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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Top 10 Environmental Economics Blogs
In response to a request here is "Globalisation and the Environment's" top 10 sites for Environmental Economics (there are actually 11). Whenever you read these "I can help you blog" sites they always (repetitively) tell you that "lists of other blogs" are a great way of driving traffic to a site (and we're not proud).
This ranking is based on a number of criteria outlined below:
· "Click order". My reader currently has 76 feeds covering my various interests including environmental economics. The greatest weighting in this ranking is the "click order". If I have a spare 30 minutes (rare in academia of course) which sites do I read first? Often blogs with a too higher post frequency will not be clicked as the sheer amount of reading puts me off.
· "Borrow-ability". The "re-posting" of previously posted stories via links and Hat-Tips is cheap and an obvious short cut to hard-core content blogging but it saves considerable time and can keep a blog ticking over when real life intervenes. As an economist my aim is to maximise good content finding related to globalisation and the environment in the quickest time. This ranking therefore reflects the "gold dust to dross ratio" or put simply, how many posts do I have to read before I find something worth "borrowing".
· "Personality". There are certain blogs where, after a while, you get a feel for the bloggers personality. This can work both ways of course but I give a higher ranking to blogs where I can relate to the sense of humour (or otherwise) of the blogger. Thus, blogs that occasionally throw in tit-bits of the bloggers real life make reading the blog more like a soap opera allowing the reader to vaguely care about how the story will unfold.
· "News". The forth ingredient is whether a site keeps up with current news stories. Often such articles are posted without comment.
· "Academic". As an academic one is always on the look out for inspiration for new research so I want to read some good heavy material once in a while (but not too often).
Top 10 Environmental Economics Blogs
1. Environmental Economics – Undoubtedly the "daddy" of environmental economics blogs. Scores highly in most categories and currently in "click" position 1. This site has an excellent balance of, post frequency, information content, personality, irreverence, humour and pointless stuff. There is a good banter between Tim Haab and John Whitehead and any blog that has so many alcohol related posts has to be a winner. By telling it as it is they give some excellent insights into academic life with their conference and crash and burn journal experiences (even though they are respected and well published academics). The blog's content is US-centric though.
2. Environmental and Urban Economics – Matt Kahn's blog is in click position 2 and scores highly for academic content and personality. A relatively low post frequency concentrating on quality is a strong plus point. The posts are a mix of environmental and urban economics. Matt also gives some excellent insights into academic life and a top quality publication record to match. His book "Green Cities" is an excellent read. Blog layout could do with a little tweaking.
3. Gristmill Blog – this is the first "mega" site included in this ranking. "The Grist" is an online magazine covering environmental news and commentary. The blog has a large number of posters so scores lowly on personality and academic quality. It also has far too many posts so I can only face reading it once in a while to "catch up". However, there are often a number of high quality posts hidden in the 200 posts I often have to read. David Roberts is one of the best posters.
4. Planet Ark – purely for providing news stories delivered conveniently to my email address daily. The posts are concise and high on relevant information thus scoring highly on "borrow-ability" where further insightful (in theory) comment can then be added.
5. Greg Mankiw's Blog – perhaps controversially in at 5, Mankiw's blog always has genuinely interesting posts covering all aspects of economics. He keeps the links short but maintains a high quality of comment and debate. There is also a surprising amount of environmental economics related material especially as he continues his worthy Pigovian tax crusade. Scores highly in all categories.
6. IPE Zone – primarily a political economy blog with the by line "Tales of Power, Money and Occasional Violence". Emmanuel does a great job of posting news and commenting. Good post frequency and plenty of high quality environmental and Chinese related content.
7. Treehugger – the second "mega site" in this ranking. Not as good as Gristmill and too many posts on clothes and general green things but does have the occasional gem hidden amongst the adverts and pictures of cars. Very high post frequency puts me off reading too often. Recently sold for $10 million.
8. Conservation Finance – some interesting posts and a manageable post frequency. Often picks up some good news stories.
9. Ecological Economics – a highly academic blog with good quality posts or considerable length. Dave Iverson knows his stuff and it is interesting to get the "ecological" perspective on the current environmental debate.
10. Celsias – Not sure how I feel about this blog that is attached to a business and has 30 different posters. Very high post frequency but does cover all the latest news with some comment thrown in occasionally. A slick blog with a growing readership I believe. Craig Mackintosh does a good job as blog editor and has posted some good stuff in the past. For such a large operation it is not clear how it makes a profit. A bit too capitalist in nature for me.
11. Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development – Brad Ewing's blog covering his thoughts on various environmental economics issues. Some interesting material not found elsewhere.
