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Crime snapshot: How is Dana Point doing?
Dana Point may be on track to have its lowest overall crime rate in six years, according to mid-year numbers from the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Numbers for the first six months of 2013 show that overall crime is down 4 percent from 2012 – with an average of 1.67 crimes reported per day. This is the lowest rate since 2007, when an average of 1.64 crimes per day was reported.
Although the change appears small, it's better to look at the overall rate than the change of individual categories given the small numbers Dana Point reports, Lt. Lynn Koehmstedt, chief of Dana Point Police Services, said.
The city's highest spike in reported crimes came in 2009, when the average hit 1.97 per day, according to Sheriff's Department numbers. Koehmstedt said that was the year they identified that thefts were going through the roof.
So the city implemented the "Hide it, Lock it, or Lose it" program in September 2009 to educate residents on the importance of locking their cars and hiding valuable items, he said.
"We're a safe community, but most of our crimes are crimes of opportunity," Koehmstedt said.
Unlocked cars or unattended items at beaches present the perfect opportunity for crime, he said.
But while overall crime is on a downward trend in Dana Point, there is one category of violent crime on track to be the highest number of reports in a decade.
Mid-year reports of assault are double what they were in June 2012. So far, there have been 28 reported assaults and if the trend continues the rest of the year, this could be the largest number of reported assaults since 2003, when there were 65 reported assaults.
Koehmstedt said it's something Police Services is continuing to monitor, but the department is unable to identify a trend in the assaults that might enable it to mitigate the rise. He said the assaults are not linked to any bars or particular areas in the city and the cases have been haphazard – from transient assaults to juveniles hitting each other with skateboards.
"If we could identify a trend we could have a response," Koehmstedt said. A majority of the reported assaults are with fists rather than a weapon, the Sheriff's Department reported.
So far, mid-year numbers on other violent crimes remain short of their 2012 counterparts. There have been two reported rapes and four reported robberies.
Both crimes had an unusually low dip in reports in 2011 – zero and five, respectively. The numbers rose in 2012, with five reported rapes and 13 reported burglaries – both of which are much closer to the average reports in each category over the past decade. Homicide and non-negligent manslaughter have remained at zero since 2005.
Violent crime makes up the minority of crimes reported in the city each year and made up about 10 percent of reported crimes in 2012. The majority of Dana Point's crime is related to property, particularly theft.
Overall property crime was down in Dana Point for 2012. The city had a smaller increase in burglaries and thefts than in neighboring cities such as Laguna Niguel and Aliso Viejo.
While cities such as Laguna Niguel – whose burglaries jumped 60 percent in 2012 – saw a sharp increase in burglaries and thefts last year, Dana Point saw a 27.7 percent increase in burglaries and had a 9.2 percent decrease in thefts.
While Dana Point has its fair share of burglaries, Koehmstedt said the key is to keep thefts low since that is consistently the highest category of reported crime in the city. Koehmstedt said he is pleased with the mid-year reports for 2013, which are down 15.7 percent.
"We just attribute (the decrease) to reminding people to 'Hide it, Lock it or Lose it,'" he said. "If we keep our larceny down, it balances everything out."
Koehmstedt said reports of thefts at the beaches this summer are down as well, which is a good sign. While mid-year reports for burglaries are up 15 percent compared with last year, Koehmstedt said he is hopeful the recent arrest of four repeat burglars will keep the numbers down. Last month, Police Services arrested two men suspected in association with several burglaries in the city and a couple accused of at least two burglaries.
Dana Point also was hit several times by a small group responsible for burglaries across Orange County, Koehmstedt said. However, Fullerton residents Michael Guerrero, 22, and Justin Eatenton, 25, whom investigators said were connected to the group, were arrested last year.
Those arrests may help relieve the burglary reports in Dana Point, he said.
Koehmstedt said that Police Services is proactive in handling the crime reported in the area, but there is still room for improvement.
"We're very happy with where we're at," he said. "But I think we'd like to be down 8 to 10 percent by year's end."
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Lothenbach Stable's homebred multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Mister Marti Gras has been retired from racing and is ready to start his second career, trainer Chris Block said.
Lothenbach Stable's homebred multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Mister Marti Gras has been retired from racing and is ready to start his second career, trainer Chris Block said.
W. S. Farish's homebred Eagle broke through for his first graded stakes win April 16 and kept an unbeaten record at Keeneland intact in the $200,000 Ben Ali Stakes (gr. III).
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Frac Daddy, a front-running winner of the Eclipse Stakes (Can-II) at Woodbine and Ben Ali Stakes (gr. III) at Keeneland, will stand the 2016 season at Park Stud in Ontario, Canada, for a Can$4,000 fee.
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Nine older horses square off in the one-mile $100,000 Hanshin Cup over Arlington's Polytrack in a wide-open affair
Last-out stakes winners The Pizza Man, Dramedy, and Xtra Luck will seek to continue their successful ways at the marathon distance of 1 1/2 miles at Arlington International Racecourse.
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After being eased during his seasonal debut in the Donn Handicap (gr. I) Feb. 7 at Gulfstream Park, Protonico bounced back with an easy victory in the $150,000 Ben Ali Stakes (gr. III) Saturday, April 11 at Keeneland.
Protonico, winner of the Discovery Handicap (gr. III) and runner-up in the Clark Handicap (gr. I) to close 2014, will carry top weight of 120 pounds in a field of six entered for the April 11 Ben Ali (gr. III) at Keeneland.
