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Shouldn't America be more concerned about Benghazi?
With all the information that is available now to the public its obvious that there was a cover up. The media has done a poor job covering this issue and are downplaying it along with turning it in to some witch hunt. Cant we put our politics and allegiances aside and demand answers and accountability? For Gods Sake Americans were killed and its been verified the public was initially lied to about the circumstances.
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May 16 2013: Hi Ed,
A bit of tongue in cheek.
I think the phrase is apt.
" WITCH hunt".
She has never been my favorite person, and
I thought her original sin, with the broker, that gave
to her, someone's market profits, was a nasty crook.
That she accepted the larder made her one too.
So many years, but we never forgive corruption.
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RADIO ROW – After the Pro Football Writers of America meeting (yours truly is second vice president), I caught up with Falcons coach Mike Smith and owner Arthur Blank while they were working radio row. (Missed Thomas Dimitroff, who made his rounds on Thursday).
Smith talked with the local shows. He talked with Doc Walker and John Thompson from the D.C. station.
He spent some time with old friends in Baltimore and Jacksonville. He made several other stops. So did Blank.
Smith was not distracted from his interview when Snoop Dogg and his entourage passed by on their way to an interview with Tiki Barber for Yahoo! Sports. Actors/Entertainers Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, David Spade, Usher and Jamie Foxx were some of the other celebs getting in their football fix on radio row.
In between visits, Smith, who I don't believe is familiar with Mr. Dogg's work, gave us some important updated medical information.
RYAN AND TURNER UPDATE: The teams' two major offensive weapons, running back Michael Turner (high ankle sprain) and quarterback Matt Ryan (turf toe), are nursing their injuries.
"Both of those guys are spending some time with our rehab people," Smith said. "The big thing for them is to be non-active on those body parts."
DOUGLAS UPDATE: Wide receiver Harry Douglas, who missed last season with a knee injury, passed through radio row with his parents.
"Harry has done a very good job throughout the entire season," Smith said. "He's still involved in his rehabilitation. He's getting closer to actually getting out and doing some work on the field."
FINNERAN UPDATE: Wide receiver Brian Finneran suffered a knee injury late last season.
"Brian Finneran's was non-surgical," Smith said. "It is just a matter of getting enough time off the knee so that he'll be prepared and ready to go for mini-camp."
NOT TALKING ABOUT PEPPERS: Smith also shared that the coaching staff has been evaluating the potential free agent class. Later in the month, they'll switch gears to the combine.
I asked him about Carolina's Julius Peppers and if the Falcons were interested. (I knew he couldn't answer, but I asked anyway. Smitty didn't want to get another fine from Commish Goodell!)
"Until free agency opens (on March 5th), we can't talk about (other players)," Smith said.
February 8th, 2010
12:27 pm
The Falcons probably won't sign Julius Peppers. He will likely demand big money. I think they will pursue cheaper guys like Alex Brown or Adewale Ogunleye.
February 8th, 2010
12:43 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by ATLHOMER, D. Orlando Ledbetter. D. Orlando Ledbetter said: Smith mum on whether Falcons will go after Peppers http://bit.ly/cqsssw [...]
February 8th, 2010
12:47 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by ajc dot com, D. Orlando Ledbetter and D. Orlando Ledbetter, Darryl Ledbetter. Darryl Ledbetter said: Snoop Dogg drops by DOL's latest Falcons blog. http://bit.ly/ddp1Kg [...]
February 8th, 2010
12:55 pm
We could take a cue from the Braves and trade Michael Turner and Roddy White for for a bag of practice balls.
All kidding aside, could we try to get that much for Jamal Anderson?
February 8th, 2010
2:12 pm
Second vice president of the Football Writers of America! Man, I gotta get me a box of them Cracker Jacks.
February 8th, 2010
2:13 pm
Get Julius Peppers at all cost….Time to think big…need to sack Drew Brees…
February 8th, 2010
3:15 pm
Any good pass rushing DE would do ok by me.
February 8th, 2010
3:18 pm
It sure would be nice to have a "sack specialist" who actually was able to sack someone.
Peppers is a freak of nature. Unfortunately, he doesn't play up to his talent every play. His contract should be incentive laden in order to motivate him to perform….every game, every play.
February 8th, 2010
3:21 pm
We made two great FA pick ups the last two years (TG, MT). Heck, Williams was a great grab while he was healthy. Peppers is coming here or someone of similar impact.
February 8th, 2010
3:22 pm
Julius Pepper dam right give what he want
February 8th, 2010
3:24 pm
Sign Peppers, trade the 1st pick for a 2nd, 5th, and future first round. You can give Peppers a quality signing bonus instead of signing a rookie and go after the corner or linebacker in the 2nd rd with that pic.
February 8th, 2010
3:24 pm
Sign peppers, draft a DE and trade abe after this next season. he will be getting up in age and on his last leg. we let him play with Pep and teach a rook or let beer man step up next season. Anderson can get out of town on the next thing smokin. Hopefully this year. too bad his cap hit sux.
February 8th, 2010
3:41 pm
Sign Peppers period end of story…
Don't let age or money deter you from adding key pieces to the puzzle. Chris Doleman, Jumpy Geathers, Biscuit Cornelius gave great efforts for us late in their careers. Age is just not that big an issue at DE, all you need is a 10 yd burst.
Plus, in an uncapped year, you still have to be competitive. Certainly, the Cowboys and Skins will try and buy a bowl bid and some others will low-ball it. It's an opportunity for the Falcoons to take advantage while they still have Gonzo around.
Surely, Sidbury and Biermann are coming around. They'll be good depth and fresh legs behind Abraham and Peppers. Our Dline with a healthy Jerry and Babineaux would be dominant. And thats what we need – everybody else automatically gets better.
We could spend the #19 pick on a young 5star corner like Patrick Robinson without having to throw him to the wolves. And suddenly have 4-5 nice young, athletic, fast corners similar to the Ravens, Eagles and Steelers secondaries.
But it all starts and ends with Peppers. Spend the money, go to the Super Bowl!
February 8th, 2010
3:47 pm
I asked him about Carolina's Julius Peppers and if the Falcons were interested. (I knew he couldn't answer, but I asked anyway. Smitty didn't want to get another fine from Commish Goodell!) – D. Orlando Ledbetter
I realize that he could see right through your lame attempt to get a scoop but if I were Mike Smith, I wouldn't be telling you anything about the Falcons that you couldn't find in a 2-week old Sports Illustrated, Mr. second vice president.
February 8th, 2010
3:49 pm
If Coach Smith feels like he can motivate that joker and we can get him at a reasonable price. (reasonable being not most dominant player money) then I say go for it. I think a reasonable range is somewhere between 6-10 per. The contract should be filled with escalators which would max out around 15 if he can prove to be a consistent dominant force. other than that. no dice.
February 8th, 2010
3:50 pm
Let Peppers get overpaid to play on a bad team (hello, Washington). Draft Carlos Dunlap, Jason Pierre-Paul, or Everson Griffen in the first round and a CB in the third round. Or, trade down in the first so they can get a second round pick and then go DE and CB, or vice versa, in rounds one and two. Or, draft Greg Hardy in round three.
February 8th, 2010
3:53 pm
Is Peppers willing to play a 4-3? Because he has said in the past he only wanted to play a 3-4.
Why not ask him?
February 8th, 2010
3:53 pm
While Peppers' asking price will likely be steep, this deal makes too much sense not to get done ASAP. His presence alone on the line, along with a healthy Jerry, will give opposing O-lines enough to handle to allow a guy who was much maligned last year, John Abraham, to possibly experience a renaissance hearkening back to his big year in 2008. Last year Abe was double-teamed to the point where he was often dropped into coverage, but if he's back to being able to go one-on-one our defense will be HUGELY improved on the pass rush.
February 8th, 2010
4:00 pm
Go ahead and sign peppers and while your at it pick up some salt to.Bwahahahahahahaha.Sorry folks i learned that from the Grinch.
