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Are there any studies or evidence which show that mounting a hard drive horizontally is better than vertically for the lifespan of the device? Or upside down, or any direction for that matter.
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The quotes in this thread from WD and Seagate suggest not.
To precis the link: Seagate, Maxtor and WD drives can be used in any orientation including upside down.
Orientation does not affect a drive. Think about iPods with hard drives. They are changing orientation all the time. The most important thing in a drives life is writing to the sectors. Current versions of NTFS do a write leveling (Novell was doing it in the 80's) that will use all the disk surface. Older OS's and file systems under Windows reused portions of the disk when files were erased.
With write leveling the center of the disk gets used as well as the outsides. This will increase the disk life for multiple reasons that are off this topic.
I've never heard of that being a problem.
With older drives however, I do remember the life of a drive coming to an end if it had been running in one orientation for a prolonged period of time, and then turned. For example a server that had been running for several years, when relocated and rotated into a new position, soon after disks would begin to fail.
But I haven't seen that with newer drives.
Early PC hard drives such as the ST506 were based on stepper motors. These did not have any feedback mechanism for head vs track position and thus had to be used in the same orientation that they were formatted in. Voice coil harddrives have a feedback loop that allow them to correct for errors such as changes in orientation.
I would expect that a vertically aligned drive will have to expend a small amount of power to correct for the effect of gravity in a manner that a horizontally aligned drive would not. However since as at least as many disk arrays seems to be vertically oriented as horizontal, I would expect such an effect to be minor.
Vertical is fine for the life of the drive if you need it. Enterprise class storage arrays often have the drives mounted vertically.
From a purely mechanical engineer's point of view, drives do have their head positioned in a certain position to the cylinders. If their heads were heavy, and sagging was a problem I'd say that horizontal position would be better. But those masses are neglieable, so it probably doesn't matter even in most idealistic test cases.
Conclusion: don't worry about it.
I have found that, when recovering a failing drive (one that sometimes spins down after power-up, or is excessively noisy, or that recalibrates with a click every second), they can be encouraged to spin up & stay up and running if you do re-orient them.
Another weird but wonderful trick is to put them in a freezer for a while. When the drive is powered back on it can generally be read for a while until it heats up again. You can extend their "cool" operation by putting one of those "freezer bricks" on top of the drive. Of course you have to watch out for condensation so plastic bags & tea towels are useful too.
I have fibre channel storage arrays here that mount both vertically (FC) and horizontally (FATA). If the big-boys don't care, then there isn't a fundamental difference.
The one area where it might come into play is changing the orientation halfway through the drive's life. That might cause a slight misalignment. However, with drive densities where they are these days read heads are doing statistical analysis anyway to figure out which block it is reading, and a slight misalignment is probably 'noise' in that analysis. It may have mattered more back when densities were in the 2GB range, but not when we're throwing around 1TB SATA drives.
My company makes systems where a PC is mounted in an industrial control cabinet. In most cases the HD in the PC is in a vertical orientation.
Since we had some drive failure issues we tried to see if there is a correlation between the orientation and failures. The conclusion, though based on very limited number of cases, was that the orientation had no influence on failures.
Heat and vibrations are the main causes of the failures probably.
From my own personal experience I would say that horizontally is better.
I had my drive for over 2 years now. It was only a few weeks ago that it started to get stuck (while playing a video file it would get stuck after a minute [1]) . It started making loud noises (louder than usual) as well. Then a few days ago it stopped showing the files in the drive. After restarting the files would show up again but when I open a file it gets stuck again. This kept happening many times.
I thought it was just Windows 7 screwing up but I tried accessing on Ubuntu, the same problem happens. Then I placed it horizontally and it honestly started working properly again. It doesn't get stuck and doesn't make those loud noises. The same video file also played without getting stuck.
I've been using my drive in a vertical position since I bought it. But the problems only started a few weeks ago. It would seem that the drive just got too old. But it started working normally after placing it in a horizontal position.
So I would say the orientation does matter.
That is just from my personal experience. My drive is a Seagate 1TB external drive which I bought in 2009. It came with a plastic stand which you use to place the drive vertically.
[1] The video file wasn't corrupted and i tried accessing other files in different locations too.
Just a comment on my experience. 5 years ago I had a Toshiba laptop. Some problem on the hard drive prevented it from booting. The temporary solution ended up being to turn it on its side. This was very temporary, since if I placed it level, it would slow down to less than a tenth of normal speed. Currently, I have a Gateway that has a similar problem - sometimes failing to recover from hibernate or sleep, and almost always (recently) failing to complete a reboot. 2 weeks ago, after multiple attempts to get it to boot, I turned it on its side. It booted immediately - at which point I made all the backups I needed. Yesterday, I had the same problem, and spent 24 hours trying to get it to reboot. Only after repeated failure did I remember to turn the laptop on its side. It booted immediately! It runs fine on a level surface, it's only the bootup that is a problem.
I've not yet replaced the hard drive, but will check it for integrity - probably using Spinrite - before discarding it.
From what I remember back in the day the orientation of a drive when it was formatted was the orientation the drive was suppose to run with. Of course this was well over a decade ago (over 2?). I have not seen any actual test of this, but it's fair to say it doesn't matter anymore.
I think we can believe the manufacturers with this one.
Actually I have found that if you have a hard drive that is starting to make a lot of noise, that if you just tip it to some angle other than 0° or 90° that it will run much quieter.
So in other words, if you're paranoid, you could tilt every thing by 15° to 75°.
I personally wouldn't worry about it unless you need to work with older drives.
I do a lot of computer service for peoples. About 18 years ago when I start in IT someone told me about position of hard drives and their lifespan. Since then I've been monitoring this and I almost certain that some hard drive positions are not good.
99% Faulty Laptop hard drives I do replace are from laptops where hard drive is mounted up side down. There is no way to change this as laptops have been designed this way.
Offender number one are TOSHIBA laptops. All laptops from this company which I cam across have hard drives mounted up side down.
You can use a drive horizontally or vertically, it is made to be used that way.
However, we* found that using a drive at a non-90°C degree (like with an angle of 30°), it wears faster, probably because it puts a bit more strain on the head when moving around.
*at the data recovery company I was working at
That really depends on the drive design so general rules are difficult. As many people said drives are generally expected to work flat or vertically either way.
However I seem to remember that some manufacturers advise against running drives upside down. and thinking of how drives are built I can see there might be issues.
I once witnessed how a server hard drive failed after running tilted at 45° for about an hour. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but I always run my hard disks in either horizontal or vertical orientations.
I don't know about extending a drive's lifespan, but I have a five-year-old drive that I've always used horizontally, but which now seems to only start up if I place it vertically.


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Yesterday I did the unthinkable. I'm not proud of it, but on retrospect, I really had no choice. I had to call my husband for help.
Sundays have become the long training rides I've needed to get my head (and body) in the game for the up-coming bike4kids (http://bike4kids.org). I've made no secret of the fact that I kinda sorta want to climb on that podium again. I took 3rd last year for women, but as I think I mention in every post these days, I was sidelined by a massive accident, now 11 months ago. For me to be ready to even ride this, let alone race it is kinda of a push, but, alas, a girl can dream, no?
So, what happened yesterday...and how did it make its way into my Spinning® coaching today?
