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Volume 25, No. 2
December / January 1999
ASIS Award of MeritOn the Shoulders of Giants
by Henry Small
Let me say what a pleasure and honor it is to receive this award. I want to begin by thanking the person without whose support I would not be here tonight, my wife Lois. She has given me the confidence and purpose to move ahead in my work.
Like so many information scientists, I started out in chemistry. After a master's degree, I switched to the history of science and eventually earned a doctorate.
Thus when I finally arrived in the field of information science, I had a lot of extra baggage. This, perhaps, allowed me to view the field from a somewhat different perspective. For example, I saw a database more like a sociologist sees society, as a complex social system. I wanted to know what role information played in scientific discovery and creativity, why and when scientists communicate and how fields of science grow and develop.
Lessons from the History of Science
Actually, the history of science provides many insights into information and communication. One of my favorite examples is the use of anagrams to communicate scientific discoveries, a practice popular in the 17th century. In those days, a scientist might submit a discovery as a coded message. This way he could claim credit for the idea and at the same time not reveal it to his colleagues, the opposite of our modern concept of open publication. Clearly, this was the result of inadequate institutional mechanisms in those days for insuring proper attribution of credit and authorship of ideas, but it also highlights the powerful drive for individual recognition and identity, even as applied to something as lofty as the pursuit of scientific truth.
I began thinking about what I could do with scientific information as a student in the history of science. My major professor also taught a course in chemical information. Seeing a couple of shelves of chemistry journals in his office, I asked with typical graduate student impertinence, "Why do we need the history of science if we have all that stuff?" He proceeded to lecture me, but I saw in my mind's eye a map of the entire scientific literature.
Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea of structure in science in the 1960s. Kuhn's paradigms were snapshots of the structure of science at specific points in time. By flipping through them you might spot a revolution in the making. The problem was that no one knew how to build the camera. In a postscript to his famous book, Kuhn (1970) made note of citation linking as one possible way to get at the problem.
After becoming a certified historian, I spent a couple of years attempting to document the history of nuclear physics at the American Institute of Physics. I soon realized that writing the history of a 20th-century field wasn't easy, as you in ASIS are also finding out in your history project. At AIP I started talking to information scientists. You have two choices, they said: "Build your own database or go work for ISI®." I did the latter.
Joining ISI
I saw my first glimpse of the power of citations in the work of Sam Schiminovich (1971) at AIP who was using Mike Kessler's bibliographic coupling (1963).
When I landed a job at ISI, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the database to study the structure and development of science. What I didn't know – but perhaps should have – was that Eugene (Gene) Garfield was interested in the same things. He had made the important connection for me between citation data and the history of science in a report co-authored with the late Irv Sher (Garfield, 1964).
I was very fortunate to become an associate of Gene Garfield. What I learned from Gene is difficult to put into words. First, there is the importance of doing good research; second, of going out on a limb for something you believe in and doing your damnedest. Gene has always been passionate about his projects, in addition to being a great innovator in his field.
As you know I'm a big fan of the ISI database – now dubbed the Web of Science® – especially the way it captures the information behavior of scientists. It comes closer than any other database to reflecting that society of science I was seeking. Without it, my work would have been impossible, and it has been my main inspiration. It is undoubtedly one of the great information innovations of the 20th century. It was laying out proto-information highways long before the advent of the Internet. It has also set international standards for the measurement of science. I want to acknowledge here the role of David Pendlebury and other members of the Contract Research Department at ISI in creating our science indicator products.
It took me only 30 years to realize why citations are so powerful. It has to do with the fact that science is a collective and collaborative process: a lot of independent and creative people around the world, sharing their work through open publication – just like ASIS. The lowly citation facilitates this by allowing one scholar to embed another's work in his or her own, creating an extended, collective argument. Reconstructing these collective arguments is a difficult, but important research task.
Since citations are in many cases appeals to supporting evidence, science evolves tree-like with roots deep into the past. The interweaving of branches from adjacent trees in the academic forest gives strength to the cumulative growth.
The reason the citation index was the ideal database for mapping and measuring science was that, like a relevance judgment, a citation is a purposeful selection of another document. This selection process is complex, but operationally we have an elemental interaction, a binding of two information molecules. The question was: Could we build this up, document by document, until we got a complete picture? The first step for me was co-citation. As I have noted elsewhere (1992), the linguist Bar-Hillel (1959) had suggested a similar approach that he called co-quotation, while at the same time despairing that it would ever work.
The Shoulders of Giants
To explain co-citation, you may have heard Newton's well-known phrase, so brilliantly deconstructed by Robert Merton (1965), "If I have seen further, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." If standing on the shoulder of a giant is a citation, then co-citation is straddling the shoulders of two giants, a pyramid of straddled giants is a specialty, and a pathway through science is playing leapfrog over the giant straddlers. Regrettably, Merton's research did not uncover any historical images of such collective giant straddling.
Soon after I arrived at ISI, I had my second stroke of good fortune in meeting a certain professor at Drexel University by the name of Belver Griffith. Belver and I shared the vision of mapping science with co-citation, and he contributed a great deal to the technique. For example, he introduced the idea of using multidimensional scaling to create a spatial representation of documents. I recently had the pleasure of writing a tribute to Belver on the occasion of his receiving the Derek Price Medal from the journal Scientometrics (Small, 1997).
Belver was also a close friend of the late Derek Price. Derek visited Philadelphia often in the 1970s to salvage whatever scraps of data he could from the cutting room floor, as Derek called it, and also to inspire intellectual mayhem. His modeling of the research front had a major impact on my thinking (Price, 1965).
It was exciting to find that co-citation arrayed highly cited documents so cleanly into specialties, and that, in turn, specialties could join to form a global map. And we did spot a couple of those elusive scientific revolutions. For interpretation I turned to semiotic theory to show how documents stood for ideas. Regarding this work, I plead innocent to being a post-modernist. On the contrary, I believe we were all borrowing from Robert Merton. We have yet to fully appreciate the contributions Merton has made to the varied ways that ideas can be transmitted and transformed on their journey from scholar to scholar.
From philosophy I learned that science was supposed to be somehow unified. If you combine this with Vannevar Bush's idea (1945) of associative information trails, then we ought to be able to navigate from one end of science to the other. E.O. Wilson in his new book on the unity of science (1998) thinks of this as following Ariadne's thread through the labyrinth. I think of it as the circumnavigation of science. What I hope to learn on that journey is how scholars occasionally reach out beyond the confines of their specialties to make connections with knowledge in neighboring fields.
It is no doubt true that our current maps of science are as primitive as the early Ptolemaic maps of the world. But the more we study this large scale, interdisciplinary structure, the better I believe we will understand such fundamental issues as the value of information, the discovery process, the relevance of one piece of information to another and perhaps even the social basis of scientific conviction. This applies to the Internet, too, where the hypertext link is a close relative to the classical reference.