February 8th, 2010
4:08 pm
Maybe you could ask him, "Hey Mike, do you like jalapenos, poblanos, habaneros, etc.? Would you like to have more peppers in the coming year?" (wink, wink) and see what he says.
February 8th, 2010
4:10 pm
I agree sign Peppers. Unfortunately, we could not get a bag of feathers for Jamaal Anderson, so we just need to cut our losses
February 8th, 2010
4:13 pm
Sign Peppers if his asking price isn't too outrageous!
February 8th, 2010
4:21 pm
No Peppers, a waste of money as he places more value on himself than the team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 8th, 2010
4:32 pm
we really need this guy in defense and we can use our pick in an cb but please mr blank give us peppers and abraham look what the colts did whit freeny and mathis
February 8th, 2010
4:42 pm
If we learn anything from the Super Bowl it should be this:
A pass rush is absolutely necessary if you want to compete against the likes of Drew Brees or Peyton Manning? Those guys will eat you alive if you don't disrupt their pocket. New Orleans didn't really rush Manning that much, until they blitzed him late. Turns out it worked when they needed it. The Colts couldn't rush Brees one bit. With a healthy Dwight Freeney, maybe things would have been different.
Point is, the Falcons need to generate pass rush, and that means no cost should be spared to make that happen. If they believe Peppers still has it left in him, then it shouldn't matter the cost. Give him a huge 2010 salary (the uncapped season) and then more reasonable yearly salaries over the next few seasons.
February 8th, 2010
4:50 pm
Wo dat who dat, who dat say they gonna beat 'em saints?
definitely not the Falcons.
calvin broadus.
February 8th, 2010
5:00 pm
At first i was against signing Peppers but after watching last nights super bowl im steaming the sorry a** Saints won a super bowl before we did. I think the falcons need to go for it sign him bring in another receiver on offense a legitimate receiver next to Roddy white bring in another corner maybe lito sheppard we need to load up i want a super bowl title within the next 2 years, still draft wisely but i dont think we need to depend on rookies right now i wanna win now if the saints can go out there with a average defense at best and a one dimensional offense and win it all why the hell cant we the saints aint that much better then us right now if the they will make those moves just a couple of veterans added to the mix we can win it all.
February 8th, 2010
5:08 pm
The best thing this team can do is trade for Michael Vick and take the short cut back to rebuilding. This Vick-less team is going no where and no one is coming out to see this team. What a bore they are.
February 8th, 2010
5:29 pm
I wouldn't trade a high round draft pick for him, but he could be snagged as a free agent without such cost outlay. We need to sit steady in the boat and maintain the course, we are on the right track, even without him. I also want to comment on last nights Super Bowl being the most watched tv show. Finally, maybe the pundits and the keepers of the refs can now allow the teams to just play ball, and may the best team win. The number of viewers show that not everybody wants to watch the same teams year in and year out play for the title. Just a thought.
February 8th, 2010
5:55 pm
These falcons are following the course of the bulldogs, down hill from here. Its over. Time to rebuild. Next!
February 8th, 2010
6:47 pm
I don't see the Falcons getting Peppers, the money will be to great. Peppers is beginning the down side of his career and Abe is already there. Our only hope is that some of the younger lineman can step up or we sign another younger lineman with ability through FA.
February 8th, 2010
6:58 pm
DOL, Mr. Blank said it should not affect the Falcons. How can it not?
February 8th, 2010
7:13 pm
use the money for a player or players that want to improve thru utilizing the falcons facilities and coaches input to become an all pro. dont waste it on a player who has seen his best and is on the decline and doesnt play every down. forget Peppers let him handicap another team
February 8th, 2010
7:58 pm
DOL, can you please speculate for a second on which D-linemen you think will return to the Falcons next season? In an uncapped year, cutting a player means no salary cap penalty, right? So Abraham and Jamaal could both be gone. How about Trey Lewis, is he worth retaining? Chauncey Davis got minimal playing time and Biermann and Sidbury seem to be on the rise.
Lastly, why no discussion about pairing Jerry with a big 'un like Dan Williams from Tennessee? Didn't Smith enjoy two massive DTs during his J'ville years? Move Babineaux to DE on running downs and let's go with a big-boy line for a change. Pressure up the middle against Brees would be nice.
February 8th, 2010
8:15 pm
Sign Peppers. With him and abraham on the line together with a healthy Jerry and Babineaux would make our dline more dominate than the giants dline when they won the super bowl with strahan. With a dline as dominate as that will make the others better by givin them time to develop and make more plays. To me signin Peppers would give our defense a major upgrade wich can more than likely send us on a super bowl run because our offense has the keys and is too explosive too handle its just the defense has to hold up there end which Peppers can change the whole outlook of our defense in 1 to 2 years guaranteed
February 8th, 2010
8:30 pm
Ray Edwards…. Ray Edwards…. Ray Edwards… You saw what the last fomer Boilermaker free agent just did… Go Falcons!!!
February 8th, 2010
8:36 pm
Our offense is not explosive, too many holes to fill. We need another o-lineman and a WR. Jenkins is not getting it done. Signing Peppers would be using money unwisely. Peppers is not even an every down D-linemen any more.
February 8th, 2010
8:55 pm
The Falcons should not get involved in a high stakes bidding war with anyone for the services of Pep.
Right now, they need to focus on re-signing UFA`s Chris Redman, Brian Williams and a new kicker.
Then after march 5th, work on deals for a lesser name FA`s, maybe a WR, DE and/or a RB, also work out deals for their own inhouse RFA talent they wish to keep, mainly, those three O-lineman and Norwood.
By early April we should have a good idea the direction Dimitroff will go in the coming draft.
February 8th, 2010
10:54 pm
[...] [Falcons] Falcons Coach Mike Smith Mum On Interest In Panthers DE Julius Peppers Falcons coach Mike Smith shared that the coaching staff has been evaluating the potential free agent class. Later in the month, they'll switch gears to the combine. D. Orlando Ledbetter of ajc.com asked him about Carolina's Julius Peppers and if the Falcons were interested. "Until free agency opens (on March 5th), we can't talk about (other players)," Smith said. Source: AJC.com [...]
February 8th, 2010
11:02 pm
[...] [Falcons] Falcons Coach Mike Smith Updates Status On QB Matt Ryan, RB Michael Turner The Falcons two major offensive weapons, running back Michael Turner (high ankle sprain) and quarterback Matt Ryan (turf toe), are nursing their injuries. "Both of those guys are spending some time with our rehab people," Smith said. "The big thing for them is to be non-active on those body parts." Source: AJC.com [...]
February 8th, 2010
11:09 pm
[...] [Falcons] Falcons Coach MIke Smith Optimistic WR Brian Finneran Will Be Ready By May Falcons wide receiver Brian Finneran suffered a knee injury late last season. "Brian Finneran's was non-surgical," Smith said. "It is just a matter of getting enough time off the knee so that he'll be prepared and ready to go for mini-camp." Source: AJC.com [...]
February 8th, 2010
11:28 pm
[...] [Falcons] Falcons WR Harry Douglas Getting Close To Doing Field Work Falcons Wide receiver Harry Douglas missed all of the 2009 season due to a torn ACL he suffered during training camp. "Harry has done a very good job throughout the entire season," Smith said. "He's still involved in his rehabilitation. He's getting closer to actually getting out and doing some work on the field." Source: AJC.com [...]
February 9th, 2010
12:06 am
We won't waste money signing JPeppers, nor should we. The main reason TD and Smitty refused to resign CB DFoxworth was because of his poor run support, and defending the run has been our major weakness. JPeppers also provides poor run support, as evidence by his total of 42 tackles in 806 snaps, compared to KBiermann's 49 tackles in just 499 snaps. JAbraham had fewer snaps than KBiermsnn, and he had 35 tackles.
February 9th, 2010
1:41 am
Defending the run was not as bad as the horrible secondary we had.Also a big time DE is needed to put pressure on the qb because nobody got to the qb
February 9th, 2010
2:18 am
Peppers alone ain't the answer to us making the SB ya'll, we need our running game back next season all season long, and we need 1 more go to receiver besides Jenkins, and someshut dwn corners
February 9th, 2010
2:40 am
Why do the Falcons always go after the players that are about to go downhill in production. Forget Peppers. He is overachieving ,prima donna, overpaid, player with the wrong attitude.
