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I am always looking for easier, quicker, more efficient ways to do things. I wanted a way to occasionally move a running list around in my TN. In my previous post I talked about this hack briefly but I thought I would take a minute and expand on it. I've taken the large 6 x 8 post it pads and trimmed them to the size of my TN. (See picture of untrimmed red pad and trimmed blue pad). For example I have lists for an upcoming training I am doing (pictured) and I will be referring to these lists a lot in the next few weeks. These lists are from a spreadsheet and I've printed them and cut them down and glued them on to the post its. As training gets closer I'll move them to my calendar pages. For now they are living in my work insert. I made sure to buy the super sticky notes so I know they will stay (which they do). Just another way to my my TN more user friendly.
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Are you planning on traveling with World Class Vacations for a class trip, dance, or culinary event? If you plan on fundraising to help offset some of the costs, here are a few tips and tricks:
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Corbin Bleu is coming to the 'Big Apple'! The Broadway and movie star joined us in New York City for Dance The World Broadway in 2019 and will be back in 2020!
Corbin began appearing on television at the age of two in television commercials. At this young age, he discovered his love for dance when he started taking jazz and ballet classes. Corbin's acting career began after his family moved to Los Angeles and he landed a recurring role on the television series High Incident. From then, Bleu landed multiple small roles in several feature films. Throughout this time Corbin continued to dance. He later became one of the first students at Debbie Allen Dance Academy and eventually attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major. Corbin landed his first lead role in Catch That Kid. Corbin rose to stardom after he landed a major role in the hit Disney High School Musical film series. Corbin Bleu joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars for show's seventeenth season.
Corbin returned to his theatre roots after being cast in the Broadway show In the Heights. Corbin continued to star in Broadway shows like Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical and most recently Kiss Me, Kate.
During Dance The World Broadway Corbin will host each Times Square Performance, teach a masterclass workshop, and take group photos with each dance studio. We're excited to have Corbin Bleu back with us for Dance The World Broadway.
Topics: Celebrity Appearances, Dance The World Broadway, Corbin Bleu
World Dance Competition is truly a competition like no other! Our competition sets itself apart from the rest by taking place at the Walt Disney World® Resort, one of the world's top vacation destinations! Our competition also includes parade performances, celebrity judges, workshops and more! There are over 150 dance competitions to chose from in the United States. Here are a few questions to consider when deciding on which national dance competition to attend.
Topics: Celebrity Appearances, Sharna Burgess, The World Dance Competition, Geo Hubela
Sharna Burgess from Dancing with the Stars on ABC will be joining us for the Dance The World and World Dance Competition events at the Walt Disney World® Resort in 2020.
A native Australian based out of Los Angeles, Sharna Burgess, is a creator, storyteller, choreographer and all-around performer whose work spans theater, film, Broadway, and television.
Burgess began dancing at only five years old. At this young age, she started to train in ballet, jazz, and gymnastics. She began to study ballroom dance at the age of eight. She was chosen to represent Australia at the World Championships in both the Standard and Latin styles and performed in the 2000 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony at only 15 years old.
Once she turned 18, Sharna moved to London where she collected numerous titles and appeared on a UK tour with the show Simply Ballroom. After appearing on Simply Ballroom Sharna toured with Burn the Floor for the next six years and was also apart of the cast once the show moved to Broadway. Sharna Burgess' first television appearances were on the Australian Dancing with the Stars (took out the comma) and So You Think You Can Dance in Belgium and the Netherlands. She joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars on ABC as a troupe member for season 13 in 2011. She also assisted So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Jason Gilkison on both the Australian and American versions of the show. She remained on the Dancing with the Stars troupe until the end of season 15 and became a regular pro on season 16 of the show. While on Dancing with the Stars, her popularity rose very quickly becoming a regular finalist and fan favorite. In 2018, Sharna won her first Mirror Ball Trophy with partner Bobby Bones. In 2019 Sharna joined the judges' panel for Dance with the Stars Australia.
During Dance The World Sharna will warm-up performers at rehearsals, teach a masterclass workshop, and perform at the gala. During World Dance Competition, Sharna will help judge the competition alongside Geo Hubela and David Houde, host a masterclass workshop, and perform at the gala dinner event and awards ceremony.
Topics: Dance The World, Celebrity Appearances, Sharna Burgess, The World Dance Competition
Alex Guarnaschelli
Alex Guarnaschelli will join us in 2020 for Cook Around The World! We are so excited to have this renowned chef as our celebrity guest.
Alex Guarnaschelli grew up in New York City, where she found her love of food at an early age. Her mother was a cookbook editor, and her father is an Italian and Chinese cooking enthusiast. After graduating from Barnard College, Alex began to explore her culinary interests and began working under the acclaimed American chef, Larry Forgione. After being encouraged by her mentor, Alex moved to Burgundy, France, to do a work-study at La Varenne Culinary School. Alex then moved to Paris and began a four-day "stage" at Guy Savory. This four-day "stage" turned into four years. After her four years at Guy Savory, Alex became a sous chef a La Butte Chaillot. After working and living in France for seven years, Alex decided to return home to New York, where she joined Daniel Boulud at his restaurant, Daniel. Alex then became a sous chef at the Manhattan standard. Alex then moved to Los Angeles to join Joachim Splichal's Patina Group, where she worked at the acclaimed Patina, a restaurant on Melrose in West Hollywood. In 2003 Alex became the executive chef at Butter Restaurant in New York City.
Topics: Cook Around The World, Celebrity Appearances, Alex Guarnaschelli
Our second annual Dance The World Broadway event was an even bigger success than last year! Thank you for joining us underneath the city lights in Times Square!
During Dance The World Broadway, performers had the opportunity to dance on a Broadway stage, perform in the middle of Times Square, take celebrity masterclasses and Disney workshops! Many families opted to culminate the event with an NYC skyline dinner/dance cruise.
Topics: New York City, Dance The World Broadway
We are just days away from dance studios making their Broadway debut in New York City! Here are a few reminders to consider before leaving your hometown for the big apple:
Topics: New York City, Dance The World Broadway
Thank you for attending Dance The World and World Dance Competition this summer at the Walt Disney World® Resort! It was an incredible three weeks at the most magical place on Earth! We hope we were able to make all of your dreams come true!
Topics: Dance The World, The World Dance Competition, Geo Hubela, Emma Slater, Sasha Farber
We are currently having a blast at Dance The World 2019! Performers from around the world joined us at the Walt Disney World Resort! Here is everything that has been happening so far:
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Dance The World and World Dance Competition will be here before you know you it. We are just a few weeks away from our events at the Walt Disney World® Resort. Here's a few things to keep in mind before and during your trip to the most magical place on Earth!
Topics: Dance The World, The World Dance Competition, Walt Disney World

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When someone uses a "less than flattering" word to describe you, how do you take it? Generally, if it is harsh or critical most of us take it as an insult, reacting defensively or offensively. The interaction either it ends or escalates at that moment. And the relationship reflects that interaction.
