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Right To Repair - A Hot Issue or Big Problem?
OK, I read through it again. While some of the comments were made to be in defense of technicians, (thank-you shift-right), the thought process started as I interpreted it. Trying to defend against the comments is like trying to address a comment like "Do you still beat your wife?"
The simple facts are there are any number of people who have had careers that make them believe they are prepared to comment on what it's like being a technician, and what it costs today to try and run a viable business but they don't actually have the first hand experience of doing so.
For every success we have, it only takes one person to try and tear the whole operation down. I don't know if I ever told you about the guy with the windstar turn signal problem who's bill was $170 to repair. Which by the way was a charge for half of the time that was actually invested, and easily could have been mis-diagnosed and cost him well over $700 for a GEM module replacement that he didn't need. We got it right, did the repair right, cut our own throats to make the price right, and to him and everyone he has ever talked to we are crooks. If I could have seen that coming, I would have handed him a twenty told him sorry about his luck and sent him down the road without fixing his car and been better off.
I could talk about the guy back when I was a dealership technician. I got called to the service desk, and as soon as I got there the business owner jumped all over me for smoking in that customers car and burning a hole in the carpet. There is no doubt in my mind I was about to lose my job when the service manager spoke up about one little detail that car owner didn't account for with his lie. I don't smoke, never have, and can't stand to be near someone that does smoke. heck even getting into some people's cars where they smoke makes me ill.
I had to cut Friday short, and struggled through yesterday after having a reaction to the odor from the mothballs one lady has inside her car. She was here because I can handle the keyless security system on her Lincoln. I lost a day's productivity (and my lunch) for fixing it for her.0
Well, it could be worse.
You could be a car salesman. :P0
You could name any profession and point to similar public perceptions. Doctors? Lawyers? Postal employees?
I mean, really, what job title is universally loved and admired? Very few indeed.
RE: Dealing with customers: -- If you work on cars, you're gonna have good days, and you're gonna have very bad days.
My Dad was a field technician for Packard--he used to say "The automobile business eats people".
When Packard folded, he left the biz and worked for the Better Business Bureau----having a clear understanding of how difficult it was to fix cars, he had a very high success rate of resolving complaints from car owners, and was also not hesitant to tell a consumer that their claim had no basis.
Keep in mind that the BBB is funded solely by business--it was created to weed out the bad apples and protect the good ones.0
Click on the e-how authors link and you'll find that he wrote a book about auto repair scams and shams in 1990. What's really sad is much of the information in the ehow article couldn't be more incorrect.
Its troublesome to see him featured as an "expert" when his words prove that he isn't qualified to hold a position as a technician.0
That's what happens when an ad site pays for content just to generate hits. Not all eHow.com content is low quality but a lot sure is. I don't know about other search engines, but "Google is paying attention to complaints about "content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality content" clogging its search results."
You could write a blurb about how to select a good mechanic. Maybe they'll pay you $29. :shades:0
That's really wrong info! However, I have learned long ago to never consult eHow for anything.
Of course, consider what you pay for eHow advice :P
I get $750 a day in court to be an expert on car values.0
"Should the question go to the ballot, Bradley predicted that supporters of improving access to repair information for independent auto body shops would have an easier time framing their argument for voters.
"The only holdout right now is General Motors so we're hopeful there will be an agreement reached to bring to the House. This is a very complicated and difficult issue to bring to the ballot, but from our side it's easy to frame if it goes to the ballot. Are you going to vote for the guy on the corner who fixes your car or the manufacturers in Detroit who needed a bailout. It will be a no-brainer for voters, so I can see how it's going to play," Bradley said.
Attention, and lobbying, shifts to House on auto repair issue (bostonherald.com)0
"You bought the car; you ought to be able to get access to information to fix it," said Art Kinsman, spokesman for the coalition, which predicts that success would lead to ballot measures in other states, where right-to-repair legislation has stalled.
Car makers say they plan a robust fight. "Massachusetts is really the battleground right now," said Dan Gage, spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
Dealerships also oppose the ballot measure, fearing that auto makers that find the requirements too onerous might not sell cars in the state. The dealers also are looking to protect their own repair businesses, which have become "vital" revenue generators, said John Giamalvo, an analyst with Edmunds.com."
Massachusetts Is 'Right to Repair' Battleground (Wall St. Journal)0
I believe that the consumers' choices should prevail. Not the manufacturer, not the dealer, but the consumer should be the first priority. Since greater competition benefits the consumer, independent garages should have ready access to repair equipment, tools and manuals, at competitive prices.0
OK, the log-in thing is finally fixed!.
The consumers are of course very important but how does R2R address their needs? In fact if we are to believe everything that has been written some want to try and suggest that all some shops need is "the tool" and "the software" and they will be 100% ready to serve the customer at the cheapest price possible. The reality is, the tools and software are already available but in some cases cost prohibitive. Let's envision that they can make the tools cheaper overnight, what about the training and product knowledge that is required to have the technicians be proficient in it's use? Is someone legislating that will also be available, and that the techs would even attend it if it was?
Top shops who have been looking out for the consumer have been investing all along in every aspect of this. (tools, training, software) No we can't work on all makes and models any more and legislation can't fix that. As a consumer you have to recognize you have every right to own a Merceds, or BMW if you can afford to. Affording to in many cases likely means you'll need to adress certain vehicle needs at the dealership. If you really don't like that then you need to buy a vehicle that your local shop can justify supporting. You see? You do have a choice here.
BTW did you recheck the article Steve linked? That sure fell apart fast when some knowlegable people chimed in.0
OK, the log-in thing is finally fixed!.
Don't jinx it.
Did you recruit some of your business friends to comment at the WSJ?
Looks like it's still headed for the ballot in Massachusetts with the Right to Repair Coalition's poll numbers running 80% in favor. Of course, the people polled haven't read this thread and don't know the arguments against the proposal.
Coalition rallies to support ballot question governing auto repair rights (Wicked Local Somerset)0
"France's antitrust authority fired a warning shot at auto makers on Monday accusing them of partly offsetting losses on car manufacturing with their alleged control of the auto-repair market, the latest in series of rulings and reports from the regulator that have rankled some French businesses.
The regulator, Autorité de la Concurrence, recommended the government deregulate the market for car repair parts to make it easier for independent mechanics to service cars. It also warned auto makers that it will probe and sanction specific anticompetitive behavior in the future.
The authority also asked car makers to provide independent mechanics with all the information needed to repair a car."
French Watchdog Targets Car-Repair Costs (WSJ)0
Right to Repair is Now Law (MSNBC)
"The Tire Industry Association applauds the passage of the Right to Repair law in Massachusetts and strongly urges Congress to pass a comparable federal law to ensure that all American car owners and their trusted repair shops have the same access to safety alerts and repair information as the franchised new car dealer network."