Build through the draft.
Forget dr peppers.
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It is hard to believe that it is almost time for our Annual Meeting! Before we know it, we will all be hustling to get to scientific sessions, business meetings, and renewing old acquaintances and making new connections. As the chair for the Health Administration Section this year, I am pleased to report progress in a couple of key areas.First, as one of APHA's oldest and largest sections, we are attempting to reconnect with one of the original segments of health administration: governmental public health officials from local, state, and federal agencies. While our section began as the assembly of municipal health officers, we have successfully diversified our membership to include a wide variety of individuals from many different aspects of administration, including program administrators, academics, students and others. In this year, we have attempted to make a special effort to reconnect with health officers who have, over time, diminished from the active ranks of our Section.
In an attempt to become more relevant to health officials and other members of the Section, we endeavored to become more focused in our call for abstracts and subsequent decisions around scientific sessions. Under the skilled leadership of our program chair, Dr. Glen Mays, we focused primarily on soliciting sessions that contribute to topics focused on leadership and management. Second, we wanted to explicitly provide an opportunity to highlight scientific presentations that described work generally referred to as public health systems research. I am pleased to say, that thanks to the work of Dr. Mays and his program committee, we have a great variety of scientific sessions which should be of significant interest to our section and especially to our public health officials.
Of particular note this year is a session that will highlight some of our greatest leaders in public health. On Sunday afternoon, we will host a session featuring two former surgeon generals, Dr. Joceyln Elders and Dr. David Satcher, in addition to former APHA president and state and local health officer Dr. Hugh Tilson, and the current health officer from Los Angeles and UCLA professor Dr. Jonathon Fielding. It will be my pleasure to act as moderator of what I am confident will be an inspiring and provocative session on leadership exercised at the front lines of public health. This is a session you will not want to miss!
This year, as in past years, we will be meeting in the early morning hours on Sunday through Wednesday as a Section. On Sunday and Monday we will devote our attention primarily on discussing proposed APHA policy statements as well as providing an opportunity to candidates for APHA elected positions to speak to the Section. On Wednesday we will transition to our new chair, Ms. Gloria McNeil, who will officially begin her term. We will also be hosting a welcome reception and section awards on Monday evening -- a great opportunity to connect with members of the Section and open to all Section members and interested guests.
It has truly been an honor to serve this year as your chair. Thanks to all of our committee chairs and members of our various committees for their hard work and effort. We look forward to the leadership of Chairman McNeel and in congratulating Ms. Tricia Todd as our chair elect for next year. See you in Boston!
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The words strategic planning tend to send people scurrying for cover. The groans can be heard for miles as staff cry, "Why me? Why now? Why plan?" But strategic planning doesn't have to be painful, and it doesn't even have to be long. Think of it more as tactical thinking and doing. We do this all the time, whether it's at home planning a trip, or just getting through our busy weeks and months.
Probably the most important part of strategic planning is the part of making something happen that moves your organization in the right direction. Without conducting laborious assessments you as the leader often have a sense of the right direction. Cultivate the personal skills of observation, listening and awareness and apply them daily. A second personal skill that will help is the ability to set priorities and stick with them. Often leaders in organizations wait until months of assessment work and input from stakeholders to set a priority list. With a little digging you can probably find that level of work has been done in your organization more than once to date (unless you are a very new/young organization). Use that information and your own knowledge as the leader, and set some organizational priorities that you can justify. Once those priorities are set, it makes it so much easier to make concrete decisions. Remember that to be successful you can't be everything to everyone, so when a new issue or problem arises, if it is not essential to your mission, or moving you toward a vision of excellence in your work, it needs to be owned by someone other than your organization. You can always support others in their work, just don't take it on yourself.
Past chair of the HA Section, Giorgio Piccagli explains that "For me, a strategic plan points to a target and tells us the emphasis we will put in that direction. It allows us to say what is important and what we will do. Even more important, it allows us to say what we will not do. I think a clear statement of vision, mission, and direction allows people to save their energies proposing things you will not do, and also acts as a recruiting mechanism for human and other resources to implement that plan."
Often when leadership changes, new leaders believe they need to go through strategic planning. It's essential that those leaders spend some time looking at the organization and determining how many times those employees have already been asked to strategically plan already. Too much strategic planning can lead to a lack of strategic doing. While a full-blown strategic planning process is sometimes necessary to shift the direction of an organization, it isn't always essential, and particularly in organizations where leadership changes frequently.
So think carefully before investing in a full-blown strategic planning process and find out if you can't instead do a little strategic investigation and build on the good historical work that might be in your organization already. Your employees will be happy to tell you if they think a strategic planning process is needed or warranted.
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The public health nurse enters her work station, checks her e-mail, goes out to the Web for information about the most recent vaccine that has been licensed, enters her home visit for the new mother into the public health management system, and then checks the immunizations of the other children in the home on an immunization registry. The modern public health department has computers, Internet access, networks, and multiple computer programs. How do the managers of this public health department assure that their computer systems support all of the needs of the public health programs served while also being as efficient as possible? What should managers be doing to assure that systems are integrated and interoperable? How should public health managers plan for client information to move between their electronic health record system and those of other providers? What information will the public health department get from e-health records?
The growing demands in public health are forcing local health departments to look at existing information systems and seek new solutions to move forward. Despite having spent significant amounts in technology, systems and planning, most public health departments lack the ability to gather, analyze and use information needed to respond to public health problems. Traditionally public health departments have used silo systems that don't talk to each other, have made decisions based on specific program needs, and all systems have been independent. Public health departments can no longer afford to have systems that are not interoperable and work independently. Health departments need processes to collaborate on system application decisions. There needs to be a strategy of achieving the vision of interoperable systems.
Recently the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) undertook a process to define the business processes of public health. A business process is the sets of related tasks defined to produce a specific programmatic (business) result. Much of the work at a health department cuts across departmental lines. Thus, understanding how the work actually gets done is key to designing better information systems. 'Business process' is not a phrase often heard in the halls of a public health department but thanks to the NACCHO-PHII project is becoming a phrase of importance to more and more health department leaders. Once defined, the business processes can serve as the foundation for developing a base set of detailed information system requirements. By sharing information system requirements, we encourage development of a new generation of systems that integrate data, support more effective population health assessment, and streamline workflow. Through shared definition of our work processes and information needs every local health departments benefits.
What distinguished this information system project from others was its collaborative nature; eight health department leaders from medium to large cities and counties joined forces with PHII to convince themselves that they have more in common. Collaboratively defining the business processes of local health departments created common understanding of how we do our work, helped health department better understand how their work contributes to accomplishing our health protection and health improvement goals, and how our work processes are intimately linked to a host of external partners. In addition, the business process project helped encouraged best practices and has stimulated more concrete thinking about practice improvement and performance measurement. It is essential that informatics principles and the collaborative approach to requirements development be widely understood if public health departments are to develop the capacity to support the functions of public health. The full report is available "Taking Care of Business: A Collaboration to Define the Local Health Department Business Processes" is available at http://www.phii.org. It is suggested reading for all public health administrators.
We are pleased to present you with an exciting new resource for public health professionals: The Quick Guide to Health Literacy. The Quick Guide is produced by the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and is written for health professionals at the national, state, and local levels. It contains:
If you are new to health literacy, the Quick Guide will give you the information you need to become an effective advocate for improved health literacy. If you are already familiar with the topic, you will find user-friendly, action-oriented materials that can be easily referenced, reproduced, and shared with colleagues.
The Quick Guide to Health Literacy and other tools for improving health literacy can be found at http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy. If you would like to request a hard copy of this resource, or if you have any questions, please contact Stacy Robison at (240) 453-8271 or at email@example.com.