Consider what might happen if instead of reacting in that way when we hear what is said, we stop, take a long breath or two, and think about what that descriptor says about us in the eyes of that person. Perhaps, if we are really open, we may see some truth in the observation even though the delivery and word choice are harsh. If someone calls you stubborn, for instance, what is it they are experiencing with you that causes them to describe you this way? What is it that makes them feel you are being stubborn at that moment? Can you see their point of view? Is there ever a time when you can agree with their assessment (even if it is not at this very moment)? Are there times when your stubbornness is useful? You may think of it as a positive quality such as perseverance or determination but someone else may experience it as intractability or an unwillingness to bend.
Sometimes others become frustrated with our personal attributes and qualities because these qualities impede their ability to connect with us or accomplish what they want or need. They experience us as getting in their way. Consider instead why someone says what they say. Think about it less as an insult, and focus on how that quality can be both positive and negative, depending on whose perspective you take. Try to go beyond the word to solve the problem at hand.
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Oh, and this was last week, so a recent event, with beautifully gentle summer weather. Also coinciding with the night before Eid.
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So here is what we made:
Buttermilk Farro Salad (when farro is $10 for a half a pound, I substitute. I still have not tasted it!) I made some of her substitutions mentioned in this post, and also a few more: no zucchini, but cucumbers, and red onion, yes. And on the buttermilk ranch dressing, without going out for fresh herbs, I used dried thyme and dried dill, in small quantities, since it was enough to give the taste. Yum.
Eggplant with basil, Thai-style. This was Saqib's creation, and so I don't have a link, but it seemed pretty easy - except for the sheer amount of chopping involved and the timing and quantities for sauces added- that looked a bit tricky. Came out very well though, with a hint of kick, but not too much for this wimp. :-)
Soy-glazed sweet potatoes, here. Also pretty easy, although mine cooked up soft and creamy instead of crispy as I expected. And I wouldn't recommend doing the basting thing, since it led to a sticky, baked-on kind of syrup to clean up. I'd just go for it as a dressing next time, since I don't think it added much to do it in the oven. Very good though.


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Within a week of the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, a library surfaced in the midst of the protest. Staffed by volunteers and comprised entirely of donated materials, the People's Library offers books and media to the public, provides basic reference assistance and has built an online catalog of their holdings. In this paper, I analyze the People's Library in terms of larger discussions of libraries, technology and activism. Drawing on personal experiences volunteering at the Library as well as text from the Library's blog, I argue that the People's Library offers two counter arguments to conventional claims about the public library: first, that libraries are being existentially threatened by the emergence of digital technologies and second, that a library's institutional ethics are located solely or predominantly in the content of its collection. Using the People's Library as a kind of conceptual case study, I explore the connections between public libraries, digital technologies and activist ideologies.
The social role of the library
Occupy Wall Street and the People's Library
It has become something of a journalistic pastime to mourn the decline of the library (e.g., Lloyd, 2010; Meyer, 2008; Nichols, 2010). Technology is typically the linchpin in these accounts, with e–books signaling the demise of checking out books and Wikipedia replacing the need for reference work. In order to tell an alternate story of the library, of its necessity in the fabric of daily life in the United States, creative incorporations of emergent technologies and its vibrancy as a space of community interaction, I discuss the growth and popularity of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street [1]. I first present traditional theory on the library as a social institution in the United States, tracing the connections between a library's collection and the values and norms of its local community. I then provide some brief contextual information on the Occupied Wall Street protests currently taking place in New York City and the People's Library, a free public library that has emerged as part of the protest. I combine personal experiences volunteering at the Library with text from the Library's blog to outline connections between libraries and activism, access and learning, texts and protest. In doing so, I hope not only to offer a counter example of the library as an institution on the edge of obsolescence, but to reconsider conceptualizations of how a library comes to reflect local norms and values. Thus two central arguments emerge from this analysis: first, that emergent, digital and participatory technologies are vital for the endurance rather than demise of libraries, and that a library's role in its community should be viewed not necessarily or not only in terms of its collection of texts, but in terms of its policies, including decisions about lending, cataloging and staffing.
The social role of the library
Taken on its own terms, the library as a social institution is in fact something of an oddity. As a librarian quoted in a recent Guardian article pointed out, "If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they'd be considered insane. If you said you were going to take a little bit of money from every taxpayer, buy a whole load of books and music and games, stick them on a shelf and tell everyone, 'These are yours to borrow and all you've got to do is bring them back,' they'd be laughed out of government" (Bathurst, 2011). The absurdity pointed out here is that of providing free resources using public money in a climate where private is always assumed to trump public. Understanding not only the survival of but the affection for and attachment to the public library in the United States has a lot to do with the particular history of libraries as sites of democratic accessibility of materials. It is also partially bound up in the altruism of Andrew Carnegie, whose donations of money to build libraries across the country resulted in a network of public sites that shared architectural styles as well as institutional aims (Library of Congress, 2011). This historical intertwining of class, privilege and patriarchal charity demonstrates the importance of not thinking of the library as either universally beneficial or ideologically neutral, but it also points to the ways in which public libraries in the United States are conceptually linked as having a shared history and shared objectives.
To understand this shared mission of public libraries in the United States more narrowly, we can turn to classic library literature, where Shera (1970) argued that libraries are social agencies that instill community values, ethics and even patriotism. In defining libraries as agencies, Shera meant that they figure as "a social creation, a social instrumentality through which the culture operates, in order to maintain itself" [2]. Shera placed particular emphasis on the library as a form of communication, a focus that has both very pragmatic and more conceptual objectives. On the one hand, he argued that library work requires sophisticated and adept acts of communication, as in reference encounters with patrons (the extent to which communication theory can be applied to reference work has been researched — see Radford, 1999). As well, Shera felt that the library was intricately bound up in projects of social epistemology, or the ways that individuals access, make sense of and perceive information. The library for Shera is a concrete manifestation of and site for social epistemology, where texts and information are meted out to patrons with a specific objective of cultivating better–educated, more socially–aware citizens and community members [3]. In this construction — which has been formative in library science degree programs — collection development, reader advisory and reference assistance are all imbued with the responsibility of reinforcing localized ethics and propriety.
In particular, the library's collection of texts and media are read as a reflection of community norms, ethics and values. When a donor bequeaths books to a library, it is typically assumed that these donations are intended to "creat[e] a public library that respond[s] to and reflect[s] the community's needs and interests, not merely those expressed in public statements and official documents" (Stauffer, 2007). In other words, books are donated to a public library as a specific act of altruism whose value goes beyond the economic and expands into the ethical, such that not only the act of donating but the content of the donated materials is to be read as part of the contributed gift [4]. Some of the most relevant literature for a discussion of the library as a social institution reflecting community norms comes from work on various efforts to contest or censor the collection of a library (e.g., Robbins, 2000). These contestations have taken place for centuries, and typically center on the argument that a text doesn't belong in a library because it violates community norms and exposes community members — particularly children — to unwanted, unacceptable, unreadable materials. It is beyond the scope of this paper to engage substantively with the literature documenting and participating in these debates of library censorship; for my purposes here, I wish only to point out first that public libraries in the United States have a long association of reflecting community values and norms, and second that this reflection is viewed predominantly in terms of the books, music, games and movies brought into the library's collection.
