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January/February 2010
Volume 16, Number 1/2
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Carol Minton Morris
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Soon after the first major snowstorm of the season, 3,800 delegates to EDUCAUSE 2009 were greeted in Denver by warm temperatures and blue skies over the distant front range from November 3-6, 2009. With a national climate of shrinking IT budgets and increasing needs at institutions of higher education, many sessions and conversations centered around taking advantage of economies represented by new technologies such as cloud computing and distributed communication tools. Higher education IT professionals gathered at the Colorado Convention Center and simultaneously online to uncover "the best thinking in higher education."
Left to right: Two views of the Colorado Convention Center: sculpture outside and walkway. Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig delivers a keynote address at EDUCAUSE 2009.
Providing a virtual version of the conference was a first for EDUCAUSE, and some attendees reported that they found online sessions to have advantages over being there in person. For example, questions could be asked online without interrupting speakers, and the expense and uncertainties of travel were avoided for virtual attendees. The virtual conference also allowed on-site participants to "double dip" by catching up on the sessions they missed with free online recordings. Although in-person overall conference attendance was down in 2009, Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE, reported that 1,000 people from 44 states and 10 countries tuned in online for Lawrence Lessig's keynote address on November 5.
In 1998 a merger between CAUSE and Educom resulted in the current EDUCAUSE organization that addresses higher education IT issues and provides services and direction for campus IT leaders. EDUCAUSE 2009 focused on what was called "the intelligent use of information technology" with sessions about tools, services, techniques, technology, research, cost-saving tips and trends. Exhibit hall vendors echoed that focus by highlighting telecommunication, storage and access technologies in service to higher education.
Three sessions I attended were lively and well-attended with lots of audience interest in digging deeper to connect issues and technologies to their own problems at home campuses.
As university budgets everywhere are being trimmed across the board, conference-goers were on the look-out for overall ways to save money on IT expenditures. This interest was reflected in a "Point Counterpoint" session held in a small room packed to overflowing featuring Michael Dieckmann, Senior Associate VP and CIO, University of West Florida, and Melissa Woo, Director, Research Cyberinfrastructure, Network and Operations Services, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who were there to shine a light on perceived cloud computing perils (Woo) and opportunities (Dieckmann). Based on the number of attendees in the room, this pro and con presentation was clearly of interest to many who shared concerns that for higher education in particular, it is imperative to understand the bottom line in IT services when it comes using cloud computing for mission-centric institutional activities.
Woo and Kieckmann showed comparisons between Gartner's Five Attributes of Cloud Computing and the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing "Essential Characteristics" and contrasted these to what they believed were key characteristics for the successful use of cloud computing by university IT departments. Their conclusions were that universities require IT (including infrastructure) as a network-delivered service that can be massively shared, is extremely flexible, and allows for a "pay as you go" economic model.
Dieckmann pointed out that to some extent cloud computing is the inevitable wave of the future for the IT industry. "We have put up with it before. Massive economies of scale will drive cloud computing because it is the most cost-effective way to provide services to our institutions." At what point in the evolution of the service, he wondered, do you have to ask what the reason is for doing these things in the cloud. He emphasized that, while adopting cloud technologies seems to be inevitable, we do not have to feel that we are being forced to swallow a poison pill, because there are many advantages to adopting them.
Woo countered by asking why university IT leaders are focused on when instead of why? "Why are we not asking our stakeholders about what they need?" she wondered. She used Gmail as an example of how large services sometimes go down and can create security risks, data loss, and data that have been "locked-up." She reminded the audience that scoping cloud computing and commercial clouds for university IT is the focus of the day's discussion.
Dieckman suggested that we are throwing responsibilities "over the wall" and encouraged listeners to step out of their IT silos and think about cloud computing in a larger campus context. "It should not be all about cost," he said.
He went on to qualify that assertion, however, by pointing out that economic sustainability and green computing are driving the debate on campuses. Gathering departmental servers into central data units has already occurred. Campus customers may not care whether whether a server is an on-campus server or a virtual server. He is of the opinion that as long as systems are managed by professional systems engineers, then perhaps this function should migrate to external services.
Diekmann and Woo concurred that if it cannot be trusted that data will be durable and persistent, then there should be an evaluation of the measure of harm to campuses that would result should the services fail. Also, once you have made the transfer to an external service, what do you do if the economics change? For the academy the "Crown jewel assets are our data." There are no interoperable cloud provider standards yet for security functions to protect those assets.
Woo believes that IT outsourcing is a problem, and that outsourcing to cloud providers exacerbates the problem. There is a perception that "we are better" than the commercial providers (campus IT). The idea that things are always better on the inside than they are on the outside is not always true.
Other issues around integrating in-house services with cloud services include identity management and branding in the cloud that may be threatened by across-the-board eLearning and eManagment tools. Woo believes that maintaining a coherent computing environment in the cloud is challenging right now.
Does institutional choice really matter? "Let's not fool ourselves client and consumer decisions about what they will use are already being made," said Diekmann. Where are your chancellors' and your presidents' email being stored and protected?
Clifford Lynch moderated "Initiatives from the National Science Foundation's DataNet Program: DataONE and the Data Conservancy" and began by explaining that the overall characteristics of the new Data Conservancy and Data One efforts funded by the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) are to build capacity for large-scale data management, curation and preservation that seek a delicate balance between them. Referring to the Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure he mentioned key aspects of cyberinfrastructure such as high performance computing and a new area, "data curation." The DataNet initiative is a major program to emerge from NSF's OCI under the data curation rubric. Two initial awards were the Data Conservancy and Data ONE. (Note: Bill Michener, DataOne Principal Investigator (PI) was unable to attend the session.)
Lynch believes that the overarching characteristic of DataNet projects is to build capacity for large-scale data management, curation and preservation. These large-scale collaborations will run for five years and are intended to work across a range of scientific and humanities disciplines. Lynch introduced Sayeed Choudhury, Data Conservancy PI and associate Dean of the Johns Hopkins Libraries, as a leader in digital library initiatives, data curation and eScience. "One of the things that is just wonderful about Sayeed's leadership is that we have seen a whole series of NSF initiatives that had little to do with research libraries. DataNet is different in that it has that connection. Research libraries must take this leadership role," Lynch remarked.