Twin Creeks Racing Stable's Red Rifle delivered the latest in a line of satisfying stakes scores for jockey Florent Geroux Nov. 29, winning the $250,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (gr. II).
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Mister Marti Gras, winner of the 2011 edition of the Washington Park Handicap (gr. III), makes his fourth consecutive start in the $150,000 race Aug. 30 on the Polytrack at Arlington International Racecourse.
Homebred Nikki's Sandcastle made a strong run on the final turn of the $150,000 Hanshin Cup Stakes (gr. III), and that move carried him to a determined victory May 24 at Arlington Park.
William Stiriz's 5-year-old gelding Hogy will have his work cut out for him when he attempts to defend his title in the Hanshin Cup (gr. III) at Arlington Park against 13 capable challengers.
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Magic City Thoroughbred Partners' Frac Daddy returned to Keeneland and returned to winning ways April 19, taking the $150,000 Ben Ali Stakes (gr. III) at the Lexington oval.
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Grade II winner Exhi and Irish group victor Nephrite have been added to the stallion roster of Park Stud in Orangeville, Ontario, owners Michael and Laurel Byrne announced Nov. 30.
New York shipper Last Gunfighter earned his fourth graded stakes win of the year, closing to get the job done in the $350,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (gr. II) at Hawthorne Racecourse Nov. 30.
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Two special awards were presented to employees who exceed in the workplace: The Leadership Excellence Award and the Employee of the Year. The Leadership Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance by a leader who is a member of the management staff. Vicki Record, was the recipient for 2010. Record, director of Education and Dean of the College of Nursing was recognized for her exceptional leadership, expertise and commitment to improve educational opportunities for Finger Lakes Health employees and members of the community we serve, and expanding nursing education in the Finger Lakes region. This is the fourth year the Leadership Excellence Award has been presented.
The Employee of the Year for 2010 was unveiled at the end of the evening, honoring Michelle Gigliotti for her service at Geneva General Hospital. Gigliotti, coordinator in Scheduling Services, was recognized for her 25 years of service, dedication and commitment to improving processes and enhancing efficiency, quality, and the customer experience.
This is the ninth year the coveted Employee of the Year award has been presented, part of the Distinguished Values Award Program at Finger Lakes Health. Each quarter, employees from each site at Finger Lakes Health (Geneva, Waterloo and Penn Yan) are recognized. The Employee of the Year is chosen from these outstanding individuals. The program recognizes those employees who consistently demonstrate organizational values and whose performance clearly exceeds the requirements of their positions.
Both award recipients received a framed recognition certificate, their portrait on the wall of the facility, a cash award and a parking space for one year.
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NEW YORK — The city is making a push to court Mexican travelers as part of a growing effort to lure Latin American visitors, officials announced Tuesday.
After the estimated number of Mexicans visiting the city nearly doubled in six years, tourism arm NYC & Co. is ramping up its presence in Mexico City, part of its series of far-flung tourism offices.
"We want to be visible and make sure we're top of mind" to Mexican travelers, NYC & Co. chief executive George Fertitta said.
The agency has had a consultant in the Mexican capital, but it now has a fuller office, run by Connect Worldwide, a travel-marketing company.
Fertitta said the agency was "investing millions of dollars in marketing and advertising assets" in the project. But that doesn't mean cash. Rather, it includes such items as arranging to trade outdoor advertising with other cities; NYC & Co. has the ability to place ads on some bus stations and street poles.
The new office doesn't cater to travelers themselves. Instead, it's meant to help forge closer relationships with Mexican tour operators, travel media, airlines and others who steer where tourists go — "to be able to have day-to-day contact," Fertitta said.
An estimated 376,000 Mexican travelers took in New York last year, up from 192,000 in 2005. While they represented a small piece of the nearly 51 million tourists last year, by NYC & Co.'s calculations, the agency is putting increasing focus on South and Central America.
NYC & Co. has opened some 18 offices in countries ranging from Australia to China to Sweden in roughly the last decade. A Brazil office opened in Sao Paulo in 2007.
The number of Brazilian tourists in New York has shot up since, from an estimated 151,000 in 2006 to 718,000 last year, NYC & Co. says.
The nonprofit NYC & Co. gets about 40 percent of its $35 million-a-year operating budget from the city government; the rest comes from airlines, hotels, restaurants and other businesses. Fertitta declined to specify how much the agency was spending on the Mexico City office.
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ordered mine today, took advantage of their 2 day 20% off one item sale! cant beat that
I just called Nashbar to ask for the standover on the 58. They said it was about 82cm. My Fuji CC is about the same and I'm 6'1 with a 32" inseam.
Just dropped the hammer. $653 shipped. 20% off coupon code action. I'm going to try and not back over this one with my truck. No decals = Laughing Skull Head Tube Sticker.
I've got to say, $653 would be a good price just for the basic components. If I were in the market for a 105 groupset, I'd be ordering this bike.
how the heck did you get your for 653 shipped? i had to pay tax and $13 oversize shipping
Foo, I guess they charge for some states and not other. Guess I got lucky here in New York. I found a thread with what seems like some insight into the issue:
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/in.../t-504464.html Still worth it. . . Even with taxes. I hate taxes. And I had to pay the $13 shipping as well. |
If there's a warehouse or retail store in your state, you get to pay tax. Good times! And shipping, well, you have to expect to pay that. $13 is a great price for shipping a bike if you ask me. Time to go ride!