Occupy Wall Street and the People's Library
Having explicated the traditional conceptualization of the library's role(s) in its surrounding community, I want to focus on a specific public library, the People's Library that emerged in the Occupy Wall Street protest. After giving some brief contextual information on Occupy Wall Street and the People's Library, I draw on personal observation of the Library as well as text from the Library blog to describe its origins, collection and policies. From there I turn to a discussion of what can be derived from looking at the People's Library for a larger discussion of libraries, technology and community.
On 13 July 2011, the group Adbusters issued a call for a protest of "redeemers, rebels and radicals" to "flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street" (Adbusters, 2011). From that initial demand for action, Occupy Wall Street began on 17 September in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and spread to over 100 cities globally. I first visited the Occupy Wall Street protest on 23 September. Wandering around Zuccotti Park, I saw people playing chess, debating, sleeping, playing in a drum circle and lots and lots and lots of cardboard signs. I also saw a library in the form of books spread out on a tarp on one of the stone benches in the Northeast corner of the park. A cardboard sign announced it as the "People's Library." At the time, there was no one to ask about the Library's history or intended purpose, but I was curious about its presence, especially within just a few days of the protest's emergence. I went back on 5 October and saw that spreading out books on tarps had been replaced with collecting books in bins. Instead of two or three dozen books, there were perhaps a hundred. There were also librarians, identified with name tags, organizing books into basic categories (classic fiction, foreign language, politics, religion and spirituality). By this point, the library had developed a system for marking books with "OWS" to denote it as belonging to the collection (accessioning, in library terminology). I went back on 7 October and volunteered at the Library for the first time, and have since gone back repeatedly to help out, with tasks ranging from organization to managing donations (collection development) to answering questions (reference encounters) to recommending books (reader advisory). When the New York Police Department raided Zuccotti Park on 15 November 2011, public outcry resulted from the removal and partial destruction of the library [5]. (For an account of the raid and retrieving the books, see Occupy Wall Street Library, 2011.) Since the Park's closure, the People's Library has mobilized to support various OWS actions, creating pop–up libraries and utilizing book mobiles.
As described on the Library's Web site, "the People's Library is the collective, public, open library of the Occupy Wall Street leaderless resistance movement ... The library provides free, open and unrestricted access to our collection of books, magazines, newspapers, 'zines, pamphlets and other materials that have been donated, collected, gathered and discovered during the occupation." According to the Library's Web site, it began early on in the history of Occupy Wall Street, eventually fostering its own working group tasked with the Library's maintenance and policies. The Library's collection is comprised entirely of donated books. Having volunteered at the Library several times, I can attest to how this typically works — people stop by with bags of books and magazines. When Zuccotti Park was reopened on the afternoon of 15 November, I watched as the Library steadily grew to 200 books within the first few hours of park access. (This collection was later removed by the New York Police Department. Ever since the 15 November raid, the Library has been subject to rules about not creating "permanent structures" in the park.)
Speaking anecdotally, a common response from visitors to Occupy Wall Street upon seeing the Library (especially in the initial weeks of the protest, before it gained a degree of public awareness) was to display a degree of enthusiastic amusement, but also confusion. Some were curious as to the Library's policies, but others were on a much more fundamental level curious about its existence at all. On the People's Library Web site, a librarian described her response to this kind of inquiry: "One of my least favorite questions ... is, 'WHY IS THERE A LIBRARY?' To this I say, 'Why is there a food station?' These are basic necessities ... THERE IS A LIBRARY BECAUSE WE ARE HERE AND KNOWLEDGE IS NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL" (Marisa, 2011; emphasis in original). There are a number of tensions and assumptions going on in Marisa's text. For one, we see a construction of libraries as a "basic necessity," as something that protesters require as much as tarps, food and sleeping bags. There is a further connection being made between libraries and knowledge, tapping into conventions of libraries and activist causes. Before moving on to a more in–depth discussion of the role of education and technology at the People's Library, I want to flesh out for a moment the connection between libraries and activism.
To an extent, the marriage between libraries and activism is an established one. In addition to taking stances on issues like copyright, censorship and intellectual property, libraries have a history of participating in movements and discourses of activism and social justice. In their article on socially responsible librarianship, Morrone and Friedman (2009) provided a survey of librarian activism in the United States, beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. Responding to a period of sustained social upheaval, a number of libraries sought to provide resources, services and meeting spaces for feminists, the queer community and people of color, among other groups. In addition to community outreach, Morrone and Friedman emphasized the potential for libraries to incorporate underused or outsider materials, where the act of creating space on library shelves for texts from marginalized groups is symbolic of fostering tolerance, inclusivity and legibility [6]. Focusing specifically on issues of sociocultural politics and collection development (and particularly on the work of James Danky), Dilevko (2008) effectively provided both a call to action and a pragmatic blueprint for an "alternative vision" of acquisition policy that sees social justice as a core component of a library's collection. This conception of collection development as a library function with social, cultural and politic obligations forms an ideological basis for the construction of activist librarianship by insisting on providing services and (perhaps more typically) materials to and by those typically left out of mainstream libraries, and mainstream society at large. I would argue that this is an extension rather than rejection of Shera's (1970) traditional view of the library's institutional objective of reflecting community values in the content of the library's collection. The activist tweak here is to express tolerance and inclusion through the deliberate gathering of texts from marginalized, non–dominant groups. The activist ethics of the People's Library include this approach, but also many others, as I discuss more fully in the next section.
In thinking about how the People's Library can be read in terms of broader conversations about libraries, communities, activism and technologies, I want to engage two specific components of how the library operates. First, the use of technology in creating an online catalog, and second the collection development and lending policies. Each of these components of library work reveals larger tensions surrounding the library as a social institution and the relationship between libraries and technology, particularly technologies that are digital, mobile and participatory.
Digital, DIY technologies
Within a month of its emergence, the People's Library began the task of creating an online catalog. I happened to be at the Library as this process was initially getting underway, and was struck by the seamless incorporation of smartphones, mobile apps and cloud–based spreadsheets into traditional cataloging work [7]. As explained on their Web site, the project involved "scanning all the barcodes of media in our collection and photographing the title pages or covers of those without bar codes. We're using the free and open source application Bar Code Scanner which creates a CSV file. We can then import the file into LibraryThing — they've generously offered us a free lifetime account! We continued scanning into the night using headlamps and flashlights" (People's Library, 2011). The decision to use LibraryThing was in fact a semi–fraught one. Launched in 2006, LibraryThing is a "cataloging and social networking site for book lovers," and allows users to create online catalogs of books (LibraryThing, 2011a). The service is free up to 200 texts, and in addition to enabling the creation of an online catalog, provides discussion forums, recommendation functions and user profiles. The initial hesitance among librarians at the People's Library to use LibraryThing was based on the politics of open source software; although LibraryThing is (for collections of 200 or fewer, at least) free, it doesn't make its code available for open distribution or modification. In the context of activist politics, open source technologies represent anti–proprietary, pro–hacker, pro–intellectual freedom ideologies. As such, the free–form, open–ended politics of Occupy Wall Street lent themselves to an advocacy for a collaborative, cooperative, unrestricted platform for digital cataloging. These themes emerged both in conversations that I heard taking place at the People's Library as well as in discussion forums on the Library's Web site.
