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Gnome 2.7 will be the playground for new things for the next Gnome 2.8 stable release. As with every big new release of a package, new bugs are introduced. Some are packaging bugs, some are upstream bugs.
To make the upgrade from 2.6 to 2.8 as comfortable as possible, we can get rid of these bugs by testing: packaging bugs while installing applications, upstream bugs while using them.
I'm providing Gnome 2.7 alpha/beta/rc builds during the Gnome 2.7/2.8 cycle, just as I did with Gnome 2.5/2.6.
Currently, Gnome 2.7 is built with these repositories in pacman.conf:
#Gnome 2.7 builds
Server = ftp://schoolbak.dyndns.org/pub/archlinux/gnome27
#Gnome related packages that didn't make 2.6
Server = ftp://schoolbak.dyndns.org/pub/archlinux/gnome25
#Up2date stable gnome related archlinux packages
Server = ftp://schoolbak.dyndns.org/pub/archlinux/incoming
These repositories are placed on top of the other ones in pacman.conf. The Gnome 2.5 repository is optional, since it contains development builds of Abiword, Gnumeric and Evolution, but I'm almost sure gnome-panel will require evolution-data-server in the next 2.7 release in my builds (evolution 2.0 should be released somewhere in July, the gnome desktop will integrate with the data stored inside evolution).
Currently the builds are very usable, since most of the code is a fork from 2.6, which is a stable base. I expect the packages to become more unstable when we advance a few version numbers, but when coming closer to a release, it will become stable again.
With the gnome 2.5/2.6 builds, most people were having problems with version numbers after 2.6 got merged into arch officially. People were using a mixed version of my repository and the official archlinux repository. This time, I will stick to versions like gnome-themes-2.8-1j1, so when that package is officially released, it will be upgraded by 2.8-1.
Exciting but can't visit the link, sad, could you possibly check it out? Thanks.
Thank you for doing this. Downloading bleeding-edge gnome packages is almost as good as getting a mainline fix.
Cool, can't wait to try these out.
Added the sources to my pacman.conf, but I noticed that when evolution updated to 1.5.9-1 (from 1.4.6) that it did not upgrade cleanly and I'm left with an evolution that does not display any messages or calendar. Is this a known issue?
Evolution registers some new gconf schemas, which require your gconf to be shut down using gconftool-2 --shutdown.
After that, starting up evolution should work again. I've seen this problem with the first evolution packages when I didn't have any schemas installed at all.
I'll give this a try when I get back today. Thanks.
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
One other item I noticed. Clicking on a link in Evolution no longer opens a browser window. It used to be just the opposite. As a matter of fact, the default behavior was the best I'd had in any disto. It would not only open Mozilla or Firefox, but if an instance was already open, it would open the URL in a new tab. Whoa!
I've had to fight tooth and nail in other instances to replicate this behavior, and even then it wouldn't often work.
Anyhoo, I've gone into the Gnome Control Center (from within KDE) and changed the preferred applications for the browser, but no go. As a matter of fact, it goes back to Epiphany after I've changed it to mozilla.
Any ideas here?
Hmm, you're right about that. Within gnome, it fires up epiphany also, even though galeon is my default browser. I removed epiphany, and now it starts up galeon for each link. I think this is an upstream bug.
Anybody having trouble with epiphany scrollbars dissapearing on them? Trying to figure out if this is a 1.3.0 problem.
i'm currently updating
gnome 2.8 will realy kick ass big time (well when't it's done anyway)
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
if you need help packaging GNOME 2.7 I would like to help out, I did GNOME development packages for Break My Gentoo, and I don't imagine it's much different on Arch Linux.
I'm proud to be a a freedomloving infidel piece of treehugging eurotrash.
So, uh, how them 2.7.2 packages comin?
Just kidding take your time.
Lovechild, welcome to Arch!
There is something screwy with your repo, if your not upgrading from 2.6 a lot of packages don't get installed.
There is something screwy with your repo, if your not upgrading from 2.6 a lot of packages don't get installed.
Um, how did you upgrade? If gnome wasn't on the system at all, be sure to do a pacman -S gnome gnome-extra. The group gnome-extra may contain some of the packages your missing.
Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions?
Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?
I see it works thanks.
Did some upgrades on it yesterday. All new packages have these rules now:
- gconf schemas are uninstalled in pre_remove()
- scrollkeeper database gets rebuilt after each upgrade, install or remove
- no scrollkeeper files allowed outside /usr/share/omf and /opt/gnome/share/omf (compiled scrollkeeper databases in /opt/gnome/var/lib/scrollkeeper is a no-go. Shame on galeon and epiphany)
Did some upgrades, gnome 2.7.4 came with a shiny new MIME system.
This MIME system has some problems with file associations, I'm still working on it.
Installing desktop-file-utils and running:
update-desktop-database /opt/gnome/share/applications
update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications
would solve this problem. At least nautilus opens textfiles with gedit now
Not all packages are updated for the new freedesktop.org mime system yet. Newer versions will include updated .desktop files for this. I think KDE will also follow these standards.
Things to do: every package that registers mimetypes in .desktop files has to run update-desktop-database $prefix/share/applications in post_install, post_upgrade and post_remove.
Nautilus will give errors on most files now, the only applications I've seen generating MIME entries in their desktop files now are BeepMP and sodipodi.
Since I'm not completely done with the last gnome run, the MIME stuff will get fixed later this week when new packages are released.
I think I've seen a bugreport in the BugList about this /usr versus /opt gnome (nautilius) behaviour. The problem is the file structure of the Gnome installation under Arch (/opt respectively).
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I don't know why will mozilla be one dependency of evolution 1.5:( , Could you give me any clue, thanks.
Evolution depends on mozilla because Evolution needs Mozilla NSS/NSPR for SSL. OpenSSL is no longer supported, neither is GNUTLS.
The mozilla package contains a bug which is about not having the NSS includefiles, I compile evolution with a fixed package, but it runs with the buggy package.
The maintainer of mozilla won't fix the bug because he's thinking of a separate nss/nspr package. Since that package still doesn't exist, evolution will depend on mozilla.
a separate nss/nspr package
Yes, I don't wanna install another big package for evolution, since I am using firefox.
Thank you very much for your reply.
AFAIK, you can install evolution without mozilla by using the -d switch in pacman. When you run evolution, it will find firefox NSS and NSPR, which are in fact the same as the ones from mozilla.
Because mozilla is part of the gnome desktop because of epiphany, I'll leave it this way until the maintainers come up with a nspr/nss package.
About the MIME things:
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/opt/kde/share:/opt/gnome/share will help for that problem. Nautilus even uses KDE programs then to open certain files, since KDE is using the "new" MIME system for a while already.
FYI: if you doubleclick the computer icon on your desktop and the error: "The Catalog view encountered an error while starting up. The location cannot be displayed with this viewer." pops up:
ps: uninstall of gthumb was indeed the solution.


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Hi beloved friends and readers near and far!
In case you haven't noticed, Sharon and I have ceased our blogging on this side-project of a site since graduating from law school. This was always meant as a form of creative outlet during our stressful and death-related-thoughts-inducing 3 years of hell, and, well, it has fulfilled its duty and role with as much honor and dignity as a blog is able.
We want to thank you for following us through the crazy 5 posts a day during exam time, and staying with us through the long summer droughts when weeks could go by before either of us had something to share with our awesome stalkers. I mean, friends. We weren't the best at keeping up with this, and seriously, thanks for sticking around as long as you did.
If you'd still like to see what we're up to and what we're in to these days, Sharon and I both have our own separate blogs that are more geared to our personal interests: hers gives people a nice warm and cozy feeling with posts about food, family, crafts, art, and useful everyday tips; mine pretty much just boils down to shopping, fashion, and other random junk I find interesting. Imma link our individual blogs below, and you go ahead and guess as to which belongs to whom.
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Birth as Art
Sometimes, just when I think I've heard everything, something new comes along and shocks even the pretty unsurprisable me. Such was the case when I came across the newsfeed announcement of Marni Kotak's The Birth of Baby X, a performance art exhibit that begins today, October 8, and continues until November 7, 2011. Performance Art, in and of itself, is typically controversial what with Marina Abramovic's (literally) starving art The House With the Ocean View (2002) to Chris Burden's terrifying Trans-fixed (1974). But, birth as performance art? Really?