Yes dammit wish I could get out there immediately. Ordered late Friday so she pry won't ship until Monday. . . Oh well.
yah i dont mind the 13 freight considering it was listed as 43lbs *YIKES* it's the damn tax ;)
Mine arrived yesterday, some pretty fast shipping I'd say! At LBS now getting properly tweaked.
mine's on the fedex truck out for delivery...exciting times.
I have a set of DT Swiss Tricon 1450 wheelset need to convert my freehub from campy to shimano so i can run this wheel on the bike, in an effort to reduce the rolling weight :) |
Got the bike getting it setup, this canto brake thing is driving me nuts. Need to learn to adjust this. Only one side is pulling in it seems
So, even with the LBS fine tuning it comes in at an excellent value. Cool.
rear wheel with cassette, dork disc, tire/tube & reflector 6.16lbs
DT Swiss Tricon 1450 with cassette, tire/tube 4.76lbs Bike weighs in now at 23.50lbs definitely not a light mountain climber ;) |
the set screw will give you some, but there should be 3 holes on the canti mount on the frame. The end of the spring will go into one of them, but often if you move it to one of the others (either down for the side that's too strong or up for the side that's too weak) you can get a lot of gross adjustments taken care of and then you can do the finer stuff with the centering screw.
thanks himespau, it's been a while since i played with this kind of brakes.
Barrettscv: now wouldnt this be funny if i can hang w/ my saturday morning road crew and be able to pass people on road climbs :) |
Yeah, I do believe it is an excellent value, even with the LBS tweaks. I will be excited to get some miles on her and see how she feels. Doing a short cancer ride tomorrow (Tour de BBQ in KC) with my young nephew. Will put her through some serious paces on Sunday. Good luck with your set up, Foo.
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Some Common Sense About Peace BY MARTY PERETZ Monday, May 12, 2008
Abdurrahman Wahid is the former president of Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world. He has written an article with Abdul A'la, associate dean of graduate studies at Sunan Ampel Islamic State University at Surabaya. I admit it: I saw these two names and the headline, "The Obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian Peace," over their op-ed essay and wondered what it was doing in the staunchly pro-Zionist Wall Street Journal.
Then I realized that I had seen Wahid's name before, and that he was a Muslim heretic about the widely entrenched dogma in the Muslim world around Israel. The piece is clear, strong and complex. He knows that there are forces in the Jewish state that are quite averse to a dignified settlement of the hundred-year conflict, and their position has been reinforced by the hatred they see coming from the Arab world.
But Wahid and A'la are not speaking to the Jewish world. They are speaking as Muslims to the Muslim world. "These prejudices contaminate public discourse throughout the world, and are constantly exploited by Middle Eastern regimes that fuel anti-Israel and anti-Semitic emotions for political purposes, while displaying little or no actual concern for the well-being of the Palestinians themselves."
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A recent study done by the US Center for Disease Control found that people of color were more likely to be diagnosed with skin cancer at later and more fatal stages of the disease and had lower survival rates than their lighter skinned sisters. With more than one million new skin cancer cases being diagnosed every year, this is clearly info that Latinas can not ignore!
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Wrangell - St. Elias National Park: Iceberg Lake Backpacking Trip
This backpacking trip is the consummate Alaskan adventure, impressive vistas at every turn and mile after mile of open, pristine wilderness. We fly in from McCarthy, Alaska, landing on the edge of Iceberg Lake, on southern range of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Our guides spend a few days exploring the area, discovering the geological wonders that have created this fascinating region. Watch as chunks of the glacier calve into the lake,the ice floes groaning and creaking as they shift and turn across the water.
Backpacking through some magnificent country, we cross the Tana Lobe of the Bremner Glacier, traversing rugged but remote passes, where we can encounter black bear, grizzlies, caribou, mountain goats, Dall sheep, and a host of other smaller birds and mammals. Cool clear alpine lakes, fresh rushing streams and snow capped peaks sparkle in the Alaskan sun.
Well-suited for the intermediate to experienced backpacker, our adventure involves some moderate to strenuous hiking, as well as bushwhacking through alder and willow, but rewards the hiker with a truly incredible experience. This is wild Alaska, and one of the least traversed hikes in the park, a trek through here is as primordial as it ever was. My experience here can help make this trip an adventure you'll remember for a lifetime.
Backpacking Trip Options
This trip has 3 options, all of which offer very different experiences. One trip option is a 10 day trip (8 in the backcountry, 2 days travel to and from McCarthy) from Iceberg Lake to a remote alpine valley near the Tana River. The most common route is a longer but slightly more strenuous option, heading west and backpacking to a landing strip near Bremner Mines (see the Bremner Mines Trip). A 3rd option is a basecamp and exploration of the immediate area around Iceberg Lake, which we offer as a 7 day trip (5 days in the backcountry). Contact Expeditions Alaska to discuss which option might be best for you and your group.
The route from Iceberg Lake to either Bremner Mines or Allie's Valley is an Alaskan gem; we cross 2 glaciers, which is always an adventure. On the glaciers we'll see moulins and crevasses, but take care to not get too close. It's quite a treat to experience ice like this.
The Seven Pass Route
The Iceberg Lake - Bremner route is commonly miscalled the Seven Pass Route; the hike actually crosses 3 passes. It's one of those local names that somehow stuck. Trust me, by the time you climb up over the final pass, you'll be glad it's only 3. if you hit 7 passes on this route, you headed the wrong way. It's quite a slog going up these mountains, but the views and feeling you get up there more than make up for the effort you put in.