Congress should pass right to repair law (somdnews.com)0
I hope congress passes that law. It'll level the playing field for independent shops and consumers.0
I'm curious about the unintended consequences.0
Well, you raise a good point, Steve. It's a multifaceted issue, so I'd be surprised if there weren't some drawbacks that aren't obvious, but my perception is that the tradeoffs would be net positive. It would spur competition, which generally improves value to the consumer.0
It would spur competition, which generally improves value to the consumer
If it was really able to do anything, it might make some unknown tool cheaper, then someone with no additional training could then pretend they are qualfied and capable of taking on much more complictaed work. The race to the bottom would then accelerate and you'll lose the top shops even faster.0
obyone Posts: 8,054then someone with no additional training could then pretend they are qualfied and capable of taking on much more complictaed work.
Isn't that what they are doing now?0
then someone with no additional training could then pretend they are qualfied and capable of taking on much more complicated work.
Isn't that what they are doing now?
No, the cost of the equipment and software created a natural barrier that prevented that in most cases. The shops once they found out that specialized equipment was mandatory for specific repairs either stepped up and made the investment, or else called in a mobile specialist or simply shipped the car back to the dealership.
Their hope with R2R is that they would suddenly have a way around the cost of the O.E. tools, meanwhile they still wouldn't have the training and experience to go with them. I see that as bad for the consumer.0
Are you suggesting, then, that the current law is what's best for consumers? If not, what change(s) would you suggest?0
Are you suggesting, then, that the current law is what's best for consumers? If not, what change(s) would you suggest?
Best for "consumers".
From that article;
There is increasing backlash from the public over use of the label "consumer" rather than "customer", with many finding it offensive and derogatory
Here is someone who understands an important angle to all of this;
If you genuinely want to be a consumer instead of a customer, then I suggest you plan wisely for how your going to afford $40,000 throw away cars every five years. The whole R2R issue is being supported by shops who cannot turn the necessary profits so that they can afford the schools and tools that are already available. The shops are being "consumed" by price wars on one side as their outdated business model dies, and by consumerism that demands perfection without regard for the success of the business, long term.
Take just about every consumer advocate article you have ever read, don't they tell you to call around for the cheapest price as if auto repair was as consistent and simple as buying a name brand can of corn off of the shelf? Meanwhile what they have really told you is to avoid a shop (like mine for instance) who has made a much greater investment to be ready to serve your vehicle needs because of what I have been spending on my tools and schools and go to the person (shop) who hasn't spent that kind of money for decades. They are cheaper to do your water pump, not a lot mind you because they will intentionally price right below someone like me. But cheaper enough to get that easy work without doing everything you really need them to be doing.
Now that all has seemed to work great for them and consumers for a long time, but today the technology in the cars has finally forced the shops to start to wake up and now they find themselves in trouble. The gap between what they can do, and what their customers really need has widened to the point that they now find themselves failing to be able to completely fix the cars and were looking for someone to blame for that other than themselves. So they blame the manufacturers. They also are looking for someone or something to save them, so they cling onto R2R because that is the promise that it has made.
But it won't fix any of that. It won't make the tools any cheaper. It won 't make them go to training. They will hang on until their last day and simply close and dissapear from the trade with no-one available or capable to replace them. Their busineses will be full of outdated and worn out equipment so there will be nothing to sell to even try and have someone else take over.
The question for you the consumer is do you want to support them to their grave and only then discover that you also lost shops like mine in the process, or are you going to support the shops like mine now because we have been taking the right approach and reward us for doing so with your business? We can't afford to have consumers coming through our door and stay on top of technology, but customers can help us while we help them.
BTW there is something that is happening in every town across the country. How many shops did there used to be in your town? How many shops are there now? How old are the mechanics, and the owners?
Of the ones that are there, which ones could repair a theft deterrent system issue that requires programming on your car right now? Was that "none" that I heard you say? Actually there might be one, but you don't know who that is because you have never been told how to find that shop. You've only ever been told to seek out the ones who can't do everything you need.0
don't they tell you to call around for the cheapest price
Haven't looked, but seems like many recommend you ask your friends. Getting advice from friends is one of the main reasons people hang out on forums or read Repair Shop Ratings, Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes your friends are idiots, but it's still easier than trying to cold call a few shops for quotes.
The question for you the consumer is do you want to support them to their grave
I want my car fixed fast, for not a lot of money and I want it done right the first time. I won't put up with indifferent or condescending service. And I'll tell all my friends.
Theft deterrent problems? My old '97 Subaru's alarm started acting up (the old 2 am wake up calls for no reason). I got online, found the tech info, opened the black box, changed the DIP switch settings and disabled it.
Paying someone to "fix" the alarm on an old car wasn't worth it to me.
Having DIP switches tells you how old the electronics are. But why couldn't I hook my slightly newer Quest up to the OBDII port with my laptop and tweak the alarm software myself? It shouldn't be any more difficult or more expensive than training the key fob not to beep the horn when I lock the doors, which I did myself after digging up the instructions.
Even if the system failed such that I had to find a tech (to swap out a circuit board ), having access to the works would at least let me shut down the siren or horn until I could get it to the shop.0
Customer, consumer, whatever. I'll accept customer, if you prefer, but I think you're blowing the semantics out of proportion.0
Customer, consumer, whatever. I'll accept customer, if you prefer, but I think you're blowing the semantics out of proportion.
We can disagree on this, that's fine. But can customers really afford to just sit on ther hands and wait to find out if it's accurate or not?0
Fyi Edmunds uses the term "consumer", as in Consumer Reviews.0
I visited Service Express today and noticed that ISIS
appears to have more functionality than ServiceExpress and
is available only to Massachusetts subscribers at twice the
price of ServiceExpress for S/T subscriptions. RS, Mass.
Reality. The information was available for a price, but only a few made the effort to access it. Now legislation is in place and here they go, the price for the information has nearly doubled. ( in Massachusetts that is). Shops who weren't buying it in the past, still won't buy it. Shops that were are going to have to dig even deeper to continue to do so.
And the winners are;
Shops that were never buying the information in the first place.
The losers are;
Shops that were buying what they needed to in order to the whole job for their customers and of course the customers (consumers).0
This is just service information, on top of the expense for services like Mitchell On Demand or Alldata.
Remember that the O.E. scan tools, training and reflashing software are additional expenses for each manufacturer that a shop chooses to try and support on top of having scan tools like Snap-On's Solus, Modis, Verus; OTC's Pegasys, Launch, ISCAN, Autel Maxidas etc.0
"Massachusetts voters resoundingly passed the "Right to Repair" ballot question, meaning the new law requiring automakers to provide independent repair shops as well as dealers with easy access to the computer codes needed to diagnose complex car problems will need to be reconciled with compromise legislation passed after the ballots were approved.
