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Five years ago several seed companies began selling plug plants of annual flowers and vegetables directly to gardeners through the mail. Plugs--small but well-established seedlings grown in wedges or "plugs" of soil mix--are one of the latest products of high-tech horticulture. For wholesalers, the narrow, tapered rootball is often quite small. The ones in seed catalogs are a little larger than the average garden center six-pack cell. The plants are very compact and actively growing, so they will ship economically and safely over long distances. They then grow quickly once they are transplanted.
Commercial bedding-plant producers used to buy seed in large lots. Today more and more of them are buying plugs instead. These growers raise the plugs up to the blooming stage, then sell them to nearby nurseries and garden centers. If you buy plants at a large garden center in spring, chances are very good that some of them were raised from plugs.
Growers like plugs because they can forget about dealing with finicky and often tiny and expensive seed. They can forget about light and temperature controls and about damping off and other diseases.
Are plugs better for gardeners, too; if you want to try them in your garden, now is the time to place orders.
Why Plugs?
Gardeners should like plugs for some of the same reasons nurseries do. Good plugs are stocky and actively growing, both above ground and below. By contrast, blooming garden-center plants have reached an end point. Once plants begin flowering, new leaf and root growth is put on hold. Moreover, garden-center plants have often completely filled their soil mass with roots and need watering daily. After a week or so in this state, it's very likely that they will undergo severe stress at least once, which makes them slow to grow once they're set into the ground.
The varieties available as mail-order plugs may be better selections for the home garden, too. At garden centers, most varieties have been bred for "pack performance," which means they can be brought into flower very quickly. Nursery shoppers prefer to buy color rather than greenery, even though plants not yet in bloom will probably grow better in the garden. Companies selling plugs stress that they offer top garden varieties, things that you are unlikely to find at garden centers.
We were interested in seeing how much better the younger root systems and plants would perform in real gardens. We were also concerned about how well these little plants would come through the mail. Would they still be spunky and ready for a sprint after a long, dark truck ride in who-knows-what heat and cold?
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But, you need to go early and often to be sure of getting the things you want before they become root bound or otherwise stressed.
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The owner of a Bronx-based boxing gym with championship pedigree has run into several roadblocks in his attempt to open a second location in downtown Norwich.
The owner of a Bronx-based boxing gym with championship pedigree has run into several roadblocks in his attempt to open a second location in downtown Norwich.
On Thursday, city building officials issued a "notice of unsafe structure" for John's Boxing Gym at 206-210 Main St., forcing it to close indefinitely. Officials say owner John Gjini needs several clearances, including a parking waiver, zoning conversion and reassessed sewer connection fee.
The Commission on the City Plan was to vote Tuesday night on the parking waiver, but the matter was postponed until mid-March to give Gjini more time to present detailed floor plans and a timeline of code compliance work necessary before the building is cleared for public use.
According to city officials, the gym was being used before any permits were granted.
"On Feb. 14, we observed occupancy of the structure located at the referenced address… You are hereby ordered to cease all use of the referenced structure until you have been issued a Certificate of Occupancy," Building Official James Troeger wrote to the property owners late last week, identified in city records at Waterford-based CDP Properties LLC.
The letter ordered Gjini to "submit a floor plan indicating proposed use of all spaces within the structure and a code analysis prepared by a licensed design professional along with an application for a building permit."
Peter Davis, the city's director of planning and neighborhood services, said the building needs significant improvements before it's deemed usable. According to him and Gjini, up to 90 people could be in the gym at the same time.
Davis said parking is at the bottom of the list of things the city is concerned about at the location.
"You don't want to put anybody in that building because it's not safe. Especially kids," he said.
Gjini, of East Lyme, said he signed a lease for the 4,400-square-foot space in September and was told by the landlord then that he was authorized to open. Gjini opened for business last week only to be shut down by the city on Thursday.
Gjini said he is not trying to change the rule.
"In a million years, I never thought it would come down to the wire like this," he said.
He also said he was training his son at the facility last week, but has not opened it for wider use.
Attempts to contact CDP Properties LLC were unsuccessful. The company acquired the Main Street building in 2011, city records show. It was built in 1928 and is the former location of Lawson's Discount Store.
For the past decade, Gjini has operated John's Boxing Gym in the Bronx. The establishment has been around for more than 30 years and was the training ground for International Boxing Federation world champions Joseph Agbeko and Joshua Clottey.