Other blogs that deserve a mention include The Temas Blog (South America), Natural Capital (inactive), Development Crossing (development news), In the Green, China Economics Blog, ResponsibleChina (CSR and environmental posts for China), Living in a Toxic World, It's the Environment Stupid (few posts), Economist's View (good general economics) and Sustainablog.
edit: China Dialogue is also good for China/Environment issues.
Comments and suggestions welcome and apologies if I have missed anyone out.
14 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Hi Rob. Nice of you to include us in your list.
Thought I'd be bold and pipe up with the fact that we're not capitalist in nature at all (if that turns out to be the case, you'll see me hop off the bus). We're project oriented, and hope to get climate cooling projects off the ground. Stay tuned for more.
All the best in your work. - 7:36 pm
- Unknown said...
Many thanks for the honorable mention, Rob. My blog is heavily regional in focus and Temas is not all about the environment-economics interface or even the globalization angle, so I'm doubly glad to find out that my blog is nonetheless "clickable" and that, though still a young blog, is in such good company already in the estimation of a blogger I have come to respect quite a bit. Maybe with another year of work I can reach the top 10 (hope I don't have to push Craig out to do it, though! I like Celsias).
Warm Regards, Keith R - 8:36 pm
- Unknown said...
P.S. Are you guys considering a post on the implications of the Brazilian tire case recently decided in the WTO? I've been struggling with drafting a post on the topic for Temas and would love to hear your thoughts on the subject, as I suspect you would come at from a different angle than I.
- 8:41 pm
- Unknown said...
Hi Craig,
I see now that Celsias has relaunched. I am sure the earlier version was somehow "carbon-offset" related and my impression was that the blog was merely a way of getting punters through the door.
I suppose the question is now is how Celsias intends to pay for software design and the wages of the full timers. Is the funding provided as charity to support this worthy cause or is the aim to grow and be sold in a treehugger fashion in a few years making the 15 "names" a lot of money each thus, the names are all putting in some "seed money". The economist in me always wants to know this sort of thing.
I must say you have managed to recruit some impressive names such as George Monbiot and Lester Brown.
The new Celsias is off to a good start and there is no reason the new model will not work. - 8:54 pm
- Anonymous said...
Thanks, kindly, for including ResponsibleChina.com on your list. China is a BIG place, so any resources, tips and links to information from any of my readers or fellow bloggers are much appreciated. I'm hoping to launch a podcast this week, so stay tuned!
- 9:36 pm
- Tom W. said...
Nice list! On the China front, chinadialogue.net is the "daddy" for blogs on China and the environment (although responsiblechina is looking quite promising), with excellent posts from a variety of writers and often with a global (read non-China centric) emphasis.
- 12:03 am
- Unknown said...
tom w - thanks for the comment. I agree that ChinaDialogue is an excellent site for China/Environment stories. They have some good writers and the pieces are of good academic quality.
I will add it to the blogroll asap. - 12:57 pm
- Emmanuel said...
Thanks for the favorable mention, Dr. Elliot. It's pretty formidable company we have to keep up with here! Best regards from the IPE Zone.
- 7:55 pm
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for the list. Lots to investigate there.
- 2:24 pm
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No, in short. But this is one of those cases where grammarians hedge. The big Quirk grammar says, at the relevant point (5.59) 'The conditions under which a/an occurs in such cases are unclear'.
Indeed they are. One of the problems is that many nouns in English can be either countable or uncountable, as in cake/a cake, coffee/a coffee, a tobacco (meaning 'a type of tobacco'), and so on. Here we are talking about nouns which are rarely if ever thought of as countable.
Quirk et al say two factors are relevant. Fist, there's likely to be a personal theme. The noun must refer to a quality or other abstraction which is attributed to a person. One of their examples is:
Mavis had a good education.
Nothing wrong with that. And we can talk about such qualities as annoyance, togetherness, and generosity in this way:
The late arrival of the train was a real annoyance.
John and Mary display a charming togetherness.
That's what I call a generosity of spirit.
But we can't do this with, say, progress, heraldry, and shoplifting:
*We made an important progress.
*I looked at an interesting heraldry.
*That was a shoplifting I disapprove of.
The other point Quirk et al make is that, the greater the amount of premodification or postmodification, the more likely we will find the indefinite article. So, to develop their example:
She played the oboe with sensitivity.
*She played the oboe with a sensitivity.
She played the oboe with a great sensitivity.
She played the oboe with a great and engaging sensitivity.
She played the oboe with a sensitivity that delighted the critics.
She played the oboe with a great and engaging sensitivity that delighted the critics.
The more we pre/postmodify, the more we allow the particularising function of the indefinite article to operate.
