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Demi Moore"s been keeping a low profile since her well-publicized split from Ashton Kutcher, but three weeks after announcing the end of her marriage, the actress looks to be getting back to business.
The business of being a mom, that is.
On Thursday, Moore, 49, was photographed with her daughter, Rumer Willis, 23, out and about in Hollywood.
Casually dressed in a leather jacket, jeans and shades, Moore also met up with a male friend (not pictured) with Rumer in tow. The eldest daughter of Moore and Bruce Willis was recently spotted in Paris, where she spent Thanksgiving with her father and sisters.
But the newly single actress isn"t the only family member in the news these days.
Her 20-year-old daughter, Scout, was recently featured in a buzzed-about photo and video shoot in which she exposes almost all in a bare-bottomed motorcycle ride on film.


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Pat the Bunny is an hands-on book for toddlers and preschoolers that features 14 fully interactive scenes for your kids to explore. Each scene also has an egg hunt that is sure to put your kids in the Easter spirit.
The scenes in Pat the Bunny include playing peek-a-boo, making ducks swim, watering flowers, breaking a piñata, and other fun activities. Your kids even gets to look in a mirror using the front-facing camera of your iPhone or iPad.
One of the extra fun features of Pat the Bunny is that there is a coloring mode that turns all the pages of the story into pages of a coloring book. Since the app is designed for young ones who haven't quite mastered coloring, yet, your child simply has to move his finger across the screen to color the scene. The correct colors will automatically fill in.
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- 14 interactive scenes for kids to explore
- An Easter egg hunt in every scene
- A magical paint mode transforms every page into a colorable activity
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- Watch and listen as words are highlighted while the text is read aloud, turn off the narration and read at your own pace, or record your own voice to play on each page
- Support for iPhone 5
The bad
- No complaints
The bottom line
Pat the Bunny is a really cute kids book. Since it's interactive, Pat the Bunny is a fun app to use with your child and discover the scenes together. The Easter eggs hunts are particularly fun with little ones because they light up and get excited every time they find an egg -- my 2-year-old daughter does, anyway!
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Film Festivals
Recently I've been wondering: How have film festivals slowly changed in the last decade or two? And what are things that a good film festival ought to be doing?
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) kicks off in a couple of weeks. I've attended it continuously for the last twelve years. The festival has changed markedly over this time. The number of commercially high-profile "galas" and "special presentations" has shot up. The size of the "Masters" program -- where the festival puts its best, most highly regarded narrative art films -- has shrunk dramatically. Even more distressingly, programs devoted to retrospectives of single filmmakers or particular national cinemas have been more or less eliminated. In fact, the festival now shows almost only new films: anything that isn't contemporary, anything that lacks the sheen of novelty, has disappeared from the festival's horizon. The only exception to this gradually escalating corporatization of TIFF has been the avant-garde program Wavelengths, helmed by Andréa Picard, who has guided it from strength to strength in recent years.
I hasten to add: the festival still shows a healthy number of good films. It's the one week of the year that I look forward to the most. Nevertheless, there's no denying that the changes at TIFF have, over the years, weakened the festival in certain crucial ways.
The book Dekalog 3, edited by Richard Porton, is a valuable recent collection that takes film festivals as its subject. One of the pieces is a terrific conversation between James Quandt and veteran film curator and festival director Simon Field, who observes:
...Toronto, whether it likes it or not, has got caught up in marketing procedures, particularly of Hollywood but also of the independent American cinema machine. Some of the auteurist emphases of the older festival have begun to get lost [...] In the time I've been coming, it has become a much bigger machine, emphasizing more and more its premieres. It's become much more self-conscious about being one of the most important festivals in the world; it's more preoccupied with its own rhetoric, celebrating its rhetoric. [...]
In the Netherlands, there's what they call the 'sandwich process', how you use bigger films to get audiences to support your festival and its smaller -- but equally important -- films. [...] In Toronto it has begun to affect the tone of the festival and one of its roles, a role of which much is made here, to educate and inform, and the problem is how to maintain that balance when, for instance, all films are described as fabulous, and when some parts of the festival disappear beneath an overcrowded program. The noise of the 'upper' part of the festival [the more commercial part] drowns out other areas. When you get the feeling that rhetoric, and the marketers have taken over, you begin to be concerned that the marginal films aren't at the centre of anyone's interest.
Toronto's moving away from showing non-contemporary cinema and its reluctance to invest in bodies of work -- instead featuring strings of individual films -- are blatantly market-oriented moves. They bank on novelty, but also, they look to diversify financial risk, distributing it among a slate of disparate single films rather than showing groups of films, like an entire Kiyoshi Kurosawa retrospective or a Turkish cinema sidebar, both programs I enjoyed there several years ago, when the festival operated under a somewhat different economic model.
For me personally, a good film festival -- let alone one with a great, global reputation like Toronto -- should do much more than simply show a bunch of new films. A good film festival should also be an event that enriches film culture in substantive and imaginative ways, and provides educational opportunities for the public to deepen their appreciation of this prodigiously diverse and rich medium. In his remarks to Quandt, Simon Field adds:
Should festivals have a stronger educational role? If you have a Resnais, a Michael Mann, a Costa or Diaz, and you're showing a plurality of cinema, how are you backing that up with ways to help people understand it? When I did the Ernie Gehr focus at Rotterdam, he started off doing the standard American-style Q&A -- waiting for questions, and then he realized that a lot of people in the audience didn't have a clue about how to approach his films. I don't know what the answer to that is. There's a danger with a very plural festival that you'll never help people engage with that kind of cinema because you're too busy showing films [...] you also need to help people understand the films. That's becoming more difficult because there's just this mass of stuff.
So, if you were to design your dream film festival, what might it look like? Mine would include films old and new, packaged into stimulating, often counter-intuitive programs; panels, lectures and workshops featuring critics, scholars and filmmakers; and a keen curiosity about film and film culture from all eras and countries. True, that sounds utopian, but I also believe that it's not essential that all film festivals in the world follow the same economic model and be driven by the same objectives.
I'm curious to hear from you: How do you think film festivals are changing? Are there good models for film festivals out there, models that don't simply and unimaginatively enslave themselves to capitalist imperatives? Are there festivals with significant critical influence (like, for a period, the Buenos Aires festival under Quintin's leadership) that care not just about showing individual films but also about film culture, film discourse and education? Any other thoughts on the film festivals of yesterday and today? I'd love to hear them.


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The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer
After the first presidential debate in Denver, things got really bizarre or fascinating: suddenly a boisterous, um, debate began online, on television, and over watercoolers across the country not just about the candidates' performances but the man tasked with refereeing the candidates, lifelong journalist and longtime PBS broadcaster, a man moderating his twelfth Presidential debate, Jim Lehrer. We wanted to know what it felt like to draw the ire of the left, so long his fans, who felt that Romney ran roughshod over him. And we wanted to know how it felt to have the praise of Sean Hannity and others at the other end of the political spectrum. We wanted to know what would he do differently. And what advice he has for Candy Crowley and Bob Schieffer, who'll be officiating the last two debates. So we called him at his home in Washington DC to find out.
GQ: You must've had a lot of interview requests this week, yeah? You've been taking--
** Jim Lehrer: **I have, oh yeah. Normally, I don't say much after a debate, but I felt this one, I needed to kind of explain things and explain myself because there was some kickback--some of it unfair, I thought, or kind of uninformed.
GQ: When things started to become critical of you, I was surprised; you were a stand-in for some people's agendas or anger.
