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[219 U.S. 307, 308] Messrs. Alexander C. King, H. Pillans, Shelton Sims, J. H. Webb, King & Spalding, and Pillans, Hanaw, & Pillans for plaintiff in error.
[219 U.S. 307, 311] Messrs. Thomas M. Stevens and Stevens & Lyon for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion of the court:
This action was brought in one of the courts of Alabama by the defendant in error, hale, on a policy of fire insurance issued by the German Alliance Insurance Company, a New York corporation.
The policy covered 'lumber and squared timber while stacked on the banks of Byrne's Mill pond, near Bay Minette, Baldwin county, Alabama, said lot of lumber and timber containing 300,000 feet,' etc.
Upon the petition of the defendant, the case was removed into the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, where a verdict was returned for $5,198.93 in favor of the plaintiff. For that amount judgment was rendered against the company. The circuit court suggested that the verdict was excessive, and that the motion for new trial would be granted, unless the plaintiff reduced the verdict to $4,112. The required reduction was made and the new trial denied. Northern P. R. Co. v. Herbert, 116 U.S. 642, 647 , 29 S. L. ed. 755, 758, 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 590.
The principal question presented by the assignments of [219 U.S. 307, 313] error arises out of certain provisions of the Code of Alabama, as follows:
At the time of the contract of insurance, the defendant corporation was connected with a tariff association which prescribed the rates of premium to be charged by its constituent members. The verdict and judgment against the company gave effect to that clause of the statute providing that, under every contract or policy of insurance, thereafter made or issued by any such association, the assured or beneficiary may, in addition to the actual loss or damage suffered, recover 25 per cent of the amount of such actual loss, any provision or stipulation in such contract or policy to the contrary notwithstanding.
The assignments of error present a question of practice which is supposed to be raised by those provisions of the policy which contained a covenant and warranty in these words:
The principal question arising on this writ of error is whether the above sections of the Alabama Code are consistent with the Constitution of the United States. The contention is that the provision allowing the insured or beneficiary in a named contingency to recover, in addition to the actual loss or damage suffered by him, 25 per cent of the amount of loss or damage so suffered,-any stipulation in the contract of insurance to the contrary notwithstanding,-deprives the company of its property without due process of law, and also denies to it the equal protection of the laws; thus, it is contended, violating the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
In our opinion the statute is not liable to objection on constitutional grounds. The state-as we may infer from the words of the statute alone-regarded the fixing of insurance rates by self-constituted tariff associations or combinations [219 U.S. 307, 316] as an evil against which the public should be guarded by such legislation as the state was competent to enact. This question was before the supreme court of Alabama, and the statute was there assailed as violating both the state and Federal Constitutions. That court held that the object of the legislature of Alabama was to prevent monopoly and to encourage competition in the matter of insurance rates, and that the statute was a legitimate exercise to that end of the police power of the state, not inconsistent with either the state or Federal Constitution. Constitutional Ins. Co. v. Parkes, 142 Ala. 650, 658, 659, 39 So. 204. The same view of the statute was taken by the state court in subsequent cases. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. Hellner, 159 Ala. 447, 49 So. 297, 17 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 793; AEtna F. Ins. Co. v. Kennedy, 161 Ala. 600, 50 So. 73. We concur entirely in the opinion expressed by the state court, that the statute does not infringe the Federal Constitution, nor deprive the insurance company of any right granted or secured by that instrument. The business of fire insurance is, as everyone knows, of an extensive and peculiar character, and its management concerns a very large number of people, particularly those who own property and desire to protect themselves by insurance. We can well understand that fire insurance companies, acting together, may have owners of property practically at their mercy in the matter of rates, and may have it in their power to deprive the public generally of the advantages flowing from competition between rival organizations engaged in the business of fire insurance. In order to meet the evils of such combinations or associations, the state is competent to adopt appropriate regulations that will tend to substitute competition in the place of combination or monopoly. Carroll v. Greenwich Ins. Co. 199 U.S. 401, 411 , 50 S. L. ed. 246, 250, 26 Sup. Ct. Rep. 66. Regulations having a real, substantial relation to that end, and which are not essentially arbitrary, cannot property be characterized as a deprivation of property without due process of law. They are enacted [219 U.S. 307, 317] under the power with which the states have never parted, of caring for the common good within the limits of constitutional authority. Insurance companies, indeed, all corporations, associations, and individuals, within the jurisdiction of a state, are subject to such regulations, in respect of their relative rights and duties, as the state may, in the exercise of its police power, and in harmony with its own and the Federal Constitution, prescribe for the public convenience and the general good. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 27 , 31 S., 49 L. ed. 643, 651, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 358, 3 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 765; Lake Shore & M. S. R. Co. v. Ohio, 173 U.S. 285, 297 , 43 S. L. ed. 702, 706, 19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 465; House v. Mayes, 219 U.S. 270 , 55 L. ed. --, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 234.
Much stress is placed by the insurance company on that clause of the statute allowing the insured to recover, in addition to the actual loss or damage suffered, 25 per cent of the amount of such loss or damage, if the company, before or at the time of trial, belonged to or was connected with a tariff association that fixed rates. We do not think that this provision is in excess of the power of the state. As a means to effect the object of the statute,-the discouragement of monopoly or combination, and the encouragement of competition in the matter of insurance rates,-the state adopted the regulations here in question. It was for the state, keeping within the limits of its constitutional powers, to say what particular means it would prescribe for the protection of the public in such matters. The court certainly cannot say that the means here adopted are not, in any real or substantial sense, germane to the end sought to be attained by the statute. Those means may not be the best that could have been devised, but the court cannot, for any such reason, declare them illegal or beyond the power of the state to establish. So far as the Federal Constitution is concerned, the state could forbid, under penalty, combinations to be formed within its limits, by persons, associations, or corporations engaged in the business of insurance, for the purpose of fixing rates. But it is not bound to go to that extent in its [219 U.S. 307, 318] legislation. It may, in its discretion, go only so far as to impose upon associations or corporations acting together in fixing rates, a liability to pay to the insured, as part of the recovery, a certain per cent beyond the actual loss or damage suffered, if, before or at the time of suit on the contract of insurance, it is made to appear that the company or corporation sued is part of or connected with a tariff rate association. Such a provision manifestly tends to discourage monopoly or combination and to encourage competition in a business in the conduct of which the general public is largely interested.
Equally without basis on which to rest is the contention that the statute violates the clause of the 14th Amendment, forbidding a state to 'deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.' We will assume, for the purposes of this case, that this company is within the jurisdiction of the Federal court, so as to entitle it to claim the benefit of that provision of the 14th Amendment. Blake v. McClung, 172 U.S. 239, 260 , 43 S. L. ed. 432, 440, 19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 165. We are yet clearly of the opinion that the statute does not, within the meaning of the Constitution, deny the insurance company the equal protection of the laws. The statute applies only to associations or corporations that unite in fixing the rates of insurance to be charged by each constituent member of the combination. Looking at the evil to be remedied, that was such a classification as the state could legally make. It is neither unreasonable nor arbitrary within the rule that a classification must rest upon some difference indicating 'a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect of which the classification is proposed.' The legislature naturally directed its enactment against insurance companies or corporations which, before or at the time of trial, were found to be members of an insurance tariff association that fixed rates. No principle or classification required it to include insurance associations that were free to act, in [219 U.S. 307, 319] the matter of rates, upon the merits of each application for insurance, unaffected by any agreement or arrangement with other companies. All insurance companies, persons, or corporations engaged in the business of insurance, as agent or otherwise, with associations, persons, or corporations which acted together in fixing rates, are placed by the statute upon an equality in every respect, and therefore it cannot rightfully be contended that the plaintiff in error is denied the equal protection of the laws. Whatever 'liberty of contract' they had must have been exercised in subordination to any valid regulations the state prescribed for the conduct of their business. Statutes that apply equally to all of the same class and under like conditions cannot be held to deny the equal protection of the laws; for, as this court has adjudged, 'the equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws' to all under like circumstances. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 367 , 30 S. L. ed. 220, 221, 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1064; Barbier v. Connolly, 113 U.S. 27 , 28 L. ed. 923, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 357; Soon Hing v. Crowley, 113 U.S. 703 , 28 L. ed. 1145, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 730.
