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Destination: Raleigh
There is lots to love about this popular event, which is why it routinely sells out.
Lively, smart, and unexpected—greater Raleigh's historic landmarks and burgeoning cosmopolitan offerings in a one-of-a-kind capital setting make it the center of the southeast. Area transportation makes getting to the area easy with a wide variety of choices. In fact, more than half of the United States population lives within a day's drive or an hour's flight away. If you're one of the lucky registrants for IRONMAN 70.3 Raleigh, here are some ideas on what to do during race week. If you didn't get that entry in early enough, here's why you'll want to sign up early!
Summers are typically hot. Summer daytime highs average in the upper-80s to low-90s °F with warm and humid nights in the upper-60s. Temperatures can reach 100°F.
What To Do
Adrenaline Junkie
For the nature lover, the award-winning City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation has more than 8,800 acres of parkland and almost 1,300 acres of water–that's just in the city alone! Enjoy a hike on the county's American Tobacco Trail or SCUBA at Fantasy Lake Scuba Park. If tailgating and being among thousands of other cheering fans is what you're looking for, take in North Carolina State University or Carolina Mudcats baseball game, or cheer on the NASL Carolina RailHawks.
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Opera, symphony, ballet, and theater have earned greater Raleigh a ranking as a top cultural destination in the Southeast. Here you can soar with the Carolina Ballet, or sing arias with the North Carolina Opera. Take in a concert by the North Carolina Symphony, experience the magic of a touring Broadway show or production of the North Carolina Theatre, gaze at some of the world's most famous pieces of art (including Rodins) at the North Carolina Museum of Art or Contemporary Art Museum (CAM Raleigh) and just spend time discovering what earned Raleigh the nickname Creative Capital.
Maybe it's finding an antique brooch at one of the largest flea markets in North Carolina, grabbing the most unique local-designer handbag at a specialty boutique in North Hills, Cameron Village, and downtown Raleigh or shopping the latest fashions at one of the area's three major malls like Crabtree Valley Mall or Cary Towne Center. Regardless of what you're looking for, be it bargain or couture, Greater Raleigh probably has a store and price tag just your size.
Get out and explore the area's culinary sensations, from fine dining at Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern, located in one of downtown Raleigh's historic homes, to landmark local favorites like Roast Grill and Cooper's BBQ. Experience one of 17 craft breweries including Carolina Brewing Company in Holly Springs, Aviator Brewing Company in Fuquay-Varina, Raleigh's Big Boss, Lonerider and more.
Lifelong Learner
Greater Raleigh is the best place to explore North Carolina's history and the influence this capital city had in the founding of our country. Home tours at Joel Lane Museum House are led by costumed docents, and museums like the N.C. Museum of History and the N.C. Museum of Art present world-renowned collections of art and artifacts. We even claim the world's only fossilized dinosaur heart at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.
Music Maniac
The Raleigh area plays host to nationally-touring rock stars and local indie groups. Rock out at mega-venues like Walnut Creek Amphitheatre or PNC Arena. If you want a more relaxed music experience, spread out a blanket at Koka Booth Amphitheatre or the N.C. Museum of Art's Bryan Theater, and make sure to experience the area's newest outdoor live music venue, Red Hat Amphitheater. Kick back at one of the unique downtown Raleigh venues like Deep South The Bar, Lincoln Theatre, Kings Barcade and The Pour House Music Hall.
The Race
IRONMAN 70.3 Raleigh athletes will begin their day with a 1.2-mile swim in Jordan Lake in Chatham County. The 56-mile bike course will take athletes through rural Chatham and Wake Counties before entering downtown Raleigh to transition to the run. The two-loop, 13.1-mile run course winds through downtown, around the Capital Building, out Hillsborough Street, and through NC State University before heading down Fayetteville Street for an amazing finish in City Plaza.


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One hundred years ago, the big transportation worry in places like New York was heaps of horse manure filling cities at the height of horse-drawn carriage commuting age. There were apocalyptic predictions about the direction in which society was headed if the problem wasn't solved. What no one saw coming was the invention of the automobile.
The automobile has now come full circle. One century's solution to what seemed like an insurmountable problem is now a new century's pressing global threat.
We drive too much, in way too many cars. We lose years of our lives sitting in traffic, wasting fuel while continuing to warm the planet. We all won't ride our bikes to work, or plug in hybrids. Light rail is still a dream in most of the U.S. So what's the answer to an unsustainable transportation system? Disrupting it; changing its reckless course.
(Read More: Pandora's Printer: 3-Disrupting)
Four companies onCNBC's inaugural Disruptor 50 list are attacking this issue: Getaround, Inrix, Uberand Waze, with new models designed to disrupt the status quo in transportation. (There is also SpaceX, which wants to convince us to leave our cars far behind and for good, and one day join an 80,000 person Mars colony.)


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Any journalist working on emotionally harrowing stories — war, corruption, violence, death, poverty — faces a specific and deeply personal challenge. In order to witness this material, which can be terrifying, confusing and anxiety-provoking to us as well as those we cover, we have to be present, both physically and emotionally. As a result, many of us later suffer PTSD or secondary trauma, the price of admission to these searing stories, as James Rainey wrote recently in The Los Angeles Times. That can bring anxiety, depression, nightmares or insomnia.
A new feature film, The Bang-Bang Club, recently finished shooting in South Africa. The name was given to a group of young news photographers that included one who still shoots for The New York Times, Joao Silva, and South African photographer Kevin Carter. Carter is best-known, to some of us, as the photographer who captured an image of a tiny, emaciated Sudanese child lying on the ground, a vulture waiting mere feet away. The image won the 1994 Pultizer Prize. Two months later, at 33, Carter committed suicide.
I experienced secondary trauma while writing my own book, during which I spent two years interviewing, and writing about, women and girls. some of whom had experienced gun-related violence, including a woman shot point-blank in her California driveway while her husband was shot and killed beside her during a robbery, women who'd shot and killed, women who'd been shot themselves, women whose husbands and sons had committed suicide. Sometimes this was just exhausting and overwhelming.
The Dart Center is a terrific resource for helping journalists deal with this issue; last week's J-Day featured medical author Maryn McKenna, whose new book about MRSA required much wearying, important reporting. She'll be one of their fellows this fall at Columbia University, a sort of post-traumatic de-briefing.
I asked two brave, respected journalists whose work I admire to talk about this difficult issue. I met Bill Lobdell when we both participated in a religion writing fellowship at The Poynter Institute. I was stunned by the story he told us then, which later became his book, and never forgot it. I did not know Michael Hastings before coming to T/S but his raw, passionate candor here is also generous and extraordinary.
William Lobdell, former religion writer for The Los Angeles Times, author of "Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace."
Michael Hastings, fellow T/S contributor, former Newsweek Baghdad correspondent, whose 2008 book, "I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story," is about his fiancee's murder.
Tell us a little about how and why you chose journalism.
Michael: I'll start with a cliché—from about the age of 12 I knew I wanted to write. (Or join the Marines, win a congressional medal of honor, and run for president.) As a teenager, I discovered guys like Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, and had a serious Beat literature phase. I brilliantly deduced that to be a great writer, you had to ingest great amounts of illegal substances. That didn't work out so well. I wrote a column at my school paper, called "Fear and Loathing at LCC." (Lower Canada College, the name of the high school I attended in Montreal.) Then I moved to Burlington, Vermont, where I went to a Catholic school. I was promptly banned from writing for the school newspaper there. The principal was a rather large man named Brother Roger. He didn't take kindly to an essay where I compared him, perhaps unfavorably, to Jabba the Hutt.