My alarm went off at 4:30am...I had to leave my house at 5am (it is dark here at that time) and make my way into town, to meet up with the gang (photo). We're all training for different events and are very supportive of each other.
This week, even better than last week, we saw sections of the road torn up at 38 and 39k/hour. Of course, drafting at this speed is easier than riding at lesser speed - I know that I'm not doing much work when I'm being pulled along by some of these machines I train with, but it is fun - and we were all pretty tickled with the speed we made to our destination - the ferry that takes you from Cambodia to VietNam.
On the way back, though, it became apparent. Our speed was apparently due to a wind that we weren't really aware of...but wow, did we become aware of it on the return trip!
The two strongest guys (on either end of our photo) bulldozed their way through it. The two newer members of our group slogged their way home, facing mechanical problems, which left me in the middle - in no-man's land hardly able to pull above 25k/hour. At one point I stopped and bought a coke. I don't drink coke, as a rule, but felt I needed some sort of rocket fuel...
The sun was blaring down, boring into my skin, I was really depleated and thinking really negatively - like bordering on angry for no real reason at all, just frustrated by my spedometer. I pushed as long as I could...and then I couldn't push any more. I felt like puking. I felt dizzy...I even felt a little cold, oddly enough.
I called my husband to pick me up.
When I checked in with my other riding buddies I confessed my "fail" with a heavy heart. Kind of embarrassing. But the response I got was so great.
To fail is better than to quit. If you give 100 per cent - all you have...everything...when you have nothing left to give - then you have maxed out...reached your limit. Not many people allow themselves to train so hard...to fail is a thing of greatness to be honored. Anyone can quit...but to fail is something special.
Wow...that's exactly what I needed to hear. I really had nothing left to give and I've never had to call for help that way - I felt unsafe...I didn't keep anything in reserve and to have your training pals turn that into a positive really helped me get over my negative feelings about it.
As you look at your Spinning® experiences....do you give all you have to give?
I don't think it is wise to be unsafe in this fasion...but think about the last time you were instructed to do a 30, 60 or even 90 second interval...when the time was up, did you still feel like you had more to give...or did you fail at 29, 55 or 80 seconds?
Just curious....do you quit or do you fail?


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The Hilbert Matrix is the square matrix given by: $$H_{ij}=\frac{1}{i+j-1}$$ Wikipedia states its the inverse is given by: $$(H^{-1})_{ij} = (-1)^{i+j}(i+j-1) {{n+i-1}\choose{n-j}}{{n+j-1}\choose{n-i}}{{i+j-2}\choose{i-1}}^2 $$ It follows that the entries in the inverse matrix are all integers.
I was wondering if there is a way to prove that its inverse is an integer matrix without using the above formula.
Also, how would one go about proving the explicit formula for the inverse? Wikipedia refers me to a paper by Choi, but it only includes a brief sketch of the proof.


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7 True Stories That Prove The Airlines Hate You
#3. Camera Phones Are Clear Indicators of Terrorist Activity
Marilyn Parver was grabbing a flight from Vegas to NYC on JetBlue when another passenger finally did what we have all wanted to do when dealing with a screaming child: cuss out the bastard's mother.
Parver, not participating in the screaming match but still amused by it, decided to record the exchange presumably to drive more subscribers to her YouTube channel.
The flight crew immediately recognized this for what it was: A terror attack.
Parver was ordered to delete the video by the flight crew. When she refused, they told her the order had come directly from the captain, but didn't allow her to speak with him. When Parver objected to her inexplicable harassment, the crew responded in the most sensible way they could: They called in federal marshals and arrested her video-taping tits off.
By the way, Marilyn Parver is a 56-year-old grandmother.
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Crash Landing:
Parver ultimately was tossed in the drunk tank and released without being charged. She wrote a letter to JetBlue, which was promptly ignored. The airlines' position seems to be that Parver was trying to get photos of the cockpit, doubtless as part of some nefarious terrorist scheme hatched with her bridge club.
Still, imagine what would have happened if she had been from a certain part of the world, like...
#2. Attempts to Use the Bathroom are Also a Clear Indicator of Terrorist Activity
Dr. Sivaprasad Madduri (oh, shit) boarded a Southwest Airlines flight heading from his home in Missouri to a convention in Las Vegas. At the time he happened to be on a medication that acted as a diuretic i.e. it makes you have to piss a lot.
During the flight he got up to use the restroom, and the flight crew flipped the fuck out.
A flight attendant stopped Madduri, told him the restroom was occupied and to go back to his seat. He did as he was told while trying not to piss himself, until he saw the lavatory door open and a second time went to try to use it.
This time, he says the flight attendant started screaming, and pushed him back into his seat, apparently convinced the plane was now under full-on assault from this 65-year-old urologist.
"Give me an excuse, you goddamned terrorist!"
He eventually made it to the bathroom, presumably waiting for the flight attendant to turn her back and making a run for it.
But it only got weirder from there.
Crash Landing:
When the plane landed in Las Vegas, the cops were waiting. They handed him over to the FBI, who put him in handcuffs and ankle chains, interrogated him and held him overnight in a Las Vegas holding cell with 43 other prisoners. The next day the public defender said they could fight the charge, which would require him to make multiple trips back and forth from Missouri to Las Vegas, or he could plead guilty and pay a $2,500 fine and be done with it.
Later, Southwest Airlines issued an apology and $100 flight voucher... to the other passengers, presumably for the inconvenience of having this brown person disrupt their flight.
#1. A Real Life Family Tragedy, Thanks to United
Anita Cabral did everything right for her vacation. She booked a beach house in Hawaii a year in advance and bought the airplane tickets six months in advance.
Why? Well, the trip was for her children to visit their father, probably the last chance, due to his illness. She spent so much money (including a non-refundable five-figure check for the beach house) that she actually had the trip insured.
You can tell this is going to be a bad one.
After a year of planning, the day before they're set to take off, United tells her the flight had been canceled. This is last minute, but still understandable in the constantly-changing world of air travel. Maybe the engine fell off the plane. Who knows, but flights get canceled and dammit, there's just nothing an airline can do.
She relayed this to another family member, who said that was strange because he in fact was still booked on the flight and everything was a go. Confused, Cabral went back to the airline, who admitted the flight had not in fact been canceled, and said that instead their computer had lost her reservations. Cabral was even more confused by this, because she had gotten an email asking her to confirm her reservations the night before.
After calling them on their second line of bullshit, United just came out and admitted they'd bumped her and her entire family, all eight tickets, from the flight for no particular reason.
But that's OK, because United then offered to make it up to her, by sending her family in pairs to different islands of Hawaii on different days of the week. When she pointed out how retarded that was, they offered to put her on a flight five days into their week-long vacation. Finally, they just gave her a refund.
Some airports display oversized dong sculptures to symbolize the gigantic raping you are likely to receive.
You'd think that'd be the end of it, but the buttfuckery continues. Remember that insurance policy? Well, Cabral's claim was denied, primarily because United refused to write her a letter admitting they had fucked up.
Crash Landing:
Remember the father Cabal's children were supposed to see? The one who was dying? He passed away before another visit could be arranged, although we can't confirm as to whether natural causes or a United Airlines assassin were responsible.
By the way, if you needed more confirmation that "my family is dying" doesn't get you special service at United, there's the tale of this woman who rushed to the airport to catch a flight to go see her dying mother.