Gjini said his passion is working with young people interested in the sport, but he was frustrated at the difficulty in opening his Norwich location.
"If they don't want a gym in Norwich, I'll just pack up my bags and go to another town," Gjini said. "This is not about me. This is not about Norwich. This is about our children."
City leaders and economic development officials say they're eager to see Gjini open his doors — but not at the expense of skirting local ordinances and building regulations.
"We definitely want to make this happen if we can. We want to keep this guy in town, but he has to play by the same rules as everybody else," assistant building official Greg Arpin said. "This department is not trying to make anything difficult for him, but our hands are tied."
Davis echoed that. He said if officials were opposed to the gym, he would have recommended the Commission on the City Plan reject Gjini's proposal outright, based on the existing safety concerns.
"It's another opportunity for him to correct the situation on his end. I could advise the commission to just deny this thing, but that's not how we do business," he said.
Jason Vincent, of Norwich Community Development Corp., said the gym is eligible to qualify for downtown revitalization funds, but must be in compliance with city rules before that can happen.
"We're trying to get small businesses to open downtown, but it has to be done in accordance with all local laws," he said. "It wasn't for a lack of effort by the city to keep this project moving forward."


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I'm thrilled to be participating in a day-long conference on Capitol Hill next week to coincide with the release of a new book from the University of Chicago, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It. Co-authored by Robert Pape and James Feldman, the book builds on Pape's earlier pioneering work, including here and here, into the causes of terrorism. Drawing on data compiled by the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism (CPOST), the book includes chapters on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Chechnya and Sri Lanka.
The authors' concluding observations offer some hope for those of us who have been calling for a new narrative pertaining to counterterrorism, one that begins with the presumption that fear is the terrorists' true weapon. A strong, resilient society retains the ability to kill or capture those who would harm innocents to make a political point, as the United States has done since 9/11. But a country of more than 300 million people shouldn't cower before a few hundred individuals with delusions of world domination, but who are too frightened and weak to show their faces for years.
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Colts outside linebacker Josh McNary got to training camp a few days later than his teammates, but he had a good excuse for being late: He was serving in the U.S. Army.
McNary graduated from West Point two years ago and has been serving as a lieutenant since then. But the Colts have had an eye on him since he finished his career on the football team at Army, where he was the all-time leader in sacks and tackles for loss. Indianapolis signed him in April and moved him from the reserve/military list to the active roster after he was officially discharged from active duty this week.
Colts coach Chuck Pagano had McNary address himself to the team, then drew on McNary's experience in the military to discuss the hard work, dedication and commitment to a cause that Pagano wants to see from his team.
"I told the team pretty much where I've been for the past two years, where I've been the past couple of months," McNary said, via Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star. "After all that was said and done, [Pagano] made the parallel between the Army and that team, and the team that we have here. The fact that you kind of put this game into perspective, he called it a 'child's game.' He said that basically there's traits to be adopted and that team, in terms of everybody taking personal accountability and people being accountable for what they are supposed to be doing. It was pretty good. It was inspiring."
McNary hasn't played football since he walked off the field against SMU in the Armed Forces Bowl, but he says he's ready to get to work for the Colts.
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U.S. Specialty Household Cleaners Market is Expected to Reach USD 7.9 Billion by 2018: Transparency Market Research
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According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "Specialty Household Cleaners Market - U.S. Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," the U.S. specialty household cleaners market is expected to reach USD 7.9 billion by 2018 from USD 5.1 billion in 2011 at a CAGR of 6.6% from 2012 to 2018. The hard surface cleaners segment is in a commanding position, and accounted for over 44% to the total U.S. specialty household cleaners market in 2011.
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The hard surface cleaners segment holds majority share of the U.S. specialty household cleaners market and was valued at USD 2.3 billion in 2011. Hard surface cleaners segment is also the fastest growing and is expected to reach USD 3.6 billion by 2018.
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Microsoft recently announced the newest addition to its family of office products called Office 2013. At the moment, it is being made available as a "Consumer Preview" and can be downloaded for free (see: Office 2013 screenshot tour). I took a shot at downloading the preview and would like to share my thoughts on it so far.
