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Isis Partnerships Nudge NFC Mobile Payments Toward the Mainstream
Aug 13, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Isis, the mobile wallet joint venture of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, has announced partnerships with Chase and American Express in preparation for its debut later this year.
Isis lets Chase cardholders with NFC-enabled smartphones tap their mobile devices in order to pay at participating retail locations, rather than having to use a debit or credit card.
Chase has been working with Isis to test mobile payment options using near field communication technology in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas. The company was encouraged by the trial's success.
Based on responses in those markets, Chase said Monday it would continue the rollout nationwide.
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The news comes a few days after American Express revealed its plan to launch a mobile payment application -- American Express Serve -- on the Isis platform. With the cobranded account, American Express customers will be able to tap and pay at retail locations, as well as pay bills online and transfer money between accounts.
Although it would be an alternative to a debit or credit card, American Express Serve could be funded from existing accounts or through a direct deposit option. The service would appeal especially to the 70 million Americans who do not have bank accounts or access to credit, according to American Express.
Instead of having to rely on cash for large payments, or having to send large sums of cash to friends and family, those tasks could be performed safely and easily using the American Express Serve app.
Isis did not respond to our request for further details.
Trouble With Adoption
Though Isis has secured partnerships with major U.S. banking players, it still faces challenges from other industries that are critical to NFC adoption, said Greg Smith, an analyst at Sterne Agee.
For one, no major smartphone makers, including Apple, have featured NFC technology prominently in their devices, and they haven't put many resources into strongly marketing the phones that are equipped with the technology, he said.
Even if the smartphone makers had flaunted that functionality, the technology isn't any good without retail partners. Isis is not the only mobile payment initiative fighting for those retailers to add point-of-sale terminals. Companies like PayPal and Square have experimented with mobile payment apps, and all are fighting for retailers to back their mobile wallet options.
"Mobile payments are in a holding pattern," Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "They've had limited traction gained over the past year due to significant fragmentation among the key players as well as the lack of compelling incentives for merchants and consumers."
Changing Times
Isis' new partnerships alone won't be enough to help the mobile wallet app be the next big thing in the smartphone space, said Michael Cote, president of the Cote Collaborative. However, support from Chase and American Express could be one factor that helps the app grow. Upcoming devices that offer NFC capabilities beyond tap and pay may also spur interest.
Beyond making payments, Isis will allow consumers to redeem coupons and present loyalty cards using their mobile devices. It could become more popular with retailers as they refine methods of targeting consumers based on their location -- for instance, offering a coffee discount at a favorite spot during a morning commute.
"There will be a number of new phones launched before the end of the year that include NFC," Cote told the E-Commerce Times. "Most of these launches will focus on NFC as a technology that enables activities beyond mobile payments. NFC allows for improved access, authentication, pairing and sharing."
Those applications might not be enough to help Isis with short-term gains, but the potential for long-term growth is strong, he added.
"NFC is a great mobile payment technology," said Cote, "but it's even better should it become ubiquitous."


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These animals are among the largest mammals and can weigh as much as 100 tons at maturity. They can live 70 years or longer. The North Atlantic right whale differs in skin color from the North Pacific right whale and the cold waters of the Arctic Circle are a natural impediment to the mingling of these two groups.
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African By Legacy, Mexican By Birth
In this example from the multimedia exhibit, African By Legacy, Mexican By Birth, history survives through dance.
For the indigenous of La Costa Chica— the Amuzgo, the Mixteco, the Zapoteco— society is something to be remembered, revered, and ridiculed. No one is beyond scrutiny, not the dead and certainly not the living. In la Danza de los Vaqueros (the Dance of the Cowboys) la Minga wears a white female mask. As usual, the Minga plays a central comedic role. He is a masked man dressed as a European woman; hiking his skirt up he chases children giggling into the borders of the performance space. When not scaring away the young, he concentrates on his more traditional prey: he chases the African man, the overseer-cowboy behind the black mask.
This, laugh the indigenous, reflects the manner in which the European plantation wives persisted in sexually assaulting the Africans who oversaw indigenous field labor. Lined up in work gangs, the indigenous are represented by matching black suits and pink masks. They step in sync with one another within the spaces leftopen to them by the black cowboy who deftly eludes the plantation owner's lascivious wife.
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The video was made using 15 extra small planners. The pages that contain animations are printed out on Moleskine A4 paper, cut out, either by hand or using a laser cutter, and glued inside the planner at 25 frames per second. Totally 533 animated pages. Shooting the video took about two weeks, total production time was five weeks, including audio editing.
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WASHINGTON — A trip to Portland that President Obama had planned for next week has been canceled because of Friday's elementary school shootings in Connecticut, the White House announced.
Obama planned to visit the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday as part of his campaign to pressure Congress to act to extend tax cuts for the middle class as part of a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."
But about five hours after announcing the trip on Friday, the White House released a one-line statement calling it off as the scope of the shootings in Connecticut became clear.
It was unclear late Friday afternoon whether the event will be rescheduled.
The trip to Maine was to be part of the president's recent campaign to ratchet up pressure on Republicans in Congress to allow tax rates to rise on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. Republicans have insisted that any package to avert the fiscal cliff and reduce the federal deficit must include detailed spending cuts and changes to entitlement programs.
Without congressional action, rates will rise for nearly all taxpayers on Jan. 1. At the same time, federal agencies will begin implementing about $110 billion in across-the-board spending cuts.
But political talk over the fiscal cliff quickly subsided on Friday as the nation absorbed the news from Connecticut.
During an emotional White House briefing, Obama said he reacted to the shooting incident not as president but as a parent. He said "our hearts are broken today" and called on the nation to "be at our best as Americans" to help support those affected by the tragedy.
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This family-friendly San Jose hotel is located near the airport, steps from Plaza de la Cultura, National Theater, and Gold Museum (Museo de Oro). Jade Museum and National Center of Art and Culture are also within 10 minutes. San Jose Procuradiria Museum Station is 11 minutes by foot and San Jose Atlantic Station is 14 minutes.
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A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a coffee shop/café are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a 24-hour business center, a conference center, and coffee/tea in a common area.
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All 39 individually furnished rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. For entertainment, LCD TVs come with cable channels, and guests can also appreciate comforts like pillow menus and down comforters.
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Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room.
A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities measuring 65 square feet (6 square meters) include a conference center. This family-friendly hotel also offers a library, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a casino shuttle.
Hotel El Maragato is a smoke-free property.
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- Library
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- 24-hour front desk
- Free grocery shopping service
- Conference space
- Grocery/convenience store
- Porter/bellhop
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Restaurant
- Year Built 1993
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Free wired Internet
- Computer station
- Smoke-free property
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 6
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Airport transportation - drop-off (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Concierge services
- Conference space size (feet) - 65
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Conference center
- Shopping on site
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- Total number of rooms - 39
- Television in common areas
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 7
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
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- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Microwave (on request)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
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- Premium TV channels
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- Balcony
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- Access via exterior corridors
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- Microwave (on request)
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
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- In-room massage available
- Shower only
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- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Pillowtop mattress
- Pillow menu
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- Espresso maker
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Restaurante Maragato - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
A complimentary grocery shopping service is offered and room service (during limited hours) is available.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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- Roll-in shower
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Check-in time starts at 10 AM
Minimum check-in age is 18
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- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 3 children 4 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- No onsite parking is available.