However, standing between the rushing woman and the soon-to-depart airplane was a ticket agent who refused to process her reservation because she had to go on break, effectively informing the poor woman that her final moments with her mother were worth less than a grape soda and a package of Ding Dongs.
For more depressing stories about airport help, check out The 7 Dumbest Things Ever Done by Airport Security. Or read about some failures to help outside of the airport, in 5 Horrifying Tales Of 911 Incompetence.
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by Kim Leeder
Summer Interlude
Three years, twenty committees, twelve hundred instruction sessions, forty thousand monograph purchases, and half a million reference questions later, I'm at the point in this librarian job where I have enough experience to know how to get things done, and also enough to wonder, "What exactly am I doing?" The more you know, the more you know you don't know, as they say.
I exaggerate the numbers, but the above four things do seem to encompass the majority of what I do from day to day. Of course there's a wide variety of additional tasks that fill up my time in the office, from updating my library's Facebook page to presenting at conferences. All these things combine into the work portion of my life. Is it a good job? Undoubtedly. Is it fulfilling? Usually. Fun? Sometimes. But I can't help but wonder what it's all for.
The danger of the summer lull, particularly for academic librarians — but perhaps for others, too — is that after the frenetic pace of the regular semesters, we suddenly have time to reflect. I call it a "danger" because it's much easier to speed through life and work without asking too many questions. Questions can get you into trouble if you don't like the answers. But then a little trouble isn't always a bad thing.
My spring semester ended about a month ago. Immediately after finals I went on a lovely long vacation, and now I'm back at work, waking up early thanks to jet lag, and taking a little time to think and ask questions. After all, this year was my midpoint in moving towards tenure at my institution, a circumstance that required me to submit formal documents to my colleagues so that they could offer constructive feedback about my progress in this position. It seems fitting, now that I have been evaluated by others on my librarianness, that I do a little review of my own and decide what being a librarian means to me.
The Librarian Identity, or Lack Thereof
One of my favorite things about being a librarian, and an academic reference and instruction librarian in particular, is the variety: the variety of tasks and duties I'm responsible for, the variety of people I interact with, the variety of information and topics I deal with on a daily basis. The average day in the life of an academic librarian is notoriously difficult to pin down, since the list of potential tasks accomplished in a single day is seemingly endless. I enjoy knowing that every day I do something a little bit different and yet it all somehow fits under my job description.
On the other hand, it makes me wonder if my job description should be quite so broad. Not that mine is different from those of identical jobs in other places; it's not. I greatly enjoy the many types of tasks that cross my desk on a daily basis, but I see a red flag, too, in the sheer yawning chasm of work before me. In the back of my mind is the nagging concern that my work might be oversized, unfocused, and possibly on the edge of unmanageable. Yet if I wanted to narrow it down to a few critical tasks, I'm not sure I could; too much else would be neglected or would get in the way. So I find myself asking, what's at the core of it all? What is the real work of librarianship?
This last question brings to mind a poem by Gary Snyder, "I Went Into the Maverick Bar," in which the main character of the poem adapts his appearance to fit in with the customers of a country bar in New Mexico. The real work of this poem, the work of coming to terms with place and identity, is far larger than any job, but if we shrink it down and tweak it slightly (with apologies to Mr. Snyder), the nature of the poem is still applicable.
Yes, I'm calling librarianship my "maverick bar." Not literally of course, since our workplaces in no way resemble the bourbon-and-beer scene in the poem, but I have the sense sometimes that librarians are a little bit like those folks in the bar – a little displaced, not quite sure who they are or what they should be doing. Every culture has a life of its own beyond the individuals, and our library culture, too, is not quite native to where we now live. Libraries were built for a print-based culture of collecting and preserving, but that culture has shifted dramatically around us while we continue to dance, a little awkwardly, to the band.
Our search for identity is clear to me as the source of many younger librarians' efforts over the past several decades to combat the "librarian stereotype." Any culture that is so intent on making a sharp break from the recent past makes me suspicious. I'm unable to accept that the inherent nature of librarianship has changed dramatically, even if it sports a nose ring and carries a smartphone. Then there are the varied, insistent, even desperate initiatives to redefine our buildings in ways that will continue to appeal to library users, campus administrations, trustees, and boards of directors. I'll be first in line to admire these new buildings and renovations, with their polished work spaces and bright, airy environments, but these new buildings may simultaneously advance us even further on the path to identity crisis. They include less and less of any particular thing that one would identify as characteristic of a library. After all, what purpose does a bookless, wholly electronic library serve that distinguishes it from an overblown student center? In this article from the Mercury News, note the paragraph:
Libraries are the very heart of the research university, the center for scholarship. But the accumulation of information online is shifting their sense of identity.
Shifting their sense of identity to what, exactly? The article doesn't say.
These days we're better at knowing what we're not (bun-wearing shushers) than putting our finger on what exactly we are and what we're here for. Perhaps it's this insecurity that causes librarians to try to do so many things all at once. We leap into social networks, digital repositories, and online services; we reconceive our collections; we become publishers as well as collectors; we reach out to our communities, campuses, and potential donors, stretching ourselves thin; we digitize; we redefine our jobs, and redefine them again; we rebuild, restructure, rearrange; we stand alert, ready for anything. And even when we are self-conscious enough to acknowledge our situation, we still don't have any answers. In a blog post more than a year ago Bobbi Newman pointed to this problem, but rather than offering solutions she ends with the (admittedly potent) line, "We've got to change, and I mean really change."
The urgency and the need for change is clear to all of us; what no one can seem to put their finger on is how to change. And that leads to more identity crisis and more desperate grabbing at the technologies, tools, and strategies that might work in the short-term. We're running on the information hamster wheel; we simply can't do everything. And rather than try to do it all, it might be better if we do, well, nothing for a while. You don't tell someone hyperventilating in panic to run some sprints, do you? No, you give them a paper bag or some distraction, speak calmly, and encourage them to sit down, relax, and put their fear aside. Similarly, what libraries may need to do is stop, take a breather, release our fears of irrelevance and ask our patrons, campuses, administrations, donors — and yes, ourselves — what is our real work and what does it look like in 2010 and beyond?
If indeed libraries have become irrelevant in the age of the almighty Google — and I don't think we have — wouldn't you rather know than keep panting along on the hamster wheel, accomplishing nothing?
In Search of the Real Work
What librarians do have is a set of core values that serves as the backbone of our identity and draws together even those working in nontraditional positions. Increasing access to all types of information and all perspectives while protecting intellectual freedom and privacy; these are the values that unite us. I think every library student gets (or should get) a little rush upon first discovering the ALA Library Bill of Rights and realizing the larger issues that play a role in this field. If we boil it down, the major value expressed in this document is intellectual freedom, the full and equal access to all types of information for everyone. In my mind, this is one of the most critical roles a librarian can play. (Though I have heard some debate on this; for more, stay tuned for Ellie Collier's post later this month).
The values that guide librarians don't address the core tasks that cement these values to our daily lives in the field. While I would like to believe that my primary responsibilities reflect these values, I don't knowingly achieve any goals related to intellectual freedom in my daily tasks. There is some gap between what I stand for as a librarian and what I do in practice, as all idealism shrivels a bit in the face of reality. I must please my boss, my tenure reviewers, my students, my campus administration. At a minimum, I hope my theory and practice don't contradict each other.
