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8 December 2018
Synology RackStation presented 1U Rack Storage
Synology has officially presented the RackStation RS1619xs + network storage, information on the preparation of which appeared in the summer of 2018. The device is designed for rack mounting: the solution is made in the 1U form factor with dimensions of 44 × 480 × 518.6 mm. The system is optimized for businesses that need a flexible, reliable and efficient storage solution.
The basis is the Intel Xeon D-1527 processor with four cores running at 2.2 GHz (rises to 2.7 GHz). The standard DDR4 RAM is 8 GB in standard configuration, up to a maximum of 64 GB. The storage is equipped with four compartments for 3.5 or 2.5-inch drives with SATA 3.0 interface. The internal capacity can reach 56 TB using the 4 × 14 TB configuration.
Additionally, you can install two solid-state modules M.2 NVMe / SATA. This will speed up the execution of tasks with intensive input-output, including virtualization. The novelty is endowed with four Gigabit Ethernet network ports and two USB 3.0 ports. There is a PCIe x8 Gen3 slot in which you can install a 10GbE / 25GbE network card.
With its four network port design, Gigabit FS1018 supports link aggregation and failover. For accelerated data transfer, you can install an additional 10GbE.
Synology talks about the Btrfs file system, which uses the most advanced storage technology. It helps protect files from damage and reduce maintenance costs with optimized snapshots. The Btrfs file system provides a high level of data integrity and provides the benefits of effective, flexible means of protecting and recovering information.
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Only two days after House Speaker John Boehner raised hopes by telling colleagues he won't let the nation go into default, key members of both parties conceded that no one has presented a plausible plan for avoiding it. Instead, they continued to bicker and to ponder the chasm between two warring parties, each of which seems convinced it's on the winning side morally and politically.
There was, however, relief Saturday for thousands of furloughed Pentagon workers and the promise of back pay for all federal workers who have been forced off the job.
The Pentagon on Saturday ordered at least 90 percent of its roughly 350,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work, significantly reducing the number of sidelined federal workers. In all, about 800,000 federal workers had been furloughed.
Defense Department said the recall is based on a law passed by Congress this week that allows the Pentagon to end furloughs for "employees whose responsibilities contribute to the morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members." Republicans had complained that the administration was slow to bring back those workers in light of the law.
The larger stalemate over reopening the federal government persists. Boehner, asked Saturday whether Congress was any closer to resolving the impasse, replied: "No." Aides close to Boehner say he has not figured out how to end the gridlock.
Even the day's top bipartisan achievement - agreeing to pay furloughed federal employees for the work days they are missing - was a thin victory. Congress made the same deal after the mid-1990s shutdowns, and Saturday's 407-0 vote was widely expected.
Still, it triggered the sort of derisive quarreling that has prevented Congress from resolving the larger funding and debt dilemmas.
"Of all the bizarre moments" involved in the debate, said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, "this may be the most bizarre: that we will pay people not to work." He called it "the new tea party sense of fiscal responsibility."
House Republicans said they want to ease the pain from the partial shutdown. Democrats said Congress should fully re-open the government and let employees work for the pay they're going to receive.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Saturday the Democratic-controlled Senate will approve retroactive pay for furloughed workers, although he didn't specify when.
The politics of the 5-day-old partial government shutdown have merged with partisan wrangling over the graver issue of raising the federal debt limit by Oct. 17. If that doesn't happen, the White House says, the government will be unable to pay all its bills, including interest on debt. Economists say a U.S. default would stun world markets and likely send this nation, and possibly others, into recession.
Boehner, R-Ohio, and Obama say they abhor the idea of a default. But they and their respective parties have not budged from positions that bar a solution.
Obama says he will not negotiate tax and spending issues if they are linked to a debt-ceiling hike. Boehner and his GOP allies say they will not raise the ceiling unless Democrats agree to deep spending cuts.
Many House Republicans also demand curbs to Obama's signature health care law as a condition of reopening the government. The president and his allies call the demand absurd.
