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*Buie Overview of Usability Assessment
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The usability assessment of the ALA website that we undertook this fall has been completed, and we expect to have a report on the assessment within the next week or two. At this point, we want to build on the results of the usability assessment to develop a vision and an outline of a plan for moving forward on important changes to the website.
To that end, a planning retreat is being held in Chicago on Monday, December 18, 2006. The basic purposes of the retreat are to answer the question, "What would we do if we were starting with a clean slate?" and to develop a vision statement and an outline of a plan for the ideal website to serve our diverse needs. Retreat participants will consist of members and staff, many of whom also participated in stakeholder interviews. In addition, we will also have some "fresh eyes" among the participants.
While we know we will not be able to implement all the recommendations from the group immediately, we do plan on moving forward with as many as possible within the next 3 to 6 months.
The retreat will be facilitated by Elizabeth Buie, Principal Usability Specialist and Director of Interaction Design at UserWorks, the company that conducted the usability assessment. In order to make sure that the planning process and the development of future directions for the ALA website will be as transparent as possible, we have established a blog for discussion and this wiki for gathering background material and outcomes. The session itself will be blogged, with comments invited from outside the group.
- Members Focus Group Report - Rough Draft (Word document, 121KB)
- Nonmembers Focus Group Report - Rough Draft (Word document, 132KB)
- Gap Analysis Report (Word document, 108KB)
- Stakeholder Requirements (Word document, 157KB)
- Usability Assessment Report (PDF file, 651KB)
- Strategy Recommendations Report (draft) based on the 2006 Usability Study (PDF file, 73KB)
- Retreat Agenda (PDF file, 18KB)
- If you have problems accessing these documents, please contact Jenny Levine for copies.
Please note that the focus group reports (the first two documents in the above list) are not "rough drafts" in the sense of being preliminary versions that will be updated later. They are informal documents that are not in UserWorks' delivery schedule and that we provided to give ALA a preview of the findings before the formal report was ready. The findings that these reports describe are being incorporated into the User and Task Analysis Report, which will be delivered by December 13. -E. Buie, UserWorks
Additional Background documents
- Abram, Stephen and Luther, Judy, "Born with the Chip." Library Journal, (May 1, 2004).
Retreat Meeting Notes
Meeting to be facilitated by Elizabeth Buie from UserWorks, Inc., the firm that conducted the usability assessment of ALA's Web site in Sept./Oct. 2006
Introduction (Agenda Items I-V)
Mary Ghikas, Sr. AED, introduces Elizabeth Buie, Director of Interaction Design, UserWorks. She directed usability study.
- Introduction of Participants
Buie asks participants to note what they hope to get out of this workshop. Some answers include: brainstorming; learn how Web site is developed; learn how usability issues are addressed/solved; learn about ALA structure (in regard to Web site development); learn about how to bring together diverse set of people/divisions for ALA membership via ALA Web site; have this group be able to come to consensus to implement new site; IT needs; information sharing.
Buie says we'll not come out with set of requirements today but will come away with set of goals and objectives that will help to establish requirements. Buie says we'll start about vision, strategy, goals. This group will not come out with a "document," but instead will come away with action items.
- Buie asks for ground rules. Participants determine:
1. No design
2. Process for tabling and moving on
3. Make sure everyone is heard
4. Talk about future
- Buie Provides Overview of Usability Assessment
Vision (Agenda Items VI and VII)
*Buie: start with brainstorming: "If you had site you want, what would people say about it?"
Buie: These don't have to be restricted to what it's not now.
*Descriptions Listed on Large Flip-Chart Sheets and Hung on Wall
"I found it!"
Easy to manage and update
Forward thinking/Innovative
Reflective of organization and its members
Honest (don't mislead user)/trustworthy (navigation: meeting user expectation for finding info.
Politically savvy
Connected to rest of world (information world
Competitive (on commercial level)
- Participants vote on these items (by placing green-dot stickers by descriptions)
Top Five
1. Morphable/customizable
5.Commercially competitive
*Break up into five small groups, each covering top five descriptions, for discussion, to:
1. crystallize these into goals and objectives (HOW WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN)
Specifics (not how to do it, but what it would do)
2. flesh out these abstract terms
3. realistic or idealistic? Buie says in between (don't list anything you know isn't possible).
- Group Results
Group 1: Morphable/Customizable (presented by Keith M. Fiels)
My ALA (morphable/custom
More sophisticated/improved
Avail. For nonmembers
More drag and drop
Updates be pushed out (reflected in 'My ALA')
Customized crawlers
Customizable feeds (via RSS or email)
Recommended function (like Amazon, prompting)
Affinity (opps for communication with other members)
Interface (ability to pick your own)
Be able to pick your own language (translation better too)
Own format (larger font size)
Printer friendly version
Wiki-wise web site (more opportunities for you to contribute)
Find out about this (when you renewed, be invited set up My ALA, easy to use tutorial)
Group 2: Participatory/Collaborative (presented by Mary Ellen Davis and John Chrastka)
Coments on products
Self-forming communities
Social networking (facebook); be able to integrate 'MY ALA' into other sites
Wikis, blogs, RSS, podcasts (all tools exist right now)
Be ready with for newly developed tools
Cross-structural collaboration
Group 3: Intuitive (presented by Michelle Frisque)
Utilize audience based navigation
Use language is simple (concise, no jargon)
Represent different types of learning styles (visual, auditory)
Conventional graphic representation , i.e., shopping cart
Develop conventions that apply consistently across all pages (form, graphic, members only, frame)
Have template available for back end
All incons the same
Reduce and define acronyms
Less linear and textual
Info. Should be packaged in many different ways (need built-in duplication/redundancy)
Pages should be current
Links need to go where you think they go
Set up a process to gather data for future Web Development (behavorial); development of site ongoing.
Group 4: Integrated (presented by Mary Ghikas)
1. display content by users' mental models
2. Store content once but display many
3. must know you're on ALA site
4. consider natural use of language(eliminate jargon, "ALA speak")
5. integrate with outside world (other library orgs, other library related site) to serve user; meet users' needs
Group 5: Commercially Competitive (presented by)
Shopping cart (1-stop shopping)
Primo customer experience (easy interaction): USER IS KING!