I wonder, too, if there are common tasks across all librarians' various job types, professional organizations, and institutions. I can't think of any other career that has so many different manifestations of what work in that field might look like. I'm not sure whether to call it flexibility or lack of focus. Just think about the various titles that librarians work under: Emerging Technologies Librarian, Copyright Librarian, First-Year Services Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, as well as all the ones that are more traditional and familiar. Not to mention librarians working in other information-related organizations that aren't libraries.
A considered look backwards at the librarian's primary roles throughout history is interesting in the effort to make meaning out of this. In "Tracing the Archetypal Academic Librarian," Stephen E. Bales compares academic librarian job duties during two periods of early history with those of today. After reviewing the activities that took place in libraries during the time of Assurbanipal (roughly 600s BCE) and Alexandria (200s BCE), Bales concludes that most of the primary roles of librarians have not changed over the course of several millennia: librarians from all periods of time have been involved in these tasks: identifying, selecting, acquiring, organizing, retrieving, conserving, and conducting some sort of scholarship. Bales is not the only one to note that librarianship, historically, has taken place largely behind the scenes, and this was still the case in the late eighteen hundreds.
No longer. Bales' insights might be helpful if not for the fact that I do very few of these things as part of my daily work as an academic librarian in 2010. Not many librarians I know do much of this at all. In fact, the two things I spend a large proportion of my time on – outreach and teaching – didn't even make the cut in Bales' listing of major roles. Certainly in former millennia librarians had no interest in sharing their collections; documents were reserved for elite and wealthy scholars. Nor does Bales mention professional service outside of scholarship, which is a tremendous time commitment for many academic librarians. In my opinion, Bales' historical assessment of librarian duties doesn't really cut to the "real work" of the field today.
To gain a more modern perspective on the priorities of a librarian position, we can review evaluation documents from institutions that break out task areas into particular percentages. For instance, I happened upon a handbook from Florida International University Libraries (pdf) that prioritizes the work of an information services librarian in this manner:
35% Reference/Research Assistance25% Information Literacy15% Collection Development5% Liaison15% Non-Scheduled Activities (service, conferences, professional development)5% Other Duties as Assigned by Department Head
While I don't advocate trying to break down one's work schedule according to this sort of math (think of all the grey areas), it does make it clear that answering questions and teaching are by far the top two responsibilities at this institution. That sounds about right to me. Of course, if we look closely at each of those categories we can see that they each encompass a wide range of more specific tasks. "Information Literacy," for example, might include teaching (one-time workshops, for-credit courses, and perhaps additional sessions), assessment of current instruction, planning for future instruction, creating promotional and informational materials, etc. Although it's just one priority area, I'm sure it could fill a full-time librarian's work schedule all on its own.
It's clear to most of us working in academic librarian positions – and probably all librarian positions – that the full array of responsibilities and duties our jobs encompass are simply not achievable in a regular work week. In case we thought it was just our imaginations, the University of California at Berkeley conducted a workload survey of their librarians and received 31 responses that indicated overwhelmingly that getting the work done is more than full-time commitment. It's no surprise that Berkeley librarians largely felt obliged to work some evenings and weekends to keep up; even those in smaller institutions do the same. This makes it even more important to identify what our real work is, and to prioritize tasks in a way that empowers us to accomplish it.
Conclusions, Such as They Are
There's not much discussion in the literature of librarianship, so far as I can tell, to answer my rather philosophical question about what our "real work" is. I have located books and articles about job duties and priorities, some of which I mentioned above, but little that attempts to dig to the core of our professional beings. Historically, I could argue that the real work revolved around collecting and preserving documents in the interests of greater knowledge. Today, although that is one piece of the work most librarians do, it has certainly been deemphasized.
The more I consider this question, too, the more I doubt that it could possibly have a rational, scientific answer. I relive that grad-school rush upon reading the Library Bill of Rights, which is about as real as anything I could point to in this field. I think about the deep, true gratification I enjoy when I manage to connect an interested, intellectual person with new information that contributes to their perspective on a topic. I think about my colleagues in academic libraries, and about my colleagues in public, school, and special libraries. Isn't it true, in the end, that our real work is more about values than tasks?
And that greatest value of all, even beyond any document compiled by any professional association: Knowledge, with a capital "K." I see no work in librarianship more real than the collection, protection, and dissemination of Knowledge, and the empowerment of others in means to acquire it. Although libraries historically were more about hoarding Knowledge than sharing it, our work has not otherwise changed much over the millennia. The internet, while making information more widely available, has simultaneously obscured true Knowledge and increased the importance of our real work.
This revelation doesn't directly help me manage my workload and organize tasks, but it does help to keep me theoretically and emotionally grounded in my job. My real work is Knowledge. If I hold that goal in mind, the details of how I accomplish it on daily basis begin to fall into place. Some of my duties, like teaching, support Knowledge directly. Other tasks, like tracking reference questions, are not tied to that higher goal but are necessary for the reality of my workplace. If I want to continue in my job, I can't just stop doing those less crucial tasks, but I can prioritize my efforts and save the best of my energy for the real work of librarianship.
Readers: I don't speak for every librarian, just myself. What are your thoughts about the "real work" of librarianship? Your comments below are welcome.
Author's Note, Or, A Confession and Suggestion for Further Reading: I'm embarrassed to say that I was unfamiliar with (or had forgotten) "The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians" until after writing this post, but now that I have I strongly encourage anyone who is thinking about the real work of librarianship to read them. The document is an excellent, timeless vision of our field, and I nod to the wisdom of those who conceived it.
My thanks to the entire cast of ItLwtLP as well as Eric Frierson and Rachel Slough for their invaluable feedback on drafts of this post. I have never before had so many helpful and insightful responses to any single piece of writing, and I hope the results reflect it.


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I also love that door and the colorful design on the wall.
Wow! Great timing! It turned an ordinary doorway into a home! I really like this one! Well done
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Be inspired by this beautiful shot, a spiritual beauty indeed!
Fabulous! I have just returned from visiting the Moroccan south where nature still reigns supreme, towns and villages just blend into the countryside. An abundance of fresh, high quality organic food, natural cosmetics greet you along the way. Temperatures between 30 and 45° C cause no strain as the air is very dry. I intend to return 2015 for a longer stay .... may be even include some biking. ;-)
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Good Exposure. Great shot.
Excellent composition
The contrast here of rough, and smooth, and the cyclist caught bang in the middle of the doorway,makes for a good shot. The colors are strong, giving us another kind of contrast. Is the hole on the right hand at the bottom,a drain hole of some sort? I think so. Good timing, good shot. j.e.s.......
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Light, color, texture, and a story. Great capture!
So many interesting and diverse textures and depths of color in the building and the door are what I am drawn to in this photograph. Am wondering about the small hole at the bottom right of the doorway? Fascinating photo!
Nice timing, framing and composition.
Muy buena e interesante foto! Felicidades!!!
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I am having trouble knowing how to output a count of all files with "tty" in the filename in the Linux directory that holds files on system devices.
How do I output a count of all files with "tty" in the filename in the Linux directory that holds files on system devices
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First, you need to figure out a way to list those files. The directory that holds the device files is
so a command to list those files is
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There's a command to count words in a text input:
This only works if the file names don't contain any whitespace. The command can be more robust, but still not ideal, if you list the file names line by line and count the lines; this only breaks if the file names contain newlines:
A more robust method in a script is to obtain the list of file names as a list and count its length. Wildcards expand to a list of names; there's a special case when the list is empty: the wildcard is not expanded.