Having said all that, I'm not entirely sure which uncountables follow these trends. The semantic criterion (personal attribution) is inevitably a bit fuzzy. Is plagiarism included, for example? Would you accept The teacher discovered a fresh plagiarism? I think there might be quite a lot of divided usage here.


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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada
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First Nations, Metis, and Inuit women in Canada are murdered at a much higher rate than their non-indigenous counterparts. According to Canadian government statistics, 16% of all women murdered in Canada between 1980 and 2012, despite making up only 4% of the country's total population of women. According to the Native Women's Association of Canada, Native women are three times more likely to be murdered by a stranger than other Canadian women. The country's lack of comprehensive documentation of the Native status of missing persons in police databases renders it difficult to establish a pattern in homicides and disappearances where the victims are indigenous. Additionally, disproportionately low attention is given to cases of missing and murdered and aboriginal women by the media and law enforcement. In response to sustained First Nations protests throughout the country, newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a nationwide inquiry into the epidemic in December 2015.


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When I think of Easter desserts, carrot cake is the first thing that comes to mind. I'm not really sure why it is considered the ubiquitous Easter cake, other than the fact that well, rabbits eat carrots? In any case, I really like carrot cake: it has a nice warmth from the cinnamon and nutmeg, and the carrots keep it sweet and moist. I saw Annie convert Cook's Illustrated's version of a carrot cake into cupcakes last fall, and I decided to do the same thing when I set out to make these.
As far as difficulty goes, this is an incredibly easy recipe. Peeling the carrots is by far the most time consuming step, but from there it comes together very quickly. I also like that it is made in the food processor. What a fun new use for it! I used my favorite cream cheese frosting recipe (which, coincidentally, I also got from Annie), which I love using to pipe - so pretty!
I took these to a friend's birthday party, and they were enjoyed by all!
Carrot Cupcakes
adapted from Baking Illustrated
makes 24-28 cupcakes
- 2 1/2 cups (12 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 pound (6-7 medium) carrots, peeled
- 1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) light brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups canola oil
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a food processor fitted with the shredding disk, shred the carrots (you should have about 3 cups). Add the carrots to the bowl with the dry ingredients and set aside.
Wipe out the food processor and fit with a metal blade. Process both sugars with the eggs until frothy, about 20 seconds. Keep the machine running, and pour the oil through the feed tube. Continue processing until the mixture is light in color and well emulsified, about 20 seconds longer.
Scrape the mixture into a large bowl, and stir in the dry ingredients and carrots. Fold in until there is no longer any flour visible.
Fill each cupcake liner 3/4 full, and bake for 18-24 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Frost, and serve.


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Brief Note on JCM National Council Standing Committee Meeting with DoPT, Finmin, Labour Min held on 9th October 2015 at New Delhi by Confederation
Dear Comrades,
The Standing Committee of the JCM National Council met on 9th October, 2015. As you are aware, earlier, the National JCA had decided to defer the strike action and organize a massive Dharna programme at Jantar Mantar on 19th November, 2015 to register its strongest protest over the Government's engineered delay in the submission of the 7th CPC Report. Later, the Finance Ministry has issued a statement asking the 7th CPC to factor into its report the fiscal concern of the Government, which was an unwarranted interference in the independent functioning of the Commission and to pressurise the Commission not to recommend wage rise on the basis of a sound and scientific formulation.
The Staff side on receipt of the invitation to have the meeting on 9th October, decided to respond and convey to the Government their strong resentment over the virtual dilution of the negotiating forum as also the above concerns. In the meeting the Staff side was informed that the Secretary Personnel would be meeting the Standing Committee soon and the meeting on 9thwas in fact only a prelude to understand each other's points of views. It was in the background the meeting was held on 9th October, 2015.
The leader and Secretary, Staff Side conveyed the unanimous decision of the National JCA as under to the Government.
(a) The Standing Committee, as per procedure evolved, must be chaired by the Secretary Personnel.
(b) The JCM Machinery's functioning should not be diluted.
(c) The promised meeting of the National Council has not taken place so far.
(d) The minutes of the last two meetings of the National Anomaly Committee have not been formally issued.
(e) 'The Official side Secretary must convene a meeting of the Staff Side to iron out any difference in the draft minutes.'
(f) Normally meetings are held after circulation of the ATS. This has not been done.
(g) The Official Side must convey the anguish of the employees over the delay in the submission of the report by the 7th CPC which they justifyly feel has been engineered by the Government. They also pointed out that they are constrained to believe that the Govt. was unnecessarily interfering in the functioning of the Pay Commission.
We give hereunder a brief resume of the discussions held on the agenda items.
