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Made into a sandwich with turkey, swiss, dijon mustard & lettuce:
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1 bag Pamela's Bread Mix
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1/4 cup oil
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1. Combine dry mix, yeast packet, oil & water. (no eggs are used).
2. Mix on medium for 3 minutes.
3. Use 1/2 cup dough for each bagel. Oil hands and place on a greased baking sheet in the form of a bagel (don't worry about the hole now, we will get to that later).
4. Let dough rise for 1 hour, then poke hole in the center of each bagel. (I took a wooden spoon and sprayed the handle with Pam and then used that to poke my holes).
5. In boiling water, boil bagels for 25 seconds.
6. Remove with slotted spoon and place on greased baking sheet. Brush with egg whites and top with sea salt, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, etc if you choose.
7. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 20 -25 minutes. (I baked for 23 minutes).
ENJOY!!!! Truly, gluten-free heaven.
Oh, and another bonus recipe. The dish pictured with my sandwich is an eggplant parmesan of sorts. I had some tomatoes that I needed to use, so I made a simple marinara and then made this recipe:
Easy Eggplant Parmesan
1 medium eggplant
1 medium zucchini
Mozzerella Cheese
Paremsan Cheese
Marinara Sauce (I used homemade today, but have used Prego 3 Cheese in the past)
1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Slice eggplant & zuccini.
3. Spread sauce in the bottom of a glass pyrex dish. Start to layer eggplant & zucchini and cheeses with sauce. Repeat until ingredients are gone.
4. Bake at least 30 minutes. Test the eggplant with a fork, it should be soft. Broil for a couple minutes to brown up the top.
**I have seen a variation of this recipe with ricotta cheese too. That would make it more a meal, suitable for vegetarians.
Filed under: Gluten-free Products, Gluten-Free Recipes | Tagged: bagels, eggplant, eggplant parmesan, Gluten-Free |

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If you're an American taxpayer, congratulations! You are now the owner of one of the world's largest auto manufacturers.
Maybe you never wanted to buy a car company. Maybe you hoped that your tax dollars would go toward something else, like fixing potholes, building schools, or perhaps a conducting a bombing raid somewhere. But you don't get much of a say about where your taxes go, and the people who do have a say decided that your money should buy a controlling interest of General Motors, and that's that.
So now that you have a car company, what are you going to do with it? It's a tough question, and there are no shortage of people weighing in.
Lefty filmmaker Michael Moore, who first became famous for his 1989 film, "Roger & Me," which described what happened in his home town after the GM plant closed there, has big plans for the company. He wants to retool GM's plants – and retrain its 60,000 workers – to make bullet trains, light rail systems, energy-sipping buses, solar panels, windmills, and a few hybrids and electric vehicles. To pay for all this, he proposes a $2-per-gallon gas tax.
The editorial board at the Nation, who, it's safe to say, share many of Mr. Moore's political views, call for pretty much the same thing.
Over on the other side of the political spectrum, New York Times columnist David Brooks is warning that all this government meddling in private industry will invite nothing but heartbreak for everyone involved. GM, writes Mr. Brooks is a thoroughly dysfunctional workplace , and by forcing the company to "serve two masters" – the market and the administration's environmental goals – the White House is wading into a quagmire that Mr. Brooks compares to the Iraq war. (Yes, he really says that.)
At the Atlantic, blogger Marc Ambinder suggests putting Detroit native Mitt Romney in charge, because what's needed is "forceful, even ruthless, leadership" from someone unafraid of "bringing the hammer down – repeatedly" and "jack[ing] up the stakes." Plus, installing a Republican would give Obama some political wiggle room to turn the company around swiftly. Mr. Ambinder doesn't get into exactly what GM should do, only that it should do it right away.
Keith Johnson, the Wall Street Journal's eco-blogger, wonders if GM will need to abandon the Volt, the company's plug-in electric hybrid vehichle scheduled to go on sale late next year. Noting the compact's $40,000 price tag, Mr. Johnson lays out the options:
GM can focus on making mass-market cars that sell well and abandon the Volt. Or it can carry on with the Volt and hope either costs come down or consumers suddenly change their habits and run out to buy a $40,000 compact sedan.
Treehugger's Michael Graham Richard calls this a false choice. Oil was selling at $20 a barrell in 1997. What if Toyota decided to abandon the Prius then? Where would it be now?
If GM wants to be successful in the future, it has to aim for the future, not for the present or the past. So the advice of dropping the Volt because it is too expensive now is simply shortsighted.
Mr. Richard notes that this is almost exactly what GM did in 2003, when it scrapped its EV1 program.Viable or not, it looks as though the Volt is here to stay. As Autoblog Green reports, the company has stated that the electric car will play a key role in the "new GM."
Last December the LA Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive writer Dan Neil drew both praise and scorn (but mostly scorn) with an op-ed titled "Nationalize GM," in which he called for a government takeover of the ailing company. Now that the government has done exactly that, he looks back at where it all went wrong.
His conclusion: the collapse of the US auto market, gas prices, and the credit crisis. Also, the company seemed far too obsessed with extending its market share, even if doing so meant losing money.
But Neil remains optimistic about the automaker's future. He writes:
The post-imperial GM will be smaller, leaner, smarter and hungrier. I hope. Bankruptcy's purifying fire will burn away debt and, as important, a legacy of comfortable arrogance. And it will be truer than ever: What's good for GM is good for America.
- Monitor staffer Eoin O'Carroll blogs about the environment.


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A posting on Microsoft's Dutch site suggests we'll have to wait until 2012 for the next release of Windows.
Microsoft declined to comment and the message was rapidly deleted, but was grabbed by Ina Fried at CNet and a host of bloggers.
The post, celebrating the first birthday of Windows 7, said that Microsoft was hard at work on Windows 8 but the release was about two years away.
In place of the offending paragraph the Dutch site now says that Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is currently in testing and will be released in the first six months of next year.
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Baltimore County police said they planned to charge the estranged husband of a woman who was killed outside her Parkville home on Tuesday with first-degree murder, but now they're working to determine if a body found in Baltimore City is that of the man for whom they were looking.
Police said Wednesday that they put out an arrest warrant for Cory Bowman, 38, charging him with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Victoria Glover.
Glover, 28, was shot to death shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday outside her Parkville home as she was putting her 3-year-old son in her car. The boy wasn't harmed.