Exercise: does the snippet above work for any wildcard pattern (i.e. is there a wildcard pattern for which the snippet reports 0 files when there is one or vice versa)?


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A simple table
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There's 1000000 classes. Every student attends 500 classes. (Bad analogy, I know...) For testing, there's 4000 students in the DB (so there is 2.000.000 rows), but this DB should handle several million students, that's why I'm using a MySQL ndbcluster.
Anyway... a query like this:
SELECT student, COUNT(class) as common_classes
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GROUP BY student
ORDER BY common_classes DESC
resulting in something like:
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Brad 6
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Chris 3
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takes about 1 second with a InnoDB engine on one server, which is ok. On a ndbcluster with 3 datanodes the same query takes up to 10 seconds, which is far too much. I don't know how the above statement is treated internally, but I guess that there is a lot of communication between the nodes, which makes it slow due to latency. Can someone tell me, what happens in the cluster when I perform this query? How can I make it faster?
Note: this is a question that came up after I posted this question: How do I compute a ranking with MySQL stored procedures? For more informations, have a look there!


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BELMONT-The Union Local Board of Education recognized three Destination Imagination teams as Thursday night's meeting began.
Winning first place at the Ohio Regional 17 tournament on March 23 were Flying Psycho Ideas (Jaeda Mowak, Elsa Bretz, Zoe Wooding, Jonathan Kemp, Sawyer, Moore, Cheyenne Fillipovich and Connor Luyster with managers Jenn Fillipovich and Lilli Luyster;) Marvelous Flying Flaming Snails (Matthew Borkoski, Michael Borkoski, Luke Snyder, Caterina Miner, Maddison McCracken and Allison Gray with managers Denise Gray and Alice Miner;) The Team with No Name (Nicole Puperi, Paige Funkhouser, Paoli Roberts, Claude Romshak, Starbuck Roberts, Megan Garrison with managers Shawna Roberts and Robin Romshak.)
The Team with No Name took third place in the Ohio State Competition, qualifying them for the Global Finals in Knoxville, Tennessee at the end of the month. They will compete against teams coming from 14 countries.
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Destination Imagination teammates, from right, Nicole Puperi and Paige Funkhouser are preparing for a trip to the DI Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn. Other members of "The Team with No Name" include, from far left, Megan Garrison, Starbuck Roberts, Claude Romshak and Paoli Roberts.
Meanwhile, board members opted to table the issue of abolishing the library aide position for the 2013-14 school year after Union Local librarian Deborah Barr voiced her concerns. Currently Barr is part-time and divides her schedule among all three schools. She relies on the aide to work on shelving books and other maintenance-type tasks while she assists students. Barr added that the middle school library would need to close one of the two days it is currently open, and she is concerned about the high school library usage decreasing because of staff time limitations. The board will revisit the issue for consideration.
Union Local parent and alumnus, Roy Swallie, questioned board members about the athletic committee's recommendation to approve Kelley Hanlon as the head coach for girls' basketball next year.
"This is not personal against Mrs. Hanlon," Swallie said. "I just think it's shocking that there are others out there who are alumni of Union Local with Union Local coaching experience who aren't recommended for the position. Why not hire the most experienced?"
After board member Ed Stenger asked committee members about Hanlon's qualifications, member Todd Kildow explained that there were six applicants for the position.
"Some were prepared for the interview, and others had their own agendas," said Kildow. "We were looking for the best person to be with the kids. We're looking forward to carrying on with the Jets program."
Dean Lancaster added, "I voted for who I thought was best for the job. The interviews were not unfair. Three people were from outside the district, and three were in. Mrs. Hanlon is employed by Union Local, and she has a clean background. Based on the committee criteria and process there was no reason to disqualify her."
Hanlon was approved for the coach position, with Todd Kildow, Dean Lancaster and Terry Puperi voting yes and Ed Stenger and Allen Mann voting no.
"We've had a good year," Janet Hissrich, treasurer, informed members. "We've been very careful. I can't compliment the staff and administration enough for their efforts."
Hissrich presented the April financial report which paid bills totaling $1,141,777.54 and a comparison that shows the cash balance up by nearly $836,000 from April 2012. She added that the forecast for June 30, 2013 showed a negative balance, but the district is on track to achieve a balance of roughly $50,000 in the black.
Allen Mann added his thanks to the teachers and everyone on staff for working together on keeping spending to a minimum. Members also approved a donation of $75 from the Flushing Business Association for the Union Local Band.
Under "Board Discussion" items, Kildow pointed out that the policies and handbook language may need review, specifically for cell phones and fighting. School principals Scott Bowling, Sam Lucas and Joel Davia responded that each fighting incident is decided case-by-case based on eyewitnesses, discipline histories and "common sense." The next policy committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 21 at 3:30 p.m.
Members approved signing a lease agreement with Rice Energy for the district's Bethesda property.
Operations manager Bill West informed the board that future food service at the elementary school may be prepared by the Union Local kitchens rather than contracting with Preferred Meals. West says that Preferred Meals saves on labor, but participation has decreased because of menus based on new government requirements. The district would need to hire another food service worker, but picking up the students that have dropped the program would pay for the new employee.
Superintendent H. Kirk Glasgow said a county-wide levy of 1mill may be in the picture after discussion at a recent superintendents' meeting. Funds would be divided among eight districts to pay for school resource officers. Union Local is also applying for an additional safety grant and is hoping to have a program in place next year.
The Union Local school board meets the third Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. in the high school library.
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It is easy to see (and presumably well-known) that the operation of attaching manifolds along a submanifold (as defined Characteristic Classes of a Fibered Sum) can be expressed as a push-out in the Smooth category, so long as the construction includes collars. The connected sum follows as a special case where the submanifold is a point. Furthermore, Thom's "shperical modifications" can also be treated as a connected sum. Basic facts about these operations (well-defined under isotopy of the embeddings, associative, etc.) can be proven as corollaries of theorems about push-outs.
I've done some work on my own developing this idea, but I'm wondering if there's some theory already in place that could help me save some time or point me in better directions. I haven't come across anything in my searches. What I'm looking for specifically are references which treat these operations as pushouts, and develop them as such. (What I am NOT looking for are modifications of the smooth category which make it closed under pushouts)


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You don't want my sister's titties bro. They're all pale and they hang down to her knees.
You don't want my sister's titties bro. They're all pale and they hang down to her knees.
Man, speaking of soccer. Sometimes I like to fuck blonde bitches and make them talk to me like I'm a Brazilian.
I'll be all like, damn girl, you so hot. And she'll be all like, PELE KICK ME A FIELD GOAL
Blonde women don't actually know soccer, btw
Moral of the story is, I make bitches call me Pelé, for he is the greatest
I don't think I would mistake you for him.... you are far to white... no offense.
he would probably call you Mucho Blanco (my nickname to the spanish speaking customers that come into my work).
she want's to hang out again soon... so that's a good sign. Might have to move this to the good sex thread soon. :P
Also leggy... stop deleting posts before I can read them.
went to see her again last night. I was in a very good mood today to say the least.
The wife and I adopted a dog this past Saturday!
We named him Dante and he's a Norwitch terrier mix.
Awesome, dude.