One way to reflect on a career is to recall the problems you thought you were working on, and the solutions you thought you found to them. The older we get the more it seems we focus on what remains to be done rather than what we have accomplished. I am only too aware that the research program I set for myself 30 years ago remains incomplete, but, I hope, ultimately attainable.
The following is an outline, with the benefit of hindsight:
nDefine a fundamental unit of scientific knowledge. For me this was the highly cited document, after initial false starts using indexing terms.
nDefine a quantitative measure of the relationship of these fundamental units to one another. It seemed natural to adopt a measure of co-usage, namely co-citation, which was community dependent.
nAnalyze the structure of these units based on the measure of relationship and interpret their significance. Clustering methods were an obvious choice and it turned out that the aggregates corresponded to research specialties, rather than entire fields or disciplines.
nAnalyze change over time in these aggregates to see if new discoveries and perhaps mini-revolutions, intellectual shifts or other life-cycle phases can be identified. Case studies validated some of these interpretations using the perceptions of participating scientists.
nConstruct the macro-structure of broad disciplines and ultimately science as a whole by successively aggregating the individual specialties. This process led to the creation of maps of science that included a wide range of areas of natural and social science.
nUnderstand the dynamics of science at the macro-structure level; that is, how does science evolve as a whole? This task has proved the most difficult and remains incomplete.
Many issues arise in the pursuit of this research agenda, of which I will only list four:
nimplications of the bibliographic unity of science for the philosophy of science and the debate about the rationality of scientific belief, as posed by the social constructivists;
nimplications for information retrieval, including the possibility of creating document pathways connecting different subject areas, and the understanding of information transitions over space and time;
nimplications for artificial intelligence and scientific discovery where, following Swanson (1987), we seek to make new discoveries by navigating between existing but disconnected literatures; and
nimplications for science policy, where we identify emerging and rapidly changing fields, as well as the cross-fertilization of fields and interdisciplinary dependencies.
Closing Thoughts
The information age is in full swing. The field of information science is experiencing bone-jarring change but at the same time is on the threshold of enormous opportunity. The boundaries of information are also expanding rapidly, in formats, types of users, goals, expectations and sheer volume of data.
I sense that the diversity of interests within ASIS is greater than ever, which is as it should be. However, there is a danger now of a loss of focus or a splintering into narrow interests groups and fiefdoms, just at the moment when we need to learn from each other. To combat this, I favor a more creative mixing of interests, rather than strict adherence to topics and themes, both in the annual meetings and the journal.
My work on the structure of science has led me to believe strongly in the idea of unity in diversity. Yes, we in ASIS do have diverse interests and agendas, but there are pathways that connect us. It is the task of ASIS to blaze these trails and bring us together in new and creative ways.
Bar-Hillel, Y. (1957). "A Logician's Reaction to Recent Theorizing on Information Search Systems." American Documentation, 8(1-4), 103-113.
Bush, V. (1945). "As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), 101-108.
Garfield, E., Sher, I. H., & Torpie, R. J. (1964). The Use of Citation Data in Writing the History of Science. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information.
Kessler, M. M. (1963). "Bibliographic Coupling between Scientific Papers." American Documentation, 14, 10-25.
Kuhn, T.S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 178.
Merton, R. K. (1965). On the Shoulders of Giants. New York: The Free Press.
Price, D. J. D. (1965). "Networks of Scientific Papers." Science, 149, 510-515.
Schiminovich, S. (1971). "Automatic Classification and Retrieval of Documents by Means of a Bibliographic Pattern Discovery Algorithm." Information Storage and Retrieval, 6, 417-435.
Small, H. (1992). "Cogitations on Co-citations." Current Contents, #10, p. 20.
Small, H. (1997). "Comments on Belver C. Griffith, recipient of the 1997 Derek de Solla Price award." Scientometrics, 40(3), 359-362.
Swanson, D. R. (1987). "Two Medical Literatures That Are Logically but Not Bibliographically Connected." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38(4), 228-233.
Wilson, E.O. (1998) Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapt. 5.4
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Study Club
I don't know if you are into it or not, but the NCAA basketball tournament is in full swing. My Gators play today and I am not really feeling it. But, as you know, what happens before the tourney doesn't matter. You could get hot at the right time and next thing you know, you are National Champions. Last year, VCU was in a "play-in" game and three weeks later they were in the Final Four. I can only dream. Our game is at 2:10 today. I can tell you that after 2pm today, productivity is going to go way down here.
I watched a foreign film last night called Kinky Boots. When I first started watching it, I wondered, "What the heck was I thinking putting this movie on my queue?" But I watched it and I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was really good.
I belong to the local chapter of the Seattle Study Club here in Orlando. I have been in a bunch of study clubs, but when I go to this one, I am a bit intimidated. I have been through all the Pankey Continuums, but I have to admit that I have lost some of it. There are some prosthodontists there and some big wigs of Orlando. These guys are good.
There was a meeting yesterday, and there wasn't much going on. It was just two of the members getting together and giving a case presentation. One of them had been a Kois instructor and one is presently a Spear instructor. They described what they do for a new patient exam. I do a lot of the same things on my NPE: perio, occlusion, decay, TMJ. But they are doing it with a lot more pizzazz. Their diagnosis is so much more complicated.
Here is my thing: I will do all this examining and most people will be okay. I think out of the last four people I have done a NPE on, there was a need for three fillings...TOTAL. They all have good occlusion, good perio, good everything. They were fine.
What if the next person comes in and they are a train wreck? You ask them what their chief complaint is and they say they want their teeth bleached. This is the fork is in the road. Some dentists will say, "Do you want the in-office bleach or the take home?" And some dentists will try to "turn this ship around," so to speak.
Everyone that comes out of a Spear course or a Kois course or a Pankey Continuum is pumped about "turning ships around." But after 50 of the 50 ships look at you like you are crazy, you start to think you are crazy. You can't help but start to shy away from this type of dentistry. (Meanwhile, you had 50 people come to you that heard you were awesome and now only 10 of them still come to you and the other 40 say, "He was crazy, he wanted to do something like $25,000 worth of dentistry on me, when I went in there for bleaching trays.")
At the case presentation presented yesterday, a lady came in with worn anterior occlusion and wanted to fix her anterior esthetics. They did a full work up. This type of case is pretty easy.Patient wants it, you do it. Crown lengthening, bone grafts, implants, temps; she had beautiful crowns when she was done.