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- El Maragato San Jose
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details on arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 3 children 4 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Over the years, NASA has collected a great deal of Earth science data from dozens of orbiting satellites. With time, these data collections have scattered among many archives that vary significantly in sophistication and access. NASA risked losing valuable, irreplaceable data as people retired, storage media decayed, formats changed and collections dispersed. Scientists began to spend more time searching for data than performing research.
Today, NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth, which leads the agency's Earth science research, continues to collect data. This office operates 11 active satellites and instruments, which together produce 450 gigabytes (Gb) of data each day. Landsat alone, one of NASA's most popular sources of remote sensing data, produces 200 Gb of raw data per day. In 1997, NASA will launch the first of many Earth Observation Systems (EOS) satellites and instruments that will double the daily production of raw data. EOS will produce 15 years of global, comprehensive environmental remote sensing data.
To handle the size and variety of data now available and to promote cross-discipline research, NASA created EOSDIS, which drastically reduces the time spent searching for relevant data, allowing scientists to focus their research efforts on changes in the Earth's environment. EOSDIS allows scientists to search many data centers and disciplines quickly and easily, quickening the pace of research. The faster the research, the more quickly scientists can identify causes of detrimental environmental effects, opening the way for policy- and lawmakers to act at international, national and local levels.
The well-known hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic illustrates the process from research to policy to law. Researchers first discovered the ozone hole when lofting a weather balloon from an Antarctic research station. But NASA's NIMBUS 7 satellite had the necessary instruments, so why hadn't it detected the hole? Scientists quickly discovered that the calibration algorithm routinely dropped low ozone values as "noise." When they retrieved 12 years of original NIMBUS 7 data, scientists verified the existence of the hole and indicated that it had grown over the last decade. Data from additional instruments revealed that CloroFloroCarbons (CFCs), such as Freon, destroyed the ozone layer and created the hole. Armed with this knowledge, the United States signed several international treaties restricting the production of CFCs. Congress passed regulations on the production, distribution and recovery of CFCs in the United States. As a direct result, worldwide production of CFCs has plummeted. Today, consumers cannot openly buy Freon. Given time, the CFCs already in the atmosphere will disperse and the ozone layer will heal itself.
Another example of the benefits of multiple-discipline Earth science research lies in the work of the EOSDIS Pathfinder projects, which recycle old data from past and current satellites into new products for scientific research. One project used old Landsat data to assess deforestation in the Amazon basin, indicating that the true rate of deforestation closely matches that cited by the Brazilian government, thus ending a long standing, international debate. Now that scientists have settled the extent of deforestation, policy- and lawmakers can act to fix it.
In yet another result of the EOSDIS philosophy, ocean dynamists recently discovered a huge, low-amplitude wave that propagates back and forth across the Pacific Ocean. Only a few inches high, but a thousand miles long, the wave bounces back and forth between South America and Asia. The same scientists also found that sea level has risen slightly over the last few years, while other researchers detected a slight decline in total ice coverage. Are these three phenomena related? If so, why? Only collaborative research between atmospheric physics, ocean dynamics, meteorology and climatology can answer these questions.
The same principles apply to regional and local, as well as national and international, policy and law. Through EOSDIS, state and local governments can obtain accurate data and information about water tables, flood plains, ground cover and air quality. For example, the state of Ohio has begun using NASA remote sensing data to monitor reclamation of strip mining sites, a task for which the state does not have enough personnel to perform on-site inspections.
EOSDIS does a lot more than just store and distribute Earth science data. It also provides the operational ground infrastructure for all satellites and instruments within the Mission to Planet Earth office at NASA. It contains Earth science data from EOS satellites, other MTPE satellites, joint programs with international partners and other agencies, field studies and past satellites. It receives and processes the raw data from the satellites. After initial processing, EOSDIS delivers the data to the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) for further processing, storage and distribution. EOSDIS also includes mission operations and satellite control.
The Science Data Processing Segment handles all data production, archive and distribution through the Information Management Service, the Planning and Data Processing System, and the Data Archival and Distribution Services. The Information Management Service performs data search, access and retrieval for the EOSDIS. The Planning and Data Processing System processes the raw data into the standard products offered by the EOSDIS. The Data Archival and Distribution Service permanently stores all data received or produced by EOSDIS.
The Flight Operations Segment, consisting of the EOS Operations Center, the Instrument Support Terminals and the Spacecraft Simulator, supports the EOS satellites and instruments. The Operations Center commands and controls the operation of EOS satellites. The Instrument Support Terminals consist of a few generic workstations dedicated to the command and control of specific instruments. Generally, each instrument will have its own Instrument Support Terminal. The Spacecraft Simulator analyzes general satellite information stripped off the main data stream, searching for trends and problems.
The Communications and Systems Management Segment, consisting of the Systems Management Center and the NASA Internal Network, manages schedules and operations among the DAACs and other elements of the EOSDIS. The Systems Management Center manages network loading, data transfer and overall processing to optimize EOSDIS performance. The Internal Network connects all of the permanent archives, transferring data among all of the DAACs and Science Computing Facilities via a dedicated fiber network utilizing the asynchronous transfer mode. The NASA Science Internet (or Internet for short) links the general user to the EOSDIS. The Internet also links EOSDIS to data centers outside NASA.
The EOSDIS Data and Operations System (EDOS), consisting of the Data Interface Facility, the Data Production Facility and the Sustaining Engineering Facility, handles all telemetry to and from the satellite and performs the initial data processing. The Data Interface Facility is the primary communication and data link between the ground and the satellites. The Data Interface Facility separates the main data stream into the scientific and system information. The scientific information goes to the Data Production Facility, while the system information goes to the EOS Operations Control Center and the Spacecraft Simulator. The Data Production Facility separates the scientific data by instruments, calibrates it and attaches any ancillary data (orbit information, for example). All data then gets transferred to the DAACs for permanent storage. The Sustaining Engineering Facility maintains equipment, identifies hardware trends and plans for future upgrades.
The DAACs process the data from each instrument on each satellite into approximately 250 products. Among the many satellite projects from which products are developed are the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission, the Ocean Topography Experiment and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. Through EOSDIS, data products can come from field campaigns, such as the Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study; from satellites operated by other agencies, such as NOAA's Geostationary Orbit Environmental Satellite; and from past NASA missions and programs. Users can locate data products by discipline, DAAC, Earth location, instrument, satellite or time. EOSDIS allows any data format, but uses the Hierarchical Data Format, developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, as the standard.
NASA released Version 0 of the EOSDIS to the general public in 1994. Version 0 connects all the DAACs with some elements of the Science Data Processing Segments, primarily the Information Management Service. Version 0 consolidates 12 distinct data systems and allows users to locate and order data products at eight DAACs (SEDAC will come on line later this year). Through Version 0, users can also link to NOAA's Satellite Active Archive. Version 1, due for release in February 1996, will include all functional elements of the EOSDIS, but not at full capacity. Version 2, due for release in November 1997, will bring the EOSDIS up to full capacity. Minor upgrades between versions will fix small problems, improve specific services and add new products.