New Dante's fur is supposed to be black.
My Dante is the best Dante.
Scruffy dogs are best dogs, but didn't the he already have a name before you adopted him?
Slaves had their own names too before they were "adopted". Didn't mean much back then either.
The humane societies had already named our dogs and we let the names stay. Shep and Lita.
Yeah, the shelter named him Diego, but the wife and I didn't really care for that one. We were discussing names and I offered up Dante more as a joke, but she actually liked it and I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity.
What's wrong with Diego?
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As Washington residents celebrated Pride on Sunday, Seattle's Space Needle went red for marriage equality — one of just a handful of times the city's iconic landmark has raised an LGBT-related flag. After Space Needle officials refused to fly a rainbow flag last year, they apparently reached a compromise this year, after Washington voters approved marriage equality legislation enacted by the Governor in last November's election.
This year, a group of individuals instrumental in bringing the freedom to marry to Washington State raised a giant flag with a red Human Rights Campaign logo emblazoned across an outline of Washington State. Pride grand marshals Jane Abbot Lighty and her wife, Pete-e Petersen, were the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Washington last year, so it seemed fitting that the octogenarian couple, who've been together for more than 30 years, hoisted the flag to queer the state's most recognizable landmark.
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Jane Abbot Lighty, 77, left, and Pete-e Peterson, 85, who were the first same-sex couple in King County to recieve a marriage license, helped hoist the flag.
Sen. Ed Murray (right), who cosponsored Washington's marriage equality bill, and is currently running for mayor of Seattle, with his fiancé, Michael Shiosaki.
Zach Silk, who served as the campaign manager for Washington United for Marriage, and Lacey All, the former campaign chair for the group and current Human Rights Campaign board member, take a turn at raising the flag.
From left: Edie Gillis; her husband, Zach Silk, former campaign manager for Washington United for Marriage; King County Council member Joe McDermott; and Dean Keppler, a member of the Human Rights Campaign's board of governors.
Lacey All, former Washington United for Marriage campaign chair and current HRC's board member, lies on the ground to get the proper perspective.
From front: Zach Silk; Louise Chernin, president and CEO of Greater Seattle Business Association; Amy White, director of regional operations and leadership for the Pride Foundation; Sen. Ed Murray; Lacey All; Seattle city advisor Anne Levinson; Murray's fiancé, Michael Shiosaki, two Space Needle employees, King County executive Dow Constantine; King County Council member Joe McDermott; Seattle City Council member Sally Clark; Seattle mayor Mike McGinn.


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I have been working on a tempeh/seitan sausage in an attempt to make a sausage that is a little more tender and a little less "gluten-y." Sometimes I find that the steamed sausages come out a little tough, or give my stomach a gluten overload. So far, my results have been pretty good, but a little too soft, I think. They taste great and have a good texture right out of the steamer, but they turn to mush if placed in a sauce. I am kind of sausaged out right now, so I will experiment again in a little while.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sausages in the Works
26 comments:
- Carolyn B. said...
It does seem that gluten gives great structure, the few times I've done vegan sausage. And frankly great sausage of any stripe, given that I'm a newcomer to the homemade sausage thing. But I agree that it would be nice to not be so wheat dependent. Perhaps other binders and legumes, not just soy? Thanks for being at the forefront of this adventure, VeganDad!
- January 8, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- susan said...
I think they need a little frying after they come out of the steamer, just to give them a little crispiness.
- January 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM
- Jan Scholl said...
What happens if you cut them up and then grill them to crisp them up? I bought some patties once at Costco that were way too soft so I jacked up the grill temp and "fried" them til crunchy. They were like "meaty" fries then.
- January 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM
- Valerie said...
I've only made sausage once, using dried bean curd sheets. It was really good. It reminded me of mortadella, which I hadn't had since I was in highschool. So, I ate it in sandwiches with mustard and lettuce.
What I'm looking for is a vegan kielbasa. It is the only meat that I think about occasionally, though haven't broken down in 35 years. You wouldn't know if there is a recipe out there somewhere; I've looked, but can't find one.
- January 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- The Wind Attack said...
oooh, I'm excited about this. I have the same problem with seitan... tasty for a bit, but then my stomach has a "blahhh, too much gluten!" feel to it. I look forward to seeing your final recipe!
- January 9, 2009 at 12:49 AM
- DJ Karma (of Vegspinz) said...
Yeah, I used Bryanna Clark Grogan's idea of incorporating some tofu to the mix (pureed and mixed with the wet stuff)with good results. She doesn't steam, but I tried it and it was comparable to her method of slow cooking in the oven with a broth. You just gotta add all the flavor into the mix since it's not soaking up any... it slices and holds up really well, and much more tender than straight gluten!
- January 9, 2009 at 1:33 AM
- Ron said...
I will interested to see how you go with these, Vegan Dad. I have tried doubling the olive oil and cutting back on steaming to try and take the sometimes toughness out without luck.
This week we ate seitan sausages for dinner, then I had a sausage sandwich for lunch next day. Seitan corned beef for dinner and in a sandwich the following day.
I felt I had gluten overload, and, hmmm ... got quite bound up if you know what I mean despite my high fibre intake (perhaps seitan recipes could do with some bran in them, I wonder?).
- January 9, 2009 at 2:57 AM
- borboleta africana...é um peixe said...
Congratulations, you have a great blog...I will try to translate it to portuguese
see you soon
- January 9, 2009 at 4:35 AM
- Summer Fae said...
I can't wait to try them. I made your sausages the other day and was immediately told that I have to make them again real soon.
- January 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Eating Consciously said...
Those ones look really yummy!
- January 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM
- Bianca said...
Those look really good! I admit that a less gluten-y recipe would be great. I love all the steamed sausages I've tried (still haven't tried yours though! but need to soon!), but if you eat too many, it is a gluten overload.
- January 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Claire said...
yeah, the steamed sausages are really, um, gluten-y. sometimes i feel like i ate a loaf of bread after just one. if you want to pass along your basic recipe for your experiment i could try out some stuff, like some flax or maybe some weird flour or xanthan gum or somethin'. or just extra kneading before adding the tempeh in? we don't go back to teaching until the 20th, so we're free.
- January 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- DJ said...
I too find the steamed seitan sausages a little 'gluten-y'. I love tofu, I like tempeh, but I have a hard time enjoying all-seitan recipes. When you get back to it, this could be a palatable midpoint!
- January 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM
- Kate said...
This sounds like an excellent endeavor. I'll be watching with interest :)
- January 9, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- speedwell said...
Have you tried working with ground fresh flaxseed as a binder? Powder the seeds very finely to avoid a harsh, bran-like texture in the food.
You may also want to look into glucomannan, which is a strong-binding fiber that you can use like a starch, but in smaller amounts.
I've also used agar recently in a recipe; in the right proportion it might give you some of the light but cohesive properties you're looking for. You have to melt it in simmering water to use it. It is cheap if you look for it the right way. Go to a grocery that supports the Asian community and find a package that looks like a pair of lightweight, clear square bars about the length and width of a ruler. It might also be labeled "gulaman" as it is called in the Philippines.
- January 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Emily said...
What about using Neatball recipe idea to help out.
- January 10, 2009 at 6:05 PM
- TKB said...