Web of first choice for library-related content
Nimble, flexible (move fast if things change)
More choices with micro content and micro payment
Providing area for members' to sell content
Integrate membership into everything ('Join Us' button)
Targeted message and targeted marketing
Getting partnerships (working with Amazon, Café Press store)
The Organizations' Role (Agenda Item VIII)
Organization: Now – Need
NOW: neglect
NEED: Active editorial attention paid to major areas of site; need someone editorially responsible (usability, content duplication)
NOW: Silos (content management)
NEED: integrated
NOW: Fragmented
NEED: clear structure of how integration will happen
NOW: autonomous
NEED: collaboration (templates, tools, training)
NOW: Missing
NEED: communication structure
Individuals divide into same five groups to discuss obstacles to 'Needs' (brainstorm approaches for obstacles)
- Results of Now-Need Group Discussions
Group 1 (presented by Keith M. Fiels)
Talked about issue of "triage"; separate out long, medium, and short terms tasks (three prong approach)
What are things we can do to produce immediate results?
Obstacles: No centralized group to concentrate on improvements (simple TQM model); no way to take usability info. or complaints; and no way to check for duplicate content
Rules (style manual)
Group 2 (presented by John Chrastka)
New position Front page editor (non-tech position: marketing/ communications/publishing perspective)
Area Content managers (internal reporters; keeping areas up date, e.g. "info. lit czarina") More robust training
Development environment (social networking; monies and personnel to support these)
Group 3: (presented by Leonard Kniffel)
1. volunteer contributors (time and training)
2. Staff expertise
1. training manuals, timeliness (get training)
2. More staff, outsource, redirect current staff/budget
Group 4 (presented by M. Ghikas)
1. Use Web wrangler list (more consistently or not just for isolated problems; more proactively)
2. get supersivory management staff
3. ID key areas for initial attention
4. cross-unit info. sharing (identify what's going on; what's happening; leverage development)
Group 5 (presented by Rob Carlson)
Incentives for cooperation: Staff awards for terms; visibility for cooperation on sections; points on perf. appraisal
Few vs. Many: Keep focus on user, not unit!
Blog headlines on homepage
The participants as of December 1 are:
Michelle Boule
Cathleen Bourdon
Lynne Bradley
Linda Braun
Andy Bridges
Rob Carlson
Frank Cervone
John Chrastka
Nancy Davenport
Mary Ellen Davis
Keith Michael Fiels
Sam Florio
Michelle Frisque
Mary Ghikas
Judith Gibbons
Paul Keith
Leonard Kniffel
Jenny Levine
Olivia Madison
John McDonald
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Friday, November 18, 2011
FFB: YOU'RE ALL ALONE by Fritz Leiber (also published as THE SINFUL ONES) (and a consideration of other 1950 magazine fantastic-fiction)
(Very Long Digression: I took a quick spin through the contents of the fantasy/sf/horror-fiction magazines of 1950, after I decided to write about the Leiber, one of a number of fairly to very important novels to be published in the magazines in that year...the year after Street and Smith folded or sold all their fiction magazines except Astounding Science Fiction [and I suspect they kept that one mostly because they wanted to keep its editor around to edit the aviation and technology magazine they kept launching, folding and relaunching in those years to no sustained success], so such major pulp titles as Detective Story, Western Story, Love Story, Doc Savage and The Shadow bit the dust [or at least the pulp-paper confetti, which Kurt Vonnegut compared to dandruff]. Perhaps that contraction of the market, or other factors, not least that nearly all the fantastic-fiction magazines were being edited by reasonably talented to brilliant editors in 1950, meant that every damned magazine extant in the field in that year had some serious bragging rights, from the ridiculously successful Galaxy [in the black financially after three issues, in fact already apparently with the largest circulation in the field, and fiction including Leiber's "Coming Attraction" and Clifford Simak's novel Time and Again, under the magazine's title "Time Quarry," didn't hurt] to the barely-eking-out little magazine Fantasy Book, which offered, in the first of two issues in 1950, a lead story by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl, stories by (promising] Alfred Coppel and [old hand and star of the 1930s] Stanton Coblentz and [reliable pulpster] Basil Wells and, mixed in the middle there, "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith. John D. MacDonald had stories all over Thrilling Wonder Stories and Startling Stories, including the novel Wine of the Dreamers, along with Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Margaret St. Clair and other major and emerging players...Leigh Brackett and Poul Anderson and Bradbury were featured in Planet Stories [of course] and Bradbury and Robert Bloch and St. Clair and Manly Wade Wellman were prominent in Weird Tales [also of course] and those folks were also in the new Avon Fantasy Reader and/or the newer The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in the latter along with some more crime-fiction amphibians such as Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Miriam Allen de Ford, and Robert Arthur, and this new kid Richard Matheson's first story; an early Matheson story also appeared in Damon Knight's shortlived but impressive 1950 launch Worlds Beyond, despite the stereotype of Knight as a destroyer of Matheson love. L. Ron Hubbard was pretty visible in several magazines, though only Astounding was publishing Dianetics articles by him, while Amazing, now edited by Howard Browne with help from Lila Shaffer and William Hamling, had dumped the comparably enervating "Shaver Mystery" quasi-mystical paranoia fiction--and they moved with former Amazing editor Ray Palmer to his new magazine Other Worlds...but OW also published Gustav Meyrink, Clarke, Bradbury, and others, including the classic Eric Frank Russell (as Richard Moore reminds me) story "Dear Devil". While Amazing remained filled mostly with minor stories, albeit some by Bloch, William McGivern, Simak, and Leiber were better, its companion Fantastic Adventures also featured Theodore Sturgeon's novel The Dreaming Jewels and frequently other more impressive work by Bloch, Simak, McGivern, Philip "William Tenn" Klass and others.
Even the slightest magazines were often readable, and frequently surprising. It's small wonder that the number of titles would briefly but eventually double over the next few years, before the great winnowing by decade's end. And end of digression.)