Anyone can access the EOSDIS via the Internet with telenet or via modem. One can access Version 0 from a computer that runs UNIX, X-Windows or VT100. Users can search through the EOSDIS archives in a variety of ways: by scientific discipline, satellite or product name. One can limit the search to specific regions on the Earth or specific dates. To help in selection, EOSDIS allows users to preview low-resolution browse images before ordering the data product. Data set descriptions also help users choose applicable products. A help desk at each DAAC takes data orders and troubleshoots problems. Kevin Schaefer is with NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.


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Proponents of mandatory labeling for food made with genetically modified organisms are hedging their bets to get the issue before Oregon voters.
A bill introduced in the Oregon legislature would directly place a GMO labeling initiative on the November 2014 ballot, bypassing signature-gathering efforts that are currently underway.
Proponents of GMO labeling are exploring their options and see the legislative route as worth trying, even if it doesn't pan out, said Scott Bates, interim director of GMO Free Oregon, which supports a ballot initiative.
"There's lots of tools in the toolbox," he said.
To get a GMO labeling measure on the ballot, supporters would need to gather more than 87,000 valid signatures by July.
Superseding the signature-gathering process would save proponents money and time, said Katie Fast, vice president of public policy for the Oregon Farm Bureau, which opposes GMO labeling.
Proponents may feel like they're running short on time, as they have proposed three ballot measures, said Fast.
Election officials have not yet approved the final version for signature gathering.
The multiple versions are likely an attempt at "language shopping" — trying the find the right wording that is most palatable to voters, she said.
Bates said his group has withdrawn the first proposal and is gathering signatures for the second proposal. The third version would also require GMO labeling but use different wording.
Supporters are trying to learn from a similar GMO labeling initiative in Washington, which failed to pass in 2013, he said.
If the third version is approved for signature-gathering by Oregon's Secretary of State, supporters would have to start the process from scratch to get it on the ballot, he said.
Even so, Bates said he is confident the group will get an initiative before voters.
At a Feb. 12 hearing about the legislative proposal, HB 4100, proponents and opponents provided a glimpse of what that debate might look like.
Several Oregon farmers warned legislators that mandatory GMO labeling would put them at a competitive disadvantage.
Kevin Richards, a grower near Madras, Ore., said labeling would involve hidden costs to protect against potential litigation.
Food manufacturers will want to avoid lawsuits that accuse them of using GMO ingredients without proper labeling, he said.
These companies will need a way to verify that farmers are selling crops that aren't genetically engineered, which may require certification and testing, Richards said.
"That will require significant costs," he said, noting that the burden would be heaviest for smaller farmers and manufacturers.
Mandatory labeling could also have unintended consequences for consumers, said Carol Mallory-Smith, an Oregon State University weed science professor.
Oregon is a relatively small food market, as it only has about 1 percent of the U.S. population, said Mallory-Smith, who said she doesn't support or oppose labeling.
Some food manufacturers and distributors may decide that it's not worth segregating and labeling products especially for the Oregon market, she said.
As a result, Oregon consumers would face fewer choices and higher prices, Mallory-Smith said. "It will disproportionately impact those of the lowest income."
Supporters of GMO labeling claimed the initiative is aimed at reducing confusion among consumers, not telling farmers what they should grow.
"We favor transparency in our food system," said Ivan Maluski, director of Friends of Family Farmers, a group that supports the labeling initiative.
Maluski said he hears from small farmers that the current federal system of regulating biotech crops lacks transparency and oversight.
Joe Rogoff, president of Pacific Northwest region for Whole Foods Market, said consumers are showing growing demand for non-GMO food.
"We believe our customers have a right to know what they're buying," he said. "Labeling is absolutely doable for retailers and producers can do it too."


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JACKSONVILLE, Ill.-- The GC Baseball team could not outplay fellow Conference team MacMurray in their first meeting of the season and fell 3-0.
Kenny Trager led GC in hits, getting 4 hits in the game. Tim Osborne, Dalton McFarland, Matt Reinholz, and Cole Lawson each had 3 hits.
Tyler Mitchell, Scott Voyles, and Nick Bifano shared the mound for GC. Mitchell pitched 6 innings for GC, facing 28 batters and allowing 7 hits. Voyles and Bifano each pitched one inning for the Panthers, allowing 2 and 1 hit, respectively.
This game brings the team to a record of 4-6 (1-1 SLIAC). They will play again Saturday, March 23 when they travel to Illinois College.


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Posted on November 28, 2013 in Miscellaneous Pro Tennis Talk
Another year in the ATP is in the books. Four majors have been played, 3 separate men have captured those titles. The pros are busy preparing for the year to come. So, who can we crown the GOAT of 2013? Rafa? Nole? Murray? The discussion is on the table!
Rafael Nadal. After receiving the "Legend Award" this week in Spain, Nadal proves to be possibly the GOAT of 2013…and possibly of all time. With his domination on most surfaces he competes on and his all-out physical game, we have seen Rafa take a new approach to tennis this year with taking chunks of time off to properly train and rehab. With the French Open and US Open titles under his belt plus 8 other titles, it's an impressive feat indeed. But can we really give the GOAT award to a player with an early 1st round exit from Wimbledon?


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Biggest Moments from the Sweet 16March 30, 2013
The Sweet 16 in the 2013 NCAA tournament has come to a close, and Bleacher Report has all of the best moments from the action.
Which shot was bigger than all the rest? Which dunk rattled the rim the most? Who had the most impressive day on the floor?
Check out the video to have all of these questions answered, and don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Bleacher Report will have around-the-clock coverage of the tournament as March Madness celebrates its 75th year of competition! Join us for exclusive game coverage, professional player comparisons and more.


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Legally before you drive on the road, you must:
How can you get a provisional driving license?
Before you learn to drive a car, moped or motorcycle; you must hold a provisional driving license.
Note - If you wish to drive larger vehicles, minibuses or buses you will need to apply for provisional licenses for these vehicle categories even if you hold a valid full driving license.
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Booking test with DSA - Theory test appointment
You can take your theory test once your provisional licence becomes valid. Even if you hold a provisional licence before you turn 17 yrs. It becomes valid only on your 17th birthday.
You can book, change, and cancel your driving theory test appointment using online booking service by DSA or by calling DSA directly.
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DSA Theory test fee for car and motorcycle GBP 31.00
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Before you can start driving/riding on the road, you need to pass two exams conducted by DSA -
Driving theory test (computer based test) and practical test (on road test)
You get a full driving licence only after when you pass both these tests.
Driving theory test -
The theory test is divided in two parts; the multiple choice part and the hazard perception part.
You need to pass both tests at the same time.
If you fail in one part, you would need to reappear for the whole test.
Once you get a theory test pass certificate, you can then apply for practical driving test.
A. Multiple choice element in driving test
The theory test is conducted at various tests centres around the country. This section is designed to test your knowledge and understanding of the theory behind driving.