Hey; have you tried messing around with xanthan gum (or any of the other vegetable gums)? I can buy it here (Australia) in health food stores; they sell it as a gluten substitute. I don't see why it wouldn't hold the sausage together a bit more.
- January 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Ron said...
Jan and others,
I've found you have to be very careful grilling or frying seitan things as, just like bread, they burn VERY easily.
I use the lowest heat settings and keep a very close eye on them.
- January 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM
- Jeni Treehugger said...
I know what you mean about giving your stomach a gluten overload - I have the same after effect. I'll be looking forward to your less gluten-y sausages.
- January 11, 2009 at 6:50 AM
- Courtney said...
Yay for a sausage that is less gluten-y! I cannot wait for the recipe...not only is gluten really expensive, but it also messes up my stomach, even though I love it :o)
- January 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- avegancalledbacon said...
I'm in the middle of an experiment binge, too. I tried various different proportions of oil, minute tapioca, and water, all using the steaming method. I found that the amount of oil doesn't make a difference. The tapioca adds interest to the texture but doesn't open it out.
In my last batch, the best texture was gluten + apple chunks + applesauce. The apple kept it really moist and open. But you've got to like the taste of apple sausages!
- January 13, 2009 at 5:22 AM
- zerbert said...
Glad to know I'm not the only one who can't eat too many gluten sausages without feeling sorry afterwards! I, too, am looking forward to you new sausage recipe :)
- January 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- WhiskeyMind said...
Arrowroot is a gluten substitute? Why can't that work in seitan?
I cut the vital wheat gluten back to 2 cups, instead of 2 3/4 in the setian roll recipe. I also added 1/4 chopped pitted Calamatta olives (which added more moisture) and about 1/8 cup of bean "juice" to the 2 cups water.
It was wet to roll and just barely holding together, but man did it come out moist and nice.
I was freaking out, it was so good...sitting in the kitchen at 9:00 PM eating it fresh out of the oven and grinning like an idiot.
- January 16, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- Joi Bostic, Your Source for Information said...
I experimented and made a wonderful breakfast sausage. I posted the recipe on www.JoiBostic.net. It's sure to make your taste buds sing.
- January 26, 2011 at 3:10 PM
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- March 5, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Audrey said...
Were you able to redo this recipe?
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7 Oct 2011 10:46 PM #1
Answered: Search inside extjs tree store
I have a text field in my tree toolbar that should take a string from a user then search that through a specific column of tree. I use store filter but there is a problem in my code and I dont know what it is. thanks for help. This is my code:
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var searchStr= Ext.getCmp('searchField').getValue();
var tree = Ext.getCmp('infra_tree');
var tstore = tree.getStore();
var searchReg = new RegExp(searchStr, 'g');
tstore.filter({property:"ipadd", value:searchStr});
}else {
title: 'Nothing to search',
msg: 'Search string is empty',
icon : 'ext-mb-info',
buttons: Ext.MessageBox.OK
TreeStore has no 'filter' method, you'll need to use cascadeBy(fn) on the root node for now.
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BRADFORD, Pa. - Patricia Demjan can't say for sure how many pieces of vintage costume jewelry she's bought over the years. She just knows her collection, which numbers in the hundreds, has a retail value of more than $10,000 and is the creative force behind her online storefront, myjewellust.com.
"They say you should follow your passion, so that's what I did," said Demjan, a Steubenville native who launched the virtual storefront in December. The daughter of Bill and Priscilla Demjan and a 1976 graduate of Steubenville High School, she said she's been hooked on vintage jewelry since she was a child "looking into my grandmother's jewelry box and seeing all the glittery gems in there."
"She didn't have many pieces, but what she had was good stuff," Demjan said. "She bought the finest."
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DEMJAN COLLECTION — Steubenville native Patricia Demjan shows off vintage costume jewelry from her collection. Now living in Bradford, Pa., she's been collecting quality costume jewelry for the past two decades. She's selling some of those pieces now from her new online store, myjewellust.com.
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Demjan defines vintage as "pre-1980s," though just because a piece is old doesn't necessarily make it irresistible. Demjan said she looks for high quality pieces. "in pretty much perfect condition." with plenty of bling appeal.
"Of course, I like to buy from people who don't know its value, at garage sales and Goodwill stores," she admits. "And I got many of my most valuable pieces from my cousin - my aunt was a society lady in Pittsburgh, she and my uncle had a box at the opera and everything. She really liked to dress up. When she died, my cousin gave her jewelry to me to sell. That's where I got many of my most beautiful and rare and pricey pieces. I have a bracelet of hers that I have never seen for sale on the Internet. ... I recognized it when I saw it, it was featured in a famous Trifari ad. It was made by an artisan whose work is rather rare - he was proud of his craft and ended his relationship with Trifari because he couldn't crank them out at the rate the company wanted him to."
She's also had some great finds at antique stores and flea markets, "because I know the value of the pieces."
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-- To shop from Patricia Demjan's vintage jewelry collection, visit myjewelllust.com.
"The bigger and weirder the better," she adds. "Something ghastly, like a big spider or snake, is golden - there's definitely going to be a buyer for that."
She said a good costume piece can be worth as much, or more, than "the real thing."
"You always hear people say this ring is 14K gold - heck, I have a necklace worth $500 and it's not even made from gold," she said. "If you tried to sell that ring, you couldn't get that much, except for the gold."
Condition is everything with vintage pieces, she said, "but that's the beauty of quality costume jewelry - it was made of such fine materials and with such care, if you store it properly it lasts forever. A little known fact is that many of the pieces made after World War II had a shiny silver-colored finish - rhodium - and one of the reasons it lasts ... is because it contains platinum."
Sparkly rhinestones are always en vogue, but the key is to "make sure they're all there and it has lots of bling. Sometimes the 'bling' doesn't show up until you take it home and clean it up, but bling definitely sells."
Demjan said she'd originally started out selling antiques, "but I realized I couldn't know about everything. I found my niche when I really got into jewelry."
"It's my passion and it's my business," she adds. "I still have my day job, though."
That day job is as a guidance counselor at a high school in Bradford, Pa., where she's lived since graduating from Duquesne University with a master's degree in clinical psychology 27 years ago.
"I came here and I liked it," she said. "It's just like Mayberry. In some ways it still is - everybody knows everybody else, and if you see somebody walking down the street you can pick them out. You just know (they're strangers). It's really a little pocket of peace, that's a good way to describe it."
She'd earned undergraduate degrees in English and French from Ohio University at Athens, where she also studied art history.
"That doesn't hurt in this business - in art history, you learn to recognize styles of painting and sculpture from different eras. It's the same with jewelry."
And before opening her online store she sold on eBay, though she wasn't happy with the results. "People go to eBay when they're looking for bargains," she said. "I wanted the independence and I wanted to set my own prices."
She said she doesn't mind selling items from her collection, "because I've just amassed so much that I can't possibly wear it all."
"I usually only wear the stuff I get very cheap," she adds. "If I pay more for it, I'm going to sell it. I'd rather pass it on to somebody else who can really use it and love it."
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Anyone who's danced the airport waltz is probably familiar with random delays, overpriced everything, and security precautions that flirt with idiotic excess. The only thing that could make this ordeal any more infuriating is if the people working at the airport conspire like some fraternal order of travel trolls to worsen everyone's experience with all kinds of juvenile stunts and stupid behaviors.
SPOILER ALERT: This totally happens all the time.