Under the ballot legislation, automakers are required to make diagnostic and repair information available to independent shops and dealers through a universal system by 2015. The compromise legislation, passed in July, gives automakers until 2018 to comply with new regulations.
Tuesday's margin of victory proves "that this is something Massachusetts is leading the way [on] and there ought to be access to this kind of information in every state"
Voters approve 'Right to Repair' ballot question (bostonglobe.com)0
Good! Maybe Edmunds can support passage of similar legislation in the other states.0
Good! Maybe Edmunds can support passage of similar legislation in the other states. :confuse:
To what end? I guess you don't see where this is going to raise costs for shops who try to be able to fully serve the publics needs, and therefore cause higher prices to the public? Remember the lowest denominator of shops will simply raise prices when they have the room to without adding any more capability for the public. Or worse they hold their pricing and take an even larger share of the easy work and then the top shops will either be forced to get out of the technology race and join the others at the bottom or they will have to be able to command a much higher price for the more technical stuff. No matter how you slice this the legislation can't and won't make things better. Your only going to see higher costs, and even fewer shops that can do all of the work a consumer may need.0


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Open access to publications through electronic journals has dramatically expanded downloading and use of this literature and spurred the rise of alternative metrics to assess article impact. Open access publications have been shown to gain more citations than articles with restricted access, and seven of the 10 most popular articles in 2012 were free public access with the most response, as documented through altmetrics, coming from non-scientists. Altmetrics also enables post-publication filtering and peer review in a nearly immediate timeframe for very large open access journals. Online activity measured through altmetrics highlights attention to the article on its own, less dependent on the validation of a journal name. The field of altmetrics is young, still limited to certain open websites, but with potential for considerable expansion, development and application. Open access and altmetrics can be expected to grow in a complementary and mutually supportive manner.
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Open Access and Altmetrics: Distinct but Complementary
by Ross Mounce
Electronic publishing with dissemination via the Internet has hugely changed the landscape of academic publishing in the 21st century. Now, few journals are print-only Many are available in print and online, while perhaps a slight majority in science, technology and medicine (STM) are published online only. This distribution is a reflection of the new reality that, for most disciplines, electronic journals have become the preferred method for discovering and accessing journal literature. Publishing content electronically, with dissemination online, is obviously less costly than publishing and disseminating print copies around the world, so there is also certainly an economic incentive for this trend, not just a social and functional preference. Alongside this growth and preference for online journals, there has been a notable rise in the growth and popularity of a particular type of online journal open access (OA) journals, which expressly allow anyone on the Internet to read them for free without paying. Such journals make it even easier for people to discover, access and re-use journal literature.
With this change in the consumption pattern of journal content to online, new ideas such as
altmetrics have arisen to help us better assess the influence and impact of online journal articles. This article considers the complementary relationship between OA journal publishing and altmetrics, scholarly impact measures derived from online activity, as a means of capturing and measuring some of the influence of online journal articles.
Open Access
Open access was first formally defined as follows by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), as published on February 14, 2002, in a version that anyone could endorse with a signature:
... free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. [1]
A brief background:
- Not all journals that label themselves as open access strictly adhere to or fully comply with this definition but they are all at least free to read. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists over 8000 such publications.
- Over 300 research funders and institutions now have some form of OA mandate. Notable among these are the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States), Research Councils UK (RCUK), the Medical Research Council (UK) and the Wellcome Trust (UK), the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Research Council (Australia).
- Some estimates put the percentage of articles published as OA at greater than 16% per year [2] and significantly more if one includes self-archived manuscripts in this count.
- Many commentators, both publishers and researchers alike, have stated that it is inevitable that in the future the vast majority of research will be published as OA.
A major driver behind the OA movement is the observation that the research behind the majority of academic publications is public-sector funded (by taxpayers). The logical rationale therefore is that if the public sector funded the research, then the public sector should have the right of OA to publications arising from this research. Thus OA represents a significant improvement in access to research for scholars and non-scholars alike. With traditional subscription-access journals very few people in the world have easy access to article content, and those with this privileged, paid-for, subscription access are likely to be highly educated people affiliated with higher education institutions. By contrast OA allows access to articles by anyone on the Internet, regardless of affiliation, education, wealth, age, gender or ethnicity. Well-controlled studies have shown that this heightened online accessibility is significantly associated with doubling the number of full-text downloads of research articles
[3]. Open access articles are therefore particularly interesting to measure with altmetrics.
Complementarity Between Altmetrics and Open Access
Altmetrics help both expand and broaden our view of the impact of academic research outputs. One can track the impact of code and data with altmetrics, not just publications, but for this article I will focus just on publications. In the new reality of online availability of research more and more people are trying to access it. JSTOR, for instance, registers 150 million failed attempts every year to gain access to articles they keep behind the paywall [4]. Articles made available via such traditional pay-to-read business models may not achieve the impact they could have simply because all potential readers may have neither institutionally provided access to the resource nor the money to buy access to it themselves. Many papers have found that OA has a citation advantage relative to subscription access articles. This effect may also be true in terms of altmetrics. For example, of the 10 most popular articles in 2012 as measured with altmetrics by Altmetric.com (Table 1), 7 out of 10 were freely accessible articles [5]. Even more remarkably, none of these 10 articles were from either of the two most widely read academic journals, Nature and Science, which both predominately publish articles behind a paywall. All of the top 10 articles clearly captured the public imagination and engagement, with the majority of activity on Twitter coming from accounts that were not identifiably scientists, science communicators or practitioners. Many of these papers may show rather unremarkable citation counts a more traditional measure of academic impact. Their significant public impact is only revealed in a standardized way by altmetrics services like Altmetric and ImpactStory [6] even attempt to normalize altmetrics to provide even greater context and meaning to the numbers, as well as providing open data to ensure the numbers are independently verifiable.
- The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly (77% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Association of coffee drinking with total and cause-specific mortality (64% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Rape-related pregnancy: Estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women (82% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Food for thought. What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions (98% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Bright minds and dark attitudes: Lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact
(79% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Unilateral dermatoheliosis (79% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (74% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Science facultys subtle gender biases favor male students (59% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Measuring the evolution of contemporary western popular music (83% of tweets sent by members of the public)
- Classic Nintendo games are (NP-)hard (78% of tweets sent by members of the public)
Table 1. The 10 most popular papers in 2012, as measured by Altmetric.com altmetrics
Altmetrics may also be of particular use for demonstrating the impact of articles published in OA megajournals. These megajournals (for example, PLOS ONE, PeerJ, SAGE Open, and Scientific Reports) do not reject articles on the basis of the perceived impact that they may have and accept article submissions as long as they are well-reported and technically sound contributions to the academic literature. Thus article-level altmetrics may be particularly key to these megajournals as a means of post-publication filtering and peer review to differentiate among the many thousands of articles that pass through them. The immediacy of altmetrics relative to more traditional measures, such as citations, also helps this filtering process. While citations take many years to accrue, tweets, facebook shares, blog posts and reference management bookmarks tend to occur much more quickly after publication. If we trace and read online conversations across the social networks about research articles, the conversations can in some cases indicate whether other researchers think the paper is particularly good or bad. Indeed, it cannot be stressed highly enough that altmetrics are about more than just the numbers: the greater context and content of web activity is also hugely meaningful. For many, publishing a paper in an OA journal is a truer test of their personal brand and the quality of their work than relying on the prestige and high journal impact factor of a traditional subscription-access journal. A work published in an OA journal is more clearly regarded on its own merits, not that of the journal it appears in. In this way, altmetrics can help good OA articles shine and get the attention and respect they deserve by accurately and verifiably capturing the online activity around them.