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I found the download and installation process to be extremely easy. Pictured below, you can see what the Consumer Preview website looks like when you go to download it. All you have to do is click sign up and it will take you through the steps. Office 2013 is all designed around the Microsoft ID so you will have to use an existing login like your Hotmail account, or create a new one to get the download. Keep in mind that only users with Windows 7 and Windows 8 can download Office 2013. The installation was really quick. I was up and using Word in less than 10 minutes.
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The user interface is visually stunning. I give them credit for not veering too far away from the ribbon interface that we're all used to, but they did incorporate the Metro UI look which will be the standard in all of Microsoft's Windows 8 products. Pictured below, you can see what the Excel 2013 window looks like. If you look in the top right corner you will see your online Microsoft profile, an ever present reminder that with Office 2013 you are always connected. You can also put Office 2013 in "Touch Mode" to optimize it for use with tablets and touch screen PC's.
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I have a decent PC, but it certainly isn't cutting edge. I am running a Windows 7 OS with an Intel i5 processor. That being said, I find Office 2013 to be extremely responsive. For instance, when I clicked Microsoft Publisher 2013, it took 3 seconds to be up and running on my screen. That was the first time too! Whatever they did to take the bloat out of the startup experience, it's a good thing.
As far as features go, there are a few new ones worth mentioning, and I think they are good additions to the Office family. The first one I will mention is Microsoft Word's ability to open and edit PDF files. This works very well. If you look at the screenshot below, you will see that my PDF resume shows up as an available document in the Word dialog box. I was able to open and edit a PDF with ease. It was as smooth as silk.
Excel 2013 sports a new feature called "Flash Fill" which I think is really useful. If you look below, you can see an example where someone wanted to split first and last names. In column B they began typing a first name then hit ctrl+E and the "Flash Fill" Feature knows the pattern that you want all of the first names from column A. This is a very useful feature and will save time.
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Everything that I have seen of Microsoft Office 2013 so far is a 5 star rating in my opinion. However, because they have only made this available to Windows 7 and 8 users, I am rating it with 4 stars. I am sure there may be technical reasons behind this decision, but I suspect that it is mostly a financial one. Office 2013 is worth the look and if you're still using 2003, then I would definitely recommend it for the features and the speed. Keep checking back with us because I will be adding tutorials very soon so you can see more of the great features this new Office 2013 provides. You may also want to read some of the other great articles which go into more detail about the new features of Office 2013 at http://techie-buzz.com/tag/office-2013/.


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5.1 (Surround Sound 5.1)
Surround Sound 5.1 refers to multi-channel sound systems with five main channels and a separate low-frequency effect channel. Unlike Dolby Surround Pro Logic and similar systems, with 5.1 all six channels are stored and played discretely, i.e. individually and fully.
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
AAC is a file format for lossy storage of audio data. The format has primarily become known thanks to its use in a number of music services, particularly Apple's iTunes®.
Stores the stations with the strongest reception signal at the present time in the respective preset memory in order of reception quality.
CD-Extra CD
A CD-Extra CD is a special multi-session CD containing exactly two sessions. The first session contains the "normal" audio data of the CD. The second session contains the computer data.
Dolby Digital (also ATSC A/52 and Dolby AC-3)
Dolby Digital is a multi-channel sound system from Dolby that is used in cinema, on laser discs, DVDs, and in television.
DTMF tones (Dual Tone Multi-Frequency)
DTMF tones are tones stored on the keypad that are transmitted by a telephone or mobile radio equipment in order to communicate with touch tone-activated telephone systems. DTMF is used in hotline systems, in mailbox systems, and in telephone banking, for example.
DTS refers to a multi-channel sound system from the Californian company of the same name (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) that is used in cinemas as well as on laser discs, DVDs, special audio CDs, and D-VHS.
GPS (Global Positioning System)
GPS is a satellite-assisted position tracking system.
IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
The IMEI is a serial number that permits unique identification of the hardware in mobile radio equipment. Since different network providers can use this number to block a telephone in the event of misuse, it is a good idea to keep a record of it.
The IMEI can normally be displayed on a cell phone by keying in *#06#.
Meridian Lossless Packing (also Packed PCM or Dolby Lossless)
Meridian Lossless Packing is a lossless compression standard for digital sound recordings.
Mixed Mode CDV (also "Enhanced CD" )
A Mixed Mode CD is a CD containing tracks of different types (e.g. one data track and numerous audio tracks).