Anyway, after bouncing around at a few colleges, I ended up at New York University. During my last semester, I got an unpaid internship at Newsweek International. I probably was the only one who applied, as the work at first was primarily on Friday and Saturday nights. But I'd been chastened enough by life at that point to realize that I'd managed to get my foot in the door, so to speak, and I wasn't going take it out. So I more or less lived at the Newsweek offices, and the internship turned to a full time position. I guess I was 22 at the time. I loved it, and I learned how to write an edit there…. I never refused an assignment or anything an editor asked me to do, which helped my cause.. But after about three years, I started asking to be sent to Iraq. By that time, America was already suffering from its first bout of Iraq fatigue—circa 2005. It wasn't a hot story. Not many people were banging down the door to go. So my bosses finally sent me in August 2005. Six months or so later, the civil war broke out, and all of sudden, Iraq was a really big story again.. I was named the magazine's Baghdad correspondent a few months after that. That meant I was now going to move to Baghdad permanently
William: I went to Stanford and the University of California, Irvine and majored in political science. As my senior year approached, I still didn't have a clue what I'd do for a living upon graduation. A mentor gave me some obvious advice that had eluded me: find what you love and get a job in that field. Well, I loved reading newspapers and magazines. I was a news junkie. I thought, maybe I could be a reporter. I went to the college newspaper and the minute I walked into that newsroom, I was hooked.
My career path began traditionally—an internship at the Los Angeles Times and then a job at a small daily in Fullerton. But then it took a turn. I became editor and later president of a local magazine chain. After that seven-year detour, I returned to daily journalism as editor of the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily Pilot. I eventually oversaw the LA Times' community news division before becoming a Times reporter. I spent eight years on the religion beat and two more years as a city editor. I left the paper last year and am running two Internet-based businesses: http://www.newportmesadailyvoice.com and http://www.greersoc.com. I also wrote a critically acclaimed memoir of my experiences on the religion beat called "Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace."
A little background on this story and how you came to cover it: Continue reading "It's J-Day: Former LA Times' Bill Lobdell and Newsweek's Michael Hastings On The Story That Broke Their Hearts"


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HOORAY! According to Disney's Michael Eisner, the writers' strike is over! We don't know why, and we don't know how. But the man assured us that this whole horrible travesty is finally coming to an end with writers returning to work soon.
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It was a good crowd at Lilydale where I went and it was a rockin' night too! AHT came on first to warm up the dance crowd followed by the Retro Rockets with 2 rockin' sets playing mainly very danceable tunes and included a number of my favourite tunes like Catalina.
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Part 5: Computing Benefit Entitlement
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The following definitions and formulas will help you to understand how the department determines if you have enough wages to qualify for unemployment benefits and will also explain how we compute the amount of total benefits you can be paid and the amount of your weekly payment if you do qualify.
Calendar Quarter
The four calendar quarters of the year are:
1st Qtr:
January 1 - March 31
2nd Qtr: April 1 - June 30
3rd Qtr: July 1 - September 30
4th Qtr: October 1 - December 31
Base Period
The first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before the week you file an initial claim application for a new benefit year. The wages paid during this period of time are used to determine if you have enough wages to qualify for a claim and to calculate how much you can be paid. The following chart will help you to understand how we determine the calendar quarters in your base period. The four shaded quarters in each row are the base period quarters for a claim started in the far right quarter of the same row.
Example: A claim started in November 2016 has a base period that starts on July 1, 2015 and ends on June 30, 2016.
If you do not have enough wages to qualify for a claim using the base period described above, an "alternate base period" will be used. The alternate base period will be the four most recently completed calendar quarters before the week you filed your initial claim application for a new benefit year.
Lag Period
The time between the end of your base period and the week you start your claim. We DO NOT use the wages paid during this time period to calculate your benefit entitlement. However, the wages paid during the lag period may be used in a future claim. In the prior example, the lag period would start on July 1, 2016, and would end on the Saturday before the week your claim was started.
Covered and Excluded Employment
Covered employment is work you perform for an employer who is subject to the Unemployment Insurance law. However, some work is "excluded" (not covered) even when performed for a covered employer. Only wages paid from covered employment can be used to qualify for unemployment benefits and to calculate how much you can be paid. (Excluded employment is one of the eligibility issues listed in Part 6.)
High Quarter
The base period quarter during which you were paid the highest amount of wages from covered employment.
Weekly Benefit Rate (WBR)
The weekly amount of unemployment benefits you are paid when you have no wages or other income during the week. It is 4% of the total high quarter wages from all covered employment. The maximum and minimum benefit rates are determined by UI law. The minimum WBR is $54, requiring high quarter earnings of $1,350; and the maximum WBR is $370, requiring high quarter earnings of $9,250.
The "Weekly Benefit Rate Chart" is a listing of all the weekly benefit rates and the amount of high quarter wages needed for each rate. This chart is available online at https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/uiben/handbook/pdf/wbrchart.pdf
Qualifying Wages
To qualify for unemployment benefits you must have been paid wages from covered employment in at least two quarters of your base period. You need:
- Enough wages in your high quarter to qualify for the minimum WBR;
- Wages in your 3 lowest quarters that equal at least 4 times your WBR when added together;
- Total base period wages equal to at least 35 times your WBR; and
- If you were paid benefits in a prior benefit year which has ended, you must have worked since the beginning of that benefit year and earned at least 8 times the WBR of that claim.
Benefit Year
You start a benefit year when you file a new initial claim application. A benefit year lasts 52 weeks. When one benefit year ends, the week that you file your next initial claim application will start a new benefit year. During the 52 weeks of each benefit year, there is a maximum amount of unemployment benefits you can be paid. This is called your maximum benefit amount (MBA). Wages that you earn during a benefit year will not increase your maximum benefit amount nor your weekly benefit rate for that benefit year.
You can start and stop claiming weekly benefits as many times as you want or need to during your benefit year, but if you stop filing weekly claim certifications for any reason, you must always reactivate/reopen your benefit year by filing another initial claim application when you want to start filing for weekly benefits again.
Example: If you file a new initial claim application in the week ending 11/19/16, your benefit year begins in that week and ends in the week ending 11/5/17. You would have that entire 52-week period to collect your maximum benefit amount, which would be computed based on wages paid in the base period beginning 7/1/15 and ending 6/30/16.
If you return to work in March of 2017 and stop filing for weekly benefits, the wages you are paid will not increase your maximum benefit amount for that benefit year. If you are again laid off before 11/16/17 and have not been paid all of your maximum benefit amount, you can file another initial claim application to reactivate that benefit year and start filing for weekly benefits again.
If you are still unemployed or partially unemployed after your benefit year ends on 11/5/17, you can start a new benefit year in the next week. To qualify for a new benefit year you must have " qualifying wages." A new maximum benefit amount and weekly benefit rate will be computed for your new benefit year from wages paid in the new base period which begins 7/1/16 and ends 6/30/17.
Maximum Benefit Amount (MBA)
The total amount of unemployment benefits the department could pay you during your benefit year. It is the lesser of 26 times your WBR, or 40% of your total base period wages from all covered employment.
Use your MBA as you would a checking account balance. As you are paid weekly benefits, simply subtract the amount you are paid from your MBA balance to know how much you can still be paid for that benefit year.