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Sayeed Choudhury began by explaining, "Data curation is still a relatively new term. It is not an end, but a means to collect, organize, validate, and preserve data to address grand research challenges that face society. Our goal is to support new forms of inquiry and learning to meet societal challenges."
NSF expects the Data Conservancy to deliver an operational system where scientists can go to do their work. The infrastructure should not be a rigid road map, but rather should be based on principles of navigation. Choudury emphasizes that an appreciation of the size of the solution space is a key part of the design process.
The Data Conservancy strategy focuses on connection of systems into infrastructure through a program of user-centered design and research. They plan to build on existing exemplar projects such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey where "citizen scientists" have a role in design and discovery.
Choudhury envisions libraries as part of a distributed network that includes data as collections, librarians as data scientists and data centers as the new library stacks.
Reasonable people might agree that we should all be paid fairly for our intellectual property, while at the same time also advocate for open access to new ideas and groundbreaking research as society struggles to address environmental, health, political and social issues. Can these two seemingly opposite and worthy goals be brought together?
Higher education IT devotees of these opposite viewpoints filed into the cavernous Kodak Theater in the Colorado Convention Center hoping for answers from EDUCAUSE keynote speaker Lawrence Lessig. How could they advance their institutions' reach by coming up with hybrid technical and social publishing solutions while watching the bottom line, and creating communities of trust around the exchange and fair use of information?
Lawrence Lessig is perhaps the closest thing Open Access (OA) has to a "superhero", minus the cape, for librarians, IT geeks, and anyone who has ever been denied access to a precise bit of web information that they really, really needed. Fans of his thinking and actions in support of open access to knowledge, (many of his books and articles are licensed under Creative Commons) understand something about his views on the lagging education industry in addressing OA issues. College and university professionals are beginning to think of themselves as less aligned with institutions and more willing to act as free agents in an open marketplace of ideas. The lines between where, how, when and who should profit from research and new thinking have been blurred because, as Lessig says, "The medium through which we get access to our culture has changed. Not because any copyright law has changed." Technology has changed the context in which we understand the paradigm underlying our laws.
Ecology of Creativity
Lessig also discussed "business models" or as he thinks of them, ecologies of creativity. The use of copyright to secure profit means that you will get less creativity out of individuals if you lock up ideas in intellectual property disputes. "Not all creators have the same business model," he said. What about creators who are under the radar and "non-professional" those who create simply because they are passionate about their work? He asked, "What is the business model or the ecology of creativity in science and education?"
He believes that we share a common heritage in science based on a tradition of community property for the greater good. Incentives for scientists are different and not not based on quid-pro-quo.
Education is similar to science, with a business model based on free distribution of textbooks and scholarly articles. What makes sense for education might be a hybrid of models in the context of educational creativity informed by the capacity of digital technologies.
In conclusion Lessig encouraged the audience to, "Feel entitled to say no. Get mad. Resist." To emphasize his seriousness he offered a "Certificate of Entitlement" issued at EDUCAUSE 2009 and signed by him. He reiterated, "You, not lawyers, need to take responsibility for protecting these important domains of culture."
Ecology of Open Access
Lessig believes that replicating the good of scholarship peer review is what OA is about.
Books are an example of a creative ecology that most people have access to through libraries and used bookstores. Films are different. The component parts sound, still images, re-used clips all have rights streams that need to be properly licensed in order for any film to be changed, redistributed in a new format or re-used in whole or in part. Future generations will not have access to our film heritage unless digital re-formatting is done to preserve the work. Current digital technologies have short lifespans. "We need to act to avoid this thicket of complication that does not serve us," he emphasized.
Lessig does not think that changing the law is possible, but rather believes that society must move beyond changing the law. Creative Commons a system of simple methods for marking content with rights reserved that work for the creator, or no rights reserved is the way forward. Creative Commons offers six licenses that are readable by humans, lawyers, and machines.
As an example of the romantic vision of open access he played a song entitled "My Life Changed", explaining that the music was the product of collaboration among several musicians who found and altered the piece under Creative Commons licenses. Creators mashed up guitar and violin tracks separately while respecting each other's rights and authorship. Lessig calls this, "The infrastructure of interoperable free culture."
He ended with the provocative idea that our free culture-creating children, most of whom are digital natives who are accustomed to plucking, mashing-up and reformatting content wherever they find it, could be labeled the "new terrorists" if we criminalize their access to digital information. Lessig asked, "Will we make them live their digital lives against the law?"
The EDUCAUSE 2009 conference proceedings are now available online. Online as well are the sessions recordings.
The EDUCAUSE 2010 conference will take place October 12 15 in Anaheim, California.
Carol Minton Morris is Director of Marketing and Communications for DuraSpace, and is past Communications Director for the National Science Digital Library (2000-2009) and Fedora Commons (2007-2009). She is also a research
associate in the Digital Libraries group in Cornell University Computing and Information Science. Her interests are informed by her background in
publishing and the visual arts. They include community development around establishing collaborative communications systems and tools for
distributed content dissemination, and connecting open access, open source and open technologies people, projects and institutions with
relevant news and information. She was the founding editor of NSDL Whiteboard Report (2000-2009) featuring information from NSDL projects
and programs nationwide. Follow her at http://twitter.com/DuraSpace.
(On February 4, 2010, a link was added to a printer-friendly version of this article.)
Copyright © 2010 Carol Minton Morris


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(Reuters) - Sweden's Ringhals-2 nuclear reactor was shut down on Thursday morning, less than nine hours after being restarted, due to a technical glitch, the Nordic power exchange said in a market message.
The 865-megawatt (MW) pressurized water reactor's trip was caused by an elevated high-steam generator level after it was restarted at 1930 GMT on Wednesday, it added.
The reactor was previously shut a month ago due to oil leakage from a transformer, and was expected to be back in full operation after maintenance by Thursday evening.