It would be remiss of me to not mention the campsites along this route - superb! We camp in some of the prettiest spots in the park, if not Alaska. Alpine lakes, crystal clear mountain streams and magnificent mountain passes with stunning views all around make this trip a favorite.
We travel from Anchorage to McCarthy, overnight in McCarthy and then fly in to the backcountry. A week in the Skolai Pass area and we fly back to McCarthy, show and eat, and then enjoy the afternoon relaxing in the slow-paced rustic town of McCarthy, or venture up to Kennicott and look at the historic copper mine Mill buildings and leftovers of this ghost town. We spend the night in McCarthy, and travel back to Anchorage on the final day.
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A couple of would-be vanquishers of Earth opt instead to play bluegrass in a Brooklyn bar in the sweetly wacky caper "The History of Future Folk."
Building a decidedly low-fi origin story around a real-life musical duo, the movie could have made its points — war is bad; music is the universal language — in half the time. But the harmonies are sweet, the acoustic picking impressive.
And if the matter of Planet Hondo's fate is more a thinly veiled showcase for the two-man band than an involving story, J. Anderson Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker's ultra-low-budget sci-fi comedy delivers a few intergalactic laughs with down-to-earth warmth.
New York dad Bill (Nils d'Aulaire) has kept his true, Hondonian identity a secret from his wife (Julie Ann Emery), turning it into a bedtime story for their young daughter (Onata Aprile, of "What Maisie Knew"). He still aims to find a new home for the people of his doomed planet, but having discovered this earthly thing called music, Bill has forsaken the destruction-of-earthlings part of the mission and taken up the banjo.
Flesh-eating viruses just don't make sense when you're building a fan base.
At a friendly neighborhood dive run by Larry (Dee Snider, naturally), Bill and fellow Hondonian Kevin (Jay Klaitz) develop an ardent following of hipsters. The stage patter that the New Yorkers consider finely tuned comedy is just straight talking, Hondo-style. It's a charming confluence of earnest delivery and irony-steeped interpretation, and the movie could have used more of it — and less of the goofy nods to Darth Vader.
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Firefox 2.0 changes small but significant
A beta version of Firefox 2.0, the open source browser taking the Internet by storm, was released late last week and it is fast becoming my preferred browser. Here I'll look at just a few of the changes and new features that really make this browser work for me.
At first glance there is little to mark Firefox 2.0 from its predecessor. The icons are the same and the similarity of layout makes it hard to tell the two apart. The only immediate sign of change is the inclusion of a "History" item in the top menu bar. The History menu item hides the first great feature of Firefox 2.0: How often have you closed a tab in your browser and just as it disappears off screen you realise that you closed the wrong one? We all do it, but if you're using Firefox 2.0 click on History which has a record of your most recently closed tabs and then tell Firefox to re-instate the closed tab. A much neater option than opening up your history and trying to work out what you just closed.
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discussion forum. The forum is no longer active but much discussion took place on these pages so an archive has been preserved.I'm glad to see this forum!
Here's my recent thinking:
People seem to get frozen in indecision when contemplating big serious changes to the current journal system. The consequences are too huge. So, I'm thinking we could hasten the evolution of good ideas by doing something quick, easy and fun. Something that's not too painful to set up. And something that we use because we enjoy it, not because it's good for us.
I'm imagining something like this:
A system linked to the arXiv, which looks a lot like the arXiv: one page per paper. If you click to download the paper you get sent to the arXiv. But you can also comment on the paper, and/or give a simple 'rating', on a scale from 1 to 5. When you first join the system, you could say whether you want your ratings to be visible to everyone, or only contribute to an average rating.
Next to every paper you could see how many people have clicked to download it, its average rating, and a link to the discussion thread.
In a further refinement, this could all be combined with a reputation system, so that people could gradually develop fancier and fancier algorithms to decide which papers are 'good'.
BUT: the short-term goal is not to provide a system for ranking job candidates or carrying out official peer review - merely to provide a fun place to talk about papers and help decide what we might like to read.
I think this "lowered ambition" will make it easier for people, especially youngsters, to explore new ways of doing things.
Unfortunately I don't have the skill or desire to do the programming. But I'm imagining that perhaps it's not too hard to start a system vaguely like the one I describe.
Ideally what would happen is that people would enjoy the system but dislike certain aspects of it - and then people would improve it, or create competitors. After a certain point, people would start taking one of these systems seriously enough to base hiring or tenure decisions on it, in the same way that they use journals now. But not right away.
Incidentally, the quickest and easiest thing to do is to encourage every mathematician to post all their new papers to the arxiv. Even though there are about 100 new math papers a day being put on arXiv, that's still probably less than half of all published papers.
For commenting and "voting" there is also papercritic.com. This is a young and active project coming out of programming competition from Mendely and PLoS. They might be inclined to add a paper-view. Also, Mendeley has data on how many papers have been read, annotated, shared etc. This data is available through an API.
Generally speaking, encourage people to make their reviews public! After all, we all do it when we read papers.
Tell people to sign up at wordpress.com, with a pseudonym if they like, and start writing.
Tell them to sign up at researchblogging.org and cross-post reviews of arXiv papers.
I would like to politely disagree with the If you build it, they will come-attitude. Without a culture of making multiple reviews public, I don't think a platform will work (e.g. even Nature failed at that).
If most people don't like the idea of numerical ratings, we should skip that, or modify it. All I care about is that lots of people start using an arXiv overlay website to discuss papers.
The first version will inevitably be imperfect; people will complain about it, but if a lot of people use, it they'll keep trying to improve it, or set up better systems.