Benefit Computation
A benefit computation is generally mailed to you the day after you file an initial claim application. The benefit computation will list the covered employment in your base period and the wages paid to you in each quarter by each of your employers. It lists only those employers whose base period wages can be used to calculate what you can be paid. There are two major benefit computation forms:
- UCB-700 - This form is sent when you have enough wages to qualify. It states your potential weekly benefit rate (WBR), your maximum benefit amount, and any question about your eligibility which has not yet been investigated and could suspend or disqualify your claim.
- UCB-736 - This form is sent when you do not have enough wages to qualify. It states the reason you do not qualify.
You should review the benefit computation form you receive to make sure the information is correct. If there is an error in the amount of wages or if employers are missing, follow the instructions on the back of your computation to file an objection.
Computing Partial Unemployment Benefits for a Weekly Claim When Income was Reported
Partial Unemployment Benefits Calculator
Whenever income is reported on a weekly claim certification, all wages earned in that week are added to other types of income (such as holiday pay, vacation pay, and dismissal/severance pay) to determine the gross income for the week.
The department uses the "partial wage formula" to compute whether partial unemployment benefits are payable and if so, what amount should be paid.
It is possible to receive a partial unemployment benefit payment for a week even when your gross income is greater than your weekly benefit rate (WBR). However, you will not receive benefits if you work a total of 32 or more hours for all employers in a week you are claiming or if your total gross pay is more than $500.00.
The "partial wage formula" used to compute partial weekly unemployment benefits is shown below:
- Subtract $30.00 from the gross income
- Multiply the remainder by .67 (67%)
- Subtract this new amount (including the cents) from your WBR
- Round the remainder down to the nearest whole dollar. This is the amount of partial unemployment benefits payable for the week.
NOTE: The smallest unemployment benefit payment that we will issue is $5.00, so if your calculation results in an amount which is less than $5.00, no payment will be made. In addition, if your total gross pay is more than $500.00 you will not be eligible for a partial unemployment payment regardless of your weekly benefit rate.
Example: WBR=$200 Gross Income=$250
- $250.00 (Gross Income) minus $30 = $220.00
- $220.00 multiplied by .67 = $147.40
- $200.00 (WBR) minus $147.40 = $52.60
- Round $52.60 down to $52.00
$52.00 is the amount of benefits payable for the week.
Maximum Weekly Earnings
The highest gross income you can earn in a week and still qualify for the minimum unemployment benefit payment is called the "maximum weekly earnings" amount. This amount is not the same for every claimant. The weekly benefit rate (WBR) determines what the maximum weekly earnings amount will be. You can calculate your maximum weekly earnings amount by using the following formula:
- Subtract $5.00 from your WBR
- Divide the remainder by .67 (67%)
- Add $30.00
Example: WBR= $200.00
- $200.00 (WBR) minus $5.00 = $195.00
- $195.00 divided by .67 = $291.04
- $291.04 + $30.00 = $321.04
The maximum weekly earning amount for WBR of $200.00 is $321.04. This means that if gross earnings are greater than $321.04, benefits would not be payable for the week.
If you are not sure if you have too much income for a particular week to be eligible for a partial unemployment payment, you should file a claim for the week and report all of your gross income. The department will determine if any benefits are due.
The "Maximum Weekly Earnings Chart" is a listing of the maximum weekly earnings amount for each weekly benefit rate. This chart is available online at https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/uiben/handbook/pdf/mwechart.pdf.
Verifying Your Earnings
The income you report on a weekly claim certification is verified with your employer(s) but your benefit payment is not held while we are waiting for the employer(s) to answer. We will issue your unemployment payment for the week based on the amount(s) you have reported. If an employer gives us a different amount than you reported on your weekly claim certification, we will use the amount reported by your employer to recalculate the benefits due. We send you notice of each adjustment.
When your employer reports a lower amount of income we send you an additional benefit payment and an informational message (Form UCB-17-i) that explains the benefit payment.
When your employer reports higher income amounts and you have been overpaid benefits, we will send you a Notice of Benefit Overpayment (Form UCB-37). If you disagree with the amount the employer has reported or disagree with the requirement to repay, follow the instructions on the form to file an objection.
Retirement Pay Reduction
If you have received a determination stating that a reduction will be made from your unemployment benefit payments because of the retirement pay you are receiving, the reduction will be made automatically from each weekly unemployment benefit payment that you receive. (See Part 6 for more information about how and when retirement pay affects your unemployment benefits.)
Child Support Deductions
If the department receives a child support order from a child support enforcement agency, we must withhold money from your benefit payment to satisfy the obligation. The withheld funds are sent to the child support enforcement agency for distribution. You are advised, in writing, when we receive an order to make this deduction. If you disagree with the amount or feel the order is incorrect in any way, contact the child support agency. Only the child support agency can change or stop the deduction.
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Christie is demonstrating its innovative AutoStack 2.0 and AutoStack Curve twice daily during the show. The Christie AutoStack 2.0 software update provides a new user interface for the current camera-based system and the separate AutoStack Curve module enables AutoStack 2.0 to be used on curved surfaces.
Introduced in September 2011, the Christie J Series makes its North American debut this week with the Christie Roadster HD20K-J on display. This new platform targets a variety of applications within the rental, staging and fixed installation markets that require high brightness, superior performance and crisp, clear images every time – all in a compact, rugged and reliable package. The Christie J Series includes 2D and 3D-capable models, a range of brightness levels from 6200 ANSI (6850 center) lumens to 20,000 ANSI (22,000 center) lumens and three resolutions: SXGA+ (1400 x 1050), HD (1920 x 1080) and WUXGA (1920 x 1200).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After leading the Harvard softball team to its first Ivy League Championship since 2007, Ellen Macadam has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America Softball Team, the organization announced Thursday. Macadam garnered second team honors, was the only player from District I on either the first or second teams, and was the only Ivy League player to earn Academic All-America accolades.
Macadam, a psychology concentrator, graduated Thursday with a 3.44 GPA. The Atlanta, Ga., native was a catalyst for the Crimson this season, leading the team to its fifth Ivy League Championship and setting school records in career runs scored (139) and hits (222). Macadam was also named Ivy League Player of the Year prior to the Ivy League Championship series, garnered first-team All-Ivy accolades and was recently named to the NFCA/Louisville Slugger all-region first team.
For the complete list of Academic All-America honorees, click here.


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- 2.5 CRS College and Research Libraries Interest Group
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Games and Gaming Member Initiative Group
Name: ALA Games and Gaming Member Initiative Group
Event: Business meeting and discussion of current initiatives
Date: Saturday, January 24th
Time: 10:00-12:00am
Place: Mount Columbia Room, Grant Hyatt
Come talk about gaming in libraries! This meeting is open to all. The goals of the meeting are to: 1. Talk about and plan gaming activities for the ALA Annual conference 2. Provide updates about current initiatives involving gaming in all types of libraries.
Join us to share what you are doing or just to listen to the great ideas.
For more information, contact Scott Nicholson, the chair of the GGMIG, at email@example.com.
Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Initiative Group
- When: Saturday January 24, 2009; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Offisite - Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver, Room 245; 1100 Lawrence St.
- In Second Life: ALA Island, Book Stage
- Open Meeting, all are welcome
Join the discussion around expanding library services in virtual communities like Second Life and help explore ways for ALA to improve the visibility of libraries and library workers to residents of virtual worlds.
Here are directions for walking from the Convention Center to Auraria Library:
The campus is just west of the Convention Center, across Speer Boulevard (and Cherry Creek). There are a number of streets that cross Speer Boulevard and go over the Creek.