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Bowman also lived at the home where Glover was shot, police said. A warrant was also issued by a county judge because Bowman failed to appear Tuesday at a scheduled trial on assault charges, police said.
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June 26, 2012 8:34 am
So sad! But at least Lily has a new wig. In college, I once had to resew the waistband of a dirndl skirt THREE TIMES. Whatta waste of time!
June 26, 2012 8:35 am
Lily is gorgeous – I only recently discovered your blog and now it's my favourite! Talking of dumb – today I spent hours taking my sewing machine apart & swearing at it after the feed dogs mysteriously stopped working, only to finally realise that I'd set both the stitch length and width to Zero….ooops……
June 26, 2012 9:58 pm
I don't make things that require math or patience for this exact reason. I can't even make a friendship bracelet without getting angry.


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"…There are no strangers. There are only versions of ourselves, many of which we have not embraced, most of which we wish to protect ourselves from. For the stranger is not foreign, she is random, not alien but remembered; and is the randomness of he encounter with our already known – although unacknowledged – selves that summons a ripple of alarm. That makes us reject the figure and the emotions it provokes – especially when these emotions are profound. It is also what makes us want to own, govern, administrate the Other. To romance her, if we can, back into our own mirrors. In either instance (of alarm or false reverence), we deny her personhood, the specific individuality we insist upon for ourselves (Toni Morrison, "The Fisherwoman," introduction to Robert Bergman's book of photograhs, A Kind of Rapture, New York: Pantheon/Random House, 1998)."
Another resource on The Belfast Project and the subpoena to Boston College
In my post of yesterday, I recommended the Boston College Subpoena News as a resource for following what that organ calls "The Threat to Oral History Archives." To follow researcher/journalist Ed Moloney directly, check out his blog, The Broken Elbow, which I'll also add to the links on the side of this page.
Oral history and The Troubles
What follows is a personal, partial response to the Boston College Troubles Subpoena, which you might also call the Boston College Subpoena Troubles….I am not involved in this case and have not read all the pleadings much less everything else that's relevant, so these thoughts are preliminary and somewhat provisional. I'll be working on a more comprehensive article. For now, if I seem unsympathetic to the "right side" (oral historians and archivists), it's because I think that they messed up, to everyone's detriment.
For the actual legal pleadings and transcripts, a detailed blow-by-blow, and many other (more informed) perspectives, study the Boston College Subpoena News. Coverage by the New York Times and Irish Republican News is also illuminating.
1. The Troubles come to Boston – a version so short as to border on irresponsibility
Over the course of several years, two men — Anthony McIntyre, a former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ed Moloney, a journalist — conducted interviews with members or former members of the IRA concerning their activities during "The Troubles," a period of civil unrest that often took the form of armed struggle.
MyIntyre and Moloney promised their interview subjects that the interviews would remain confidential until the interview subjects' deaths. Apparently, the agreement did not specify that all interviews would remain confidential until everyone died; rather, each interview would be embargoed only until its individual narrator died (* this measure of time itself causes problems — but that's another topic). The researchers deposited the interview materials with Boston College. Last year, the British government asked the U.S. to help it obtain the documents, citing a treaty in which the nations promised to assist one another in law enforcement.
There are a lot of oral historians horrified by the possible chilling effects of any court ruling that would force Boston College to comply with a subpoena from the British government to turn over interviews of former members of the Irish Republican Army. Boston College initially resisted the subpoena, and Judge William Young of the US District Court for Massachusetts used that initial resistance in reasoning that the college could adequately represent the McIntyre and Moloney's interests. The judge refused to let the two researchers intervene in the case.
The ruling that McIntyre, Moloney, their friends and family, many of their narrators, and many oral historians feared came in December 2011. As the BBC reported,
"A US federal judge has ordered Boston College to turn over recorded interviews of a former member of the IRA to federal prosecutors in Boston…US federal prosecutors subpoenaed the material on behalf of British authorities. It is understood the legal bid is linked to a PSNI [Police Service of Northern Ireland] investigation.
"What was termed the 'Belfast Project' took place over five years from 2001 and involved academics, historians and journalists conducting interviews with former republicans and loyalists about their activities during the Troubles.
"In return for honest accounts, those who were interviewed were promised that their identities would be kept confidential and that the interviews would be released only after their deaths.
"US prosecutors have demanded anything in the college archive related to the 1972 abduction and murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville, who the IRA admitted to killing and secretly burying, claiming she was an informer ("Boston College must hand over Delours Price interviews")."
Boston College did not appeal the December decision, a decision that upset, among others, McIntyre and Moloney. M & M appealed both their exclusion from the legal proceedings and Young's substantive ruling. Then in January, Judge Young issued another order, telling Boston College that it would need to hand over transcripts of another seven interviews within three days of the appellate court's decision. Boston College balked at this later order, and appealed.
The British government believes that the tapes contain information about a murder. There is no statute of limitations, in Great Britain as in the U.S., against murder. So it's likely that if such material exists and becomes available to law enforcement, and if the material contains admissions of guilt, or details about intentional deaths, the government could use the interview transcripts in prosecuting narrators or others. Some people expect that the interviews will contain damning evidence against Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein leader.
Of course McIntyre and Moloney don't want either themselves or anyone else to be in physical or legal danger because of their project.
Attorney Eamonn Dornan spoke on behalf of McIntyre and Moloney as the First Circuit Court of Appeals listened to arguments on April 4th. Dornan cited the likelihood of physical harm to both M & M and to participants in the project. Dornan also warned that the district court's rulings could have a "chilling effect" on other academic projects.
Mary Larson, President of the Oral History Association (OHA) and Doris Neustadt Professor of Library Service and Head of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at Oklahoma State University, agrees that "..all of us in the oral history community are afraid" that a court order to release material that interviewers and narrators agreed would remain confidential "is going to have an incredible chilling effect on what we're able to do" (O'Brien).
I'm all riled up, too. Despite my work as an oral historian, support of liberation struggles, and a steady childhood diet of hefty Irish Catholic propaganda, I'm not disappointed with the British government or the PSNI. Law enforcement officials investigate murders, even "cold cases," and they certainly pursue the people they believe to be criminals, murderers, and terrorists. Courts are more likely than not to grant these agencies the information or potential evidence they seek.To imagine that the British wouldn't attempt to obtain interviews that contained potentially incriminating evidence would be something like expecting a branch of mesquite to act like a polar bear.