You're All Alone was originally meant to follow Leiber's first novel Conjure Wife, and such major short fiction as "Smoke Ghost" and his first published sword & sorcery fiction, into the pages of Unknown Fantasy Fiction magazine, but when that magazine folded in 1943, Leiber set the unfinished manuscript aside. It is a delightfully paranoid story, in which the protagonist finds himself dragged out of the clockwork existence he and the vast majority of people are a part of, through an encounter with a terrified and furtive young woman who is trying her best to avoid the murderous gang of other escapees (not Leiber's term) from the automaton existence who are pursuing her. Certainly The Matrix is only the most obvious later elaboration of a similar trope, only there is no conspiracy of evil computers behind the illusory existence here, nor even the kind of Lovecraftian Old Ones the younger Leiber might've been tempted to employ, but instead simply the cold, empty way of the universe...where those who have broken free from going through the motions of life are a very small group, scattered thinly, indeed, and some are very jealous of that freedom (and ability to exploit those still trapped in the clockwork). The rest of the novel involves the man and the woman attempting to come to grips with their status in relation to the grand machine of the universe, and to escape the murderous ones. Some of the setpieces in the story, such as the protagonist's attempt to talk to his wife, who quickly reveals herself to be responding in a conversation he might've been having with her if he hadn't been "pulled out" rather than in the increasingly desperate conversation he is actually having with her, are resonant (the alienation metaphor is deftly employed) and memorable. And, of course, noir fans, not only are the villains out to get our heroes, but (of course) the very nature of the world is, as well.
This short novel had to wait several more years before being accepted for publication in book form, and then the offer came from erotica-oriented Beacon Books (unrelated to the later small press Beacon), who had their editors insert clumsy softcore sex passages and publish it in a "double-novel" as The Sinful Ones with a very forgotten item called Bulls, Blood and Passion. Leiber saw the novella form finally in print from Ace Books in 1972 (in a volume that also included two novelets) and did what he could to rewrite the sexual passages to his taste and republish the longer-form text as The Sinful Ones with Pocket Books in 1980.
While Conjure Wife and his third horror novel Our Lady of Darkness have been reprinted several times, frequently together in an omnibus, You're All Alone has been neglected over the last two decades and more, and that is a pity, given the appeal of its initial conceit and the popularity of similar materials, even when they aren't loosely based on Philip Dick fiction that was probably at least lightly influenced by this. At left, above, the 1966 issue of Fantastic which reprints "You're All Alone" from its FA appearance.
Also please note the reuse of a certain Victoria Poyser cover painting above at left (Baen Books, 1986) and far above at right (Carroll & Graf, 1990). For more of today's books, please see organizer Patti Abbott's blog. Next week, I'll be compiling the links to other blogs while Patti is traveling, so please let me know if you have an item, particularly if you are an occasional contributor to Friday's Books...thanks.
14 comments:
- George said...
I remember when AMAZING (or FANTASTIC) devoted a whole issue to Fritz Leiber. One of my favorite all-time novels is THE WANDERER. Another great book that's been utterly forgotten.
- November 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Todd Mason said...
It was a 1959 issue of FANTASTIC, early in Cele Goldsmith's run. Special issues of F&SF (1969) and WHISPERS (1979) followed. I think that is still unique in the history of fiction magazines, not just the hat trick but the span/anniversary flavor to it, and it couldn't happen to a more deserving writer.
- November 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Never being much of a horror fan, other than the occasional Phillip K. Dick short story ("The Father Thing"), I skipped these, though I did take a cack at Conjure Wife once, about which I remember very little indeed. I'll stick with Fafhd and Mouser.
- November 18, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Todd Mason said...
I think that if you enjoyed "The Father Thing," you'll particularly enjoy this of the three Leiber novels in the form. CONJURE WIFE starts slow, and builds and builds.
- November 18, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- Yvette said...
Since I am not much of a horror reader either, I'm not familiar with any of these names except that of Simak (who, I believe, writes science fiction not horror) which you (as well as Nancy Pearl) recommended eariler.
Just wanted to comment on that fabulous dog with woman in his jaws cover. HA! Love it.
- November 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Todd Mason said...
Simak wrote some horror as well, most famously "The Ghost of a Model T"...Peter Nicholls, Brian Stableford, John Clute or someone referred to the woman in that painting, by Robert Gibson Jones, as "more startled than terrified" in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY. These novels are excellent starting points, for either Leiber or horror that isn't about splatter.
- November 18, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- Todd Mason said...
And the folks mentioned in the Long Digression are a very diverse bunch of writers of all kinds of fiction, a whole lot of people best known for crime fiction and many other things...but John D. MacDonald and William P. McGivern, for example, were making sf and fantasy a major part of their careers at this time, and Miriam Allen de Ford and Robert Arthur and Fredric Brown were lifelong amphibians.
- November 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- Walker Martin said...
There is a book about FANTASTIC ADVENTURES titled THE ANNOTATED GUIDE TO FANTASTIC ADVENTURES by Edward J. Gallagher(Starmont, 1985).
I have a set of the magazine and wish I could say it was a quality title but I've always had problems with the fiction. Ray Palmer in the forties only had an occasional good story by Bloch, Bradbury, Sturgeon. It wasn't until Howard Browne took over in 1950 that the magazine published a better line up of authors. Then we had more stories by Sturgeon, Tenn, Del Rey, Leiber, Bloch, Mack Reynolds, de Camp, Simak, Walter Miller.
Your article has revived my interest in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES and I'll have to start looking through my issues again.
- November 18, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- Todd Mason said...
Yes, when Palmer started it, it was a home for the Edgar Rice Burroughs fiction he was soliciting from the writer, ERB having lost a fair amount of his cachet. But I suspect big step up in quality in some issues under Browne in 1950 came in part from some items actually purchased for the delayed experiment in upgrading AMAZING's package Ziff-Davis considered doing, as then eventually did in '52 along with launching FANTASTIC (that Browne was considerably less driven to make the magazines popular at any cost helped, too). Certainly, as soon as FANTASTIC was on the scene, FA went back to all routine fiction all the time, till the folding/incorporation with FANTASTIC.