** Jim Lehrer: **I think you're exactly right. I think people didn't like to see--some particular partisans for a variety of reasons didn't like the end result, and they're looking around: "Oh my god! Who can we blame for this?" So there I was. But most of that has died down; it was like a thunderstorm, as I described it: the thunderstorm came and gone, has come and gone, and the folks who were critical have kind of said, "Oh yeah, well, mmm, hadn't thought of that. Mmm, hadn't thought of that." For the most part, that's gone.
GQ: Well, that's good. I do think, though, it's a significant kind of a window into 21st-century media, reporting, news, journalism. I saw you mention elsewhere how we have kind of a pundit mentality, people are so used to yelling at each other on television, cable news, these kinds of things, that when there wasn't that, they were almost taken aback.
** Jim Lehrer: **I think you're right. I think there's a complex situation at work here that the debate kind of dropped in the middle of, like a bomb. The situation is that over the past I don't know how many election cycles, but particularly here, now, in 2012, most of the information that people have received--both information about issues, information about personality and character, any kind of information that people have received about these two candidates--they've received it pretty much in a canned format. In other words, Romney goes on a campaign trip and he makes a series of speeches; Obama goes on a campaign trip and makes a series of speeches. Both candidates are represented by themselves and by PACs and other people with commercials. All of these things are prepared in advance.
GQ: Controlled.
** Jim Lehrer: **And controlled, absolutely. Then there's the separate category of interviews, but those are usually one-on-one interviews, and they're usually briefed, and that's that. And then here, suddenly, there is this event where these two people that we have not really seen do this before: here they are talking to each other in a kind of animated way, for the most part, in a very unusual way. And it was stunning to some people--most people, honestly, at least that I've heard from and have read about. Most people saw it as a positive thing, but there were a few that saw it negatively. But it was an unfettered look at what these two men said, what they believe, and are. Because even--whatever they were saying about the issues and disagreements about this, that, and the other thing, you're also getting a good read on who these people are, at least at that--for those 90 minutes on that particular night. This was something that people aren't used to, and I think it was--it had nothing to do with me; I just think it was a terrific kind of little: "Hey! Hey! There's more to this campaign than what is being handed to you in canned form, and here it is!" And it's had an impact because of that. That's my reading of it, at least.
GQ: My feeling is the whole thing's sort of ironic, because what I'm understanding about the arrangements from what I'm reading is there were no predetermined questions; the campaigns had approved two topics. Is that right?
** Jim Lehrer: **Right, absolutely. I mean, I picked the topics and had the approval of nobody. I just told them what they were.
GQ: And then you're taking a more or less hands-off approach. You're setting the stage--
** Jim Lehrer: **Absolutely. And that was a decision I made with the debate commission. In other words, I didn't do this stuff as a lone gun out there deciding to do this; this was a full force--
GQ: It seems shrewd to me, in a way. The goal is to get them to be more candid. I agree with you that they haven't answered any questions, and it seems the approach was, "Let's open it up; let's let them talk, but let's not direct the debate too closely, and let's not force a particular answer to a particular question."
** Jim Lehrer: **That's it.
GQ: Maybe in that approach, we'll actually see something new or we'll hear something true.
** Jim Lehrer: **You couldn't have put it better. I couldn't have put it better; you got it exactly right.
GQ: What's funny to me is you're being--uh, some of your critics are assailing you for not asking questions and totally ignoring the fact that no one's been able to ask these guys any questions.
** Jim Lehrer: **Right! But see, my point here--and you clearly get it--is that I--you know, I've been in journalism for 50 years, and I know about asking questions, and I know about interviewing people. And people are used to these debates being kind of simultaneous one-on-one interviews, is what it boils down to. I was determined--with the commission--that that's not what this was going to be. If I could get them to talk and to exchange and look at each other and talk directly to one another, I was going to stand back. And it took a few minutes, but not long, for them to do that, and I was still trying to interrupt and say, "Okay, the time," and all that, and then I backed off: "Hey, hey! These guys are talking to each other! Get out of the way!" And I was prepared to do that, but you never know what's going to happen. You know, it's like they say in the Marine Corps in battle: once the first round has been fired, all battle plans go by the board. And that's exactly--I had no idea what they were going to do.
GQ: Did it seem like Romney figured out that dynamic, that forum, faster than Obama?
** Jim Lehrer: **Well, everybody has their own view on that, and I'll leave that to you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, clearly he was--he understood what was going on.
GQ: What was your impression--
** Jim Lehrer: **Both of them knew about it, so I don't know what happened.
GQ: What was your impression in that moment? What is the experience of sitting there with those men, watching them speak?
** Jim Lehrer: **Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head. Because there's enough to do just to keep them--trying to keep the trains running on time and all the other things that are part of that debate, of a debate. And this was particularly true on Wednesday night. I was not thinking: "Oh, well, hey, Romney's really doing--cleaning his plow," or "Obama's really doing great!" I wasn't even thinking in those terms. I was thinking only in what I had to try to get done, and when the debate was over--you know, I have a lot of kids, and they were all there in the hall, and we had dinner afterward, and they were telling me and other people were telling me, oh, well, this, this, and that about Romney and this and that about Obama, and of course, for the most part, I didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
GQ: You're kind of in the moment.
** Jim Lehrer: **It was not my function to sit there and judge them. I haven't even looked at the tape--and I will. My wife and I, Kate and I, have promised each other we're going to sit down--we don't know when it's going to be--and watch the tape of the debate, but I haven't done so yet.
GQ: Will you watch the next debates?
** Jim Lehrer: **Oh sure, absolutely I'm going to watch all the debates.
GQ: What's your advice for the moderator of the other debates?
** Jim Lehrer: **Oh, it's always the same for everybody: just remember that it isn't about you. If you can do that, you're 99 percent there. Moderators should stand up in front of a mirror and say "It's not about me; it's not about me; it's not about me; it's not about me" so you don't--because what's so easy, particularly in a single-moderator format--it's like holding dynamite in your hands. You have a lot of power.
GQ: I wonder if you feel that they're not being asked enough questions in general.
** Jim Lehrer: **Well, probably. Probably so. I'll tell you: my frustration, to be specific, on Wednesday night and speaking of questions, was because things did run over, there were a lot of questions that I was going to ask that I didn't get to. Not questions so much as subjects I was going to get to, and I was not able to do that.
GQ: What are those, can I ask? Because that's a question everyone wants to know.
** Jim Lehrer: **You know, things like immigration and climate change and the environment, stuff like that. You know, domestic issues of concern and some of the social issues, that sort of thing. But my rationalization was that--after the fact was that, "Hey, look: this was only 90 minutes in this whole campaign, and there are going to be other opportunities and whatever, and if I sat there and let my check-off list dictate what we were going to do in the 90 minutes, we would not have had the debate that we had." Because you know and I know, that I could've shut those guys up; I'd had have to play Bigfoot anchorman, but I--"Yeah, okay, alright! Let's stop this! Let's get these rules here!" I could've done that, but I chose not to do it.
GQ: Well, what is the function of a debate? To get them talking?
** Jim Lehrer: **A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. And challenges to each other--if there are challenges to a candidate, they should come from the other candidate. If there are responses and rebuttals, it should come--in other words, it is a series of exchanges between the candidates; that's what a debate is about. It isn't a bunch of pseudo-interviews with a moderator, called a moderator who is actually a journalist asking questions doing interviews. And in the past, that's what mostly those have been, and I've moderated a lot of them, so I know exactly what I'm talking about.