Monday, November 6, 20068:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.3032.0 Advances in Organizational Design and Management (Oral)3033.0 The Economics of Health and Health Services I (Oral)3034.0 Innovations in Public Health Workforce Development I (Oral)3035.0 Community-based Approaches to Public Health Management and Practice (Oral)3051.0 Rural & Urban Health Issues in Service Provision & Emergency Preparedness (Oral)
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.3119.0 Managing Health and Leading Improvement: New Directions in Health Administration (Roundtable)3120.0 Advances in Health Systems Research: Data and Resources (Oral)3121.0 Systems of Care for Pediatric Trauma: Issues and Experiences (Oral)3135.0 Alternative Approaches to Universal Access to Health Insurance (Panel Discussion)
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.3162.0 Managing Health and Leading Improvement: New Directions in Health Administration (Poster)3163.0 Improving the Health Workforce: Posters (Poster)3164.0 New Directions in Public Health Leadership Development (Poster)3165.0 Advances in Health Systems Research: Posters (Poster)3166.0 Managing Alliances and Partnerships for Health Improvement (Poster)
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.3215.0 Financing Public Health Services: Research and Practice (Oral)
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4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.3404.0 Technology Adoption and Health Administration (Roundtable)
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12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.4119.0 Where Data Meets Practice: Evaluating Community Health Assessments (Oral)4134.0 Exploring Accreditation for Public Health Agencies (Oral)4135.0 Workforce Issues in the Health System (Oral)4136.0 Assessing Consumer Experiences with Hospital Care: The HCAHPS Project (Oral)4137.0 The Economics of Health and Health Services II (Oral)
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.4224.0 Advances in Health Systems Research: Methods and Applications (Oral)4225.0 Innovations in Health Care Quality Improvement (Oral)4226.0 Policy Innovations to Improve Health System Performance and Outcomes (Oral)4240.0 Applications of Health Economics to Medicare and Hospital Efficiency (Oral)
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.4314.0 Leadership Development Strategies in Public Health (Oral)4315.0 Public Health Systems Research: From Evidence to Improvement (Oral)4316.0 Performance Measurement, Reporting, and Standards in Hospital Care (Oral)
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 20068:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.5051.0 Public Health Assessment and Accreditation: Lessons from State Experience(Oral)5052.0 Advances in Health Disparities Research (Oral)5053.0 Alliances, Partnerships, and Interorganizational Relationships for Health Improvement (Oral)
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.5112.0 New Directions in Public Health System Financing (Oral)5113.0 Information, Technology Adoption and Public Health Practice (Oral)5114.0 Improving the Health Workforce: Issues and Opportunities (Oral)5126.0 Health Services Research: Quality of Care and Patient Satisfaction (Oral)
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Picosun ALD fills the gap in MEMS devices
Picosun Oy, leading Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment manufacturer expands its central role in the field of European semiconductor manufacturing by taking part in a yet new international R&D project, Lab4MEMS.
The project started 1st January, 2013 and will run for two and a half years. Lab4MEMS is Picosun's fifth simultaneous European funded R&D project and strengthens directly the company's core competencies in the field of semiconductors, IC (integrated circuits) and electronics. MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) devices are amongst ALD's most central application areas and Picosun has been a forerunner in integrating ALD technology to MEMS manufacturing since the company was founded. Indeed, nowadays PICOSUN™ ALD systems are used by many production customers to whom the company's technology is in a key role in their MEMS manufacturing process. The number of these customers can only be expected to increase radically in the near future when the MEMS market has been predicted to double to 21 billion dollars by 2017 (Yole Développement).
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I want to thank everyone that shared Tidal Wave Girls with their friends, colleagues, family and followers. It means a lot. It's a terrifying thing to put your art into the universe. I don't have the audience of filmmakers like Tiffany Shlain or Jessica Yu, but it means I'm grateful for literally every single pair of eyes and ears that take in my work.
Here's some things that made me thankful for the universe this week:
I'm going to try this 7 minute workout for you. Since I already do many of these moves in my normal 40 minute workout, I'm not sure it will have the same results for me, but I'll try.
The media wonders why young people don't flock to their shitty subscriptions. Here's a hint: you don't get us. Thank God the tumblrverse pointed that out to Time Magazine. I hope the others are listening.
This house tour at my friend Merrick's highlights two important things about Northeast Minneapolis residents: 1. we have great style and 2. we are very much all about casual comfort. I am lusting after my couch as I think about it.
Meet 20 young women who are changing the world. They're pretty great.
MINNESOTA'S HOUSE PASSED GAY MARRIAGE. YAY. We're looking at you now, Senate.
Some things I've written elsewhere recently:
Five Fun Indies You Can Stream Same Time as Theaters
Is Renting Software the Future
Five Great Kickstarters that Combine Design & Technology
P.S. to my tumblr readers ... if you want to ask me a question, please don't do it anonymously! I can't respond without publishing and that is bad for you and me.
Broody bad attitudes abound in my house this week. It's kind of like this:
Oh Sherlock, you get me. The snow isn't just falling. It's accumulating. This is an important distinction for Minnesotans. Fine if it wants to fall, as long as it melts. But I'm trying to be in a good mood. I'm trying to be thankful. Here's some things that help:
PwnLove is the coolest instagram account out there. It's run by the super chic Kaitlin Stewart who is on a quest to wear a gaming inspired outfit every single day for a year. That's right: 365 days straight. Check out her cool interview with the Geeky Hostess. I honestly don't think I could do it, so mad props to K. Stew. (Obviously, she's the cooler one.)
One full week back in non-Doctor Who action and I feel a little like we have a hang-over. I'm not quite sure we have fallen back into things just yet. And this picture of my Gram wearing a bow tie covered dress isn't helping. It's just so damn adorable.
RIP, Grandma Ann, you feisty lady. I secretly like to imagine her running around space and time with the Doctor in this dress. Speaking of RIP, I'm so sad that Roger Ebert died. He was a gem.
"We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds." - RIP @ebertchicago
I may not have agreed with him about every movie, but he was always insightful and never mean. You could always count on Ebert to write genuinely brilliant words on any subject, but he was especially beautiful when he wrote about film. I will miss hurrying off to his website as soon as a movie was over. See you at the movies, Rog.
Here's some good stuff this week… and yes, I'm going WAY over four things this week, because it's been a while since we have gone through this exercise together.
I'm not convinced I game enough anymore that it's worth making the investment in the Nintendo 3DS, but when I posted this room inspiration from Professor Layton games on Apartment Therapy earlier this week, I was surprised to see so many people love the new Miracle Mask game. I think I might be stealing my bro's 3DS for a titch this weekend…
So what say you? Do I need to make the jump? I'm curious to hear if other people are as obsessed as the AT readers.
Perhaps fun, childlike animation is the theme of the week. This post over at The Mary Sue featuring concept art for a Sherlock Holmes inspired animated series made me drool. For real. Why isn't this a thing? Holmes and Watson are my favorite BFFs in the history of literature. They care about one another deeply, but they are not foolishly supportive. Each is unafraid of pointing out when the other is wrong while their other half takes care to never get their feelings hurt over it. I need to remember that in my own life.
I'm crafting this weekend as I prepare for a VERY EXCITING MARCH on this here blog. I can't wait to announce it. But here's a tiniest of tiny hints. I'm doing a DIY project that involves a stamp and this cool video courtesy of crafting gurus Whimseybox was a super big help. If you ever need to make a stamp of say… something that can travel through space and time… then that's the video you need.
It's already snowing like we're on the other side of "The Wall" here in Minneapolis, so I've got big "hunker down" plans. Including a movie, a mani and a cup of tea. Every time it snows, this is my tradition. I won't be THAT sad to see this ritual go in a few weeks. Just saying…
Here's another fun home post from me on Apartment Therapy: Before & After: A New Meaning for Reading in Bed
Happy weekend, friends!
Did you notice that many of the Oscar Nominated Animated shorts this year are about relationships? New love. Old love. Companionship. Seems like a fitting week to be thinking about those kinds of things. Here a few if you haven't seen them:
I'm also so very, very thankful for all the nice readers who have taken the time to fill out the Being Geek Chic survey. No pressure, but if you haven't done so yet, I'd appreciate it if you could take a minute and tell us why you love to read this site or hate to read it. In that cause, you must love to torture yourself with dorky quips.