A generic term for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (a lossy compression method for audio data).


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Ok, I have a decent foundational understanding of programming concepts and web design. I decided to learn Java and it's frustrating me like crazy, running into problems at every turn.
I'm just trying to get the simplest possible applet to work.
My code is
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.Applet;
public class MyFirstApplet extends Applet {
public void paint (Graphics g) {
g.drawString("This is my first Applet!!!", 100, 25);
My html is
<TITLE>My First Applet</TITLE>
<APPLET CODE = 'MyFirstApplet.class' WIDTH = 100 HEIGHT = 25 </APPLET>
I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I have both 32-bit and 64-bit java installed because I use firefox. After searching and searching, I finally realized I compiled this with the 64-bit Java(if thats correct? and if that matters?) and I was trying to run it in Firefox(32-bit) and Internet Explorer(32-bit version). I opened 64-bit IE and something finally happened but all it showed was the word "This ".
What in the world am I doing wrong?
[EDIT - I just now realized that if I zoom waaaaaay in, I can see the full text that I should.. in both firefox and IE. I don't have any unusual display settings though, and the text stays the same size, but just shows more with each increase in zoom. Is this normal? Do I just need to learn more about how applets are displayed before going any further trying to figure this out?]


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It's the college football bowl season, and that means one thing.
A chance to end the season with a big victory? OK, sure.
It also the annual swag competition. No player, coach or staff member in a football program walks away empty-handed -- or empty-wristed.
Watches are among the gifts at 22 of the 35 bowl games, and maybe in 23 of them. The AT&T Cotton Bowl declined to reveal what was in its gift package in the survey done by the Sports Business Journal. But with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on the committee, you can bet it won't be a pen and pencil set.
An oil well?
The big-ticket items this year are recliners for gift suites, according to the Sports Business Journal, and 15 bowls have such a "suite" deal. The NCAA allows $550 in gifts for 125 people from each school. The cost of the recliners would exceed that if bought off the showroom floor, but the Sports Journal said that bowl committees negotiate lower prices.
UCLA players will get a crack at a recliner at the Hyundai Sun Bowl, which has a gift suite. Other freebies for the Bruins include a Timely Watch Co. watch, a fleece, a coin and a Helen of Troy hair dryer and a backpack, presumably to carry everything in.
Note to UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone: Skip the hair dryer.
USC players can't shop until they drop at the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, which does without a gift suite. The Trojans will get a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, a beanie, a cap, a backpack, a football and a gift card to Zappos, a clothing and shoe store.
The lesson here for USC? If you want a recliner in style, beat UCLA next time.
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Library Policies
This list of Wesleyan University Library policies is not comprehensive. If you have questions about any library policy or process, please contact the Library Office at 860-685-3844. If we can't answer your question we will connect you with someone who can.
Borrowing Privileges
- Get a library card (Wesleyan and non-Wesleyan patrons)
- Fines & fees; Suspension of borrowing privileges
- Library hold and recall requests
- Loan periods, renewals, and checkout limits
- InterLibrary Loan
- Library visitor policy
- Children in the library
- Internet access for visitors
- Services unavailable to visitors and non-Wesleyan borrowers
Collections & Facilities
- Library collection development policy
- Digital Library collection development policy
- Gifts to the library
- Use of library meeting spaces
- CTW Collection Development Policy (PDF)
- CTW Last Copy Memorandum of Agreement (PDF)


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Looking at setting up a new draft, completely different to any of the other excellent ones we've had in the past 6 months or so. Every 24 hours or so I'll ask a new question. Eg: Name a Left hander who has a highest score under 200.
Everyone emails their selections to firstname.lastname@example.com - If you are the only person with your answer you get that player in your XI, if someone else has the same player you have to re-pick.
If after 2 or 3 selections [depending on numbers] there are still some participants without a player I will randomly choose one of the draftees to chose any Test Cricketer who fits the criteria.
Understand? Let me know if you are keen.