The decision to use LibraryThing highlights ethics of opting for some technologies over others (because they reflect values of information access and/or open source technology), but more generally, what I read in the People's Library creation of a digital, mobile and participatory technologies is a neat refutation of the death of the library at the hands of digital media and/or online technologies. What we see here is that some of the very tools that have been hailed as signaling the demise of libraries (mobile devices, the Internet) are in fact being used to create an enduring record of what goes into the library. Here, tools of digital media are not exposing the irrelevance of libraries, but instead offer the means of developing it into a complex, sophisticated and digitally–accessible entity. Furthermore, the impulse to incorporate mobile technologies, free apps and cloud computing into cataloging work was undertaken not as a means of authoritarian monitoring or patron control, but as a documentation of civil protest and do it yourself (DIY) education. Given the lending policy of providing materials to anyone for any amount of time, there is no need for a digital catalog as a tool that tracks check outs or overdue notices. Instead, the act of building a digital catalog moves the library from a bounded place to a digital one, and speaks to an interest in building something that extends beyond Occupy Wall Street as a physically–bounded space to a digitally–accessible one. When digital technologies are characterized as eclipsing or rendering obsolete traditional media, it assumes an either/or relationship; at the People's Library, it is a with/and relationship, where digital technologies offer an important compliment to and symbiosis with existing practices. To discuss this relationship between library functions in a DIY capacity more complexly, I turn to a broader analysis of the People's Library policies.
Policies are politics
It might be tempting to suggest an analysis of Occupied Wall Street's values by looking at the Library's collection, under the premise that the movement's objectives or interests are likely to be represented in the Library's collection. In my own experience, when people find out that I've spent time at the Library, they are frequently curious as to what books are available, expecting a prevalence of Karl Marx and Howard Zinn. Although these questions are interesting and deserve investigation, I would propose an alternate inquiry, largely inspired by an early experience at the Library as I attempted to understand how it had emerged and what it intended to do at the protest. Probably the dumbest question I asked at the People's Library was "have you had a problem with theft?" It seemed like a reasonable question, as theft is certainly a problem at most libraries. But as a librarian gently pointed out, it is in fact impossible to steal books from the People's Library, given the lending policy that books can be taken from the Library and kept for any period of time, without ever having to be returned. This led me to understand that the People's Library reflects the values of its community through its policies, not through its collection. Returning to Shera's ideas that libraries are a reflection of a community's ethics and values, it makes sense that a movement founded on (at least the ideals of) democracy, free exchange of ideas, egalitarianism and openness would create a library with an egalitarian work force and open lending policy.
It is not my intent to idealize the protest or overstate the Library's importance. But I would argue that there is for me a profoundly useful claim being made here about what it is that libraries do, why they're important and what they show about the people who use them. The People's Library is viewed as a basic necessity by its librarians because it provides resources that are so fundamental to the protest surrounding it, namely tools of education, conversation and interaction. The Library provides these things partly through the content in its collection, which is why the Library has asked specifically for donations of books on "resistance and people's history ... economics and finance books ... contemporary philosophy and ecology ... non–English books and materials for low literacy readers" (Radical Reference, 2011). These requests are precisely in keeping with a traditional view of a library's collection as a reflection of its politics, where the protest's interests in progressive politics and social change are mirrored by the content valued by its librarians. The final two categories in this list, for materials in languages other than English and for low–literacy readers, is furthermore in keeping with the standard construct of activist collection development, as referenced earlier in works by Dilevko (2008), Morrone and Friedman (2009), where the interest in reaching out to marginalized groups is expressed through requesting specific materials and assets to be brought into the collection. Yet I would argue that understanding the People's Library in terms of its activist ethics, it is not sufficient to look solely at what it collects, but rather at its policies as a whole.
The Library certainly intends to be a space where someone can learn about political activism and protest history, but it also intended to enable protesters to relax, talk to each other and gain information about non–protest related issues. In volunteering at the Library, I have often been asked about anarchist, conspiracy and protest literature, but I have also fielded requests for poetry, science fiction and romance novels. Part of the Library's objective is to educate, but partly it is also there to entertain, and to mitigate the tension and occasional boredom that sets in during long, continuous protests. As well, a large number of my interactions at the Library have not been with people currently occupying the square or protesting, but with visitors curious about OWS a whole. For them, I suspect that the Library offered a way to feel comfortable asking questions and to see the vestiges of a recognizable institution within an anti–authoritarian movement. In this sense, the Library lends legitimacy to Occupy Wall Street via the presence of a familiar institution, but also an entry point for making sense of a vibrant, complex, occasionally self–contradictory movement. This sense–making may take place literally, by asking librarians questions, or it may take place more abstractly, by recognizing the Library as a site of learning, access, sharing and community, and extrapolating those values onto the protest as a whole. This is precisely the kind of function that cannot be evaluated solely by looking at the Library's values, and must instead (or as well) take into account its policies of open–lending, volunteer–staffing and auto–archiving. These are the politics and ethics of the People's Library, and they operate entirely outside of the content of its collection.
In this paper, I have attempted to unravel two myths about public libraries: first, that technology presents a threat to the need for or relevance of the library, which I argued should be thoroughly reconsidered given the example of organic, bottom–up, DIY innovations at the People's Library, which is reliant on smart phones and social networking sites as much as traditional library functions such as accession marks and reference encounters. It does a disservice to libraries to continue to promote the easy narrative that digital media and online technologies are incompatible with and stand to replace libraries. A more productive line of inquiry might instead ask what kinds of hacks, assemblages, collaborations and appropriations are already taking place within public libraries? How can these activities be fostered and shared?
Secondly, I argued that although classic library literature has generated a tendency to understand a library's ethics in terms of its collection of books and media, this is an insufficient means for gauging the activist ethics at the People's Library. In terms of the traditional construct of a library as reflecting community norms, it is not my intent to set aside this view, only to think about the utility of extending it beyond a library's collection to include its policies of access, organization and staffing. In addition to (and importantly, not instead of) asking whether a library is inclusive of non–dominant groups by looking for books that speak to marginalized experience, it is necessary to (re)consider lending policies, classification schemes and staffing demographics as representative of community norms and values. These are ambitious metrics, and I am not naïve as to the significant economic and labor challenges that make any serious revisions of these policies problematic. But I would nonetheless point out that if we bring out these issues in discussion of library politics, we create a more robust and holistic set of measures for understanding institutional obligations to our communities. The People's Library emerged from the Occupy Wall Street protest as a grassroots effort within a grassroots movement, and the ethics and politics of one map quite clearly onto the other. I find it both useful and exciting to think of what can be learned by looking for similar bridging of ethics in public libraries as a site of community values.
About the author
Jessa Lingel is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey. She has an M.L.I.S. from Pratt Institute and an M.A. from New York University. Her research interests include information practices of marginalized communities, the politics of social media technologies and intersections of postmodern theory and librarianship.
E–mail: jlingel [at] eden [dot] rutgers [dot] edu
1. Libraries have sprung up at different Occupy protests across the globe (see LibraryThing, 2011b — the comments forum for this blog post are revelatory in exposing tensions between libraries as community institutions that conflict with local politics).