After the initial remarks made by the Staff Side all issues in the charter of demands were discussed. There had been however, no final settlement on any issue as the meeting itself was not convened for that purpose. The Staff Side stated that even the promises held out in the last meeting that the Departmental Council meeting would be held soon was not honoured.
Interim relief, DA merger, inclusion of GDS
On the question of Pay revision related issues, viz. Interim relief, DA merger, inclusion of GDS etc . elaborate discussions were held. It has come out clearly that on all these issues, the Finance Ministry has taken an nugatory Stand, even though the arguments put forth were extremely untenable. It was pointed out by the Staff Side that the Interim relief and DA merger was denied on the specious plea of submission of the report in the stipulated time. Having extended the time, the Govt. ought to have considered the grant of these two demands. There had been a very elaborate discussion on the question of inclusion of the GDS within the purview of the 7th CPC. The Postal Department's representatives narrated the efforts made by them to the Government for conceding this demands. The Finance Ministry has stood firm and objected to the demand being agreed to. The Staff Side has, in the given situation of the 7th CPC having finalised its report, requested the Government to refer the matter to a Judicial Committee headed by the present Chairman, 7th CPC as he has now been fully apprised of the functioning of various ministries and Departments of the Government through the interaction with the Staff and official sides. No commitment was however made by the Government to the above suggestion.
FDI in Railways, Corporatisation of Postal Department and Defence organisations
On the question of induction of FDI in Railways, Corporatisation of Postal Department and Defence organisations, the representative of the Railway Ministry stated that they are constantly discussing the issues with the Railway Federations and was exploring the possibility of reaching an agreement. In the case of corporatisation of the Postal Department, it was stated that the recommendations made by the Committee was discussed with the Federations and it has been agreed that except induction of certain professionals at the managerial level to fine tune the functioning of the Department in the changed scenario, the Federations have been assured that no structural changes would be made without consulting them. However, in the case of Defence, no discussions with the Federations have been held so far.
The Staff Side pointed out the present scenario in the Government offices, where the number of employees and officers who are outside the ambit of the statutory pension scheme has grown and have reached in certain organisations to the extent of 25 to 30%. These employees are extremely concerned of the new scheme and their anguish have been expressed in many forms. The Unions would be compelled to take drastic action if the Government refuses to heed to their plea to effect a relook or revisit on the matter. The representatives of the Railways pointed out that the Honourable Minister for Railways was convinced of the situation and that was the reason why he had written to the Finance Ministry that in the given situation of the Railway functioning, the new scheme would not only jeopardise the interest of the Railwaymen but also of the Railway Industry itself.
Issues of Medical Store Deport and the Printing and Stationery department
On the specific question raised by the Staff side in the last meeting in respect of resolving the issues of Medical Store Deport and the Printing and Stationery department, the Staff Side stated that only the meeting of the Medical Store Depot was held and the issues have been resolved to some extent. The Printing and Stationery Department has now sent a communication to the Staff Side fixing the meeting on 15th October '15. The general issues emanating from the policy of outsourcing and contractorisation was also discussed at length.
JCM functioning
JCM functioning had been the central point of discussions. The Staff Side has pointed out that unless the Government makes up its mind that the machinery should be put on operation, no industrial peace would come in the functioning of the various departments of the Govt. of India. The Staff side asked the Department of personnel to collect the information of the number of cases litigated in the courts by the Government employees in 1991 and 2015 and make a comparison to know the seriousness of the problem.
Compassionate Ground appointments
On compassionate ground appointments question, it was stated by the Staff Side that despite advancing no cogent argument by the official side for retaining the 5% ceiling, the Department of personnel does not want to make a relook into the matter. The Staff Side pointed out that large number of applications were pending in various Departments, and the concerned department would not be able to clear them even after 20 years for want of the requisite vacancies. They also pointed out that the decision of the Government to impose the 5% ceiling was amounting to a cruelty imposed on the family members of the Government servants who dies in harness.
Labour Laws Reforms
The Labour Ministry representative was present at the meeting. The meeting did not discuss the merits and demerits of the labour reforms as the Trade Unions in the country has justifiably concluded that it has been conceived to favour the corporate houses and to take away the existing privileges of the workers. The point at issue, however, at the meeting was as to why the Labour Ministry did not cause a consultation with the Industrial Federations in the Government of India, for whom the Industrial Disputes Act is applicable. The Labour Ministry has assured to convene a meeting of the representatives of such organisations soon.
Bonus Ceiling
The Labour Ministry representative also stated that the government has agreed to raise the bonus ceiling but it would not be appropriate for him to make a mention of the quantum as the Cabinet is yet to give its clearance. The Government would be able to take a decision in the matter only after the Bihar elections are over.