One of the assignments of error for this court, the ninth, is that the circuit court erred in sustaining the plaintiff's demurrer to the plea numbered two, in which reference was made to the above provisions, alleged to be embodied in the policy, and which make it the duty of the assured at stated times to take an inventory of stock on hand, and keep a set of books, to be securely locked in a fireproof safe at night. To that plea the plaintiff demurred upon these separate grounds: 1. It did not appear that the plaintiff was bound by the provision of the policy referred to in the plea. 2. The property insured was of such a character that the policy set up in the plea was not applicable thereto. 3. It did not appear that the property insured was of such a character that the provision of the policy, as set up in the plea, was applicable thereto. 4. It was not made to appear by the plea that there was any purchase, sales, and shipment or other business transacted from the time the [219 U.S. 307, 320] policy was issued until the time of the loss which affected or related to the property insured. The demurrer was sustained, but no exception appears to have been taken to this action of the courts. The defendant did not stand upon his plea, and went to trial upon the merits of the case, without objection, and introduced evidence upon other issues in the case, but at the trial no evidence was offered or introduced on either side relating to the matters set out in the second plea. Under these circumstances, we are not required to consider the questions raised by that plea. On this record we may fairly assume that the defendant at the trial waived or abandoned the issues raised by the plea. Garrard v. Reynolds, 4 How. 123, 126, 11 L. ed. 903, 905; Weed v. Crane, 154 U.S. 570 , and 19 L. ed. 712, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1215. Restricting this decision to the points hereinbefore discussed, the judgment must be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
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While the bulk of the mainstream media seems to be sitting on their hands, the Internet-only news organization RAW STORY is actually making calls, confirming info, and advancing the story as the very model of what investigative journalism used to look like in this country.
To that end, RAW STORY followed up today on an article published by The BRAD BLOG last week, in which we issued a point-by-point reply to the "full statement" of Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) in regards to the explosive Clint Curtis charges we broke here two weeks ago.
Those charges concerned, amongst other things, the allegation that Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) asked Curtis to create "vote-rigging software" back in a 2000 meeting at YEI where Curtis worked at the time. Feeney was then their corporate attorney and registered lobbyist, as well as a Florida state legislator who would shortly thereafter become Speaker of the Florida Legislature.
In RAW STORY's piece this morning, editor John Byrne was able to get a short reply from a YEI Vice-President concerning the evidence we posted refuting the companies claim that Hai Lin Nee (a/k/a Henry Nee) "has never been an employee of YEI." Nee had plead guilty in October of this year to espionage charges concerning the shipment of Hellfire Anti-Tank Missiles parts to China, and was named by Curtis in his affidavit [PDF] as being an "illegal-alien" working for YEI and having added "wiretapping routines" to software that YEI was contracted to create for NASA and other companies.
In our reply to that, we published several "Weekly Time Reports" (received via Public Records Requests) submitted by YEI to the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT). The time cards with YEI stationery were signed by Nee and indicated that he worked as a "Consultant" for the company as many as 60 hours a week on the "Electronic Document Management System" contract (EDMS) that YEI had with FDOT.
"He was never an employee," Yang Vice President Lowell Weaver said by telephone Monday. "Henry Nee was not a consultant either."
Weaver added that Yang had never paid Nee for any services. He declined to comment further and did not say that the timecards weren't real, deferring comment to Yang's attorney, who is on vacation until Jan. 2.
We also posted several emails in our article replying to YEI's "full statement" --- including one from Nee himself, and another from the CEO's exective secretary, Mike Cohen --- which indicated that Nee, did in fact work at YEI in apparent contradiction to both the "full statement" on the YEI website, and the comments above from Weaver.
Additionally, RAW STORY was able to contact Tom Yowell, the Special Agent assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in Orlando Florida, concerning his email to Clint Curtis indicating that YEI was "under investigation by another Division of the FBI."
Yowell confirmed to RAW STORY that he did in fact send that email to Curtis on Nov. 22nd, 2004 as The BRAD BLOG first reported.
But then Yowell seemed to do a bit of interesting backtracking on the matter...
"It turns out that I'm not even sure it's the same company," he said. He stated that he would call another FBI office which might be able to furnish more information.
In their "full statement", YEI had claimed they were "not under investigation by the FBI". Which Yowell's email to Curtis would seem to dispute.
Why a Special Agent for the FBI Joint Terorrism Task Force would tell a concerned citizen one thing via Email after he reported a number of activities concerning YEI and then begin backtracking only after the information became public knowledge is a question that we will continue to look into as this remarkable story continues to develop...

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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
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|Priority 2: rising and similar
|Priority 3: rising and below
|Priority 4: stable and above
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DeSoto County
Harrison County
Jackson County
Lee County
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Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 10/04/2023 9:09 am.
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.
Rate Comparison
Above when 95% confident the rate is above and Rate Ratio3 > 1.10
Similar when unable to conclude above or below with confidence.
Below when 95% confident the rate is below and Rate Ratio3 < 0.90
1 Priority indices were created by ordering from rates that are rising and above the comparison rate to rates that are falling and below the comparison rate.
2 Recent trend in death rates is usually an Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint Version 18.104.22.168. Due to data availability issues, the time period and/or calculation method used in the calculation of the trends may differ for selected geographic areas.
3 Rate ratio is the county rate divided by the US rate. Previous versions of this table used one-year rates for states and five-year rates for counties. As of June 2018, only five-year rates are used.
Source: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
Note: When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate. Suppression is used to avoid misinterpretation when rates are unstable.
State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data. Data presented on the State Cancer Profiles Web Site may differ from statistics reported by the State Cancer Registries (for more information).
Data for the following has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate and trend estimates:
Adams County, Alcorn County, Amite County, Attala County, Benton County, Bolivar County, Calhoun County, Carroll County, Chickasaw County, Choctaw County, Claiborne County, Clarke County, Clay County, Coahoma County, Copiah County, Covington County, Forrest County, Franklin County, George County, Greene County, Grenada County, Hancock County, Holmes County, Humphreys County, Issaquena County, Itawamba County, Jasper County, Jefferson County, Jefferson Davis County, Jones County, Kemper County, Lafayette County, Lamar County, Lawrence County, Leake County, Leflore County, Lincoln County, Lowndes County, Marion County, Marshall County, Monroe County, Montgomery County, Neshoba County, Newton County, Noxubee County, Oktibbeha County, Panola County, Pearl River County, Perry County, Pike County, Pontotoc County, Prentiss County, Quitman County, Scott County, Sharkey County, Simpson County, Smith County, Stone County, Sunflower County, Tallahatchie County, Tate County, Tippah County, Tishomingo County, Tunica County, Union County, Walthall County, Warren County, Washington County, Wayne County, Webster County, Wilkinson County, Winston County, Yalobusha County, Yazoo County
Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year:
Lauderdale County, Madison County, Rankin County
Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer statistics. When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate.
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Sarah Giersch - iLumina Digital Library
A two-day workshop on Participant Involvement in Digital Libraries (PIDL), sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted by The Math Forum at Drexel University [1] was held in early February 2004. The workshop brought together 35 experienced practitioners and evaluators from projects funded by NSF's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program [2] and from the area of online community development to describe and discuss the nature of participant involvement in NSDL [3] and NSDL-funded projects, as well as methods that provide feedback about participants to these projects.
The PIDL workshop had the twin goals of 1) exploring the practical issues of building participant involvement in digital libraries (DLs) as well as bringing together the research to date on participant involvement in NSDL and 2) focusing directions for future workshops. The goals of the PIDL workshop included sharing information about work already completed and outlining the challenges involved in establishing educational DLs [4] as active communities of practice. Workshop attendees developed strategies that will help NSDL projects, and DLs in general, incorporate involvement of participants from the communities the DLs serve; this "participant involvement" in turn will help grow and support the DLs. Workshop attendees formulated recommendations that anticipate involving participants both as users of the DL and as producers of new knowledge for the community. The full PIDL workshop report can be found on the workshop website [5].