Multiple choice element of the theory test will be of
This test is conducted on a touch screen computer.
You need not have knowledge of using computer for giving the test.
There is a 15-minute practice session for you to familiarise yourself with the test environment.
Multiple choice questions differ as per the category of the vehicle you're hoping to obtain a licence for.
A question and several answer options will appear on screen and you have to touch and select the correct answer. Some questions will have multiple choice answers.
You can navigate between questions and 'flag' questions that you want to revisit later in the test. You are allowed to revisit the questions and change the answers if you want to.
Case study style questions are presented in slightly different format.
You will be a given a scenario, or short story and you would need to answer five questions based on the same.
If you have understood all the official questions in the DSA theory test question bank, then there is no need to worry.
Case study questions are included to test candidate's knowledge and understanding of the theory of the driving.
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The test questions are based on the official theory test revision question bank published by DSA.
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After an optional break of three minutes the second part of the test, hazard perception test will start.
B. Hazard perception test
Before the actual test begins, you will be shown video clip tutorial about how the hazard perception part works. This section is designed to tests your awareness of potential hazards whilst driving.
The hazard perception part is also delivered the same way on a computer but instead of touch you need to respond to developing hazard by clicking a button on the mouse.
You'll be shown a series of 14 real life video clips each about a minute time length, showing all types road scenes like city roads, country roads, motorways.
Maximum score you can get for every clip is 5 for each one developing hazard, but in one clip you can score 2 marks for 10 developing hazards in the same video clip.
You need to click the left or right button of the mouse indicating you have spotted the hazard developing - which may result in the driver taking some action, such as changing speed or direction. The earlier you spot the hazard developing higher is the score. More time you take to react lower is the score.
Multiple choice questions vary as per the vehicle category, but the hazard perception test has the same versions for different vehicles e.g. car, bike, heavy vehicle, bused etc, but the the pass mark is different for different vehicle types
You won't be able to review your answers to the hazard perception test; as on the road, you don't get a second chance to rectify your error made while responding to the developing hazard.
The pass mark for the car and motorcycle hazard perception part of the theory test is 44 out of 75. Read more on
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TouchDraw™ for Android
TouchDraw for Android is a powerful, yet easy to use, vector 2D drawing and diagramming application for Android Tablets and Phones. It has many of the features of desktop applications wrapped up in a mobile package. Best of all, it's only a fraction of the price of a desktop application.
TouchDraw for Android is fully compatible with TouchDraw for iPad and TouchDraw for Mac and files can be freely exchanged between all three versions. TouchDraw differs from a paint program in that objects are always managed independently of the drawing they're in. You can move a figure around, change its shape, change its color, group it, without affecting other shapes that are around it.


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Pubcycle Tours of Asheville
Amazing Pubcycle
- Address: Various Locations, Asheville, NC 28801
- Times: 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Admission: $15-$25
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The most memorable fun in Asheville! We've created a wicked cool BYOB pedal powered (motor assisted) tour like no other. 10 pedalers and 3 non-pedalers.
1.5 Hour Pub Tours have 2 Brewery/Pub intermissions along the way, while our classic 40 minute Nomad Tour lets you enjoy the sights and sounds of Downtown Asheville as you cruise the streets in style. Both tours pickup and drop-off at both the Aloft Hotel and the Renaissance Hotel.
The wedding party starts at the Dry Ridge Inn
Mist settling in over a cove … sunlight reflecting on a dewy glen … brides have chosen the Asheville area for decades because of its undeniable romance.
Add to its charm an array of wedding venues and services for the bride and her party, and you have good reason to make the Dry Ridge Inn your quarters for your big day. You, your friends and your family will be close to some of the most charming event sites in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Close to the inn, at the end of the nearby Reems Creek Valley, is The Fields of Blackberry Cove. Set your ceremony among the fields themselves, or have it by the meditation pond. Perhaps you'd prefer the altar be set at The Lodge, a fire glowing in its huge stone fireplace. Or maybe you'd like the warm lighting of the many chandeliers in the barn.
All eyes will be upon you as you sweep across the lawn to your seated guests at Claxton Farms, near the inn in Weaverville. Located on a 500-acre conservation easement, the working farm provides 360-degree views of the surrounding mountains and fields full of llamas, miniature horses and registered Polled Hereford cattle. The lawn at Claxton Farms has room for 400 guests. The paneled red-roofed barn holds 150. M7 Event Solutions & Catering is the farm's exclusive caterer.
Also operated by M7 is The Crest Center & Pavilion, less than five miles from downtown Asheville. A large stone fireplace and a bank of windows looking out over the Blue Ridge Parkway give the mountaintop center the warm ambience of a mountain lodge. The center seats 300 for receptions, 230 for dinner or 200 if you'd like the dance floor set up. Another 150 can mingle comfortably on the 4,000-square-foot overlook deck. If you'd like an outdoors ceremony, the pavilion has room for 400 for dinner or 600 for receptions. Executive chef Allen B. Dye draws heavily on local ingredients to help brides plan their menus.
Housed in an old castle in Asheville's historic Montford district, Homewood Event and Conference Center provides an intimate setting for your wedding party. Dancers will glide across the original hardwood floors, their laughter bouncing off Homewood's beautiful cherry wood walls. A mile north of downtown, the venue seats 110 for dinner and up to 175 for hors d'oeuvres. The lawn outside has room for 200 diners, and the glen nearby, draped with trees, can accommodate 300 for the ceremony.
Looking for a more "urban" setting for your wedding? "On Broadway" is in the heart of downtown Asheville. The historic 6,000-square-foot space provides up to 200 guests with lots of room to help you celebrate your new life together. Outside of the large glass windows that frame Asheville's busy Broadway, the sidewalks are full of people heading for nearby restaurants. You're luckier than they – your sumptuous hors d'oeuvres and dinner are by the renowned Asheville caterer Celine and Company Catering.
Prefer a "royal" wedding? Be like Cornelia Vanderbilt and get married at the Biltmore Estate. The estate has several locations on its extensive grounds for your exchange of vows. Hold the ceremony beside the marble statue of Diana, on the green above the house. Be transported by horse-drawn carriage to your guests awaiting you at the Stable Courtyard and Gardens. Biltmore's five indoor facilities can accommodate up to 200 guests, and its outdoor venues comfortably hold up to 400. (Of course, much smaller events are easily staged.)
The Venue, in downtown Asheville, has three levels for entertaining, each sized to provide optimum services for your ceremony and reception. With its exposed brick walls and barn ceilings, The Venue seems like a French cottage (though a large one, at 13,000 square feet). Bring your own caterer, or choose the services of veteran caterer Marta Bodenhorst
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text: I just want to bring this to everyone's attention. Red bull needs to be boycotted for a very unfair business practice they have been utilizing in order to dominate the energy drink market. Red Bull has a lot of money, and they can use their money to start unecessary lawsuits against club owners of every size who won't carry red bull. Their lawsuits claim that a given place of business uses red bull's name to sell drinks, due to their brand name dominance, but they actually sell a cheaper energy drink without informing the consumer. They deliver their papers over and over, taking club owners to court, and eventually the cost of legal fees outwieghts the right of the club owner to keep a product out of their place of business. They force clubs into buying Red Bull. Until they stop these practices people really need to help and boycott Red Bull and give other companys a fair chance in the energy drink market. Please respond and send emails to the address posted to this account and I can add more detail with any questions you have........and please pass the word!