Kotak is pregnant, due anytime from now until the middle of November and her Birth "exhibit" is merely the beginning of a several decade project wherein she brings to fruition the "long-term project 'Raising Baby X,' which will document her child's upbringing 'from birth through attending college and developing an independent life.'"
It hasn't been that long since the first Internet birth was streamed (Lynsee, November, 2009). Then there were a couple of Net natural births, and we're now waiting for birth of chiropractor Dr. Nancy Salgueiro's baby any day now.
But, Kotak's upcoming performance in the Microscope Gallery in New York City beats all of these modern-day births by a zillion miles.
Yesterday, on my Navelgazing Midwife Facebook Page, I shared the link to The Village Voice's article and interview "Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real" about and with Marni Kotak and received a fantastic response I had to share with y'all. Here begins the discussion (my comments in parenthesis):
NgM: I can't WAIT to hear thoughts about this one! I'm half-fascinated and half-disgusted... it's as if women are trying to one-up each other on the graphic-ness/immediacy of public birthing. Just when I think Live Streaming one's birth is the most narcissistic thing to do (which, btw, I would totally have done!), someone comes along with something even more self-involved.
SW: Why is this self-involved?
RK: Eh. Whatever floats her boat. If this makes her happy and this is how she wants to birth, more power to her.
LC: Well, it's official. Birth has officially jumped the shark.
(NgM: "Jumping the shark" is a term that came from television and means that you know, with all your being, the show is all downhill from that point.)
KK: Ironic, that the once common objection to hospital birth was the presence of strangers and now it seems a small population of women have turned that on its head. Taking homebirth out of the realm of private and sacred, but to a public spectacle.
SP: I just don't get it.
NgM: Seriously?! This is an extremely self-indulgent "artistic" act she's putting on. Artists, by definition, want others to look at and react to (either positively or negatively) their work, which is an extension of themselves. Her art is performance! How is birth a "performance" if not her putting herself in front of an audience to react to what she's doing. We speak about privacy so much, how is she going to be able to "let go" and not see the audience? But, how would a performance artist not be thinking about "performing "anything!? As a writer, I think about "how would this make a good article/blog piece/topic on Facebook" about almost everything in my day, including thoughts of, "Don't you dare write about this!" I can totally relate to her wanting to demo the birth, but I also know it is an extremely inflated sense of Self that drives someone to do something like this. MySelf included.
RK: I get what you're saying, but I guess for me, it boils down to you should have a choice where and how you want to give birth. And if this nut wants to do it this way, well than more power to her. Not something I would do. I agree though, it's selfish.
EF: I think it's disgusting to view birth as a piece of performance art that creates a living being (never mind it doesn't actually CREATE said living being, but I probably shouldn't point that out, or else she'll be publicizing the conception of the next one). I feel bad for that baby. My child was not the "outcome" of my "birth experience", she was the entire POINT of going through it! Viewing the fact that you're having a living child as secondary is pretty disturbing.
SR: I find it interesting but wonder how well she is really going to be able to let go and how large of an audience she will actually draw.
NgM: And... what about the baby? What about germs? People coughing crap... the floors around her filthy (under her carpet)... clapping strangers when the baby's born? Who's holding the space for this baby?
RK: Well, I am guessing (hoping) that they are going to have the room super clean. I mean, it's got to be cleaner or just as clean as someone's home, yeah? (Minus the added heads watching.)
KS: I couldn't personally care less where she gives birth. Doesn't bother me at all. What bothers me is she seems to be losing the amazing miracle of birth in her "art" Her kid will be documented from birth through college, without their say. S/he will have no privacy and have their entire life on public display. That bothers me very much. That is selfish.
KB: I have an MFA from a school and department with a long history of performance art and boundary pushing, and this just leaves me thinking she contradicts herself (and gawd, I detest all the art-speak). She says, "I am driven to hold onto an authentic personal experience in a world that has essentially become consumed by an unreal hyper-reality." Um, so what is making a fake "home" in an art gallery and terming your child's birth a "performance" if not a manufactured hyper-reality? And, the cynical doula in me says that if anything is begging to become an emergent c-section due to _fill-in-the-blank_, it is something like this. What a lot of pressure to have things go a certain way. No thanks.
AS: I think this is really sad. All of it. It seems like she is missing the essence of what giving birth is all about. Maybe not. Seems like she has made an exhibition of many things others of us might consider sacred... I hope she has a beautiful birth.
SN: I like it and I'm not disgusted at all.
CB: I have to agree it is pretty narcissistic, I find that for me to witness someone giving birth is a privileged position and often to me something so intimate that I am uncomfortable being a witness - I don't want to take anything away. It isn't the body nor the exposure but the raw emotions that are shared between partners and between mother and child. I guess when I see it on show like this I worry about boundaries and respect of one's self more than anything, it is a troubling thing.
ML: I think it is interesting that so many women who advocate for choice in birth really advocate for their ideals. This is her birth, her moment. It is not anyone's business how she does it, if she is "sincere" or not, or if she is doing it "right".
KB: I am much less disturbed about this as a "birth choice" than I am about taking a normal human experience and body function and calling it "art." I am all for blurring the boundaries of art and life, but this is just not very interesting to me as an artistic proposition, any more than it would be to say, "Every bite of food I take, every pee I make in the toilet, is a work of art." Oh goody, can I watch that too? We get it, your life = your art = everything is illuminated and so beautiful and special. So, go live it and make it already and be your beautiful existence and go make some yarn bombs while you are at it. But really, I don't need to know about it. On a less jaded note, maybe this performance will make some people awaken to the everyday miracle that is birth.
TD: It seems like taking an awful chance with something that is already subject to so many variables. Why make birth any riskier?
JK: Yes, every woman has a right to choose how and where she gives birth. Doesn't mean that every choice is the right one, though. I find it interesting that the same people who will judge someone for an elective c-section find birth as performance art perfectly acceptable. Have we become so caught up in defending mothers' birth choices that we forget that babies matter, too?
CR: Having gone to an art school and seen performance art (such as a video of a woman non-chalantly sticking crayons into her vagina one by one…), this isn't so much disturbing to me as it is supremely narcissistic as you've said. The whole art environment that I saw, and was a part of, just screams "Look at me! Listen to what I have to say! I am important! What I have to say is important!!" All my art teachers constantly were pushing us to make our art "speak". Akin to "What is this piece telling us?" Ummm nothing. I liked how it looked. So I took the picture/painted it. So what is she saying by having her birth in a gallery, on display by a judging audience? Personally I feel it's telling me there is no respect. It's a "Look at me" performance.
LS: I find the whole scenario bewildering. My big issue is that a public venue like this is going to be subject to lots of bacterial/viral invasions since we are at the start of sick season. There is a huge danger to the baby in that mom isn't going to have a chance to build up an immunity to all of that before birth as she likely would in her own home where fewer people likely visit. Also, how to control for audience noise intrusions and annoyances such as coughs and cell phones?
My inner birth junkie, despite being worried about this venue as a birthplace, thinks this would be a great idea for doulas and CBEs in training to get in a live, somewhat natural, birth.
SN: Babies don't care who is at their births (and I didn't care when I was being born, and still don't). Women who have birth videos on Youtube often get several thousand hits- people like watching birth (even those who think it is sacred and private). No, an art gallery is not a greater public health risk than a hospital. Although it would be greater than the home, that's not where most women give birth.
HM: I love this!! My favorite artist Alex Grey performed an art piece where he and his wife made love in this clear box thing (NgM: I can't find any reference to the performance piece HM is referring to, sorry!), so I guess this is the next step. I don't think a lot of us can understand artists' performance pieces because we're not them! I think on a spiritual level, I understand her reasoning about holding onto what's real in life and showing that to the world since people are getting farther and farther away from things like love, birth, and death and more consumed with GIMME GIMME GIMME. Love this.