I mentioned the idea of ratings merely because most forums that become extremely popular have some feature like this:
Facebook lets you 'like' something
Google+ lets you '+1' something
Amazon lets you rate items from 1 to 5
Netflix lets you give movies from 1 to 5 stars
MathOverflow lets you click 'up' or 'down' on questions and answers to those.
and so on. In some of these systems you can see who liked or disliked a given item; in others that information is hidden. Perhaps, for obvious reasons, it's hidden in all systems where people can say they disliked something (instead of merely not saying they liked it).
People love to complain about these systems, and of course they're open to abuse, but they're still useful, and they seem to really engage people. That's why I suggested introducing one.
Of course, none of these systems are attempting to be a substitute for 'peer review',… and that's the exactly the point! I'm not proposing a system that's supposed to substitute for peer review. It's only supposed to help you find papers you might like, and see what other people have to say about those papers.
This lowered goal will make it easier for people to start such a website without becoming paralyzed with worry. However, if people feel inclined to become paralyzed with worry over a particular issue, even despite this lowered goal, we should sidestep that issue.
It's been pointed out that an arXiv overlay website for discussing papers already existed for papers on quant-ph. It was developed by David Bacon. People in the quantum information community enjoyed it a lot: they would go there instead of the arXiv to see the new papers and see which ones people liked. (I believe this system merely allowed you to 'like' a paper, a bit like Google+ or Facebook.) Unfortunately David Bacon got a job at Google and became too busy to maintain the system, so it no longer exists. However, as noted here, people are now trying to revive it - thanks to the Elsevier boycott! And I know there are people with ideas on how to expand it to the whole arXiv.
I know Yossi Farjoun put some thought into something very much like this a while back. I've pinged him, hoping he'll drop in here.
I fear that "build it and they will come" is wildly naive! Instead, projects like this must be useful at the point of use.
Happily, I think there is definitely a way to achieve this in the current context. Most mathematicians receive a daily email from the arXiv listing new papers in chosen subject areas. If you're at all like me, you want to subscribe to more than one area, but many (most? nearly all?) of the individual papers aren't of much interest.
My life would be noticeably better if some pre-filtering or sorting could be done! I'd love to have that email try to cluster papers by tighter topic areas than just the arxiv subject areas, and then only show me my preferred clusters. I'd love to have my attention automatically drawn to papers my friends liked! Indeed, I'd be happy just to have a list of every paper Noah glances at, just to be reminded of what a terrible reader-of-papers I am. :-)
It sounds like David Bacon's site achieved some of these things. Can we do more?
The fact that popular sites Facebook, google+, amazon, netflix, MO have like buttons does not mean that their popularity mechanism makes them better in inducing the true development of personality etc. Popularity is not a measure of development and achievement itself. A Serbian kid growing up in California came to his parents place in Belgrade and was surprised that he was accepted to any children group to play with on the street, not preceded by marked belonging to a clique, clan or band, unlike what he learned in modern California, driven by TC shows, popularity culture, hi school prom craze. In fact I NEVER heard in my childhood in Croatia that the phrase "be popular" applies to kids. Word "popular" was about movie stars and so on, not about something relevant to our ordinary lives. This was few decades ago. Now it is probably changing, everybody needs to have a good picture to put on social site, and people kill when get defriended. Finally, the democracy in US is ridiculuous – the PR makes people choose whoever, all is lobbyied and advertised; voting is not discovery of the truth.
I fully agree with more sensitive 11: especially this – for peer reviewing it is beneficial to be independent, that one referee does not know what the other one read. Also ASSIGNING a referee makes people discover things which are not easy to appreciate without through reading. It may be a boring looking paper, but the arguments while on the surface written by the same kind of letters and equation symbols are in fact a deep breakthrough. A casual audience will miss this, while true reader will be forced to understand. Once understood it is more likely to give a more balanced mark of the achievement.
On the other hand, I do second that one should have pages of discussion for individual articles. Not collections of opinions, but more a wiki style. Look at wikipedia. If somebody writes something without arguments and references, he is likely to be overwritten. It is also possible to write remarks about the paper. If you observe some interesting relation to other areas, or that the result follows from something else it stays in the wiki. If you repeat the bullshitting which somebody else wrote before, your sentence will get into the history and erased from the new assesment, or labelled as irrelevant.
The danger is also that the author himself will make his work more appreciated by answering to the craze. Instead, as Arnold used to say, one should work in old Russian style of sitting in the library and proving hard theorems. It is not that one should not value or finance education and dissemination of knowledge. But it should be DIFFERENT job and not interfering with appreciation/evaluation of primary results. If somebody is going to get a journalism prize let it not be called a theorem of the year, but a self presentation of the year or whatever. Mathematicians are sometimes subtle in distinguishing nuiances, and should do that even more emphatically here, where people starting mixing apples and pears.
and help decide what we might like to read
One top mathematician whom I pretty much appreciate told me that he almost never goes to the library nowdays and reads only on the internet. He says, in my memory:
I do not care what is published what is not, I google for the name of the author whom I trust or the title I suspect to be interesting, and find it on the arxiv or the homepage of the author. I do not need others (i.e. journal boards) to decide what I will read, I want myself to decide what I will read.
This is not a view of a youngster but of an active mathematicians closer to the retirement than to the PhD. And of course he does appreciate peer advice on what he will read, but only from the colleagues he directly talks to and trusts, of those whose good lecture he might have heard on the topic and not from the "societies", networks, pyramid schemes, points systems and alike.