The concise report presented here details the relevance of participant involvement to DLs; provides a summary of issues and action items identified during the workshop; and offers recommendations for the direction of future research on participant involvement and community-building. While the PIDL workshop focused specifically on NSF's NSDL program, the ideas developed in the workshop have broader application to the larger DL community.
The Case for Participant Involvement
Educational digital libraries are faced with several challenges, among them: to be widely adopted; to contribute meaningfully to educational improvements; and to thrive following start-up funding. They also have the potential to be more than simply a collection of resources. Educational DLs have the potential be the junction for active, engaged communities.
While there are several public and private sector models for building and maintaining DLs, a model that involves participants who have varying strengths, needs, experiences, and interests should make a significant difference in the design, development, and utility of educational DLs. Development of a model or models that describe participant involvement should enhance the likelihood that multiple audiences and constituencies can be effectively involved in all facets of educational DLs. How DLs choose to invest in involving participants is affected by:
One challenge in developing a model for participant involvement that applies across all DLs is that efforts to foster interaction often evolve organically and remain localized to a particular event (e.g., resource contribution or site design) or to an individual DL. One way to overcome this challenge is to support the development of communities of practice that bring together people with various proficiencies to effectively and efficiently solve problems and develop tools, benefiting all constituents. Further, such communities can mobilize expertise, train the next generation of experts, and meet the needs of other less skilled participants. Adopting a strategic, centrally organized, participant involvement model could result in the growth of active communities of practice (e.g., around NSDL).
Participant Involvement in Practice
Workshop discussion focused on types of activities that comprise "building" digital libraries. This section identifies types of participation and activities for involving participants as well as identifies associated benefits, challenges, and recommendations related to participant involvement.
Creating, contributing and describing content
Since its inception in FY2000, the NSDL program has had a funding track to create collections of digital resources. This support has resulted in several models of how DLs could grow their collections through participant interaction. Two common models have emerged. They are:
One challenge related to individuals creating and contributing resources is that DLs need to demonstrate to participants that their contributions are valued.
Often, the line between creating information about a resource and creating the new resource itself is blurred, as resources may be modified to meet one-time needs [10] or separate resources might be combined to create completely new content [11]. While the technology supporting these models of contributing to DL collections or describing resources is still in the early developmental phase, one challenge will be that we need to remain focused on the primary goal of using technology to support participant involvement in creating, contributing, and describing content.
Involvement in human-moderated services
Human-moderated services rely primarily on direct human intervention to fulfill users' needs. In a distributed digital environment, many human-moderated services are delivered via technology, and at some point, may overlap with technology-mediated services. Human-moderated services can support interaction between DL staff and participants and can foster interaction between expert and novice participants of communities of practice.
Involvement in technology-mediated services
Technology-mediated services can include recommender systems [12], aggregation and harvesting services [13], federated search [14, 15] and hosting content [16, 17]. One point that human-moderated and technology-mediated services share is that technology should supplement, rather than substitute for, human interactions. While it is relatively easy to create technologies that support participant interaction, the challenge lies in supporting sustained interaction across complex social and cultural networks. Another ongoing challenge is that often technology drives the development process [18] without understanding the users' ultimate needs.
Sustaining and expanding involvement
"Sustaining" [19] a DL has often been equated with "maintaining" the DL. This could be a limiting idea because "sustaining" can also connote nourishment and growth. From that perspective, the DL becomes but one link within an ecosystemboth providing and requiring "sustenance". Participants who contribute to a DL's sustenance in turn receive nourishment. To be sustained and sustaining, DLs should develop business strategies or models that enable them to endure beyond research funding. The following recommendations for sustaining DLs emerged from the PIDL workshop:
Summary of Participant Involvement Issues
This section describes issues and challenges associated with involving participants in DLs. Highly developed DLs such as DLESE, ENC, Math Forum, MERLOT, and others demonstrate the importance of participant involvement in the growth and development of their sites. Following are operating principles shared by DLs that involve their "users" as participants:
However, as workshop attendees examined, word by word, the question: "If we build it, will they come?" attendees identified assumptions that limit effective action to involve participants (see Figure 1).
Involving Participants Requires an Investment
Ideally, participants should be involved from the earliest stages of building a DL. The short-term benefits of early and continuous involvement are that the infrastructure, content, and services meet the immediate strengths, needs, experiences, and interests of participants. Additionally, the DL can become responsible for sustaining its own growth at an earlier stage. In the long-term, continued involvement can create a sense of trust in participants, leading to long-term commitments. In order to achieve this continued involvement, DLs invest time, money and human capital. At the same time, they also need to acknowledge and reward participants' investment of time and effort (discussed in more detail below). Two key challenges include: being responsive to participants' needs while progressing steadily through the DL building process and scaling human-intensive development processes or services.
Involving Participants in Projects
Involving participants in NSDL projects may be optimal for participant growth; the question is how to make this experience optimal for projects. Working with participants takes time and does not necessarily yield immediate results that may become criteria for evaluating DL effectiveness (e.g., papers, site resources, etc.). Some issues that surfaced in discussions include the following:
Participant Incentives
Participants' time and effort need to be recognized and valued. This is more complicated than just providing rewards for participation, contribution, and so forth. DLs must first understand participants' strengths, needs, experiences, and motivating interests: (e.g., a participant might ask, "How will participating in the DL enhance my educational or professional life?"). If participants are involved in every phase of DL building, the DL is more likely to reflect and match the strengths, needs, experiences, and interests of participants. At the same time, DLs need to build in rewards for participating that are meaningful and valued. Experiences of workshop participants suggest that:
It is a Challenge to Support the Evolution of Participation
DLs operate at various stages of development. Similarly, participants engage DLs at various stages of individual growth and need. Over time participants will shift roles or will adopt additional roles as their needs evolve; technology will mature beyond the cycle of test and development; and communities will coalesce around areas of interest, practice or need. The challenge is to recognize that DLs evolve and that participation in DLs varies and requires appropriate human and technical scaffolds to accommodate these transitions. This evolution is influenced by 1) the activities and needs of current and potential participants, 2) the knowledge and skills that exist within the participant community, 3) the types of content and services offered by a DL, and 4) the stage of development, resources and services of the DL.
Participant and DL Collaboration
Collaborations can take many forms (e.g., distributed / centralized, formal / informal). Results of collaboration can vary based on the depth of involvement from DL staff and participants, with more intensive collaborations requiring a larger investment of time and resources but potentially yielding more enduring results. A number of successful efforts at localized collaboration among specific projects, audiences, disciplines or geographic areas were identified during the workshop.
Collaborations typically occur via both relatively simple technology tools and face-to-face. Two factors that motivate DL staff and participants to collaborate are 1) that they share common needs and 2) that they value meeting their needs together. Obvious benefits for DLs include (a) leaders working and worrying together about similar issues and (b) leveraging the experiences of other DLs and participants. On a larger scale, collaboration is beneficial for the diffusion of innovation [22]. Collaboration also includes challenges:
DLs are an important new tool that can have a significant effect on people's behavior and opportunities to learn. So, it is important to discover who is using DLs, to understand the constraints that affect use and to identify what would help individuals change their existing patterns of interaction and allow these individuals to become regular participants.
In undertaking evaluation, DLs need to know who their participants are, what the social context is for their participation in DLs and what scaffolds different types of participants need to aid their learning. As these questions are answered, DL staff can identify evaluation goals for the DL and work with researchers and evaluators to identify whether or not significant social change is occurring. This level of exploratory research is critical for all DLs, and particularly for NSDL at this time, because such research will provide an understanding of how DLs fit into participants' lives and how creative participants are using the DL to further educational and learning goals.
As it is better understood who DL participants are and why they come to a particular DL, it becomes possible to do larger, targeted and detailed descriptive studies of participants' activities and of what those activities mean to participants. This work provides a detailed understanding of what the DL means to different participants. For NSDL, broadly speaking, this level of research is expected to come after substantial exploratory work is conducted in NSDL and other DLs and would require some coordination of research efforts across different DLs. For these reasons, descriptive work may not be part of the evaluation plans of a single DL but rather the coordinated effort of evaluators across several mature DLs.