From the Convention Center, walk west on Champa , crossing Speer and over Cherry Creek. As soon as you cross Speer, turn slightly to the right into the central part of campus. You will see a church, St. Elizabeth. The church is on St. Francis Way (11th Street on Google Maps) and is a distinctive landmark. There are parking lots and a parking station that is usually staffed. The library is next to the church. It is a two story white building. Walk past the front of the church toward the library, you will be approaching the back of the library. Turn left after the church to get to the front of the library.
This is an easy walk or one could take the light rail.
link to directions and Google Maps: http://library.auraria.edu/info/maps/directions.html
Authority Control Interest Group (LITA/LACTS-CCS)
Name: Authority Control Interest Group
Event: Mid-Winter discussion and business meeting
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time: 1:30-5:30p.m.
Place: Grand Hyatt Denver, Mt. Sopris
The Authority Control Interest Group ALA Midwinter meeting will held in the Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Sopris room. General reports and updates will be provided by LC, LAC, and OCLC regarding authority projects. In addition John Espley from the RDA/MARC Working Group and Philip Young from the SAC-F/G Subcommittee will each give updates and facilitate brief open-forum sessions to discuss what the cataloging community wants/needs to see. Jimmie Lundgren will motivate and instruct others to promote change in the MARC authority format by sharing the steps taken in the successful MARBI proposal to add geographic coordinates to the MARC authority records. A business meeting will conclude the session.
RDA/MARC Working Group forum: John Espley (VTLS, Inc.)
Powerpoint presentation
Changing MARC Authority Format: Jimmie Lundgren (Smathers Library, University of Florida)
Powerpoint presentation
Library and Archives Canada update: Bill Leonard (Information Standards Specialist)
PDF document
Library of Congress update: Janis Young (Policy and Standards Division)
Powerpoint presentation
SAC-Form/Genre Implementation Subcommittee forum: Philip Young (Catalog Librarian, VA Tech)
Powerpoint presentation
OCLC update: Robert Bremer
OCLC Next Generation Catalog demonstration: Renee Register
ACIG Business meeting minutes
Mary Mastraccio
Chair, ACIG
NRMIG MEETING AT ALA Mid-Winter 2009
Name: ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Event: Mid-Winter discussion and business meeting
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time: 8:00-10:00am (business meeting from approx. 9:15-10:00am)
Place: CCC Korbel Ballroom 4F
The Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group (NRMIG) within ALCTS would like to announce that they will hold a discussion on taxonomy development at their ALA Midwinter meeting, set to take place on Sunday, January 25, from 8-10 a.m. (place to be announced). The discussion will be led by Laura Dorricott, Project Delivery Manager of Taxonomy Services for Dow Jones Client Solutions. We invite you to participate in this discussion, also to stay afterwards for the business portion of the NRMIG meeting.
Erin Stalberg
Chair, NRMIG
THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIAN IN TECHNICAL SERVICE INTEREST GROUP ALA Mid-Winter 2009
Name: The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services ALCTS Interest Group
Event: Mid-Winter discussion and business meeting Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Place: Sheraton Inn (1550 Court Place), Tower Court "C"
Tough Times Hit Technical Services: How T.S. Librarians are Coping with the Economic Recession
The economic woes confronting all of us at the local, state, and national level are pressing libraries of all sizes and affiliations to do more with less. The impact of these constraints on individual librarians working in Technical Services will be the topic of discussion for the ALA Midwinter meeting of the ALCTS Interest Group: The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services. If you're planning to attend the conference, you are cordially invited to join us Sunday afternoon in a lively conversation of shared personal experiences. Hear how others are making preparations to address the effects of these financial shortfalls. We'll also provide a supportive setting to collectively formulate potential strategies to further cope with these challenges. A brief business meeting will follow the open forum. We look forward to seeing you in Denver!
Michael E. Rice
Co-Chair, 2009
Cataloging Norms Interest Group
CNIG MEETING AT ALA Mid-Winter 2009
Name: ALCTS Cataloging Norms Interest Group
Event: Mid-Winter Program
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009
Time: 1:30-3:30pm
Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 703
Preliminaries: Announcements & Introductions (5 minutes)
Part I: Metadata Uses
Title: Metadata in ARL Libraries (20 minutes)
Powerpoint presentation
Presenter: Jin Ma, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Newman Library, Baruch College, The City University of New York
Description: The presentation will assess the current metadata practices and trends in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries, based on the survey "Metadata" conducted in spring 2007 (SPEC Kit 298: Metadata), a collaborative effort with the staff at the Association of Research Libraries.
The speaker will give an overview of her findings of metadata implementation in ARL member libraries: what kinds of projects/initiatives have been undertaken, what types of digital objects are associated with metadata, what schemas and tools are used to create metadata, how to ensure metadata quality and interoperability, who are creating metadata, what skills metadata staff need and how they acquire those skills, and the organizational changes and challenges resulting from the adoption of metadata.
The speaker will discuss her observations of the findings and the main themes emerged from the metadata practices in libraries. She will also identify the roles and responsibilities of catalogers in metadata implementation and the implications of metadata practices for the cataloging divisions, technical services, and the libraries.
Title: How to Improve Interoperability of Unique Metadata Fields for Special Collections (20 minutes)
Powerpoint presentation
Presenters: Myung-Ja Han, Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christine Cho, MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Description: In recent years many libraries have created digital collections derived from their special collections, rare book collections and archives, in order to provide greater access to these hidden resources. The items in these digital collections need unique metadata fields that play an essential role in managing and describing 'special resources,' and which provide rich contextual information in native environment. CONTENTdm, one of the most widely used digital resource management tools, gives flexibility to its users to create and use such unique field names. However when the metadata is exported through OAI-PMH to service providers, these locally created field names are mapped to simple Dublin Core elements that cannot fully describe what the local elements originally intended to describe.
Researchers analyzed 21 digital collections from 15 institutions that are created with CONTENTdm to see what kind of unique fields are used for special collections and how these fields are represented in service providers' environments.
This presentation will provide common characteristics of these unique metadata fields for the special collections and best practices for creating and mapping special collections metadata using CONTENTdm.
Questions/Discussion: 15 minutes
CONCLUSION PART I: 2:20 p.m.
Break: 10 minutes
START TIME PART II: 2:30 p.m.
Part II: Next Generation Cataloging, Standards and Quality
Title: FRBRizing Legacy Data: Issues and Challenges (20 minutes)
Powerpoint presentation
FRBR Project - related presentations
Presenters: Yin Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University; Athena Salaba, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University
Description: In this presentation, we will report on and discuss the issues and challenges we faced when applying the OCLC Workset Algorithm to FRBRize the Library of Congress collection. The presentation will cover (1) how existing MARC records were used to identify FRBR work entities, (2) what issues and challenges the process involved, and (3) what we did to address those issues and challenges.
Title: Cataloging Quality: Problems and Potential Solutions (20 minutes)
Powerpoint presentation
Presenter: Magda El-Sherbini, Head of Cataloging, Ohio State University Libraries
Description: Cataloging and providing bibliographic control has recently been the center of several important discussions. Many of these discussions seem to focus on the practical aspects of costs, staffing and training of new staff. They also address the broader question of the need to follow cataloging standards. Libraries are raising the question of what services they should provide to users and what role libraries can play in providing bibliographic access without diminishing the value of the catalog. This presentation will contribute to this discussion by revisiting the question of the cataloging standards, and offering alternative approaches and ideas to cataloging. It will discuss innovative staffing solutions that can reduce the cost of cataloging and help overcome the problem of staffing and staff training.
