioactive." The first replies, "Kushat' khochetsa," "I want to eat." A second drawing shows a girl with a basket crying beside a sign prohibiting entrance to a forest due to a high level of radiation. Yet another is of a swan flying into a radioactive cloud and coming out with soiled wings. Then there is an imaginative painting representing mutated insects and animals, including a dragonfly with two heads. Finally, a drawing by a seven-year-old girl shows an empty school playground, with a pony looking at it and saying, "Gdye dyeti?" "Where are the children?" The answer is that they have all been evacuated because their homes are too radioactive to live in.
VIOLA photo gallery 2003
Gallery of photos of VIOLA's work in Novozbkov and nearby villages.
VIOLA's activity in 2007, first report
"Conducting Radiological Monitoring in the city of Novozybkov and the Novozybkov District"
Dr. Ludmila Zhirina, President
Part One August 24, 2003
I Stage One April 2003
Members of Viola contacted technical and medical stores in Bryansk to find out what kind of radiation measuring instruments were for sale. After study of all available types, three were chosen as most useful and economical. They are produced in Minsk (Belorus), Slavutich (Ukraine) and Moscow (Russia). All cost in the $30-40 range. One example of each make was purchased to test for convenience and value to people living in radioactive zones. Viola also acquired an American-made instrument "Monitor 4" to use as a check on the accuracy of the other three.
II Stage Two April 2003
Volunteers of Viola wrote up instructions for the use of each monitoring instrument and these were duplicated in 200 copies so that each instrument would have with it several copies for use by a number of families.
VIOLA's 2007 visit to Chernobyl (photo gallery)
Concerned about contradictory governmental reports on radiation levels at Chernobyl, a team from Viola went to conduct measurements themselves. Access is permitted by buying tickets from the Ukrainian tourist agency which organizes trips to the disaster site. Igor Prokofief, Executive Director of Viola, and a group of young Viola volunteers visited the fated nuclear station and the adjoining, now deserted city of Pripyat. With their own radiation monitors, they sought to assess changing patterns of contamination and new threats of its spreading through rain and wind to their home territory in nearby Bryansk.
VIOLA's Plans for Novozybkov 2008
VIOLA, the environmental NGO founded by biologist Ludmila Zhirina, reports a discovery recently made public by medical researchers. In the western part of the
To Ludmila and her VIOLA team these findings help explain the morbidity they continue to see in and around Novozybkov. In response they are undertaking bold, new plans for 2008.
The story of the Elm Dance is interwoven with the story of Novozybkov, an agricultural and light industrial city of 50,000 a hundred miles downwind from
Because of my promise to people in Novozybkov in 1992, I have told their story in virtually every workshop I conduct. To help me do that, I began sharing the folk dance they had loved when we were together--and the Elm Dance began to spread throughout the US and other countries. So did interest in Novozybkov. Thus the desire grew to offer support to this town and the villages around it, as their families struggle with appallingly high rates of radioactive contamination. How were we to do this?