2. Shera, 1970, p. 58.
3. Reading Shera (1970) in a post–modern, post–Foucauldian mind frame, it is striking to note the lack of any sense in Shera's text that this reinforcement of ideology is at all problematic or potentially a means of reproducing hegemonic inequality. A more critical reading might position the library as an ideological state apparatus subjecting (and subjugating) patrons to sovereign norms. Some work has been done on the applications of critical theory to the library as an institution; for a review of Foucaldian theory within library and information science scholarship, see Buschman (2007). For issues of social justice and library cataloging, see Drabinski (2009).
4. Incidentally, it is also possible to consider the act of deaccessioning, or removing items from a library's collection, as a reflection of what is no longer valued, educational or interesting. See Radford, et al. (2012).
5. The People's Library is one of the claimants in a lawsuit filed against the city, seeking damages to books and other library property incurred during the raid (Ax, 2012).
6. For a nuanced perspective on the librarian culture at work in terms of activism, see the collection Revolting Librarians Redux (Roberto and West, 2003), in which a number of authors who participated in the 1972 anthology Revolting Librarians (1972) revisit issues of social justice and community inclusion.
7. The catalog wound up being instrumental in retrieving books from the Department of Sanitation post–raid. I was able to volunteer the morning after the raid to help reclaim library property. In one of the more Heller–esque demands of the Department of Sanitation, despite the fact that books from the People's Library were clearly marked as Library property, we were asked to check each of the books we wanted to claim off of the printed out catalog. This obviously prolonged the process of reclaiming books into a project of several hours.
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Editorial history
Received 29 October 2011; revised 20 July 2012; accepted 20 July 2012.
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Occupy Wall Street and the myth of technological death of the library
by Jessa Lingel
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Callao Dockworkers Seal Deal to End Strike
Striking port workers in Peru's major sea port Callao have struck a deal to end their strike that has cost Peru over USD 100 million.
The dockworkers' union SUTRAMPORPC has reached a deal with the APM Terminals that includes improved benefits and modifications for shift scheduling, Reuters reports.
The deal that allowed for a 4% raise among other benefits for the 650 dockworker employees, represented by ITF-affiliated SUTRAMPORPC was signed on Friday, June 5th.
The indefinite strike was launched on May 13th with the workers demanding improved collective working conditions.
The strike is also the result of AMP Terminals' introduction of an electronic system of nomination of workers. Previously, the union was in charge of distributing tasks among its members. However, the efficiency of this system was brought to question as it lead to delays in loading and unloading of ships.
What is more, the system was also launched with the aim of uprooting potential drug trafficking at the port, according to APMT, having in mind that Peru is one of the top producers of cocaine.
The strike inflicted a huge blow to the already hurting exports in Peru which have been on a downward trend for some time now.
Just in April, Peruvian exports fell 27 percent, according to the data provided by Peru's Association of Exporters (ADEX).
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Something from the streets, I really should walk with my 40mm more, I don't think I've gotten a great shot with it yet…
Click on the image to see it in the Gallery
Photography; I shoot what I like, and sometimes people like what I shoot. All photos are copyright to Michael C. Lam unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The Jerk Hut
With a name like that I was expecting Jamaicans, from the accent to the food. Sadly I was disappointed on both counts when I was there. The grilled fish was good, but with more bones than I like (quite acceptable to most people, I'm just quirky that way), but the Jerk pork was nothing like what I enjoyed in JA. It seems I must plan a visit to my uncle 🙂 Speaking of which, trips cost mulah, and if you see something on my site you like, don't hesitate to buy 😀
Anyway, fun aside… this place was RED, from the tent/roof, sides, tabletops, aprons… all RED. So, it's not that I overdid it on the photo, it's just that the place was like that, and the poor phone camera had a hell of a time focusing because of it. I'm glad I got the shot I did.
The Jerk Hut (Amaro) | Instagram | Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini Duos
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Street photography is not something I pursue, but some days, you can't help but see some scenes that seem worth taking a shot at. This was one of them; a bit busy, but I think it was worth the shot.
Canon EOS 60D | Sigma 17-50mm
Click on the image to see it in the Gallery along with other images from this year's Deck Project
I realise that this one might need some context… which, in the eyes of some, makes it a less successful photograph that it could have been. Of course, I could just as easily not give context and it could probably be a better photograph for it…
But, I will put in my few words anyway 😀
Canon EOS 60D, Sigma 10-20mm.
Main Street/ High Street, Georgetown.
Basically, I wanted a photo of the pedestrian in the distance with the recently knocked down / destroyed sign in the foreground; the sign that once indicated to drivers and pedestrians that there was a pedestrian crossing ahead. 🙂
But this photo got me to also thinking about the street upon which I took the photo; this portion you see is called High Street, the portion behind me (which is obviously not in the photo) is called Main Street, as you proceed further south it then changes to Avenue of the Republic and then back to High Street. Why would what is effectively one street have four different named sections? From what I've read, it was possibly once called simply "High Street"; the portion running through Cummingsburg was then named Main Street, and then when Guyana attained Republic status the portion running through Lacytown was renamed to Avenue of the Republic. Interestingly, after a slight detour around St Saviour's Church, it becomes Saffon Street, this, however, never seems to be considered as part of the "High Street" issue.
Stretches of streets within Georgetown which have multiple names is normally attributed to the fact that Georgetown was originally built as a number of different wards, and the streets were never meant to be contiguous, then the wards were joined together, the multiple names resulted, along with some streets having a slight turn to continue since the original ones were not in-line. The wards involved in the High Street issue are Kingston (High Street), Cummingsburg (Main Street), Lacytown (Avenue of the Republic) and Stabroek / Werk-en-Rust – and part of Charlestown (High Street).
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Today we honour one of the more famous of the Street Photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson (born August 22, 1908). I won't try to mimic or even come close to his type and style of street photography… but here's a Georgetown Scene for you.
Morning Munchies
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I never really liked the whole Kite-flying thing… don't get me wrong, the idea always appealed, but the fascination wore off minutes after the kite was actually airborne. As Easter approached each year (when I was somewhat younger, anyway) I would look forward to the whole idea of visiting relatives, flying kites, picnicking and so forth, but in hindsight, it was the totality of the experiences that made Easter special, not just kite-flying.
One of the fun parts for us as kids was helping to decorate the kite, finding magazines to cut things out of, or gift paper, or any printed matter with an image on it, that was to add to whatever fancy snow-flake pattern a parent, aunt or uncle had already cut out of coloured paper to stick as the centre-piece.
I thought of that as I saw this kite-vendor choosing pre-printed stickers to apply to his kites, was the child who got the kite going to think that he /she missed an opportunity to decorate their own kite, or would they be happy that they got one already prettied up and ready to fly?
Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF40mm f2.8 STM | 1/250s, f/8.0, ISO 200
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Psychologists and psychiatrists make big deals out of "association"…
I saw this scene and thought to myself that the reflective safety vests reminded me of the song YMCA by the Village People, then that led me to thinking about Men at Work, the band that sang "Land Down Under"… do you think the pipes being put "under the ground" is an inference as well?