- November 18, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...
I just picked this one up last month (as THE SINFUL ONES) as CONJURE WIFE is one of my favourite occult novels of the period - great post, thanks, I'll have to go dig it out right away now.
- November 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Todd Mason said...
I hope you enjoy it, of course...it isn't as complex as CONJURE WIFE nor certainly as OUR LADY OF DARKNESS (which also saw a shorter magazine version, in F&SF, as THE PALE BROWN THING...while CONJURE WIFE was published I believe at full length, as Leiber's first novel in UNKNOWN, and had to find its variant titles in the film versions...the best of which was issued in the US with an almost irrelevant title stolen from an A. Merritt novel, BURN WITCH BURN!
Nice blog you have...mind if we tap you for Friday's Books? (Friedrich Dürrenmatt is close enough to forgotten in the US, even if we can remember an umlaut, that I felt comfortable doing THE METEOR, which also has some nice memories for me from my youth). Patti Abbott was particularly hoping to do a Canadian lit week this Friday, but both she and I [I'm compiling the links this Holiday Friday while she's roaming the Southwestern US) are quite welcoming of blog entries and other reviews dealing with lit from non-ex-Dominion sources.)
- November 19, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...
Dear Todd, please do include the Durrenmatt, that would be a real honour, thank you. Would it be possible for me to contribute to the Tuesday Forgotten Movies next week? Should I send you the link in advance or just post with a link to Sweet Freedom?
Many thanks.
- November 20, 2011 at 5:30 AM
- Richard Moore said...
I agree that the story "Dear Devil" is a classic but it wasn't written by Rog Phillips. Eric Frank Russell was the author. The early issues of Other Worlds mixed some very good stories in with the drek.
As for Rog Phillips, I admit to having a soft spot for him and not just his later, more polished, stories such as "The Yellow Pill". Some of his pulp yarns managed a frantic, paranoid touch that made them (for me) compelling.
I do have a weakness for paranoid SF. I remember my stunned reading as a teenager Russell's DREADFUL SANCTUARY.
- November 20, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- Todd Mason said...
Well, if playing with paranoia wasn't fun, where would a whole lot of the last century's literature be?
Thanks for catching my mindslip there...indeed, one of Russell's best stories, rather than Phillips's.
- November 21, 2011 at 7:59 AM

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Hair of the Dog Taproom and Brewpub
61 SE Yamhill Street, Portland, OR
(503) 232-6585
Rank: 4.5/5
Type of Establishment: Taproom, glorious beer serving facility
Visit: Same as our Cascade post. After our stop at Cascade's new taproom, Hair of the Dog was next on our list of Portland beer hot spots.
Beers on Tap (at time of visit):
Little Dog
Blue Dot Imperial IPA
Doggie Claws
and some foreign pilsner, but I didn't pay a damn bit of attention to that tap.
Bottles List:
Several vintage bottles to go and several that you can only drink in house. Magnums are offered of some beers and others date back to the mid-'90′s. HOTD never disappoints with vintage brews.
Food Options:
Pasta dishes, brisket sandwiches, potato based stews, bread and butter, pickled appetizers and more. Not an extensive menu but some good, filling foods that will pair well with the beers. Oh — Alan Sprints, owner and brewer, is cooking in the kitchen.
Bar Opinion:
Hang out with bb.com and within moments, you would find out that Hair of the Dog Brewing is in all of our top ten list for US breweries. They cannot be denied that place in beer stardom.
For the past two years I have dreamed of visiting an establishment that had several HOTD beers on tap. My only encounter with this dream-like state of mind has been at Brouwers during Big Wood Fest (Fred from the Wood, B.O.B., Michael – beers with no ego that harbor all of the complexity and flavor you can imagine). I have called the brewery and attempted to visit the brewery in past trips to Portland, but due to the brewery being closed on the weekend, I was forced to hold out.
My time has come. Just one month ago, the news broke. Alan Sprints, owner and head brewer, unveiled a tasting room that is open on the weekends! Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, Hail the Goblin King! (That was weird, but I am leaving it) Although this exciting information cannot be found on HOTD painfully outdated website, you can friend them on facebook and get Alan's news on whats going on.
HOTD has always remained a mystery to me, the outdated website, the lack of accessibility to the public on the weekends. You might think that all this build up could back fire. But, not in this case. No, not at all.
A large garage door lets the mid afternoon sunlight in coating a table or two in it warmth. Before choosing our seats, we take a lap around the wide open space. With exposed wooden beams, high warehouse ceilings, walls painted in primary colors and a stand alone rectangular shaped bar area, I immediately like the feel of this place.
Since there weren't three seats to be found at the bar, we choose the table in the sun which provides us with a little Vitamin D and a direct view of the exposed kitchen. Behind the kitchen counter to the left of some rustic bread and to the right of a colorful bouquet of flowers, stands Alan. He has been the owner and brewer of HOTD for over 16 years, he is a master mind, an innovator and apparently a damn good cook too! This guy does it all. He even sliced my bread — no lies.
We order a taster of everything on the menu. A rainbow of beer descends upon us from the waitress' tray. A combination of the small taster glasses, the sunlight, the bold colors of the beer and of course the epic flavors of each one made it an all too perfect experience.
We "oo'd" and "ahh'd" over Fred, Adam and Doggie Claws. Each beer performs to a "T" with layers of flavors. The Fred appeared to be very young, meaning that it most likely just came out of the fermenter. It was a bit strange, since we are used to having Fred after its aged and caramelized, but it was actually a unique opportunity to taste the young Fred. We weren't too disappointed.
At the end of the day, I could drink these beers in a cold cave with sleeping bats and still rate it a 4.5/5. But lucky for all you HOTD lovers, there is a place with character and comfort for you to visit. Take a visit; its worth the drive.