Ringhals-2 is one of the four reactors at the plant south of Gothenburg, 70 percent owned by Swedish state energy group Vattenfall and 30 percent held by German E.ON .
Nuclear generators supply 40 percent of Sweden's power needs.
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Keiron Henderson)
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I like that they went there. It's not your usual celebrity dining establishment. I wonder if they sat at one of the long benches though I doubt it. But I also don't remember the place being conducive to stanchioning off a VIP section so the godmother of Rupert Murdoch's children would likely have had to eat close to civilians.
I also like that she was the complete opposite of Mimi in her Valentine style. The reddist part of her outfit was her hair. And I like that she chose oxfords over a kitten heel.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Of course Steve Brickey remembers The Run. Jack Whitver does, too.
In a college career filled with breathtaking plays, Seneca Wallace's zig-zagging sprint around and through the Texas Tech defense in 2002 might be his most unforgettable. On an I-don't-believe-what-I-just-saw 12-yard touchdown odyssey, Iowa State's sports information department estimates that Wallace ran 135 yards en route to the end zone.
But as Brickey, Iowa State offensive coordinator's that day, and Whitver, Wallace's teammate and wide receiving target, recalled Monday night all the incredible moments they saw their quarterback deliver in his two seasons leading the Cyclones, it was a throw that stood out more.
Here was the only problem: Brickey, now the quarterbacks coach at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., and Whitver, now an Iowa state senator, were recalling two different plays that were strikingly similar.
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As the two men spoke glowingly of Wallace – now the Green Bay Packers' backup quarterback behind Aaron Rodgers – they couldn't emphasize enough the kind of person they believed the Packers were getting. Rodgers' excitement about having Wallace in the quarterback room with him – the first time since Rodgers took over for Brett Favre as the Packers' starter in 2008 that he's had an older, more experienced backup – was palpable on Monday afternoon, and it all came from the first impression Wallace made on him.
According to Whitver, that shouldn't be a surprise. The same thing happened to him when Wallace arrived on campus in Ames as a transfer from Sacramento City Community College in January 2001.
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Not much has changed in the decade since. While it certainly seems like the Packers bungled their backup quarterback situation – in less than a month, the No. 2 job has gone from Graham Harrell to Vince Young to B.J. Coleman (albeit briefly) and now to Wallace – they just might've lucked into a guy who'll fit perfectly.
Not only does the 33-year-old Wallace understand exactly why he's been brought in (to help Rodgers in any way he can and, heaven forbid, fill in for him if disaster strikes) but he is utterly comfortable in his own skin and has no grand illusions of one last hurrah at starting glory.
"The ones who stay around for a long period of time are the ones who get it," said Wallace, who entered the league as a fourth-round pick in 2003 with the Seattle, drafted by then-Seahawks vice president of football operations Ted Thompson, now the Packers general manager. "Look, it's been a blessing for me to keep playing this game. I've been here 11 years
"When I first came in, it was 'This guy can't really play in a NFL system.' For me to be here 11 years later, I have no complaints about how my career has went. If that's a back-up, whatever I can do, I'm going to be the best at it. Whatever it is, whatever role it is, even when I was playing receiver in my early days in Seattle, as long as I step on the field, I'm going to do my best. As a back-up, I'm going to do whatever I need to do to continue my success and provide whatever I can provide to A-Rod. It's a blessing. I'm just excited to keep going on with my career."
Wallace actually came to Green Bay for a workout last fall, which he spent out of football after two seasons with Cleveland. He signed with New Orleans this spring and spent the offseason with the Saints before being released on Aug. 19, then spent a week with the San Francisco 49ers, whom he felt used him to pressure Colt McCoy into restructuring his deal. Wallace was trying Monday to move past his brief stint with the 49ers – who, conveniently, are the Packers' opponent in Sunday's regular-season opener – and focus on getting up to speed on the playbook as much as he can.
"It's just awesome. You can never dream about how things worked out," Wallace said of extricating himself from the 49ers situation and landing in Green Bay. "I mean, it was tough. It was a tough couple weeks. But what happened is behind me and now I'm moving forward and focusing on being here in Green Bay and being the best provider as a backup to A-Rod."
Asked about how his backup quarterback situation played out, coach Mike McCarthy was slightly defiant – "If it didn't work out the way people are used to, I make no apologies for that at all," he replied in part – but seemed genuinely pleased with the end result.
"Seneca Wallace has been in the league 11 years. He's been a backup quarterback primarily his whole career. He clearly understands the role, has a lot of experience in and out of systems," McCarthy said of Wallace, who has started 21 career games. "Just talking football with him (Sunday) night, I felt confident that he'll be ready to play Sunday. That was part of our conversation."
The conversations Monday night were about Whitver and Brickey's favorite moments with Wallace. Both recalled plays on which Wallace rolled to his left, then made picture-perfect throws across his body for big gains. For Whitver, it was one against in-state rival Iowa in Iowa City 2002, the second of back-to-back victories Wallace engineered over the Hawkeyes, when Wallace scrambled through the end zone, was approaching the left sideline and hurled a 30-yard strike back across the middle to Whitver. The Cyclones had rallied from a 24-7 deficit to take a 30-24 lead at that point, but a mistake there against the third-ranked Hawkeyes could have been disastrous.
"They had started to get the momentum back, and it looked like he was going to go out of the end zone," Whitver recalled. (Iowa State ended up winning, 36-31.) "When we were in college, I would say he was the best player on the field in almost every game we played. That Iowa game, (Hawkeyes quarterback) Brad Banks finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting that year, and Seneca outplayed him. You always thought if you had him on your team, you had a chance to win."
For Brickey, meanwhile, it was a 41-yard touchdown pass Wallace threw to wide receiver Craig Campbell the year before, when the Cyclones beat the Hawkeyes 17-14 in Ames, that stood out.
"It was a long throw down the sideline. He was running to his left and he had hardly anywhere to put the ball except exactly where it came down to our receiver," Brickey said. "I remember that one as a really amazing throw under duress, being chased. He just put it right on the money 40 yards down the field. Of all of them – and there were plenty – that stuck out more than any. And it was against Iowa and helped us win the game.