It is hoped that after exploratory and descriptive evaluation there will be large-scale explanatory studies that follow an experimental model, which would allow for assessment of educational impact. These studies could adhere to the tradition of double-blind experimental research by establishing research hypotheses, testing hypotheses with a large representative sample and explaining the results. Explanatory research with reliable results is critical for NSDL in that it is necessary to know what impact new educational communities have on teacher and student learning and practice [23]. While explanatory research should be a goal for NSDL, like descriptive research, explanatory research is often larger in scale and requires a high degree of coordination. It also requires a much greater knowledge than currently exists of what is happening in DLs. NSDL should develop plans to support coordinated explanatory studies to be undertaken by teams of researchers across different mature DLs. However, explanatory research is not likely to be part of the regular evaluation plan of individual DLs.
Because research on DL participants is in an early phase, evaluators often are not aware of what is known about social activity in DLs. In addition, research into the patterns of activity of participants in DLs and how they incorporate DLs into their daily lives is complexit involves investigating the new social worlds created by the overlap of virtual and physical spaces. Evaluators and researchers can take advantage of new information technologies, and by studying DLs, close this gap between spaces. It is suggested that the results of evaluation be shared across NSDL so that researchers can see what others have learned and consider its application to their own DL.
Action Items
Workshop attendees concluded that in order to better inform themselves and others about involving participants in DLs, the following actions need to be taken:
This work was sponsored by The National Science Foundation under grant no. DUE-0226284. Opinions expressed in this piece are not necessarily endorsed by the National Science Foundation or Drexel University.
Notes and References
[1] The Math Forum home page, <http://www.mathforum.org>.
[2] National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program, <http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/DUE/programs/nsdl/>.
[3] National Science Digital Library (NSDL), <http://www.nsdl.org>.
[4] In this report, digital library (DL) is an inclusive term, encompassing NSDL, NSDL-funded projects and other online sites of communities.
[5] PIDL workshop website, <http://pidlworkshop.comm.nsdl.org>.
[6] User-contributed content is a goal of the Chemistry Collective, <http://www.chemcollective.org/>. It provides authoring tools for both virtual labs and scenario-based learning, and is starting the project with a base of six authors who have contributed roughly one third of the activities.
[7] GROW, <http://www.grow.arizona.edu>, relies on content contributed by undergraduate engineering student employees, high school interns, professors, and other users of the collection.
[8] The Gender Science Digital Library (GSDL), <http://www.gsdl.org/>, has spent time developing sample lesson plans out of the items in the collection, based on the focus group feedback of K-12 teachers. This has been the most used and most commented on section of the siteimmediately usable content with a clear context for use.
[9] Each ComPADRE, <http://www.compadre.org/>, collection has an Advisory Panel of recognized experts/practitioners in the field covered by the collection. Their job is to recommend authors and projects that can provide high quality content.
[10] At Unidata, the Internet Data Distribution (IDD), <http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/idd/index.html>, system enables hundreds of universities nationwide to receive vast quantities of real-time data (of many types in many forms) and to store custom subsets that reflect specific departmental and faculty interests. The stored data subsequently may be shared via conventional Web images or direct-access methods such as are being developed (in part with NSDL funding) under the THREDDS project, <http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/projects/THREDDS/index.html>).
[11] Instructional Architect, <http://ia.usu.edu/>, is a program designed to help participants use existing instructional resources from digital libraries in order to create engaging and interactive educational web pages.
[12] SMETE.ORG Recommender Service,
[13] SMETE.ORG Technology, <http://www.smete.org:80/smete/?path=/public/about_smete/activities/
[14] The search engine found at ENCdl.org allows single or multiple ENC and ENC collaborative collections to be searched. It is not quite a federated search, but it is a model for how multiple collections that have been described using a variety of metadata can be displayed via a common access point.
[15] MERLOT's Federated Search <http://fedsearch.merlot.org/main/search.jsp>, currently hosts federated search with SMETE.ORG and EdNA Online - Education Network Australia. This model allows users to search all three digital libraries, seamlessly.
[16] Hosting materials submitted by users is a vexing issue. The Michigan Teacher Network (MTN; <http://mtn.merit.edu/>) hosted the results of the Michigan Department of Education lesson plan contest. Teachers were paid $100 for each lesson plan submitted. The process did not involve a consistent template or any review process. Quality is essential when dealing with submitted material.
[17] The Learning Matrix, <http://thelearningmatrix.enc.org/>, has the ability to accept participant submitted materials. The participants are asked to use the ENC cataloging tool to complete metadata fields.
[18] This was not the case with ComPADRE: On the ComPADRE student site, <http://www.compadre.org/student/>, the national board of the Society for Physics Students (a group of both students and SPS chapter advisors) was consulted on the design and features for the site during construction. Working groups were selected to generate ideas about various pieces of the site.
[19] Two previous NSDL workshops have addressed sustainability topics: 1) Establishing Relationships between Educational Publishers and the NSDL (October 2002), <http://publishers.comm.nsdl.org/deliverables/>, McArthur, D., Giersch, S., Wittenberg, K. and M. Luby. NSDL Educational Publishers Workshop: Workshop Report) and 2) Exploring Business Options for NSDL identified potential business models to sustain NSDL and NSDL-funded projects (November 2003), <http://nsdlbizmodel.comm.nsdl.org/docs/>, McArthur, D. NSDL Report: A Review of Business Options for the National Science Digital Library)
[20] NEEDS Premier Award, <http://www.needs.org/premier/>.
[21] The MERLOT awards program, <http://taste.merlot.org/awards/>, is an annual award given out for 'best in discipline' (Classics Award) and 'best overall' (Editors' Choice Award)selected by editorial boards. Materials that rate highly in the peer review process are considered for the award. The Awards program receives funding from sponsors. Editors' Choice awardees receive a small stipend and travel to the MERLOT International Conference where the award is presented. Classics award winners receive free registration to the MERLOT International Conference. All Awardees who attend the conference showcase their materials, and they are highlighted on the MERLOT site.
[22] See work by: Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point; Hagel and Armstrong, NetGain; Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm; Sami Paavola, <http://newmedia.colorado.edu/cscl/228.html>. Also, <http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/cil/documents.php?cilid=99&folderid=227>, contains a list of papers about collaboration and diffusion of innovation.
[23] The Math Forum <http://www.mathforum.org>, has been studying the impact of site services on students' mathematical thinking and has developed rubrics for identifying problem difficulty that allow weighted comparison of student work on one problem with work on another problem. Study has also been conducted on mentor-participant exchanges in the Ask Dr. Math Service, <http://www.mathforum.org/dr.math/>. Studies of this type have been undertaken in response to staff members' questions, and findings are used to further develop site services. These studies serve a dual purpose in that they provide needed information to the site and provide summative studies of service impact. These studies follow earlier descriptive study of the same services.
[24] K.A. Renninger & W. Shumar (Eds.), Building virtual communities: Learning and change in cyberspace. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
[25] See PIDL workshop for latest version <http://pidlworkshop.comm.nsdl.org>.
[26] See, Renninger, K.A. & Shumar, W. (2002). Community building with and for teachers: The Math Forum as a resource for teacher professional development. In K.A. Renninger & W. Shumar (Eds.), Building virtual communities: Learning and change in cyberspace (pp 60-95). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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224: Number of eateries participating in Restaurant Week last summer.
204: Number expected to participate this summer.
THE IDEA OF BRINGING IN A DIFFERENT segment of clientele is attractive to a higher-end restaurant like Lumiere, and over the years we did well with Restaurant Week. But under the program, the price of the prix fixe meal goes up only a penny a year, and in the past decade, my costs — across the board — have risen significantly more than that. For example, there was a year when my health insurance went up 30 percent. For a small business, that's very difficult to absorb.