GQ: Why do the debates matter? Why is it important to see these guys?
** Jim Lehrer: **Here's the reason: we've just seen it dramatically in Denver, at Denver. It's the only time--I mean literally the only time in a political campaign and a presidential campaign--when the candidates are seen together at the same place talking about the same things. They can be talking about very serious issues, as they were Wednesday night; they could be talking about their favorite colors; they could be talking about baseball, and it would still be revealing to see them in a comparative sense, in a comparative context. And yes, it's comparative in terms of what they believe and propose, in terms of substance, but it's also comparative in terms of who these two people are. And it gives an opportunity to the voter to take a measure of both of them, because one of them's going to win--even a guy you may not vote for is going to win and become President of the United States, and so you, so the question is: "Can I imagine this person sitting behind the Oval Office making decisions about war and peace, sending people--sending Americans into harms way, reacting to a Katrina or to a 9/11, etcetera, etcetera?" And that is all there. And "Do I like this person?" You think, "Well, why should that matter?" I don't know whether--why it should or should not matter, but it does. And so the only place you can do that in a comparative way is--and an unfettered way - is at a debate, and that's why they are so critical, and that's why so many people watch them.
GQ: Would you do another debate with a similar set of ground rules?
** Jim Lehrer: **The ones we had on Wednesday? Oh, I'm not going to do any more debates. I would have to chuck my wife and three kids in order to do another debate.
GQ: Really? That's it! You're out of the moderating game!
** Jim Lehrer: **I think so; I don't know. I never say never about anything, but the bottom line is: I think that's the way we're going. I think that's the way we must go. If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.
Come back to Death Race 2012 on Thursday for an extended conversation with Lehrer about public broadcasting and the future of journalism.


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Street Fighter II
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OverviewStreet Fighter II: The World Warrior is a one on one 2D fighting game developed and published by Capcom. It is not only considered one of the greatest fighting games of all time, but also one of the greatest games of all time, being responsible for bringing fighting games into the mainstream.
Street Fighter II is a 1991 competitive fighting game by Capcom. It is widely credited with launching the fighting genre into the mainstream and extending the life of the worldwide arcade scene for several years with its unique six button "combo" controls and revolutionary "loser pays" competitive gameplay. Its popularity far eclipsed that of its comparatively obscure predecessor, thanks in part to its inclusion of eight selectable characters (the number which would increase in subsequent versions of the game) with their unique playing style and refinement of the unique play controls featured in the first game, setting the template for future fighting games. Its success also led to the production of several revised versions of the game, including home versionns as well as merchandising and cross-media adaptations including two theatrical films.
Street Fighter II was followed by a prequel titled Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and a sequel titled Street Fighter III: New Generation. Both games also inspired their own series of revisions.
HistoryAs one of the most popular games of the early 1990s, Street Fighter II, released on Capcom's CPS-1 arcade board in March 1991, shaped the direction of arcade games for nearly a decade to follow. It is widely acknowledged as the premier fighting game of its era, due to its game balance with regard to the timing of attacks and blocks, which was unparalleled at the time; and due to "special moves" in which experienced players could execute complex fighting moves by moving the joystick and tapping the buttons in certain combinations.
The game featured a six button layout, with punch buttons consisting of 'jab', 'strong', and 'fierce' and kick buttons consisting of 'short', 'forward', and 'roundhouse', in ascending order of strength. This was not new or exclusive to fighting games, but the way in which the game relied on them was. These complicated fighting moves were given names, such as the Shoryuken (the Rising Dragon Punch), the Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku (the Tornado Whirlwind Kick) and the Hadouken (Surge Fist or Wave-Motion Fist), which provided a framework for players to have conversations about their games. It also introduced the convention of "canceling" or "interrupting" moves into other moves, which enabled a player to create sequences of continuous hits.
This was the game which introduced the concept of the combo, a sequence of attacks which, when executed with proper timing, did not allow the opponent to interrupt the combination. Mastery of these techniques led almost directly to the high-level competition which has been a cornerstone of this type of game ever since.
CharactersThe original version of Street Fighter II features eight playable characters. Out of these characters, only Ryu and Ken were taken from the original Street Fighter game. The other six characters were created specifically for this game. The single player tournament mode also features four cpu-controlled opponents who the player will face after defeating the other main characters. The bosses in the game are Balrog (M.Bison in the Japanese version), an American boxer; Vega (Balrog in Japan), a Spanish claw-wielding matador, Sagat, a one-eyed Muay Thai master and the former champion for the original Street Fighter, and M. Bison (Vega In Japan), a mysterious crime lord. From "Champion Edition" and onward, these boss characters became playable, expanding the selectable roster to twelve and the player could now face against an opponent who used the same character. The African-American boxer was named M. Bison in Japan (with the "M" being an initial for "Mike"), since he was designed as a pastiche of real-life boxer Mike Tyson. When Street Fighter II was released overseas, the names of the bosses were rotated, fearing that the character of "M. Bison" resembled Mike Tyson to the point of likeness infringement, but also because Capcom USA's marketing team believed that "Vega" was a "weak-sounding name" for the game's final opponent. The original eight fighters are as follows:
Playable Characters
RevisionsStreet Fighter II was followed by several versions that added new characters and further balanced the game.
- Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (This game)
- Street Fighter II': Champion Edition
- Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting
- Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo
There are several other ports and versions for consoles, but they're all based on one (or more) of the five arcade versions mentioned above, some notable ones include:
- Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
- Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Movies and animated adaptationsStreet Fighter II was adapted into two different movies in 1994, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (a Japanese anime released in the U.S. courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment) and an American-produced live-action film, simply titled Street Fighter. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile, Kylie Minogue as Cammy and Raul Julia as M. Bison, the live-action film effectively incorporated the main cast of the video game and wrapped them into an action adventure very reminiscent of the classic adventure films of yore. Director Steven E. de Souza's take on the premise: "I especially loved films like The Longest Day, The Great Escape and The Guns of Navarone. What made those films great wasn't the random violence. It was the clear-cut struggle between forces of good and evil, leading to an ultimate showdown."
Even though the Street Fighter film was once considered one of the worst movies ever made, it has gained a sizable cult following and has even seen numerous DVD releases, complete with a plethora of special features and bonus content. In contrast, the animated film was better received due for having a more faithful approach to the game's plot and has also seen some DVD releases.
There was also a US Street Fighter cartoon, which followed the plot of the Van Damme movie, and an unrelated anime titled Street Fighter II V.
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The Student Guide Program offers students an opportunity to work closely with Museum staff, learn about the Museum's collections, and give tours to campus, community, and K-12 audiences. While the fall semester operates on an unpaid, volunteer basis, two credits are available for program participants in the spring semester (through ARTH-295P) for the work completed throughout the academic year.
You need not be an art history major to apply! MHCAM Student Guides come from a wide variety of majors and disciplines. Successful candidates will be intellectually curious students with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds. More information about the program and its requirements can be found on the application, available below.
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Medieval studies major and public history minor Kristina Bush '17 shares her experience as a participant in MHCAM's new Student Guide Program. Reflecting on two semesters of weekly meetings at the Museum, field trips, research, and tour training, Kristina writes, "I feel as if I have found my place at Mount Holyoke in the Student Guide Program."


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Here is a short list of the top poor design decisions that I've seen in cloud APIs. Let me rephrase that: Here's a short list of the top API features that got in our way or simply didn't work for us. There may well be other use cases where these features make sense.