"The thing I loved about him was how accurate he was. When he came to us, I can remember that first spring, that very first practice, he always put the ball in the right spot. If a guy had a linebacker inside of him, he put it on his outside shoulder. He was just an extremely accurate thrower."
A decade later, Wallace's throwing accuracy may not be needed if Rodgers, who has missed only one game due to injury since becoming the starter in 2008, stays healthy. But his accuracy in another way – the self-aware picture he has of who he is and the role he'll play for this team – just might allow the Packers to escape their mismanagement of the backup quarterback position unscathed.
"(McCarthy) just pretty much laid it out on the line what they were looking for, and I was blessed enough to be that person. So I'm here," Wallace said. "(It's about) just providing my insight as far as a veteran goes. (They've never had) a veteran quarterback backup to try to help A-Rod during the game and during the meetings and things like that. Just some of the insight that I can provide (from) being around for a long time (might help).
"I guess I'm the (second-) oldest one in the locker room, which is hilarious. It's exciting just to be able to keep playing in this journey and so I'm just excited to be here."
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Matt Cassel won't say as much, but he seems to know it's over.
And Brady Quinn doesn't seem to know where he is.
After being benched for the second time this season, this time at halftime of a 28-6 loss to the Bengals, the Chiefs opening day starting quarterback gave every indication that he was aware he wasn't getting his old job back.
"I'm not going to go into that right now,'' Cassel said, via Adam Teicher of the Kansas City Star. "I don't know what my future holds, but I'm going to continue to be the same guy. I'm going to continue to work hard and do whatever I can to help this team win. It's a tough situation. Anytime you're the quarterback. There is a lot of weight put on you whether it goes good or whether it goes bad.
"I wasn't anticipating it. I came in at halftime and Coach [Romeo] Crennel said he wanted to create a spark so he was going to make a change at the quarterback position. I wasn't anticipating that at halftime after we came down and put three points on the board [before] the half.''
That three points is viewed as an accomplishment speaks to the state of the 1-9 Chiefs.
"I wanted to start Cassel, so I started Cassel,'' Crennel said, explaining it nicely. "When I felt like I needed to make a change, I made the change to Quinn. So Quinn got into the game in the second half and then after this, I will evaluate it and I will let you know what I am going to do next week.''
To his credit, Quinn's taking it all as a positive, despite the fact being the quarterback of the Chiefs doesn't seem like such a great gig. Best by injuries on the offensive line and without his best receiver (Dwayne Bowe) for the second half, it is fair to suggest he didn't have a chance.
"Look, I feel like I'm one of the most privileged people in the world,'' Quinn said. "I'm very blessed to have the opportunity to do what I do. [Playing in] the National Football League is a dream, really. It's not only changed my life, it's changed my family's life forever.
"I don't care what team you're on or what your record is, it's without a doubt the best job you could ever have. I don't care what the circumstances may sound like or look like to everyone else. I love what I do, and I love the game of football and I also will love being under center and going back there and slinging the ball around.''
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CubeSmart will release its quarterly financial results on Nov. 8. An accompanying conference call will be held at 11 a.m. ET on Nov. 9. A live webcast of the conference call will be available from the investor-relations page of CubeSmart.com. The dial-in numbers are 877.317.6789 for U.S. callers, 412.317.6789 for international callers and 866.605.3852 for Canadian callers.
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Extra Space will release its quarterly earnings on Oct. 29 after the market closes. The company will host a conference call at 1 p.m. ET on Oct. 30 to discuss the results. Hosting the call will be CEO Spencer Kirk, along with Scott Stubbs, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Karl Haas, executive vice president and chief operations officer.
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The phone number for the call is 866.277.1181 for U.S. callers and 617.597.5358 for international callers. The conference ID is 16475739. The conference call playback, which will be available through Nov. 30, will be accessible at 888.286.8010 in the United States or 617.801.6888 internationally. The conference ID is 97425335.
The conference call will be available on the investor-relations page of ExtraSpace.com. Those who wish to listen online should visit the website at least 15 minutes before the event start time to register and install any necessary audio software. A replay of the call will be available online for 30 days.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Extra Space owns or operates 910 self-storage properties in 34 states; Washington, D.C.; and Puerto Rico The companys properties comprise approximately 610,000 units and approximately 66.5 million square feet of rentable space.
Public Storage
Public Storage will release its third-quarter earnings on Nov. 8. A conference call is scheduled for Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss the results.
For the live conference call, the domestic dial-in number is 866.406.5408. The international dial-in number is 973.582.2770. The conference ID is 40169788. The live webcast will be available through the investor-relations page of PublicStorage.com and will be accessible on demand until Nov. 23. For the conference call replay, the domestic dial-in number is 800.585.8367, the international number is 404.537.3406, and the conference ID number is 40169788.
Based in Glendale, Calif., Public Storage has interests in 2,068 self-storage facilities in 38 states with approximately 132 million net rentable square feet. Operating under the Shurgard brand name, the company also has 189 facilities in seven European countries, with approximately 10 million net rentable square feet.
Sovran Self Storage Inc.
Sovran will issue its quarterly results after the market closes on Oct. 31. The company will conduct a conference call to review the financial results and discuss operations on Nov. 1 at 9 a.m. ET.
The call can be accessed at 877.407.8033 within the United States or 201.689.8033 internationally. Management will accept questions from registered financial analysts after prepared remarks. All others are encouraged to listen to the call via webcast from the investor-relations page at UncleBobs.com. The webcast will be archived for 90 days. A telephone replay will be available for 72 hours after the meeting by calling 877.660.6853 and entering pass codes 286 and 400674.
Sovran, which operates facilities under the brand Uncle Bob's Self Storage, operates more than 440 facilities in 25 states, with a large presence in Texas.
- CubeSmart: CubeSmart Announces the Date of Its Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Release and Conference Call
- Extra Space Storage Inc.: Extra Space Storage Inc. Announces Date of Earnings Release and Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter 2012 Results
- Public Storage: Public Storage to Release Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Results and Host Quarterly Conference Call
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Birth control has long been a woman's burden, but a new shot for men could help women put away the pill forever.