Maybe you're not that excited about prosecuting people for actions,even violent actions, that are several decades old, that people took during what they saw as a liberation struggle or civil war. Maybe you are far more sympathetic to the IRA than to the British government. I can see that. (I hesitate to wade into a thick swamp of history I don't fully understand. Acknowledging my ignorance, however, I do wonder how prosecutions could be useful or productive at this point.)
But this legal wrangling is not simply between innocent interviewers and trusting former warriors who've since turned their swords into plowshares, on the one hand, and overreaching law enforcement officials hungry for prosecution.
Consider the bereaved people who want to know what happened to their loved ones. Truth and reconciliation commissions are controversial for numerous reasons, including that many people believe that truth is not enough. But these naysayers agree that truth is at least necessary, though not sufficient, for some kind of emotional justice. The desire for "truth" (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) is as great or greater than the quest for vengeance.
The interviewers, it seems to me, were negligent or naive. Boston College, however, ought to have known better. There was no basis for either the interviewers or Boston College administrators to promise that they could keep confidential interviews that would necessarily be of great interest to British law enforcement.
This debacle infuriates me because it was so preventable. Thoughtlessness and incompetence, apparently by multiple actors in the process, produced this controversy. I'm also riled up about special pleadings for academic research projects. More on those dangers in another post. My purpose here is not to predict the eventual outcomes of this controversy, nor to opine on what the law should be. I want to focus here on prevention, and what I'm about to say is in no way legal advice. It's common sense.
2. "One of these things is not like the others" – a short version
spouse, priest, oral historian, psychiatrist, attorney
I'm going to oversimplify a little bit here: You have the right not to testify in a court of law against your spouse. If you are a Catholic priest, secular law does not require you to reveal what someone tells you in confession, and canon law prevents you from doing so. If you're a psychiatrist, you're obligated to report and thus, one hopes, prevent specific acts of violence that you have reason to believe are in the works, but not to reveal a patient's past crimes (what's done is done). And what a person says to her lawyer is privileged, as long as she hasn't conducted the conversation in the presence of other people. These are recognized privileges. And to some degree, journalists are somewhat protected, sometimes, in some jurisdictions.
You must remember this: There is no such thing as an oral history privilege. There's no such thing as an oral history privilege. There is no such thing as an oral history privilege.3. Avoid the troubles – a short version
Narrators: don't reveal in the interview anything that you wouldn't want subpoened.
Interviewers: advise narrators and make sure they understand the risks of divulging particular kinds of information.
Any one of us could guarantee that we would individually honor confidentiality; any one of us could individually promise that we would be willing to risk contempt of court to protect an interview. But most of us don't work alone, and can't possibly guarantee that every colleague (past, present, and future), staff member, intern, volunteer, video editor, board member of a project, librarian, archivist, university official, landlord or administrator of whatever umbrella we might be working, would also refuse to honor subpoenas for the sake of the narrator's expectation of privacy.
Who will get hurt if the interviewer promises a narrator confidentiality, and she talks freely to you on that basis, but then you die or get fired and your successor or former employers decide that they don't have to respect the narrators' privacy, or aren't as scrupulous as you are about it? In the IRA case, the people who will get hurt may include McIntyre and Moloney, their narrators, and other people as well. (Whose story is it?) More typically, though, the interview narrator would be most hurt: the person to whom we, oral historians, are most clearly responsible.
Do you really think that the bankers will care if courts force them to turn over the contents of your safety deposit box?
Be especially careful that your narrators not discuss on tape, without full knowledge of the risks (even risks that other people may deem "paranoid"), any of the following:
a) Crimes without a statute of limitation or crimes against children
Murder has no statute of limitations. The statute of limitations for some torts (civil harms) or crimes against children may not start until the abuse or damage is discovered.
If your interviewers want or expect confidentiality, you had better make sure you can provide it. You are assuming an extra ethical and moral obligation. You can't protect material you no longer have control over, and you don't a whole lot of control over something that is digital or material. If you promise confidentiality, and your narrators start to tell you about crimes or actions (whether you think they're "criminal" or not) for which the narrators could still be held responsible, turn off the tape recorder.
Turn off your camera. Listen. And then be quiet.
Don't write a book. Don't make a documentary.
Don't tell other people who you've interviewed.
(EXAMPLE OF A NOT-GOOD IDEA: Hey, everybody! I interviewed fifty of my best female friends who bring guns to disputed territory in the Middle East and were involved in the assassination of some VERY important people. But don't worry, we agreed to keep them locked up — they're safe and sound at my alma mater, or at the Sophia Smith collection.)
Use some common sense.
b) Ongoing criminal activity of the narrator — or others?
Let's say you're interviewing a guy about a tragedy that happened in some rural county. In the course of this story, he tells you that his uncle sells (not just used to sell) firecrackers not only outside of the city limits right around July 4th, but also from a particular gas station just east of where a certain highway crosses the county line.
What will you do if you or the narrator thinks this information is crucial to the story?
What will you do if you or the narrator thinks this information is not crucial to the story?
Does it matter if the sales are of dynamite, not just Smiley Face Rockets? Does it matter if the uncle is selling cocaine? Or just marijuana? What if the uncle is selling alcohol in a dry county?
Does it matter if you or the narrator thinks that it's ridiculous for the sale of that product to be illegal, that it's no big deal? Do you owe a responsibility to the person identified in the interview to prevent his arrest for the alleged sale of tobacco to minors? Who hasn't had her elevator inspected in a couple of years? What is your role?
Once an interview narrator told me, as a matter of course, about ongoing criminal activity. Let's call it his uncle's out-of-season deer hunting. It wasn't crucial to the interview (in my opinion). Illegal deer hunting didn't seem like a huge deal to me, and more to the point, it didn't matter what I thought. Since I was rather new at the interview process, I didn't even notice any ethical question at the time we were recording. Only as I was proofreading the transcription did the words jump out at me.
I highlighted the incriminating part and, sending the transcription for the narrator to review, asked the narrator if he wanted to publicly talk about his uncle's hunting habits. Are you trying to turn your uncle in? Are you indifferent to what may or may not come about? If not, you might want to take this part out of the interview. The narrator agreed and we redacted the interview, at least for the present.
This decision was somewhat controversial within my office. Colleagues argued that we should not "censor" any narratives. I have very mixed feelings on this point, which I've discussed elsewhere. For now, it's enough to say that although I see our primary responsibility as oral historians as to our narrators* (would I feel the same way were I to interview Nazis?) I do think we also have some responsibility to other people as well (especially people in a role comparable to "innocent bystanders"). Certainly one IRA or former IRA member's disclosures have the potential to affect other people.