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London: Tottenham's home woes continued as Wigan grabbed a second 1-0 victory at White Hart Lane in three years.
Wigan opened the scoring through Ben Watson after Brad Friedel's weak punch landed at his feet, enabling him to tuck the ball past the American.
The loss incensed the home support, and increased calls for Spurs' Portuguese manager to replace his ageing goalkeeper with Hugo Lloris.
Andre Villas-Boas named an unchanged line-up from the side that beat Southampton in their last Premier League fixture, with Lloris returned to the bench and Emmanuel Adebayor left in limbo, yet to make a first start under Villas-Boas.
Roberto Martinez made eight changes to the team that lost to Bradford on Wednesday, restoring the XI that beat West Ham last weekend barring the enforced inclusion of Watson for the injured James McArthur.
Both sides were looking to bounce back from mid-week Capital One Cup exits, but it was Tottenham who started the brighter as Clint Dempsey raced through on goal, smashing his shot into the side-netting.
Both sides pressed high, disturbing each other's ability to build from the back resulting in a scrappy opening exchange, though it was the home side, through Tom Huddlestone especially, who began to exert greater control.
Tottenham were dealt a blow in the 22nd minute when Sandro, intimating that there was a problem with his thigh, was forced out of the game to be replaced by Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Wigan sensed weakness immediately, with Shaun Maloney exploiting Spurs` new-found immobility and ponderousness in midfield.
Drifting inside, the Scottish playmaker set up Arouna Kone who should have put the Latics ahead before latching onto Franco Di Santo's through-ball and firing his shot straight at an onrushing Friedel.
After a bland first half, both sides started the second with more purpose. Dempsey tested Ali Al-Habsi once more but it was Wigan who would finally end the deadlock.
Maloney's corner fell on top of Friedel and the American weakly patted the ball towards the penalty spot and a waiting Watson, who struck his shot first time towards goal. The veteran keeper looked to have scrambled across his line and clawed the ball away, but it was adjudged to have crossed the line.
Villas-Boas responded by introducing Adebayor in place of an often isolated and ineffective Jermain Defoe and, encouraged vigorously by the home crowd and assistant manager Steffen Freund, Spurs began to attack with greater intent.
The Lilywhites went more direct, switching Aaron Lennon and Gareth Bale, launching balls into the box towards Adebayor and Dempsey, but that rather played to the strengths of Wigan and Gary Caldwell especially.
Spurs' half-hearted onslaught was to little avail, and they rarely tested Al-Habsi barring several speculative efforts from outside the box.
Back-to-back wins propel Wigan up the table, echoing the incredible end-of-season form that saved them from certain relegation last year, while Spurs' home form will continue to worry Villas-Boas.


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Kitten is biting HARD...
We have a 4+ month old kitten. We have pretty much trained him not to scratch & use his nails while playing with us (yay), but he is a biter. He's not biting inanimate objects, he is biting my husband & I. He does this during play, while he's having a freak out moment (without us interacting with him), while we're sleeping, etc. He wraps his paws around our arms & bites HARD! We've tried the "timeout", we've tried freezing or playing dead, we've tried spraying him with water.
Any suggestions on how to get him to stop this?
All kittens do this, and it's not much fun!
One thing I've found that helps is to react as another kitten would.
When he bites you, make a sudden high pitched yowl . This is what a littermate would do to let the biter know that it hurts.
This is another reason why it's good to leave kittens with their littermates until around 8 weeks - so they can learn this bite inhibition.
Your kitten will probably be startled into letting go, and then you can throw a toy for him. Catnip mice dangled on strings are good for biting, and also good for tiring out energetic kittens.
Yes, I agree with the loud pitched meow sound, the kitten needs to realize that the biting is unacceptable and that it HURTS. Another thing, if you are able to do this, is to totally ignore him when he attempts to bite you. Get up and do something else, not giving him any attention.
i dont wait until it really hurts!
i let them know right away that it hurts and i screech...they usually just look at me as if to say ' huh you big wimp' and then scuttle away when i wont play any more.
Ohhhhh I know all to well about this.
My Casper who is now 7 months old is doing this.
Yes LR,still....
But my thing is we have done everthing LR has said.Except fpr the high pitched yowl.Since he is deaf,he can't hear it.
With Casper,he attacts.Ears back,head cocked.And this is in the middle of the room while we are on the couch.He'll be lovey and dovey in your arms,then attack and bite.And I mean very hard.Hubby(Mr no brains) tried to calm him down and put his face right close to Caspers,yup you guessed it,Casper got him right on the lip.No blood though.I actually had to put Casper in our room to settle him down.Both hubby and Casper needed a time out.LOL.
LR,we are still thinking on getting him a playmate.But I'm worried he will hurt her.Yes we are thinking of a female around the same age.
And this biting has gone on for a few months.
"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours."
My Chico used to give us a hard"love-Bite"sometimes when he's being cuddled and yes it hurts But now we can see it coming and a very firm NO CHICO! stops him in his tracks,but he's old enough to know when he's in trouble and seems to understand NO!...A playful kitten is another story,it's very tempting to play with a kitten with your hands,I have the scars to prove it,but it's better for the kitten if you play with a toy,rather than your hands,that way he'll not think it's ok to bite the hand that feeds you..
Moving feet and arms in bed is a very popular target for kittens,something they usually grow out of though. IMO
"The cruelest animal is the Human animal"
3 kitties,Rocky(r.i.p my boy),Chico,Vinnie
I agree.NEVER use your hands to play.Which is something we never do.With Casper,everytime he was doing the biting,we directed him with his stuffed duckie.This worked for a while.But then he would turn around and go after us.
I have never had this problem with Phoenix or any other cats I have.And since Casper is deaf,this is much more of a challence for us.He even goes after Yukon and Tron.They have put him in his place.They are fed up that they want nothing to do with him.Poor guys.
We do play with him alot.He has the toys on the string and we get him all pooped out.
"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours."
MonaB - I don't know what is triggering your cat's attacks. At 7 months old, I would say it's not the usual kitten attack thing.
Is his back rippling? Tail Lashing? If they are, and his ears are back as you say, it sounds like the overstimulation, energy-release type of attack.
I would advise you to try petting him just briefly - a few seconds at a time - to avoid the over stimulation. The second his ears go back, or he shows the other signs, stop petting or cuddling him.
You might keep some catnip toys handy (if he reacts to catnip) to help him discharge the energy on that instead of on your hands.
Thank you LR.I will try what you suggested.
No rippling,but yes they tail does lash.And of course the ears are back.
Nope,there is no effect with the catnip.I even tried quite a while ago the honeysuckle Luba suggested.But he wants nothing to do with it.
Also,this happens when we are not even holding him.
When he went to the vets for his last shots at 4 months,it took the vet 20 mins just to give him his first shot.He was going after the vet.