Don't know what psychologists or psychiatrists would make of me, but for now I'll avoid seeing any. and I should probably avoid the Canje area for a little while too 😀
This isn't a great photo, but ever since I took it I've been thinking that I still like it for some reason… so I finished the processing and uploaded.
Canon EOS 60D, Sigma 17-50mm | Uncomposed moving shot.
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About the Artist
Over the last decade, Christopher Simmonds has risen through the ranks to become the sought after creative visionary for fashion brands looking for that extra edge and impact in their advertising campaigns.
He was one of the key figures behind the Gucci re-imagining that has garnered so much industry attention, providing the art direction for new Gucci designer Alessandro Michele's first campaign for the storied fashion house. Simmonds was also behind the much-lauded redesign of Dazed and Confused in 2010, when he was the magazine's creative director.
Born in Birmingham in the 1980s, Simmonds grew up immersed in the city's counter culture that continues to influence his work today. Simmonds moved to London (where he is still based) to study at Central St Martins. His final project, a men's magazine titled 'He-Man' sold out.
Simmonds set up his own creative design studio, Simmonds Ltd in 2009, which specialises in fashion and editorial, and works across multiple platforms. Simmonds Ltd's current and historical client list includes Gucci, Givenchy, Dior, Pringle of Scotland, Longchamp, Alexander Wang, Balenciaga, J.W.Anderson, Stella McCartney, DKNY, MAC Cosmetics and Bally. His work includes social media campaigns, music video art direction, website redesigns, fragrance packaging, window displays and store designs.
In 2016, Christopher co-founded PRINT, a magazine dedicated to promoting creative freedom within the fashion and art communities.


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Daily Crypto Update-EOS Rises 19.91% in 24 Hours!
EOS (EOS) has risen 19.91 percent in the last 24 hours. The cryptocurrency saw a low of 12.07 USD yesterday, June 1 and is now being traded at 14.18 USD.
What is EOS?
EOS.IO is software that introduces a blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications (the "EOS.IO Software"). This is achieved through an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication and the scheduling of applications across multiple CPU cores and/or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that has the potential to scale to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications.
EOS.IO software utilizes the only known decentralized consensus algorithm proven capable of meeting the performance requirements of applications on the blockchain, Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS). Under this algorithm, those who hold tokens on a blockchain adopting the EOS.IO software may select block producers through a continuous approval voting system. Anyone may choose to participate in block production and will be given an opportunity to produce blocks, provided they can persuade token holders to vote for them.
Reasons for the Rise
The major reason for the rise of the currency is the release of Version 1.0 of the EOSIO software, the EOSIO Developer Portal is also live. The portal includes everything one need for onboarding with the EOSIO platform, including high-level documentation, SDK references, and basic and advanced guides and tutorials.
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A Burdened Soul
I have lain here for some time in life's perpetual earth,
Silently ruminating over the possibilities that might have been;
A Royal Kingdom united, babes cherished and adored,
A life dedicated to the majesty and the glory of God.
But what the intervening years display is a criminal, a man
Who you think was led to acts of cruelty, in times of old.
But is that the real King? Is that all that your eyes behold
As you file by in slow and sombre mood to pay your respects?
Is all you see here the remnant of a once noble and powerful man,
Or do you see the remains of a soul in torment for so long,
A burdened soul seeking to be set free at the last day?
I see you looking on and I see your grief for me,
But do not weep; mourn not for me in this rendezvous of man.
Where death leads to life; instead, remember the nature of man
And see that my all my hope indeed, lies in the God of heaven.
I now lay in state, for all to pay homage but that is not what I want;
All I desire is that you see me and consider the value of life.


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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Feel free to say hi and let me know if you are a fan of my blog. I'll be there with a bunch of beautiful and very supportive friends, and we all love meeting new lovely people.
Ok. Enough of that. Let's get excited! Finders Keepers Woo!
5 comments:
- ellie said...
I think I'm never ever prepared for markets the way I want to be. I mean - huh, here I am checking out blogs (ready to fall asleep at 3.30pm) when I still have work to finish for FK tomorrow.
Sleep well. That's the most important. And make sure you bring lots of water to drink.
Take care.
(selvedge house - red seed studio)
- October 29, 2009 at 10:32 PM
- amy said...
what ever your problems are they will be washed away for nine hours of market goodness! there will be many shiny beautiful things around you, making it impossible to be sad :) i will come say hi, then probably nervously mumble something and run away :)
- October 29, 2009 at 10:43 PM
If it makes you feel any better, your stall was the best one there....great products, good prices, job well done! You should be very proud. Have a bright and sunny weekend!
- October 31, 2009 at 3:10 AM
- Unknown said...
Wow! Thank you so much!!!
- October 31, 2009 at 3:37 AM
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Thanks for popping by to say hello at FKM - it was nice to meet you. Hope you had a good market, it was all a bit overwhelming - in a rewarding way. Take care, K
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The Masquerade Ball will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2019, at the Four Points Sheraton in Fairview Heights, IL. This fun-filled event will welcome many community and business leaders…Continue Reading »
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Regret apps: The undo button for instant messaging
How many times have you messaged someone on the spur of the moment only to wish you could take it back seconds later?
Well, as they say… there's an app for that.
US-based company Strings has launched an instant messaging app that lets you "share what you want with who you want and take it back, if you want."
It's a catchy motto, but how does it work?
Strings chief executive Edward Balassanian says the free app allows you to delete sent messages, images and videos from your phone as well as the phone of the person that you sent them to.
The app also prevents the recipient from downloading, sharing or even getting a screenshot of your content without your permission.
The catch is that the recipient needs to be a user of the messaging app as well.
"For example, if I create a string and I add you and two other people to it, everybody in the string can see the conversation, but nobody in the string can add other people to the conversation without my permission and can't copy content out of the string," Mr Balassanian says.
Part of the company's mantra is "what happens on Strings, stays on Strings", so you always have control over the content, he adds.
Regrets, I've had a few
One person who might have found such an app useful is Nadia Rashad-Choudhary, 32, a personal assistant based in London.
She admits to texting, messaging and posting content in fits of anger...and regretting it.
"When I was angry, I would put up this rant. I would also post quote images that would relate to the situation," she says of past incidents.
"About 10 to 15 minutes later I would think: I shouldn't have done that."
Ms Rashad-Choudhary recalls posting photos on Facebook of her having fun on the same day she had already called in sick to work.
She'd forgotten that her supervisor was one of her friends on the social media site.
"I got a warning," she says. "Work-wise that was my first lesson never to post anything on Facebook, or never have work-related people as friends."
Staying power?
While the Strings app is not the first of its kind in the market, its popularity has skyrocketed since the beta version was launched on 31 December.
Mr Balassanian says Strings had 1,000 users upon its launch and has been downloaded more than 40,000 times since.
Other apps featuring messages that self-destruct after a set time include Invisible Text and Ansa.
And On Second Thought allows users to recall texts before the recipient receives them and also set a curfew for messages to be "embargoed" until the next morning.
The complete version of Strings is set to be released in a couple of weeks, but whether it has the staying power to succeed in a competitive market remains to be seen, according to analysts.
Shiv Putcha, associate director of consumer mobility at IDC Asia-Pacific, says there are several issues with this type of app, including whether the content you delete is truly gone.