Of course, there are bad laws we may be happy to break, or are proud of having broken. Queer people in the U.S. no longer need to fear prosecution for "sodomy": specifically Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code. Mis querid@s buddies at ADAPT of Texas sometimes engage in civil disobedience, a form of direct action, as one of several strategies to achieve justice for people with disabilities. ADAPT is as proud of its civil disobedience as it is of its work educating media and wonky-ness: advocating for just legislation, rules, policies, enforcement, and implementation.
So I'm not saying people shouldn't talk about any illegal activity. I'm certainly not saying we shouldn't interview folks who don't follow rules. I'm just reminding those of us who work for human rights — and who thus may count ourselves, and many of our friends, colleagues, and narrators, among the rule-breakers — that we take care.
I'm also not saying that we should intimidate or scare potential narrators. I'm saying we should talk to each other as adults. I'm saying we should be aware of and realistic about what we are playing with. We must make sure our narrators always understand all the risks.
It's an ugly world, and one that will inflict the law more harshly on some people than on others. The fact that some people are structurally more vulnerable than others should make all of us cautious. What methods and strategies will work for the least privileged among us?
If you interview anyone in the US who is not a citizen, even if the person has been a legal permanent resident for most of her life, you need to guard against that person unknowingly or accidentally making statements (that prosecutors will view as "admissions") that subject herself to exclusion, deportation, or removal. (Exclusion and removal are the current terms, but few people other than immigration lawyers use "removal," so make sure you use the more common term "deportation," too.)
Depending on the nature of your project and the subject of your interview, you may or may not know whether your narrator is a US citizen. Don't assume you know; neither should you be overly intrusive. Asking about immigration status — or even birth place — can be a very intrusive and threatening question.
Also, don't assume that anyone else is giving you accurate information about the person. As recently as this week, smart, experienced lawyers speaking at continuing legal education seminar I attended used the terms "immigrant" and "undocumented immigrant" interchangeably; they also confused "legal permanent resident" with "citizen." And I've never heard anyone use the term "illegal alien" to a Canadian or European student who has overstayed his visa; many people seem to reserve the phrase for Latina/os.
Don't assume that a past drug conviction that means nothing in your life will have the same meaning or effect in the life of your best friend who is a legal permanent resident. Don't assume that some irritating bureaucratic story about a mix up with divorce pleadings — a incident that might be funny in retrospect to you — would mean the same thing to someone else. An immigrant who in good faith marries believing that her divorce was finalized thirty years ago might face removal or deportation for bigamy.
The most cautious approach would be to advise every potential narrator to either avoid admitting to any grounds of immigration inadmissibility, OR to advise the narrator, your colleagues, and anyone else who knows about the interview to keep their mouths shut that an interview with that specific person has taken place, or, if public, that it's been redacted.
I am thinking that we might want to create a checklist similar to those distributed by blood and plasma centers, or at medical offices. Here's a list of conditions. If any of them apply to you, be careful before you talk about them on tape!
* Another tip to protect immigrant narrators: don't ask for anyone's birthplace on your consent form. Granted, there are multiple Virginia Raymonds in the world. Perhaps one too many. But there are other ways to distinguish between them. Ask for the narrator's mother's name. Don't ask for information that could cause a narrator problems later on. This mean world can be especially mean to immigrants. Obviously, you don't want to call attention to immigration status by asking some narrators about their place of birth and others about their mothers' names. Use the same form for everyone. Don't ask any questions on a routine basis that will create difficult situations for some. This piece of advice is consistent with the suggestion to avoid directive questions in favor of requests to "tell me about…".
d) Disputed facts that are relevant in some legal proceeding (including civil proceedings) that matter to the narrator
In a past life, I interviewed someone who had a role in a case that seem to be resolved in the most important sense. My colleagues and I transcribed the interview and sent it to the narrator and were a little bit disappointed that we received no response: not a correction, not a redaction, and not a refusal to donate the materials. Just nothing. Under the terms of our agreement with the person, we couldn't do anything with the interview, which I'd found extremely interesting.
Then the case that I thought was over blew up into shards of ancillary — but important – legal proceedings. It became clear that interview we had conducted would have been not merely interesting, but pertinent to fact-finders. What a relief that no one associated with the interview had blabbed that the interview had even taken place. We would have been subpoened in a Dallas minute. Or a heartbeat. Pick your metaphor.
Lots of things that may or may not be significant to other people might become relevant during divorce or child custody or child support hearings. The health or cognitive functioning of a recently deceased person, or the nature of that person's relationships with others, may not be big news, but might matter in a disputed estate battle. We can't predict everything that might be important later on to resolve some conflict. That's okay. The point is not to become insurance dudes and dudettes who try to not to simply manage risk, but actually eliminate risk (thank you to Cynthia Biggers for that insight).
The point is to enter oral history relationships with everyone's eyes open.
The point is not to make promises we can't keep.
We also need to speak in the active voice. Exclusively in the active voice. Not "your confidentiality will be protected" but "I will not…" or "I will." The problem with the passive voice, obviously, is that there is no accountability. "Interview subjects are promised.." [by whom?] "that their interviews will not be shared…" [by whom?] No accountability, no deal.
The cautious approach I am recommending would mean, among many other things of course, that oral history projects revisit and rewrite what they tell potential narrators about possible risks. Discuss worst-case scenarios with your colleagues; with the custodians of your interview transcripts and tapes; with your narrators. Make plans for worst-case scenarios, and put your agreements in writing.
You might think this advice is overcautious. Given some experiences with interviews at my last job, I am just glad we didn't blab about not-yet-public-interviews. I'm glad we withheld some interviews and redacted others. We did a good job.
But given the attention to the Boston College case, and given that human rights or social justice oral history projects frequently are talking about immigration, civil disobedience, armed conflict, or the criminal justice system, the better practice would be to emphasize the difference between confidentiality and privilege not just orally, but also in writing. Identifying, in writing, these risks should also remind interview teams to go over these risks more seriously than they might otherwise. (Of course, if you have interviewers who laughingly convey, while going over the consent process, the idea that it's all "just paperwork"/stupid bureaucratic demands, then you've undermined the consent process at everyone's peril.)
Having the exact same process for every narrator will save interviewers from making judgment calls about who to warn and who not to warn, or feeling embarrassed. Everyone should get the same warning.