Questions/Discussion: 15 minutes/wrap up
Adrienne Aluzzo, Wayne State University,
Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont
Co-Chairs, Cataloging Norms Interest Group
CRS College and Research Libraries Interest Group
Name: ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group
Event: Midwinter Program: E-Journals All Around: in the Catalog, the Knowledgebase, and the Web
Date: Saturday, Jan. 24th, 2009
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm
Place: Sheraton Hotel, Gold
1. Peter McCracken (Co-founder & Director of Research, Serials Solutions): A KBART Update - Improving Patrons' Access to Electronic Resources.
The presentation will address the current status of the Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) project, with particular attention to how it will benefit publishers, librarians, and ultimately (and most importantly), library users. We will discuss what KBART has done in the past year, what effect we believe the initiative will have in the e-resources supply chain, what will be coming next, and what challenges remain.
2. Beth R. Bernhardt (Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Carolina Greensboro): Dealing with Free E-Journals: Are they worth the effort?
The number of "free" electronic journals available on the internet continues to increase. This presentation will focus on answering questions such as how can we find these journals, should we make an effort to provide access for our patrons, and what is the potential cost for maintaining them?
3. Nicole E. Engard (Open Source Evangelist, LibLime): Serials Management in KOHA's open source library software.
The presentation will help you understand what open source is all about and show you how the Koha Open Source Automation system can not only handle your serials in the library catalog, but provide better services to our patrons.
4. Brief Business Meeting: New members are welcome!
Britta Santamauro, Chair, CRS C&RL IG
Co-Director of Library Services
Chase Collegiate School
Waterbury, CT 06708
Rebecca Kemp, Co-Chair / Chair-elect, CRS C&RL IG
Serials Coordinator Librarian
UNC Wilmington
Wilmington, NC 28403
ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group will meet at ALA Midwinter on Monday, January 26, 2009, from 1:30-3:30 pm in Room 206 at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14 St. Our guest will be Ann J. Wolpert, who is Director of Libraries at MIT and Chair of the Board of MIT Press, which is widely recognized for innovation in electronic publishing. She will talk about the changing nature of scholarly communication, what MIT has been doing in this area, its renowned repository, its efforts in the area of education and outreach to faculty, and how to position libraries for the 21st century. Please join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative discussion of scholarly communication trends and initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to explore the vision of someone who is at the forefront of innovation and change in the realm of scholarly communication.
Brian Quinn Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
CRCC Monday Forum
ALCTS Continuing Resources Section's Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee (CRCC) is pleased to announce the program for our semi-annual Monday Forum, scheduled 1:30-3:30 PM on Monday January 26 2009 in the Colorado Conference Center Korbel Ballroom 3C:
Updates on current news and events from:
CONSER Coordinator, Les Hawkins
ISSN Coordinator Regina Romano Reynolds
Continuing Resources Section's Liaison to CC:DA, Jennifer Lang
and then a special program:
Working with Vendor-Supplied Records
a joint presentation by Peter McCracken, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Serials Solutions
Steven Shadle, Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington
The topic promises to engage wide interest even beyond the serials cataloging community, so plan now to put this Forum on your Event Planner!
for the Committee, Christopher H. Walker, Chair
Library Assessment Member Initiative Group
Library Assessment Member Initiative Group
- Name: Library Assessment Member Initiative Group
- Date: Sunday 1/25/2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Location: Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Open meeting – all are welcome
This is a call for agenda items! You will recall that our purpose is: To explore and nurture a growing library assessment community of librarians, researchers, and administrators from all types of libraries and to further an understanding of the library assessment process.
What do you want to: Discuss Plan for Take action on Coordinate or cooperate with Co-sponsor Other...
Please post your ideas on the listserv. Thanks! Email Neal Kaske for more information.
Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS)
Preservation Administration Interest Group
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009
Time: 8:30 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Marriott City Center, Colorado Ballroom G-J
1701 California Street. Denver, CO 80202
8:30-8:45 PARS Chair Greeting & Announcements
Walter Cybulski (NLM), PARS Chair
8:45-9:00 PARS Reorganization News
PARS exec: Walter Cybulski (NLM), Chair
Andy Hart (UNC), Outgoing Chair
Karen Brown (SUNY Albany), Chair-elect
9:00-9:30 Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Art Preservation
Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald (Univ. Maine)
Marilyn Lutz (Univ. Maine)
While the number of tools for making and distributing culture has exploded in the last half-century, it is hard to find a tool for preserving those ephemeral performances, installations, and digital artifacts. Forging the Future, a consortium of museums and cultural heritage organizations, aims to fill that gap with a toolset based on preservation standards and strategies.
This presentation focuses on two of the tools: the Variable Media Questionnaire (VMQ),an interactive preservation database, and the Media Art Notation System (MANS) developed as a metadata schema to contain data gathered from the VMQ Presenters will discuss how MANS compares and differs from existing preservation metatdata standards.
9:30-9:45 Poster Sessions and Projects Intro
Kathleen Frear, Floppy Disk Preservation at the University of Chicago
Martha Horan, A Needs Assessment at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
Sharon Fitzgerald, Marilyn Lutz, Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Art Preservation
9:45-10:15 Break and Poster Session
10:15-10:30 NEDCC Preservation Education Curriculum
Lori Foley (NEDCC)
10:30-11:30 Preservation at the Network Level: Print Archives And Large Scale Digitization
Cathy Martyniak (UFL)
Constance Malpas (OCLC-RLG Programs)
Roger Schonefeld (Ithaka)
Large-scale digitization, shared print storage and changing attitudes about libraries raise questions about how we manage our preservation programs so that they meet local needs and support broader efforts to sustain the intellectual record. A panel of invited experts will present research and participate in a discussion on the ways that local preservation efforts can intersect with national trends in collection management and library development.
11:30-12:00 General Announcements
Jacob Nadal (Preservation Officer, UCLA Library)
Patricia Morris (Faculty Director, Preservation Dept., Univ. Colorado, Boulder)
HoLT Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2009
Name: Heads of Library Technology Interest Group (HoLT)
Event: Midwinter discussion and business meeting
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time: 10:30a-12p
Place: To be announced
The Heads of Library Technology Interest Group (HoLT) provides a forum and support network for people with administrative responsibility for computing and technology in a library setting. HoLT provides timely programming for the ALA Annual Conference. Our main topic for the Midwinter Meeting in Denver will be HoLTalk. HoLTalk is lively discussion on current and interesting technology topics. Please email your topic ideas prior to the meeting to email@example.com or bring them to the meeting.
Richard Wayne
Chair, HoLT
LITA and Joint LITA Interest Groups
Brief summaries, copied from the LITA Wiki, excluding HoLT (above).
Authority Control Interest Group (LITA-ALCTS/CCS)
Sunday, 1:30-5:30 p.m.
The Authority Control Interest Group invites you to attend its ALA Midwinter meeting in the Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Sopris room. General reports and updates will be provided by LC, LAC, and OCLC regarding authority projects. In addition John Espley from the RDA/MARC Working Group and Philip Young from the SAC-F/G Subcommittee will each give updates and facilitate brief open-forum sessions to discuss what the cataloging community wants/needs to see. Jimmie Lundgren will motivate and instruct others to promote change in the MARC authority format by sharing the steps taken in the successful MARBI proposal to add geographic coordinates to the MARC authority records. A business meeting will conclude the session.
SEE ALCTS 2.1 above for program presentation handouts.
Distance Learning Interest Group
The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group discusses the use of technology to support distance learning. We talk about traditional educational technologies such as course management systems, contemporary technologies such as blogs and wikis, and emerging technology such as microblogging and livestreaming video.