Can we talk about building community for a second? It's freaking hard, but hot damn, when you find your army - it's rewarding. I've been doing this blog for nearly 3 years and before that I had another satire blog I ran for about 2 years and it's the thing that I find so difficult. There's alot of other really great lady bloggers out there on the internets and if you aren't reading their blogs, I recommend them. It's like a dose of joy for me each week and I'm especially happy these ladies are around:
That's five. I'm only scratching the surface with this short, short list. Tell us about your blog in the comments. How can I know if I like it if I have never visited? Brag about yourself for a minute. I give you permission.
Do something crazy this weekend. Get a tattoo. Have a fruit cocktail. Spend the entire day in your PJs playing Professor Layton. Whatevs. Just enjoy yourself.
My scribblings can be found on the Internets:
Before & After: An IKEA Bracket Turned Wall Sconce
I'm in flux. Flux could easily mean I'm in the middle of some kind of alien transformation, but no. It really just means I have lots of decisions in front of me and no idea how to make them. One thing gets clearer and another gets hazy and that seems to be the pendulum on which fluxing swings.
I'm trying to remember this bit of advice: Flux is a gift. There are so many places in the world where my decisions aren't even on the register. And yet here, I'm blessed to worry about my career and my home and my hobbies.
When I'm feeling like this, I'm even more grateful for things like a library of streaming movies that I can watch at any moment for a quick hit of escapism. My favorite prescriptions this week were Neil Gaiman's Episode of Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Wife" and a lovely doc on Joan Rivers. (It's called, A Piece of Work, for those who want to see it. You should. It's raw and beautiful. And she's funny as she has ever been.)
Have you seen all the new Cumberbitchin' set pictures from Star Trek? Anticipation is mounting, my friends. Chris Pine's lips must be so sad. Tough to beat those British beauts.
I have never been a total Ryan Gosling fan girl. I mean, I'll admit the dude is hot and clearly super nice, but when someone starts inspiring coffee table books, I get skeptical. But, big news: He won me over this week by casting Matt Smith in his movie, How to Catch a Monster.
Oh, and one more thing. THANK GOODNESS ELEMENTARY FINALLY HAD A NEW STORYLINE. Last night, I saw a sliver of things that are brilliant and new and genius… And I think we're going somewhere. I don't know where, but I'm pleased about the general direction.
I hope you all have a lovely, lovely weekend.
You can find my works elsewhere on the world wide web. This week:
You can buy that lovely print from the Project Type shop on Etsy. Support artists, my friends. It's a nice thing to do.


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Skyline is the team to beat as district tournament begins
By Tommy Keeler Jr.
There's not much question Skyline is the team to beat in the Northwestern District tournament, when it starts today.
The Hawks, who have won at least a share of the regular season title for three of the last four years, are the top seed and only lost one district game all season. Skyline's loss to James Wood in the regular season was when the Hawks were without starting pitcher Sarah Beamer.
Skyline lost a lot to graduation last year, and winning the regular season title with a young team makes it even sweeter for the Hawks.
"I think it means a lot to the girls because we're a young team," Skyline coach Frank Nelson said. "We only got three seniors. I think the girls want to take it the whole way."
Nelson said he is concerned with the team's slow starts in many of their games. Sherando is seeded second, and could be the team that has the best shot at knocking them off.
The Warriors lost two close games to the Hawks, 7-5, and 4-0. They also lost 11-0 to Skyline, a game in which errors did the Warriors in.
"I thought that the first game of the year and [the 4-0 loss] was more indicative of how our levels are," Sherando coach Clarence Smith said.
Both Nelson and Smith are aware they have some work to do before another matchup between the two teams could happen.
Skyline will play the winner of today's Millbrook-Handley play-in game on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Skyline. The Warriors will face third-seeded James Wood in the other semifinal, which will follow the Skyline game.
If Skyline wins it's semifinal, then the James Wood-Sherando game would be for a Region II berth.
The Warriors have defeated the Colonels three times, but Smith said he knows beating them a fourth time will be difficult.
"We have a very dangerous James Wood team, that's going to come in with some intensity and determination to try to get over the hump," Smith said. "They say its tough to beat any team three times. Now we're going to try to beat a team four times, and it's not going to be an easy task."
The Bull Run District tournament starts Monday with fourth-seeded Central hosting fifth-seeded Strasburg. The two teams have played twice this season, including earlier this week. The Falcons swept both meetings, but will have a difficult challenge ahead of them.
In Tuesday's 12-9 Central win, the two teams combined for 25 hits, and the Rams had the tying run at the plate in the seventh inning.
Strasburg is hitting around .400 as a team this season, and is averaging 7.5 runs per game. The Falcons counter with a solid combination of pitching and hitting. Central junior Sydney Plum leads the area with seven home runs and 26 RBIs, while also having a 6-1 record in the circle. Central scored a combined 21 runs in two games with third-seeded William Monroe and Strasburg on Monday and Tuesday.
Madison County is the top seed for the tournament, and would likely be the semifinal opponent for the winner of the Strasburg-Central matchup. The winner of the Strasburg-Central game will put themselves in better shape for a regional berth, while the loser would probably be eliminated.
Stonewall Jackson will be the eighth seed in the Shenandoah District tournament on Friday. They will play at top-seeded Page County on Friday in the quarterfinals. The Generals lost 8-0 to the Panthers last week, one of the few games that has went the distance for the winless Generals.
The Evergreen District tournament will start on Monday, and Warren County's fate is still up in the air. The Wildcats still have a few games left this week that will determine if they make it into the tournament, which only takes the top four teams.
If the Wildcats can beat Liberty on the road today they will secure a spot in the tournament. Warren County beat Liberty, 8-3, at home on Monday. They followed that up with a 10-0 win over Brentsville on Tuesday.
"I told the kids before the game that it was a do-or-die game," Warren County coach Justin Stock said of Monday's victory. "They responded. They came out and scored four in the first. We played very tough against a strong Fauquier team, and then performed very well against Liberty. I was proud that we started smacking the ball around."
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American DanceWheels Foundation (ADF) is a non-profit organization that teaches Wheelchair Ballroom and Latin Dance. Wheelchair dancing integrates people with disabilities and able-bodied individuals and can be enjoyed by people of all ages and ability levels. American DanceWheels created the first American style wheelchair dance syllabus, Wheel One™. Our organization promotes wheelchair dancing through educational seminars and performances in dance studios, schools, and rehabilitation facilities across the country. Take a look at our most recent newsletter, and become a part of ADF today!
In 2012, ADF's teachers partnered with researcher, Minna Hong, PT, PhD, at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System to provide a 6-week Wheelchair Ballroom Dance Program as part of a research project entitled, "So You Think You Can't Dance?". The study was open to veterans and non-veterans in three Bay Area California locations. With our program, Dr. Hong conducted a pilot study to investigate the therapeutic effectiveness it may have on people living with spinal cord injuries. The scientific results of the research project were officially announced on September 2, 2013 and received an award recognition at the 2013 Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals Conference. This is a brief summary of their report:
Participants engaged in wheelchair dancing with a standing partner using manual and power wheelchairs over a 6-week period. Participants were assessed with multiple physical and physiological outcomes, as well as functional, psychosocial, and clinical outcomes. Attendance was monitored as a measure of adherence. Participants demonstrated significant improvements in bilateral range of motion, strength, 6-min wheeling distance, reaction time, wheelchair skills, upper extremity coordination, and community participation. Participants also demonstrated significant reductions in weight and resting pain. Adherence was very high at 93%! Results suggest that ADF's program has multiple physical, physiological, functional, and psychosocial benefits. Based on these preliminary findings, a randomized, controlled study with long-term follow up is warranted. Such a study may provide a foundation for implementing novel dance-based therapeutic programs that are fun and thus encourage participation for individuals with SCI.
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If you attend many meetings of local government, as I do, it's easy to see the hypocrisy.
Mayors and council members hold themselves up as incorruptible public servants looking out for you, but many of them serve the agenda of the special interests that got them elected in the first place.