KB: How does giving birth in front of an audience make it more real than if she were in her Brooklyn apartment or a hospital or a yurt in a redwood forest? The event is equally real, no matter where you are, and if she needs witnesses to make it real, then she is supremely out of touch with her own lived experience. And if an artist makes a performance piece that nobody can understand except them, then why are they performing it in front of an audience? Sorry, but I have heard so much artsy-fartsy b.s. that I just don't buy that this woman can say, "I am alive. I walk around. I do stuff. That is my art." If that is the case, then go about your business instead of announcing to the world that "I am an artist. I exist; therefore, everything I do is art." Then that makes 7.152838724 billion "artists" on the planet. I also think it is presumptuous in the extreme to assume that other people are alienated from daily experience. If they can't know what's going on in your head, how can you know what's going on in theirs? Maybe lots of people get that special feeling of connectedness with the universe every time they have a cup of coffee or do their hot yoga or sit next to a super stinky drunk dude on the bus. And the quest to document EVERYTHING is another form of grasping and the gimme-gimme-gimme mentality - gimme attnention, gimme permanence, gimme Kodak (in this case Kotak) Magic Moments that I can treasure forever.
NgM: When I took a Humanities class in college, there was the on-going discussion of "What is art?" I loved when I read that art is when you see/hear/smell/taste/feel something that makes you think about the experience again, even if for only a second more. Therefore, here we are, spending much more than one second on just the topic of her art... not even the art expression itself, just the idea of her idea of art! Any artist would not only be proud, but also very, very thankful that so many were focusing on her work.
MS: I think it's kind of weird, and here's why: when my babies were born (in a hospital) the only people there were my husband, a nurse and a midwife. For me, the act of having a child was an extension of the act of creating a child and something that was very intimate. Even having the nurse and midwife was, in some ways, a little uncomfortable. I wouldn't want to share that with a bunch of strangers who treated it like a spectator sport or a time filler before their dinner reservation. I don't want to offend anyone whose beliefs are different than mine, but I think treating birth as performance art makes it somehow tawdry. It seems, as you pointed out Navelgazing Midwife, very narcissistic.
RB: There used to be a time when being an artist actually took skill and talent. As a child, I watched my mother struggle to make a name for herself in an occupation where people with real artistic talented were ignored for being boring and old fashioned. The grants went to people who were filling boxes with used condoms or their own feces and calling it art. I watched my mom work countless hours on a painting on our back porch while she also raised 3 small children and maintained her home. She sacrificed so much to become the successful artist she is. I have no respect for "performance art;" it's what talentless people do! It's like in the tattoo industry when people claim they specialize in "traditional" tattooing when all that really means is that's all they can do! I don't care where she has her baby! She can have it on the NYC subway platform for all I care, just don't call it art! Of course, the people who love this sort of crap like to tell people if they don't get it they just aren't intellectual enough. Pffttt! I'd rather be a simpleton then! If you want to see some real artwork that took time and talent you can look at my mother's work painted from life – Joy Thomas Portraits. (NgM: Thomas' work is amazing! So, so beautiful.)
RK: Just going back through this thread and it made me laugh when I was reading that this is a normal body function that should be kept private and the only thing I could think of was pooping in public and how weird that would be. Although, maybe she will since lots of people do in birth?
NgM: RK: That's actually one of my post-discussion thoughts: Is she building a toilet in there, too? Many women love spending time in the bathroom on the toilet. Is that crossing the line?
KB: Just to put in a good word for performance art -- at its best, performance art can be transformative and transcendent, just as much as a Vermeer painting or Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (in Chicago's Millennium Park. Take a look at some of Marina Abramovic's work, which is often very much about the body (naked) and transgressing personal space and intimacy. And yet, somehow her work is more rigorous. I think it is a question of her erasure of distance between her and the spectators, making them not spectators, but participants. I guess an equivalent would be if Marni Kotak WERE to have her baby on the subway platform, not in a gallery with a midwife and a doula, but really, truly to drop the baby in a place where the psychic stakes are high for all involved. What she is doing is keeping a layer of distance between herself and the audience, both by her choice of setting and by having them there only as observers. They have no investment - they are merely voyeurs, observing a spectacle. This has less possibility to transform them than if they were called on to help deliver the baby. Not saying this is necessarily a good or safe idea, but merely pointing out the difference between the very gutsy Marina A.'s work and ethic, and my perception of Marni Kotak's "work" as schtick.
NgM: Thank you so much, KB! What a great view into performance art from someone who knows a lot more than I do.
So, what are your thoughts about this artist's expression of birth?
The "museum's hours are extended to 7 days a week, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and, the gallery says, 'we will remain open or reopen if the birth is in process.' Visitors to the show can get on a list be notified of when she goes into labor. Go to Runnin' Scared for all our latest news coverage."


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Saturday, October 30 – Sunday, January 8 – Quilts=Art=Quilts – Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn. International contemporary juried quilt exhibit. Admission $6/adults, members and children under 12 free. www.myartcenter.org 315-255-1553
Saturday, November 19 – December 31 – Cayuga Museum 75th Anniversay Exhibit – Cayuga Museum of History & Art, 203 Genesee St., Auburn. View the 75th anniversary exhibit chronicling the history of the Cayuga Museum of History and Art and the Case Research Lab. Also enjoy the new exhibit 'Quilts' by the Cayuga Lake Quilters Guild. www.cayuganet.org/cayugamuseum 315-253-8051
December 30 – Concert with John Schmitt and Jules Poorman – Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn. John Schmitt was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, and his songs are a direct reflection of his experiences growing up there. A unique folk-meets-soul style enhances his thoughtful lyrics and colorful imagery. Known for her beautiful voice and captivating stage presence, Jules Poorman has performed at venues throughout the state from Buffalo to New York City, including the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan during summer 2011. Tickets $7 at door, 8pm. www.auburnpublictheater.org 315-253-6669
December 30 & December 31 – "The Great Buck Howard" – Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn. The Great Buck Howard follows the rise, fall, and rise template of many Tom Hanks productions (see That Thing You Do!), but McGinly handles a large cast with ease, the laughs are plentiful, the cameos–John Stewart, Conan O'Brien, George Takei, etc.–are a treat, and the unpredictable Malkovich gives his most nuanced performance since, well, Being John Malkovich. Tickets $5 online, $6 at door, 12/30 – 1:00 & 8:00pm, 12/31 – 8:00pm. www.auburnpublictheater.org 315-253-6669
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December 31 – Winter Birds and Bird Feeders – Sterling Nature Center, 15730 Jensvold Rd., Sterling. New Year's Eve is for the birds! Identify birds at your feeder and learn ways to create simple feeders. Participants will create a peanut butter and seed feeder to take home. A short winter bird walk will follow the indoor program. 1:00pm. www.cayuganet.org/sterlingpark/ 315-947-6143
December 31 – New Years Eve at Oak & Vine At Springside – Springside Inn, 6141 W. Lake Rd., Auburn. The Sarah Horner Band appearing live 9:30pm until 1:30am. $75/person includes four course dinner, champagne toast, and party favors. Please call for reservations. www.oakandvine.com 315-252-8463
January 4 – Science Alive 3 – Dr. Joseph F. Karpinski Sr. Educational Center, Ward O'Hara Agricultural Museum, 6880 East Lake Rd., Auburn. A fun-filled evening of exciting 'hands-on' science experiences for the whole family. 6-8pm. $5/person, $25/maximum per family. Students must be accompanied by parents. Reservations required by 12/31. www.cayuganet.org/agmuseum 315-784-5479 or 315-729-0657
January 6 & January 7 – "El Bulli: Cooking In Progress" – Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St. Auburn. The documentary "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the Spanish restaurant hailed as the most influential eatery in the world. 1/6 – 1:00 & 8:00pm, 1/7 – 8:00pm. www.auburnpublictheater.org 315-253-6669
January 7 & January 8 – "Models of Strength" – Dr. Joseph F. Karpinski Sr. Educational Center, Ward O'Hara Agricultural Museum, 6880 East Lake Rd., Auburn. Come check out the brand new 'Norm Riley Wooden Toys and Farm Implement Exhibit'. View over 300 hand crafted works of art. 11:00am – 4:00pm. Admission & parking free, donations accepted. www.cayuganet.org/agmuseum 315-784-5479 or 315-729-0657
January 7 – The Amazing Kreskin – Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St. Auburn. With a showman's flair, a comedian's wit, and the talents of a bona fide mind reader or mentalist, The Amazing Kreskin has, for five decades, probed the mysteries of the human mind. Tickets $35. Shows at 2:00 & 8:00PM. www.auburnpublictheater.org 315-253-6669
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communicating with a loved one
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Posted 02 January 2011 - 07:53 AM
Hope this helps in so small way..