How many people come in, nowadays, that are looking for "All the kids are gone and I want to take care of myself" type of dentistry? Not many for me anymore. I find myself doing "meat and potatoes" dentistry, trying to find my niche in conservative dentistry. Meanwhile, the next person that needs "a new smile" won't hear about me because I no longer have that reputation. The beginning skills I had in doing Spear- and Kois-type dentistry have diminished enough to where I get a little scared doing this type of dentistry. Maybe I don't know enough to treat this person right. Am I making sense?
But the take away I got was that these people are in my practice. The 40-year-old person with extremely worn anterior dentition doesn't even know they need a full-mouth rehab. They trust me but don't even know what is going on in their mouth. I am going to start taking photos of these people to at least let them know what is going on. This is where I am going to start. No pressure on me. Just letting them know. I at least feel comfortable doing that. For now.
Have a great weekend.
4 comments:
- Mary Lynn said...
Hi John, Congrats on the Gators beating VA!! I am in the local Seattle Study club here. It really is great for keeping me up to speed on Comprehensive Treatment Planning, just like you said. One thing we do, that is a conversation starter with patients, is take four photos during the New Patient Exam: Full Face Shot, Smile Photo, Upper Occlusal and Lower Occlusal. Then we upload those into the chart, so the patient can see those full screen size on the monitor in their hygiene room. More often than not, the Patient points our the worn dentition and asks for it to be addressed. Have a great weekend. Go Heels! Mary Lynn
- March 17, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Mary Lynn said...
Hi John: Congrats on the Gators beating VA! I am a member of the local Seattle Study Club here. Just like you said, it really keeps me up to speed on Comprehensive Treatment Planning. One thing we picked up from Study Club and added to our NPE is that take 4 photos: full face, smile photo, upper and lower occlusal. We then upload these into the patient chart, so the patient can view these on the monitor full screen size. More often than not, the patient asks for worn dentition to be treated. Have a great weekend. Go Heels!
- March 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM
It is a fine line when it comes to full mouth reconstruction. I see a lot of this stuff that was done 5-10 years ago fall apart again. Lucky for me I was not the one who did it. Unless they really want it, need it and understand what needs to be done, I don't do those case. Without religious night guard wear those bruxism case will fall apart. People have short memory and tend to forget the importance of wearing the guard because the damage is not immediate when they don't wear it.
I cannot count the times people tell me their old dentist smoothed off an anterior chip for them, but he must have done something wrong cause it chipped again. Then I tell them they are grinding and need t wear a night guard or it will chip again after I smooth it.
- March 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM
- stephen murray said...
I think taking photographs is a great way to explain things going on in the mouth for patients that aren't aware there's a problem to begin with.
Whenever you put the picture on the screen (and our screens are 9 years old and small, never mind some dentist that has a 40" monitor), the patient almost always goes "wow" and then says "are those my teeth?".
I was at a lecture a couple of years ago by Sverker Toreskog, a well known dentist in Europe, reflecting on 50 years of dental practice and he started off the lecture by saying the one thing he would do differently if he lived his life over again was "I would take more photographs".
- March 19, 2012 at 6:09 PM
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The Sun, Ebury street - thanks Vincent
This London history site will only get better, and bigger. It currently uses pubs and their history, most are now closed, as landmarks. p>
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This is the 1818 Johnstones London commercial guide which also includes a little pub history detail.
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Length 125 yards. No. of Houses 23.
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What I am now attempting to achieve is the coverage of an earlier London
street directory in 1832. This is unique, plus
images of the 1842 Robsons directory which confirm earlier entries and also
carry much more trade detail about a premises or person. Here is the index of streets in 1832, many with
1842 imagery added.
And next is the complete 1840 London street directory - this will take some months to complete, so bear with me!
London pub history directory.
London Street Listings in 1832.
London street listings in 1842
London Street Listings in 1818 - mainly A and B.
London public houses in 1833 Pigots.
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Some small-town newspapers in the conservative rural South shy away from stirring up ghosts of the past. Not the weekly Concordia Sentinel and editor Stanley Nelson.
Articles by Matthew Barnidge
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In a connection from New York City, to New Orleans, the Cosa Nostra mafia organization, that was allied with U.S. Sen. Huey P. Long and later Gov. Earl K. Long, monopolized and capitalized on corruption in Louisiana like never before. This brought in a hoard of gambling and prostitution that invaded every corner of Louisiana.


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In this era of foolproof digital cameras, ever-ready smartphone cameras and viral videos, anyone and everyone can be a photographer or videographer.
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Wedding budgets are tight for many couples, so it's important they keep a financial focus solely on the truly talented wedding documentarians, not just whomever offers up the best deal.
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Linda Chervenak Maze, a wedding photographer at Art of Affection photography in Gainesville, Fla., says that most of her company's clients spend about $2,000 to $3,000 on their services, a little higher than the nearly $1,700 average most couples paid in 2012 for a photographer, according to The Wedding Report, which also put the average cost for a videographer in 2012 at slightly more than $1,000. Maze says she's noticed that while couples cut costs at all corners, photography is one of the expense categories that has retained its momentum. "Their photographers are the one part of the day that they will be able to share with family and friends for the rest of their lives, and this concept seems to be helping our business maintain its value," Maze says.
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Whether you've committed to a videographer and photographer or are still whittling down your choice, focus on the packages and options that will truly capture the magic of the day. Figueroa says his Recap service is his most popular – it's a four- to five-minute highlight reel of the day's most memorable moments. An option like this keeps the price more affordable and the video more to-the-point.
Freedline also notes that short-form videos are a more popular and modern option, although older family members tend to favor feature-length wedding videos. "[Parents] feel cheated if they end up with a seven-hour event that is over in three to five minutes," Freedline says.
For photography, Maze says she's noticed a trend in "first look" photographs, or photos that document the pre-wedding festivities, like putting on the dress and getting hair and make-up done. This allows photographers to get more artistic shots and calms the nerves of the bride, who might find these snapshots encouraging.
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Injury-related news is in the forefront for today in Port St. Lucie, with eyes on Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana and Ike Davis.
Mejia is scheduled to throw today for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery last May. Kid gloves will be the treatment, Mejia making 15 tosses off the slope of the mound and the catcher stationed well in front of the plate.
Mejia, obviously, is a long way from being ready with no timetable for his return. Patience must be the key with Mejia, something the Mets have not displayed with him in the past.
The Mets clearly did Mejia a disservice by bringing him up two years ago to work out of the bullpen. That decision was made by Jerry Manuel, who was thinking about his then shaky job security first. Also to blame was GM Omar Minaya, who gave in to Manuel despite the best interests for Mejia was to work in the minor leagues.
Regarding Santana, manager Terry Collins said he expects Santana to be ready for Opening Day. Maybe he was overcome by the Florida sun, but it's pointless to make such projections. Santana has already experienced setbacks.