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The man who came to define dash and elegance for an entire generation of moviegoers grew up in a poor tenement in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest of two sons of a truck driver and a charwoman. Young Thomas Sean Connery began helping to support his family with his first job at the age of seven, delivering milk. By 13 he had to quit school, working as a day laborer, a steel bender, a cement mixer. He joined the Royal Navy in 1947 for a 12-year stint, but he was discharged due to severe stomach ulcers in 1950. Then came his first job in show business: movie usher. He was also a bricklayer, a lifeguard, and a coffin polisher as well as a weightlifter and artist's model. It was his impressive physique that landed him the job of representing Scotland in the 1950 Mr. Universe pageant in London, where he was spotted by the producers of the hit Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific and given the role of a singing, dancing, shirtless sailor.
After this modest West End debut, which afforded the novice actor intensive dancing, singing and acting lessons, Sean Connery began landing roles and was particularly acclaimed in another American classic, Requiem for a Heavyweight, staged by the BBC. In 1958 he played his first leading role on screen, opposite Lana Turner in the romantic war drama Another Time, Another Place. He was noticed. And when it came time to bring to the screen the most intriguing and fascinating character in Cold War fiction, Connery beat out Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Trevor Howard, Patrick McGoohan and Roger Moore for the role of Ian Fleming's Agent 007. Dr. No in 1962 turned out to be the beginning of the most successful film series in history.
Connery's screen spy - Bond, James Bond - was dapper, virile, sexually liberated and politically savvy, disarmingly witty and irresistible. He captured the imagination of millions and triumphed at the box office for three decades beginning with Dr. No and continuing with undiminished excitement in From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Never Say Never Again (1983).
He played a different sort of hero in Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 thriller Marnie. But it was after the wildly successful Diamonds Are Forever that Connery felt the need to breakout from his own 007 creation and prove himself in a variety of roles. He succeeded. He starred in the science-fiction epic Zardoz and in Sidney Lumet's opulent adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, both in 1974. He followed this in 1975 with what many consider his finest work, an enigmatic adventurer in John Huston's film version of Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King. The next year, he teamed up with Audrey Hepburn in what may be the wisest and most romantic of all movie versions of the Robin Hood legend, Robin and Marian.
Brain DePalma's The Untouchables brought Connery the 1987 Academy Award. In The Russia House, Tom Stoppard's adaptation of the bittersweet John LeCarre bestseller, Connery played a very different Cold War warrior from Ian Fleming's glamorous secret agent. And Connery's appeal as an action hero has shown no signs of diminishment as the actor matured on screen in The Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, First Knight, The Rock, and Entrapment.
Sean Connery has received numerous international accolades including the Legion d'Honneur and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (the highest civilian honors given in France), and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Best Actor award for The Name of the Rose in 1987, the 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award for a British actor or actress who has made an outstanding contribution to world cinema, and in 1998, BAFTA's highest award, The British Academy Fellowship. In 1995 Connery received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field," given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at its annual Golden Globe Awards.
Steven Spielberg has said that "there are seven genuine movie stars in the world today, and Sean is one of them." There is, in fact, no one quite like Sean Connery.


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I was really excited when my PASS DVDs arrived last week. I had purchased the DVDs (or maybe CDs) back in 2003 or 2004, and the quality was just not very good. So, this is the first time since then that I actually decided to buy the DVDs in addition to attending the conference. The only bad thing is that you can't ask the speaker any questions. You can send them an email question, however, and I did just that after watching Jimmy May's presentation on Partition Alignment.
So far I have watched three presentations, and I am just thrilled with the quality of the recording and with the content. This fits nicely with my goal of improving Aunt Kathi in 2010, not just spending all my time trying to write and present on what I already know.
Even though I have been to the PASS Summit every year since 2003, I find that I am attending less sessions each year. Even with the best intentions of making it to the sessions, I often find that someone, usually someone I have just met for the first time, will want to chat with me as I am heading to the session room and never get there. That is the kind of interaction and networking that you can't get from the DVD, and it's one of the reasons I love attending PASS.
So, whether or not you were lucky enough to attend PASS, I encourage you to order the DVDs. http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/SummitDVDs.aspx It is a great investment in yourself and your career!


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SEATTLE, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) has noted the fall in its share price over the last week of trading. Omeros is not aware of any reason that justifies this decrease. As disclosed in Omeros' recent press releases and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 9, 2012 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Omeros' business, including its clinical programs and its preclinical pipeline, remains on track and the Company is pleased with its progress.