Filed under: 52 Weeks: 52 new places, in the 52 weeks of 2010., Portland, US, The Grog Spot Tagged: Hair of the Dog, Hair of the Dog Brewpub, Hair of the Dog Taphouse, Hair of the Dog Taproom, HAir of the Dog Tasting Room, HOTD, new Hair of the Dog brewpub, oregon brewery, portland beer bar, portland brewery, portland brewpub


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We?re in the thick of Tokyo beer garden season, and summer wouldn?t be complete without a tipple to the tune of late cicadas and a trickle of sweat. There are dozens of choices, but some require an all-you-can-drink buy-in, which as we?ve mentioned before, isn?t always the best deal. Here are a handful of picks that also offer a la carte pricing, and are open until September.
Forest Beer Garden, Shinjuku This 1000-person capacity beer garden is held in the Meiji Shrine Outer Grounds. Running daily from mid-May to late September, the garden is open weekday evenings, and afternoons and evenings on weekends. The a la carte menu has glasses of beer starting at ¥600. An all you can eat and drink option is offered for ¥4,The post Tokyo Beer Gardens: Where to Spend a Summer Evening appeared first on Tokyo Cheapo.
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As you start the game, a little 3-page story appears about these 4 PokeGods and you having to be a trainer like your sister. You choose names and stuff (identical to FireRed and LeafGreen) and then end up in your room.
This game has been sold on eBay numerous times and is a popular fake game, so I decided to give it a try and write a review. From little playtime and some knowledge of game mechanics, I had Pokemon Chaos Black Version figured out.
The game is a basic hack of a Pokemon game found on eBay. This game at first seems like it will be an interesting new game, since the start up logo and the start screen both are really cool.
As you start the game, a little 3-page story appears about these 4 PokeGods and you having to be a trainer like your sister. You choose names and stuff (identical to FireRed and LeafGreen) and then end up in your room.
You then find out that the town is the exact same as FireRed and LeafGreen as well as all other towns/cities in the game.
So you do the normal sequence of trying to leave town and Oak comes up and take you to the lab. There you can get three starters, all new with cool sprites. After completing the rival battle, I noticed a few things. The first was that the movesets were altered as well as the Pokemon, a plus for the game. A downside was that by opening up the start menu and selecting Pokemon, you could tell that every Pokemon was based off of another since those sprites hadn't changed.
As I advanced I found Route 1 to be a maze with some interesting paths. Diglett Tunnel had totally been moved around as well as other things in the route, making it difficult to navigate. All people and houses remained the same though even their text and location, another downside. The Pokemon on the route were all interesting.
Viridian City was the same, so I went over to Route 22, which hadn't been modified at all, to see what was up over there. I found some new Pokemon, a Spearow and a Mankey, some clues that this project had not been completed and sold on eBay early. Next I went over to the PokeMart, got the parcel, went to Oak, got the PokeDex, and went back through Route 1 into Viridian. That's when the old guy taught me how to catch Pokemon. He used the regular Weedle as an example. So then I went into the Viridian Forest, but every trainer I faced had Pokemon that were the same from FR/LG. And on the PokeDex, they weren't added as those Pokemon. The Forest had changed a lot too. So, I continued into Pewter…
Brock was the same as well as the town. I beat Brock easily and continued into Route 3. As I searched for Pokemon in the grass, I found something out that was a humungous downside; capture rate remained the same for Pokemon. Capture rate is used so that Pokemon later in the game are harder to catch them, but since the Pokemon sprites were mixed around, it wasn't the same Pokemon in each route; it was different ones from later in the game. It was extremely hard to catch this Pokemon, and I couldn't with Pokeballs, even with it in the red zone. After that, the game started glitching up and it became harder to progress.
Graphics: 5/10
The graphics were actually downgraded from FR/LG.
Sound/Music: 6/10
I love the music in FR/LG; however, it was a complete bad rip of the music that was glitched up.
Uniqueness: 3/10
The sprites were unique and so were the routes, everything else was the same as FR/LG.
Game Play: 4/10
For a game like this, it should be better; gameplay glitched up and made some parts unplayable.
Total Score: 18/40
Don't bother getting this game as a ROM or buying it on eBay, it's a bad FAKE game.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about my hometown, St. Joseph, Mo., and asked you to tell me what your special hometowns were and why. Several of you responded with tales of towns in your family histories.
Thanks to Shannon Cooper who wrote about her favorite hometowns: "I really have three favorite hometowns. The first and foremost isn't a town but an area, called home by many of my mother's kin, just south of Diggins, Mo., at the south end of NN hwy, not too far west of Seymour. The view from the end of the road is awe-inspiring: a sweeping grassy valley with trees surrounding it. Finley creek is hidden within those trees. There is a newer brick home sitting very near the spot where my great-great-grandma's (Salinda America Hill Wright's) homestead was. Alone, she farmed and raised five children in that little cabin. The Cardwells (my grandpa's kin) were her neighbors and lived and worked along the creek.
"Thomas P. Cardwell (my third-great-grandpa) owned two gristmills, one on Big Finley creek and one on little Finley Creek. One mill was used for flour and meal, the other for feed. He also raised and processed cane (sorghum). Tom donated the land for the Cardwell Chapel Cemetery, where many Cardwells are buried, with only chimney or sand rocks to mark their graves. The funeral of Zachariah T. Cardwell (son of Thomas P.) and his wife Amelia was the last (one died in the evening, the other the next morning, in 1937) held in the old church building, both were buried in the same grave in Cardwell Cemetery, no marker. In 1984, Grandma (Gertie Selinda Wright Cardwell) was instrumental in the building of the present Cardwell Chapel. It was at the old building that my grandpa climbed up on a woodpile to look in the window and saw her sitting there with her golden curls and said that he was going to marry her someday. In 1927, he did.