As it is, he's on his own rehab program for a shoulder injury that traditionally has been difficult to rehab. The Mets have always been poor when it comes to announcing return dates for injured players, with a list that includes Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Duaner Sanchez, Pedro Martinez, Ryan Church any others.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, anything out of Santana is a bonus. It's best not to expect anything. (That's why Scott Kazmir will work out for the team tomorrow).
Davis returned to New York for additional testing after an abnormality was found in his physical. Collins said it wasn't related to his ankle injury and Davis should be in camp today. I never like the sound of that. The last time I remember a player being summoned for additional tests, Reyes was diagnosed with his thyroid ailment.


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My quarterly cocktail column for Edible Rhody starts in the latest issue, which is hitting stands this week. I should be able to post the full content next month, but for now, I urge anyone local to go out, grab a copy, and grab a croissant from Olga's or a hunk of cheese from Farmstead while you're at it.
The focus of the column is on using seasonal, local ingredients in cocktails. Each column will have two recipes–one that I mix and one from a local bartender. Trust me, my focus will always be on classical techniques and interesting spirits. There's already enough vodka flowing in Rhode Island! Just to hint at what's to come, it looks like my winter submission will be the Tom & Jerry, made from locally produced milk and eggs.


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Annual Christmas parade returns to Gregg Street
What do you get when you mix Santa Claus with the good ol' red, white and blue? This year's Big Spring Herald Community Christmas Parade.The parade, which "heralds" the start of the Christmas season in this area, will celebrate its 25th anniversary next Saturday.The theme for the this year is "A Star Spangled Christmas," and several floats adorned with patriotic themes are expected, organizers said.The parade, which first wound its way down Gregg Street in 1986, will again be a lighted parade. And this year's parade will return to almost its original route, now that Gregg Street construction efforts have been completed.Plans call for the route to begin lining up as it has traditionally done and the procession will begin at the intersection of 24th and Gregg Streets, proceed north on Gregg to Eighth Street, turn east one block before turning north and proceeding to Heart of the City Park on Scurry Street.The parade is set to begin at 5:30 p.m.


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What to see in Champagne Country
Champagne Country Attractions
Unsurprisingly, the most popular thing to do in Champagne Country is drink champagne. However, the region has plenty to offer visitors and the attractions are varied. Champagne Country is interesting from a military history perspective and has many military monuments, museums and battlefields. Despite heavy bombing of the cities during World War II, there is also still some quality medieval architecture to be found.
Tourists should head for Epernay and Reims to sample the best bubbly on offer in the region. Epernay hosts many of the great champagne houses and visitors can tour the cellars of both Moët et Chandon and Mercier. In Reims the Maison de Pommery, Mumm and Verve Clicquot, among others, wait to entertain guests. Both of these cities, though ancient, have suffered from wartime destruction and now seem industrial and modern. However, they do have some gems for the historical sightseer, like the magnificent Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims, where dynasties of French monarchs were crowned.
The quaint and well-preserved old town of Troyes, which dates back to the Roman era, gives visitors an idea of how the grand cities of the region must once have looked. It is jam-packed with picturesque old buildings and interesting museums, as well as several incredible churches.
Amiens is a good base from which to explore the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of World War I. Possibly the best place from which to explore battle sites in the Champagne Country is the industrial town of Chateau-Thierry, where the surrounding countryside has borne witness to great battles during both World Wars. Here visitors can explore the WWI Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and the Belleau Wood battlefield, among other moving sites.
Amiens is the ancient capital of Picardy and lies on the River Somme, 75 miles (121km) north of Paris and 65 miles (105km)…
Château-Thierry is an industrial town 55 miles (89km) east of Paris on the River Marne. The surrounding countryside…
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Although their traditional market was never again the same, a new market for illustration - especially 'realistic' illustration - was growing by leaps and bounds: paperback cover art. And that market had an almost insatiable appetite for new illustrations.
Even in the early 1950s, the paperback publishers were putting 1,200 new titles on the stands each year, according to a 1953 Fortune magazine article. That's 1,200 new illustration assignments per year, and the numbers only got bigger a decade later.
No surprise then that quite a few magazine illustrators had already made paperback cover art a regular part of their income during the '50s (and some even during the '40s).
In "The Book of Paperbacks" author Piet Schreuders documents the pay rates for cover art over this period. "The normal fee for a single cover was $100 - 125 around 1945," writes Schreuders.
"In the '50s, prices ranges from $200 to $250, although the really big names (Avati at Signet, Tom Dunn at Pocket Books, Ben Stahl at Bantam) received $500 - $1,000."
What's so interesting for me about that statement is that there were a few - not many, but a few - illustrators in the paperback market of the 1950s who could make as much per painting as they would doing mainstream magazine illustration.
For the others (the majority) the price Schreuders documents jibes well with what Mitchell Hooks described to me when I interviewed him a few years ago. Mitchell told me that covers went for about $300 when he began painting them in the early 50's...
... and that as a member of the Graphic Artists Guild he worked to encourage publishers to pay better rates. After a few years, the average cover was going for $800.
In a small press publication from 1988 called "Paperback Parade," Hooks told interviewer/editor Gary Lovisi, "I sure never got rich doing covers, but it paid the rent."
Continued Hooks, "For about 15 or 20 years that's all I did. There wasn't much other work around."
When I asked Harry Borgman about his experience in paperback cover art he wrote back, "I did a few paperbacks from 1965 to 1973, probably a total of 12 or 15. For most of them I was paid $900, the first ones were a bit lower."
And Will Davies, with whom I shared studio space in Toronto, did over 500 covers for Harlequin Romance over the course of a quarter century. When Will began painting them in the early '70s "they started out at about $800 or $900 but gradually we got the price up to where it ought to have been: around $2,500 each."
Will did two or three covers a month - every month. That's not a bad gig if you can get regular assignments like Will did.
Original illustration art dealer, Mitch Itkowitz represents the work of many artists who did paperback covers. Mitch told me, "I think Max Ginsburg, back when he was still in the PB market, wanted to sell his cover paintings for what he was paid. At that time, in the late 80's/early 90's, it was in the $2000-2500 range."
And when I previously wrote about paperback cover rates in 2008, I asked my friend René Milot how much he has been paid in recent years for book covers.
René told me that he had received as much as $5,000 for a cover from a major publisher... but that price had actually dropped in recent years. As of that writing, $2,500 once again was more typical.
But here's the fascinating thing: if we take $2,500 and, with the help of our handy online calculator, reverse-adjust it for inflation into 1950s dollars, it comes to...
... Mitchell Hooks' $300 cover rate from 1952.