But when he gets up from a sleep,omg he is so loveable,purrs,and licks your whole face.
So do you think it would be safe to get him a playmate?
"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours."
Getting him a playmate may change him totally, but of course there is no guarantee!
He is very young and full of energy which needs to be expelled, and a playmate is very often just the thing!
What you might want to do is try fostering a snotty young female who won't take any of his crap and see how it goes. That way if it doesn't work out, the new cat can go back to the rescue and still get a good home.
Of course you will need to do proper introductions, and foster a cat who is known to be fine with other cats.
My kitten Stinkerbelle (6 months old) has attacked me just a couple of times. The rest of the time she plays with my other two adult cats, and they have taught her bite inhibition without ever hurting her.
I know that if she were my only cat, the attacks would be MUCH more frequent and hurt a heck of a lot worse!
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This opinion paper has been prepared as a springboard for discussion at a panel session titled Convergence or Divergence in Education for the Information Professions: A Dialog Between Educators and Consumers, sponsored by ASIS SIG/ED, to be held on October 9, 1995, at the ASIS Annual Meeting in Chicago. Moderated by SIG/ED Chair Samantha Hastings, University of North Texas, panelists will include Miriam A. Drake, Dean and Director of Libraries, Georgia Institute of Technology; Timothy L. Ericson, Director, Archives and Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Thomas J. Galvin, Professor, Information Science & Policy, University at Albany-SUNY; F. William Summers, Professor, Library and Information Studies, Florida State University; and James G. Williams, Professor, Information Science, University of Pittsburgh. Following this article is a questionnaire to give ASIS members a chance to express their views before the Annual Meeting on some of the questions that the panel will address.
A long standing tension exists in education for the information professions between unification (convergence) and specialization (divergence). Exemplifying and exacerbating this tension are such persistently controversial issues as striking an optimal balance between theory and practice in professional curricula; the appropriate place, if any, in the curriculum for skills training; and whether the most important obligation of a professional school is to give students the practical knowledge and skills needed for entry-level jobs or to provide a theoretical base for lifelong career development? These issues are further complicated by the existence of multiple career entry paths and educational options for many categories of information professionals, by status hierarchies both within universities and within the information professions themselves, and by the historic division between educators and practitioners.
Even at best, this continuing tension can never be fully resolved. But such tensions, if controlled, can serve to improve the quality of educational programs. By contrast, uncontrolled tension will result only in further fragmentation and weakening of both academic programs and of the profession itself. These issues of convergence or divergence in educational programs are best addressed through constructive dialogue between educators and practitioners, rather than by the schools simply resolving them unilaterally. Finally, the purpose of this paper is more to pose questions as a stimulus for meaningful discussion, rather than to offer definitive answers.
The forces of divergence and separatism have, for at least the last 40 years, been in the ascendant in information science education. Emerging specializations, such as information resource management, telecommunications network management, information systems design, information counseling and preservation, have been quick to distance themselves both educationally and occupationally from librarianship or archival administration. It is, of course, always incumbent on a newer occupation to emphasize the ways in which it differs from existing jobs, and by implication, the ways in which its methods are superior to those of the established fields. Consider the pains taken by clinical psychologists, clinical social workers and psychoanalysts, to distinguish themselves from psychiatrists. Compare the parallel efforts of the pioneer information scientists to distance their field, no matter how fuzzy its initial definition, from librarianship.
Separatism may, however, be only a transitional stage in the development of new career specializations, analogous perhaps to the manner in which schools of librarianship have typically responded in their curricula to such newer information technologies as non-print media, computers or microforms. Initially, these tended to be addressed in separate courses, often taught by adjunct practitioner-faculty with specialized knowledge of the new medium or machine. But over time, as these technologies became institutionalized in libraries, they also were incorporated into the standard library school curriculum. The special course in cataloging audio-visual media became, for example, a unit or two in a more general course in the organization of knowledge.
Will time bring a convergence of professional identity among archivists, records managers, systems analysts, MIS directors and GIS specialists? Or will it remain useful to distinguish both professionally and educationally between those whose primary focus is on the technology, such as programmers or telecommunications network designers, and those whose principal concern is the content of records and/or the end user, such as librarians or archivists?
The "anything goes" approach to pre-service education is by no means characteristic only of the lower-paid, less prestigious information specializations such as public librarianship or archives. Well-paid corporate MIS directors, as well as their public sector IRM counterparts, commonly reach the tops of their respective career ladders with little or no formal academic preparation in information or computer science. So long as the information professions remain, for the most part, careers "open to the talents," they will likely continue to be characterized by highly diverse entry pathways, and by the absence of common educational requirements as minimum qualifications either for initial employment or career advancement. Archivists, in particular, have recently given a good deal of serious thought to narrowing the pathways for pre-service education, and their analysis of the issues is potentially applicable to a broad range of information-related careers. (1)
The University of Pittsburgh is a striking case in point. In only 25 years (a mere nanosecond as time is measured in the academic world), Pittsburgh's School of Library & Information Science has grown from 541 graduate students enrolled in two library science degree programs (MLS and Ph.D.) under a full-time faculty of 21 in 1970 to a total enrollment of 736 undergraduate and graduate students pursuing 10 different information-related degrees and certificates, with a full-time faculty of 35 in 1995.(2)
With bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in library science, information science and telecommunications, as well as specialized curricula in school library-media management, archives and assorted other lines of professional career endeavor, Pittsburgh has consciously transformed itself into a comprehensive school of the information professions. Syracuse, Drexel, Albany and many other library schools have followed Pitt's lead, with varying degrees of success, as a preferred alternative to voluntary extinction.
But no school, no matter its size, has yet succeeded in developing a campus-wide monopoly. Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Albany all continue to offer what many students and employers consider more desirable academic alternatives outside the LIS school. In the 1980s, for example, the University of Pittsburgh simultaneously established master's level degree programs in telecommunications in both the School of Library and Information Science and in the Graduate School of Business. At approximately 16,000 students, the University at Albany, hardly a giant among research universities, continues to prepare information professionals in the Computer Science and Geography and Planning departments of its College of Arts and Sciences, as well as in its Schools of Business, Public and International Affairs, and in the former library school, now renamed the School of Information Science and Policy.
Divergent academic loci for entry level professional education result in what must, for employers and people outside the field, be a baffling proliferation of credentials. Master of Library Science, Master of Information Resources Management, Geographic Information Specialist, MBA with or without an MIS specialization, Master of Public Administration, Master of Telecommunications, Master of Archival Studies, BS in IS, or in MIS, to name only a few. Imagine if medicine or social work or nursing were characterized by a similar variety. The implications for the person in need of care would be staggering. Society has enough trouble now distinguishing among psychiatrists, with MDs, psychologists with Ph.D.s, and clinical social workers with MSWs.
Do we, as information professionals, really want to continue to confuse both prospective employers and potential clients by this hodgepodge of degrees and certificates? Evidently we do.