- Listing of resources without the details, e.g., a list-servers call that doesn't return all the details for each server. This makes it very expensive to poll for server state changes because the listing doesn't have enough information and so one has to do a show-server for each individual server. Imagine polling for an account that has several thousand servers - ouch. It's fine to have a "with details" flag in the request so one can get the bare list, but we'd always set that flag.
- Not returning a resource id on creation. Some APIs don't give you a server ID when you request a server to be launched, the response is just "ok, we'll launch a server". This means you end up guessing "is that new server that just appeared in the list the one I just launched?"
- Providing a task queue. Several APIs I've seen have a task queue that is supposed to provide updates on tasks that are in progress. For instance, you launch a server and you get a handle onto a task descriptor. For us that's just overhead. Just include a state field in the resource itself and we'll just keep track of the state changes on the resource. So if mounting a volume takes a while, create the volume resource and set its state to "attaching" (or whatever is appropriate). Having a separate resource to say "that volume you created is attaching" is just overhead and means that the state of a resource is now in several places.
- Lacking publishable images or the equivalent of EC2's user_data (small amount of data that is passed to the launching server via the launch API call). I touched on these in my previous blog post.
- Not returning deleted resources in a "list resource" call. In particular, terminated servers must be returned in a list servers call for a certain duration, probably at least for an hour. The reason is that otherwise the client has to infer that the server self-terminated or failed when it no longer finds it in the result of list servers calls. Well, we have seen multiple completely different clouds fail to list running servers. In the case of EC2, which lists terminated instances for a good amount of time this resulted in error emails alerting us of the situation. In another cloud this resulted in servers marked as terminated, which is an irreversible operation and often triggers alerts and automation. And then the servers "resurrected". Ouch! Now combine this with the next sin:
- Pagination that goes page-wise instead of using a marker - for instance where you get page 1 or the first 100 resources and then issue a query for "page 2" or "from 100 on." Explain to me how a client can get a consistent resource listing when resources can be added and removed concurrently. This is particularly fun if the client has to infer deletion from the absence of a resource in the listing: was it deleted or did it fall through the cracks between pages due to a different resource being deleted concurrently with the listing? The proper way to do pagination is using markers the way Amazon does it, but for a cloud API I actually don't see the value in pagination. We always retrieve the whole list.
If you're working on a cloud API, please think twice if you're doing one of the above. Again, I don't know all the use cases, just ours.
Now here's what I'd really like to see - an event based interface instead of a request-reply based interface. Request-reply is fine if you have a system that sends commands to the cloud. It's a problem when you build a system that reacts to changes in the cloud because you have to keep polling all these resources. We run a good number of machines that do nothing but chew up 100% CPU polling EC2 to detect changes. Fortunately CPU cycles are cheap :-).


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Domain Analysis: A Socio-Cognitive Orientation for Information Science Research
Birger Hjørland is professor in the department for information studies at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark; e-mail: email@example.com
Editor's note: This article is based on the author's talk given on October 20, 2003, at the ASIS&T 2003 Annual Meeting for the second Plenary Session: Humanizing Information Technology: New Theoretical Approaches in Play.
This article outlines my view on humanizing information technology as well as on the fundamentals of information science (IS) and on the deep connection between these two issues.
What is the meaning of "humanizing information technology" our conference theme? Is it just making information technology (IT) "smart," "efficient," "reliable" and "user friendly"? Or are wider social consequences of computing involved, too? Is it just a question of getting information quickly, or is the quality of the information that the users gain also involved? I will argue in support of a wider conception of "humanizing information technology," especially as a concern that distinguishes IS from computer science.
While computer science is the science about IT, we in IS try to optimize people's access to information, knowledge and documents. This optimization is extremely dependent on IT, which explains the close relationship between the two fields. But an important goal for IS involves the quality of information and the social perspective related to information intermediating. That goal is to enable users to make informed choices about how they are informed.
Domain Analysis
Almost everyone agrees that IS badly needs good theories. There is a need to examine and discuss the basic approaches to IS. A field that cannot rationally confront its problems is in crisis. Therefore I find this session a fruitful initiative.
Domain analysis offers a theoretical perspective, which in my opinion is able to satisfy the need for a comprehensive theory of IS. Domain analysis is an approach that connects theory and practice, has a coherent view of all major concepts in IS and provides an identity for IS consistent with the history of the field. Domain analysis is able to unite different sub-disciplines such as bibliometrics, knowledge organization, information retrieval and information literacy. I hereby invite everyone to examine this claim and to participate in the discussion of how our field should develop.
Domain analysis states that the most fruitful horizon for information science is to study the knowledge domains or thought or discourse communities that are parts of society's division of labor. Marcia Bates' presentation at the 1987 ASIS Annual Meeting (Information: The Last Variable) is an early and clear formulation of this focus, which is central to the perspective of domain analysis.
In a previous article I suggested the following specific ways to study domains, which together define the specific competencies of information scientists:
While these 11 approaches may be used separately (and some of them are often used and taught in a "general" way), the application of more than one to the same domain may provide a deeper understanding of underlying dynamics. The approaches need to be tested on specific fields. It is a real mistake to believe that one is better off if one knows nothing about information systems in any particular domain.
If we take a given domain, say art, a domain study can map the different actors, institutions and communication processes in that domain, including the artists, the art reviewers, the museums, the art historians, the scholarly literature, the libraries and the databases as in the tenth approach above. Such a mapping depends on a view of what (good) art is. In a given society there are majority and minority views about (good) art, the reason an epistemological or critical study of the art domain is necessary. Different views of art may also be revealed through anthropological studies of art.
Ørom has pointed out in a recent article that art has been influenced by different paradigms, such as the "iconographic paradigm" and "the stylistic paradigm." These paradigms have influenced the way art literature is written and the way both art exhibitions and library classifications are designed. Based on such an analysis, Ørom has been able to discern a dominant view in, for example, the Library of Congress and Dewey decimal classifications. It should not be difficult to expand this analysis to all other information science areas including bilbiometreics, information retrieval and relevance assessments. One may, for example, study bibliometric patterns in scholarly art literature and the relative influence of different paradigms. If one were going to construct a guide to information sources about art, then both this epistemological study and the study of actors, institutions and other players would be a precondition if one wants to base such a guide on well-supported criteria. My basic argument is that any work of art, any text on art, must be considered in information system design and management, and domain analysis is a research program in IS that provides general methodological principles for such tasks.
Domain analysis does not, however, imply that information science should dissolve into separate studies of various domains. There are general methods and principles by which domains should be explored in IS (see, for instance, the UNISIST model presented in Fjordback Søndergaard, Andersen and Hjørland) as displayed at a poster session at this conference. IS should be organized both in relation to different domains and to different processes, levels, approaches, kinds of systems and other appropriate criteria. The comparative perspective the examination of how knowledge domains differ on some points and are similar on other points is important in order to construct a general information science that is not just an empty abstraction.
The Socio-Cognitive View
Even if domain analysis has the domain as its primary focus (and thus not the individual), it nevertheless also has a view on individual cognitive processes. This view is termed the socio-cognitive view and is related to both American pragmatism and to Russian historical-cultural psychology. Important names in these traditions are John Dewey and L. S. Vygotsky, respectively.
What is the difference between the socio-cognitive view and traditional cognitive views? In a 1999 article in Human IT Peter Gärdenfors noted that
Yes, the socio-cognitive view turns the traditional cognitive program upside down. It emphasizes the internalization of culturally produced signs and symbols and the way cognitive processes are mediated by culturally, historically and socially constructed meanings. Less priority is given to hardware whether in brains or computers.