A new study says a testosterone-based injection for men is a highly effective and reversible birth control option.
The study gave 1,000 fertile Chinese males between the ages of 20 and 45 one shot per month over a period of two years, and the results were stunning.
"It dropped the sperm rate so that men were temporary infertile," NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman said.
Miami men seemed mixed yesterday over whether they'd give it a shot.
"Sounds good, why not?" Alex T. said. "Easy, safe, right? Sounds safe, why not?
"I don't think I would take it," said Jan Sanchez. "It's something that I don't trust."
Broward General medical chief of emergency medicine Dr. Nabil El Sanadi thinks the test results look good, but more testing needs to be done.
"Male birth control in the studies published actually works, as injections in the Asian male population," Dr. Sanadi said. " More studies need to be done in caucasian men, in either Europe or the United States to actually prove effectiveness. And no studies have been done in the African population."
It sounds promising, but don't expect the shot to hit stores anytime soon. It seems the folks who fund the research for the shot aren't that interested in seeing it go further.
"It's not a very lucrative market. Obviously there's a lot of ways to control male fertility in the united States," Dr. Sanadi said. " A male going once a month for an injection, it seems like something that not attractive to do."
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On July 14, 2017, Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford professor of mathematics and the only female winner of the prestigious Fields Medal in Mathematics, died at the age of 40.
In just a few hours, her name, both in her native Farsi (#مریم میرزاخانی) and English (#maryammirzakhani), was trending on Twitter and Facebook. Most major news agencies were covering the news of her death as well as recounting her many achievements.
The grief was especially hard-hitting for a generation of younger academics like me who have always held Maryam as a role model whose example is helping redefine women's status in science and especially mathematics.
The irony was that Maryam always tried to avoid the media's spotlight. Her modesty and simplicity despite being the only woman to gain such high status in the world of mathematics – winning what's often called the "Nobel Prize of math" – stood out to those who knew her.
Unfortunately, I did not get the chance to meet Maryam personally. But like many of my Iranian peers in academia, I looked to her example as proof that the world would welcome us and our scientific contributions no matter our skin color, nationality or religion.
As people around the globe grieve the loss of this talented mathematician, Maryam's life stands as an inspiration for young girls and boys from all walks of life the world over.
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Despite her calm expression and warm smile, Maryam was a warrior. She and her family, alongside many other Iranians, lived through the hard economic and social transformations after the Iran revolution in 1979 and also survived the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war a few years after that.
Maryam originally wanted to be a writer, a passion of hers that never faded away even during her postgraduate studies. However, she found an even greater joy in how rewarding it felt to solve mathematical problems. As a student, she was the first female member of Iran's national team to participate in the International Math Olympiad, and she won two gold medals in two consecutive years – still a record.
She received her bachelor's degree from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and later a doctorate from Harvard. In 2014, Maryam was recognized with the Fields Medal, the highest-ranking award in mathematics, for her efforts in what's known as hyperbolic geometry. Her work focused on curved surfaces – such as spheres or donut shapes – and how to understand their properties. Her achievements have applications in other fields of science including quantum field theory, engineering and material science, and could even influence theories around how our universe was born.
Maryam was a "hall of fame" all by herself. She modestly attributed her own success to her perseverance, hard work and patience. As she put it:
"The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers."
Unfortunately, when she was honored with the Fields Medal, she was already tackling her last challenge, the breast cancer that eventually killed her.
Who she was, not just what she did, matters
Maryam's contributions to the field of mathematics will long be remembered. But just as important is her legacy as a role model.
Maryam was an Iranian, a woman and an immigrant to the United States. Unfortunately, these three words together raise red flags for some in Western countries, particularly in the U.S., in the time of Trump's proposed travel ban.
Against all odds, Maryam's talent was nurtured in Iran and later flourished in the U.S. Her successes discredit the xenophobic stereotypes that are encouraged by a politics of fear. Maryam defied expectations and rose above all the labels that make it easy to judge others who are not like "us."
Maryam's legend may continue to grow after her early death. Still only 20 percent of full-time math faculty at U.S. universities are women, according to a 2015 demographic survey of 213 departments by the American Mathematical Society. Research shows that stereotyped role models can influence whether people "see themselves" in certain STEM careers. The example of a woman who rose to the top of this still very male field may help inspire math's next generation.
In the same way people think of Marie Curie or Jane Goodall as scientific pioneers, Maryam Mirzakhani will go down in history as a trailblazer as well as a mathematical genius.


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I'm fascinated by the silence surrounding IE8. It suggests two possibilities: they're silent because there's nothing happening at all, or they're silent because they're cooking up something astounding. Both seem improbable; the latter, because Microsoft likes to advertise broadly and early to developers, and the former, because what was the point of waking up to do IE7 and then going back to sleep again?
Either way, they're showing little interest in implementing new Web standards such as ES4 or the WHATWG APIs (nor old ones such as CSS2.1 or DOM Events). Since ES4 is backwards compatible with ES3, the argument that it would break compatibility is bogus, but nevertheless that's their line. We heard the same thing during the IE team's three-year holiday between IE6 and IE7, interestingly enough --- the "compatibility matrix" made it too hard to do anything. Sometimes they seem to argue that they were right the first time, IE7 was a mistake and it actually was too hard.
Attitudes to compatibility are actually very interesting. Microsoft seems to take the position that any change that negatively affects a Web site is bad. Mozilla --- and our friends at Apple, Opera and elsewhere, I think --- insist that when sites rely on a bug that clearly violates a standard, we will fix the bug even if it hurts sites. (In some cases, we might push to change the standard instead, but only if the "bug" is at least tolerably sensible behaviour.) So for every major release we fix a lot of bugs, and we risk breaking sites.