#6. Airport Body Scanners Have Been Used to Rate (and Berate) Your Junk
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The advent of airport body scanners, broadly manufactured by the appropriately (albeit disturbingly) named Rapiscan Systems, has forced passengers and lawmakers alike to question the use of Superman vision to inspect people's junk for terrorist plots. But the TSA has long maintained the necessity of this creepily intrusive technology in the war on underwear bombs. Besides, it would be handled by only the most mature and highly trained individuals, right? Otherwise body scanners would render security screenings little more than an irradiated striptease for every puerile jackass with a voyeuristic streak.
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Not your grandpa's porn. But possibly your grandma.
Former TSA screener Rolando Negrin would probably beg to differ. While undergoing body scanner training at a Miami facility, his co-workers noticed on the screen that Negrin was packing a petite pecker. Naturally, Negrin's colleagues hounded him about this for months, withering his penis to an insecure husk and demonstrating the stalwart professionalism with which every airport patron is likely treated. Negrin, ill-equipped to dick-whip his assailants into contrition, cornered one of his co-workers in the airport parking lot, whipped out an extendable police baton, and proceeded to beat an apology out of his harasser. In doing so, he landed himself a stint in jail and guaranteed that any person confronting the probing eyes and hands of airport security would be examined in a dignified manner.
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"This way, sir. My finger will be with you shortly."
Or not. According to ex-TSA agent Jason Harrington (and every fiber of common sense in your exposed body), body scanners are much more effective for mercilessly ridiculing passengers from behind closed doors than they are for spotting terrorists. Plastic explosives were apparently indistinguishable from fat rolls, leaving screeners with little more to do than make a sport out of laughing at overweight passengers and guessing the sex of ambiguously shaped bodies passing through scans. And when they aren't laughing their asses off at man boobs and crotchular irregularities, screeners racially profile your genitals in the name of ... national security, or, as Harrington explained, "All the old, crass stereotypes about race and genitalia size thrived on our secure government radio channels." Which makes us feel markedly insecure. In our pants.
But all of that has changed, at least in theory. As of 2013, the practice of using passengers like X-rated Rorschach tests came to a long-desired end as the naked scan gave way to L-3 scanning technology, which produces cartoon-like renderings of bodies being scanned. And we have no reason not to believe them when they say this -- if we can't trust the TSA, who can we trust?
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The CI- nope. The AT- nope. The IR- nope.
#5. Baggage Hijinks and Wholesale Theft Happen More Often Than You Think
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One of the more harrowing aspects of air travel, aside from unforgivably subpar food and the prospect of falling out of the damned sky, is luggage checks. Anything could be going on while a passenger isn't looking. And it turns out that secretly screwing with your stuff is par for the course. But for lawyer and Internet writer Jill Filipovic, that secret was crudely revealed when her checked bag was randomly selected for a TSA screening. The inspecting agent apparently uncovered the vibrator in Filipovic's bag and decided to offer words of encouragement:
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"Also, you'll probably want to wash that now."
If you can't read the photo, a disturbingly unsubtle note was written on a TSA slip and inserted in Filipovic's luggage: "Get your freak on, girl." Despite what the TSA agent must have seen as a bonding moment between joker and punchline, Filipovic didn't like knowing that the stranger paid to wade ear-deep through her panties probably imagined her in the throes of mechanized self-love and felt the need to share their reaction. On the bright side, at least the message was privately relayed, and the agent responsible was quickly dispatched like a gangrenous testicle. The same can't be said about the unknown baggage handlers who left a rather indiscreet message for a passenger retrieving his suitcase after a delayed flight:
Sleepysaurus Rex via Sydney Morning Herald
"Well, Samsonite, I'm surprised, but you're my suitcase and I love you no matter what."
But some commit far greater trespasses in the form of blatant thievery. While it probably comes as no surprise that people left alone with valuable objects occasionally succumb to the five-finger itch, some elevate that shit to crazy heights, like the TSA agent convicted of snagging $800,000 worth of items from travelers' bags. There's also the baggage handler who was caught on film adding to the $84,000 stash of stolen guns, jewelry, and watches he amassed over eight months. So it's not like it's easy to get away with it or anything.
#4. Southwest Airlines Traumatized an Employee With a Fake Arrest
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With all the stress of preparing to cram yourself and your loved ones into a flying sardine can, it's probably easy to forget how hard some of the airport employees have it. For example, if you work the ticket desk, your job is to keep a serene face as every breed of ill temper and halitosis invade your space and slide you passports with booger-tainted hands. It gets even worse if your employer's idea of a good time involves handcuffs and manhandling.
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But at least you'd have an excuse to wear your gimp suit on Casual Friday.
This was the awkward predicament Southwest Airlines employee Marcie Fuerschbach found herself in after completing her training to work at the ticket counter. A company known for a jovial, quirky atmosphere, Southwest apparently also specialized in elaborate pranks, like having its employees arrested in the middle of work.
With the aid of two real police officers, Fuerschbach was unceremoniously interrupted in front of all of her co-workers and the customers in line and dragged off in handcuffs after her badge and other belongings were confiscated. The charge? A crime that had allegedly been uncovered during her background check. This was all a shock for the mortified Fuerschbach, who began to weep uncontrollably, if not from fear or humiliation, then due to the physical pain of being forced into handcuffs.
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"Oh, sorry, we'll stop now ... I mean I kinda spent a lot of time setting up a whole mock execution thing, but it's fine ..."
Before Fuerschbach completely morphed into a giant ulcer, she was let in on the joke with a chorus of congratulations and clapping. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to dry her tears, which gushed so profusely that she had to be let off work early, only to return the next day and begin crying all over again. In the end, she was so overwhelmed by the impromptu initiation ceremony that the only way she could adequately express her gratitude was a lawsuit.
Unfortunately for her, the court ruled that Southwest was not liable for any damages (she would have had to go after the cops who did the arresting), and at most she was permitted to seek worker's compensation for injuries suffered. The lesson? The legal system is mostly OK with pulling pranks at airports that involve armed men. So go try it!*
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*Do not do this. You will be killed.
And speaking of terrifyingly ill-conceived airport fuckery ...


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Hopefully this is a simple question! Is the nn5 compatible with a Canon 5d mark2?
Having saved all my pennies last year, I am now the proud owner of a Canon 5d mark 2.
I thought it would be simple, oh no! First of all my copy of Photoshop CS3 would not open the raw files, so I had to upgrade to CS4. I have just put my 8mm sigma on and mounted it to my nn3 and it is impossible to take the zenith shot, it does not physically fit!
I suppose I should of thought a bit more really (LOL) Would a NN5 be better for this for this camera set up?


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How can the prohibition on murder be reconciled with capital punishment in the Torah, i.e., mitath beth din? I understand that the death penalty was effectively abolished by the Sanhedrin in 30 CE. However, before that change was made, how could the administration of capital punishment be reconciled with the prohibition against murder? Was the argument that execution of a guilty person was not considered "murder"?
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How can the prohibition against murder be reconciled with capital punishment in the Torah (mitath beth din)?
Judicial execution is not the same as murder. The same torah that says "do not murder" also calls for the death penalty for certain transgressions, so there must be a difference.
Tractate Sanhedrin discusses capital punishment in a fair bit of detail. There are strict rules, but nonetheless a death sentence is possible and does not violate lo tirtzach.


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