Domain analysis consequently does not conceive users in general but sees them as belonging to different cultures, social structures and domains of knowledge. Information producers, intermediaries and users are more or less connected in communities that share common languages, genres and other typified communication practices. There are different semantic distances between the agents.
Emergence of Information Processing
Domain analysis has a coherent view of information and information systems as Capurro and I demonstrate in our ARIST 2003 article on "The Concept of Information." Bateson's famous definition of information in Steps to an Ecology of the Mind is that information is "a difference which makes a difference" (p. 453).
Such differences appear as physical signals. Organisms or systems may be designed to react to specific physical signals. Information is only information in relation to a specific mechanism sensitive to a specific signal. Such mechanisms are information processing mechanisms.
Information processing systems probably first emerged in living organisms. As discussed in my recent paper "Principia Informatica," their biological evolution may be described in qualitative stages followed by a cultural evolution, which may also be described in qualitative stages. In human societies information processing mechanisms are developed socially in, for example, different professions. A stone in the field contains some information for the geologist, other information for the archeologist. Different professionals describe informative objects in different ways, and they organize their descriptions according to domain specific criteria.
Information is thus an emergent phenomenon, which is always relative to certain mechanisms, subjects or collective criteria in a community. Information cannot be identified or measured unless a certain mechanism is specified. In human societies such mechanisms are more or less domain specific.
Domain analysis and socio-cognitivism thus share with Sandstrom's socioecological approach (see article in this issue) a broad biological and anthropological view. We agree on the fruitful analogy of comparing information resources with resources like food as well as the hypothetical-deductive way of putting research questions, for example in relation to specialization versus generalization in the utilization of different kinds of resources. Domain analysis may, however, differ somewhat in its view on methodological individualism (for further discussion, see Bhargava). Domain analysis emphasizes the exploration of specific social environments, such as science and the humanities and their documents, genres and symbolic systems as detailed in the 11 ways to study domains listed above. Domain analysis puts greater emphasis on qualitative issues related to cultural-historical evolution as well as to domain specific documentation systems.
Is Domain Analysis Only a "Metatheoretical" View?
Does domain analysis lack empirical foundation? No, this question reflects (in my opinion) a wrong way to look at the relations between (meta)theory and empirical investigation. Any view in the behavioral, cognitive and social sciences is related to different philosophical assumptions that often have deep roots in the history of thinking.
Behaviorism was once an extremely productive empirical approach, but was nevertheless largely ousted by cognitivism, which was based on other premises. Traditions such as "the physical paradigm" or "the cognitive view" have not been better proven empirically than, for example, domain analysis or "social constructivism." Any such view tries (more or less successfully) to integrate all existing empirical and theoretical knowledge as their basis. They have, however, different criteria of what counts as relevant findings. Overall evaluations of the relative merits of such metatheories can only be done by examining and comparing their basic arguments, not by measuring their productivity, their impact or similar factors.
Much empirical support exists for the socio-cognitive view in psychology. In IS the domain-analytic view is empirically supported by, for example, my recent JASIS&T article, "Epistemology and the Socio-Cognitive Perspective in Information Science."
Pragmatic Realism
In addition, domain analysis is in accordance with some new interdisciplinary discussions concerning (scientific) realism versus antirealism. Questions about realism versus antirealism are really difficult. They are, however, extremely important to address for IS (see my forthcoming article in Library Trends manuscript at www.db.dk/bh/Arguments%20for%20Philosophical. . .doc). I term my own position pragmatic realism, and I interpret Thomas Kuhn, among others, as being a pragmatic realist.
While Thomas Kuhn emphasizes how our ontologies are implied by our theories and paradigms, he nevertheless emphasizes that we cannot freely invent arbitrary structures: "nature cannot be forced into an arbitrary set of conceptual boxes." On the contrary " . . . the history of the developed sciences shows that nature will not indefinitely be confined in any set which scientists have constructed so far" (Kuhn, p. 263). The world provides resistance to our conceptualizations in the form of anomalies, that is, situations in which it becomes clear that something is wrong with the structures given to the world by our concepts. In this way Kuhn's view may be interpreted as (pragmatic) realist, although he is often being interpreted as anti-realist (for example by Niiniluoto).
Pragmatic realism is not opposed to the view that (scientific) knowledge is constructed as claimed by social constructivists. Clearly disciplines, theories, instruments, terminology, documents, information systems and other aspects of science are constructed entities. Domain analysis shares with social constructivism an interest in historical perspectives on the social conditions associated with knowledge production. It is opposed, however, to tendencies towards ontological antirealism in (some forms of) social constructivism.
This realistic view of IS implies that documents have given informative potentialities whether these are recognized by users or by the discourse community. Relevance is not just what users believe is relevant. Users may change their relevance criteria when they encounter new information. The implication is that criteria of indexing and retrieval of information cannot rely just on "user studies" but are primarily related to methodological and epistemological norms. IS should thus be open to different views and help users to identify them in information systems.
Are There Drawbacks to Domain Analysis?
Any scientist should of course consider the strong and weak side of every approach. Are there any weaknesses in domain analysis? Yes, I think there are drawbacks to domain analysis as an approach to IS compared to other approaches. Universal solutions and smart technical solutions have advantages compared to solutions that emphasize differences in cultures and domains. Such universal solutions have been developed by IT (mainly by computer science). Another drawback might be that domain analysis will draw IS more in the direction of the humanities and information studies compared to computer science and information science.
There may be less prestige and probably less money connected to more "soft" research. Domain analysis may, however, be based on a truer understanding of the nature of information services, the reason it may be superior in the long run. It can be harmful for disciplines if they do not cumulate real knowledge because short-term interests drive them. Domain analysis may also provide IS with a stronger identity compared to computer science. Perhaps it will also be possible to combine the "harder" part of IS with the domain analysis-approach.
From the point of view of domain analysis, where would I like IS to be in say 10 years? I share many of the same wishes as the rest of you. I want IS to prosper. I want information scientists to play important roles in the development and management of digital libraries as well as in all kinds of memory institutions and knowledge organization, in the further development of citation analysis and many other activities.
In order for this to happen, I think it is necessary to strengthen IS in many ways. We should not fool ourselves by disregarding the nature of knowledge, information and documents and make unfruitful abstractions on a problematic basis. I hope we can contribute to fine-tuning search algorithms and knowledge organizing systems to specific kinds of media, genres, domains and (sub)cultures. We should encourage the study of the rich flora of such entities as documents, domains, genres and communities from a specific information point of view. It would be a good thing if information scientists provided highly respected courses in information searching and knowledge organization in different occupations. We should contribute with quality textbooks and research journals in scientific, social scientific, humanistic and other major domains.
Information science should be better integrated with other fields studying domains including computational linguistics and LSP, compositional and writing studies, sociology and history of science, philosophy of science and conceptual history.
I hope that different approaches to information science will have fruitful dialogues and that the basic assumptions in different views will be better explicated than they are today. I also hope that different perspectives will enrich the field, that the connections between research and practice will be strengthened and that a growing feeling of the relevance of IS will arise in the library, documentary and information communities.
Conclusion: Humanizing Information Technology
Domain analysis' special contribution in humanizing IT is strongly connected to its foundation in a social understanding. Domain analysis shares this social emphasis with social constructivism. Domain analysis might contribute to making IT and information systems better adapted to different user groups and interests. Domain analysis may also contribute to making information systems more transparent by combining advanced and multidimensional semantic information with visualization technologies. The aim is not just to map semantic relations such as synonymy and homonymy in a general way, but also to display how such relations are related to different theories and citation patterns in the literature, thus allowing users better control in using IR.