Posted 02 January 2011 - 10:21 AM
Reaaly don't know how to answer your question, insear but i will share an experience of my own.. About 10yrs ago i lost a verry dear cousin whom i grew up with like brother and sister..He had left to get his girl friend and I was supposed to go with him because he suspected there would be trouble and wanted my help..long story short; I was unable to go that night and he was killed.. I blamed myself for long time. often when I was alone I'd talk to him as if he were there and told him how sorry I was and how I missed him so much and should of been there for him that night.The following year He came to me in a dream vision and said he was ok and wanted me to make sure all his kids knew who he was..It was close to fathers day so i went out and made copies of his picture and hunted down his children and gave them the picture except for one that lived far away.(.Chills as i tell this so maybe he is near). A few yrs back I was able to complete my task and have been at ease with the fact of him departing.
Hope this helps in so small way..
Thank you venus for sharing your experience..i have seen him once in a dream but it was over so quickly all he said was hi and he was gone. so maybe that was his message, i dont know. i just miss him so very much. thank you for your response
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Posted 05 January 2011 - 06:43 PM
Death is not a bad thing and no one who has made it over has a bad time. He does not want you to be sad. He said (is his name Derek? I am picking up that name) and he says he is sending you "yellow roses".
To communicate with him, all you have to do is talk to him. Think of him, and he is there. Speak to him, and he will hear you.
He will be with you always and remember: love never dies.
Oh yes,he wants me to tell you that he's with Rex and they're playing with frisbees again.
Posted 07 January 2011 - 01:09 PM
I'm very sorry for your loss, Insearhof, I know the pain of losing a loved one. If you want to try to communicate with the soul of your late brother, there are many ways to do so. I think if you search this particular board (Spirit Communication), you'll find several methods. For me, the easiest way is meditation. There are some good threads in here on that topic. Some people prefer to go to a medium or psychic. It's hard to find someone reputable, and word of mouth is the best way to find someone trustworthy. If there is a metaphysical book store in your area, you can make some inquiries there. Beyond that, you should try to pay attention to small things that happen. You might be driving along with the car radio on and your brother's favorite song comes on while you are thinking of him - or a song you associate with a happy time with him. You are home alone and catch a wiff of a scent you associate with your brother, etc. All those things can be a possible sign from your brother that he is with you at that moment. Keep in mind, I said possible sign. SOmetimes a cigar is just a cigar, after all, and it's not wise to see signs and omens every where we turn. Good luck and I really hope you'll find the help you are looking for here at GhostVillage.
thank you, now that i think about it on occasion i have some of the experiences u have described. i'm trying to teach myself meditation but very hard to concentrate with a large household, but u have been helpful.
Posted 07 January 2011 - 09:03 PM
I am also sorry for your loss, but you know what? Every single one of us has chosen the time of our deaths and there is nothing that anyone can do to change it. So don't blame yourself.
Death is not a bad thing and no one who has made it over has a bad time. He does not want you to be sad. He said (is his name Derek? I am picking up that name) and he says he is sending you "yellow roses".
To communicate with him, all you have to do is talk to him. Think of him, and he is there. Speak to him, and he will hear you.
He will be with you always and remember: love never dies.
Oh yes,he wants me to tell you that he's with Rex and they're playing with frisbees again.
thank u petunia. i think ur pickin up for someone else, his name was eddie. but thank u for your kind words and response
Posted 16 January 2011 - 12:38 AM
I am sorry for your loss and I also have felt loss with the passing of my best friend who I was closer to than my sisters. It takes time for us to heal and the first year is the hardest. I stayed home every July 4th and cried for quite a few years as her funeral was on the July 4th weekend.
Even though we are feeling the loss, they who are gone from the physical world are free from just those feelings.
I have seen her since and not just once or twice but many times. It was with meditation. I have learned to meditate with headphones and guided meditations. Guided meditations help when your starting out as they keep you focused and help teach you and the headphones help with the noise. Make sure they are not earbuds but headphones that cover your ears completely. Try and find a time that may work for you.
Don't blame yourself, we all choose our journeys.
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Know the Word for Yourself – Joyce Meyer
If you have been wondering why it always seems that you are under something, facing one problem or another, and don't have victory in your life, perhaps you need to spend more time abiding in the Word.
Many believers go to church every week to listen to someone else preach the Word to them, but they never know the Word for themselves. If you want to live in victory, you must give God's Word a place of priority in your everyday life. Practically speaking, this could mean that you confess the Word while you get ready in the morning. Maybe you could listen to teaching or worship music on the way to work. You may want to use your lunch hour to read the Word or walk outside and pray.
These are just a few ideas for integrating God's Word into your life. Just make sure you pursue His truth on a regular, ongoing basis. Giving His Word a place of top priority will change your life.
Prayer Starter: Lord, I want to fully integrate Your Word into my life. I don't just want to hear someone tell me the Word once a week, I want to know it for myself. Lead me and give me ideas to pursue Your Word consistently.
1 John 2:14
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14 And a second reminder, dear children: You know the Father from personal experience. You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality and strength! God's word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One.


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Title: Need
Author: Carrie Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury
After Zara's stepfather dies suddenly, she is left at loose ends. He was her friend and confidant, and she misses him terribly. She is so wrapped up in the cocoon of her grief that she begins to loose touch with herself. Concerned, her mother sends her to live with her grandmother in chilly Maine, hoping that the girl will begin to heal in new surroundings. Angry that her life has been decided without her input, Zara doesn't have much time to dwell on her feelings of betrayal. Instead, she keeps seeing a mysterious man, who seems to have followed her from Charleston. As weird and scary things start to happen, Zara has an unsettling realization. There are creatures out there, deadly and frightening, that aren't human. Worse, they are out to get her.
Need was a wonderful surprise, one of those deliciously engrossing novels that you can't put down, and when you do, the characters remain with you, teasing and enticing you to learn more about them. Full of mystery and suspense, danger and romance, this really is the perfect book to cuddle up with on a cold winter day. Or better yet, a cold, snowy winter night, one that mimics the frosty setting of the story. I may not be in Maine, but I certainly felt like I was, as snow and darkness fell around me. Tense and vivid, I have to admit that I was even provoked into a panicky, nervous frenzy as the events played out and Zara found herself uncovering secrets that threatened to rob her life and soul away. This book has a little bit of everything, and it manages to blend all of these wonderful elements together in a reading experience that makes you remember why you starting reading in the first place.
I love, love, love Zara. This girl is fierce, protective, and ready to sacrifice herself in order to keep her friends safe. She is suffering when we first meet her, wallowing in the numbing grief of losing someone dear to her. You can feel her pain and her unhappiness, her confusion and guilt after the death of her stepfather. He was so many things to her, friend, running mate, partner in social conscience, that his absence leaves a void that she believes will never be filled. Shipped off to Maine to spend some time with her grandmother, she discovers that there are scary things that go bump in the night, and fantastic creatures of fairy tales haunt the frozen landscape. She suddenly has no time to feel sorry for herself, and instead digs deep into her soul and begins to discover who she really is.
I have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. I usually abide novels that are told in first person present tense. In Need, though, it's Zara's firm, commanding voice that gives the story its bite. The narrative is firm and steady and unyielding, driving events from one crescendo of excitement to the next. There is never a lag in the action, and, like Zara, you never gets a chance to catch your breath. It's one uncovered secret after another as Zara attempts to make sense of the frightening episodes that keep taking place around her. She is convincingly brought to life, plagued by typical teen worries and concerns; will she fit in at her new school, will she make friends, will she fall in love? Add in something much more sinister – will the pixies get her – and you have the formula for a book that you can't put down. You will never look at Tinker Bell quite the same after finishing Need. Guaranteed.