At $33.12 a meal during Restaurant Week, it's not feasible anymore for us to serve the food we normally do, or even to serve a reasonable facsimile. I couldn't serve the rib-eye steak and scallops from our regular menu, but people had that expectation. They thought, "I'm going to get it at half the price." I'd love to be able to do that, but this isn't a charitable organization. And it's not like we picked up a lot of regulars — certainly not enough to justify two weeks of losses. Instead, we're offering our own $45 three-course prix fixe throughout the month.
The crux of the problem is this: Anybody can put the same idea on the menu and get the same basic ingredients. But it's more than that. The mixed greens I buy cost $10 or $12 a pound, whereas I can pay $7 for a 3-pound box of organic spring mix like you see in the supermarket. It's raised in California by a giant corporation, while the mix I get is local and picked a few times a week. They may contain some of the same varieties of greens, but there's a world of difference. Similarly, the grass-fed beef I get is roughly three times the price of commodity beef, and yet I can't offer a rib-eye steak at three times the price of most other restaurants. No one would come.
Everybody thinks high-end restaurants are so expensive, and they aren't cheap, but given the quality of ingredients and the caliber of the staff I hire, we still offer significant value. That can be difficult to communicate.
A fundamental change in the restaurant industry took place after September 11, 2001. People got scared. Up until then you had irrational exuberance. Today, the haves have more and everybody else has a little less, and I think that affects restaurants as well. You also see businesses spending less on food and dining. The way the sector is going, restaurants will not continue to be so high-end. We'll see fewer of those types and more casual everyday places. It's a tough market. I have some highly skilled people who are not making what they really ought to be. If people knew, they would be shocked.
But there are new restaurants opening almost every day. More food dollars are being spent outside the home, and the economy here, for a lot of people, is still quite good. The fact that we're all still in business does speak to the fact that there's a segment of the population that appreciates what we do. There are a lot of chefs in Boston who are trying to do local, sustainable, community-raised — whatever that umbrella covers. They're trying to do the right thing.
I don't want it to sound as if I'm whining or bitter. The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau does a great job of publicizing Restaurant Week. It's brought a lot of people out during what is traditionally one of the slowest times of the year. I just wanted to put it out there as a statement that, for us, Restaurant Week's numbers don't add up. I'm trying to raise awareness about the true costs of running a restaurant. That's the hidden part of the equation.
Mark Pothier is the Globe's deputy business editor. E-mail him at email@example.com. This interview has been edited and condensed.


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Since 1996, Vote Smart has conducted the Political Courage Test, which has asked every presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative candidate in the country one question: "Are you willing to tell citizens your positions on the issues you will most likely face on their behalf?"
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Author: Jan Scholten
Jan's column: the banks and the economic crisis
by Jan Scholten
It is interesting to look at the international crisis and at the banking world from a homeopathic point of view. The bankers are represented by the Gold series, which reflects the responsibility for the world. The bankers, however, in their responsible position went for personal gain, which is an aspect of the Carbon series. In this case, Fluorine is the most indicated, as the bonuses are more a theft than an earning. The amount of money they took out of the banks was not in proportion with the amount they brought in as profit.
We can see several aspects of fluorine in the bankers' behavior. Speculation and gambling became major sources of income in the banking world and in the stock market. Here, we can also see the aspect of theft; nothing was produced but a lot was gained. Dishonesty and cheating are other aspects, which are reflected in the ratings of mortgage packages. Borrowers were rated as very good but, in fact, they were approved for mortgages they could never afford. So, when we combine these observations, we can see that the remedies Aurum fluoratum or Mercurius fluoratus are well indicated for the bankers.
For the people working for them, who are also getting bonuses, the Silver series fluoratums are strongly indicated. They are not the bosses but the ones who invented (Silver series) new and strange "products" that made the cover up and the cheating (fluorine) possible.
It is interesting to see that the whole process gradually came into existence since the use of fluorine, in dental hygiene, has become extensive. In some toothpastes, the chemical combinations used could very well fit a group of people working in the banking industry, for instance Stannum fluoratum.
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Emotions surged. For the first time in the seven years since a motorcycle accident left him a quadriplegic, Hemmes was reaching out to someone - even if it was only temporary, part of a monthlong science experiment at the University of Pittsburgh.
"It wasn't my arm but it was my brain, my thoughts. I was moving something," Hemmes says. "I don't have one single word to give you what I felt at that moment. That word doesn't exist."
The Pennsylvania man is among the pioneers in an ambitious quest for thought-controlled prosthetics to give the paralyzed more independence - the ability to feed themselves, turn a doorknob, hug a loved one.
The goal is a Star Trek-like melding of mind and machine, combining what's considered the most humanlike bionic arm to date - even the fingers bend like real ones - with tiny chips implanted in the brain. Those electrodes tap into electrical signals from brain cells that command movement. Bypassing a broken spinal cord, they relay those signals to the robotic third arm.
This research is years away from commercial use, but numerous teams are investigating different methods.
At Pittsburgh, monkeys learned to feed themselves marshmallows by thinking a robot arm into motion. At Duke University, monkeys used their thoughts to move virtual arms on a computer and got feedback that let them distinguish the texture of what they "touched."
Through a project known as BrainGate and other research, a few paralyzed people outfitted with brain electrodes have used their minds to work computers, even make simple movements with prosthetic arms.
But can these neuroprosthetics ever offer the complex, rapid movements that people would need for more practical, everyday use?
"We really are at a tipping point now with this technology," says Michael McLoughlin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which developed the humanlike arm in a $100 million project for DARPA, the Pentagon's research agency.
Pittsburgh is helping to lead a closely watched series of government-funded studies over the next two years to try to find out. A handful of quadriplegic volunteers will train their brains to operate the DARPA arm in increasingly sophisticated ways, even using sensors implanted in its fingertips to try to feel what they touch, while scientists explore which electrodes work best.
"Imagine all the joints that are in your hand. There's 20 motions around all those joints," says Pittsburgh neurobiologist Andrew Schwartz. "It's not just reaching out and crudely grasping something. We want them to be able to use the fingers we've worked so hard on."
The 30-year-old Hemmes' task was a much simpler first step. He was testing whether a new type of chip, which for safety reasons the Food and Drug Administration let stay on this initial volunteer's brain for just a month, could allow for three-dimensional arm movement.
He surprised researchers the day before the electrodes were removed. The robotic arm whirred as Hemmes' mind pushed it forward to hesitantly tap palms with a scientist. Then his girlfriend beckoned. The room abruptly hushed. Hemmes painstakingly raised the black metal hand again and slowly rubbed its palm against hers a few times.
These emotional robotic touches have inspired researchers now recruiting volunteers for soon-to-start yearlong experiments.
"It was awesome," is the decidedly unscientific description from the normally reserved Dr. Michael Boninger, rehabilitation chief at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "To interact with a human that way. ... This is the beginning."
Hemmes' journey began in 2004. He owned an auto-detailing shop and rode his motorcycle in his spare time. Then one summer evening he swerved to miss a deer. His bike struck a guardrail. His neck snapped.
His determination didn't. Paralyzed below the shoulders, he's tried other experimental procedures in hopes, so far unrealized, of regaining some arm function.
"I always tell people your legs are great ... but they just get you from here to there," Hemmes says as his caregiver waits to feed him a bite of a cheeseburger near his home in Butler, north of Pittsburgh. "Your arms and fingers and hands do everything else. I have to get those back, I absolutely have to."
His ultimate goal is to hug his 8-year-old daughter. "I'm going to do whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to do that again."
Hemmes entered an operating room at UPMC with a mix of nerves and excitement.
"It's good anxiety," he says. "There is so much riding on this."
Think "I want that apple," and your arm reaches out and grasps it. You're not aware that neurons are instantaneously firing in patterns that send commands down the spinal cord - make the shoulder raise the arm, extend the elbow, flex the wrist and all five fingers.
A very similar firing occurs when you imagine movement or watch the movement you'd like to perform, explains Boninger, who with Schwartz is leading the Pittsburgh research together with a team of bioengineers, neuroscientists and physicians.
The DARPA arm was developed primarily for amputees. Separate research is under way to help them move it by using transplanted nerves to sense those brain commands. The paralyzed pose a more difficult challenge: getting those signals around a broken spinal cord.