For Further Reading
Bates, Marcia J. (1987): Information: the last variable. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 24 (pp.6-10). Medford, N.J.: Published by Knowledge Industry Publications for American Society for Information Science.
Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Ballantine Books.
Bhargava, R. (1998). Holism and individualism in history and social science. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Version 1.0, London: Routledge.
Capurro, R., & Hjørland, B. (2003). The concept of information. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 37, 343-411.
Fjordback Søndergaard, T., Andersen, J., & Hjørland, B. (2003). Documents and the communication of scientific and scholarly information: Revising and updating the UNISIST model. Journal of Documentation, 59, 278-320. www.db.dk/bh/UNISIST.pdf
Gärdenfors, P. (1999). Cognitive science: From computers to anthills as models of human thought. Human IT, 3(2), 9-36. www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-99/pg.htm
Hjørland, B. (2002a), Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(4), 257-270.
Hjørland, B. (2002b). Domain analysis in information science: Eleven approaches - traditional as well as innovative. Journal of Documentation, 58, 422-462. www.db.dk/bh/publikationer/Filer/JDOC_2002_Eleven_approaches.pdf
Hjørland, B. (2002c). Principia informatica. Foundational theory of information and principles of information services. In H. Bruce, R. Fidel, P. Ingwersen, & P. Vakkari (Eds.) Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4), 109-121. Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Hjørland, B. (IN PRESS, 2003). Social and cultural awareness and responsibility in library, information and documentation studies. In B. Rayward, J. Hansson & V. Suominen (Eds.) Aware and responsible (pp 71-91). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. (Papers presented at the Nordic and International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies (SCARLID), 13-14 December 2001, Oulu, Finland).
Hjørland, B. (2004). Arguments for philosophical realism in library and information science. Paper accepted for Library Trends, issue on "Philosophy of Information," edited by Ken Herold, 52(3), Winter 2004. Manuscript available on www.db.dk/bh/Arguments%20for%20Philosophical. . . .doc.
Hjørland, B., & Hartel, J. (Eds.). (2003). Special issue of Knowledge Organization devoted to domain analysis. (Forthcoming, issue vol. 30, issue3/4, 2003).
Hjørland, B., & Sejer Christensen, F. (2002). Work tasks and socio-cognitive relevance: A specific example. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53, 960-965.
Ingwersen, P. (1992). Information retrieval interaction. London: Taylor Graham.
Kiel, F. C. (1989). Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Kuhn, T. S. (1970). Reflections on my critics. In I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave (Eds.) Criticism and the growth of knowledge (pp.231-278). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Niiniluoto, I. (1991). Realism, scientific. In Handbook of metaphysics and ontology (Vol.2, pp. 761-763). Munich: Philosophia.
Ørom, A. (Forthcoming). Knowledge organization in the domain of art studies History, transition and conceptual changes. Knowledge Organization, 30 (3/4).
Sandstrom, P. E. (1994). An optimal foraging approach to information-seeking and use. Library Quarterly, 414-449. See also Scholars as subsistence foragers. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 25(3) www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-99/sandstrom.html
Sandstrom, P. E. (2001). Scholarly communication as a socioecological system. Scientometrics, 51, 573-605
Wertsch, J. V. (1985). Vygotsky and the social formation of mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Addendum: Is domain analysis only concerned with academic users and academic subjects?
After the presentation, a member of the audience asked whether domain analysis is only concerned with scientists and scholars or whether it is also concerned with the information needs of ordinary people?
In my reply I argued that domain analysis is an approach to information science that covers all kinds of information users. I referred to a forthcoming special issue of Knowledge Organization (Hjørland & Hartel, Eds.) devoted to domain analysis. Fields such as art and music are discussed. Classification systems, terminology systems and all other parts of information systems are influenced by their views of, for example, art and music. Ordinary users are influenced by different views, too, and the success of information systems such as public libraries depends on the institution's ability to cope with different "paradigms" in, for example, art and music. One can study, for example, hobbies as domains, and children's cognitive processes in different domains are an important area of study in modern child psychology (see, for example, Kiel). Thus any claim that domain analysis is only concerned with academic subjects is not true.
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We are a licensed taxi operator of Rijeka City. We have associated to provide a new service that isn't existed in our town Rijeka at the level that you deserve it. To this move, we decided because of the specifics of our business, which requires the presence 24 hours a day.
As we are at the taxi transport and passenger transport business more than 15 years, in order to be the best and closest to the citizens and visitors of our city of Rijeka, we decided to go on the Internet to offer our services to a wider range of potential users.
Taxi Transfer Service Rijeka transfer services offers transfers to / from airport, bus, railway stations across the Croatia and Europe. We were founded in the 2006th with the aim of providing quality transportation services to our customers from airports and to airports across the Croatia and Europe. We offer transportation services, transfers and taxi services at reasonable prices at the level of what you deserve. So we can offer a number of innovations, but flexibility is by which we are known and closer to our clients. Avoid the long waiting at the airport, long trips or uncomfortable public transport. By choosing our services, selecting our drivers that speak English, transportation to the destination will be comfortable, fast and safe - and all at affordable prices.
The time and place of departure is arranged by you so that we can provide transportation from the hotel, the airport or any other place that suits you. In case of airport transfer the driver will wait for you in the waiting room with your name written on the board. Private transport is organized by the "door to door". There is no limit on the amount of luggage you carry. Transportation service will make available the driver who knows English. In the event that your flight is delayed, not be charged additional fees for waiting. Type of vehicle (car) is selected to suit customer needs (number of passengers).
Taxi Transfer Service Rijeka city taxi service and passenger transportation services to airports - We will bring you the route from the Rijeka to the airport, or from the airport to Rijeka. Your Taxi Transfer Service Rijeka will wait for you. In case of flight delays Taxi Transfer Service River waiting at no additional cost.
Rijeka Taxi Service offers transportation from the airport Rijeka to the Dalmatian cities of Zadar, Sibenik, Split, Dubrovnik at the best prices taxi service-
Taxi Rijeka offers service personal driver, the vehicle can be rented in Rijeka with a driver, a novelty is that also you can hire drivers that drive you in your vehicle.-
Taxi Rijeka Group Transfer is the ideal solution if your group has 5 or more passengers and need a group transportation with one of our new air-conditioned van. Mini bus vehicles.-
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb right-handed pitcher Hunter Brothers was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the 30th round of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft Saturday as the 893rd overall pick.
The Chapel Hill native became the 30th draftee in Lipscomb history and the eighth Bison to be taken in the last eight years. Brothers is in familiar territory as he was also drafted by the Rockies last season in the 24th round.
"We are all so excited for Hunter and he is ready for this next challenge," Lipscomb skipper Jeff Forehand said. "We are all so proud of what Hunter has done as a Bison and he is going to be a great professional ball player with tremendous upside and potential."
This season, the Shelbyville Central High School product went 3-2 on the mound with a 4.57 ERA in 15 appearances (13 starts). In 65 innings pitched, he recorded 55 punch outs. Brothers' best outing this season came in a complete-game shutout victory over East Tennessee State on April 5th. He faced the minimum of 27 batters allowing just two hits and striking out seven. He did not allow a walk.
The redshirt-junior joins former Bisons, Rex Brothers and Bo McLaughin in the Colorado organization. Rex, Hunter's older brother, is a relief pitcher for the Rockies while McLaughin is the current assistant pitching coach and bullpen coach.