I always expect Web developers to grumble about this, and every time I meet some, I ask them whether our relaxed compatibility causes them problems. The answer is invariably "no"! Or at least, the developers I meet prefer us to fix the bugs because although it may break things here or there, overall our more consistent behaviour makes it a lot easier to develop Web apps for Firefox than for IE. Almost everyone tells me they develop their sites first in Firefox, and when everything's working, they backport it to IE. (For some reason I always feel shy when I hear this.) I guess if you're going to iterate your site design, you want to do that with the browser that's easiest to work with.
Actually I think both attitudes are right, because we're addressing different sets of users. I suspect when Microsoft talks about compatibility they're largely talking about intranet sites inside corporations, which are often maintained poorly or not at all, so anything that's broken by a browser change will remain broken forever. And it's easy to see how the needs of large corporate customers can come to dominate the thinking of a software organization --- they're large accounts with focused contact and are used to getting what they want. (Hey, I worked at IBM!) As another example, we've seen how Microsoft's slow security update cycle trades off the security of home users against the convenience of large customers.
Maybe the time has come for Microsoft to split (at least at the engine level) the "intranet" browser from the "Internet" browser. Otherwise they actually risk painting themselves into a corner, where more and more Internet sites are optimized for Firefox or anything but IE. It sucks to be late to the party and having to be the third or fourth implementor of a bunch of new APIs; you've lost your say in how those APIs are designed and may be compelled to reverse engineer the behaviour of other browsers (although thanks to Ian I hope the latter is less of a problem than it used to be!).
Of course, there's a whole other perspective on this: Silverlight and .NET. "Compatibility constraints" in IE make a handy brake on the evolution of the open Web, very useful when pushing a competitor to the Web*. (Many have pointed out the big joke about Microsoft's ES4 objections, namely that C# has gone through two huge revisions in the last few years.) Shiny new platforms like Silverlight and WPF don't have to worry about compatibility now, but it will be interesting to see how they handle compatibility going forward. We're in a marathon, not a sprint, it will be a few releases before they get traction, and if they have to ship side-by-side Silverlight assemblies, one for each version they've released, it's not going to be a small download or a mobile-friendly footprint.
* It's uncouth to speculate that Microsoft's representatives might act in bad faith. Unfortunately, history shows it's a real possibility. I want to be polite, but not naive.


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Freelancer's Survival Guide: Introduction
This post marks the beginning of an experiment. I will post sections of a work in progress—a book tentatively titled The Freelancer's Survival Guide—here, on my website.
The book hasn't sold. I haven't tried to sell it. I haven't even written it yet. In fact, the book hasn't been much more than a glimmer in my eye for a decade. But now's the time to do this project.
Here's why.
The global economic crisis has put tens of thousands of people out of work. Some will regain their old jobs. Some will train for new jobs. And some will attempt to freelance—whether it's as a consultant or an E-Bay Power Seller or as a writer.
Most people never intend to freelance. They fall into it, usually to make some extra money while looking for work. Other people quit their day jobs in the hope of becoming their own boss. They all find that working for yourself is much harder than it sounds.
I've been planning to write a book about the business of freelancing for more than a decade now. The normal way to write such books is to write a proposal (maybe some sample chapters), then query publishers to see if they're interested. If they are, they'll draft a contract, pay an advance, and set a deadline for the book. A year after the book gets turned in, it'll see print.
The entire process can take as much as two years. By then, I hope, this crisis will be a thing of the past. Yes, some people will still be out of work. But most of the people who have lost their jobs in this recession will have new employ, and most first-time freelancers will have run screaming back to the nine-to-five world.
The moment for this project will have passed long before the book ever gets finished, let alone before it sees print.
So what I'm going to do is write a guide for freelancers and I'm going to post it, section by section, on my website. The comments will remain open for questions and topic suggestions. Please forward this link to anyone you know who has lost a job or plans to start their own small business. This project will not apply just to writers and artists. I'm going to keep it as general as possible and have it apply to people who want to (or have to) work for themselves.
I will cover topics like how to structure your time, how to handle your money, how to structure your bills, and how to set up an office. These series of posts will not be in order. I'd rather work with the blog's readers and answer pressing questions. When I decide to put this project into book form, I will impose an order on the sections, but not until then.
Most of you know me as a fiction writer, but I made my living as a non-fiction writer for nearly ten years. I have been an active freelancer for thirty-one years (and counting), ever since I was eighteen years old. I made my first freelance check at age sixteen, but that small pittance certainly wasn't enough to live on.
With the exception of one job at a publishing company in the summer of 1984, I have never worked for someone else full time. I did have part time jobs in the past thirty-one years, some because I needed a stable income to underpin my freelance income (a topic I will deal with) and some because they sounded too good to refuse (both of my editing jobs as well as my radio work). I rarely stayed at the same job for more than a year. My freelancing always brought in more income than the "stable" jobs. But freelancing feels riskier. More than once, I got a day job because I didn't believe my good fortune as a freelancer would last.
Twelve years ago, I realized my attitudes hurt my freelance career. If I put as much time into freelancing as I put into worrying about freelancing, I would get more done and bring in bigger paychecks. I became serious about remaining my own boss. I stopped taking day jobs away from people who really wanted or needed them, and vowed to never work for anyone else again –on their schedule, at their business.
If I told you that decision made my life easier, I would be lying to you. It just made my life less confusing. I no longer had the option to take the editing jobs that people (still) offer me, or run down the street to the local radio station. I deliberately let my real world skills lapse.
In those twelve years, I have tripled my income, despite two serious illnesses (one that would have required me to go on disability if I had kept a day job) and a two-year-long dry spell in sales in a major part of my business. I learned how to survive through all of those things, how to maintain a proper attitude, and how to keep myself motivated.
Those three things are among the many I plan to share in the coming weeks. But here's where the rest of the experiment comes in.
Normally, I get paid for what I write. Because I have chosen to do something timely—and because I feel it is important to start this dialogue now, when people need the help, not two years from now when it's less crucial—I am posting these sections on my blog for free.
However, I will add a donation button at the bottom of each post with the heading The Freelancer's Survival Guide, starting with this one. (And only on those posts; all the others will continue as usual.) If these posts help you or help a friend, please contribute what you can. Most of you who read this will be unemployed or just starting out. You won't be able to contribute anything. That's fine. These posts are for you.