For quadriplegic patients, scientists use implanted electrodes, called a "brain-computer interface" or BCI, to record that electrical activity. The signals move down through wires that tunnel under the skin and out by the collarbone, and are plugged into a computer or a robotic arm.
Until now, researchers mostly have tested miniature electrodes that poke inside the brain's motor cortex and record from individual cells, presumably allowing for precise movements. Pittsburgh's next test-patient will have two penetrating grids implanted in different parts of the cortex for a year to record from 200 cells altogether.
In contrast, Hemmes' chip sat on the surface of his motor cortex, a less invasive method that records from groups of cells. The size of two postage stamps, it's based on a kind of electrical signal mapping used to track seizures in epilepsy patients.
Both approaches need study, says Daofen Chen of the National Institutes of Health, who oversees neurorehabilitation research. He compares the options to eavesdropping on a party by sending in individual microphones or setting up a recorder at the window.
Boninger adds that scar tissue can blunt the penetrating electrodes over time, and the surface chips may be easier to convert to a wireless system, which is important for commercial use.
Hemmes' operation took two hours. He had practiced imagining arm movements inside brain scanners, to see where the electrical signals concentrated. That's where neurosurgeon Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara cut, attaching the chip through an inch-wide opening on the left side of Hemmes' skull.
Two days later, Hemmes was hooked to a computer, beginning simple cursor movements. The next week, it was time to test if he could trigger real-life movement using the DARPA arm.
Hemmes reclined in his wheelchair, the robot arm bolted to a steel rod nearby. The task: make the arm reach out to grasp a ball mounted on a board.
The arm whirs forward, then stops, then goes again, then suddenly pulls back.
"It's doing the opposite of what I ask it do," Hemmes says in frustration. "When I think about reaching back, it goes forward."
Dr. Wei Wang, a member of the research team, watches Hemmes' brain patterns on a nearby computer screen, trying to match them to the robotic movements. Focus on your elbow, Wang advises.
Hemmes takes a deep breath and tries. The arm whirs forward this time, reaching the ball. The fingers clench around it.
"There's no owner's manual," Hemmes says, thrilled that the back-and-forth pays off. "I'm training my brain to figure how to do all this."
Letting go is harder, the motor growling as the arm tugs backward before the fingers fully release. Hemmes starts imagining his hand relaxing before pulling backward, and the robot hand follows.
Sure, a robotic hand that one day mounts to a wheelchair could be useful. But no matter how well today's prosthetics move, they've got a problem: They don't sense what they touch. Normally, instant messages flash from the skin up to the brain to say "squeeze tighter" so we don't drop that coffee cup, or "tight enough" so we don't hug too hard.
Besides, Hemmes shares the dream of many quadriplegics. He doesn't want a bionic third hand. He wants to move his own hands again.
"These are all scientific goals that are very real," Boninger says.
Recreating sensation means crafting a two-way highway with those brain chips. That's what Duke University, in a study published last week in the journal Nature, did with its two monkeys. When the animals "touched" objects on a computer screen with their video game-like arms, electrical signals flashed back up to implanted electrodes - different signals for different textures, to tell the objects apart.
Sensors in the DARPA arm's fingertips allow for that same kind of feedback. McLoughlin says the plan is for one of the Pittsburgh study patients to begin testing touch capability next year, with a similar attempt at the California Institute of Technology to follow.
What about moving paralyzed limbs? Duke's plan is to turn its research into a robotic exoskeleton that would help the paralyzed move their bodies.
Hemmes is more intrigued by what's called functional electrical stimulation, zapping muscles with electrical currents to make them move. At Hemmes' request, Boninger's team attempted to fit his hand with a stimulator glove that might be linked to his electrode, but it was unsuccessful. The NIH's Chen says still other researchers are working on that kind of approach.
Hemmes likened moving the DARPA arm to learning to drive a car with a manual transmission. It took practice, but by week four he was moving the arm sideways as well as back and forth.
The fingers still clenched pretty tight, though. So when his girlfriend Katie Schaffer spoke up - "I want to hold your hand," she said on his last day of testing - Hemmes didn't dare bend them.
The two met after his accident, so he'd never before reached out to her.
"I was just trying to be gentle. I didn't want to hurt her, and I finally got there," Hemmes says. "Definitely the tears were flowing."
He says he was ready for a break after almost daily scientific testing, so removing the electrode and wires the next day wasn't a disappointment. He's confident the researchers will call him back once the technology advances.
"I believe this is the future," he says. "Just let people know there's hope."


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D-backs take time to bond over paintball
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The D-backs went through an abbreviated workout schedule on Tuesday in order to leave Salt River Fields early for a team bonding outing at a local paintball range.
In addition to such players as Heath Bell and Wade Miley -- who were decked out in camouflage and other combat gear -- the club sent about 120 people to the 20-acre field, the specific location of which was known by only a handful of coaches and veteran players who helped set up the getaway.
"I think we've worked hard the last couple of days," manager Kirk Gibson said. "Now we're going to come together, have some fun, challenge each other and compete against each other. It's a good group so far. We want to continue that and get to know each other better."
The idea originated when Gibson met with closer J.J. Putz for lunch a couple of months ago to discuss the possibility of doing something as a team other than golf.
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'Everyman's Journey': Don't Believe Everything You Hear
Some bands are born of passion and deep camaraderie, a collective desire to rebel against authority — or at least to look cool. Others are born because a major label threatens to drop them if they don't find a lead vocalist.
It's possible that Journey started as the former before morphing into the latter. Most people know the band as the hit-making arena rockers responsible for "Don't Stop Believin'," "Open Arms," "Faithfully" and other songs you danced to at your cousin's wedding. But before Steve Perry's soaring voice and lustrous hair launched them into the '80s stratosphere, Journey was a Bay Area jam band, turning out technically proficient prog rock with a jazz-fusion bent. When CBS Records demanded they change course after their first two albums flopped, they reinvented themselves as a pop act with Perry at the center.
The chart-topping Journey of the early '80s — Perry, guitarist Neal Schon, keyboardist Jonathan Cain, bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith — was only good for a few years, plus a reunion or two, but the nostalgia tours haven't stopped in the three decades since. Journey minus Steve Perry may sound unthinkable to some, but the core group of Schon, Cain and Valory has forged on with a succession of new lead singers and session players and a few modest-selling albums to tour behind. The question of artistic legitimacy post-Perry doesn't matter: Journey is a cash register that never stops ringing.
The thin documentary Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey tells the remarkable rags-to-riches story of the band's latest vocalist, Arnel Pineda, a Filipino singer whose uncanny cover of "Faithfully," posted on YouTube, caught Schon's attention one night. After eight years with Steve Augeri as frontman — a period that ended with a throat infection and accusations that the band was piping in pre-recorded vocals — and an aborted attempt to recruit Jeremey Hunsicker, the lead singer of a Journey cover band, Schon and company were desperate for a viable frontman. In the wake of The Sopranos' series finale, which famously (and notoriously) ended with "Don't Stop Believin' " pumping through a diner jukebox, the time was ripe for a world tour. And with Pineda, they wound up hitting the jackpot.
The disparity between Journey's mercenary nature and Pineda's inspiring triumph over adversity comes through starkly in Everyman's Journey, but director Ramona S. Diaz doesn't seem conscious of it. She gets terrific footage of Pineda's rough initial studio sessions with the band, when he struggled to harness his voice, and of his first night on tour in Chile, where the adrenaline rush of performing before thousands of screaming fans had him zipping wildly around the stage. But in both cases, Journey members and management take a coolly analytical view of Pineda's flaws: His excitement is getting in the way of the pristine vocals the band (and its fans, presumably) has come to expect.
Sticking close to Pineda, Diaz hears heartbreaking stories of his broken family and deep poverty, including a period where he slept in a public park and literally sang for his supper. Had a fan not spent hours in an Internet cafe uploading grainy videos to YouTube, Pineda might still be belting out covers in the lounges of Manila, so he's understandably thunderstruck by the opportunity when Schon contacts him from out of the blue.