This is not to discourage building sites for discussions, wikis etc. – we need them, especially to diseminate the information from the rare centers of hi concentration of expertise in some areas of knowledge to the rest of the intellectual world – but rather to cautiously raise the awareness of the importance of the preservation of healthy basic old practices in refereeing, reading, teaching and research practices; those which the popularity chase and craze and related psychological and social rearrangements, new orders and disorders, eases and diseases do not properly replace. But some new technology will add them. There is so much more new in software and on the internet on the market, than the liking/popularity/points systems.
I'm not in support of having any kind of "point" system papers on the arXiv. There are already a number of mechanisms in place that reward scholarship, and already more than enough incentives to produce widely popular work.
I don't think that it's necessarily a bad idea to have some kind of "reward" system in place, but I think that people underestimate how carefully thought-out these point systems are. These don't make the site inherently engaging or psychologically addictive on their own. They specifically provide some form of inexpensive reward for contributing to the site, and a reason to check back regularly, until using the site becomes a part of the user's routine.
So if you're trying to organize large-scale adoption of a site and you want users to
collect public lists of literature that interests them,
submit short synopses or reviews of papers,
ask questions about papers,
respond to questions on their own papers,
make sure that even "lower-profile" papers get reviews, or
maintain professional community standards,
then I feel like these are the things that you should be providing rewards for.
(Kevin: remember that you can start a new discussion on any particular idea that strikes you. Just link between the two to keep them connected.)
With all the ideas I read here, I try to examine them under the spotlight of "How would this make a difference to my daily work?". A review site sounds fun, but I don't know that I would use it, and I don't think that I would be all that happy having my papers there. I'm worried that mine would fall into that category where the "number of people who read it is a number between 0 and 1". The time that I want to talk about my work is when I'm doing it, not when I've written the paper. I like the quote from Dror-Bar Natan on MathOverflow (see also França;ois Dorias' website):
Papers are written so that their author(s) can forget their content and move on to other things. Therefore when you write you should be very careful to put in enough of the big picture and enough of the details so you'd be able to reconstruct your thoughts 10 years later if you'll need to, assuming you'll forget everything but retain some familiarity with some basic principles of mathematics.
So when I've written the paper and submitted it to a journal, I'm ready to move on to the next thing. I'm quite happy to talk about that paper, but I'm not so excited about it as I was. Indeed, often by the time I've written the paper I get a strange "flat" feeling about it as though I'll be glad to see the back of it - at least for a short period.
The time when I'd really like to talk about it is when I'm writing the paper. Call this the "alpha" stage. That's when I'm sure of the basic ideas, but am aware that I might radically change how I think of them as time goes on. Then when I've written the paper, I don't really want to be told of a whole new way of thinking about it, but I don't mind being told that my notation is rubbish and I should have written it all in the passive voice. Call this the "beta" stage. Finally, I submit the article to a journal and hope that that's dealt with.
That's as an author.
As a reader, I have considerable sympathy with Zoran's last post and with Scott's further up. I don't need to be told whether or not I should be interested in a paper. If it contains the result I want, then I'm interested. If it doesn't, then I'm not. At least, that is, when I'm doing my Main Research - of course, sometimes I read articles just to find out what's going on, but that's a bit different. So I don't want to be told that I should read a paper because it has 5 stars! But I would find it useful to know if there are any corrections or clarifications attached to the paper - this is subtly different to a review.
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I don't need to be told whether or not I should be interested in a paper.
I don't 'need to be told', either. That sounds pathetic. I want to hear what papers people are interested in - particularly, specific people I know and trust. And I'm not alone in this: lots of people want to know what their friends and respected colleagues are reading…. and what they think about those papers. They gossip about this endlessly at conferences.
This is why I like the idea of a system where people are able to opt to let others see which papers they like. If someone like Witten or Atiyah or Deligne did this, you can darn well bet that hundreds of people would turn on their computer each morning to see what papers those guys liked.
On a lesser scale, This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics was a way for me to tell people what papers I liked, and also say a bit about them. People seemed to read it, even though I started as a nobody. Most people don't have the energy to write a column like that, but maybe they'd have the energy click 'like' on a paper now and then, and sometimes even write a paragraph saying something about it. The system I'm envisioning would make all that easy. Of course people could include links to blogs, too.
Kevin wrote:
Because of the complexity of the issues involved, and because of the many different directions such a comment site could take, the discussion here is very wide-ranging. Perhaps it would be useful to have a summary of of the issues that have been raised, just to keep the discussion organized and moving forward (as opposed to swirling around). I was about to attempt such a summary myself, but I suspect there are others here who would do a better job than I would, so I'll refrain for the moment.
No, do it! - unless you have some power to make those better people do it.
I think John's got it right: the draw is not the ability to "rate papers" on some absolute scale. The draw is to be able to find out what your colleagues think is interesting, where "your colleagues" is a function of "you".
28 I agreed above that the discussion sites are welcome, the disagreement was about a point driven system.
21 tlawson says that if one is going to compile bibliography lists and so on, this should be driven by reward system. I have created hundred of nLab entries and put there many hundred references and do that on daily basis for a couple of years. If anybody would pressure me by having the points of my contribution publicly seen (daily followed) at semaphore I WOULD STOP CONTRIBUTING. (Edit: the fact that I am much less active in MathOverflow is partly because I dislike the atmosphere of the reward system there). Many people like me in mathematics find beauty and peace and do not believe that one creative involvement can be linearly compared to any other involvement. If one is creating, one is expecting to see something nice building up. I do not need point like rewards, I need to see that something is created and built, and that some things are solved my own way which I like in the process. I like that I can come back to my notes when I need them again. If I made something neat that this neatness helps me in future, and helps my students and so on. Of course, I like others contributing where I start. But why to mix social needs, cooperative works and so on, with the popularity and linearizing craze ? I know that US media dominate the world and that US culture is obsessed with point systems from kindergarten, but why would adult creative people be bogged with that ?