Five Promotions in service
The Staff Side explained the background of the demand for five promotions. The reaction of the official side was that the matter must be appropriately discussed only after the 7th CPC report is made available.
Source: Confederation News
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This past summer, I experimented with several different webcast topics and formats. One of the most enjoyable was 'MOOCast'. It was done in conjunction with EduMOOC 2011 and was "an open-ended opportunity for EduMOOC'ers to share resources, ideas, and feedback about assorted eduMOOC topics and/or the MOOC itself". Despite that fact that it was a 'no-prep' show (or perhaps because of it), a diverse parade of talented educators showed up to participate and we had some really interesting conversations.
I think MOOC's are great, but as we discussed on the final MOOCast, I'm not a fan of the name itself. Aside from just not liking the sound of the word, I see MOOC's as part of a larger movement toward educators and learners working together and sharing resources online. 'Massive' learning events like Change, MobiMOOC , & Stanford's AI have a valuable impact on those that participate and play an important role the evolution of instructional design. I see these as the 'big hit' portion of the long tail of open education. I think the truly 'massive' potential of open education happens when courses of whatever size are opened up online. Of course this is already happening in variety of ways, but continuing to figure out ways to share and remix resources, collaborate with other educators, and help our learners connect with each other, is essential to reaching the truly massive potential of open learning.
Looking forward to some 'cool' conversations...
COOLCast#1 - September 14, 2011 (video, audio, & chat log)
Next Scheduled COOLCast - Sept. 21 1400GMT global times
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Keep up the good work!
Well done organizing COOLCast. When it comes to sharing knowledge and collaborating, it is great to get many heads together.
Just finished reading James Gleick's book, The Information, which cites Charles Bennett's 1988 paper on Logical Depth, which states "the value of a message is the amount of mathematical or other work plausibly done by its originator, which its receiver is saved from having to repeat." (pg 4)
Wiki-to-Speech is now doing some "mathematical or other work" by taking a presentation with speaker notes as input and generating a video with voice over as output, as in this example:
I resisted commenting when I first saw the alternative 'Collaborative' name mentioned, but now I regret that.
But I do feel it worth mentioning here that the structure and nature of a MOOC is exactly not 'collaborative'. Let me explain.
Most definitions of 'collaborate' focus on the idea that a group of people are working on something in common - shared aims, shared objectives, shared project, etc. and very often they result in becoming a group, a team or a cohesive community.
MOOCs and the connectivist approach to learning, as I have argued elsewhere, is by contrast 'cooperative'. There is no presumption of unity, order, shared goals or coherence. There's no sense of being 'in the group' or its opposite. If teams or groups form, they are tangential to the course, and not the core or essence of it.
So, if you are discussing 'Collaborative Open Online Learning', you are not discussing MOOCs. Perhaps you are discussing things like WikiEducator or OERu, where everybody is pulling the same way. I don't know.
For more on this, see my stuff on 'groups and networks':
- http://www.downes.ca/post/42521
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/252157734/
- http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/groups-vs-networks-the-class-struggle-c...
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540
- http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/10/that-group-feeling.html
Cooperate vs. Collaborate
A distinction worth examing, but a pretty blurry one I think.
Google offers this when I define:collaborate
1. Work jointly on an activity, esp. to produce or create something.
and this when I define:cooperate
1. Act jointly; work toward the same end.
It seems to me that a spectrum of 'working together' goes on in MOOC's and in other 'open online learning/courses', whether by design or not.
I understand that for some purposes (like research) differentiation may be neccessary, but I'm just not sure why the distinctions matter in practice.
Thin crust, thick crust, deep dish, or brick oven - it's all pizza... and it's all good :)
Looking forward to the conversation...
Either way, whatever Google
Either way, whatever Google says, the aim of a MOOC is *not* to "Act jointly; work toward the same end."
Whose aim ? whose collaboration?
That is an interesting approach Stephen. You seem to suggest that there is one aim for a MOOC. Of course in any human organisation (i.e. involving more than one person) there may be multiple aims, possibly overlapping but distinct. What would you do if a number of people decided to work jointly towards a common end on your MOOC? Would you ban them for disobeying your network principles or your MOOC definition?
Is there really a distinction between the two?
It is possible that one can lead to the other in a cycle. The collaborators bring knowledge from outside, knock it around in the group and then share the knowledge with other groups and people. It is only when the knowledge is not shard freely, inwards and outwards, that the model breaks down.
I think "collaborative" might have been an effort to open this beyond MOOCs, though Jeff may correct me. As someone running something different (not big enough to be a MOOC, but open, yet structured, with a goal, and tasks, but free-form in many aspects), I appreciate that effort and think I can contribute more to the conversation.