Most common are two separate curricular tracks, one in general library and information studies and the other in school library media services. The latter are often tailored to specific state teacher-librarian certification requirements, which vary substantially from state to state. The University at Albany, with a masters level student population of 167 and a full time faculty of 13, is currently struggling to support two master's degrees - MLS and MSIS - and within the MLS program specialized curricular tracks in school library-media services, archives/records administration, health sciences IRM, as well as an undergraduate concentration in information science. And, in their spare time, the faculty co-sponsor and support an interdisciplinary information science Ph.D. program with five other schools and departments.(3) In my observation, Albany is fairly typical of LIS programs generally in its faculty size and programmatic diversity.
The current programmatic variety can be sustained in a higher education environment characterized by scarce resources only by considerable overlap in curricular content. If the same courses are considered applicable to the preparation of librarians, records managers, archivists and information brokers, then logic would suggest that those specializations perhaps have more similarities among them than they have differences. If it is possible to craft a single core curriculum to prepare information professionals to fill positions as varied as elementary school library media specialist, corporate chief information officer, historical society preservation specialist, then is there reason to hope that, with time and effort, it might be possible to construct a unified curriculum to prepare MIS directors, computing center user services specialists, reference librarians and state government information resource managers?
It might be possible. But the yin of the quest for a common intellectual foundation for the several information professions is everywhere counterbalanced by the yang of academic empire building and by a resource allocation system in higher education that rewards territorialism and discourages collaboration. What could change this situation? What would motivate universities to get their academic acts together and to substitute strong, unified academic programs in information studies for those that are currently scattered, fragmented and often chronically under-supported?
The answer, of course, is the customers! If alumni, employers, professional societies, accrediting agencies and prospective students all demanded convergence and unification, universities, in this time of intense competition for bodies to fill seats, would unquestionably respond. But this is unlikely to happen so long as the community of practice continues to believe that it derives more benefit from divergence than it would from convergence.
Why should this be the case? One obvious answer is the quite legitimate need of practitioners for occupational identity and for professional status. It is widely believed (although not universally true) that specialized academic degrees lend prestige and status to an occupation and that jobs requiring a graduate degree for entrance are more prestigious and better compensated than those one can enter with a bachelor's degree. At Pittsburgh, for example, one of the first LIS programs to develop a separate degree in telecommunications, the most compelling arguments to offer a new MST degree, as distinct from the MSIS, were grounded in the understandable wish of graduates to possess a distinctive credential that, in the immediate post-divestiture mid-1980s, was in high demand among employers, at a time when demand for programmers and systems analysts, at least locally, had begun to slacken. Add to this pressure from corporate employers and a willingness on the part of the telecommunications industry and its trade association to provide money, equipment and personnel to mount a new program in telecommunications, and presto! - a new specialized degree was born! It seemed very unlikely at that time (1985) that such resources would have been available to broaden the scope of the existing information science program to include telecommunications, although, in hindsight, this might have made better pedagogical sense.
Indeed, even the original decision, made in the early decades of this century, to move education for librarianship from on-the-job, apprenticeship training to university settings, as well as the decision in the late 1940s to raise the entry level ante from a four year bachelor's degree in library science to a fifth year master's degree, can both more easily be accounted for by professional status considerations than by any pedagogical rationale. The core courses I took as an MLS student at Simmons College in 1954 were identical in content to those taken by Simmons undergraduates in the final year of their (now discontinued) BLS program. Even Lester Asheim, that eloquent advocate for upgrading professional education in librarianship, was forced to admit, after the transition from BLS to MLS, that many of the so-called new courses turned out to be only "the old courses with new names."
There is one further status issue peculiar to the information field, one currently being hotly debated among library educators and librarians - the issue of "the L word." Blaise Cronin initiated the most recent round of this controversy at the February 1995 conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, with a passionate denunciation of "the shrill, and frequently irrational, defense of the word library in the face of compelling arguments to re-title our schools and re-focus our academic programs." Library Journal's Editor in Chief, John Berry, promptly picked up the gauntlet by counseling his readers that "if the school or program to which you send potential library leaders from your community or staff decides to drop the 'L' word, urge those students to enroll elsewhere." A month later, Cronin's decanal predecessor at Indiana University, Herbert White, awarded Berkeley a failing grade in the truth-in-advertising test by virtue of the absence of the word library from the new name of its School of Information Management and Systems.(4) Even the American Library Association seems to be selling out, having in January of this year renamed its former Standing Committee on Library Education; henceforth, it will be known simply as the Committee on Education. (5)
It is unpleasant to face the reality of the negative image of library science and librarianship on campus, especially in the major research universities. But the fact is that professions higher on the academic pecking order, like business, computer science and even public administration, have often been unwilling to join forces with library science, fearing a loss of prestige. Cronin may indeed be on to something when he observes that "It is probably not coincidental that many of the most innovative and research oriented schools in both the US and UK (Berkeley, Sheffield, Syracuse) have removed the "L" word from their titles and flagship academic programs. (6)
There is surely no sin in vocationalism in a professional program of study. Librarianship, archival administration, records management, information brokering, are, like all professions, applied disciplines. Having once long ago, before information technology liberated me from dependence on a secretary, made the mistake of hiring one who turned out to have studied only "the theory of shorthand," I am not now likely to choose to have my appendix removed by a physician whose knowledge is limited to "theory of the appendectomy." Like all of the issues presented in this paper, theory vs. application is not an "either-or" choice, but a matter of "some of both." The question worth asking then is, how much of each? What is the optimal mix? And how does that optimal mix change over time, with changing conditions in the field?
In the 1960s, when resources were relatively abundant and credentialed graduates were scarce, schools of the information professions were able to rely more heavily on employers to provide a professional finishing school for new graduates than they can today, when the supply-demand ratio has been reversed. Thirty years ago, the new MLS entering an urban public library system could, with confidence, count on there already being at least two experienced professionals in any branch. Today, a single professional, often a new graduate, is likely to be the only professional overseeing one or more branches. There is simply nobody there to learn the practical techniques from! Small wonder students demand that we teach them everything they will ever need to know to be librarians, or archivists or information managers, or that they conclude that if it is good for a new information professional to know one programming language or one set of database searching protocols, it must be twice as good to know two, and four times as good to know four.
For information professionals seeking a first job today, the cruel catch-22 is that, if all beginning jobs require experience, then how is the new professional ever supposed to gain that experience? Internships are, at best, a partial solution. There are fewer good internships available, because good internships are expensive to provide, and neither the schools nor prospective host institutions have any spare cash available to pay for them. The extended master's program, librarianship's original proposed solution to the problem of building an internship component into the curriculum, appears not to have caught on, because employers were simply not prepared to recognize an extra term or two of study by a higher starting salary. If graduates of a one-year master's program are paid the same as graduates of a two-year program, why take a two-year degree?
So, the pressure grows on the schools - from anxious students at one end to more demanding employers on the other - to cram more and more practical, vocational content into the pre-service curriculum. And information technology, which ought to liberate the professional from low-level drudgery, instead requires of the student only more and more hours at the terminal devoted to mastery of the more and more arcane protocols expected of the contemporary keyboard virtuoso.(8)
Weak, marginal programs also add little to the prestige of practicing information professionals. Such programs tend to be not only financially, but intellectually, impoverished. Not only is little theory-building done in such programs, but even the small body of theoretical knowledge that is specific to information science is often neglected. How many new graduates from MLS, MIS, records management, archival studies or computer science programs can give a satisfactory account of Bradford's law of scattering, of McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y, of the concept of marginal cost as applied to information products and services, of Shannon and Weaver's communication model, of the life cycle of information or of the significance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the management of personally identifiable data? Yet these are the forms of knowledge that will remain useful, long after UNIX, SGML and object-oriented programming languages are reduced to the status of historical artifacts in the museum of computing curiosities.