* Many thanks to Mitch Itkowitz for the Mitchell Hooks original art scan directly above. This piece is currently available at graphiccollectibles.com
* Many thanks to my Flickr friend, Uilke (AKA UK Vintage) for allowing me to use many of his cover scans in today's post. Visit Uilke's Flickr archives to see thousands of stunning vintage paperback covers


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- Enjoy bigger, better photos - Your photos take on new life on the iPad. They're big, high-res and easy to flip through—like a real photo album.
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I'll make a confession right now. I've gone to the Dark Side.
I bought an iPod.
After six years of rockin' the Dell DJ, I caved into the persistent and ubiquitous iPod marketing and bought an inferior MP3 player that blatantly tries to turn you into a captive consumer.
It's pretty, that cannot be argued. But the iPod is far from flexible.
I mean, iTunes is the only way to put music onto it? Really? And the files aren't ".mp3" Come on.
I really have to buy a $30 adapter if I want to plug it into the wall?
Wow. I just got scammed. And I'm actually enjoying it a little bit. I like walking around feeling like everyone else now. Let's go get McDonald's after our Starbucks coffee and bash on Barack Obama! Well alright! I love being fiscally conservative! Go unbridled consumerism!
I can now wear those white earphones proudly, displaying my social status. I don't have to cringe when people ask about my "iPod" and I have to respond using the noun "MP3 player."
I thought years ago: Man, I know I'm a consumer but I'll find an intelligent alternative to the iPod. Surely, I won't get sucked into the marketing and hype. I was wrong.
And now I am confused and wallowing in a feeling that isn't quite buyer's remorse.
Having gone through this conversion, I'm now staring straight at another paradigm shift that I'm not looking forward to.
Becoming a LeBron James fan is something I dread. But it's pretty much inevitable, isn't it?
Who else can the NBA marketers bank on? Dwyane Wade really came on strong a year or so ago. He won a ring playing "selfless" ball next to Shaquille O'Neal. He's a smooth dresser, a nice guy and has a great smile.
But sadly, D-Wade is about to go the way of Penny Hardaway and Grant Hill. I can't even remember the last time I saw him play 10 consecutive games. I'm sure that you can't either and that's very alarming.
So where does the NBA find another incredible athlete that is a winner and knows how to work the cameras?
Carmelo Anthony, the Larry Bird to LeBron's Magic Johnson, needs some time to clean up his image problems.
Kobe Bryant's image is probably too tainted at this point. He's also a bit old and his name is a bit tired at this point.
Chris Paul never gets on TV. He's a pretty boy though so look for cameramen to key onto him in the playoffs.
Tim Duncan is great. But he's old and watching his game is like staring at Mount Rushmore at noon. It's cool but kinda boring and I don't like how his thumbs are upturned when he runs.
So what's an NBA to do?
Witness LeBron.
Over the years, I've turned into a big Allen Iverson fan and I now enjoy watching Kobe Bryant play. But for some reason, the thought of enjoying LeBron repulses me.
I dislike him for a few reasons.
His Hype
I've heard the name "LeBron James" for almost a decade now. Much like Greg Oden, the media has surrounded this kid since his early high school days.
Do you know anyone that is a late adopter in the iPod consumer bell curve? Those people will never be impressed. In the same sense, I'm not really all that impressed with LeBron James. Nor am I impressed with Oden but that's another story…
A microcosm of the LeBron hype machine is his nickname, "The King." It says it all. He was crowned at a young age and he won't be dethroned until a clear heir emerges.
His Game
Broadcasters love to marvel at LeBron's game. I know he's talented, athletic and incredibly strong. But is his game really that marvelous at this point?
The man's go-to move is essentially a fullback dive. He puts his head down, covers up the ball and runs for daylight. LeBron can get called for charging twice each time down the court.
Up until the last month or so, his outside shot was atrocious. He seems to be knocking down longballs with more ease now but he's still streaky at best.
LeBron's got very good court vision but he's really not that great of a passer yet. LeBron gets assists but he forces shots like a half-Irish guy on St. Patrick's Day.
One of my college roommates was in the Ohio Catholic conference that LeBron's St. Vincent-St. Mary's belonged to. He told me that LeBron was incredible live but he would cherry pick for 3/4 of the game. I imagine it was like watching Leandro Barbosa play.
If LeBron had the letter "D" in his name, I would make another fairly obvious observation. But I digress.
His Facial Expressions
Damon Jones is definitely rubbing off on LeBron. Both are continually snarling throughout the game. The difference is that Jones does it while sitting next to the Gatorade. LeBron, why are you so mad? Big Z did all the work for you by giving you an incredible outlet pass. You're up by 20 and no one contested your dunk. Why are you snarling?
He looks like Wolf "The Dentist" Stansson out there.
There are few certainties in life. One is that I was eventually supposed to buy an iPod. The second is that I will eventually become a LeBron James fan.
I'll do it but I won't enjoy it.


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Liverpool v Oldham Athletic
FA Cup Third Round, Anfield, Friday, 6th January, 20:00 KO.
Jamie Carragher is in contention to feature after falling down the pecking order at Anfield recently, with Kenny Dalglish set to give 'fringe' players their chance against the Latics.
Steven Gerrard is also tipped to feature on the road-to-recovery from his ankle infection, whilst Luis Suarez will miss out again as part of his eight-match ban.
Oldham boss Paul Dickov has Shefki Kuqi back in contention up-front, although Matt Smith will be hoping to get the nod again after scoring on Monday.
On loan Luca Scapuzzi, Tom Adeyemi and Nathan Clarke are all expected to be available.
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Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has confirmed a handful of first team regulars will be rested for tonight's FA Cup third round clash against Oldham.
The Latics travel to Anfield off the back of Monday's Npower League One draw at Chesterfield, with Paul Dickov's side stuck in mid-table and seven points off the play-off places.
And, whilst 'King Kenny' insists the Reds will not be taking their lower-league opponents lightly, he's hoping to give some of the 'fringe' players a chance to impress on Merseyside.
"The FA Cup has been undermined in many ways and in many quarters, for varying reasons. But we certainly won't ever undermine it," Dalglish told the official Liverpool website.
"It's a competition that's there to be won so we'll go into the Oldham game with the same attitude and desire as we went into the Carling Cup. The Carling Cup is something people have done the same with - undermined and undervalued.
"But we went about our job as well as we possibly could and we've got our reward for that. We've always said how strong the squad is and maybe it's an opportunity for us to give the people in that squad the gratitude they deserve by giving them an opportunity to start the game, but that's not to say we're undermining or being disrespectful in any way.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Bu$ine$$ of Illu$tration: Books
"Prices vary somewhat with different publishers. One practice that may cause an artist trouble is that of offering an over-all fixed price for a jacket or book illustration regardless of its complexity or the amount of preliminary work required."