Internet Resources and Services Interest Group (IRSIG)
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-noon
Our agenda includes a summary of IRSIG purpose and recent activities, planning for the IRSIG program for ALA Annual Conference 2009, and discussion of future programs and activities.
JPEG2000 Interest Group
Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
The JPEG2000 Interest Group will be having an unmoderated discussion and information sharing session. Likely topics include the recently released djatoka server-side JPEG2000 rendering toolkit and the concept of "visually lossless" compression.
Public Libraries Technology Interest Group
Saturday, 11 a.m.-noon, The Curtis (1405 Curtis St.), Hide 'n Seek Room (2nd floor)
The group will be meeting to finalize our program for annual (on online summer reading programs). We'll not be having a discussion, but anyone interested in the group or program for annual is welcome to join us.
Standards Interest Group
Saturday, 4-5:30 p.m.
The LITA Standards Interest Group is pleased to present two topics for discussion at ALA 2009 Midwinter Meeting:
- Herbert Van de Sompel at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carl Lagoze at Cornell University will talk about Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). Over the past two years, OAI-ORE has gathered experts to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of Web resources. These standards provide the foundation for applications and services to improve the utility the aggregations that are common on the Web including multiple format documents in institutional repositories, scholarly data sets, and online photo collections. The OAI-ORE standards leverage the core Web architecture and integrate with other emerging developments in Web 2.0. This talk will describe the core aspects of those standards and the applications and contexts in which they may be used.
- Todd Carpenter at NISO will give updates on new initiatives at the National Information Standards Organization.
Next Generation Catalogs Interest Group
Sunday, 4-5:30 p.m. LITA NGCIG Meeting at ALA Midwinter Denver: Interoperability of Next Generation Catalogs and Users
Location: Colorado Convention Center Room 110
We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors.
Beth Jefferson (Founder of Bibliocommons) will share real world examples and implications of "Transforming online library catalogs from searchable inventory systems into engaging social discovery environments".
John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Libraries and chair of the Digital Library Federation's ILS-DI Task Group will "Outline the DLF ILS-DI recommendations, describe some of the activities inspired by or related to the recommendations, and discuss what fruit they can bear". The demand for new ways for users to discover relevant library resources has grown tremendously in the past few years. Application development and deployment has been limited, however, by the need to interoperate with any of a variety of integrated library systems. In 2008, a Digital Library Federation task group published a set of recommendations for standard functions that could be used by discovery applications to obtain metadata and other services from any ILS. They included a basic level of ILS-application interoperability that was endorsed by most ILS vendors, as well as more advanced levels that may allow even richer interactions in the future.
A brief IG business meeting will follow the discussion.
YALSA Interest Groups
- YALSA Discussion & Interest Group Open House: 4:00 - 5:30: Want to get more involved in YALSA? All of YALSA's Discussion and Interest Groups will be at this event. Come learn a little about each and decide which one(s) you'd like to opt into, or learn how to start a new one. Room: Colorado Convention Center Room 203.


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In addition to convenient methods such as
fetchAll() and
insert() documented in Section 13.1, "Zend_Db_Adapter",
you can use a statement object to gain more options for running
queries and fetching result sets. This section describes how to get an
instance of a statement object, and how to use its methods.
Zend_Db_Statement is based on the PDOStatement object in the PHP Data Objects extension.
Typically, a statement object is returned by the
query() method of the database Adapter class.
This method is a general way to prepare any SQL statement.
The first argument is a string containing an SQL statement.
The optional second argument is an array of values to bind
to parameter placeholders in the SQL string.
Example 13.32. Creating a SQL statement object with query()
$stmt = $db->query( 'SELECT * FROM bugs WHERE reported_by = ? AND bug_status = ?', array('goofy', 'FIXED') );
The statement object corresponds to a SQL statement that has been prepared, and executed once with the bind-values specified. If the statement was a SELECT query or other type of statement that returns a result set, it is now ready to fetch results.
You can create a statement with its constructor, but this is less typical usage. There is no factory method to create this object, so you need to load the specific statement class and call its constructor. Pass the Adapter object as the first argument, and a string containing an SQL statement as the second argument. The statement is prepared, but not executed.
Example 13.33. Using a SQL statement constructor
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM bugs WHERE reported_by = ? AND bug_status = ?'; $stmt = new Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli($db, $sql);
You need to execute a statement object if you create it using its
constructor, or if you want to execute the same statement multiple
times. Use the
execute() method of the statement
object. The single argument is an array of value to bind to
parameter placeholders in the statement.
If you use positional parameters, or those
that are marked with a question mark symbol (
?), pass
the bind values in a plain array.
Example 13.34. Executing a statement with positional parameters
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM bugs WHERE reported_by = ? AND bug_status = ?'; $stmt = new Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli($db, $sql); $stmt->execute(array('goofy', 'FIXED'));
If you use named parameters, or those that are
indicated by a string identifier preceded by a colon character
:), pass the bind values in an associative array.
The keys of this array should match the parameter names.
Example 13.35. Executing a statement with named parameters
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM bugs WHERE ' . 'reported_by = :reporter AND bug_status = :status'; $stmt = new Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli($db, $sql); $stmt->execute(array(':reporter' => 'goofy', ':status' => 'FIXED'));
PDO statements support both positional parameters and named parameters, but not both types in a single SQL statement. Some of the Zend_Db_Statement classes for non-PDO extensions may support only one type of parameter or the other.
You can call methods on the statement object to retrieve rows from SQL statements that produce result set. SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE and EXPLAIN are examples of statements that produce a result set. INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE are examples of statements that don't produce a result set. You can execute the latter SQL statements using Zend_Db_Statement, but you cannot call methods to fetch rows of results from them.
To retrieve one row from the result set, use the
fetch() method of the statement object.
All three arguments of this method are optional:
Fetch style is the first argument. This controls the structure in which the row is returned. See Section 220.127.116.11, "Changing the Fetch Mode" for a description of the valid values and the corresponding data formats.
Cursor orientation
is the second argument. The default is
Zend_Db::FETCH_ORI_NEXT, which simply means that each
call to
fetch() returns the next row in
the result set, in the order returned by the RDBMS.
Offset is the third
If the cursor orientation is Zend_Db::FETCH_ORI_ABS,
then the offset number is the ordinal number of the row
to return.
If the cursor orientation is Zend_Db::FETCH_ORI_REL,
then the offset number is relative to the cursor
position before
fetch() was called.
fetch() returns
false if all rows of
the result set have been fetched.
Example 13.36. Using fetch() in a loop
$stmt = $db->query('SELECT * FROM bugs'); while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) { echo $row['bug_description']; }
See also PDOStatement::fetch().
To retrieve all the rows of the result set in one step, use the
fetchAll() method. This is equivalent to calling
fetch() method in a loop and returning all
the rows in an array. The
fetchAll() method accepts
two arguments. The first is the fetch style, as described above,
and the second indicates the number of the column to return,
when the fetch style is Zend_Db::FETCH_COLUMN.
Example 13.37. Using fetchAll()
$stmt = $db->query('SELECT * FROM bugs'); $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(); echo $rows[0]['bug_description'];
See also PDOStatement::fetchAll().
By default, the statement object returns rows of the result set
as associative arrays, mapping column names to column values.
You can specify a different format for the statement class to
return rows, just as you can in the Adapter class. You can use
setFetchMode() method of the statement object
to specify the fetch mode. Specify the fetch mode using
Zend_Db class constants FETCH_ASSOC, FETCH_NUM, FETCH_BOTH,
FETCH_COLUMN, and FETCH_OBJ.