Grade: A
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I went through multiple fursonas over the years, but if I were to count them all as the same sona then she has changed A LOT. She technically started out as a fairy cheetah as I was new and trying to be original that didn't last long and she became a wolf and some random hybrids later on, at that time she only had snippets of my personality and looked nothing like me irl she was more of a mascot than a sona. Only in the last year or two has she actually been representing me properly, with her recent incarnation(the spider) being the most accurate physically and mentally, she has gained so much weight since I first made her XDShe may change in the future, I love her current palette but irl I'm the opposite of her current design. I'm really pale with dark hair irl and want her to be the same but ahh haven't made anything as appealing as her current palette yet XD her design and species is always subject to changed no matter how perfect I think of her right now as I have said this before with previous incarnations X3
If memory serves correctly my alternate Persona evolved first into an actual Fursona of sorts when I was about 10 or 11. Back then it was just a Lombax Fursona inspired by Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank. The Fursona was still largely underdeveloped at that point and was only ever used for a series of short stories I used to play around with in my head. It was about another half year before it evolved again into a two-tailed Fox inspired by Tails. The Fursona's name was still left undecided at that point and hence I got unusually good at dodging around ever mentioning a characters name to make up for the lack of an official name for the Fursona. I developed the Fursona over the course of several years building a universe largely drawing inspiration from other elements of my favorite Media over the course of the years the Fursona and universe were both in service. Like Tails my makeshift Fursona had a great propensity for invention and a general mechanical brilliance. In the later stages, the makeshift fursona gradually started to gravitate away from the more Humanoid design of Tails, losing the second tail and gaining a proper muzzle as well as shifting from orange to red fur. Some more years passed still without a name but the old universe was retired in favor of another going under the name of Project Revlar. Right about then I joined the Furry Fandom and opted to use my existing Persona as my Official Fursona and over the course of a few days finally came up with the name Altairre. Altairre however finally shifted away from the mechanical inclination in favor of reflecting my new interests. Altairre instead took a bold and adventurous personal with a flare of childish innocence and passion. Altairre remained my primary Fursona until I created Tod after a bedroom discussion between some of my family members regarding my own name as well as other names I was almost given. Naturally at one point I was asked what name I might have preferred and the name Tod after the main character from the Fox and the Hound was the first thing that jumped to mind. The more I thought about it the more attached I became to the name until I created my second Fursona Tod who reflected all that I perceived myself as being unlike Altairre who reflected all I wanted to be. Naturally I gravitated closer and closer to Tod until I made him the new primary Fursona. And now here I am.
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A summary of resources, research, news and events in open scholarship for the preceding month
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. This is based on US copyright law of course but could be helpful. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/code-of-best-practices-fair-use.pdf
Three short videos about other uni's OA policies
These three minute videos have the relevant people from the Universities of Kansas, Glasgow and Harvard talking about their OA policies. It could be useful to send on to anyone that needs promoting in this area within your institution. http://www.sparcspaces.org/video/2011/12/campus-oa-policies-interviews-from-the-berlin-9-conference/
Where is OA around the world?
This blog post: "Illustrations of the global reach of the open access movement" has two maps, which show that eurpoe is by far the biggest area in OA followed by the US. It's worth a look. http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2012/01/illustrations-of-global-reach-of-open.html
A surfboard for riding the wave: towards a four country action programme on research data
Good review article on incentives, training needs, infrastructure, and funding of research data management. This report calls for a collaborative data infrastructure that will enable researchers and other stakeholders from education, society and business to use, re-use and exploit research data to the maximum benefit of science and society. This paper presents an overview of the present situation with regard to research data in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and offers broad outlines for a possible action programme for the four countries in realising the envisaged collaborative data infrastructure. An action programme at the level of four countries needs the … "Many research libraries are strategically repositioning themselves within their institute and seek a role in supporting research by setting up repositories for open access publications and creating discovery services for datasets" (p. 18). http://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv48428
What are the problems with sharing data?
Data Debate: Is transparency bad for science? This is a blog about the debate held on 6 December 2011. It has links to the You Tube video of nearly 1.5 hours. In the debate that followed, academic publishers came up for heavy criticism for their unwillingness to open up the data they publish and make it easily accessible to the public. George Monbiot and David Colquhoun rounded on them for hiding publicly funded research behind prohibitively expensive pay walls. http://science.okfn.org/2011/12/15/the-data-debate-at-imperial-college-london/
Are you able to embed your repository?
The JISC repositories self-assessment tool, created by their repositories support project, may be of interest to some of you. "It is designed to help HEIs identify the current position of their repository and how easy or otherwise it will be to embed the repository in culture, systems and processes that make up the institution's management of research outputs. Once completed, it will allow repository managers and other stakeholders to understand the priorities and challenges and focus their plans for change" http://www.rsp.ac.uk/embeddingguide/self-assessment-tool/
An argument you can use for getting more conference papers into the repository
RIN has released "Access to scholarly content: gaps and barriers" Overall, 23.6 per cent of researchers rate conference papers as `extremely important' for their work. They are much more difficult to access than journal articles: 34.4 per cent of researchers and knowledge workers describe their current level of access to conference papers (in print or online) as `poor' or `very poor'. http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1172
New open access list you might want to join
The Global Open Access List (GOAL) is the successor of the American Scientist Open Access (AmSci) Forum, which was the first Open Access Forum, begun in 1998 and hosted for 13 years (1998-2011) by Sigma Xi. http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
GOAL is accordingly dedicated to the discussion of Open Access practice and policy-making by the worldwide research community (in no order: researchers, universities, research institutions, research funding agencies, governmental research policy-makers and commercial entities) with the aim of enabling concrete, practical steps to be taken to achieve Open Access. Chief among these goals are techniques for increasing the amount of Open Access, as well as metrics of research usage and impact. The new archive for GOAL is: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/
We knew they made a lot of money but this is ridiculous
Heather Morrison's open thesis includes this: 'The enormous profits of STM scholarly publishers' All are in the for-profit sector, and the profits are enormous. As reported in the Economist (2011): " Elsevier, the biggest publisher of journals with almost 2,000 titles, cruised through the recession. Last year it made £724m ($1.1 billion) on revenues of £2 billion—an operating-profit margin of 36%". Springer's Science + Business Media (2010) reported a return on sales (operating profit) of 33.9% or € 294 million on revenue of € 866 million, an increase of 4% over the profit of the previous year. In the first quarter of 2012, John Wiley & Sons (2011) reported profit of $106 million for their scientific, medical, technical and scholarly division on revenue of $253 million, a profit rate of 42%. This represents an increase in the profit rate of 13% over the previous year. The operating profit rate for the academic division of Informa.plc (2011, p. 4) for the first half of 2011 was 32.4%, or £47 million on revenue of £145 million, an increase of 3.3% over the profit of the previous year. Please cite as: Morrison, Heather (2011). Chapter two: scholarly communication in crisis. Freedom for scholarship in the internet age. PhD Dissertation (in progress). http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/chapter-two-scholarly-communication-in-crisis/
When you have a lot of $ you can spend it on lobbying
The Lobbying Expenditure Database shows that Reed Elseveir spent $1,150,000 on lobying in 2011. And that's relatively little compared to a few years ago. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000028557
Book review - Reinventing Discovery
The Guardian review of 'Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Michael Nielsen' states "… Science in the 21st century is a victim of more than three centuries of its own astonishing success. It now finds itself struggling to catch up with the general trend in society towards openness. The web has had a far greater impact on everyday life than on scientific research. The more public access to information improves, the more absurd it seems that much of the web's most reliable and useful information is inaccessible. …" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/24/reinventing-discovery-michael-nielsen-review
Electronic theses bibliography
Digital Scholarship has released the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6. It includes selected English-language articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm
New Book - 'Managing Research Data'
Edited by Graham Pryor, Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre,
Published by Facet, Managing Research Data aims to introduce the broader research community to such core issues of data management as the terms of compliance with funder expectations, the context and recommended approaches to individual and institutional data management planning, the
roles and responsibilities of key players in the research data lifecycle, as well as detailed reports of initiatives, strategies and organizations being deployed nationally and on a global scale.
ISBN 978-1-85604-756-2, See http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7562.
New Issue of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly Magazine Focuses on Benefits of Standards Implementation
The Fall 2011 issue of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly magazine is now available in open access in PDF from the NISO website. In this issue of ISQ, we provide several specific examples of the benefits of implementing standards, ranging from savings in staff time to improved customer service and a way to attract new customers. Specific case studies are included for the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), and the Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU). http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2011/v23no4/
NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the NationalFederation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment ending on February 29, 2012 and is available for download from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental.
Publishers, authors, librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators are all encouraged to review and comment on this draft.