"Grandma tells me that when the first of the Cardwell family came to that land (1835) that there were not many trees, but tall grass prairie that was 'knee-high to a man on a horse.' As I stop my car at the end of NN and look to the east, time seems to halt for a few moments, and I can see the tall grass sway in the hot summer breeze, and hear the sounds of the distant mill, the horses working and children playing. I can smell the scent of the cane, the grass and the cool water from the creek. Then I look over toward the old homestead and hear the scream of the panther on the roof of Selinda's home that cold winter night, as it smelled dinner cooking, and can feel the shivers that must have run over my family. I can see the rebel soldier when he ran his horse into their house, scattering feathers from the bed all about, and can feel her anger as he pitched her infant son (my great-grandpa John) on the floor. And the relief that things weren't worse, as those soldiers raided her farm. I can even feel the vibration of their horses' hooves. I know the helplessness she must have felt as her cabin burned to the ground, and the surety that God has everything under control. I can feel the love she had for her familyenough so to take an extra bit of time to tell them stories, that they in turn eventually passed to me, though born 47 years after her death.
"It 'feels' like home every time I stop at that remote intersection and overlook that valley. I can see the memories of my ancestors, and feel their blood run through my veins."
Connie Mitchell Braun wrote, "Thanks for sharing the St. Joe memories. I grew up in Independence, Mo., and although we have lived in Columbus, Ohio, for more than 16 years, Independence and Missouri are still 'home.' I even send my genealogy quarterlies and other genealogy materials I order and have finished to the genealogy library in Independence. It's the best! I always plan a day there when I go home for a visit.
Debra Hoelscher said, "Although it is not my hometown, I have one that is special to me and my heart. Maysville, Mo. It is my grandmother's hometown, and I have the fondest memories of going there over the years of my childhood to see her there. I felt very close to her, and we corresponded a lot with each other as I grew up. My grandmother was born there, and after living as an adult in New Mexico, she returned there after my grandfather died.
"I still have some of her letters from over the years—the ones that have withstood all my moving across country as often as my mom took me. I have been rereading them recently, and she even mentions a few of the people in the town that she associated with. Not many are mentioned by name unfortunately, but I still have vague memories of the town, the places she lived there, and some of the people I was introduced to.
"One Fourth of July weekend, my dad drove me from Illinois to Maysville to see her, and we went to St. Joseph to see the carnival and fireworks there. I have some fond memories of teasing Grandma about St. Joseph being the nearest big town to her. When we would drive to see her, one of our traditions was for Dad to speed up and down the rolling farmland hills, trying to make us get butterflies in our stomachs. It worked for me! I remember how pretty all that farmland was, even in Maysville. I marveled at how little the town itself was, yet so spread out, quiet and surrounded by farms everywhere.
"I only have bits and pieces of memories from several of the trips, but together, they weave a fond picture of that town, and my connection to it through my Grandma. I wish I had some pictures from those trips. My grandmother was my biggest influence; she encouraged all my writing and educational goals from afar. She herself was a writer, and I envied her that."
Mary Kay Baldwin wrote, "My hometown is Galesburg, Ill. It is a big train center and has two depots, which is unusual for a town of about 35,000 people. While working on my family tree, I learned that my paternal great-grandfather was an engineer with the Chicago, Burlington, Quincy railroad for 37 years. My paternal grandfather was a fireman (the person who shovels the coal) for a steam engine when he was a young man. My maternal grandfather was a machinist on the CB&Q for more than 30 years. He was so strong that he could lift a railroad wheel by himself. I was born in Galesburg, as were both my parents and my maternal grandmother. I graduated from both high school and college there. Now I no longer live there, but it has a special place in my heart."
Nancy Hendrickson is a contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine. She also is a family historian, freelance writer and the author of two astronomy books. Her Web site is at www.ancestornews.com. E-mail her at email@example.com


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Sustaining a successful public transportation system, such as train service, depends on that system being both convenient and safe. For train passengers, especially women, safety (both actual and perceived) can be a major issue.
In a recent article in TRACKTALK, "What puts women off using the train?" Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Associate Dean at University of California Los Angeles' School of Public Affairs and Urban Planning, shined a light on the critical role video surveillance and passenger information systems (PIS) can play in helping female travelers feel safe. As she noted, "Dark and deserted stations and trains are understandably off-putting and can encourage people to seek alternative means of transport, or even not travel at all, to avoid feeling threatened, or in some instances becoming a victim of crime."


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Yesterday, as we announced tickets going on sale for the forthcoming Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 exhibition, we revealed three new images that will star in the exhbition that opens on 21 October here at the Museum. I'm already bewitched by this one.
Coyote on the tracks, by Martin Cooper (Canada). Many of us Londoners will be enjoying this breathtaking image close-up before stepping inside the 2011 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibiton. It will feature in the exhibition's publicity posters.
These early-released images join the other 105 commended and winning 2011 photographs appearing in the new exhibition in the Museum's Waterhouse gallery. In the gallery, you'll be able to see them close-up, displayed as beautiful backlit installations, with descriptions and camera details.
The winning and commended images were hand-picked from about 41,000 entries, that poured in to the 2011 Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The competition office received images from 95 countries and welcomed Cambodia, Moldova, French-Polynesia, Brunei and Kyrgyzstan for the first time. The jury of photography industry experts spent three months coming to a final decision on the best photos.
I'm also told that the overall winner this year has now been chosen, but this information is of course shrouded in secrecy until October.
Martin Cooper, who snapped his coyote (above) one October dawn, recalled how the shot was taken at his favourite spot for photographing local widlife on a stretch of railway track in Burnaby, British Columbia. He was actually there waiting for a beaver, but grabbed the moment when he saw the coyote appearing from the undergrowth sniffing for the sign of rodents.
It's the spontaneity and the light in Martin's coyote photo that really grabs your attention, as much as the skilful photography and composition itself. And this is true of 13-year-old Ilkka Räsänen's Tern style, one of the other images revealed today (below).
Tern style, by 13-year-old Ilkka Räsänen from Finland really impressed judges with its use of light. It's one of the highly commended images in the 11-14 year-old category of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year young competition, revealed today.
Making an impression, by the UK's awardwinning photographer Andy Rouse, is the other image we have a sneak peek at from the forthcoming exhibition. Andy's exuberant photo (below) captures Akarevuro, a young male mountain gorilla, who charged at Andy and his companions in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
Making an impression, by Andy Rouse is highly commended in the 2011 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition's Behaviour: Mammals category. Look out for it in the exhibition.