"There is considerable prestige and publicity in bookjacket and book-illustration work, particularly the latter, because the title page of the book gives credit to the artist. Artists should always sign jackets, and many publishers repeat the artist's name on the jacket's inside flap."
Recently, Mitchell Hooks explained to us that paperback covers went for about $300 when he began doing them in the early 50's and that as a member of the Graphic Artists Guild he worked to encourage publishers to pay better rates. After a few years, the average cover was going for $800.
Harry Borgman, who painted the cover below, told me the following from his own experience illustrating book covers:
"I did a few paperbacks from 1965 to 1973, probably a total of 12 or 15. For most of them I was paid $900, the first ones were a bit lower."
This is not an area I have any experience with, so I asked my friend René Milot how much he has been paid in recent years for book covers. René tells me that he has received as much as $5,000 for a cover from a major publisher... but that price has actually dropped in the last few years. $2,500 to $3,500 is now more typical, as publishers, like all purveyors of 'analog' media, struggle with diminished markets in a digital world. Still, compared to other traditional areas of illustration, I'd say that not only do books remain a safe-haven for literal, painterly illustrators, they also seem to pay relatively well.
Children's book publishing is another market that seems to continue to provide opportunities for the artist. While financial success in children's books can be hit-and-miss, those shortcomings might be offset by the potential for personal expression and artistic experimentation.
Rodewald writes, "Very frequently, especially in the case of children's books, a publisher will offer the artist a share of the royalties on the book. A contract also provides for an advance against royalties ranging from a few to several hundred dollars, depending on the estimated sales of the book."
"The royalty is based on a percentage of the wholesale price of the book, and of this the artist will get his percentage, which varies depending on the arrangement between the author and artist. Sometimes, when the art work in a children's book is as essential as the text, the artist is viewed as a collaborator, and the royalty rate is split between artist and author on equal or near equal terms."
"The rates of royalties in book work, as well as flat fees, differ widely from case to case, and each must be judged on its merits."
*Once again I must sing the praises of 5m@5hYdez, whose paperback cover archives are a visual feast the likes of which cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
* Thanks also to Harry Borgman and René Milot for providing information for this post.
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We stumbled upon a remaindered copy of Journey Cake, Ho! back in the '80s and bought it on the strength of McCloskey's illustrations. It became one of my kids' and my favorite books.ReplyDelete
Sounds much like my own experience, j auclair - that spread I showed here with the leaping cow just bowled me over!ReplyDelete
(But I'm a McCloskey fan from waaaay back anyway)
- Joe Jusko12:34 PM
Bob Abbett is one of my favorite paperback illustrators ever!!! Just and incredible and often overlooked talent!ReplyDelete
you'll love 5m@5hdez's Bob Abbett flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grrl8trax/sets/72157602976281905/
Ha! I happen to have a copy of that "Guardians of the Gate" paperback from about 30 years ago.ReplyDelete
Royalties are nice.
From friends of mine who illustrated covers in the 80's, I got the impression that that was last era when cover assignments were prestigious. By the time the 90s rolled in, mergers had taken place, and the market really dwindled. Publishers who put out 75 titles a year would merge with another company who had similar output, but when they formed the new company, instead of 150 titles going out, there would be 85. There is a lot of competition for those 85 slots!ReplyDelete
The bright side is that the need for the art isn't going away. A few years back Avon Nova books shut down to "remake" themselves. When they came back as Avon Eos books, they had done away with cover art, and had replaced it with abstract designs created by staff members on the computer. Their sales were awful. They quickly scrambled and hired artists to do new covers and re-released the books, and sales picked up again. Unfortunately, I don't think Avon Eos pays more than $2000 a cover, since all of their books are reprints, and they try to keep costs down.
I have friends who have done 500 covers between the two of them and who turned down work in the 80s because they had too much to do, but could not get a single cover by the beginning of this century. They ended up leaving illustration.
Young Adult books are probably a better genre to work in than most. There always seems to be a lot of YA books on the shelves.
Romance pays probably the best, from what I've heard, because artists aren't eager to do the assignments (they get sick of the same old clinches painting after painting).
The best place to be, to me, is writing and illustrating your own children's books. You get paid for both job titles, have more control over your work, and the potential income is better. (ask James Gurney or Tony DiTerlizzi).
Murray Tinkleman, who was one of my illustration teachers, now offers a graduate program in CT, but the emphasis has changed in the class. Students are taught to be entrepreneurs and to generate their own work now that the field has changed so much.
Illustration ain't so golden anymore.
Re: Innisart's comment: and yet go into your local Chapters or similar and the amount of illustration on book covers is remarkable. Not all to my taste, but the field seems healthy enough.ReplyDelete
Re: that earlier post with the photo of the group could be right out of Madmen!
All the Nearly Anonymous artwork is great. We have all flipped through old magazines marvelling at such stuff, but kudos to you for taking it all to the next level by spotlighting all these guys and diging up all the extra info.
Keep up the good work.
innisart; thanks for your insightful overview of the recent developments in the book industry - I'm sure that's extremely helpful information for a lot of young artists coming up, not to mention those who are making a living (or trying to) in the business today.ReplyDelete
Children's books are, to me, a huge gamble. The investment in time is massive, and when you finally successfully get a book into the marketplace, its almost like winning the lottery if you actually get noticed and start selling any kind of volume.
Of course if you DO get noticed, the rewards can be huge - case in point, your examples.
A little late, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents regarding Children's Books...ReplyDelete
At ICON5 this year Leonard Marcus spoke about the field of Children's Book illustration (http://theillustrationconference.org/sessions.html#whatdo), and had a lot of insightful information... there's still a lot of work to be had in this subgenre - and the best way to get noticed is to create, write, and illustrate your own book!
Leif, I agree that it's a lot of work, and not every illustrator has an idea for a kid's book... but the payoff isn't so much in the sales, but in the notice you'll get from editors and publishers.. who will then send work your way on other projects.
The thing is that editors are constantly bombarded with submissions... writers' stories that need artists and vice versa... if you can give them the whole package - writing and illustration - so all they have to do is layout, and send to the printers... it's less of a risk for the publisher. Or better yet, do the graphic design and print it yourself - if you have the tools and know-how!


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Dayton hears about smoking border battle
MOORHEAD — Frank Orton made sure Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton understands problems he faces in competing against North Dakota stores.
"Minnesota must not adopt a tax policy that makes our businesses unable to compete," Orton wrote in a letter to Dayton in connection with a Monday night Moorhead town hall meeting. "At times those of us on the Minnesota-North Dakota (line) feel like we are playing with the deck completely stacked against us. At some point the economics will be as such that we just quit playing the game."