Open access is changing the face of academic publishing
Abstract: The case studies illustrate how a new technology and a business model enabled by new technology can be harnessed to find new innovative ways for the organization and content of scholarly publishing. Several recent launches of OA journals by major subscription publishers demonstrate that OA is rapidly gaining acceptance as a sustainable alternative to subscription-based scholarly publishing. Björk BC, A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e115 http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e115/
Librarians talking to researchers about data
Abstract (abridged): As libraries become more involved in curating research data, reference librarians will need to be trained in conducting data interviews with researchers to better understand their data and associated needs. This article seeks to identify and provide definitions for the basic terms and concepts of data curation for librarians to properly frame and carry out a data interview using the Data Curation Profiles (DCP) Toolkit. The DCP Toolkit is a semi-structured interview designed to assist librarians in identifying the data curation needs of researchers. The components of the DCP Toolkit were analyzed to determine the base level of knowledge needed for librarians to conduct effective data interviews. Specific concepts, definitions, and examples were sought through a review of articles, case studies, practitioner resources and from the experiences of the Purdue University Libraries. Carlson, J. (2012). Demystifying the data interview: developing a foundation for reference librarians to talk with researchers about their data. Reference Services Review, 40(1), 7-23. Available from:
Open Access Textbook Publishing
Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43, no. 2 (2012): Includes "An Experiment in Open-Access Textbook Publishing: Changing the World One Textbook at a Time"
Survey on open access in Europe (2012)
The European Commission launched in August 2008 the open access pilot in FP7. It concerns all new projects from that date in seven FP7 research areas. Grant beneficiaries are expected to deposit peer-reviewed research articles or final manuscripts resulting from their projects into an online repository and make their best efforts to ensure open access to those articles within a set period of time after publication. Selected results - Almost 70 % of respondents with an opinion think that it is better to use self-archiving rather than open access publishing to satisfy the open access requirement in FP7. Three quarters of those respondents with an opinion would agree or strongly agree with an open access mandate for data in their research area, providing that all relevant aspects (e.g. ethics, confidentiality, intellectual property) have been considered and addressed. http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/survey-on-open-access-in-fp7_en.pdf
Got a system where people don't deposit directly? SWORD could help
Abstract: The SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol was designed to facilitate the interoperable deposit of resources into systems such as repositories. The use of an interoperable standard eases the burden of developing clients to deposit such resources. This paper examines nine different deposit use cases, and provides case studies and examples of each use case to demonstrate the wide range of repository deposit scenarios. The use cases range from the deposit of scholarly communication outputs from a publisher to a repository and the automatic deposit of data from laboratory equipment, to inter-repository transfer and collaborative authoring workflows. Stuart Lewis, Pablo de Castro, Richard Jones 2012 SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios. 'D-Lib Magazine Vol 18 (1/2) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january12/lewis/01lewis.html
Proposal for evaluating whether online articles support changing schol comms.
Abstract: I propose five factors — peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata — as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, a constellation of five independent criteria within a multi-dimensional publishing universe against which online journal articles can be evaluated, to see how well they match up with current visions for enhanced research communications. Achievement along each of these publishing axes can vary, analogous to the different stars within the constellation shining with varying luminosities. I suggest a five-point scale for each, by which a journal article can be evaluated, and provide diagrammatic representations for such evaluations. While the criteria adopted for these scales are somewhat arbitrary, and while the rating of a particular article on each axis may involve elements of subjective judgment, these Five Stars of Online Journal Articles provide a conceptual framework by which to judge the degree to which any article achieves or falls short of the ideal, which should be useful to authors, editors and publishers. I exemplify such evaluations using my own recent publications of relevance to semantic publishing. David Shotton (2012) 'The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles — a Framework for Article Evaluation', DLib Magazine, Vol 18 (1/2)
"The Influence of the National Institutes of Health Public-Access Policy on the Publishing Habits of Principal Investigators" Athanasia (Nancy) Pontika, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA Poster presented to Berlin9 is through a Google Doc - https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3M8WbWcGihpNGRmYTU0ZDUtZTI1OC00MDFkLTlmZmMtNjRhYWVmY2YwOTcz&hl=en_US
New model of scholarly communication
The current system of publishing in the biological sciences is notable for its redundancy, inconsistency, sluggishness, and opacity. These problems persist, and grow worse, because the peer review system remains focused on deciding whether or not to publish a paper in a particular journal rather than providing (1) a high-quality evaluation of scientific merit and (2) the information necessary to organize and prioritize the literature. Online access has eliminated the need for journals as distribution channels, so their primary current role is to provide authors with feedback prior to publication and a quick way for other researchers to prioritize the literature based on which journal publishes a paper. Kravitz DJ and Baker CI (2011) Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 5:55. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00055
How can libraries help data management?
Abstract: In an effort to support the University of Houston's goal of becoming a Carnegie-designated Tier One research university, several science librarians within the Department of Liaison Services have undertaken a study to assess current data management practices on campus. The goal of this study was to determine if data management needs are being met on campus and how the library might help meet those needs. We found that rather than physical storage capacity, researchers need assistance with funding agencies' data management requirements, the grant proposal process, finding campus data-related services, publication support, and targeted research assistance attendant to data management. Petersa, Christie & Drydena, Anita Riley, Assessing the Academic Library's Role in Campus-Wide Research Data Management: A First Step at the University of Houston", Science & Technology Libraries 30, no. 4 (2011) Available if you have a subscription: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0194262X.2011.626340
Open access - it is not just the good stuff
The results reveal that open access papers in general receive more citations. Moreover this research finds that 1) papers in high-ranked journals do not have a higher open access rate, and 2) papers in lower-ranked journals have a greater rate of citations if they are freely accessible. The findings are contrary to the existing theory that the higher citation rate of open access papers is caused by authors posting their best papers online. It is hoped that the results can help electronic publishers and digital project managers to adjust their strategies in open access advocacy Jingfeng Xia, Katie Nakanishi, (2012) "Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles", Online Information Review, Vol. 36 Iss: 1
Mathematicians are pro OA but put stuff on their own sites
Abstract: This article reports research mathematicians' attitudes about and activity in specific scholarly communication areas, as captured in a 2010 survey of more than 600 randomly-selected mathematicians worldwide. Key findings include: • Most mathematicians have papers in the arXiv, but posting to their own web pages remains more common; • A third of mathematicians have published papers in open access (OA) journals, with speed of publication being seen as the primary advantage over traditional journals, but there is substantial philosophical opposition to OA journal models that charge author fees; • Tenure and promotion criteria influence publishing decisions even among most tenured faculty members; • Mathematicians want to keep more rights to their publications than they have been allowed, but they have a high success rate in negotiating with publishers for more; • Online collaboration tools, such as Google Groups, are not yet widely used for research but their use is expected to rise in the near future. Reasons behind the mathematics culture of openness were also explored. Kristine Fowler, 'Mathematicians' Views on Current Publishing Issues: A Survey of Researchers', Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (15 Dec 2011) Fall 2011 issue. http://www.istl.org/11-fall/refereed4.html
OpenAIRE – Releases 'Studies on Subject-Specific Requirements for Open Access Infrastructure'
OpenAIRE has recently released its "Studies on Subject-Specific Requirements for Open Access Infrastructure". Designed as a comparative study covering five disciplines (Health, Climate, Agriculture, ICT, e-infrastructures) it provides in-depth insight into researchers' behaviour and current practices. With a focus on research workflows, literature and data management the case studies address key questions on how subject-specific needs can be represented in an Open Access
infrastructure. Moreover, each case study provides a vision and principles for future information services to further exploit OA principles from a disciplinary perspective as well as advices to future
directions for funding agencies.
C. Meier zu Verl, & W. Horstmann (Eds.). 2011. Studies on Subject-Specific Requirements for Open Access Infrastructure. Bielefeld: Universitätsbibliothek. ISBN: 978-3-943363-00-5
Overview: http://bit.ly/openaire_studies DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2390/PUB-2011-1
Google Scholar discoverability of repository content
Kenning Arlitsch, Patrick Shawn OBrien, (2012) "Invisible Institutional Repositories: Addressing the Low Indexing Ratios of IRs in Google Scholar", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 30 Iss: 1
Purpose - Google Scholar has difficulty indexing the contents of institutional repositories, and the authors hypothesize the reason is that most repositories use Dublin Core, which cannot express
bibliographic citation information adequately for academic papers. Google Scholar makes specific recommendations for repositories, including the use of publishing industry metadata schemas over DublinCore. This paper tests a theory that transforming metadata schemas in institutional repositories will lead to increased indexing by Google Scholar.