But do me a favor. Bring someone else to the website. Ask questions. Donate if you can. Let me use my knowledge to help you.
That way, we might all get something out of this project. Thanks in advance—and see you in the weeks ahead.
Freelancer's Survival Guide: Introduction copyright 2009 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Woot, this is cool. Thanks for posting this!
Excellent idea for a book, Kris! I've been freelancing for 30 years myself, and it's been great. A writer also has to be a business person, too, as you point out with the topics you plan to cover. I will definitely forward your post to others.
Hello. I will watch your project unfold, with great interest; I look forward to the promise it holds. I will appreciate the opportunity to learn from you. And, if my help was wanted, I would be happy to be of service to your project as well.
I got Recovery Man last night and finished it this afternoon Kris! That character could easily make for a series paired with the confed cop 🙂
Happy to hear I'll be seeing The Fey show up in Kindle/Mobi 🙂
What a great idea 🙂 One I'll be very interested in. I'm just off chemo and can't return to work, but I can write and edit, so I've begun building freelance clients. Best of luck! Alley
Will tag along. My seventh goal in life is: My biography and novels are accepted. They're better than pulp fiction. I'm nominated for a Pulitzer award in fiction, for a unique style with the English language. Both Winston Churchill and my 9th grade English teacher, Mrs. Brush, are spinning. In 1968 she attempted to convince me to be a gas station attendant. In a dream she speaks highly of my writings, being impressed. I was always scared of Mrs. Brush those nouns, verbs, and adjectives are confusing, being placed in many different combinations with different meanings. I will write one letter per week to someone.
I say I write, but I lack in mastering english and confidence. Thank god for spell check. I too will tag along. Its now bookmarked.
Interesting perspective. I walked away from a very well remunerated job as a partner in a medical practice two years ago. On a matter of principle, but also after a couple of decades it did not seem that there was much of a challenge to it any more.
Freelance is a great improvement…I control the mix of work, ER, Hospitalist, teaching, writing. My income is not that much less, and could be equivalent if I were foolish enough to apply the proboscus firmly to the proverbial grindstone.
But instead I travel. A lot. And see my family more. and just plain relax.
Security? I figure primary care medicine will be the next to last thing to go under in any conceivable economy. The ER will be the last.
(at work, sigh)
Your readers might be interested in Bob Bly's books, such as Getting Started as a Freelance Writer and Secrets of a Freelance Writer.
Great idea – I look forward to reading it. Any help is more than welcome!
Thanks for passing along your accumulated smarts about the writing business. I'm a technical writer who backed into freelancing after the 2001 meltdown. Everyday is an adventure.
I have had a steady customer for most of this time. However, times are getting tougher and budgets are getting tighter, so I need to work on self-promotion. I've set up a website with samples (tech stuff) and have started a work-related blog. (Where I am linking to this introduction.)
I think that one of the best ways to promote myself is to promote and support others, so I'm hitting the PayPal link.
Best wishes.
i have a smalltown newspaper job, but full time freelancing is a longterm goal. I'm about to move into a new home, my first place with enough space for a dedicated office. since creating the proper setting is the first step of any project, would you mind starting with you advice on setting up a workspace? I could be a real world test-case for your theories.
Hi, Kristine–great idea!
Just this week I made the decision to share selected parts of my new book via blog posts as I write. (I co-authored an anthology of letters in 2007 but have now ventured out on my own: gulp.) It's a wee bit intimidating, and as yet I haven't sent any of my Readers my blog address (!) but your timely idea has truly inspired me. Isn't the feedback encouraging? I'll keep reading your posts, too.
Many thanks and best wishes on this exciting journey,
E.M. Phillips (Cochrane, Alberta)
P.S. Let me know if you need an external editor once your book is ready for print, or even just an enthusiastic second opinion and a fresh set of eyes; I'm a freelancer too. 🙂
You might want to take a look at this book by John Reed.
He doesn't come right out and say what he earns by self publishing and distributing, but reading between the lines I figure it's in the neighborhood of $400,000 a year.
I have no financial stake in this other than having bought and read his book.
This is exactly the sort of information I have been looking for. Thanks for starting this site.
Interesting thought, thanks. Extend the "out of work" dynamics to everyone. Laid off is the mother of self employment.
It's strange how people pick up on things to do. And, it reminds me of a cousin's son, who lives in Florida. And, who deals in estates.
In other words? People are old. They die. And, nobody wants to claim the furniture. Steve comes in. And, he knows how to get the furniture OUT. He shares the money this brings in with the relatives of the deceased.
And, if this doesn't sound like much of a business; you'd be wrong. He not only does well. He's developed a good eye. Being able to tell the difference between a valuable item; and one that's not.
His brother is a landscape engineer. Also a business that requires "freelancing."
And, like all these businesses, they are seasonal. Being motivated means that you can "do it" even during down turns.
The one best tip I ever heard, I heard from a real estate agent. (Again, you're out "fishing for clients" … sometimes by cold calling.) And, most of us can't handle the "NO, NO, NO." Until you learn each NO just brings you closer to someone who will say YES.
My girl friend, who was gangbusters at sales; came into real estate back in the early 1980's. When interest rates spiked up to 17%. (And, Jimmy Carter suggested "sweaters" to warm up a bit on a cold day.)
Here's what she told me: People marry. They divorce. And, people die. All of these things means that real estate is gonna "move." And, that's when you need a good agent.
I swear my friend owned a gene for selling. (And, yes. She could CLOSE!) Again, another skill that you need to learn how to do. How to do this? Ah. You learn to plot out your close … just as a writer learns it's best to "plot out" your plot. Rather than hoping your skills alone will tie up all your loose ends.
Oh, GOOD LUCK! FREElancing, doesn't mean you're working for FREE. It means you've got to find the ability to price yourself right. And, not get torn apart at the "basics."
Yeah. My wonderful friend got Alzheimer's. But I still have memories of how good she really was. And, how wonderful to be around.