Rex Brothers was the 34th overall selection in the first round of the 2009 Amateur Draft by the Rockies while McLaughlin was taken 14th overall by the Houston Astros.


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The men's golf team completed the spring season with a record of 3-3 in dual matches after returning from their annual pre-season trip to Myrtle Beach, SC. The highlight of the spring was the team score of 308 in a 20 stroke victory over FDU-Madison at Bethpage Red. In that match, four players broke 80, led by Rob Ray who shot a team-low 75. Pat Santiago, Jesse White and Charlie Spahr each posted scores in the 70's as Farmingdale had their lowest total in the past five years. The team also finished in fourth place at the Dowling College "Shirley Shootout" attended by nine local Division II and III College's.
Individually, the team was led by Santiago, who finished with a scoring average of 77. Santiago posted scores of 74, 77 and his season-low score of 73 at Bethpage Red in a match against Skyline opponent Kings Point.
The Rams look forward to next year as they will lose only one player from this year's team.


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"GPS yield maps and precision farming have created a demand for tile drainage never before seen," says Don Sisson, executive director of the Indiana Land Improvement Contractors Association. "Farmers are checking their yields foot by foot and can see the yield differences between tiled and not tiled ground. Many farmers are finding their highest yields over the tile lines and their lowest yields halfway between the tile lines."
Yields are higher because drainage provides good agronomic conditions, mellower soil, deeper plant root zone, less compaction, more timely planting to maximize the growing season, earlier harvest, less surface soil erosion and less runoff of nutrients such as phosphorous.
Measurable payoff. Pat Feldpausch, Fowler, MI, saw a 30-bu. corn yield drop midway between his 50-ft. tile spacings in one field he farms. He decided to tile the rest of the field on 30- to 35-ft. spacings. In other fields, his yield data show that 100-ft. spacings drain just fine. The optimum distance between tile lines varies depending on soil type, topography and other factors that influence how quickly water moves through the soil.
Feldpausch has found that tile pays off in dry years as well as wet years. "We had a drought this year - only 4 in. of rain during the whole growing season. One tiled field yielded 145 bu./acre despite the drought. Another field with the same soil type that wasn't tiled yielded only 100 to 110 bu./acre," he says. One reason tile benefits crops in dry years is that lowering the water table in the spring causes plants to develop a deep and vigorous root zone.
Feldpausch rents or custom farms the majority of the land he farms, and he invests his own money to tile the ground. "It's not uncommon for even 100-ft. spaced tile to increase yields by 50% in these poorly drained fields," he claims.
Trend toward closer spacings. The interest in closer spacing between tile lines is greatest in northern states where the growing season is short and being able to plant several days earlier pays tremendous dividends. In Ontario, Canada, 35- to 40-ft. spacings between tile lines are most common, whe reas in Illinois and Indiana it's common to find 100-ft. spacings. In all areas of the country, farmers are using precision farming yield data to help them determine the best drainage systems for their farms.
Indeed, precision farming's biggest payback has come from identifying needed drainage improvements, notes Don Larson, of Larson Systems, Ames, IA, a provider of precision farming mapping software and interpretation services. He knows about tiling firsthand from his family's farm in Story City, IA, where the purchase of a used, open-trencher tiling machine in 1993 gave them the highest return of any other piece of farm equipment that they have ever owned. "We achieved a 30- to 40-bu. corn yield increase by adding drainage tile," says Larson. "We started putting the tile in at 120-ft. spacings, but when our yield maps showed a yield reduction halfway between adjacent lines we went to 60-ft. spacings. Ultimately, we found 90-ft. spacings are right for our heavy gumbo soils."
For Chip Kepford, Marion, OH, the GPS yield map indicated he should spot tile rather than systematically tile every 50 ft. in one of his fields. "The map identified areas of the field that naturally drained and where it would have been hard to recoup our investment for tile," Kepford explains.
In some areas, demand for tiling has outstripped local contractors' capacity. Rather than wait a year or more to get their tiling done, some farmers have purchased their own add-on pull-behind tile plows. These plows can be mounted on a tractor or pulled behind it. They range in cost from $2,600 to $20,000 and are handled by manufacturers of small machinery. To assist with proper grade control, a laser system can be purchased for $10,000 to $20,000. A tile cart will cost $3,000 to $5,000. Labor, backhoe and machinery costs also need to be figured into the equation.
Parrish Farms, Millersport, OH, purchased a Johnson Drainage Plow with 6-ft. depth capability in November 1997 and has put in 170,000 ft. of tile since then. "I don't think farmers should buy this equipment and think they will save a lot of money over a contractor," says Ed Parrish. "There are a lot of costs besides the plow. A quality contractor will put the tile in as cheap or cheaper than you can yourself. For us it wasn't about saving money. It was a matter of getting the job done when there was no way to get it done otherwise."
Jerry Bulmahn is a former tiling contractor from Decatur, IN, who now farms 2,200 acres. In 1989 he purchased a tile plow with a 6-in. tile boot capable of 4-ft. depth from Farm Drainage Plows, also known as Wurdinger Tile Plow. "We have tiled 500 acres on our own farm with it. Three people can generally put in 6,000 ft. in a 10-hr. day. I'd put this plow up against any contractor's plow," says a satisfied Bulmahn. He claims that the tile plow paid for itself in the first year.
Bulmahn says the biggest problem for most farmers interested in doing their own tiling is to find a contractor to install the main outlets. "A contractor isn't eager to come in and do the mains and not the laterals. You'll be put at the bottom of their list," says Bulmahn. He suggests that two to three farmers work together and share labor and expenses to make the investment more practical. He also recommends planting winter wheat on the ground you want to tile so you have a longer window for finishing the work.
Brent Sharp, Maynard, IA, is a farmer and a tiling contractor. He operates a mid-size Johnson Drainage Plow with a laser. "Our laser takes it right where we want it to go," says Sharp. His GPS yield monitor has shown that corn yield from tiled ground is anywhere from 30 to 100 bu. more than the corn yield from undrained ground.
Add your name to the list. "Pull-behind tile plow sales are being made to farmers in areas where contractors have been slow to expand and offer competitive pricing for pattern tiling," says contractor Roger Ellingson, Ellingson Drain-age, West Concord, MN. His 20-employee business installs 4 to 5 million ft. of tile each year. "A contractor with two employees and a trencher that installs 300,000 ft. a year can't shift gears fast enough to meet the demand for high-speed installation. Farmers don't want to wait because they see the tremendous value of tiling. If they are put on a two- or three-year waiting list, or if prices are in the $600 to $800/acre range, they'll look for an alternative."
A job for the experts? He and many other contractors question whether most farmers can achieve good results with a pull-behind tile plow. They question whether the engineering, depth control and grade control are adequate on these machines, which cost just a fraction of the $200,000 to $500,000 that contractors spend on a trencher or self-propelled tile plow. They also question whether an inexperienced operator is capable of planning an efficient system and maintaining grade.
USDA-ARS ag engineer James L. Fouss, Baton Rouge, LA, was one of the early developers of large, self-propelled tile plows and laser grade control systems now used by tiling contractors. He states, "You can't expect to install tile properly with a modified subsoiler. I'm leery of them being able to maintain proper grade as the soil changes from hard to soft across the field. The weight of the machine is not great enough to overcome the differences in soil resistance."
Contractor Ellingson agrees: "I've had instances where the farmer felt he had done a good job of installing a line himself, but when he had us probe the tile and check it for accuracy, we found areas with dips, humps or no grade at all. That means that the tile will not function at full efficiency and in 5 to 15 years the tile may silt in and plug up. The line could fail in 10 years when it should last 100 years."