Contrary to the popular wisdom, specialization and unique academic credentials in reality often serve to narrow and limit, rather than to enhance, both career options and job mobility for new entrants. The excessive curricular emphasis on skills and techniques that is often characteristic of highly specialized academic programs can rather quickly doom the new professional to technological obsolescence. To center a professional curriculum on current information technology is truly to build it on sand. Moreover, for the last 20 years, increasing numbers of graduates of traditional LIS programs have sought employment in non-traditional (i.e., "non-library") environments. Just as the "site specific" Master of Hospital Administration degree gives new management professionals far fewer career options than does the generic MBA, so, too, holders of the MLS often find that credential quite limiting when they present themselves as candidates for jobs in organizations other than libraries.
The same forces that are rapidly obliterating traditional distinctions between different jobs in professional practice are perhaps the strongest drivers towards the unification of educational programs - the convergence of formerly separate information technologies and the continuing migration of data and information to exclusively electronic formats. The impact on the information professions is perhaps best illustrated by the migration of public records from print to electronic formats that is increasingly obscuring the traditional boundary between the domain of the records manager and the domain of the archivist.(9)
Consider, as well, the impact of the evolution from mainframe to distributed, networked computing on the content of the computing services professional's work day. Within the working lifetime of many of today's computing professionals, the central focus of their jobs has shifted from feeding, watering, monitoring and protecting large machines to instructing end users in techniques that, 20 years ago, were the exclusive province of the credentialed computer scientist.
Surely, universities cannot, or at least should not, continue to educate any group of information professionals in intellectual isolation from others whose work is becoming increasingly contiguous and interrelated. Given the change in the basic content of the computing professional's day, it may, for example, make better sense to educate computing center user services staff in the same classes in which reference librarians are prepared, rather than in courses in compiler design or advanced data structures.
Convergence or divergence? Consolidation or fragmentation of academic programs? Proliferation or rationalization of academic credentials? How much specialized education and training, and at what point? Striking the right balance between principle and application, not merely for this particular moment in the development of information organizations, but for a lifetime professional career. Keeping the educational establishment in tune with a dynamic and fluid environment of professional practice. These are the issues that divide us, and they are the issues that we, as responsible information professionals, have no choice but to engage.
This short anonymous questionnaire is intended to gather opinions from ASIS members on several key questions about education that will be addressed at an October 9 SIG/ED sponsored panel session at the 1995 ASIS Annual Meeting. You are encouraged to complete the questionnaire and return it, before September 30, 1995, to Thomas J. Galvin, Draper 118, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222. Please attend the panel session to hear a summary of the views expressed and to share additional insights with us in person.
Please circle the number that best reflects your beliefs according to the scale indicated here:
Strongly Moderately Mildly Mildly Moderately Strongly disagree disagree disagree agree agree agree 1 2 3 4 5 61. The existence of multiple academic degree programs (e.g., Master of Library Science, Master of Science in Information Science, Master of Science in Telecommunications, Bachelor of Information Science, etc.) offered by different disciplines (e.g., schools or departments of Library Science, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, etc.) does a disservice to students by confusing employers and/or limiting students' career options.
1 2 3 4 5 62. There is an identifiable common core of knowledge that is shared by all (or most) of the different specialties within the information field and that should be included in all academic programs for preparing information professionals.
1 2 3 4 5 63. The four-year bachelor's degree in an information-related discipline, rather than the master's degree, should be the appropriate credential for those seeking entry level jobs in the information field.
1 2 3 4 5 64. The most important obligation of professional schools is to prepare new graduates to become fully functioning information professionals in the shortest possible time after they are hired.
1 2 3 4 5 65. Academic programs leading to a first degree in information science should put much less emphasis on theory and much more emphasis on practical applications.
1 2 3 4 5 66. Universities should be encouraged to develop specialized entry level curricula for such different jobs as telecommunications specialist, MIS director, archivist, records manager, librarian, etc.
1 2 3 4 5 67. Universities should be encouraged to offer distinctive and different academic degrees for such different jobs as telecommunications specialist (Bachelor or Master of Telecommunications), MIS director (Bachelor or Master of Information Management), archivist (Master of Archival Studies), librarian (Master of Library Science), etc.
1 2 3 4 5 68. In designing educational programs for entry level information professionals, schools should prepare those who want to focus primarily on information technology, such as software engineers or programmers, differently from those who want to focus primarily on the content of records or on end users, such as librarians or archivists.
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Alexandra wrote:JodieO wrote:Alexandra wrote:I was just wondering. Mom talked with Nana last night and she was hunkered down. (Really, she doesn't have to go anywhere, and she lives in an apartment building. All she as to do is sit by the window and watch the snow come down. Someone even cleans off her car and moves it when they need to plow the lot. Snow would be fun if we didn't have to worry about going anywhere or shoveling it. . . ) Are you staying in tonight?
Clearly I need to move to wherever Nana lives.
Yeah, I have no plans to go anywhere. I actually don't mind driving in the snow so long as no one else is on the road or it's not dark. I may or may not really enjoy driving rather recklessly in the snow because I think it's fun to skid all over the road...
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A year after the release of their essential MMA striking-and-strategy manual The Stand Up Game, Greg Jackson and Kelly Crigger have teamed up again for Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts: The Ground Game, a brand-new primer on ground fighting that was released on Friday. The book breaks down all the common grappling positions found in MMA (as well as Greg's own cage-proven variations), helpfully illustrated with full-color photos, and even includes a section on nutrition contributed by P.R. Cole. You can currently purchase the book for the bargain price of $23.07 on Amazon — or, you can win one of the two signed copies we have in our possession. You're damn right it's time for a caption contest.
After the jump, you'll find a photo of Shark Fights off-color-man Don Frye sampling some of Amarillo's local flavor. Come up with a clever caption and post it in the comments section below by Thursday morning at 8 a.m. ET. We'll choose our two favorites and post the winners later that day. Good luck, folks. And thanks to Victory Belt for making this possible!
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Benjaminia is the other main nation in the HF, but there are rumors that they have been working alongside the Immortals ondifferent occasions, such as Op: Foreverday, and as such the tensions between them and Luchardsko are rising.
Their whole army (well actually they have some new stuff, like some armored cars and a tank, I just don't have pics yet)
Normal troopers
Commandos and scouts
Millitiaish normal troopers
Pilots (they now have rocket launchers, and yet again no pics)
Heros/Leaders (again 2 new ones, no pics)
Speeders and motorbikes, the middle one is the original Luchardsko patrol speeder.
Mech #1
Mech #2
Mech #3
Big carrier, it has cannons, mgs and torpedo launchers and a satelite dish
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