Practical implications - Institutional repositories are achieving significant mass, and the rate of author citations from those repositories may affect university rankings. Lack of visibility in Google Scholar, however, will limit the ability of IRs to play a more significant role in those citation rates.
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A very sweet and simple parable which describes the OA situation in terms of food distribution. The Guardian, Mike Taylor, 10 February 2012 Imagine a world where food is cheap and freely available, thanks to the amazing Teleporting Duplicator. What could go wrong?…http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator?CMP=twt_gu
The process of publishing open access isn't that great (for authors)
This blog 'Open access publishing is not a panacea' argues that there are problems as an author with publishing in gold OA journals. It also argues that peer review needs to change. http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/12/12/what-is-the-future-of-scientific-publishing/
Simple argument that free is inevitable
While the argument actually is 'free' to the reader rather than no cost to the system, this is a clear and easy to understand summary of the economic situation with open access. Sutton, Carolin, 'Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access' College and Research Library News, Dec 2011 pp642-645 http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/11/642.full.pdf+html
Academic Publishers: Suicide Bombers Against the Academy
This is a rant about the 'renting' of articles (mentioned in the last issue of the newsletter) and how this is closing access to research. http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2011/12/academic-publishers-suicide-bombers.html
'Scholarly license to print money' - The Australian 25 Jan 2012
By Colin Steele, this peice explains the current scholarly publishing situation with a summary of the current activities worldwide. It has good figures on Elsevier profits. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/scholarly-licence-to-print-money/story-e6frgcko-1226252771554
New open access business model?
This article is commenting on the acquisition of the Polish STM publisher Versita by Berlin-based publisher Walter de Gruyter announced. It refers to a new OA business model - the "society-based" model. Mark Ware, A New Model Emerges for Open Access, 26 Jan 2012. It is subscription through OUtsell if you have one - http://www.outsellinc.com/about_us/team/Mark_Ware
'Dr. Alma Swan has been appointed to the position of Director of European Advocacy, and Lars Bjørnshauge has been named SPARC's Director of European Library Relations.' This is good news. Alma has been very involved in OA for many years, including starting Enabling Open Scholarship. http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/12-0118.shtml
Working out ways to make paying for OA easier
To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest scientific research organisation, is now supporting the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE) http://www.oacompact.org. The research centres of the Helmholtz Association have declared their support of COPE and their willingness to establish sustainable mechanisms for the payment of reasonable open-access publishing fees. It is of primary concern to the Helmholtz Association that publishing in open-access journals will be as easy for its scientists as in journals with conventional financing. For further information see the press release: http://tinyurl.com/d3ff2r5
Using IRs for reporting - forcing the OA card
"The Board of Administrators of the FRS-FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research in French-speaking Belgium) has officially decided to use exclusively Institutional Repositories as sources of bibliographic data in support of grant or fellowship submission (except for foreign applicants) starting in 2013 (strongly encouraged in 2012). FRS-FNRS is by far the main funder for basic research in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation." Not surprisingly Stevan Harnad has embraced this announcement: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=jisc-repositories;7929bffc.1112
Big publishers get bigger
Berlin, January 9, 2012 De Gruyter, the Berlin-based academic publishing company, is acquiring the publisher Versita. As a service provider to academic organizations and bodies, Versita publishes over 230 journals on Open Access basis, i.e. outside the traditional subscription model. With this acquisition De Gruyter is substantially increasing its presence in an important future market of academic publishing. The complete staff of Versita is being retained in this take-over. http://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/75/aktuelle-presseinformationen
Open Access Scholarly Publishing - California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner
As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty -- and eagerly working to provide new solutions to entrenched problems. The California Digital Library's (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf of the University of California system, focuses on supporting open source publishing infrastructure through a major development partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).
As a result of this agreement, the CDL will assist with PKP's ongoing development and support of its open source software suite — Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release in the coming year. To find out more about this initiative visit the PKP web site at http://pkp.sfu.ca
Karen Coyle will present her "five stars of library data," an analysis of the changes needed and some steps that libraries can begin to take immediately. She will also discuss the "open world" view of the linked data movement and how this view can increase the visibility of libraries in the global information space. This webinar will give an introduction to the types of changes that are needed as well as the value that can be realized in library services NISO/DCMI Joint Webinar on February 22: Taking Library Data From Here to There DATE: February 22, 2012 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (18:00-19:30 UTC) INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/library_data/
DC 2012 - International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: 'Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges'
3-7 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges. DC-2012 is part of Knowledge Technology Week 2012 in Malaysia. For more information, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/ktw2012
Unique identifiers
"The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries". The conference is organized by the Association of Lithuanian Serials (see http://serials.lt). It will take place in Parliament of Lithuania (see http://lrs.lt), in Vilnius, Lithuania on February 14th, 2012. Read more about the conference at http://uniqueids.org.
Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics
The Chronicle, Josh Fischman, January 30, 2012 http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/elsevier-publishing-boycott-gathers-steam-among-academics/35216 Timothy Gowers of the University of Cambridge, who won the Fields Medal for his research, has organized a boycott of Elsevier because, he says, its pricing and policies restrict access to work that should be much more easily available …
As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices
The Chronicle, Josh Fischman, January 31, 2012 http://chronicle.com/article/As-Journal-Boycott-Grows/130600/ A protest against Elsevier, the world's largest scientific journal publisher, is rapidly gaining momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. By Tuesday evening, about 2,400 scholars had put their names to an online pledge not to publish or do any editorial work for the company's journals, including refereeing papers….
Spread the word: scientists are tearing down publishers' walls
Alex Holcombe, The Conversation 7 February 2012 Scientists just want to share – at least in one sense. When we believe we've discovered something new, we want to tell as many others as possible. We also want to provide all the information required to convince others we're right. Yet most scientists' reports of their discoveries are not freely available…. http://theconversation.edu.au/spread-the-word-scientists-are-tearing-down-publishers-walls-5098
Maximizing the visibility of research outputs: COAR call for action - Open letter to Elsevier
6 February 2012 "With this letter", says Norbert Lossau, Chair of COAR Executive Board, "The Confederation of Open Access Repositories is joining in the growing protest against Elsevier's practices opposing open access. We strongly believe that open access will greatly improve the impact and use of scholarly publications, and maximize our collective global investment in research." http://www.coar-repositories.org/news/coar-writes-open-letter-as-reaction-to-elseviers-practices/
Academics boycott publisher Elsevier
Bernard Lane, The Australian 8 February 2012 DON'T expect to see Julie Clutterbuck's name again in the Journal of Differential Equations. Or in any other journal owned by Elsevier, the Amsterdam-based behemoth of scholarly publishing. Clutterbuck, a mathematician at the Australian National University, has joined a global protest against Elsevier. At last count, more than 4300 academics had put their names to a website, The Cost of Knowledge, … http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/academics-boycott-publisher-elsevier/story-e6frgcjx-1226265110496
Richard Poynder's interview with Alicia Wise from Elsevier
8 February 2012 The interesting part is the comments really. She's made some enemies over the years it seems. Elsevier's Alicia Wise on the RWA, the West Wing, and Universal Access http://bit.ly/y7Yi92http://poynder.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/elseviers-alicia-wise-on-rwa-west-wing.html
On another note: For a laugh check out the FakeElsevier Twitter feed: https://mobile.twitter.com/FakeElsevier
Response – congress fighting back
Federal Research Public Access Act
On February 9, U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA) introduced a bill that is a direct counterpart to the proposed Research Works Act (RWA), His Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2012, http://doyle.house.gov/FRPA112FINAL.pdf
This bill will require federal agencies with an "extramural" research budget of $100 million or more to "make federally-funded research available for free online access by the general public, no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The bill would also require that the "manuscript is preserved in a stable digital repository … that permits free public access, interoperability, and long-term preservation." Doyle's bill would mandate policies similar to the National Institute of Health's Public Access Policy, but it would reduce the NIH's maximum embargo from 12 months to six, and the policy would govern all major federal agencies. It also doesn't specify what repository authors must deposit their manuscripts in, as NIH's policy does.