Narcissism or Optimization of Reach and Impact?
Some have criticized altmetrics as being a technology of narcissism and gameable [7]. Yet from a personal perspective I think their depth and variety of information is highly useful for self-assessment and improvement, while the transparency is a disincentive to attempts to game it. Knowing the geographic reach of one's work, the social networks it is shared on, the people that share it, bookmark it, tweet and favor it is useful and interesting. It is not just the positive data, either. Absence of impact in certain flavors of altmetrics could indicate room for improvement and spaces in which a researcher could profit from being more visible and active. One could even envisage a situation in which an altmetric service provides near real-time alerts about one's research, which would allow the researcher, if interested, to join in and interact with the social web activity going on around the paper. I think this interaction would be a good mechanism to increase the dynamism around research publications. Even with hundreds of thousands of articles currently allowing for public comment at the end, vanishingly few create productive conversations post-publication.
A Bright and Intertwined Future for OA and Altmetrics
While OA is relatively established, altmetrics are still fairly new, relatively unexplored and underdeveloped. A great many published studies will certainly evaluate the usage of altmetrics for various purposes, stakeholders, subjects and disciplines. It is important to keep in mind that we can only use altmetrics in certain social spheres on the web that support them through their openness and standardized APIs. As more of the web opens up access to its data and links we will see both a wider variety of altmetrics and perhaps a greater richness and depth to these measures in future. The standardization and openness fits well with the OA publishing model and less well with subscription-access publishing. Research evaluation has for a long time utterly depended upon commercially provided citation databases such as Elseviers Scopus or Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge, but a host of new organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, have recently sprung up to market altmetrics-based information services. This development can only be a good thing to increase competition and diversity. Not all web activity around articles can be captured by altmetrics there will always be dark social [8] sharing and paywall-protected research, but this model of transparency for both publishing and assessing research will undoubtedly have an interesting and intertwined future ahead of it.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Chan, L., Cuplinskas, D., Eisen, M., Friend, F., Genova, Y., Guedon, J-C., Hagemann, M., et al. (February 14, 2002) Budapest Open Access Initiative. Retrieved February 24, 2013, from www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read
[2] Laakso, M., & Bjork, B. C. (October 22, 2012) Anatomy of open access publishing: A study of longitudinal development and internal structure. BMC Medicine, 10:124. Retrieved February 24, 2013, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-124
[3] Davis, P. M., Lewenstein, B. V., Simon, D. H., Booth, J. G., & Connolly, M. J. L. (2008). Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: Randomised controlled trial. BMJ 337:a568. Retrieved February 24, 2013, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a568
[4] Howard, J. (January 13, 2012) JSTOR tests free, read-only access to some articles [blog post]. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus. Retrieved February 25, 2013, from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/jstor-tests-free-read-only-access-to-some-articles/34908
[5] Van Noorden, R. (December 21, 2012). What were the top papers of 2012 on social media [blog post]? Nature News. Retrieved February 25, 2013, from http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/12/what-were-the-top-papers-of-2012-on-social-media.html
[6] ImpactStory: http://impactstory.org/
[7] Wouters, P., & Costas, R. (February 2012) Users, narcissism and control tracking the impact of scholarly publications in the 21st century. Utrecht: SURFfoundation. Retrieved February 25, 2013, from www.surf.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/Users_narcissism_control.aspx
[8] Madrigal, A.C. (October 12, 2012) Dark social: We have the whole history of the web wrong. The Atlantic. Retrieved February 25, 2013, from www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/dark-social-we-have-the-whole-history-of-the-web-wrong/263523/
Ross Mounce is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bath, where he is studying the impact of fossils in phylogeny using informatics-based approaches. He is also a Panton Fellow of the Open Knowledge Foundation, working to develop and promote a culture of open science and open data sharing to enable and encourage re-use. He can be reached at ross.mounce <at> okfn.org.
Articles in this Issue
The Power of Altmetrics on a CV
Open Access and Altmetrics: Distinct but Complementary
Ask Not What Altmetrics Can Do for You, But What Altmetrics Can Do for Developing Countries
New Opportunities for Repositories in the Age of Altmetrics
The Many Faces of Article-Level Metrics
Five Challenges in Altmetrics: A Toolmakers Perspective
Are Alternative Metrics Still Alternative?
The Reception of Suzanne Briet in the United States
IA: Enabling Action: Digging Deeper into Strategies for Learning
RDAP Review: Collaborative Annotation for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse


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History of the Kinzua Bridge
In my research about the Kinzua Bridge for the story, I learned a great deal about how it was built and what a remarkable engineering masterpiece the bridge was when it was built. A friend of mine recently shared some of the details of its history. I thought this would be something to add to my blog. The bridge almost becomes a third character between Nicole and Tom — in fact, a few readers have even made that comment to me.
The idea to build what would be come the Kinzua Viaduct was the brainchild of General Thomas Kane, the Civil War hero who was a stakeholder in the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad. His idea was to find a way to cross the Kinzua Valley by rail versus a winding six mile route through the valley. He along with Octave Chanute, a civil engineer, agreed that a viaduct high above the Kinzua Valley would be the best choice. They hired the Phoenix Bridge Works Company, who later constructed the Pecos River High Bridge in Texas, to build the viaduct. Preliminary construction began in 1881 when the foundations of the bridge's 110 stone piers were laid. To build the piers, 7,600 cubic yards of hard limestone was needed. The following year, construction of the viaduct itself began on April 10. 94 days later, the viaduct was complete. Immediately thereafter, word of the accomplishment spread throughout Pennsylvania and the Northeast, and numerous excursion trains visited the Kinzua Valley over the next 30 years. Erecting the viaduct was certainly an accomplishment. Just shy of 302 feet high and at a length of 2,053 feet, the bridge was built without any scaffolding. When one wrought iron tower was completed, a wooden crane was built at the top of that tower to assist the construction of the next tower.