What should happen with the interviews at Boston College?
I don't know.
You might be thinking, what about journalists: aren't they allowed to keep their sources confidential? Good question, though not one I'm prepared to discuss at present.
For now, I'm worried about language that praises the Belfast Project as "bona fide academic exercise of considerable intellectual merit" (Judge Young). It's not that I don't think the Belfast Project had intellectual merit; it was (and is) incredibly important. It's that I shudder at the thought of federal courts getting to decide what kind of research projects are intellectually worthy. I shudder at the thought of courts approving oral history privileges for academic projects only. I hope that other non-academically based oral historians are shuddering too. I hope that academic researchers don't accept special privileges for themselves, while leaving grassroots or non-institutionally affiliated researchers behind. Professor Larson seems to include all of us when she invokes "the oral history community"; nevertheless, we can't take for granted that everyone will share this generous attitude.
We can do more than hope: we can insist that the First Amendment applies to all researchers, whether or not they or their intellectual projects are funded by academic institutions. The ACLU is advocating for the rights of academics. It's our responsibility to make sure that such advocates include everyone.
In the meantime, I'm going to follow Gramsci's recipe: Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
a whole series of New York Times interviews
"Boston College must hand over Delours Price interviews," BBC News Northern Ireland, December 30, 2011
Denise Levoie, "Appeals court hears case of secret IRA tapes," Houston Chronicle, April 4, 2012
Mighty M, "Boston College IRA court edict expected in 2-3 months," Archivist Rising (blog), April 5, 2012
John O'Brien, "Judge orders Boston College to hand over IRA secret tapes – Major setback in effort to protect IRA oral history interviews," IrishCentral.com, December 17, 2011
"Mark Phillips, "Oral history of N. Ireland Strife raises a dilemma," CBS News, February 9, 2012
Harvey Silvergate, "Boston College Researchers Drink with the IRA, and Academics Everywhere Get the Hangover," Forbes Magazine, January 25, 2012
Copyright 2012 Virginia Raymond
Cathy Cranston: workers' rights, disability rights
For about a decade, ADAPT of Texas has sought to engage direct care workers in the fight for community services. Cathy Cranston is an organizer with ADAPT of Texas and, since 2005, also an organizer of the Personal Attendant Coalition of Texas (PACT). In October 2011, as part of the oral history training offered by ADAPT and Wire Cutter, Luz Guerra and Erin Park Markert interviewed Cathy. She explained that PACT launches lobbying campaigns before each state legislative session. Even when PACT has not succeeded in the Texas Legislature, it has sometimes won what it sought later, in state agency rulemaking.
PACT, which is a project of ADAPT, serves both workers and clients by seeking "equal work for equal pay." Cranston explains.
What we found was that there was a wage disparity within people working within different home and community-based programs… Quite often the personal attendants do the same tasks, but . . . there was even a two-dollar difference in wage between working in the community versus working within state institutions or the nursing facilities..
The rights of workers are inextricably tied to the rights of people with disabilities. State employee unions have resisted the closing of large institutions precisely because the jobs providing services to people in community settings come with very low wages and no health insurance or other benefits. PACT and ADAPT resist the cruel pressure to pit workers and clients against one another.
Read the entire interview here, and thank you, Cathy, Luz, and Erin.
Copyright 2011 Cathy Cranston, used with permission
Diana Claitor: Stories from Texas county jails
Diana Claitor of the Texas Jail Project participated in the fall workshop series, "Listen for a Change: Oral History and Social Justice" presented by ADAPT of Texas and Wire Cutter. Layla Fry and Shannon Elizondo, other workshop participants, conducted this short interview of Diana as part of the training. Read Diana's interview for ideas on how you, too, might want to use oral history for social change.
Virginia Raymond transcribed this interview and shared it with Diana, who made some corrections and clarifications. These corrections are not marked within this transcript. (At a future workshop, we can discuss under what conditions, why, and how you might decide to mark or not mark narrator post-interview changes.)
By the way, check out Diana's recent cover story for The Texas Observer, "Babysteps: Can Texas' new approach to prisoners with newborns help keep families together?" Read the story in the actual paper Observer (!), at the Observer website, or at the website of the Texas Jail Project. Congratulations, Diana, and thank you for your ongoing work on behalf of all inmates, especially pregnant inmates and inmates in need of medical attention.
Thank you Diana, Layla, and Shannon, for this interview! Maybe it was "just a training exercise" to you, but I learned a lot!
Copyright Diana Claitor 2011 Used with permission
Read the entire Diana Claitor interview here.
Heiwa Salovitz: Why oral history matters, an interview by Erica Suprenant and Shannon Elizondo
"What brings me to oral history? Well as a person with a disability — I've had my disability all my life — people with disabilities tend to be seen as the invisible people. We tend not to document their stories; we tend not to listen to them; we tend not to think their lives are interesting. So that's what brings me to oral history, 'cause I want people to learn about my story. I want to learn about theirs, and so we can see the commonality in the struggle, because we all have struggle. We all have things we can learn from each other, things we can contribute to society, and hopefully change society for the better.
"And it's just interesting to hear different people's perspectives on their life and their world experiences."
– Heiwa Salovitz, October 11, 2011. Mr. Salovitz is a member of ADAPT of Texas
Copyright 2011 Heiwa Salovitz Used with permission
Read the entire Heiwa Salovitz interview here
Scott Medlock of the Texas Civil Rights Project explains it all for you….
Forgive your correspondent for not bringing you any news in the last couple of weeks. Let me call your attention to a useful guide by Scott Medlock of the Texas Civil Rights Project, in which he explains how to request public information in Texas.
Mr. Medlock is a lawyer who works on behalf of incarcerated people in Texas — prisoners' rights, in other words. Gabriel Solis and Kimberly Ambrosini-Bacon of the Texas After Violence Project interviewed Mr. Medlock in 2010.
Welcome new oral history & social justice participants…
The challenge of starting a new project is that it takes a while to get the word out; the happy news is that as people find out what is happening, participation grows. In the last couple of weeks several new people have joined the Listen for a change: oral history & social justice workshop. Welcome three new participants from ADAPT: Travis Hoelscher, Eric Clow, and Heiwa Salowitz; as well as Cynthia Waide of Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, Shannon Elizondo, journalist Lindsay Patterson, and Sandy Graham of the Texas Center for Disability Studies.