Research results in the Corn Belt show that drainage improves yields substantially on poorly drained soils. Long-term studies conducted in Indiana and Ohio showed that in fields with subsurface drainage, corn yield was an average of 14 to 23 bu./acre more and 20 to 30 bu./acre more, respectively, than yield in fields without drainage. In Ohio, a 7 to 14 bu./acre soybean yield advantage was realized from subsurface drainage.
Growers of Parrish Farms, Millersport, OH, have been systematically tiling all of their owned acreage for more than 20 years. "We have many years of production records. We know that drainage pays and it pays big," says Ed Parrish. "In critical circumstances, tiling gives a 30% return on investment and normally you can expect a 10 to 12% return every year. It's a continuing benefit."
Return on investment. Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS), in Columbus, OH, is the largest manufacturer of drainage pipe. The company's G.R.O.W. Analysis software determines annual and cumulative cash flow, return on investment, payback period and break-even production per acre for drainage tile installations. "The return on investment for a drainage system is usually more than 12% a year. The usual payback period is 7 to 10 years," says Kevin Rapp, agriculture market manager, ADS.
Using the software, a grower also can compare the return on investment for purchasing a new tract of land or improving drainage on existing land. "The return on investment for buying ground is very low. Installing drainage to improve yields on existing land is a much more productive use of investment capital," Rapp adds. This software is available to growers at no cost from their local ADS sales representative. Call 800/821-6710.
Costs vary. Tile instal-lation costs vary tremendously across the country and even within a state.
A 1999 Indiana Land Improvement Contractor's Association price survey showed that the cost of 4-in.-dia. pipe installed ranges from $0.45 to $2.00/ft. According to Mike Cook, executive director of Michigan Land Improvement Association, the cost for installing 4-in. pipe on 50-ft. spacings ranges from $300 to $500/acre in different parts of Michigan. The cost for the same system in some parts of Iowa and Illinois could cost as much as $800/acre.
Each job is unique and many factors go into cost calculations, including soil texture and structure, soil permeability, terrain, topography, rocks, distance to the main outlets, size of the mains, number of acres tiled, type of tiling machine and area competition. Because large, self-propelled tile plows can install 120 to 140 ft./min., twice as much tile per minute than open trenchers, contractors with tile plows are generally more competitive for large jobs such as pattern tiling entire fields.


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Don't you hate it when you spend 30 hours quilting someone else's quilt, then do the math and find out you only earned $5 an hour? Ya, I gotta do something about that.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Don't you hate it when you spend 30 hours quilting someone else's quilt, then do the math and find out you only earned $5 an hour? Ya, I gotta do something about that.
Perhaps you need to do the math first, when you quote for the work? Either that, or your estimation of the time you will take is off. I'm sorry you will get such a small amount, next time, think of a figure, then double it!
Bummer...I only do my own and I'd be afraid to try to figure out how much to charge. I'd probably end up with less than that!
That stinks. It's so hard to know how long a quilt will take. A parent of a student begged me to make a quilt for her daughter--a ragged flannel. I didn't want to because I have all my own stuff I want to work on, but this mom was sure her daughter wouldn't survive school ending without something from me. :roll:
So--they bought the fabric and I told them $15 an hour, but it wouldn't go over $300. It came to less, but not by too much. She paid the $300 anyway. And--yes, I'm glad I did it in the long run. :D
I price quilts after I make them (if no one in the family takes a liking to it. :wink: )--but will never do a quilt on request for money again. Too hard--too time consuming.
People just don't know what they're really worth and how much time goes into one.
I think that is the reason artists have business agents....someone to do the math and collecting while you enjoy your sewing
DD came home from camp this weekend. I did the math on what they pay her and the other counselors. $1.58 an hour!!! And she is ok with that.
I guess it could come down to - enjoying it so, doing it or making a living at it.
That's why I don't teach Scuba Diving...
It works out to about 2.63$ and hour.
Wow. That is frustrating. Your expertise is worth much more than that.


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Download of the Day: iTunes 9.2
Our Download of the Day today is iTunes 9.2.
iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.
Organize your music into playlists
Edit file information
Record compact discs
Copy files to an iPod or other digital audio player
Purchase music and videos on the Internet through the built-in iTunes store
Run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music
Encode music into a number of different audio formats.
The latest version includes the following changes:
Changes in Version 9.2
* Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
* Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1
* Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
* Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
* Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
* Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library


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Despite the sensational headline, yes, it is safe to microwave foods.
But some methods of microwave cooking and reheating can be harmful or downright dangerous.
This becomes especially important knowledge for college students now away from the watchful eye that kept them from blowing up the house for 18 years. I stopped flammables from going in a microwave more than once as an undergrad.
For the rest of you, here are some basic DOs or DON'Ts (adapted from the USDA and Food Network) :
DON'T put metal in a microwave…ever. You will cause sparking and potential damage. This includes aluminum foil and those portable coffee mugs.
DO microwave by number. Avoid plastics No. 3, No. 6 and No. 7, as these could leach chemicals into your foods. Plastic wrap and Styrofoam can also melt. Transfer to a different container and use a glass lid to cover the food.
DON'T heat acidic foods, like tomato sauce, in plastic containers.
DO choose containers made of glass or ceramic or plastic that's made for microwaving.
DON'T cook large cuts of meat on full power. Instead, use medium power (50%) for longer periods to ensure heat reaches the center without overcooking outer areas.
DO stir or rotate food halfway to eliminate cold spots where harmful bacteria can survive.
Any others I missed?


text: Toddlers enjoyed a Welcome Party at Darshan Academy Meerut on 10th April, 2017. It was a happy day for the children who were greeted by their teachers, kindergarten students and a maze of colorful balloons and decorations in celebration and in their honor. The children were sweetly dressed in casuals and very excited for the party to begin. Everyone gathered in the badminton court where the teachers narrated stories and recited rhymes. Next children danced and moved joyfully to music. A variety of art activities were enjoyed and then sweets and pencils with cartoon images pasted on them were distributed to the students. It was a fun-filled day for everyone.


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NALP Guidelines
All Moritz students are expected to abide by the recruiting and timing standards and guidelines set forth by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). As such, every student should read and review the NALP guidelines and know his or her responsibilities under the guidelines as a student seeking summer or permanent employment. The NALP guidelines are followed by a predominance of ABA accredited law schools nationwide.
NALP member employers are expected to follow the guidelines, as well. Questions from Moritz students regarding the application of the NALP guidelines should be directed to the Senior Director of Career Services.
The complete text of NALP's Principles and Standards for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities are set forth on the NALP web site. Students should pay particular attention to Part III, Principles for Candidates, as well as Part V, General Standards for the Timing of Offers and Decisions.


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YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!!!!If Tara Reid wants to shake her party girl image, she should probably reconsider performing simulated sex with rappers onstage.
TMZ obtained exclusive footage from Sundance of Tara, moments after she climbed onstage at the Blender Sessions party at Tao nightclub, while Akon performed his hit song, "Smack That." And for this performance, the "that" was Tara Reid.Tara mounted then gyrated on Akon as he pretended to pump her all around the stage. One of his mohawked band members decided to get in on the action, and the two bounced Tara around between them.
After the hardcore ride, a discombobulated Reid was consoled by platinum-toothed rapper, Nelly. It's safe to assume that if he began singing "Hot in Herre," Tara would have probably taken off her clothes.