Democrats serve public sector unions whose contracts have enslaved the rest of us. Republicans serve businesses, whose bottom line means more than the welfare of the people who work for them, or the public who buys their product.
Few of them really serve us.
In Bethlehem, for example, Mayor John Callahan recently wanted Council to fork over $5,000 to the Bach Choir, which is loaded with tenors, campaign contributors, sopranos and voters.
But he was unwilling to spend a dime for a K-9 dog that might actually save your life. He nearly got away with this hypocrisy, too. And what Callahan wanted to do is really the norm for most politicians.
Now let me tell you about another kind of public servant. You won't find him making speeches or blowin' oil at your Town Hall.
I recently spent an hour talking to Bethlehem Township police officer Dan Barsnica about his partner, a four-legged dog named Castro. While Barsnica waxed on about Castro, he never bothered to tell me that he paid for the dog himself. I had to found that out from someone else.
Bethlehem Patch Editor Daryl Nerl and I wereto true public servants just a few days ago, when a 16 year-old chocolate lab named George tumbled into a sinkhole.
For seven hours, volunteer firefighters and emergency responders from all over the Lehigh Valley worked together to save this lovable animal. No turf wars. True regionalism.
Shawn Lubenetski, a member of the Lehigh County Special Operations unit, tunneled his way to the dog, who was wedged in a crevice with his front paws dangling over a ledge. At any moment, the earth could have collapsed on them both.
Why would Lubenetski risk his life for a dog?
We all know there's a special bond between man and dog, but there's another reason for this daring rescue. George's owner, Dan Kenny, explained. Calling George a "reluctant hero, Kenny told me his grandchildren, ages 2 to 16, were scheduled to visit soon. "George unknowingly made everything safe for everyone."
Last weekend, you may not have seen public servants, but you undoubtedly heard their wailing servants. We were all greeted by a visitor who just wouldn't go away. And when Hurricane Irene finally left us on Sunday, she had flooded roadways and basements, knocked over trees, and left many of us without electricity.
In Bethlehem Township, Nancy Run firefighters saved 8 drivers stranded by flash floods on Willow Park Road, and were still pumping out basements on Monday. In Hanover Township, forty trees had to be moved from the roads. It was the same story all over the Lehigh Valley.
You may never have heard of them, but Northampton County Emergency Services helped coordinate a response. In eight situation reports, they warned about the flooding and power disruptions that ensued, and even made arrangements for emergency shelters in Bethlehem and Easton.
Thanks in large part to true public servants who worked together, they were able to make the one report that matters most - no casualties.
So next time I see one of these true real public servants holding out a bucket at some red light, I'll give my campaign contribution to him.


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Paul Carr is a British author of several books as well as a columnist for such acclaimed publications as The Guardian and TechCrunch. Thanks to his satire and hilariously cynical style, he has been called a latter-day Jonathan Swift. While he likely does not wear powdered wigs, he's certainly one of the wittiest and thoughtful writers today, covering such topics as Silicon Valley and technology, publishing, travel, partying, sobriety, and being a terrible boyfriend. Paul has lived an intriguing life: he has worked as a magician (really), an entrepreneur, has a degree in law, and has been "homeless" for several years living permanently in hotels…an adventure for which his (fantastic) book The Upgrade was written. He recently launched NSFW Corporation, which will publish magazine-style content for tablets and e-readers. Paul has written much about publishing and the future of books and reading, so we were excited to chat with him. Our biggest surprise? He's been known to burn books.
How do you do most of your reading today? Do you read physical books or publications?
Of course I do. Who answers no to that question? Print is still by far the best way to consume both books and magazines. You can write on it, you can read it on long flights, even during takeoff and landing, you can give it to your friends without dicking around and most importantly you can throw it across the room when it makes you angry. Also, it'll still be here in 200 years. The downside, of course, is that it's also a pain in the ass to access if you don't happen to already have the book or magazine you want to read. And searching is a non-starter.
So, yes, I read a lot in print. Until a few months ago I used to live exclusively in hotels so I'd buy books and then abandon them on the road. Now I have a real office so I have started building a library again. Whenever I pass a bookshop, I go in and buy a handful. Same with magazines/newspapers — I subscribe to the NY Times (in print!), mainly for the crossword. I also buy the Economist and the New Yorker and all that shit you're supposed to say you buy, but I actually do. Right now I'm reading the history of Spy ("The Funny Years"), Michael Wolff's book about Rupert Murdoch and a few Agatha Christie novels I'd never got around to.
THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, the bulk of my reading is digital. I get all my news online, obviously, but I also buy a ton for my Kindle and iPad. Right now I'm reading Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black's "America You Sexy Bitch" on Kindle, and an advance copy of Adam Penenberg's new novel on my iPad. I also tend to subscribe to every new iPad magazine, mostly out of professional curiosity/jealousy. The latest is Arianna Huffington's "Huffington" which reads like it was written for three of her friends, in both a good and bad way. I subscribe to the New Yorker, Esquire and about half a dozen other things on the Apple Newstand but I never read any of them. That thing is a total shitshow. Christ, I think I subscribe to the Daily too.
How has reading become more social for you?
It hasn't, I don't think. Reading isn't supposed to be social. Maybe you're thinking of eating, or playing Twister? Seriously, though, I tend to tweet about stuff I'm reading and I think I've written a total of one Amazon review. I'm always a sucker for a personal recommendation on Twitter and the like, but honestly I don't think my reading is any more social than it was ten years ago when I did all those same things offline.
Where do you discuss what you read?
In real life a lot, and then sometimes on Twitter. I know you're looking for a real NEW MEDIA answer here, but I don't have one. The idea of a book club drives me nuts, even. It has too many echoes of school, having to wait for the slow kids to catch up before I can move on to the next book. Also, I rarely have anything profound to say about books I read. Maybe I don't read profound enough books. I much more frequently discuss stuff that I've read in magazines or newspapers — mainly because it's my job to do so. But, again, there's not a huge amount of difference between how I used to riff on stuff when I wrote a column for an old-school newspaper than how I do it now online.
How do you decide what to read?
I guess it's coming from social tools slightly more. But I really think that's just because more of my friends who would previously tell me about stuff in person are now doing so online. The truth is, I hear about most new stuff I read through very old media channels — I walk around book stores (even if I buy online), I read reviews (sometimes online but also in print) and I get a lot of face to face suggestions. I'm so old. Online it's usually because I know the subject I'm interested in and then search on Amazon for something appropriate.
Do you highlight or annotate what you read?
Sometimes. I tend to get animated — and annotated — when something upsets me. I once set fire to a copy of Daniel Domscheit-Berg's wikileaks book out of pure rage…does that count as highlighting?
I'm a hypocrite, though, of course — I LOVE it when people electronically highlight stuff from my own books and have spent many happy minutes poring over the snippets that they've shared on Amazon etc. It always fascinates me what catches someone's brain. In fact, I slightly resent all of those who haven't highlighted anything. REALLY? NOTHING INTERESTED YOU? NOTHING AT ALL? DICK.
How do you see reading evolving in the years to come?
It saddens me to say that it'll probably polarize between the word snobs (like me) who turn our noses up at the slightest hint of an illustration — "I'm perfectly capable of imagining Sherlock Holmes for myself, thank you very much!" — and the rest of the world who will increasingly demand fucking video games in the form of ebooks. Why read when you can play a game or watch a cartoon? Attention spans are being sapped, so the books that really catch fire (so to speak) will be those which reward dipping in and out. James Joyce is fucked, but then he always was. And Stephenie Meyer's next book will be published in Claymation.
Non-fiction could be interesting though — as newspapers and magazine publish less and less long form and people become more and more comfortable with paying for ebooks, we could very well find that ebooks become the new home of investigative reporting. It remains to be seen if that's in the form of words or pretty video pictures though.
Where do you see print going?
Prestige. Talking points. Gifts. A good way to store a single copy of a book for posterity. Definitely not mass-market within 20 years.
Are there any tools or platforms that make you a better writer?