The 40 man crew used this process to build what was then the world's highest and longest rail bridge ever built. The bridge cost the railway $167,000. As trains and their payloads grew heavier, the ability of the viaduct to handle such loads came into question. The bridge narrowly missed a devastating blow in 1889 when a train derailment saw three rail cars crash into the valley. High winds were also a concern. The winds were severe enough that a five mile an hour limit was in place. A new bridge was necessary, and in May of 1900, the iron viaduct was closed to traffic. Construction of a new steel bridge soon began. The construction of the new viaduct started on May 24th; the entire ironworks were torn down and replaced by the sturdier steel structure. Building the new bridge lasted only 105 days, and on September 25, 1900, rail service returned to the viaduct. The new Kinzua Viaduct was built by the Elmira Bridge Company. The new bridge retained the original height (301.5′) and length (2053′) of the original. However, the steel structure was much heavier. The new bridge consisted of 6,715,000 pounds of steel vs. the 3,105,000 pounds of iron used on the original viaduct 18 years earlier.
Men who fall in love at a later age
I just came back from a book signing event at the Kinzua State Park. I loved it. It was so great meeting people that also loved the Kinzua Bridge and those who were also saddened to see it fall. I found myself talking to people more about Tom than I did Nicole. As I have posted before, Nicole was loosely based on my own life. Tom was someone I made up, but with that said, I found many men relating to his character.
Writing about Tom reminded me of many men that I met in life, middle-aged, content in their lives and marriages yet longing for something more.
Tom was not looking to have an affair. He loved his wife, Rose, and the life that they shared together for 23 years. When Tom meets Nicole, something very deep stirs within him. As he becomes friends with Nicole, he realizes how he is falling in love with her. Like most men, Tom keeps his feelings bottled up. He retreats to the woods and his camp to find clarity. Alone, he tries to fight his feelings for Nicole yet, he feels helpless as he has never felt happier. He can talk with Nicole in ways that he can't with Rose. Married men have often commented to me that Tom is experiencing that same internal dialogue and struggle that they have experienced when they meet a woman who they share so much in common with emotionally and intellectually.
Playing underneath all of this, Tom is middle-aged, and while he is content in his marriage, he feels less attractive then he once was. He is starting to gray, his hair is thinning, and while he is tall, he is pudgy in the middle, yet all that changes with Nicole. He has a hard time believing that she even finds him attractive. After being married for so long, like many people, he stopped feeling attractive and sexy. It is easy for men and women to get into their roles of husbands, wives, and parents. It is easy to forget what it is like to be attractive to someone after all those years together with one person, especially as we age and our bodies shift. Tom doesn't realize how much he misses those feelings until Nicole.
Tom also represents what it is like to fall in love at an older age. A pivotal moment in the novel comes when Tom says "falling in love at this age is much deeper". I believe it is fairly easy to fall in love when we are in our 20s with our lives ahead of us. It is a different experience in our 40s or 50s (or beyond). After our looks have faded and our expectations for relationships have evolved, falling in love takes on an entirely different meaning.
I am reminded of the quote from The Velveteen Rabit about becoming REAL. It goes something like this…
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day.
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
I believe the older we become, the more real we become, so as Tom points out, this means that falling in love with Nicole at 44 is much deeper than compared to how he felt when he first fell in love with Rose at 21, as more of his hair has been loved off.
Love and Loss
The hardest part about writing my novel was reliving my father's death. I remember sitting at my kitchen table, it was winter, the snow was falling, and I thought about the actual day I first met with the funeral director. My father had died only months before I began writing my novel.
I used that as a starting point to create Nicole's feeling after her father died. She felt like the only person in her life that had supported and understood her was her father. She felt guilty for not being more attentive to her father after she moved to New York and got involved with going to college and then off to working on Wall Street. Even then, her father supported her when she wanted to quit a promising business career, to go back to graduate school and teach. Her friends thought she should keep her job on Wall Street with financial potential, her sister always thought she should settle down because that is what she did, and Nicole's boyfriend at the time thought she should try law school.
For Nicole, her father was the only person she really let in. It had been hard for her to emotionally connect with her sister, since they chose such different lives, and her friends did not always understand the choices she had made.
Nicole experienced a significant loss when her father died, being this rock in her life. The theme of loss runs through the novel as Tom struggles with the death of his daughter to leukemia. When we meet him, it has been six years since she had died. He still can't bring himself to talk about her. He has a wall so deep that he can't speak to his wife, Rose, about her death. Rose can't bring herself to talk about their daughter and withdrawals from the marriage. As a psychologist, I see this is very common in couples. I wanted to write about tragedy that parents can face about losing a child and how this can impact the stability of a once happy marriage.
Tom is forced to finally deal with his loss and confront what he and Rose had been missing in their marriage since her death. This becomes a turning point, as it would be for any couple.
A Career Driven Woman
As I mentioned, The Eighth Wonder focused on how I came to be in Bradford after finishing my doctorate. Unlike Nicole, who graduated from NYU with her Ph.D. in Political Science, my doctorate was from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Clinical Psychology.
I felt the same struggles as Nicole. I was 30 years old and alone. It was not easy at first. I felt like a failure. Many of my friends from high school and college were married and many had children, while I did not have anyone. I had just broken up with a long-term boyfriend. I had marriage proposals. Like Nicole, at that time, I just couldn't commit.
I also had student loan debt and I did not pick a career that was going to lead to big money. I gave up a business career to go into psychology. Again, like Nicole, at that time, I wondered if I did the right thing.
I look back now, several years later, I realize that I did do the right thing. The Eighth Wonder is more than a love story between Nicole and Tom. It is a journey that Nicole is forced to take when she questions why she had given up marriage and children, things that every woman should want. Triggered by her father's illness, the one anchor in her life after her mother left the family, she senses how alone in the world she has become. She doesn't have a husband to lean on nor does she want to feel that dependent upon anyone. We see her fears unravel the more she becomes close to Tom. It is the first time she has ever been that vulnerable with a man.
The story focuses on Nicole's ambition to teach at an Ivy-League school, something I had thought about after I graduated with my doctorate. It wasn't until I started teaching at a small college that I realized how much I loved it over any big university. Tom helps Nicole analyze her own ambition. Being ambitious himself before his daughter died, he realized that there was more to life after her death. We see this in Tom from the beginning with his focus on the community and giving back. Nicole is too wrapped up in her own issues.
Ultimately, The Eighth Wonder is a story about self-discovery as Tom helps Nicole realize what is most important in life, and that life is not always about money, status, or prestige but it is about being content at where you are in life and who you are as a person.
My Connection with The Eighth Wonder
As a psychologist, I have counseled men and women struggling with extramarital attractions and understand the emotional conflicts those endure who deeply value fidelity but still feel the pull of falling in love with another, even when one party or the other appears to be happily married. These experiences led me to write my first novel, The Eighth Wonder.