Read the news story to find out more about the about the best wildlife photos sneak preview


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So far, you've seen the
AsParallel method prefixed to only the
Select clause. However,
Select is only one of the LINQ clauses that can take the
AsParallel method as a prefix. Starting at that clause, the remainder of the query is conducted in parallel. Methods preceding the
AsParallel clause in the query statement execute sequentially. In this example, the
Select clause executes sequentially, but the
GroupBy and
OrderBy clauses execute in parallel:
numbers.Select(/* selection */ ) .AsParallel() .GroupBy( /* categorize */ ) .OrderBy( /* sort*/ );
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AsSequential is the opposite of the
AsParallel clause. AsSequential serializes portions of your LINQ query. You might choose this to resolve dependencies in a PLINQ query. You can then use
AsSequential to isolate the dependency and make a part of a PLINQ query sequential.
You might also decide that a portion of a PLINQ query is more efficiently run in parallel as opposed to sequentially.
AsParallel and
AsSequential as gates for parallel and sequential execution, as shown in Figure 5. Although it is not common, a single PLINQ query can have multiple
AsParallel and
AsSequential clauses. Similar to the
AsParallel clause,
AsSequential can be used to prefix a LINQ method. From that position of the query forward, the remainder of the LINQ query executes sequentially at least until it encounters an
AsParallel clause. Figure 5 illustrates a PLINQ query with both
AsParallel and
AsSequential clauses. The
Select and
Groupby clauses execute in parallel, while the
OrderBy clause is sequential.
Figure 5: Execution in a PLINQ query with both AsParallel and AsSequential clauses.
For some, an orderly universe is important. Unfortunately, this is contrary to the default behavior of PLINQ. The following code squares and renders the values of an integer list:
int[] numbers = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }; var result = from number in numbers.AsParallel() select number * number;
You might be surprised by the results, which are indeed squared but do not appear in the same order as the underlying list:
0 4 16 25 36 49 64 81 1 9
PLINQ creates tasks for the query. Each task is then scheduled and placed on a queue in the .NET Framework 4 thread pool. The tasks are then scheduled on processor cores and executed. But PLINQ does not guarantee the order in which tasks will execute, so it is likely, if not probable, that the list iteration is unordered.
If you prefer ordered results, use the
AsOrdered clause. The PLINQ query still executes in an unordered fashion to improve performance and fully utilize the available processor cores. However, the results are buffered and then reordered at the completion of the query. This localizes the performance degradation to the
AsOrdered clause.
Here is the modified query:
int[] numbers = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }; var result = from number in numbers.AsParallel() .AsOrdered() select number * number;
The results are now ordered:
0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81
By default, PLINQ uses the available processor cores, up to a maximum of 64. The goal, of course, is to keep the available processor cores busy with active work, as shown in the graph in Figure 6. The graph depicts 100% utilization, which is ideal. This graph was taken during a PLINQ query where the parallel clauses were compute bound.
Figure 6: Full CPU utilization.
You can explicitly set the maximum number of processor cores with the
WithDegreeOfParallelism clause. There are two primary reasons for using this clause. First, this is useful when operations are I/O bound. I/O-bound threads are sometimes suspended, which causes processor cores to be underutilized. In this circumstance, you want to increase the degree of parallelism to exceed the number of processor cores. Conversely, you can decrease the number of tasks used in a PLINQ query with the
WithDegreeOfParallelism clause. For example, you could create a more cooperative environment for other running applications by purposely reducing the degree of parallelism to less than the number of available cores.
Assuming eight available processor cores, the following code reduces the degree of parallelism. The amount of reduction depends on the number of available cores.
int[] numbers = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }; var result = numbers.AsParallel() .WithDegreeOfParallelism(2) .Select(number=>PerformSelect(number)) .ToList();
Handling Exceptions
Unhandled exceptions raised in a PLINQ query are propagated to the joining thread. Because there can be one or more parallel tasks, multiple unhandled exceptions could occur concurrently. For that reason, unhandled exceptions are raised as an
AggregateException. You can enumerate the
AggregateException.InnerExceptions property to retrieve the original exceptions raised. This exception model is used in the following code to catch unhandled exceptions in PLINQ. In this example, you iterate an array of integers. Each element is then used as a divisor in a calculation. Unfortunately, a couple of the values in the array are zero. This throws the expected divide-by-zero exceptions. You will successfully catch and display the divide-by-zero exceptions.
Catch an exception in a PLINQ query as an
AggregateException and display the results
1. Create a console application for C# in Visual Studio 2010. In the
Main method, define an integer array. Notice that there are two zeros in the array list.
int [] intArray = { 5, 1, 2, 7, 4, 0, 6, 2, 9, 0 };
2. Perform a PLINQ query that iterates the integer array. In the
Select clause, return a 1000/nth calculation.
var results = intArray.AsParallel() .Select(item => (int)1000 / (int) item);
3. Define a
try and
catch block. In the
try block, iterate over the results by using a
ForAll method.
try { results.ForAll((item) => Console.WriteLine(item)); }
4. In the
catch statement, catch an
AggregateException. Then iterate over its
InnerExceptions property and display the original underlying exceptions.
catch(AggregateException ex) { foreach (var inner in ex.InnerExceptions) { Console.WriteLine(inner.Message); } }
Here is the entire code:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace Exception { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int [] intArray = { 5, 1, 2, 7, 4, 0, 6, 2, 9, 0 }; var results = intArray.AsParallel() .Select(item => (int)1000 / (int) item); try { results.ForAll((item) => Console.WriteLine(item)); } catch(AggregateException ex) { foreach (var inner in ex.InnerExceptions) { Console.WriteLine(inner.Message); } } Console.WriteLine("Press enter to exit"); Console.ReadLine(); } } }
Figure 7 shows the output from the application, which shows two unhandled exceptions. Why? There is one exception for each zero in the integer list. Each will cause an unhandled exception in a separate task.
Figure 7: Output from the AggregateException example.