See Section 220.127.116.11, "Changing the Fetch Mode"
for more information on these modes.
Subsequent calls to the statement methods
fetchAll() use the fetch mode that you specify.
Example 13.38. Setting the fetch mode
$stmt = $db->query('SELECT * FROM bugs'); $stmt->setFetchMode(Zend_Db::FETCH_NUM); $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(); echo $rows[0][0];
See also PDOStatement::setFetchMode().
To return a single column from the next row of the result set,
fetchColumn(). The optional argument is the
integer index of the column, and it defaults to 0. This method
returns a scalar value, or
false if all rows of
the result set have been fetched.
Note this method operates differently than the
fetchCol() method of the Adapter class.
fetchColumn() method of a statement returns a
single value from one row.
fetchCol() method of an adapter returns an
array of values, taken from the first column of all rows of the
result set.
Example 13.39. Using fetchColumn()
$stmt = $db->query('SELECT bug_id, bug_description, bug_status FROM bugs'); $bug_status = $stmt->fetchColumn(2);
See also PDOStatement::fetchColumn().
To retrieve a row from the result set structured as an object,
use the
fetchObject(). This method takes two
optional arguments. The first argument is a string that names
the class name of the object to return; the default is
'stdClass'. The second argument is an array of values that
will be passed to the constructor of that class.
Example 13.40. Using fetchObject()
$stmt = $db->query('SELECT bug_id, bug_description, bug_status FROM bugs'); $obj = $stmt->fetchObject(); echo $obj->bug_description;
See also PDOStatement::fetchObject().


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Eastfield College student and future hopeful constable
"This is just something I always wanted to do as a kid. I actually tried to go into law enforcement 15 years ago but I wasn't ready, so here I am now really doing it. Sometimes you just have a passion for something and have a heart for it. I think that's why I'll be a good police officer. My career goal is to be a constable or maybe a school police officer.
"Instructor Michael Santiago is a former police officer, so related topics and subjects aren't just academics, they're applied from his experiences. It's not just theory.
"You have to strive for your goals and dreams; you can't give up. I'm at a stage in life where no matter what happens, I won't have any regrets because I tried what I wanted to do. Every day I wake up and say, 'I will be a successful police officer and I will complete what I started.'
"It's not easy to start over. I have a husband and kids and it is difficult to go to school and balance everything. You have to make sacrifices – but you make time for what you really want to do. It's also a mindset; you can't talk yourself out of something before you even start it. You have to get out there and try."
Ysnika Babaniji is working towards an associate degree in Criminal Justice at Eastfield and also completing Basic Peace Officer Training in Eastfield's Criminal Justice Training Academy. She was previously a truck driver and worked in customer service.


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- Greenavise, Silver Spring, MD: A consulting business helping business and property owners operate in a sustainable manner wants 2 unpaid, full-time interns (college credit available). Duties include: research energy efficient products and develop sales and partnership leads, work on blog, twitter accounts and a newsletter.
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- Sustainable Living Systems, Missoula, MT: Enjoy a full-time, paid internship with a non-profit organization that was formed to demonstrate and teach a way of living where respect and care of Mother Earth and care of people are the focus.
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A commenter on my post, "The Socialist Capital Of Missouri: Joplin," wrote:
I would submit the idea that Christ would be in favor of socialism!
It so happens that Gregory Paul, who knows a little something about sociological research, wrote a piece for The Washington Post a few days ago that addressed the Jesus-as-socialist idea.
In fact, Paul went further and questioned "a set of profound contradictions" that "have developed within modern conservative Christianity." If that critique sounds familiar to readers of this blog, it is because I, a former conservative, evangelical Christian, have offered the same criticisms.
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Many conservative Christians, mostly Protestant but also a number of Catholics, have come to believe and proudly proclaim that the creator of the universe favors free wheeling, deregulated, union busting, minimal taxes especially for wealthy investors, plutocrat-boosting capitalism as the ideal earthly scheme for his human creations. And many of these Christian capitalists are ardent followers of Ayn Rand, who was one of – and many of whose followers are — the most hard-line anti-Christian atheist/s you can get. Meanwhile many Christians who support the capitalist policies associated with social Darwinistic strenuously denounce Darwin's evolutionary science because it supposedly leads to, well, social Darwinism!
He then goes on to discuss chapters 2 and 4 of the book of Acts in the New Testament, especially:
All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
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Now folks, that's outright socialism of the type described millennia later by Marx—who likely got the general idea from the gospels.
The pro-capitalist Christians who are aware of these passages wave them away even though it is the only explicit description of Christian economics in the Bible.
Mr. Paul also comments on the odd affection that a lot of Bible-toting evangelicals and fundamentalists have for the rabid atheist Ayn Rand:
…many influential conservative Christians have embraced her expressly atheistic theory of Objectivism that in her books such as The Virtue of Selfishness, they propose that government must be shrunk to a bare minimum so socially Darwinist that it dances with anarchy. Only then can entrepreneurial greed have the free run that liberty demands…
In the Randian hyper-materialistic world those who are on the financial make are the exalted makers, the impoverished that accept tax payer assistance are parasitic takers who need to fend for themselves. A radical modernist ideology in greater antithesis to the traditional scriptural favoring of the poor over the rich can hardly be imagined. Yet the economics of the plutocratic Republican Party that embraces the Christian, anti-Darwinist creationist right are essentially those of the uberatheist, anti-creationist, Darwin-adoring Christianity-loathing Ayn Rand. So we have Christian creationists like Jay Richards writing books titled Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. Can a stranger amalgam of opposing opinions be devised?
"Can a stranger amalgam of opposing opinions be devised?" No. And I experienced that strange amalgam first-hand here in Joplin at the April Tea Party rally. A state legislator from Springfield, Eric Burlison, spoke to those gathered and mentioned his enthusiasm for Ayn Rand. I wrote at the time:
I can't be the only one who finds irony in the fact that a man like Eric Burlison—a "pro-life" Christian who advertises that he gives back to the community by "serving" and "volunteering"—is behind a podium at a Tea Party event extolling the philosophy of a godless "baby-killer," who would openly ridicule and scorn Mr. Burlison's work on behalf of Big Brothers and Big Sisters and the Ronald McDonald House.
"I can't be the only one." No, as it turns out.
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Because what the GOP needs is a humbling landslide defeat.
Republicans, let's get it over with. Fast forward to the finish line. Avoid the long and winding primary road. It can only weaken the nominee. And we know who he—yes, he—has to be.
Not Jeb Bush, who plainly is unsuited to be president. He is insufficiently hostile to Mexicans. He holds heretical views on the Common Core, which, as we well know, is the defining issue of our time. And he's a Bush. Another installment of a political dynasty just isn't going to fly with the American people, who want some fresh blood in their politics....


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In a dream Lord's debut, Australian opener Aaron Finch's unbeaten 181 propelled the MCC side to a dominant seven-wicket victory over Shane Warne's Rest of the World side on Saturday.
In his first appearance at the home of cricket at any level, Finch could not have asked for a better introduction – which included hitting the winning runs with the sixth six of his innings.
The stocky Victorian also belted 23 boundaries, batted alongside Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Rahul Dravid, three of the top five highest run-scorers in Test history, and led his side to victory.
His 181 off just 145 balls was the backbone around which the MCC successfully chased down ROW's target of 294 with 25 balls to spare, putting on 107 runs with Tendulkar (44), 67 with Lara (23) and 122 with Shivnarine Chanderpaul (37 off 47).
By the end of the match he had Warne and Tendulkar convinced his Test debut wasn't far around the corner.