It's a dream come true — but it comes with a set of anxieties, too: Perry's shoes wouldn't be easy for any singer to fill, but for a poor young man from an underdeveloped country, the expectations of the band — and those of thousands of skeptical fans — are difficult to bear. Everyman's Journey glances at some of Pineda's problems on the tour, from a pesky cold to bouts of homesickness to the ugly specter of racist Journey fans, but it papers over them too quickly. Diaz insists on selling Pineda's promo-friendly myth at the expense of the richer, more complicated story of a dreamer who learns to become the durable professional his bandmates expect.
It's a cold-blooded business — and all sentiment aside, it's clear that Pineda is as replaceable as anyone.


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(Released: Jun 18, 1999)
Indian-based traditional family of Pundit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) gets a visit from Sameer Rafilini (Salman Khan), from Italy, who has come as a pupil to learn music and singing. Darbar and his family accept him. Sameer meets Nandini (Aishwarya Rai), Darbar's daughter, and both fall in love. But Darbar wants Nandini to wed Vanraj (Ajay Devgan), and has Sameer swear that he will leave India, and not marry Nandini, as his guru-dakshina (fee), to which Sameer agrees. Nandini is heart-broken, but does reluctantly marry Vanraj. When Vanraj finds out that Nandini is in love with Sameer, he takes her to Italy, so that both can be together again. Nandini must now come to terms with living with Sameer in Italy, or alienating her family and her new groom.


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In the business world, it is incredibly important to convey a professional image, not only in person but on the telephone as well. Knowing how to take care of callers and providing them with accurate information is critical. While sounding professional when speaking on the telephone may seem like an easy concept, there is always room for improvement. Whether you are a receptionist, work in customer service, are an executive secretary, or hold some other job title, the following telephone etiquette tips will help you always convey a professional image when speaking to a customer.
Always Speak Clearly
It is important to speak clearly and slowly. Because the person on the other end of the phone cannot see your face or body language, it is necessary to convey your message through clear speech.
Do Not Yell
Some people have a tendency to be on the louder side when they speak. If that is the case, it is imperative that you tone down your voice so that the person on the other end of the line does not feel that they are being shouted at. Even if it is not your intention, a customer having the impression that you are raising your voice will not convey a professional image for your company.
Don't Use Slang
When on the phone, you should never use slang. While it may be normal in everyday conversation, slang and other poor language conveys a very unprofessional message to the customer. You also never want to use swear words, regardless of how upset you may be.
Never Eat Or Drink
If you are tasked with answering the phone, whether full time, or as coverage for someone else, it is important to not eat or drink while on phone duty. Wait for your break to grab a drink or something to eat. Customers do not want to hear you chomping in their ear.
Always Listen
While it may seem obvious, listen to what the person on the phone is saying. It is often a good idea to repeat the information back to the customer in the event that you need to take a message. This ensures that you are taking down the proper message so it can be passed along to the correct coworker.
Use Proper Titles
When speaking to someone on the phone, especially if they are not someone you know, it is important to use the proper title when addressing the person. For instance, Mrs., Mr., Dr., etc. are appropriate. You never want to address a caller by their first name unless you have been given permission to do so.
Have Patience
People will often contact a business when they are unhappy about something. It is incredibly important to have patience and be as helpful as possible when you have an upset customer on the phone. Try your best to provide them with the appropriate resources to remedy their issue and never, ever act in a rude manner towards the customer.
Focus on the Task at Hand
Especially for those that work in a busy, fast paced office setting, it can be difficult to keep your concentration. When speaking to someone on the phone, you need to remain focused on the call as opposed to what is going on around you. If a coworker tries to interrupt your call, make it clear you are on the phone and will be with them as soon as the call is over.
Ask Permission Before Placing a Call on Hold
If you are responsible for answering multiple calls, it will be necessary to place people on hold. Before placing a customer on hold, you should always politely ask if you may place them on hold. Once a customer is placed on hold, you should try to answer their call as soon as possible. Ideally, customers should not be placed on hold for more than a few seconds, as they may become annoyed and hang up.
There are lots of tips that can be utilized to convey a more professional image over the telephone in addition to the ones listed above. Staying patient, providing correct information, and sounding happy will really improve your phone skills. While the person on the phone may not be able to see you, if you smile, it will be conveyed in the tone of your voice and you will come across as pleasant and professional. To learn more about phone etiquette, consult the following websites.
Proper Telephone Etiquette
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It's a good thing I don't live in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. If I did, I'd refuse to accept the authority of DynCorp, the renta-cop and mercenary corporation that may soon replace the police in the storm-ravaged parish.
In the first paragraph of the Washington Post article announcing the possibility of DynCorp renta-cops (or in the case of Bosnia, renta-whore-mongers) patrolling St. Bernard Parish, we are told this is necessary because "hundreds of stark white trailers soon to be inhabited by Hurricane Katrina evacuees" will "hide criminals and become an incubator for crime" and pose "another test" for the "cash-strapped sheriff's department" of the parish.
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Developing ASP.NET Applications with Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004
Without a doubt, the most dominant web design tool today is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver enables visual designers to effortlessly create web sites, and tools such as templates, CSS, and split-screen development have driven Dreamweaver to the number-one spot. If you are a designer, however, you know that at some point you'll need to extend Dreamweaver from a simple HTML development tool to one that allows you to build database-driven solutions.
Once you begin to think deeply about database driven web sites, a whole new level of complexity is introduced. For example, it's not safe for a web browser to directly connect to a database. For this kind of thing, you'll want to use an Application Server on your web server. There are many types of application servers you can use, such as Java, ColdFusion, and PHP. The focus here will be on Microsoft's ASP.NET.
Dreamweaver's support for ASP.NET solutions has helped me on many occasions—from allowing me to build rapid prototypes to providing me with the necessary tools for crafting solutions that integrate with Macromedia Flash. Dreamweaver's strong support of ASP.NET has enabled me to build the type of solutions I want—to the scale my customers need.
Dreamweaver is the only visual tool on the market that allows you to easily build solutions for the following server environments:
- ColdFusion
- ASP (JavaScript)
- ASP (VB Script)
In this article you are going to learn how to set up and build a simple solution using ASP.NET.
Getting Started
What you'll find as you begin to develop more complex server solutions is that there is also more you'll need to set up in order to make the web site work properly. In many ways, you can think of server-based solutions as being like stargazing. When the stars align in your favor it can look like heaven. But on a cloudy night, when everything is obscured, the whole thing feels hopeless.
You'll be using Microsoft's infamous Northwinds Access Database to build your application. If you don't have it, a copy is included with the attached files.
You can develop on either Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP Professional Edition. For each of these environments you will need to ensure that Microsoft's web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), is installed. In addition you will need to have the following:
- Internet Information Server Supported Server
- .NET Framework
- Folder on the server that holds your files
- Database
ASP.NET is supported by Microsoft's Internet Information Server version 5 or later. You will also need to be running the .NET Framework. For the example detailed here, you'll need to use either the 1.0 or 1.1 Framework. If you like, you can use the new 2.0 Framework slated to be released in November 2005. The 2.0 framework is backwards-compatible with 1.0 and 1.1 solutions.
The folder you'll need to create will be hosted within the WWWROOT folder for IIS. Typically, this is on your C drive. You can find it at: C:\INETPUB\WWWROOT\. Once you've found it, create a new folder called Northwind.
In IIS, find your Northwind folder in the expanded Web Sites option, as shown in Figure 1.
Select the Northwind folder. Right-click and then choose the Properties tab. Select the Directory tab along the top. In the Application Settings section, choose Create an Application Name by selecting the Create button. A name will be automatically filled in as shown in Figure 2.
You now have the IIS Server set up.
For this example, you'll be using an Access Database. You can now create a sub-directory to Northwind folder. Name it Database and then add the Nothwind.mdb database.


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Fifth grade students from Rosa Parks Elementary School in West Berkeley took home four of the top ten spots in a regional math competition Saturday, besting a field of more than 90 students from public and private elementary schools throughout the Bay Area. Rosa Parks student Ben Roberts took home the top prize, a Kindle Fire HD.