The challenging news is that my carefully designed syllabus is no longer evident (we recap what we've been doing each week, as though we'd planned a "drop in anytime" series); the happy news is that each week we're invigorated with new energy and ideas. And who ever believed that learning was a linear process, anyway?
It's so interesting to see the (unplanned) overlap and commonalities in interests. Heiwa has worked in prisoner rights issues, while Diana Claitor and Erica Surprenant work to reform Texas county jails. Both Rocío Villalobos and Matthew Gossage are advocates for immigrants incarcerated in the former federal prison in Hutto. Rachel Szemborski, graduate student in the UT School of Social Work, interns this semester with the Texas Civil Rights Project to assist immigrant survivors of domestic violence obtain legal permanent residence (and ultimately U.S. citizenship). Under provisions of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), people who have been abused by U.S.citizen or legal permanent resident spouses or partners, may seek immigration relief independent of the partners or spouses who've abused them, threatening that reporting the abuse would result in exposure, separation from children, and deportation. Immigrants, at least those from Mexico and Central America, and their advocates understand the connection between economic devastation in their home countries and immigration for survival. That's why it makes so much sense for our group to make common cause with Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, which works with Mexican women labor activists.
Heiwa explained this week that he'd often felt frustrated that other ostensible social justice activists failed to see the connection between, for instance, prisoners' rights and those of people with disabilities, many of whom also long for freedom outside of institutions. Even at ADAPT, with all its expertise in disability, we are learning about how to make the workshop more accessible and inclusive by attending to the needs of people with chemical sensitivities (see earlier posts).
The beauty of this workshop series is that as we learn and share skills, we're also learning about discrete but intimately connected aspects of social justice. Just being in the same big room together (thank you, ADAPT!), we're breaking down barriers.
We share the air (please be considerate)
(a reminder…)
To prevent HARM to people who suffer from MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES, we ask that you REFRAIN from the use of scented products.
PLEASE DO NOT USE SCENTED deodorant, aftershave, hair products, cologne, shampoo, body lotions, soap, FABRIC SOFTENER, DRYER SHEETS laundry detergent or other scented personal care and cleaning products as they release chemicals WHICH HARM people and other living things….
The above message came to me as a pretty flyer from our friend, colleague, and teacher Luz Guerra…I don't yet know how to upload PDFs to Wire Cutter so for now I've just copied the text.
Thank you for helping to make our workshops on oral history & social justice safe for & accessible to people with chemical sensitivities.
Attention: Participants in Listen for a Change: Oral History & Social Justice
Hello everyone,
A reminder that we will gather for workshop session #4 tonight again at ADAPT. We will look at the brief videotaped interviews from last week (those that people did not ask us to delete, of course), reflect together on the process and what might be more effective practices, and discuss the suggestions for effective oral history practices on this website (under "Listen"). Depending on time and people's preferences, we also may look at some additional oral history videos.
Next week, we will interrupt our own workshop series to listen to men who were once sentenced to death, but later exonerated and are now free and working with Witness to Innocence. The following announcement of the event comes from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
"On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, the First United Methodist Church's Family Life Center (1201 Lavaca Street) will host death row exonorees Ron Keine, Greg Wilhoit, Dan Bright, and Albert Burrell from Witness to Innocence. Witness to Innocence is the nation's only organization composed of, by and for exonerated death row survivors and their loved ones.
"This event is sponsored by the UMC General Board of Church and Society, the Austin District, and local Methodist churches. It is part of the 'Texas Witness to Innocence Freedom Ride.' For more information, please contact Kathy Barrett at firstname.lastname@example.com."
Thank you to "Listen for a Change: Oral History and Social Justice" participant Ayla Pintchovski for reminding me of this potential conflict and suggesting that workshop participants attend the Witness to Innocence presentations.
Taking the time for Witness to Innocence means that we will extend the workshop series for a week. Just to be clear:
Tuesday, October 11 – at ADAPT, 5:30
Tuesday, October 18 – First United Methodist Church for Witness to Innocence, 7 pm
Tuesday, October 25 through Tuesday, November 22 at ADAPT again, 5:30 pm


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- Edit the
.envfile found in the DreamFactory application's root directory to define the correct driver, host, and port number. For example:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=localhost DB_DATABASE=dreamfactory DB_USERNAME=dreamfactory DB_PASSWORD=dreamfactory DB_PORT=3306
- In your shell navigate to the DreamFactory application's root directory (
htdocsin Bitnami installs)
- Run these commands:
$ php artisan config:clear $ php artisan cache:clear $ php artisan df:setup //Answer the on screen prompts
- Restart the web server
Bitnami Desktop/Server Installers
You can install DreamFactory using a simple GUI installer for the following desktop operating systems. Most of the common extensions and drivers are included with these installers.
- Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Mint, Debian, and Ubuntu desktop and server).
- Mac OS X.
- Microsoft Windows (Windows 7, 8, 10 and Server 2008R2). Note: that some features may not be available or may be limited in this environment.
Bitnami Virtual Machine
You can download DreamFactory as a virtual machine for VMware, VirtualBox, or other hypervisor environments.
Bitnami Installs
Bitnami lists the requirements for a native installer as such:
- Intel x86 or compatible processor
- Minimum of 512 MB RAM
- Minimum of 150 MB hard drive space
- TCP/IP protocol support
- One of the following compatible operating systems:
- A Linux operating system.
- A Windows operating system such as Windows Server 2008+, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10.
- An OS X operating system.
These requirements are subject to change, so be sure to check the Bitnami Documentation for the most up to date information.
Docker Image
The DreamFactory Docker image on DockerHub is now maintained by Bitnami. You can pull it and follow their instructions for deploying a Bitnami package of DreamFactory in Docker.
If you don't want to use Bitnami, you can still build your own docker image using our df-docker repo on GitHub.
IaaS Clouds
You can install DreamFactory on IaaS cloud platforms with Bitnami. Follow the instructions below:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Oracle Cloud Platform
- CenturyLink
- 1&1 Cloud Platform
- IBM SoftLayer
- Rackspace
PaaS Clouds
You can install DreamFactory on PaaS cloud platforms (Platform as a Service). Follow the instructions below.
Raspberry Pi
You can install and configure DreamFactory on Raspberry Pi 2 as an open source IoT gateway. Follow the general instructions here.


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I reviewed this question and marked the post as a comment, not an answer. That left this comment automatically:
This is really a comment, not an answer to the question. Please use "add comment" to leave feedback for the author.