About Omeros Corporation
Omeros is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products targeting inflammation, coagulopathies and disorders of the central nervous system. The Company's most clinically advanced product candidates are derived from its proprietary PharmacoSurgery™ platform designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients undergoing a wide range of surgical and medical procedures. Omeros has four ongoing clinical development programs. Omeros may also have the near-term capability, through its GPCR program, to add a large number of new drug targets and their corresponding compounds to the market. Behind its clinical candidates and GPCR platform, Omeros is building a diverse pipeline of protein and small-molecule preclinical programs targeting inflammation, coagulopathies and central nervous system disorders.
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City governments are jumping on the social media train in a big way, more than tripling their use of social platforms in a two-year span between 2009 and 2011, according to a national study by the University of Illinois at Chicago that ranks cities on how well they interact with people online.
The study of the country's 75 largest cities found that 87 percent of them had a presence on both Facebook and Twitter, and 75 percent had YouTube links.
Meanwhile, cities are making some progress in offering their constituents open data portals for making use of government information, although only 12 cities currently have them and they often present unstructured data that's difficult for people to use.
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Karen Mossberger, who leads the university's administration graduate program, and associate professor Yonghong Wu analyzed the cities' online presence, interactivity, transparency and accessibility to come up with their Civic Engagement Index for measuring how the cities interact with constituents online. They then compared the results with a similar study from 2009.
The biggest change was with social media, the researchers said. Use of Facebook jumped from 13 percent of cities in 2009 to 87 percent in 2011. Twitter use increased from 25 percent to 87 percent, and YouTube use rose from 16 percent to 75 percent.
In all, the researchers ranked cities on 94 criteria for those with council manager governments, and 90 criteria for governments without city mangers. In addition to use of the top social media platforms, criteria included such things as the presence of official blogs and whether they allowed comments, searchable databases, Flickr links, virtual town hall meetings, newsletter subscriptions and e-mail updates.
New York and Seattle led the way, each scoring 93.33 percent use of their applicable criteria. Toledo, Ohio, brought up the rear, with a score of 51.11 percent. The average overall score for the 75 cities rose from 78 percent in 2009 to 83 percent in 2011.
The top 10 (actually, the top 13, accounting for ties), with their scores:
1 (tie). New York, 93.33 percent.1 (tie). Seattle, 93.33 percent.2. Virginia Beach, Va., 90.43 percent.3. Portland, Ore., 90 percent.4. San Francisco, 89.36 percent.5. Kansas City, Mo., 87.23 percent.6. Denver, 86.67 percent.7. Mesa, Ariz., 85.11 percent.8. Louisville, Ky., 84.44 percent.9 (tie). Philadelphia, 84.04 percent.9 (tie). Long Beach, Calif., 84.04 percent.9 (tie). Sacramento, Calif., 84.04 percent.10. San Jose, Calif., 82.98 percent.
In the past couple of years, federal, state and local governments have made a push toward making data available for public use, with efforts such as the federal Data.gov. To date, a dozen cities (16 percent) have implemented open-data portals, according to the study: Baltimore; Boston; Chicago; Honolulu; Louisville, Ky.; Milwaukee; New York; Philadelphia; Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.
Open-data portals give the public access to information such as crime rates, health trends and traffic. Having access to data, however, doesn't necessarily mean that the average person can do anything with it, so several cities also held app-development contests, offering prize money for programmers who can create ways for people to use the data.
In New York, for instance, the Big Apple Apps contests have yielded apps to help people get around town or compare schools. In Washington, D.C., the Apps for Democracy contest has produced apps for everything from taking historic tours to finding the safest route home late at night.
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(Phoenix, AZ—April 4, 2003) Attorney General Terry Goddard will host an event for Crime Victim Week on Monday, April 7 at 11:00 a.m. in the 3rd floor conference room at the Capitol Center, 15 S. 15th Avenue. The media is invited to attend.
Victims of all types of crimes will be in attendance and during the event the Attorney General will acknowledge them. Each will receive a token of the Office's commitment to victims.
Awards will also be given to Law Angel of the Year, an attorney who has given special assistance to crime victims.
Goddard will announce funding of over $2 million to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies across Arizona. Since the program began 10 years ago, over $20 million has been distributed.
There will be parking for media vans at the Cap Center and for cars at the Attorney General's lot at 1275 W. Washington. For additional information, call Dianna Jennings at 602-542-8019.