The Ninth Annual MathMatters contest was held in Oakland at Bay Tech High School on Nov. 17. The contest is held annually in five different states and, according to its website, aims to "stimulate interest and achievement in mathematics among elementary school students and to provide recognition of outstanding young mathematicians, their dedicated teachers, and schools."
Five girls and five boys from Rosa Parks participated in the competition, answering 15 challenging math problems in only 30 minutes. To prepare, the Rosa Parks students had voluntarily given up recess three days a week for a month to practice with Mary Martin, a Rosa Parks fifth grade teacher who served as their coach.
The day of the test, all the students were very excited and a little nervous. After taking the test, there was about 30 minutes of snacks and waiting while they graded the tests. During this time, many of the Rosa Parks students gathered around to talk about the problems, their answers, and which ones they thought they had gotten right.
When it came time to announce the winners, the competition organizers started with the tenth place and counted down. When they reached eight place, Rosa Parks student Aviv Schifrin walked up. Then Rachel Alper, the only girl to place in the top 10, walked up to accept the sixth place certificate. Dylan Goetting was next at fifth place, and went running up to the stage to accept his award. The other winners were announced and the, when it came to first place, the announcer said it was a student from Rosa Parks and all the families from Rosa Parks starting cheering. When Ben Roberts' name was announced as the winner, he jumped up and down and bounded up to the stage. Afterwards, all the students hugged their teacher and congratulated each other.
Martin, who won a $150 gift certificate as the coach of the winning student, said she was proud of all of the kids who competed. "They really put a lot of effort into practicing," she said. "While their peers were out the door for recess and lunch, our students were preparing for 40 minutes of math discourse. On testing day, though anticipation was palpable, our students encouraged each other throughout. Rosa Parks was a winner on Saturday, and we were all proud to be a part of that win."
School Board member Beatriz Leyva-Cutler said: "This is where the foundation of loving math and numbers begins, in the early grades. It is outstanding to see so many girls rising to the top in math and I can tell that Rosa Parks is doing something special given how many students were part of the competition. Congratulations to Rosa Parks and Teacher, Mary Martin, and of course, the young girls and boys who worked hard. Thank you for representing Berkeley Schools so well!"
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Roaring ahead
There is enough genetic diversity in Asian lions and tigers for populations to be healthy
In short
Murder in the sanctuary
The killing of tigers and of forest guards in Ranthambore is the result of a conservation strategy that took away the rights of the local people …
CAG flags community centre under FRA actually MP govt tourist lodge in Pench
CAG slams action as being tantamount to misuse of powers by forest department and against spirit of Forest (Conservation) Act
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 8, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Too little in environment ministry's kitty
Reduction in ministry's budget by almost half expected to hit forestry research the most
Neutrino threat to Nilgiri wildlife
Relocate observatory site near Madurai: environment ministry
Making slow headway
Hurdles in the way of a buffer zone in Arunachal tiger reserve
Think tourism in India and the first images that will flash through your mind is -- the Taj Mahal and the Indian tiger. Tigers, and the protected …
Unlikely man-eaters
Subcontinent's last cheetah was seen in 1997 in Balochistan: Divyabhanusinh at relaunch of seminal book
'The story of India's cheetahs' was first published in 1995 and has more or less been the most exhaustive work on the cheetah …
Climbing the machan: Poverty and animal conflict in Karnataka
Human-wildlife conflict is a monumental issue for farmers living in subsistence, conflict with wild animals disproportionately impacts the poor
Assam government wants to build flyovers for Kaziranga rhinos
Elevated roads are expected to provide an easy passage to animals while moving between two adjacent forest reserves
Green tribunal orders state to restrict traffic around Kaziranga
Earlier this year, an expert panel had recommended construction of elevated roads to control animal deaths due to accidents
Forest fires singe Maharashtra
Officials say peeved tendu contractors are causing them
The tiger occupies a hallowed seat in India. Ecologists believe that millions of small ecological processes live out their routine lives under …
Bor becomes smallest tiger reserve in India with four tigers
Conservation authority bends its own rules to declare the area a tiger reserve
China admits to tiger skin trade at international forum
Around 1,600 tigers have been traded globally since 2000
24 Chhattisgarh villages pledge to develop wildlife sanctuary on their own
Community leaders say they will increase forest cover and wildlife numbers by 150 per cent in five years in the proposed Udanti and Sita Nadi …
Giraffe, 3 tigers die in Patna zoo
Authorities fail to provide treatment on time
Let the wind chase fire
Soligas of BR Hills say litter fire is the only way to salvage the sanctuary
Relocate sensibly
It has never been based on any scientific forest-specific study
It can be painless
Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully
NTCA sounds alert for deadly virus stalking tigers
Tiger in Dudhwa park tested positive for canine distemper virus last month; four tigers died of it last year


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Celebrating the simple beauty of food, A Platter of Figs by David Tanis will tempt you with beautiful, unpretentious recipes, gorgeous photos and a simple philosophy – cooking should be a joy, eating should be a pleasurable experience and both should preferably be shared with friends.
The recipes are arranged seasonally, spring through winter, rather than by course, the idea being you should celebrate what each season offers. This fits in nicely with the current trend toward eating locally and sustainably, but it also has everything to do with flavor – fresh picked, in-season food is undeniably the best tasting.
Recipes range from the simple – Warm Asparagus Vinaigrette – to the more complex – Chicken Tagine with Pumpkin and Chickpeas – but all are clearly explained. Stories of Tanis's life and travels (which are reflected in his recipes) are scattered throughout the book, adding a warm and friendly atmosphere to the cookbook. A beautiful book about beautiful food.


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Pago Bay This is the largest bay on the central windward side of the island, and one of Guam's most beautiful. A Spanish settlement near the mouth of the Pago River was wiped out by a small-pox epidemic in 1856. At the far end of the bay is the University of Guam's Marine Biology Laboratory, known internationally for its research.
Libugon Overlook Situated above the village of Maina, this site offers an excellent view of central and northern Guam. A penal and leper colony was located here in Spanish times.
Apra Harbor Overlook A drive up Nimitz Hill offers a view of Guam's natural harbor, considered one of the best in the Pacific.
Asan Overlook Asan Overlook has been chosen as the site of the new War in the Pacific National Historical Park visitor center and museum, which will be located there in the next few years. This new site is dedicated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Guam's liberation.
War in the Pacific National Park
The National Park Service overseas all Guam's War in the Pacific National Parks and operates from out of the T. Stell Newman Visitors Center in Piti, just outside the main gate to Naval Station. Inside the Visitor Center is a museum with interactive displays and a gift shop run by the Arizona Memorial Foundation.
The six historical parks are:
- Asan Beach - with gun encasements, caves and pill boxes, plus 445 water acres of reefs and relics.
- Asan - heavy vegetation all around the village conceals caves, pillboxes, a bridge, foxholes and a 75mm mountain gun.
- Piti - covered in lush growth, the hillside has three Japanese coastal defense guns in good condition.
- Mount Chacho/Mount Tenjo-a pre-World War II American gun encasement is one of several important relics found in this remote, hilly area. Hikers in this area also are rewarded with beautiful views.
- Mount Alifan - 13 caves and tunnels, bomb and shell craters are among the more than 30 sites along the winding trails.
- Agat - this area is predominately under water with sunken relics and unspoiled reefs.
Sigua Falls
Hikers will need a guide to lead them through the thick jungle atop Nimitz Hill. A steep climb down a ledge ends with an impressive 100-foot drop into a rocky pool. This sanctuary is a sample of Guam's beauty in the wild.
Tarzan Falls
This is a favorite destination for "boonie stompers," Guam's special name for hikers who venture off the beaten track. The falls are a series of drops from eight to 50 feet in height. At the base of the falls is a deep pool perfect for swimming. One of the other attractions of Tarzan Falls is the fresh- water shrimp that can be found in pools along this branch of the Ylig River.
War Dog Cemetery
Located at Naval Station. Those interested in visiting the Cemetery must call Naval Station Pass & ID Office at 339-6217, 7:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. Instructions will be given to address a letter to the Commanding Officer stating purpose of your entry on base.