There are no digital tools that would make me a better writer. Not that I couldn't use the help — truth be told, I'm a pretty shitty writer most of the time. And lazy. But beyond the shift from analogue (typewriter) to digital (word processor, with spell-check), I'm not sure any technological development has really helped with the actual slog of writing. In fact, you could make a compelling argument (and smarter people than I have done so) that even the word processor was a retrograde step as it allowed people to yack on and on without any reason to stop typing.
That said, there are definitely tools which make the job easier. Spell check, sure, but also access to everything ever published anywhere anyhow makes it simpler to check if your great idea is original (or, of course, to steal great ideas from others).
How about tools that help you be a better or more satisfied reader?
As a reader, the swell of digital reading has made things infinitely easier. It bugs the living shit out of me when a book I want to read isn't available electronically — I've come to expect — demand — that everything is just a click away. I'm not smart enough to predict what's coming on the horizon, but I assume whatever it is will make it even easier for me to fill my mental inbox with new stuff to read. I guess that's a good thing.
Can you talk a little bit about what you've spoken of as the "connected consumer" and the importance of deep linking into and out of texts?
I think what I meant is that, whether publishers like it or not, people expect content on screen to be clickable and interactive. Also, they have become accustomed to being able to consume it in short bursts rather than, say, consuming an entire issue of Wired in one sitting. Now, note I'm not saying that's a good thing (as many do). In fact, as I said above, the video game-ization of reading is something i detest. I just think there needs to be a middle ground.
At NSFW that means publishing in HTML5 so we're browser agnostic and there's no big download. We're also publishing new stuff daily as opposed to dolloping everything out in one big weekly slop. And there are links. Our policy — and I think it's a good one for magazines and books is that we use links to provide supporting evidence for facts or analysis but never *as* facts and analysis. Which is to say, you should be able to read anything we publish without clicking a single link and still understand exactly what we're talking about. I hate it when journalists don't give background at the top of their story but instead assume you'll follow the links they give to bring you up to speed. It's annoying, and often lazy.
As for books, people are more accepting of the idea of books as downloads. As books become more connected, I hope we don't end up with authors linking to more content than they actually write. That's one big problem with everything being so accessible — at some point we're all just copying and pasting and linking to the same stuff rather than writing anything new.
As an author, do you like seeing highlights from your works by readers?
It's wonderful. Given my point above about being obsessed with the parts of my books that people highlight, Findings is like an RSS feed of crack. It occurs to me that this kind of data could be dangerous as it encourages authors to write in soundbites. But fuck that — look at all those highlights! Woo!
This post is part of "How We Will Read," an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. Read our kickoff post with Steven Johnson.
For this installment of the How We Will Read series we chatted with comedian and author Baratunde Thurston (@baratunde on Twitter). A man once called "someone I need to know" by Barack Obama, Baratunde has been an internet pioneer of political satire and comedy for years. He is an author, a standup comedian, a lecturer, and even a television host. Baratunde's playfulness using digital media to tell stories and connect people is legendary…from holding a real-world rally to maintain his Foursquare mayorship, to sharing his computer's desktop to the public while writing his recent book How To Be Black. Among other real and imaginary positions of importance, he has served as Director of Digital at The Onion and co-founded popular black political blog Jack and Jill Politics. Read on to find out why Baratunde hates hardcover books and how he hacked a hashtag into his own book.
How has reading become more social for you?
I've experimented with the bookshelf app on Facebook that will capture everything I've ever read and just rate books. I did all that and then I didn't use it. And I did it with GoodReads. I got into GoodReads years ago. It was a community of really intentional readers, sort of like Artisanal Reader World. If there were farmer's markets for books, the people on GoodReads would be the ones to shop there. [laughs] Again I didn't stick to the service, I invested a bunch of time and rated a bunch of things and then stopped. So the way I find books is mostly through what my friends write (I have a lot of writer friends), and books that I hear about through conversation, whether it's online or offline.
How do you read books today?
Almost always digitally. I feel about hardcover books the way I feel about phone calls. There is a burden associated with receiving a book. Like when you get that phone call and you wonder "Is this an emergency, did someone die? You couldn't have used an asynchronous form of communication? You really want me NOW?" So when someone gives me a book, I'm grateful, but it's kind of like giving me a CD. Now I have to convert this.
Plus, I live in an New York apartment. Space is the most valuable thing in my life. Time is money, space is money, too. Plus, I travel all the time. I use a Macbook Air and I'm given a book which does 1/1000th of what that computer does and weighs twice as much and takes up five times as much space.
Where do you discuss what you read?
I do not engage in book clubs. I think they're racist and fascist and anti-earth. [laughs] No, I just have never been a part of a formal book club. I do talk about what I'm reading. I post my thoughts about what I'm reading online in Facebook and in Twitter, and I share some of those quotes. I'm a big fan of the pull quote…finding some really juicy nugget and boom! Toss it out as a provocation and see how people react. And I do that even with articles I'm reading. That's how I use Instapaper. I rarely tweet out an article I'm reading, I tweet out a quote from the article I'm reading.
I let the world come to me, mostly. I look mostly at my feeds, and whatever's happening in those feeds. If something bubbles up that looks interesting I save it. I have If This Then That programmed to push favorited tweets to Instapaper, and then when I'm on flights I load up my Instapaper and read. I also talk to people a lot. I have a very new app, it's called "Conversation". [laughs] It's really immersive. It's high touch, high impact. I think there's a future in it, but it doesn't scale very well. When I think about other ways I discover or share my reading process, I notice it's mostly passive. Rarely do I ask "What do I need to read right now?"
Is that because now there's so much to read you don't even have to ask the question?
With books, I think because the time it takes to read a book I'm never short on material. It's really about prioritizing what I read next. I probably have fifteen books on my Kindle that I haven't read! It's so easy to buy them, but you can't consume them fast enough.
I'm also a big audiobook person. I grew up listening to books on tape, like actual cassette. I'd go to the public library to get them through from middle school all the way through college, and then shifted to CD's. Then when Audible came out I died and went to heaven. I have books in Audible, I have books in my Kindle, I have all kinds of queues. I get into certain media consumption modes. Like, I'll want an immersive long form reading experience, so will focus on that and shift away from Instapaper articles and the New York Times and just read a book. Same with audio, I'm either into a bunch of podcasts for a couple of weeks or I pick a book. And I occasionally deviate from the book for one or two critical weekly podcasts that I think make me a smarter and a better citizen.
Do you read more fiction or non-fiction?
Much more non-fiction, but there are some fiction books. I'm in Game of Thrones right now. I'll read a chunk of a series and then go to a different book to mix it up. Epic tales…that's what I love in books. I, Robot series. Foundation series. Dark Tower series. I love series, including in television. The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Killing…those long arc TV shows. The reason I love those is because they're like books. They keep you going…it's like watching a book in a way a movie doesn't. It's too tight, 90 minutes isn't enough time.
The beauty of series is that they exist counter to the instant, tweetable, gratification that we are obsessed with. To invest the time into watching all four seasons of Battlestar Galactica, or reading all 16 books of the Left Behind series, or Game of Thrones…it's such a counter-intuitive investment to make. But I think because we have such short attention spans, thanks to our devices and general media model, there's a piece of all of us that craves a long form tale. We crave the idea of sitting around a fire listening to a storyteller weave this magical thing. And that's how I feel about books, though TV has become more book-like.
Where do you see print going?
Print is becoming a specialty. A novelty. A vanity. It's things that end in -ty mostly. [laughs] It doesn't make a lot of sense, given planetary resources, given inefficiencies, to force the maintenance of a physical distribution model for most book reading. As an author who has gone through the process…it is painfully delayed in so many ways. I was in London just yesterday and stopped by Waterstone's book store in Trafalgar Square. "Do you have my book?" "No we're out, but Picadilly has it." You don't go to Amazon and hear, "Oh port 80 can't distribute the book right now, come back to Amazon next week."
We're beyond scarcity, and that is a known fact of the new world. What we do still have as a value is a visual social indicator physical books communicate that ebooks can't…unless we had a display on the back for the cover of what you're reading.