You cancel a PLINQ query with a
CancellationTokenSource and
CancellationToken object.
CancellationToken is a property of the
CancellationTokenSource class. Using the
WithCancellation clause, you provide a cancellation token to a PLINQ query. You can then call
CancellationToken.Cancel to cancel the query operation. When you cancel the operation, it throws an
OperationCanceledException exception. Here are the basic steps of the cancellation model with PLINQ:
- Define a
- Execute the PLINQ query within a
- Add the
WithCancellationclause to the PLINQ query. The only parameter is
the CancellationToken.
- Call the
CancellationTokenSource.Cancelmethod to assert a cancellation. This will throw an
OperationCanceledExceptionin the PLINQ query.
- In a
catchblock, catch and handle the
Review the following example code. Note that it catches both the
OperationCanceledException and
AggregateException. A PLINQ query consists of parallel tasks, so it is quite possible for both an unhandled exception and a cancellation exception to occur on separate tasks of the same query. Therefore, you should be prepared to catch both exceptions. This example uses a separate thread to invoke the cancellation request.
static CancellationTokenSource cs = new CancellationTokenSource(); static void Main(string[] args) { int[] numbers = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }; (new Thread(new ThreadStart(Cancellation))).Start(); try { var result = numbers.AsParallel() .WithCancellation(cs.Token) .Select(number => PerformSelect(number)) .ToList(); } catch (OperationCanceledException ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } catch (AggregateException ex) { foreach (var inner in ex.InnerExceptions) { Console.WriteLine(inner.Message); } } } static void Cancellation() { Thread.Sleep(4000); cs.Cancel(); }


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(CBS News) The Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday that the current outbreak of the West Nile virus in America may be the worst ever.
Cases are reported in 47 states. More than 1,100 people have been infected and 41 have died.
No state has seen more cases than Texas.
CDC: "Dramatic" jump in West Nile virus cases
About half of West Nile cases in Texas
In the summer of 2005, John Shaw's life changed forever from a mosquito bite.
"A couple of days later I was getting dressed and I put on my shorts and I just collapsed," Shaw said. "I couldn't walk hardly, I couldn't stand up. I climbed down the stairs on my hands and knees."
The 59-year-old spent two weeks in the intensive care unit with inflammation of the brain and nervous system.
"The doctor came in and he jokingly said, 'yeah, we're even gonna test you for West Nile,'" Shaw said.
Shaw tested positive and ended up in a wheelchair. He still suffers from leg paralysis seven years later.
Dr. Kristy Murray has been studying west Nile since the first U.S. outbreak in 1999. She found that the virus remains in the body for about a third of patients -- like Shaw, with severe illness. Their symptoms can become chronic.
"It's incredibly surprising. It's not what the textbooks say about West Nile at all," Murray said.
About one in 150 patients infected with the West Nile virus become seriously ill. Of those, about 60 percent have long-term effects including fatigue, blurred vision, trouble thinking, kidney disease and paralysis.
The current outbreak is likely occurring because of a combination of a mild winter followed by a soggy spring -- perfect conditions for breeding mosquitoes.
"Eighty percent of our cases occur between August and September. So we're just still kind of that beginning of how this is going to end up playing out," Murray said.
John Shaw has built a new life for himself and now runs his travel agency from home. He doesn't complain, but if pressed, does admit one thing.
Shaw said he misses "taking a walk."
There is currently no effective anti-viral treatment for West Nile. An effective vaccine for horses has existed for about ten years, but Dr. Murray told me there hasn't been enough demand for one to be developed in humans.


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I am downloading your Schedules Direct data into MediaPortal program. When I open the TV Guide in Media Portal, the data appears showing the various TV show line-ups. The problem is that the color coded genres are all showing in the default grey. None of the assigned categories are working. I am thinking that SD is not providing the correct information. Can you help tell me, is this a SD issue or a Media Portal issue. (see attached)
When you look at the screen shot, at the top of the TV Guide, there a color coded template. Each TV listing it to be color coded accordingly. I cannot find out why it is not working. All listing are using the default color of grey and "currently active" as green. For example, on Channel 53, Ace Ventura movie is to be displayed in Bright Red. Since the color coded template is working, I was thinking that the data is not being delivered to MP with the correct genre mapping.
How can I review the data to see if what genre mapping is being provided. Maybe "Ace Ventura" is being classified something else causing the mis-match. djm


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Thousands of women and children fleeing bloodshed in Central African Republic are arriving in Cameroon malnourished and dangerously ill, the heads of two of the biggest U.N. agencies said on Wednesday, in an appeal for donor funds.
Central African Republic has been mired in ethnic and religious violence since northern Seleka rebels, most of them Muslim, seized power in the mainly Christian country in 2013.
The Seleka left power in January under international pressure after 10 months of looting and fighting that led to the formation of Christian militias known as anti-balaka, who have carried out retaliatory attacks on Muslims.
The conflict has killed thousands of people and uprooted nearly a million.
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Arthur Ashe Kids Day: Carly Rae Jepsen Leads Flash Mob
Pretty much everything Carly Rae Jepsen does is cute, including leading an impromptu and likely unintentional flash mob during her Arthur Ashe Kids Day performance at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. on Saturday (Aug. 25.) There were even some famous folks in the middle of the flash mob, too!
Jepsen performed 'Call Me Maybe,' her mega smash of the summer, while wearing a tennis-style, white dress with white sneakers. She looked athletic and summery. CRJ was joined by a host of tennis players who showed off their other talent: dancing. Then, out of seemingly nowhere, the Wanted and Mindless Behavior hit the tennis court to dance their faces off, too. The magnetic pull and power of 'Call Me Maybe' cannot and will not be denied.
So it was not just any ol' flash mob, but a star-studded one, as well!
The video of Jepsen's song managing to rouse dozens of people to their feet in order to dance should be enough to get you dancing behind your computer monitor. It's such an infectious song and really is the feel good (and much copied/parodied) hit of the summer.
Watching Jepsen bounce around in her cute little outfit gets us every time. When we think Summer 2012, we'll think 'Call Me Maybe.'