The writing of the book took place while I was recovering from retina detachment surgery. I was housebound for 4 to 5 months. During this time, I was able to use my computer in large print. Like my main character, Nicole Benson, I had always wanted to write a novel. I finally had the time to do it. It started out semi-autobiographical about my own move to Bradford after getting my Ph.D., but then turned into a love story about two people struggling with grief and loss. While writing the novel, as mentioned, I was housebound. I needed a place for the characters to meet. I was not familiar with the region. I looked up landmarks – and that is when I discovered The Kinzua Bridge. I had not heard of it nor had I seen it before (or during) writing the novel. The title for the book came to me in a flash that day I wrote the entire story of the bridge and its description based upon web sites I found on it. The first place that I went to after being released from medical rest was to see the bridge in person.
The novel begins as on how I first moved to Bradford to be near my father who lived in Buffalo, New York, and he was dying from pancreatic cancer. Nicole's personality and being a career-driven woman who does not have children is generally my story.
Like The Bridges of Madison County, the "bones" of a story portray the complexities of falling in love when one has been married for a long-period of time. It isn't always easy to stay married and difficult choices must often be made to keep a marriage together. Sometimes, it means even leaving someone that you love in order to keep a family together. The novel also questions the role of commitment-phobic women who fear abandonment, a trend seen more visibly in women today. Like women portrayed in the Sex in the City series, how do they resolve their feelings of wanting to settle down and be taken care of by a man, yet place a protective emotional wall to keep men at a distance.
Instead of an Iowa farm wife (as in BRIDGES), this is a story about a strong, self-reliant woman. Instead of a rambling photographer, we meet Tom Ryan, a very stable and settled community-minded Bradford native who manages a large nursing home and is very content with his life.
While there may be some parallels to Bridges of Madison County, The Eighth Wonder takes on a fresh perspective. Tom discovers in his heart that he is in love with Nicole and the consequences of those feelings in relation to Rose. Nicole's realization that she is in love with Tom is just as dramatic, due to her fears of abandonment and intimacy, plus, he is married. What is she doing? She can't possibly be in love with someone who is not hers to have. They take on their own unique journey.
I enjoyed writing The Eighth Wonder. As my first novel, it is so amazing to have people tell me that they could not put the book down. Not just friends either, but strangers who have written to me after reading the novel. They told me how moved they were by the story. I am so touched to have written such a story. I cried writing it. I still tear up re-reading it.
I hope you enjoy reading The Eighth Wonder as I did writing it!
Kimberly Young
The Eighth Wonder
Nicole Benson is a self-made woman. She put herself through school, sacrificing marriage and children for her career. In the summer of 1997, at the age of 35, she finally graduated with a Ph.D. from NYU, but her life is thrust into chaos when her father, the only person she's ever leaned on emotionally, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. After fifteen years in New York City, Nicole leaves everything and everyone she knows to teach for a year in rural Bradford, Pennsylvania to be close to her father in nearby Buffalo. Now, trapped in tiny Bradford, she has never felt more alone in her life. . . until she meets Tom Ryan.
At 44, Tom represents what Nicole longs to be: settled, secure, and clear about his purpose and direction in life. Emotionally scarred, he and his wife of 23 years survived the death of their daughter to leukemia. Tom and Nicole's story begins as a journey of self-discovery for both of them but turns to bittersweet tragedy when their friendship becomes love. Nicole risks offering what she has never given before, her heart; and Tom has never felt happier or more conflicted when he falls in love for the second time in his life. Their lives become intertwined and changed forever when they both must make the most difficult decision of their lives.


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When Chinese scouts set out to recruit athletes for their national women's weight-lifting team in the late 1990s, they had specific criteria in mind. Calculated research had given them the perfect profile: stoic, quick, powerful and, of course, strong. By 2000, China had one of the most powerful teams in the world, and today, China's female weight lifters are expected to dominate their competition in London.
(For daily coverage of the 2012 Games, visit TIME's Olympics blog.)
In May, TIME sent contract photographer James Nachtwey to Beijing to photograph the national women's weight-lifting team as it prepared for London. The photographs document the making of elite athletes in a country that has quickly become an Olympic powerhouse, earning the most gold medals of any nation in 2008's Beijing Games.
Nachtwey's images put faces to China's supercharged athletic program. Photographed from behind, the arms, legs and shoulders of one team member look as solid as the massive weights she holds, with seemingly little effort, in her calloused hands. In another, Wang Mingjuan, a tiny woman at just 48 kg (106 lb.), lifts a burden that looks as if it would easily stump amateur weight lifters twice her size.
To explain China's success in the sport, the national team's coach Xu Jingfa offers a simple explanation: "We do everything together, and we work harder than everyone else."
That hard work includes six-day weeks of all-day training. The 30 members of the national team wake together at 6:30 a.m. and begin a marathon schedule of exercise, physical therapy and classes that range from weight-lifting techniques to "ideological education." Weight lifting has consumed their lives since they began training at age 10 or 11. In London, it will become clear just how much this dedication will pay off for China's strongest women.
Read more about China's Olympic athletes at TIME.com.
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"Reconciliation: Hope in a Divided World" is the theme of the 2012 Critical Issues Symposium at Hope College, which will begin with a keynote address Tuesday evening, Sept. 25, and continue throughout the day on Wednesday, Sept. 26, featuring a variety of presentations across campus.
The public is invited to all of the events. Admission is free.
"We live in an increasingly fragile world. A world where hunger, political strife, poverty, broken relationships and fear paralyze heart and spirit. One could ask, 'Is this the best we can be? In the face of impending calamity do we sit idly and accept the situation as it is?,'" said Alfredo Gonzales, who is associate provost and dean for international and multicultural education, and is co-chair of the event's planning committee. "We on the Planning Committee for this year's Critical Issues Symposium sincerely believe that there is a better solution to these fracturing problems. And that answer is in reconciliation."
"In this year's Critical Issues Symposium we want to challenge the Hope community (and each other) to step energetically into this vision of hope as together we grapple with the challenging topic of reconciliation," he said.
This year's symposium will feature two keynote addresses; two blocks of concurrent panel presentations or focus sessions; and several department-sponsored sessions.
The symposium events open on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel with the keynote address "Reconciliation: Why It Matters and How to Do It Well" by Miroslav Volf, who is the founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School in New Haven, Conn.
The symposium will continue on Wednesday, Sept. 26, beginning at 9 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel with the keynote address "Reconciliation: How Teachings from a 2,000-Year-Old Book Can Bring Healing to a 500-Year-Old Wound" by Mark Charles, who is a speaker, writer and consultant from Fort Defiance, Ariz., located on the Navajo Reservation.