"Something like a Snapchat proved recently that it [the content] doesn't actually disappear - there is a trail somewhere out there," he says. "It might disappear from each other phones, but there's no guarantee it's gone if the messages were stored on a cloud server somewhere."
Strings, however, claims that once a user deletes content from a conversation, it is removed from their phone, all devices it was shared with, and the company's servers.
Snapchat, a popular three-year-old app that allows users to share photos and videos that automatically disappear after a few seconds, admitted last year that rogue third-party apps had been storing its users' pictures.
The admission came in October after hackers forums claimed that a file containing at least 100,000 stolen Snapchat photos had been created.
Despite the controversy, Snapchat still remains popular among young people with over 100 million users.
Ajay Sunder, of Frost & Sullivan's telecoms division, says as long as the user's content is not on a public domain and they feel secure that it will not be used for documentation purposes, people will continue to use such messaging apps.
"I do see a usage for these kinds of apps," he says. "[Mainly for] a younger generation who are much more brash and open to telling their ideas and later on realising it might not be sensible to say everything out there or message everything you think."
Leaving 'bread crumbs'
The emergence of these types of "regret" apps is evidence that people are becoming more aware that they are "leaving bread crumbs all over the place", says IDC's Mr Putcha.
"There are more cases of these [posts] coming back to haunt people. You apply for a job and they check your Facebook profile and see silly photos of you at a party and check some tweets you've put out," he says.
"There are several things that companies regularly check, and how do you go back now and delete all of this?"
The right to be forgotten is no longer possible in the online culture of "over-sharing", especially in the Western world, says Mr Putcha.
"Just try deleting your Facebook account, that itself is very hard to do," he says.
While Strings claims it lets users "pull all the strings" on their content, some analysts believe there could be regulatory difficulties concerning the private content that people want to take back.
And in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, governments are increasingly keen to gain access to messaging app content, says Mr Putcha.
Prime Minister David Cameron recently called for a change to online data laws that would allow authorities to read private messages, even if they are encrypted.
"There's no guarantee of complete privacy in a messaging application," Mr Putcha adds.


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About Peloponnese
The Peloponnese is a quiet and exceptionally picturesque place to visit, full of small villages, unspoilt beaches, forested mountains, valleys and gorges as well as plenty of archaeological sites to explore. It is truly a place of hidden treasures.
Try a fly drive on the Peloponnese - it's a great way to see the countryside, stop off in out-of-the-way places and interact with the local people.
On the Peloponnese you'll find the ancient site of Olympia, the original home of the Olympic Games and the Byzantine monasteries of Mystra, Sparta, Monemvasia (known as the Gibraltar of Greece).
See Kalavrita with its rack and pinion railway, head to the mountains to visit tucked-away villages such as Vytina and Dhimitsana, and visit the Argolis region, home to the ancient site of Mycenae & amphitheatre at Epidavros, plus many castles and fortresses dotted around the Peloponnese. The unspoilt beaches around the Peloponnese are amongst some of the most beautiful in Greece.
Also of interest are the Corinth Canal, the Diros Caves,and the mountains of Parnasos, Taigetos and Chelmos. There is truly something for everyone!
Where to visit
The villages of mountainous Arcadia are certainly off the beaten track but it's definitely worth the effort!
This medieval tower town, the 'Gibraltar of Greece', is linked to the mainland by a causeway.
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P Holden, September, 2019
"Well organised overall. A very few minuses to the holiday were: Hotel Atrium was too far from the centre to go out in the evening other than in the local neighbourhood, which, while very pleasant and friendly, was limited in restaurant choice. Flight out delayed by 3.5 hours."
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"Just back from our great greek adventure!! Thanks for the brilliant arrangements - everything was just perfect. A special mention should be made to the excellent taxi driver from Argonaut - unfortunately we didn't get his name - but he was such a lovely polite lad and his timekeeping was spot on from meeting us at the airport to meeting us off the hydrofoil. We loved the route you gave us - first we managed the climb to the Acropolis (despite the 35% heat!!) which was unbelievable - the visit to monomvassia was well worth the detour, lovely little coastal village of guthion - the mani was so different - sometimes quite barren sometimes lush green, the Diros caves were stunning and loved the atmosphere in areopolis - great tavernas. The Messini Bay hotel was perfect - picturesque setting and so peaceful. The little villages of Finikounda, Koroni and others along the way were so unspoilt and people very friendly. Pylos was very pretty (despite a thunderstorm!!) and we were recommended to a great fish restaurant there by the hotel - loved the Mystras - so well preserved and plenty to interest us. Then to Sparti and on to lovely Nafplion where we did the climb to the castle for the magnificent views - also spent some time on the lovely quiet beach. Back to Athens where we loved the Plaka hotel with its rooftop bar - and one of the staff even supported Leicester City FC!!! Off to Aegina island where we witnessed a Greek wedding in the hotel on Saturday night!! We even hired a scooter to get round the island - its fifty years since I rode pillion - our daughter wants to know when we are going to grow up!!! Thanks again for the fantastic planning - our first time to Greece will certainly not be the last"
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On April 9th, 2003, the great stone statue of Saddam Hussein watching over Baghdad fell, marking the deposition of a dictator who had held the nation in chains for decades. Within only 3 weeks, a US-led operation codenamed "Iraqi Freedom" had succeeded in overthrowing Hussein's Ba'athist government. The Butcher of Baghdad had been removed from his throne of terror – soon, he would be captured and made to stand for the genocidal campaigns he conducted against his own people. On board the USS Abraham Lincoln, George Bush spoke to the American people of the victory in Iraq as a banner reading "Mission Accomplished" hung behind him. It was to be a new era for Iraq – an age in which free enterprise would allow the nation to emerge onto the global stage as a force for democracy in the Middle East. All that was left was to silence the few remaining pockets of resistance and assist Iraq in creating a democratic government.
As we know today, things didn't quite turn out as intended.
Over the course of the next fifteen years, nearly 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in armed conflict. Today, 4.4 million Iraqis are internally displaced, and 70 percent of the nation lacks access to clean water. Some children have lived their entire lives in the shadow of war. The nation's innocent have suffered more in this new era than they ever had under Hussein. In the miasma of chaos and instability enveloping Iraq, ISIS rose, conquering vast swaths of territory and committing atrocities against the populace. Even as the new government beats the Islamic State back, Kurds in the north are seizing the opportunity to battle for statehood, causing more internal strife.
Despite his evils, Hussein brought something to Iraq that the new democratic regime has continually fallen short of – stability. The brand of autocratic nationalism that he promoted allowed him to stomp out his opposition with little effort. He placed a greater focus upon Iraq's military than any leader prior, allowing him to retain a deadly loyalist base. Had he remained in power, it is quite plausible that ISIS would have never come into existence in Iraq. In fact, many of Hussein's top advisors and officers survived to assist the Islamic State's insurgency against the Iraqi government.