In response, the user commented:
nope, file_exists is absolutely ok to use to find out if a directory exists. maybe i should have phrased my answer a bit different, but it's by no means a comment and i won't change it after more than two years.
To which I replied:
That was a canned response from the review tool looking at low quality posts. Whether correct or not, there is very little detail provided and very much appears to be a comment. With additional detail (compare to the accepted answer), this will likely not be flagged for review. -- See also this canned response: While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes.
Note: While I used the automated comment about link-only answers, that was poor judgement on my part. This question has nothing to do with link-only answers.
Is this the proper course of action on my part? Should I probe better for the answerer to improve their post? I don't have the expertise to improve the post directly, considering it may be a valid answer, though still low quality in its present state.
While in the process of creating this question, another user made a similar comment on this answer. Perhaps I am providing incorrect reviews?
Here's another response to one of my reviews...
To avoid too much chit-chat on SO proper, I've removed my automated comments, and any applicable responses to them, from the questions linked to above.


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The Great Outdoors
Notice Camden's protective hand in front of Rory? There was a bee in front of them and he was trying to keep her from running into it.
Oh, yes, she wanted to be carried. See how red and sweaty her face is already - this is about 1/2 mile into the walk. Notice how red and sweaty my face is?
Yet another snake! And this time Camden almost stepped on it and Brian thinks it was a rattle snake (based on the crazy rattling and how aggressive it was after almost being stepped on). We're so grateful he did not get bitten. Let's just say my trip was officially ruined at this point. Heat + sweat + lugging a 26 lb 3-year old around + SNAKES = not my idea of fun.
No idea why this trip seemed like a good opportunity to take a quick picture to show mom and Becky my new haircut.
Next time we're looking for a family activity I vote for the zoo where the snakes are in cages. Actually, I'd prefer to just go see a movie and eat popcorn.


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If we had to pick the most prevalent food issue of 2013 so far, the fight to get genetically engineered food labeled is probably it. Citizen-led campaigns have been successful getting legislation introduced in more than 20 states; inspired by California's Prop 37, which suffered a narrow defeat in November after chemical and Big Food corporations poured millions into the campaign.
But consumer demand for GE labeling is not a new development. For years, polls have shown that the majority of Americans want GE food labeled, just as it is in more than 60 other countries including China, Japan and Russia.
Finally, it appears that Washington is beginning to listen. Yesterday, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) have introduced a bill to order the Food and Drug Administration to mandate the labeling of genetically engineered foods. The bill has bipartisan support with 20 combined co-sponsors between the Senate and the House.
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Clearly, the statewide campaigns have played an integral role in getting Congress to pay attention to the fact that their constituents want to know whether or not they're eating and feeding GE food to their families. And statewide initiatives continue to be critically important to ensure that consumers have the right to make informed choices about the food they buy. This is why Monsanto and its agrochemical colleagues will likely dump millions into misinformation campaigns to defeat Initiative 522 being voted on in Washington in November.
But even if Washingtonians prevail and I-522 makes GE food labels the law in their state, there will still be 49 other states where consumers will continue to be in the dark. This is why in the long run we need strong, uncompromising federal legislation to give all Americans the basic information they want about how their food was produced. Tell your Members of Congress to co-sponsor Boxer/DeFazio's legislation if they haven't already.


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Decision by officials sets the stage for a possible court battle over the nation's first tar sands mine in Utah's fragile Book Cliffs region.
Utah officials have given a Canadian company the green light to begin mining oil sands on a remote plateau in Eastern Utah without first obtaining a pollution permit or monitoring groundwater quality, an action that sets the stage for a possible court battle over the fragile region.
The board of the Utah Division of Water Quality agreed with Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands' contention that there was little or no water in the area of the company's proposed mine site and affirmed the agency's earlier decision not to require the permits or monitoring.
The board's 9-2 vote Wednesday caps years of wrangling with the water agency over U.S. Oil Sands' proposal to open the first large-scale oil sands mine in the United States in the Book Cliffs, an area renowned for its abundant wildlife but also dotted with occasional oil and gas wells.
Two environmental groups—Living Rivers and Western Resource Advocates—sought the review as part of their effort to prevent the oil industry from becoming established and opening up bigger operations in the largely unspoiled region.
John Weisheit, Living Rivers' conservation director, and Rob Dubuc, a staff attorney for Western Resource Advocates, said they were disappointed by the decision and will likely take their objections to the project to the Utah courts. Living Rivers has dogged U.S. Oil Sands for years over its mining plans.
Click here to view a slideshow of the U.S. Oil Sands test pit in eastern Utah
Cameron Todd, U.S. Oil Sands' chief executive officer, said the company isn't concerned about a possible court fight other than the delays it might cause.
"We don't ever look at it as a fight," he said in an interview. "Rather we look at it as the company being subjected to another thorough review that will show we have a project that is of the highest industry and environmental standards."
Todd said the water quality board's decision was "basically as expected and as supported by the evidence."
The board as well as officials of the Water Quality Division wrestled with the question of how much water is to be found in this semi-arid region, which gets an average of 12 inches of precipitation a year.
U.S. Oil Sands contended there is none.
Chris Hogle, an attorney representing the company, told the board that water quality officials and U.S. Oil Sands hydrologists had "traipsed" over the PR Spring mine site for years searching for water.
"They didn't find any," he said. "What water there is is disconnected from the mine site and will not be impacted."
Dubuc, the lawyer representing Living Rivers, said even small seasonal amounts of water and water on adjoining land need to be protected.
"What we are asking for is a more rigorous monitoring of this mine," Dubuc told the board. "At the end of the day, we don't know what the effects of this mine will be unless we do the monitoring.
"If any mine operation should be comprehensively monitored this is it. This is the first of its kind and we should be conservative on how we approach this."
During the 90-minute hearing in Salt Lake City, the board seemed comfortable with water quality officials' assurances that they could step in at any time and require the permits and monitoring if they detect changes in water amounts or if the processing of the oil sands appeared to having a harmful effect on the environment.
But no monitoring is contemplated at this time, said Walt Baker, director of the Utah Division of Water Quality.
In an interview with InsideClimate News, Baker said he is convinced there isn't enough water to worry about.
"At this time there hasn't been evidence of water or a risk to any water sources," he said.