MOOCs seem to be collaborative in their inception and development. So do the research projects that stem from them. And often people in them collaborate, even though the intent and design may be more connectivist than collaborative.
So if the larger term is designed to include OERs, and experiments like I'm doing, and encouragement of openness in general, and discussion of what that openness means (and its implications, good and bad), then these things may be collaborative in that we develop them in the context of what admittedly is a rather small group, even if that collaboration is not intentional or does not precisely fit the definition.


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Barefoot Landing will be hosting The Lighting of the Landing on Saturday, November 21st. They will have live music starting @ 6:00 PM, a scene from the Theater of the Republic's "A Christmas Story", kid's activities, and of course a special guest, Santa! The event will be held in the Lake View Courtyard area of the Landing by the carousel. Barefoot Landing is asking everyone to bring a new, unwrapped toy for their Toys for Tots collection. All toys will benefit Toys for Tots for Horry County. Barefoot Landing has a great variety of restaurants so plan on enjoying a nice dinner after the event!
Friday, November 20, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
North Myrtle Beach Snowball Drop
It will be snowing in North Myrtle Beach soon! Snowing with savings as The North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce has their annual Snowball Drop for Shop Local Saturday on Main Street, Saturday, November 28th. The snowball drop will be on Main Street in front of Duffy Street Seafood @ 10:00 AM. Chamber members will be shoveling snowballs (golf balls) off the roof from local shops and restaurants. The snowballs will all be marked with the name of the business which the receiver will need to visit to get their gift or discount. Last year's savings/gifts were free dinners, buy one get one free dinners, coupons, and one business gave away a microwave! The chamber will also be throwing out frisbees which will have AMEX gift cards attached to them to help you with your Shop Local Christmas Shopping!
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Christmas Regatta
The 31st annual Christmas Regatta is scheduled for Saturday, November 28th, 2015-Thanksgiving Weekend. The regatta has become a tradition for both locals and visitors and will start at 5:00@ The Little River Inlet. The parade travels down the Intercoastal Waterway ending near the Dock Holidays Marina.
Don't forget to take a new, unwrapped toy as the regatta collects toys to assure that all Horry County children have a Christmas! Donations are also accepted for the North Myrtle Beach Animal Shelter.
Some favorite local spots to watch the parade are Ian's Waterway Bar and Grille, Filets on the Water, and Boardwalk Billys.
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North Myrtle Beach Christmas Wonderland
New to North Myrtle Beach for the Christmas holiday season is The North Myrtle Beach Christmas Wonderland! Located at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex, this exciting new attraction will open on Thanksgiving Day and run thru New Years Eve. The attraction will have something for adults and children alike with a Christmas lights viewing hayride, puppet show, Help Save Christmas paintball challenge, petting zoo and a 3D Walk to the North Pole! Visit North Myrtle Beach Christmas Wonderland!
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Countdown to Can-Am Days!!!
Snowbird friends,
Can-Am Days will be here in less than a month! The cities of Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach have lots of fun activities planned for the 2014 Canadian American Days so mark your calendars, BUSY, for March 8th-March 16th! There will be a concert series, a 5K run, and both cities will be hosting their annual St. Patrick's Day Festivals! I will post special events planned for the Can-Am Days as they are released! Visit The Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce for more details!
Thank you for choosing Southern Coast Vacations as your Myrtle Beach winter rental headquarters!
Debbie Philbeck
Vacation Property Manager
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Happy Halloween, everyone!!
I'm over at the ALSC Blog today talking about some slightly scary and Halloween-y books that just might still be on your library shelves, even if the rest of your Halloween books are checked out! Just click the book below (a suggestion from one of my AWESOME Twitter friends for this post!) to head over there and check it out. And make sure you leave your own suggestions in comments!


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"I really believe the revolution has changed us. People are acting differently towards each other." These are the words of Ms Kamel, 50, one of the many women who were out on Tahrir Square, actively participating in the revolution.
Arab women have once again shown that women play a decisive role in revolutionary events. In Egypt women have been participating actively in the revolution, in the same way that they played an active role in the strike movement in the few last years, in several cases pressurizing the men to join the strikes.
In earlier protests in Egypt, women only accounted for about 10 per cent of the protesters, but on Tahrir Sqaure they accounted for about 40 to 50 per cent in the days leading up to the fall of Mubarak. Women, with and without veils, participated in the defence of the square, set up barricades, led debates, shouted slogans and, together with the men, risked their lives.
Another view on women
Probably the most important motive force so far has been ordinary people's striving for respect and dignity (something that was also clear in the Russian revolution and in France in May 1968). The dictatorial regimes, the police and the bosses don't treat people as human beings, but as animals. That goes for all workers and poor, but especially for women.