Looking around the Middle East today, one may wonder if the Arab Spring was truly worth it. The men who reigned were, in many ways, plainly evil – but their evil was controlled. Uncertain chaos can be more destructive than certain oppression. The fall of Mubarak saw the rise of ISIS in Egypt. The fall of Gaddafi saw the eruption of a four-way civil war in Libya. The fall of Saleh saw Yemen on the verge of becoming a failed state, its new president exiling himself after Houthi rebels captured the capital. The Arab Winter that followed has brought unparalleled violence to the region.
Mao famously stated that "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous." Perhaps the years of uncertainty and violence the Middle East has experienced were inevitable – a period of natural stabilization after a severe paradigm shift. The question now is whether or not time will allow these nations to heal. As the power of ISIS wanes, will democratic regimes be able to consolidate their power? ISIS rose where others fell. The Taliban resurged as soon as US troops began to withdraw, and are reportedly beginning to use night-vision goggles to assault Afghan security forces under the veil of darkness. Terrorist groups emerge in new forms just as soon as they are defeated.
Whatever the answer proves to be, one pattern is obvious – foreign intervention, especially on behalf of the west, destabilizes nations much more than homegrown revolutions do. Tunisia, the only nation in the Arab Spring to truly democratize without further conflict, did so with little to no foreign influence. Nearly all of the regime changes in the Middle East have seen the rest of the world use rebels and dictators as their pawns. NATO air strikes devastated Gaddafi's military and may have turned the tide of the war. Were it not for Russia's arms deals with Syria, Assad may have fallen long ago. And of course, had the US coalition not invaded Iraq in fear of WMDs, there is no indication that Saddam's government would have lost control. Evidence seems to suggest that the only fair solution is to leave these nations and the revolutions that they experience to play out on their own. If anyone knows what is best for a country, it is the people who have spent their lives there. Forcing these nations to undergo shock therapy in the form of rapid democratization may be well-intended, but this unnatural shift has almost never resulted in anything but more unrest.
In the future, the nations of the world should quit deciding the future of the Arab world for it. Short-term rewards often end in long-term consequences. Our morality implores us to free nations from the oppression of dictators, but we often fail to consider what must be done in the years following. The Iraq War may have seemed like a great idea at the time – rid a nation of a dictator who has killed thousands of his own people and may have access to WMDs and replace his regime with a democratic government. It was to be quite the boon for the Iraqi people. We could never have predicted the decade of conflict that followed. Regardless of how great it may sound in theory to free nations across the world from the grips of autocracy, we cannot assume that our good intentions will always bring positive results. Respecting the autonomy of these nations, whether in revolution or autocracy, may finally bring an end to this era of violence.


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The England international, who scored the Gunners' winner in their 1-0 victory of West Brom on Saturday, replaces Olivier Giroud up-front.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was benched on Saturday, is recalled to the starting line-up to take Welbeck's place on the wing.
Meanwhile, Southampton boss Ronald Koeman recalls Shane Long to the starting 11.
The Republic of Ireland international was on the bench for Saints' last Premier League match against Manchester City, which they lost 3-0.
Arsenal: Martinez, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Ramsey, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Welbeck
Subs: Macey, Gibbs, Bellerin, Rosicky, Podolski, Sanogo, Giroud
Southampton: Forster, Clyne, Fonte (c), Alderweireld, Bertrand, Wanyama, Cork, S. Davis, Tadić, Long, Pellè.
Subs: K. Davis (GK), Yoshida, Gardos, Mané, Mayuka, Reed, Targett.


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Twin-twin transfusion syndrome
Primigravida for 18 wks scan. No complaints. 12 wks USG - Monochorionic, diamniotic pregnency.
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Age: 27 yrs
Gender: Female
From the case: Twin-twin transfusion syndrome
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Right sided fetus is smaller. It is stuck to right lateral uterine wall. There is restricted fetal movements due to oligo hydramnios. Fetal stomach and bladder are present. Umbilical artery to right fetus shows presence of diastolic flow with PI of 1.7.
There is polyhydramnios in left sac. Left fetus shows cardiomegaly.
Case Discussion
Findings favor twin-twin transfusion syndrome.
Staging ( according to severity ) by Quintero et al :
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Part 25: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Integrated Auth
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.
The final part to the RPC/HTTPS series shows you how to alter the configuration we have such that Outlook 2003 can move seamlessly between external and internal connectivity through the use of integrated authentication. To do this, we need to change both the ISA server and the Exchange server. The overall end user experience, as you will see, is far better.
So over the Christmas break, I'll get round to recording a few more parts to the series, including VPN connectivity.
Click here to view.
Series Index:
0. Network configuration and series background.
1. Getting started
2. ISA Server configuration to allow basic web browsing capability
3. ISA Firewall Client basic configuration
4. ISA Firewall Client auto-detection through WPAD configuration
5. Configuring an Exchange mailbox and Outlook profile
6. Fixing 0x8004010F on Outlook send/receive
7. Installing our first Certificate Authority
8. Publishing OWA through ISA using Forms Based Authentication
9. OWA /exchange redirection
10. OWA nearly goes SSL - we have a certificate
11. OWA is available over SSL/HTTPS
12. Sending external email - Configuring outbound SMTP
13. Mail retrieval through POP3 polling
14. Preparations for Email retrieval through SMTP Transfer
15. Completing Email retrieval through SMTP Transfer
16. RPC/HTTP: Overview and installing RPC Proxy component
17. RPC/HTTP: IIS Config and a bit on certificates
18. RPC/HTTP: Exchange IIS Config completion
19. RPC/HTTP: Working from internal network
20. RPC/HTTP: Revisiting our ISA rules
21. RPC/HTTP: Outlook working externally. OWA still requires more work
22. RPC/HTTP: Bounce OWA through localhost
23. RPC/HTTP: OWA Back to HTTPS
24. RPC/HTTP: RPC Publication


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As a result of an increase in road deaths seen so far this year on French roads (an increase of 20% in April and more than 10% overall since the start of the year), the French government has decided to tighten up on road safety and appears to have introduced the following measures. (from my translations of French websites - please correct me if I am wrong !) If you are planning on driving in France this summer then its important to be aware of these as they may affect you. The most severe sanctions are against alcohol and speeding,
Using a cell phone while driving will be penalised and if you are caught holding a cell phone and using it while driving will now mean you get 3 points on your license instead of 2 points.
Drink-driving will be severely punished due to its being responsible for many traffic accidents. If a driver is arrested with a blood alcohol above 0.8 g / l, 8 points will be put onto their driver's license, currently it is 6 points. The alcohol limit is also to be lowered I believe to 0.2 g / liter. So basically avoid drinking if you plan to drive.
Fixed Speed camera position will now not be publicised on roadside signs and detection radars are to be banned in cars. I believe this excludes the type that is integral to a sat nav or gps system though. However any radar equipment which is purely for speed camera detection is now banned and also banned from sale.
It will now be regarded as a crime if break the speed limit in a 50 km/h limit zone.
Reference : http://www.tf1.fr/auto-moto/actualite/securite-routiere-nouvelles-mesures-et-plus-de-sanctions-6451188.html
Update at 25th May 2011 : Confusion reigns about whether to remove the speed camera/radar warning signs from the roadsides in France. A number have already been removed. However they often have the effect of acting as traffic calming measures although I am sure we all know how drivers slow down when they see these signs !
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