"That was special. It was a joy to watch him play," Tendulkar said.
"I wish him all the best for a wonderful career. He'll be there soon in the long form of the game as well."
Warne added: "He's a fantastic player. I'd love to see him in Australian colours in Test matches. That would be pretty fun."
It wasn't all smiles for Australians at Lord's however, with Warne suffering a broken hand as a result of a Brett Lee beamer, meaning he was not able to bowl.
Earlier, it was Yuvraj Singh and Saeed Ajmal who had stolen the spotlight from some of cricket's all-time greats.
Yuvraj scored a blistering 132 to rescue the ROW from an embarrassing score after Ajmal had torn their top order apart – ending Adam Gilchrist's entertaining 29-run cameo before snaring the scalps of Tamim Iqbal (1), Kevin Pietersen (10) and countryman Shahid Afridi (0), with all four wickets coming in just 15 balls at a cost of five runs.
At 5-68 there were fears the match was destined to fizzle and the capacity crowd would not get their money's worth.
After all, they had gathered to watch some of cricket's all-time champions don the whites one more time, in celebration of the bicentenary of the Lord's Cricket Ground.
The records of the players on display were incredible – led mostly by Tendulkar, Lara and Dravid, the 22 involved combined for 98,151 Test runs, while the two most prolific wicket-takers, Warne (708) and Muttiah Muralitharan, provided much of the 2,940 Test scalps.
But Yuvraj and Paul Collingwood (40 off 64) combined to add 131 from 150 balls for the sixth wicket, before Australian Test quick Peter Siddle (33) chimed in to add some respectability to the score.
And then it was Finch, who has starred for Australia in Twenty20 and one-day formats but is yet to make his Test debut, who stood out.
The 27-year-old started strongly and rarely let up, except for a quieter period in the 90s as he crept towards a well-deserved century.
He didn't show much sympathy towards any of the ROW bowlers, thumping Victorian team-mate Siddle back over his head for six, sweeping Muralitharan to the boundary and giving Yuvraj a belting as well.
The MCC side had only one real hiccup during their innings, when Collingwood dismissed Lara and Dravid (0) in consecutive deliveries, before Shivnarine Chanderpaul survived the hattrick delivery and went on ice the game with Finch, including back-to-back sixes off Pietersen.


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Stacey Chambers has always been on the move. As a child, her nickname was Go Go, because she rarely slowed down.
So it comes as little surprise that Chambers, 31, would wind up running a fashion boutique out of a bus.
Chambers runs Go Go's Retread Threads (the name borrowed from her childhood moniker) out of a bus from the early '90s she's named Elsa, parking at farmers' markets, at festivals and on neighborhood streets to sell vintage clothes.
Chambers started the business in 2010 after she heard a National Public Radio story about how small businesses run out of traditional storefronts were struggling. It inspired her to take a store on the road. Three days later, a friend found the bus that was to become Elsa (named after actress Elsa Lanchester, who played the title character in "The Bride of Frankenstein"), and Retread Threads was born.
"I think a lot of the time, people have these experiences where they're put on a path … and what you're supposed to do is put right in front of you, but people get scared," Chambers said. For her, "it was like 'Here, you're going for it.' "
With Retread Threads, Chambers joins a growing number of mobile boutiques and pop-up stores, such as the Little White Fashion Truck, which operates in the greater Baltimore region, and Confirmed Stock, a pop-up menswear store which comes to 2640 Space this Sunday.
At first, Retread Threads was a part-time job, and Chambers kept her day position helping people find and showing apartments in Towson. Last year, she decided to run the bus full time.
The bus' colorful exterior, decorated with graffiti, paint and stenciled Day of the Dead-themed skulls, has some people drawing parallels to Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster bus — but that's not the inspiration, Chambers said. One of Chambers' friends, an artist, wanted to paint the bus, so the two of them decorated it over the course of a few months with no specific idea of how it was supposed to look, she said.
"I don't want to disappoint anyone, but … I'm so not a hippie," Chambers said. "I like hippies, I think they're amazing people, but it's not something I'd identify myself with necessarily. I didn't have any idea of how it was going to evolve when I got the bus."
Inside, customers can find clothes hanging along the length of the bus, with shoes on shelves above them. Customers try on clothes behind the fabric curtains of the dressing room in the back of the bus. Before leaving, they sign their names on the ceiling with a dry-erase marker. Most of the seats were taken out of the bus, except a row in case Chambers has traveling companions. Sometimes, her dog, Lil' Frida, a female rat terrier, tends to get hair on the clothes, but Chambers tells shoppers that's part of the experience.
It's fair to say Chambers has an itch for traveling. Eight years ago, after going to school in Arizona, she moved across the country to Baltimore.
"I wasn't doing anything out west that I couldn't do on the East Coast, so I was excited," Chambers said. "Plus, I just like experiencing things and exploring new places."
The clothes for Retread Threads come from thrift stores and consignment shops as far away as Chambers' native Reno, Nev. She also accepts donations, and any items she receives but doesn't use she donates to a Baltimore charity. She credits her success in finding these pieces to her mother, who ran a nonprofit for the homeless that included a thrift store.
While Chambers has a background in thrift shopping, she has little formal business training, aside from a few classes at Baltimore Community College. She also had no experience driving a bus, which isn't as hard as you'd think, she said.
"When you're driving the bus, you can't be afraid," she said. "Everything about this endeavor, about this business and my job is just letting go and not being afraid of things."
As her 2013 schedule starts to pick up with the arrival of spring, Chambers said she eventually would love to help people start similar buses in other cities.
"It would be amazing to empower women, maybe not necessarily franchise, but offer a template," Chambers said. "It is really empowering. I would love to open that up to other people in other areas."
She is also thinking of setting up a small boutique that would be open to customers by appointment in her new home in Station North, where she moved about a month ago.
But for now, she is fine with being on the go.
"I think when you're mobile you get to share with so many more people," Chambers said. "You get to experience and have more opportunities to help people."


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Newark Airport TSA Get Low Marks on Internal Report
(NEWARK, N.J.) -- If you've ever showed up at an airport security checkpoint with more than the allowed amount of liquid -- three ounces in any one container -- still in your carry on bag or make-up case, you're not alone.
And if you've managed to get through that checkpoint without having those liquids confiscated, you're not the exception.
An internal Transportation Security Administration report accessed by New Jersey's Star-Ledger newspaper found that at Newark Liberty International airport, agents take appropriate action on prohibited items in only a quarter of all cases.
And it's worse news when it comes to pat-downs: The report found agents properly executing standard pat-downs of passengers only 16.7 percent of the time. When it came to informing passengers of their right to opt out of a full-body scan in favor of a pat-down, the agents did not inform passengers even once.
The newspaper said the report was dated June 8 and was titled PACE Airport Evaluation. It was compiled by "an undercover team of Transportation Security Administration employees from other airports who were asked to observe screeners at work at Newark Liberty."
PACE is an acronym for Presence, Advisements, Communication and Execution. Observers who participate are TSA agents from other airports.
But it's not all bad news for EWR's TSA agents. The agents were observed removing prohibited items during physical searches and exhibiting good listening skills 100 percent of the time.
The TSA did not immediately respond to an ABC News request for comment.
The report comes to light on the heels of an ABC News investigation on TSA theft. ABC News reported in September that a convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a "culture" of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers' luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues.
"It was very commonplace, very," said Pythias Brown, a former TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey who admits he stole more than $800,000 worth of items from luggage and security checkpoints over a four-year period.
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