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Explore Oaxaca's rich culture through excursions of notorious archeological ruins, mezcal palenques, artisan workshops while also meeting with local social organizations and indigenous leaders. Learn about the effects of free trade, neo-liberal policies and globalization in Oaxaca and why this has lead to an increase in poverty and to a drastic increase in migration. Witness Oaxaca's vital culture of struggle and resistance based in local indigenous traditions as Oaxaca is home to 16 different indigenous groups, the largest indigenous population of any Mexican state. We will meet the women who are often at the forefront of these struggles, organizing themselves and their communities to fight repression and leading the efforts to revitalize language and culture.
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This GigaPan is taken in downtown Thessaloniki. The street here is called Hermou (from Hermes) as all the commercial streets in Greece and the other one is called Hagias Sofias street. The main church here is Hagia Sofia. The Hagia Sophia (Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, Holy Wisdom) in Thessaloniki, Greece, is one of the oldest churches in that city still standing today. It is one of several monuments in Thessaloniki included as a World Heritage Site on the UNESCO list.
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Lance Armstrong Sued for Peddling 'Fiction' as MemoirEdvard Pettersson
Lance Armstrong, who admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs to win a record seven Tour de France titles, was sued by two California book buyers over claims he sold fiction as autobiography.
Rob Stutzman, a former communications adviser for Arnold Schwarzenegger, said in a complaint filed Jan. 22 in federal court in Sacramento that he wouldn't have bought "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life" had he known the truth about Armstrong's misconduct and involvement with doping.
In the 2000 book and the 2003 follow-up, "Every Second Counts," Armstrong denied ever having used banned substances and attributed his successes to "superior physical training, proper diet and an extraordinary spirit and drive to succeed," Stutzman and co-plaintiff Jonathan Wheeler, a chef, said in the complaint.
The 41-year-old Armstrong, whose survival from testicular cancer helped create the largest athlete-founded charity in the U.S., was banned from competing in Olympic-level sports for life in October after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency published a report that said it found proof he engaged in serial cheating though the use, administration and trafficking of testosterone, erythropoietin and blood transfusions.
Armstrong admitted to cheating in an interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast last week.
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"Both books have now been exposed as frauds," the plaintiffs said. "Armstrong now admits that without his use of banned performance enhancing drugs beginning in the mid-1990's, he would not have won and continued to win cycling races, including seven consecutive Tour de France races."
Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Armstrong, had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.
Stutzman met Armstrong privately in 2005 and told him "It's Not About the Bike" was inspiring and that he had recommended the book to friends who were fighting cancer, according to the complaint.
The two plaintiffs seek to represent other California buyers of Armstrong's books to recover unspecified damages against Armstrong and Penguin Group (USA) Inc., the publisher of "It's Not About the Bike," and against Random House Inc., the publisher of "Every Second Counts."
They accuse Armstrong and the publishers of marketing the books as "true and honest" works of nonfiction and allege they violated California laws against unfair competition and false advertising, among other allegations.
Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House in New York, declined to comment on the allegations. Erica Glass, a Penguin spokeswoman, didn't immediately return a call to her office.
The case is Stutzman v. Armstrong, 13-00116, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (Sacramento.)


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Fast-food giant, McDonald's, said on Tuesday that they would be cutting out excess calories in their kids' menu choices starting in September. McDonald's will reduce the amount of french-fries in Happy Meals and will also include sliced apple "dippers" in every meal. Before the change, people could ask for apple dippers instead of fries. Now they will get them without asking. McDonald's says it will still include the ever-popular toys with each meal.
McDonald's new Happy Meal will contain apple slices and a smaller order of french fries. Toys are still included.
"We are going to be casting our gaze more closely on portion management as well as how we can introduce more food groups such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains," said Cindy Goody, McDonald's senior director of nutrition.
After getting much of the blame for childhood obesity, fast-food chains, especially McDonald's, began selling more nutritious menu items such as oatmeal and salads. But the restaurant was most criticized for its marketing which is often aimed at young children. Some cities, such as San Francisco, California, have banned toys from all kids' meals that didn't meet strict nutritional guidelines for fat, salt and sugar content because the prizes attracted more children to the fast food.
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McDonald's felt public pressure to change their offerings. The company has stopped including caramel sauce with its apple dippers. It also reduced french-fry portions from 2.4 oz to 1.1 oz in every meal. This decreases calorie content by about 20 percent, which means a new Happy Meal is less than 600 calories. Currently, the unhealthiest Happy Meal consists of a cheeseburger, fries and 1 percent chocolate milk, which contains 700 calories and 27 grams of fat.
"It's a good first step," said Kelle Louailler, executive director of Corporate Accountability International. His group watches over companies. "However, [McDonald's] has yet to address the central issue: its aggressive brand marketing to kids. And so long as burgers, fries and soda offerings to kids, alongside toys, remain central to that brand, health professionals will continue to call for the marketing to stop."
Meanwhile, Goody and her team plan to cut sodium by 15 percent across the entire menu by 2015, with more cuts to sugar and calories by 2020. The Happy Meal changes will be in place in every location across the United States by March 2012.


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There is something very elemental about taking a plate, covering it with black material, hard ground, and then just scratching out a drawing ... And when the acid bites into the metal and the ink sits in the metal and then it is transfered to the paper, it stands up on teh paper and there is an indentation. And then what you have is the result of something that is quite mysterious as a process.
Sean Scully, interview with Julia Klüser, in Sean Scully, Prints: Catalogue raisonné 1968–1999, Vienna: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Gravelines: Musée du Dessin et de l'Etampile Originale, Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum, 1999, pp. 143–145 (p. 143).


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