Both keynote events will also include music by visiting artist Gillian Grannum, who is a bassist, pianist, songwriter and singer, performing with members of the Hope jazz faculty.
The morning sessions on Wednesday, Sept. 26, will begin at 10:30 a.m. Activities will include a focus session with Volf in the DeWitt Center main theatre, and a panel discussion in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The panel discussion will include Peter Cha, who is an associate professor of pastoral theology with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Charles; Grannum; and Daniel Philpott, who is an associate professor of political science and peace studies at the Kroc Center for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The panel will be moderated by Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet, who is the John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson Professor of Psychology at Hope.
The afternoon focus sessions on Wednesday, Sept. 26, will begin at 1 p.m. The topics will include "Contested Memory, Contested Narratives: The Dynamics of Reconciliation in Post(?)-Conflict Societies" (Sierra Leone, Kenya, Rwanda, Northern Ireland); "Multicultural Education for Reconciliation: Assessing Different Models"; "Resolution and Reunion: Jazz, Faith, and Reconciliation"; and "Is Reconciliation in Politics Possible? On the Meaning of Justice in the Wake of Massive Injustice." The speakers will include Virginia Beard, assistant professor of political science at Hope; Cha; Charles; Ernest Cole, who is an assistant professor of English and Towsley Research Scholar at Hope; Grannum; Philpott; and vanOyen-Witvliet.
The department-sponsored sessions will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 2:15 p.m. The presentations include: a performance of "Ishta," followed by a question-and-answer period, with 2012 Hope graduate Jillian Rice and junior Jessica St. Clair of Sparta, N.J. (dance); "Reconciliation Up Close and Personal," featuring students and staff who participated in the college's reconciliation-training retreat in Montana in June 2011 (education and American ethnic studies); "Side Effects May Include: Reconciling HIV Exposure and Its After-Effects," by 2010 Hope graduate Marlee Bogema (nursing); "Preaching Mutual Forgiveness and the Forgetting of All Wrongs: Reconciliation and Justice in the French Revolution," by Dr. Ronen Steinberg of the Michigan State University history faculty (history); "A.J. Muste: Hope's Famous Peacemaker," by 2010 Hope graduate Jeffrey Meyers (religion); and "Muslim-Christian Dialogue as Means to Reconciliation," by Douglas Leonard, director of the Al Amana Centre of the Sultanate of Oman (sociology/social work/international studies).
The college's Critical Issues Symposium, first held in 1980, was established to stimulate serious thinking about current issues, and to provide a forum in which the Holland community, students and faculty may all engage in discussion with experts. The college cancels classes for a day to provide an opportunity for the event.
Past topics have included "Genocide," "The Middle East," "World Hunger," "The Family," "Energy," "Civil Rights," "The Quest for Justice: Christian Voices," "Lifeboat Earth: Decisions for Tomorrow," "The Columbus Legacy, 1492-1992," "Race and Social Change in America," "What Future Is in our Genes: Freedom from Disease, Good Investment, Manufactured Humans?," "Sport and American Life," "Feminism and Faith: Implications for Life," "Gold Rush and Ghost Towns: Living with the Internet," "Earth Matters: Daily Decisions, Environmental Echoes," "Putting Science in Its Place: Discovery and Responsibility," "Race and Opportunity: Echoes of Brown v. Board of Education," "Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America," "Global Health: From Catastrophe to Cure," "At Water's Edge: Complacency, Thirst, Action," "Good Food for the Common Good" and "Exploring Islam."
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, the venue for the two keynote addresses, is located at 277 College Ave., at College Avenue and 12th Street.
Additional information about the symposium, including locations and other details concerning the blocks of concurrent focus sessions and departmental sessions, will be available in the printed program distributed during


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We layed it down on the floor in middle of the room so the munchins (age 4 and 2.5) had complete access to the entire board.
We talked about how there was a fence around the mountain, flowers on the mountain, lighting in the sky, how we eat dairy on Shavuos etc.
I then gave them the goods:
- popsicle sticks to make a fence
- stickers of flowers, ice-cream, kids, butterflies and a few other stickers (they love stickers)
- a pre-cut Torah to stick on the top of the mountain with Alef Bais letters to stick on the Torah
- pieces of thin paper to make lightning with
- glue and tape
The kids did all the work, by themselves. They glued on the fence, stuck on the stickers, the Torah, the lightning. I helped them make a sign that says "Sefirat HaOmer" and a countdown chart on the mountain that we put a shiny star of David sticker on every day to count.
I used a permanent marker to write a number on each sticker so we can keep track of where we are up to.
We hung it up in our playroom and the munchkins are so proud of it!


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- lemon-lime carbonated beverage, or ginger ale chilled
In a blender container combine first 4 ingredients. Blend until smooth. Pour into 2-quart baking dish. Cover; freeze 3 to 5 hours or until firm. To serve, let stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Scrape surface of mixture to form slush. Fill glasses half full with slush. Add carbonated beverage.
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Just when I thought my summer bigfooting excursions were over, I received a call from bigfooting colleague and friend of the 'squatch, Matt Moneymaker of the BFRO. Matt had recently returned from scouting an area in Western Pennsylvania near the Allegheny River where some very recent bigfoot activity had been reported. He asked if I would be able to accompany him and try to obtain video of the local sasquatches. Facing my last week of freedom before teaching obligations will fill my time, how could I refuse?
Only three weeks ago, fishermen reported seeing a sasquatch casually walk across a shallow tributary of the Allegheny a short distance upstream from their fishing hole in broad daylight. The fishermen did not report the sighting to the BFRO, but rather to a local police officer who had himself encountered sasquatches on a warm afternoon last August less than a half mile from this location. The sighting report quickly made its way to Matt's ears through mutual friends.
a sasquatch crossing the creek in August, 2010.
During Matt's initial trip he met the police officer, scouted the immediate area, and picked up a few more stories from locals. Thinking that this was an excellent opportunity to possibly obtain daylight footage, he quickly planned a return trip to the area for the following week. He recruited me for assistance with this endeavor.
My plane left Portland, OR at 6 am on August 20th. A long day of travel took me through Huston, TX, and eventually to Pittsburgh, PA, arriving in the late afternoon. I was excited for the opportunity to go bigfooting back east, having only done so twice before (in Ohio and Florida). It is valuable to note what the various habitats for the these animals have in common throughout the United States. Since I would be bigfooting with Matt, I would be sure to pick his brain about this. Through his bigfoot expeditions, Matt has successfully gone bigfooting in more parts of North American than anyone else, and has unique insights into these animals' needs and wants.
After meeting up with Matt in the Pittsburgh Airport, we got our rental car and took the hour (or so) drive to a small town not far from the area of interest. (The location will not be divulged due to Matt's ongoing efforts in the region.)