P.S. I proposed accompanying arXiv with discussion features and hep-th-comment section for short remarks and replies instead of papers still in 2000 in a discussion with Vafa at a conference on orbifolds in Madison. But not in the faintest dream I thought of a point system and rewards, rather than posting arguments, comments, in other words stimulative CONTENT and not pure likes and dislikes.
As requested, here's an attempt to summarize the discussion. Reading through the comments a second time they seem less diverse and unfocused than they did to me on the first reading, so perhaps this is unnecessary. "#n" means comment number n. I've probably overlooked some stuff; bring it to my attention and I'll edit this post accordingly.
Main idea (#1). A site where one can discuss Arxiv papers, possibly also with some sort of rating system or some way of finding papers which are popular in general or popular with particular people (such as the hugely influential Noah Snyder; see #14).
Existing systems. Similar things have been tried before, so we should try to learn from these earlier attempts (scirate.com (#2, #3), papercritic.com (#7), David Bacon quant-ph thing (#12) [is this the same as scirate.com?]).
Ratings. They could take various forms:
Actual direct ratings of papers, on a scale of 1 to 5, say.
Separate ratings for importance, readability, etc. (#17).
Simple "+1" or "favorite" type system.
Each person could maintain a list of papers that they like, but these lists would not necessarily be aggregated (#14, #23).
Perhaps (only?) comments should be rated (like on amazon.com) (#16, #21).
Arguments in favor of ratings:
Many successful sites use a rating system, and perhaps the system is partly responsible for their success (#12).
It is important to be able to quickly and easily find your way to the most useful papers, and some sort of rating system would help with this (#14, #25, #28).
Arguments against ratings:
Too many to list fully here. See #4, #6, #8, #9, #10, #18, #20, #24, #29, #30 (probably I missed a few).
Ratings are too arbitrary, which is maybe OK on mathoverflow when not much is at stake, but would be bad for a site that might influence hiring decisions, etc.
If the ratings are important, they will likely be gamed.
Ratings could make the site less fun.
Rezk wrote:
I think John's got it right: the draw is not the ability to "rate papers" on some absolute scale. The draw is to be able to find out what your colleagues think is interesting, where "your colleagues" is a function of "you".
Right. I should have made that more clear - and the website that does this should also make it very clear!
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I definitely agree with John. Please someone (Andrew?) make a comment site linked to the Cornell library arxiv mirror.
My friend Chris Lee, head of bioinformatics at UCLA, is interested in helping set up such a site. He's good at programming and he's written an interesting paper:
I hope some people here can join with him in rapidly setting up some sort of 'quick, easy and fun' website, while leaving open the ability to expand and improve it. I'll keep talking to him and all of you to help coordinate things. I've tried to get him to post comments here himself, too.
By the way: one reason I hope this 'quick, easy and fun' website gets started soon is that it will pressure people who dislike it to come up with something better. I'm not sure what the best solutions to our problems are. But I don't think we can find out until someone tries something.
Tim Gowers in the article a-more-modest-proposal proposed a site which would be dedicated to mutual commenting of people (with point-pay for comments from author to the commenter) on their preprints, helping so to improve the papers which are not yet in the final stage. While credits are given, they do not feed the vanity in that case, but the direct need to have the points earned (for the job or pre-reviewer) in order to pay for your own papers being pre-reviewed and hence helped in their finalization and improvement. I like his proposal. The comments there are also very interesting.
I'm wondering if it is ok to open a related thread (or better, a wiki page somewhere) to collect existing technologies, i.e., isolate that aspect of Kevin Walker's summary #31 (thanks Kevin!).
This could be both about technology (scirate, papercritic, altmetrics.org, +1 etc) but also anything to put these tools in perspective (for example this study on tweets predicting citations).
While this thread shows that there's need to discuss how we value these tools, I think it might be good to have a neutral thread/wiki page to simply collect facts and usage.
Just like John's #33 said, the sooner we start, the sooner we'll know what works. (I would add: there won't be one tool that works for everybody, but there will be equally useful tools so that everybody can find one that suits them.)
Why not start a discussion here first (make it clear that it's just for gathering information, not discussing it) and then when the amount of information gets unwieldy, we can look for a more permanent home for it. Wikis are easy to set up, and if needed then we could set up a wiki linked to this forum to gather information - if there isn't already somewhere suitable. But I don't want to scatter information too much too early.
John said in #25:
If someone like Witten or Atiyah or Deligne did this, you can darn well bet that hundreds of people would turn on their computer each morning to see what papers those guys liked.
On a lesser scale, This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics was a way for me to tell people what papers I liked, and also say a bit about them. People seemed to read it, even though I started as a nobody.
There is a huge difference between these two situations, and I like the second but dislike the first.
I remember what led me to the idea of review panels. It was when I learnt about the Journal of Stuff I Like. Initially, I thought this was great. But as I thought more, I decided that it wasn't such a great idea after all. The danger with it is that it leads to the Cult of the Personality. John is absolutely right - everyone would tune in to see what Witten or Atiyah or Deligne were reading (or Terry Tao or Tim Gowers or John Baez), but no-one would be all that interested in what Andrew Stacey was reading. So we'd be shifting the pressure from trying to be published in Annals to being mentioned by one of the Big Wigs. This feels wrong on so many levels.