Women's perception of themselves has been changed through the struggle. "We have suffered the taste of teargas, but we are not afraid. The women who are afraid to leave the house, even they see us and gain courage," explained English teacher Riham Muntaz, 25, to the newspaper The National on February 14. (Women make their power felt in Egypt's revolution 14.02.11)
The idea that men and women should be different was removed during the revolution. Mozn Hassan, the director of the Nasra Feminist Studies Centre in Cairo said, "No one sees you as a woman here; no one sees you as a man. We are all united in our desire for democracy and freedom." She explains that it was the freedom women experienced at Tahrir Sqaure that made them return again and again bringing along their friends, sisters and mothers.
The revolution also changed the relation between the sexes. "(…) In the square, you had people from different classes, both men and women, mixing, talking and debating. They [men] were seeing that women are strong, that they can look after themselves. They were seeing women work hard for the revolution, leading protests, and their response [not groping] is their way of saying, 'I respect you'," explained Ms. Hassan. Sexual harassment has been a large problem in Egypt. More than four out of five women have been sexually assaulted at some time, and the police has used this also to intimidate women, but it has been completely absent in the struggle against the Mubarak regime.
Women's liberation through class struggle
Arab women are now showing the way forward. The right-wing bourgeois parties have used the oppression of women in many societies where Islam is the main religion to campaign against the so-called "Muslim world" and legitimize the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately in this they have had help from intellectuals and so-called left-wingers that have been complaining about the "Muslim view on women". Other left-wingers has swung to the opposite side and even made concessions to religious forces in the Arab world. The Arab revolution shows that as Marxists we were absolutely correct when we insisted that the struggle for women's rights is part of the class struggle and that these two are inseparable.
The Arab masses have shown that the class divide is the only decisive division. In the united struggle of the masses neither religion, gender or race play any role, and prejudices are overcome in practice. Marx explained, "it is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence but their social existence that determines their consciousness". When the material conditions are no longer tolerable for the great majority and the masses are forced to fight for better conditions, through this struggle their consciousness and ideas are changed dramatically.
Freedom to what?
The Egyptian women who have come out massively onto the streets did not do so in the name of some abstract women's liberation. They took the streets in order to create a better life for themselves and their families.
English teacher Ms. Muntaz explains how she struggles to make ends meet. "I get paid 400 [Egyptian] pounds a month... I have no health insurance, if I need an operation I have to pay for it myself. I have no contract, no job security. We want a better life for us and for our children. We deserve a better life."
The struggle of the Arab masses has just started. The Arab women have shown enormous courage and have shown that the struggle for women's liberation only can be carried out as part of the struggle for a general liberation of the whole of the working people. They will realize that genuine women's liberation does not flow from formal freedom and formal democracy, but that it requires a real social revolution.


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So in an effort to actually get my ord bot up and running I've been putting in some hours in the garage. I've been just twisting wires and taping them and trying to get things running, then when I know how everything will function I'll tidy up.
In this effort I was previously attempting to run a dual QU-BD setup. Someone asked me why I chose to go QU-BD despite all the terrible reviews. Well I had a chance to think about it. The QU-BD was built off of a Makerbot reference design, and the version I bought was version 9. My theory was that a) they've probably worked out the bugs by now. and b) people on the internet like to complain.
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Looking a the quality of the EZStruder, the molded plastic parts looked like the were going to work perfectly. Everything was just the right fit and tolerance.s, and it fits perfectly to a J-Head nozzle. I stole the stepper off of one of my QU-BD extruders instead of buying a new one. Also I decided to just focus on a single head design and when everything is happy I'll order another EZStruder and see about getting the chinese J-Head working with it in a dual design. For now I want to just get the ball rolling.
So now the J-Head shipped with a power resistor to heat it. I actually have a heater cartridge I got off ebay that I think looks nicer, plus it means I don't need to find any high temp wire to hook up to it. So I went with the heater cartridge.
The only issue I had with the heater cartridge is it doesn't seem to fit real snug. The QU-BD design had a screw tensioner you could put on the cartridge to make it a nice snug fit. The J-Head site recommends using some compound for like muffler holes. I decided to improvise by pulling tiny strands of stranded wire through with it to give it a nice snug fit.
To mount it, I found a bracket made by bwevans on the ord-bot forums (link here). I printed it out on an old thing-o-matic at my hackerspace. The bracket fit nice, it uses holes already there for the belt attachment and I just had to find some screws that fit.
Some other pics are posted below. So far I can tell you this setup works perfectly. Everything fits together real nice, the filament is nice and sturdy and it seems to be able to extrude really fast and hasn't slipped once.