Our first trips to the field were largely for scouting purposes. We walked the creek beds by day, closely examining locations where the creatures could observe strategic choke points and stay hidden from view. There were many spots where the limestone bedrock was exposed, and many of these locations were sheer cliffs overlooking the stream. It is our opinion that sasquatches often prefer rocky substrate so as to not leave obvious tracks, and thus would seek these sorts of outposts.
vantage point overlooking a creek.
We explored a tributary of this tributary and found it to have many shallow pools and hidden viewpoints. The police officer's encounter from the previous summer was where this creek flowed into the larger tributary. We eventually found out that farther upstream, perhaps four miles, was a homestead where the owner was afraid to hang out on his porch after dark due to creatures in the woods. (Knocking on this man's door later in the week gave no results because he was not at home.)
While walking up this small tributary creek on Sunday (8/22/10), we heard knocking noises from the north east. There were few, if any, homes along the hilltops in the area, and none were close enough to produce such loud noises, so the chances that these noises were human in origin is slim. My recorder was not running because we were trudging through the bottoms of the creek bed, and when our feet weren't wet, we were pushing through thick brush. All recorded noises would have been of my own making, so it is of little or no use to record in such conditions.
One of our days of scouting uncovered abandoned limestone mines from a passed industrial age. The mine openings were large enough to drive trucks through, and we explored the labyrinth of passages for several hundred yards deep into the earth. A bizarre and highly serendipitous discovery came from deep in one of these passages. The local kids had spray painted various things on the walls of these caves, but one such piece of graffiti took us both by surprise.
spray painted on the walls of a cavern deep underground.
Though we heard knocking on several occasions over the week, we heard what could have been a sasquatch vocalizations on two nights. The first night we heard the noise was Sunday the 22nd. Matt and I were walking along a paved road shortly before midnight when two high pitched scream/whines pierced the night, unsolicited by our own calls. The following night, we heard several more of these noises, but they seemed to emanate from near a homestead where a dog was incessantly barking. Not recognizing the sounds as any animal we were familiar with, we thought that they might be sasquatch. However, hearing the sounds coming from the same general direction of the barking dog made us both wonder about our assessment. Could it have been some whiny breed of canine, or possibly even some eastern species of owl? Possibly. We did note that we never heard the call during the day, even when we heard the other dog barking.
Our best day was Thursday, August 26. In the middle of the day, the police officer, his friend, Matt, and I were walking the tiny tributary that feeds the larger one when we discovered a natural choke point with sheer cliff walls covered in thick brush. A distance up the walls was a natural bench with a rocky overhang which would be an obvious spot to escape rain or snow while still being able to observe anything traveling in the narrow canyon. Three of us climbed the cliff walls to inspect the bench area. Upon our arrival, we started hearing loud, single knocks from three directions. Two of the sources were close, perhaps 50 or so yards away, while one was much farther away downstream. The knocking continued for nearly 15 minutes until we decided to take action.
heard many knocks from three sources.
Our plan was to send three of us out of the canyon from the direction we came, while I would remain behind to try to film the sasquatches. I sent my two companions down the precipice to Matt, who was waiting and observing from the creek below. As they reached the floor of the canyon, a quiet, yet distinct whistle came from one of the knocking locations. The three men below me then walked noisily to the north, leaving the area and making sure that the sasquatches knew it.
I stayed behind for perhaps twenty more minutes, just listening to the forest noises. The most significant thing I heard was the lack of knocking. Since there was a slight breeze during this time, it occurred to me that perhaps the knocking was a natural noise made by the wind. Hearing nothing after the men had left the canyon made me realize that the clear knocks that had been occurring frequently during our stay were most likely bigfoots. The whistle was just icing on the cake...
On my walk out, I went up the slope to intersect a long-unused logging road. Of interest was my find of a log that had been moved three feet to the right of where it had been. Was this a find of bigfooty significance? I don't know, but it was interesting.
right of its obvious resting place.
My trip to Pennsylvania was a great opportunity to not only hang out with a good friend in a different part of the country, but also to pick the brain of one of the most experienced bigfooters alive today. Matt holds many strong opinions regarding these animals, but he is always quick to listen to my thoughts and experiences. When I disagree with him, he always respectfully listens and considers my opinion. Just like back in the day when I ran expeditions for the BFRO, working with Matt was easy and fun, the both of us making an excellent team. We didn't manage to obtain that elusive piece of video footage, but perhaps one of the many trail cameras we left behind will do the job for us. I will be sure to keep you posted on any results of our efforts.
Two last thoughts... I dislike hiking through wild roses, and the effects of poison ivy feels just like poison oak... Go figure.
Here are some more photographs from my PA adventure...
yet was completely hidden from view while only a few yards away.


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"A city involves everyone who lives there," says Dianne Nielson, a project coordinator. "When a city park is created, it is made to benefit everyone."
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Thanks to Aaron Andrews, who did the landscaping for the park, and Noelle Livingston at Linden Nursery, who provided discounts for the trees. The community members that donated and volunteered talents and time also deserve praise. Nielson said, "Even though the Rotary Club was in charge of this project, it was the entire community who made it happen."


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Alberta B. Harms, 84, of El Dorado and formerly of Potwin died March 5 at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado. She was born May 6, 1928, in southern Marion County to Otto and Esther (Gaines) Weber.
She worked as a teacher for 35 years, mostly in first grade at Remington Elementary School.
She married Vernon G. Harms on April 14, 1950. He preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Beatrice Breitenstein.
She is survived by four children, Teresa Corfman of Buffalo, Minn., Kent Harms of El Dorado; Cindy Hearn of El Dorado, and Eric Harms of Tulsa, Okla.; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral service was Friday at First Christian Church of Potwin. Interment was in Walnut Valley Memorial Park of El Dorado.
Visitation was Thursday at Lamb Funeral Home, Whitewater.
Memorial funds have been established for Remington Elementary School and Flinthills Middle School.


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On September 21, 1981, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton strikes out the 3,118th batter of his career to break Bob Gibson's National League record for career strikeouts. Even though Carlton had 10 shutout innings and 12 strikeouts, the Phillies lost the marathon game to the Montreal Expos in the 17th inning, 1-0.
Also today in 1981, the Phillies and Expos were engaged in a tight battle for the NL East title in a strike-shortened season. Carlton displayed his usual dominance, faltering only in the third inning when he allowed the Expos to load the bases before striking out Andre Dawson to retire the side. The strikeout was Carlton's 3,118th, giving him the National League record for most career strikeouts. Carlton went on to strike out 10 more batters on the night, allowing no runs. The game was the longest in the majors that year.
Carlton won his fourth Cy Young Award in 1982, his 17th season in the majors. He retired in 1988 with 4,136 career strikeouts and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994, his first year of eligibility.