University-Press Association Speaks Out on Public Access to Research
February 15, 2012, 2:07 pm, By Jennifer Howard The Association of American University Presses does not support the proposed Research Works Act, the group said in a statement released Tuesday. But it also does not support an opposing bill, the Federal Research Public Access Act, which would require public access to the results of federally financed research no later than six months after publication. The other bill would prevent federal agencies from imposing such mandates. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/university-press-association-speaks-out-on-public-access-to-research/35475
Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
Research Bought, Then Paid For
Librarians, Open Access Advocates 'Vehemently Oppose' Research Works Act
Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research
Trying to roll back the clock on Open Access: Research Works Act introduced
American Library Association – District Dispatch January 9 - http://www.districtdispatch.org/
An example of one of the letters to Congress opposing the bill
Several AAP members have stated they do not want to have anything to do with the bill
Pennsylvania State University Press says No to Research Works Act - http://bit.ly/x9UzXE Peter Suber asks :" Can AAP Members stay neutral in the row over the Research Works Act?" http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-aap-members-stay-neutral-in-row.html
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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is the second module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and uses online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore, research... (View More) and build knowledge about how and why studying the Sun's electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields help scientists better understand the Sun's activity and space weather. Students build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide is included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 2A: The Sun and the EM Spectrum students learn how SDO uses key parts of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to research regions of the Sun, create an interactive foldable to describe the different wavebands of the EMS, then use real-time SDO image data and the Helioviewer online tool to explore the Sun's regional activity. Tutorials for using Helioviewer and making the EMS foldable are included. Activity 2B: Solar activity and Magnetism has students use information in online videos and slide presentations to demonstrate concepts of magnetism and the relationship between the Sun's variable magnetic fields and sunspots. Activity 3B: Solar Research in Action! Build a Spectroscope has students create a spectroscope to observe the different wavebands of visible light, demonstrate how the Sun emits varying EMS energies, and explain how this information helps scientists understand the composition and activity of both our nearest star, and other stars in the universe. A computer for student-teams and a connection to the Internet are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is an activity about scale model building. Learners will use mathematics to determine the scale model size, construct a pattern, and build a one-fourth size scale model of the IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration)... (View More) satellite, the first satellite mission to image the Earth's magnetosphere. This is the third activity in the Solar Storms and You: Exploring Satellite Design educator guide. (View Less)


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Happy Friday!
Homemade sesame sticks! And from reading the recipe, it looks easy.
Delish high-fiber snacks.
Benefits of raw honey.
Best sources of Vit C.
The Bobine: What a great invention for keeping your iphone free-standing.
Why not take your pumpkin cookie and make it into pumpkin cookie bark?
Natural remedies for muscle pain.
Acupuncture may offer real pain relief after all.
I would LOVE to know who has done acupuncture and does it work?
Why you need biotin (and what does it do?)
Excellent idea! How to label your leftovers from organizinghomelife.com
How to freeze cooked brown rice.
Tips for really good smoothies.
Waffles made with.......beer. Yes, indeed. A whole new depth of flavor.
How to eat a cupcake. Yes, there is a video for this. (cute!).
Excellent lineup of some of the best recipes for veggie burgers.
How to make spaghetti-pizza.
How to make Tonkatsu sauce (Japanese style BBQ sauce).
Warm chocolate risotto.
Dorie Greenspan has a new cookie store open: Beurre & Sel
A place I want to visit--soon: Danny Macaroons!
Peppermint patty brownie cups.
Oh my! cinnamon-cream cheese breakfast bars! (bookmarked)
kitty litter cake for Halloween! Isn't this the best?
Tooth fairy receipts. How cute are these?
Finally a candy with no chemicals or dyes--all natural. Unreal Candies.
Pet Peek windows! Cute!
9 ways to develop true self-esteem.
What gets in the way of your exercise routine?
Breast cancer: knowing the signs.
Salted whiskey caramels.
Homemade tootsie rolls!
I've been slowly inching my way closer towards a paleo/primal lifestyle, and I have to say giving up carbs isn't that bad. I replaced carbs with bacon. (kidding).
In my last friday link roundup I shared with you how I am prone to getting SAD (seasonal affective disorder) during the dark and cold months of jan, feb & march here in new england.
I was shocked, and very comforted on how many people emailed me telling me they have it as well.
And a few of you asked what I do to help ease the symptoms.
I get outside as much as possible, even on the cloudy days. They say even if it's a cloudy day, the light illumination is still there (more so than being inside).
I do weightlifting to help boost/move the blood which helps boost the mood.
I take a lot of fish oil and a good amount of Vit D3. (make sure you get enough of the D3)
If you can, get high quality fish oil that is tested for the highest levels of omega 3's and is low in impurities.
In the photo above, I use Vital Choice fish oils and TwinLab Tri-boron. I don't take all the fish oils the same day, rather I alternate one day is krill oil with astaxanthin and the next day is the salmon oil with the astaxanthin....
Do they help? Yes they do. There was one winter where I did not take the fish oil for about 2 months and noticed a significant change in my moods.
Maybe Vital Choice will see this post and offer up a giveaway for my fans and perhaps a discount?
Feel free to share with us what works for you in combating SAD?
I would love to share your tips!
Last week it was my birthday as well as my wedding anniversary.
Hubby and I celebrated (and broke our diets) by going to one of our favorite places to eat: Kelly's Roast Beef.
If any of you are from boston, you know how good Kelly's is.
They haven't changed a thing there, no downsizing of meals, no cutting back on quality--same old roast beef sandwich perfection. (that bag of fries? it's a small :-)
What I want to read (don't these sound good?):
Saving the best for last on this friday link roundup......
For those of you that are nostalgic cape cod fans (myself included) here is a wonderful video of the cape cod canal circa 1939.
I am having a really hard time saying goodbye to summer. :-(


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The Wing-Friends and Other Books
In Blogger's slideshows images are greatly reduced, so lose much of their impact. And captions added to them in Picasa Albums vanish, so the images shown above are: the Milky Way, the Orion Nebula, Earth, Earth with New Zealand circled, New Zealand, Auckland & the Hauraki Gulf, Waiheke Island, some native NZ forest, a Fantail and chicks, various doves, etc.
(If you want to see the first ten images in their original size, they are in a posting made on the 24th of November 2011.)
My book The Wing-Friends is an imaginative tale of a small brave boy, a magical adventure, a magnificent Pegasus and the wonderful Kingdom of the Pegasi. It has been given very good reviews, and virtually every reader on Goodreads has so far awarded it five stars. It is available here. Some of my other writings are available as e-books, such as The Lower Deck, which is an over-the-top take on Waiheke happenings--sort of.
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By Russ Britt
Well, it seems the initial pricing of Argos Therapeutics may have been right on the money after all.
The tiny developer of treatments for kidney cancer, HIV and lupus had hoped to start selling shares of its stock at $16, but ended up with an IPO price of $8. And after soaring by more than 22% in the early going during its first day of trading on Friday, guess where it ended up?
That's right, Argos /quotes/zigman/9002145/delayed /quotes/nls/args ARGS came full-circle and ended the day back at $8.
It was, perhaps symbolic of a rocky week that saw the wider market spike downward in the middle of it before ending up back where it started.
Based in Durham, N.C., the company has yet to turn a profit. Revenue for its last full fiscal year, 2012, was $7.04 million, down from the $7.64 million the year before.
The Argos product that is farthest along in development is its kidney cancer treatment, which is beginning phase 3 tests. In phase 2, the treatment was able to more than double the survival time to 30 months for patients suffering from what is known as metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
The company's HIV treatment is in phase 2 testing that is being funded through a $39.3 million contract with the National Institutes of Health.
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It took a last-minute 70-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones in regulation and another Corey Graham interception, but the Baltimore Ravens and Ray Lewis are moving on.
A classic AFC divisional playoff matchup ended when rookie Justin Tucker split the uprights from 47 yards out in the second overtime to send the Ravens to a 38-35 victory over the Denver Broncos in front of a stunned crowd of 76,603 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium. The fans braved temperatures that were below 10 degrees by game's end and a negative wind chill.
"That was one of the best football games you're ever going to see. That football game did the game of football proud," said Ravens Coach John Harbaugh. "I'm just proud and grateful to have an opportunity to be part of this game. We never wavered, we never cracked."
Graham, who had an interception return for a touchdown in the first quarter, stepped in front of an ill-advised pass by Peyton Manning to give the Ravens the ball at the Broncos' 45-yard line. A Ray Rice 11-yard run put the Ravens in Tucker's range and the rookie kicker did the rest.