Orton, followed by Dale Erickson of Henry's Foods in Alexandria, said a Dayton cigarette tax increase proposal threatens border city stores. Orton said the smokers will go to Fargo and buy not only their cigarettes, but drinks, food and car washes.
"Minnesotans could drive across the bridge to Fargo and buy their cigarettes for $18 less per carton," Erickson warned Dayton.
Erickson and Orton were among the few who challenged Dayton's proposals. They mostly were critical of taxes that place Minnesotans at a disadvantage to lower-tax North Dakota.
Orton said many of the 15 northern Minnesota convenience stores he owns would be hurt if Dayton gets his way and Minnesota cigarette taxes go up. The two he owns on the North Dakota border compete with stores just inside North Dakota that charge 79 cents less tax per pack.
Other stores in the Walker area, near the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, face stores on the reservation that sell Seneca cigarettes with no local taxes, he said, "them giving them an enormous pricing advantage."
Minnesota charges $1.23 a pack tax and Dayton said he proposed raising it 94 cents because of the health benefits. Supporters say it would help reduce smoking, and thus reduce health care costs the state pays.
Erickson, whose business employees 185 people, said Interstate 94 "will become a black market highway" as cigarettes taxed at a lower North Dakota rate come to Minnesota. "There is no way to trace the cigarettes."
Dayton promised if the black market is a problem, he will make sure state officials crack down.
Most voices at Dayton's town hall meeting at Minnesota State Community and Technical College campus supported his initiatives.
His budget and outlines presented by Senate and House Democrats, who control the Legislature, call for spending about $38 billion in the next two years.
They would raise taxes more than $2 billion to finance the budget, although legislators' plans do not detail how they would increase taxes.
Dayton wants to increase income taxes for individuals with $150,000 in annual taxable income and $250,000 for couples.
He also would raise the tobacco tax, but dropped his proposal to add the sales tax to most services.
Just one person questioned the Dayton income tax increase.
Dayton already has met with the public in Duluth and plans a 6 p.m. meeting tonight at St. Cloud City Hall as well as one in Rochester next week.
In Moorhead, several of the 135 people attending praised Dayton for his work on education.
"I want to thank you for your support of education in general," said Clyde Allen, a University of Minnesota regent and former state finance commissioner.
He especially thanked Dayton for supporting the university's effort to stabilize tuition.
Dayton pointed out he has managed to increase education funding despite budget deficits.
The governor said 65,000 Minnesota jobs are not filled because people do not have education that businesses need.
A college student complained a higher minimum wage Dayton supports could drive restaurants to Fargo.
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Multicultural Festival Features Lectures, Food• March 29, 2007 Share:
Wabash College is in the midst of a celebration of cultures — all cultures — and invites the public to participate in all of the events.
"We organized this panel to focus especially on the rapidly growing population of Hispanic immigrants in Central Indiana," said Wabash Philosophy Professor Cheryl Hughes, one of the organizers of the multicultural activities. "According to the Indianapolis Monthly (November 2006), for example, the Hispanic population of Indianapolis now ranks as the fifth-fastest-growing of all US metro areas with more than 50,000 Latinos living in Marion County. Current estimates are that 4% of all Indiana residents were born outside the U.S. (about 240,000 people), and almost half of those immigrants come from Mexico."
"I think this will be an interesting program for people in the larger Crawfordsville and Montgomery County community."
The following Monday, April 9, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jorge Bustamante (photo left) will come to Wabash for a lecture on Immigration and Human Rights at 8:00 p.m., also in Lovell Lecture Room of Baxter Hall.
Bustamante is the Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a native of Tijuana who earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Notre Dame in 1970 and 1975 and he has been a member of the faculty there since 1986. He is author of numerous studies on Mexican-origin residents of the U.S. and the sociology of the border region, and he will be coming to Wabash from a semester in San Diego where he has been involved in research on U.S.- Mexico border issues.
In 2006, Mexico's Congress nominated Bustamante for the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of human and labor rights for immigrants. He has been hailed as a leading expert in the field of international migration. He has served as an advisor to the governments of Mexico, the United States, and Canada for the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission and the Joint Public Advisory Committee set up after the institution of NAFTA, and he currently serves as UN Special Rapporteur for the human rights of migrants.
Other events during the Multicultural Festival include:
A Visiting Artists Series event featuring Lucia Pulido in concert is set for Friday night, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. in Salter Hall of the Fine Arts Center. Wabash's Unidos por Sangre organization will be serving carne asada before the concert outside the Fine Arts Center.
On Tuesday, April 3, Wabash's various language clubs will be sponsoring a social hour that will feature ethnic foods from around the world. The tasting will be held in Detchon Center's International Hall from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.
Stephen Buckley, the managing editor of the St. Petersburg Times will give a talk entitled
"Sex, Lies, and Video: Public Discourse in the Age of the Internet" on Wednesday, April 4. Buckley has also worked for the Washington Post and has held bureau chief positions around the world. His talk will be held at 8:00 p.m. in Baxter Hall's Lovell Lecture Room.
Buckley will also be visiting several classrooms.
One of the Festival's high light events takes place on Friday, April 6, when Unidos por Sangre presents its annual Latin American Festival with a special performance by the Tango Dance group from Purdue and a salsa band from Chicago. The public is invited to the performances and to learn how to salsa dance. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Salter Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
The Faculty Film Committee will screen Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, on Tuesday, April 10. The film will be show in Hays Hall, room 104, at 7:30 p.m. with refreshments and discussion to follow.
Wabash's international performing ensemble, Wamidan, will present a public concert on Wednesday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. in Salter Concert Hall. Wamidan is made up of performers from around the world with dancers from our community and DePauw University.
Finally, on Friday, April 13, international recording artist Syud "Taz" Ahmed will give a recital on the tabla, a south Asian percussion instrument, at 5:00 p.m. in Salter Hall. Taz hails from Bangladesh, where he and his bandmates are rock stars with a hit CD topping the charts.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Sugar Cane and Nevella: Unrelated Stories
Upon entering, we took a hard right into the produce section. Nothing looked too extraordinary, in fact I didn't even see an organic section, but I didn't look too hard because I immediately became distracted by a big brown barrel.....of giant stalks of sugar cane!
What?! Where did these come from and why would anyone want to buy a 7 or 8 foot stalk of sugar cane? I've seen short pieces of sugar cane packaged for sale before, but never sugar cane taller than me. Each stalk was for sale for $2.99. Jeff and I laughed and planned on stopping in to buy some (pure humor factor) on our way out of town, but forgot.