So, here's a suggestion. Look for company! (I used to ride "shot gun" for my friend when she went real estate caravan-ing.) Isolation is not as productive as commitments. Friendships fit into that slot.
Hope you don't mind I've taken up your bandwidth, here. CAROL HERMAN
Thanks! We're really grateful that you're doing this- we're transitioning into Steph at home with the baby, and we've been wondering where to start. (She's a former speech writer, on the hill.) Anyway, thank and we lood forward to your posts~
Hi Kris!
I've been trying to find you forever! I first read your Fey book when I worked in the Waldenbooks home office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Moving several times caused me to lose track of where that book was in relation to all the packed boxes still in my garage!
Today I Googled forever trying to find a way to FIND you! Finally in exasperation I Googled "invasion of the Fey" and there you were popping up! YAY!
I'm disabled also, heart related problems. I discovered the AmazonKindle and have been reading voraciously since I got it March 17th!
I was wondering, there is a huge market now for e-books and I think you would sell tremendous amounts simply by providing your works in e-book form. Just something to consider. Check out the Kindle forums on Amazon to get an idea of just how popular Kindles are and how many readers out there will snap up books available in Kindle format or mobi format.
I was hoping when I went to see book 3 of the fey on Amazon that it would have 'available for Kindle' noted but alas it wasn't.
Feel free to e-mail me anytime 🙂
Thanks you so much for this. I have been looking to starting a venture and am certain the information and experience you bring to the project will be worth scores more than we could pay you. thank you for investing in the people. Thanks again.
Kris: Great idea. I'll dig in. My disability situation has me wondering what to do. Put more time into photography or writing or find a way to combine them. I've seen you struggle, do well, struggle, have poor health, make things work and so on, and on, and on. You are a wonderful friends and would love to continue learning from your brilliance which so many publishers fail to see. I get so pissed off at them, as you know. I'm afraid. I'm anxious about failing, particularly at my age. My back and tailbone are making writing bit more difficult to do in long stretches. It's not that I don't sit for a long time, I just suffer following rising. I am a pain in the butt to myself. My self-esteem in this area needs a lot of work. I'm pleased I'm selling op-ed but, damn, that doesn't do anything unless you're David Brooks or Herbert or an Ivins. Can't break into the market so I'm trying blogging. But I want to start doing fiction; political fiction, mystery political fiction. I need to know what tools to use from home so I don't have to do the travel. Very hard on the oxygen and body. But, great! Very glad you got off that little dime you've been sitting on and gone on with your passion. Lots of love to you and Dean. Oh, I thought I bought your next Retrieval Series book from Amazon. I always pay in advance. Hmmm…I'll look into it.
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Hi Kristine, Saw Michael Totten's post at Winds of Change and dropped by. I look forward to other posts. I am a freelancer myself although I just finished a two year engagement that very closely resembled a day job. I hope you will discuss various business models for freelancing. My current model is to work part time as an instructor at a company that does all the marketing for the classes and all the product development – so all I have to do is teach; and leverage that into consulting engagements. Since I basically teach on my own schedule it does seem to work out fine on the "freedom" side of the equation. I am thinking of starting a web site to sell some of my knowledge and I would be interested in any thoughts you have on how that might work. Well, enough for now. Great idea for a site, keep the material coming.
Kris —
Great stuff. I'm looking forward to the rest. I've linked this in my Live Journal, so hopefully both of my regular readers will drop by.
I miss you (and Dean) and the opportunity to come to the Oregon Coast workshops. You guys are great for sweeping away the myths and misunderstandings that plague this industry.
— KeVin Killiany
Hi Kris!
Thanks for doing this. Being completely freelance(at anything, really) has always been my dream and I am definitely getting closer to it. I have my theories on what I need to do and know, but I'll be watching here for the things that I am not thinking of, because I am sure there are many.
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I am not one of those that lost their job in the crisis (Thanks God), but I am one of those that hope they will earn a bit more being freelancers. What you are planning is a very good idea which will help many of us… newbies in this field. Good Luck
Here by way of Michael Totten. I am not a writer, but tried to make a new career as a consulting engineer last year, and returned screaming back to the 8 to 6 world. The engineering skills and project management skills have never been a problem, but the delay between time invested trying to get contract work – more time trying to get contract work – even more time trying…. (I'm a little suspicious that the economy might be slowing).. and then doing the job, and trying to get paid is brutal. It's not bricks and mortar but the 'working capital' in time and money tied up in a consulting business is huge. My hat is off to those that have learned how to make it work. Looking forward to seeing what principles in your business might be applicable to my second attempt.
Thanks for doing this, Kris. I'm going to read every installment.
And thanks for the kind plug.
I'm a grad student who strayed over here from Michael J. Totten's blog. It looks like journalism these days is going in this direction. So, I'm looking forward to reading more.
This is a great idea for an ongoing topic for someone of your background to be doing right now. I have been doing what I can to bring in some extra freelance income, and such a large number of people that I correspond with and/or who have written for my new magazine have found themselves laid off and feeling newly motivated to try to find a new niche.
What a great project! And right up my alley. I've been doing full-time freelance typesetting and layout (remember that when it comes time to do the layout on your book!) since getting downsized last year. Prior to that it had been a part-time venture while working a straight dayjob. Savings and a working spouse kept us afloat until full-time freelance started earning enough to pay the essential bills, and it's slowly getting better–but I know with the economy as it is currently, I could lose clients with little warning. A nervous, but fun life.
I've also started a small publishing business–graphic novels and related books–which may show a profit after a year. A risky venture, but one I've wanted to do for a long time. Making my own schedule has helped a lot.
I look forward to your upcoming columns. And thanks!
–John Teehan
Thanks for taking the time to do this series. I can't wait to learn from the wisdom of your experience!
It's an honor to learn from you!
Paul Tseng
Hi Kristine, This is a great idea. I've been writing freelance since 1993, but never gave up my day job. Now I'm retired, I have more time to devote to my writing. Still, I know there is a lot to learn and I'm looking forward to reading what you have to share.