Still, Baker said the agency is sensitive to the issues raised during Wednesday's hearing and during the lengthy challenge brought by Living Rivers. The Water Quality Division could conduct onsite inspections following heavy rains or during periods of snow melt, he said. It also could monitor the mine's waste sites once the operation is underway.
"I think there is still a window open to discussion about monitoring," Baker said, although he isn't sure how it would work or exactly what standards might be set.
In 2010, U.S. Oil Sands won permits from Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining to mine nearly 6,000 acres for bitumen, a thick, tarry substance ripped from the earth in clay-like clumps and then refined into oil. The company has scooped open a two-acre test pit and plans to mine an initial 213-acre site to extract bitumen for refining into oil beginning in 2014.
In rejecting arguments by Living Rivers and Western Resource Advocates, the board agreed with the Water Quality Division's opinion that there is so little groundwater within 1,500 feet of the surface of the proposed mine that additional safeguards aren't needed.
The company said it has drilled 180 holes 300 feet deep—and has sunk four dry wells of more than 1,500 feet deep—without hitting water. A fifth well hit water at 1,800 feet, and that water will be used in the mining process.
In reaching its conclusion, the board endorsed the recommendation of an administrative law judge who had earlier conducted a hearing into the environmental group's challenge.
"Substantial evidence ... supports a finding that groundwater has not been located and may be assumed absent in the project area except for a deep regional aquifer," Judge Sandra Allen said in her 40-page recommendation released in August. "The PR Spring facility and operations will have no more than a de minimis [minimal] actual or potential effect on ground water quality."
U.S. Oil Sands' Todd said Wednesday's ruling vindicated not only the company's position that there is no water to contaminate but also reaffirmed the company's commitment as a developer sensitive to environmental issues.
"This issue has gone through a very thorough review at many levels and at each turn it was determined that the U.S. Oil Sands operation did not pose a threat to water of any kind," he said.
Dubuc said the decision was based on an ill-defined characterization of groundwater by the various agencies involved in the review and permitting process. The division of water quality's definition was too vague and consequently open to too much interpretation, he said.
"If you use the wrong definition of groundwater then it's impossible to get the right answer," he said.
Further he said he thinks Utah regulators are reluctant to regulate business no matter the consequences.
"The politics of this state is 'we are open for business' and it is not going to change," he said. "The state has to be willing to regulate or face some unintended consequences to this mining."
Living Rivers Conservation Director Weisheit said he was perplexed by the decision.
"Why do you think the area is named PR Spring? Because there is water there," he said.
He criticized the board for sitting in a conference room and not taking the initiative to visit the area. If they made the trip, Weisheit argued, they could see the water flowing from a spigot at PR Spring about a mile from the proposed mine.
"They think tar sands is more important than water," he said, "and that's from an agency that's supposed to be concerned with water."


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Semiconductor manufacturers, suppliers and academia to collaborate on real-world issues at SEMI event
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2013 -- The 24th Annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC 2013) will be held May 13-16 in Saratoga Springs, New York. The conference will feature more than 85 presentations including peer-reviewed manuscripts covering critical process technologies and fab productivity, workshops, and tutorials. This year's event features a panel discussion on the process and economic challenges of the move to 450mm and 15 technical sessions on advanced semiconductor manufacturing, as well as tutorials on Computational Lithography by Intel Corporation and 3D-ICs by GLOBALFOUNDRIES.
For over two decades, ASMC has provided a premier venue for industry professionals to learn and share knowledge on new and "best practice" semiconductor manufacturing issues and concepts. ASMC provides a valuable source of cost-effective, hands-on solutions to address real-world manufacturing challenges. It is acknowledged as a leading technical conference that enables collaboration and sharing of technical breakthroughs. This year's conference features keynotes delivered by industry leaders, including:
- "Fab Material Next Generation Challenges: Affordability & Quality" — Tim Hendry, vice president, director of Fab Materials Operation, Intel Corporation
- "IC Market Trends and Forecast" — Bill McClean, president, IC Insights
ASMC 2013 technical sessions include:
- Advanced Patterning/Design for Manufacturing
- Factory Optimization
- 3D/TSV Technology
- Interactive Poster Session
- Yield Enhancement
- Advanced Metrology
- Defect Inspection
- Advanced Equipment Processes and Materials
- E-Beam Inspection
- Advanced Process Control
ASMC also holds an interactive poster session and reception, which provides an ideal opportunity for networking between authors and conference attendees. During this session, participants can engage authors in in-depth discussion of a wide range of issues. New this year is a co-located workshop on May 13 on manufacturing below the 10nm node.
ASMC 2013 is presented by SEMI with technical sponsors: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS), and IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMT). Corporate sponsors include: Applied Materials, ASML, ATMI, ChemTrace, CNW Courier Network, DAS, Edwards, KLA-Tencor, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Marcy NanoCenter at SUNYIT, MSP, NY Loves Nanotech, and Valqua.
Registration for ASMC 2013 is available at www.semi.org/asmc2013. For more information contact Margaret Kindling at Email Contact. Qualified members of the media should contact Deborah Geiger (SEMI Public Relations) at Email Contact for media registration information.
About SEMI
SEMI is the global industry association serving the nano- and microelectronics manufacturing supply chains. Our 1,900 member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit
Deborah Geiger,
Phone: 408.943.7988
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The 10th annual opening-night fundraising event, which supports the company's theatrical programming, is presented by the museum's Annenberg Theater Council (ATC). A reception dinner honoring Foster immediately follows the 6 PM, sold-out concert.
Other performers at the Annenberg Theater in the 2012-13 season include Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley (Cats) in Ah Men! The Boys of Broadway Dec. 8 at 8 PM; husband-and-wife duo Marin Mazzie (Next to Normal) and Jason Danieley (Sunday in the Park With George) Feb. 23, 2013, at 8 PM; singer-actor Tom Wopat (A Catered Affair) March 23, 2013, at 8 PM; and two-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens, 42nd Street) April 13, 2013, at 8 PM.
The Cabaret 88 series includes Jason Graae (Falsettos) Jan. 23, 2013; Tami Tappan Damiano (Crazy for You at Musical Theatre West) Feb. 20, 2013; Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast) March 6, 2013; and Vicki Lewis ("How I Met Your Mother") April 3, 2013. The concerts, scheduled to begin at 6 PM with a reception, take place in an intimate setting with 88 seats.
The Palm Springs Art Museum is located at 101 North Museum Drive in Palm Springs, CA. For more information and tickets, call (760) 322-4800 or visit PSMuseum.org.