Bloom had a "natural foods" section, basically the same products you'd find at a Whole Foods, so I wandered around there for a minute before perusing the rest of the aisles of the grocery store. On an end cap I noticed a giant yellow bag of sweetener. I'd never heard of it before. "Nevella. No Calorie Sweetener." Hmmm. Of course I was skeptical. I picked up a bag (which weighed as much as a helium balloon) and looked at the ingredients, expecting sucralose, because so far, Splenda and its generic product sucralose, are the only sweeteners that don't weigh a thing.
As you can see, the ingredients are as follows: maltodextrin, sucralose, bacillus coagulans GBI-30-6086
I wouldn't touch this stuff. Why? All above ingredients are manufactured.
MALTODEXTRIN: Let's revisit maltodextrin. It's a product of corn (or wheat, in Europe). It's a food additive produced from corn starch by hydrolysis, into a white powder and is absorbed as quickly as glucose. Basically, it's a sugar you won't find anywhere in nature, and considered a "hidden" sugar. When you look for sugar in an ingredients label, it's easy to pass over this ingredient. (1)
SUCRALOSE: It's 600 times as sweet as table sugar. It is made by chlorinating sugar, and is made up of 50% phenylalanine, 40% aspartic acid, and 10% methyl alcohol. In 1998 it was approved by the US FDA. Then in 2000 safety concerns were raised, including lack of long-term studies. However, according to Wikipedia, "Sucralose is one of two artificial sweeteners ranked as 'safe' by the consumer advocacy group CSPI," not to mention other groups like the USDA, WHO, etc. Personally, I can do without anything artificial. (2)
bacillus coagulans GBI-30-6086: This ingredient was developed by Ganeden Biotech, Inc., who are focused on their probiotic technology. This patented bacteria strain can withstand high temperatures from baking and boiling.
It's interesting how many new sweetener products are on the shelves these days. I can't keep up with them all. However, it seems that most of them contain either sucralose or some product of stevia. Since consumers are demanding "sweet", but "no calories", the market (companies) is supplying that demand. I think artificial sweeteners will be around for a long time....
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin
(2) Get The Sugar Out, p. 56-57
4 comments:
- Alisa said...
My goodness, the amount of sweeteners on the market is really becoming mind-boggling.
I have to admit, I am happy with old favorites like honey and maple syrup.
- April 5, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Ariana Anderson said...
Oh no, maltodextrin is a fake sugar too? That's even in some stevia I've seen. ;(
- April 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Farty Girl said...
Yeah I bought some Nu Naturals stevia and I felt so guilty about the maltodextrin in it. The problem is it really makes a difference in the taste of the stevia.
Do you use stevia at all?
- April 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- My Year Without said...
Alisa-And it seems like the market for sweeteners just keeps growing! I love the old stand-bys, as well.
Ariana-I know, too bad!
Farty-The only stevia I use is a shaker of the ground, dried leaves. It adds a nice sweetness to teas, but I would not bake with it. I have not tried any other stevia product yet, but am interested..... I wouldn't feel too guilty about the maltodextrin. The fact that you're using stevia to begin with is wonderful! And there is probably a tiny/insignificant amount of maltodextrin....?
- April 11, 2010 at 6:40 PM


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A couple of months ago I made a true-type font with about 141 pictures in it instead of characters.
Then I wrote a computer program to convert text files into a simple code I made up that uses the
141 pictures. Some pictures are numbers, punctuation. And for the letters, I have six pictures for
each of the twenty most common letters, and then for the uncommon letters like Z, X, Q, K, V, and J I just
have one picture for each of them. Then I started printing articles of interest I got of the internet in this new code and
practiced reading them. That's why I wasn't on this forum much in March or April.
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igloo myrtilles fourmis
And what were the results? Were you able to read them? And how did you go with more practice?
And lastly, why not post a screenshot of what it looks like.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
The program I wrote makes a text file with the reading going left to right and then right to left on the next line.
So the reading snakes by and forth so you don't have to keep looking back to the beginning of the next line.
I have explicit carriage returns so as to keep this zig-zag order. Then I go and convert the text file to an *.RTF
with a word processor written by a 13 year old, called Text Shield Fusion.
The first letter of a word comes from a certain alphabet of pictures. Then the second letter of a word comes from a different alphabet of pictures. I have six alphabets, so when I get words longer than six letters, then I reverse the order of the alphabets so that the 7th letter of the word uses alphabet six again and it goes:
letter alphabet
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 6
8 5
9 4
10 3
11 2
12 1
13 1
14 2
15 3
After many hours of trying to read in this font, I began to recognize common words like "the" and "and".
The "ing" at the end of a word is different pictures depending how long the word is.
The neat thing about the code is that the usage of each picture is less frequent than our normal 26 letters,
so this 141 picture variety gives the words you read an added "character" or "personality" to memorize.
I really have enjoyed it. At this time, I still struggle to read at a normal pace, but this will come with time I imagine.
I'll get a screen shot shortly...
igloo myrtilles fourmis
Here's a scan of a printout because the printouts come out better than the original font on the screen.
The printer has a better resolution than the screen, but anyhow, you can't make out the details, but
it gives you an idea. Like the third blurry character after the trumpet and the bird is a fingerprint.
Click on picture to enlarge.
igloo myrtilles fourmis
How did you choose what graphics to have?
Yes, very impressive, and looks beautiful, too.
Back and forth, rotating alphabets, that is some code!
Not impossible to decipher, but very hard. Could be used as a code where trained readers would understand far quicker than everyone else.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Thanks for the compliments. I drew all of the tiny drawings on paper myself, even though I'm not an artist, but if I'm careful, I can do okay. I drew different things as I thought them up, with no category in mind. It took most of a day, really to come up with things that I liked and draw them. Then, I redrew them even better after I had categorized them with the letters. The reason behind how I put the random drawings with the letters came down to assigning a family member or relative to each letter of the alphabet and then I chose drawings that had something to do with those people, perhaps years back, just an insignificant memory I had. So anyhow, it was a fun project and if you ever want to make your own font, there are programs on the internet you can use for 30 days to try them out, that's what I did. I think it was called Font Creator, I can't find it because I think I uninstalled it. When I discovered that my printer would print the detail of the fonts at a small font size better than on the screen I was quite happy, and I think if I stick to C,Y,M,K colors, it is even more crisp as these are the colors of the ink before mixing: Cyan, magenta (the pink you saw above), yellow, and K stands for black.
igloo myrtilles fourmis
Here's another three dee code I came up with for the letters of the alphabet.
There are 3^3 positions in the 3-layer tic-tac-toe board.
26 of the 27 positions are filled with letters.
I don't know what this is good for, but hope you like it!! 8-)
igloo myrtilles fourmis
You could make 3d patterns with your name.
Or you could make a 3d pattern and find the word.
Need to fill the 27th position. A "9" ?
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Or you could just leave it as is and make punctuation-free sentences with it, using the last box as a space.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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