While you were writing How To Be Black, you shared your screen with the public as a kind of live social reading experience. What was that like?
A friend of mine sent me an email that I should use this screen-sharing service join.me to share my screen and let people watch as I write. And I wrote him back this really long message about how it would ruin the writing process, would be too invasive, and would turn the creation into performance…and by the end of this long rejection I said, "Yeah I wanna do it!" [laughs] I got my own custom join.me screen-sharing URL, cleared my desktop and put a little billboard that said "Welcome to the live writing experience. This is what I'm testing. Pre-order the book! (with a link)" And then I just wrote. There was a chatroom which created an instant community. It turned me into a platform for other people to connect. I made it clear "You're not here to talk to me, but I'm an excuse for you to talk to each other." That's what's so much of the world. Twitter is an excuse to connect. Facebook is an excuse to connect. So, I became a service, a platform for people, and that blew my mind. Plus there was stuff going on in the chatroom, "Oh this reminds me of that," and "Oh my friend so-and-so told me about this thing." So, not only are you giving people a generic reason to connect, you're giving them a reason to share their version of your story…or see themselves in it. When I looked back over the logs there were a lot of personal stories emerging from that.
It's like a having a comments section as you're writing.
I just shifted the timeline. But it still was a social reading experience. I've seen other artists do this. Sculptors, specialty painters, visual artists…they will create in public. But I had not ever seen someone use screen sharing. Someone told me of an example from a while ago, like back in the typewriter days, of a writer sitting and writing in public. But you don't get the chatroom. Using the web for that was not something I had ever come across.
How do you feel your audience is different for your book versus the web?
I don't have book author analytics, but I know who reads my website. I go to Quantcast or Facebook stats. I know where they are and what their ages are and what languages they're speaking. The book…I have a sense from only a few indicators. Twitter, Facebook, and the real world. Twitter is self-selected though: readers who also tweet about what they're reading and do so in a way that I can see them. They must spell the title correctly, mention me, or use the book's hashtag. We're talking a funnel within a funnel within a funnel. So that's going to lean heavily toward young, digital, probably male. People who post to Facebook are much fewer than Twitter. And then there are live events. When I go out into the world, physically, that's my focus group. It's speaking at Pratt Library in Baltimore, or doing a book party in Chicago, or running into people who just recognize me and say "Oh I read your book." It's like a real world tweet.
The book was supposed to come out in February 2011. That didn't happen. Then they decided to push it to the fall of 2011. I proposed we split the publication, to come out with a digital-only book in February, because production-wise we could meet that. Then we'd follow it with a very special hardcover edition. But the publisher was really against it. And I was like, "But I'm a digital dude!" I literally yelled that at a meeting. My audience is connected to me through the internet mostly. I said, "We'll do well. We'll kill it." And they said "No, you're going to leave too many other readers behind." And they were absolutely right. My sales are 50/50! There are too many people out there who need to read this book who would have never heard of it. Not everybody has a Kindle, not everybody has an iPad.
Speaking of which, how do you feel the rise of digital books versus physical books are affecting the digital divide?
You know, there is probably a Pew study on this. I have not seen anything in particular about ebook consumption by age, by race, by language. I would assume there's a lower penetration of ebooks among black people, even though there's a higher penetration of mobile devices than the general public. Mobile internet use is much higher. I have not anecdotally come across people who've read my book on a phone, nor do I have a sense whether more or fewer black folks are reading the book on a device. I will tell you the level of social digital conversation around this book by black people is very high. Because of Twitter, because black people run Twitter.
Black people run Twitter?
This is the hidden truth: black people dominate Twitter. The trending topics, the amount of mobile penetration of devices…study after study continues to prove that Twitter is disproportionately black. And if it's a conversation around my book, I think it's heavily black. I want to pull the avatars of all the people tweeting about the book, and view the shades of what those images generally are…assuming people are putting their faces up, you'd get a sense of the color line.
I came across a Twitter reading group because they mentioned me and I love myself. [laughs] So I looked at this thing Ninjas Be Reading (#NBR), and it was a heavily black hashtag-based reading group. So I joined in, and I took questions. They were like OMG we got the author! And I retweeted some of the best comments. It was so natural. Because of Twitter's bias toward black out of proportion to the population leads me to think that social reading and cultural discussions around book objects or cultural objects by black people in general is high. There is a great market, a great opportunity there. That it is not leaving people behind, quite the opposite.
So does your book have an official hashtag?
#HowToBeBlack! In fact I went so far as to print it on the top of every other page, instead of the title. I hacked the book! This is the fun part, the playing. I worked at The Onion doing digital storytelling all these years, I've been flying through Twitter, doing Foursquare campaigns on the streets of New York. I love this. And the idea of doing a book was kind of counter to my general direction as a storyteller [makes a record-scratch noise] WHAT? Baratunde is writing a hardcover WHAT? [laughs] But, even within that framework I made room to put a hashtag on every other page to provoke a conversation. And it worked! That's the beauty of it. People want to engage. It doesn't mean they have to have a 3D immersive reading room that you walk into Second Life-style. It may be as simple as printing a hashtag on every page of your book to indicate that conversation it possible. Let the audience fill in the blanks. It's not all high tech.
This interview was conducted by Findings co-founder Corey Menscher.
This post is part of "How We Will Read," an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. Read our kickoff post with Steven Johnson here. And check out our new homepage, a captivating new way to explore Findings.
This week, we were extremely honored to speak to Internet intellectual Clay Shirky, writer, teacher, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. Clay is a professor at the renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and author of two books, most recently Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.
Clay is one of the foremost minds studying the evolution of Internet culture. He is also a dedicated writer and reader, and it was natural that we would ask him to contribute to our series to hear what he could teach us about social reading. Clay is both brilliant and witty, able to weave in quotes from Robert Frost in one breath and drop a "ZOMG" in the next. So sit down and take notes: Professor Shirky's about to speak.
How is publishing changing?
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.
In ye olden times of 1997, it was difficult and expensive to make things public, and it was easy and cheap to keep things private. Privacy was the default setting. We had a class of people called publishers because it took special professional skill to make words and images visible to the public. Now it doesn't take professional skills. It doesn't take any skills. It takes a Wordpress install.
The question isn't what happens to publishing — the entire category has been evacuated. The question is, what are the parent professions needed around writing? Publishing isn't one of them. Editing, we need, desperately. Fact-checking, we need. For some kinds of long-form texts, we need designers. Will we have a movie-studio kind of setup, where you have one class of cinematographers over here and another class of art directors over there, and you hire them and put them together for different projects, or is all of that stuff going to be bundled under one roof? We don't know yet. But the publishing apparatus is gone. Even if people want a physical artifact — pipe the PDF to a printing machine. We've already seen it happen with newspapers and the printer. It is now, or soon, when more people will print the New York Times holding down the "print" button than buy a physical copy.
The original promise of the e-book was not a promise to the reader, it was a promise to the publisher: "We will design something that appears on a screen, but it will be as inconvenient as if it were a physical object." This is the promise of the portable document format, where data goes to die, as well.
Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution. Now publishers are in the business not of overcoming scarcity but of manufacturing demand. And that means that almost all innovation in creation, consumption, distribution and use of text is coming from outside the traditional publishing industry.
What is the future of reading? How can we make it more social?
One of the things that bugs me about the Kindle Fire is that for all that I didn't like the original Kindle, one of its greatest features was that you couldn't get your email on it. There was an old saying in the 1980s and 1990s that all applications expand to the point at which they can read email. An old geek text editor, eMacs, had added a capability to read email inside your text editor. Another sign of the end times, as if more were needed. In a way, this is happening with hardware. Everything that goes into your pocket expands until it can read email.
But a book is a "momentary stay against confusion." This is something quoted approvingly by Nick Carr, the great scholar of digital confusion. The reading experience is so much more valuable now than it was ten years ago because it's rarer. I remember, as a child, being bored. I grew up in a particularly boring place and so I was bored pretty frequently. But when the Internet came along it was like, "That's it for being bored! Thank God! You're awake at four in the morning? So are thousands of other people!"