However, This Week's Finds is a wholly different beast. I admit that I've only dipped in here and there, so I may have the wrong impression. That impression is that you (John) are more interested in telling us about a particular topic than about a particular paper. There's always "Where to find out more" lists at the end, and it may be a paper that sparked the interest in the topic, but the central theme is of "Here's something cool to know about" rather than "Here's something cool to read". Now that is far more useful. Whilst I feel that I don't really need someone to tell me whether or not to read a particular article - once I have that article in front of me - I often feel that I need someone to say "If you want to learn about X then the papers to start with are A, B, and C".
So I see a big difference between setting up a system for adding reviews to the arXiv, and a system for making it easier to find papers by topic. The former doesn't seem to add much usefulness, just a load of froth(!), but the latter makes it easier for me to do my job.
@Alexander, I remember reading a great comment you made somewhere, where you talked about what the purpose of peer review is, for all the researchers outside of that 'research elite' you mention. Now I can't find it, even with the help of google. Could you point me to it if you remember the one I mean, or otherwise write somewhere (here, a blog, etc? :-) about this again? I agree people need to appreciate this point further, but I know I can't articulate it quite right yet!
Well, the email addresses are included in the papers and often there is a mark that the comments are welcome. This does not make many people commenting by email anyway. Web makes it sometimes easier, unfortunately many commenting sites will have their own resistrations which make a turn off to many. So it is good that it is not just trackbakc link but indeed one unique system for the whole arxiv. Gowers' idea that we could have a system of credits for "reviewing" preprints, granted by the authors, who have some credits to give up, is a good incentive for certain kind of activity. Having possibly new arXiv categories of new micro-"comment" articles which could be stably cited is another. We need to discuss more mechanisms and forms.
@Andrew #37 I understand and share the worry. But I think it's equally likely that we could end up with Mathematical Critics (much like, say, literature critics), i.e., people who are renowned for there knowledge and experience at identifying good research. Add to that the study I linked to in #35 – tweets may be able to predict citations. That's not "Tim Gowers's tweets predict citations", it's the "wisdom of crowds". For a different experiment check Crowdometer.
@Alexander Chernov #40 second that! (In fact, see #7) – wordpress can solve a lot of these problems out of the box.
44 With many proposals involving wordpress – what is the gurantee that the wordpress will stay free ? This is uninformed but serious question: I know there is a commercial owner of the wordpress web site, there are free user accounts, and there is some software there and some related software (and add-ons) in circulation. I do not know which portion of the software is transferrable to other sites retaining full functionality, how much of it is open source and what are ultimately the licences involved. I am sure some people here know – please let us know.
Peter at 44: isn't the danger that "good research" becomes increasingly defined as "what those Big Name good critics like?" There are also people doing mathematics in systems or societies where the kind of openness taken for granted by this kind of model is not so easy, and the loudest voices may not be the wisest.
I also share Alexander's concerns at 38.
@Yemon yes, there's a danger. But how is that different from today? Editorial boards are precisely "Big Name critics". Yet journals are so narrow in their design, that they will never say "hey, I just read this fantastic expository paper about this obscure proof that nobody understood; there's nothing new, but it's the best paper I read all month".
As I tried to argue with the study about tweets predicting citations, the "wisdom of crowds" approach is likely the most fruitful (and most democratic) and specifically eliminates this problem of "Prof BigWig said so".
@szkoda wordpress is open source. So yes, it will always be free. The distinction is between wordpress.com, a free hosting service, and wordpress.org the underlying software. But wordpress.com also lets you export anything from your site there and import into your own installation. I know a little bit about this since we've started boolesrings.org last summer, an experiment towards a wordpress hosting service specifically for mathematicians. We are working on a new site that would be open to everybody, but above all we focus on a decentralized approach, i.e., identify the open source tools that mathematicians might need for the purpose of their academic homepages (from citations management to course management). If you want to look at some of its potential, you might want to check out Joel David Hamkin's site
To 46, let me give just a small unimportant comment: even Grothendieck was at times unhappy with such a great mathematician as Weil surpressing the unconsent voices within such an open and small circle like Bourbaki was (according to his memoirs). In current refereeing process editors control that even the strong opinions of experts will be taken into account mostly if they are concrete and well pronounced. It is not always good that the same expert makes an argument (recommendation) and the decision: the two step process with different subjects involved makes the personal opinions having less weight.
47: thanks
@zskoda Oops, sorry, I expanded my post a little while you were writing yours…
Peter: which crowds? I really think there are contingent factors to do with location and politics that are not always accounted for, at least in the corners of maths where I send my working time. You want to know how big a crowd care about the cohomology of Banach algebras and know what they are talking about? I could probably have them over for dinner in one go…
And actually I trust journal boards or handling editors more than the small world of online big name bloggers. I don't want to have to compete for the attention of e.g. Gowers, Tao, Kalai, Baez, Cameron, Ghoussoub, Hamkins, Laba, Krautzberger… ;) I just could do with the grudging approval of e.g. Blecher, Davidson, Elliott, Haagerup, Helemskii, Lau, Meyer, Rochberg, Smith, Toms, Voiculescu, or whoever, that my current effort is OK even if not of great "noncommutative spacetime!" interest.


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