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Flying over an Extraterrestrial Land of Lakes
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS |
PIA Number | PIA17656 |
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This colorized flyover movie from NASA's Cassini mission takes viewers over the two largest seas on Saturn's moon Titan and nearby lakes. Titan is the only world in our solar system other than Earth that has stable liquid on its surface. The liquid in Titan's lakes and seas is mostly methane and ethane.
The flight path starts at Titan's largest sea, Kraken Mare (about 680 miles or 1,100 kilometers long), and passes over the second largest sea, Ligeia Mare. Titan seas are named after sea monsters in world mythology. Then, there is an area with no topographical data and the flight path crosses an area with smaller lakes. Lakes in this area are about 30 miles (50 kilometers) across or less.
Data for the movie was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument from 2004 to 2013. Heights of features were exaggerated 10 times. In this color scheme, liquids appear blue and black. Land areas appear yellow to white. A haze was added to simulate the Titan atmosphere. Straight lines in the images are artifacts of how Cassini obtained the data.
The topographic mapping of Titan using stereo radar images was performed by the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz. The animation was created at JPL.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
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Another researcher has issued a statement accusing a member of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) of misrepresenting research. In a statement first issued to blogger Rob Tisinai yesterday, Theodora Sirota, a professor of Nursing at Seton Hall University, said, NARTH advisory board member Rick Fitzgibbons "mis-reported and misrepresented the results of my 2009 research." At issue is a 2009 Archives of Psychiatric Nursing article* authored by Sirota about attachment in daughters of gay or bisexual fathers. In November, Fitzgibbons used Sirota's research in an article on Catholic website, MercatorNet, to make the claim that "children raised by same sex couples fare less well than children raised in stable homes with a mother and a father."
Dr. Sirota told me today by phone that her study could not be used to make a generalization about same-sex couples because the participants in her study did not grow up in same-sex homes. Instead, they grew up in what she called, "heterosexually-organized families where fathers were gay or bisexual." In other words, the parents were in a mixed orientation marriage, where the mother was straight and the father was gay or bisexual.
In his MercatorNet article, Fitzgibbons refers to Sirota's article in a section titled, "The children do suffer" and claims that "There are strong indications that children raised by same sex couples fare less well than children raised in stable homes with a mother and a father." As Sirota points out, her research does not support Fitzgibbon's claim. He compares apples and oranges.
The women surveyed by Sirota were in families with a mother and father, not same-sex couples as implied by Fitzgibbons. Fitzgibbons improperly generalizes from mixed orientation marriages to same-sex couples. Sirota pointed this out to Fitzgibbons in the comment section of his article, but he declined to retract his incorrect use of her study.
Another factor pertinent to the findings of attachment problems in women is the frequency of divorce in mixed orientation marriages found by Sirota. Parental divorce was reported more frequently by women who grew up in mixed orientation homes than by the women with two straight parents. Sirota describes these differences in her dissertation (the 2009 study was based on her PhD dissertation research conducted in 1996). On page 81, Sirota wrote,
Daughters of gay or bisexual fathers reported significantly higher rates of divorce among their parents than daughters of heterosexual fathers (x2( 3, N = 112) = 22.53 p .001). These data are presented in Table 18. Mean age at parents' separation or divorce was 12.8 years for daughters of gay or bisexual fathers (n = 39) and 9.4 years for daughters of heterosexual fathers (n = 16).
Note that 57.4% of the group with gay fathers reported divorce or separation compared to only 25% of the group with straight parents. Divorce is known to be a relevant factor in attachment formation and the group with gay or bisexual fathers reported significantly more of it. One cannot say that the orientation of the men was the factor which led to the poorer attachment reported by the participants in Sirota's study. In fact, it makes more sense, especially given the average age of the daughters when the divorce took place (12.8 vs. 9.4), to propose that divorce and related instability is more the culprit for the poorer attachment results than the sexual orientation of the fathers. In any event, without controlling for divorce, one cannot reasonably isolate the father's sexual orientation as the sole factor relating to differences in attachment, if it is a factor at all.
Having discussed divorce as a confounding variable, the main objection of Dr. Sirota remains. Her study cannot be generalized to say anything about same-sex couples and attachment dynamics in their children. Dr. Fitzgibbons makes an improper generalization in his article and adds insult to injury by defending his treatment of the study when the misuse was pointed out.
There are other studies in the MercatorNet article which are stretched too far (e.g., Sarantakos) and I may come back to the topic in a future post.
*Sirota, T, (2009) Adult attachment style dimensions in women with gay or bisexual fathers. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 23, 289-297.