In interviews, key lawmakers and aides said they don't know how the impasses might be resolved. But they laid out several possibilities, all of which face huge political impediments:
- Boehner yields. The speaker could pass bills to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling - with few or any concessions by Democrats - if he decided to anger many conservatives in his 232-person caucus and rely heavily on Democrats' votes.
That's what Boehner did to mitigate massive tax increases at the beginning of the year and to give aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy. Most House Republicans opposed both measures.
But if Boehner were to enact something as contentious as a debt-ceiling hike with a "minority of the majority," he would face a GOP insurrection that could cost him the speakership. Many Democrats say he should do that.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Boehner "is going to have to decide to stand up to a reckless faction of his party for the good of the country. That's just the way this ends."
- Both sides yield a bit. Democrats conceivably could offer a few concessions that might help Boehner attract a slim majority of his House Republicans. For instance, they could agree to lift a tax on medical devices that helps fund the new health law or approve the Keystone pipeline to carry oil from Canada.
Any such decisions, however, would violate Obama's repeated vow not to negotiate on the debt ceiling and the government shutdown.
Besides, it's far from clear that such limited compromises would win most House Republicans' support.
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Republicans would demand much deeper spending cuts and other concessions before raising the debt ceiling.
"You can't ask those Republicans to just put their political life on the line for nothing," Cole said.
- Grand Bargain. The political gridlock has revived talk of a possible bipartisan "grand bargain" on major budget issues. Republicans would have to agree to higher taxes, which they fiercely oppose. And Democrats would have to swallow cuts in the growth of Social Security and Medicare benefits, which most Democrats are strongly against.
Obama and Boehner failed to reach such an accord in 2011 and again last December. Leaders of both parties say problems that killed those negotiations remain, and it's nearly impossible to resolve them before Oct. 17.
Obama told The Associated Press in an interview Friday he would be willing to negotiate with Republicans on health care, deficit reduction and spending - but only if Boehner allows votes to reopen the government and increase the nation's borrowing limit.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., laughed out loud when told that Democrats will negotiate on budget matters after the debt ceiling is raised unconditionally.
"If they are judging whether or not they're going to move based upon politics, and we're judging whether or not we're going to move based upon principle, it's going to be very, very difficult to find a way out of this," Mulvaney said.
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Democrats believe Obama will hold fast. The president "is not going to negotiate the full faith and credit of the United States," said Rep. David Price, D-N.C.
- The government defaults. If both parties stick to their promises, default appears inevitable. The economic impact and public backlash might prompt lawmakers to hastily agree to raise the debt ceiling and start paying all bills again.
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You could use spinach or arugula here, and since I had some CSA arugula, that's what I used. The rinsed arugula leaves were quickly wilted in a hot saute pan and then set aside. Into the food processor went a peeled and diced avocado, some tahini, the juice of a lemon, ground cumin, some cilantro, and salt and pepper followed by the cooled arugula. The mix was processed until smooth, and the dip was ready. I served it with sliced cucumber and celery to stick with the green theme and made some baked whole grain tortilla chips for dipping as well.
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Very Green Avocado-Tahini Dip
Recipe reprinted with publisher's permission from Wild About Greens
About 1 1⁄2 cups
A marriage of guacamole and hummus—and infused with a good amount of leafy greens—this rich dip makes its own unique statement. Serve it with tortilla chips, fresh pita, pita chips, raw veggies, or any combination that suits you.
3 to 4 ounces baby spinach or arugula, or a combination
1 large, ripe avocado, peeled and diced
1⁄3 cup tahini (sesame paste)
Juice of 1 lemon
1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley, cilantro, or dill
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Rinse the greens and place them in a large skillet or saucepan. With just the water clinging to the leaves, cook the greens until just wilted down. Remove from the heat.
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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has built a political career in standing up to the federal government over everything from immigration to health care. So she surprised almost everyone when she announced last week that she not only plans to push for an expansion of the state's Medicaid program under the federal health care law — she plans to fund it by raising taxes.
A conservative Republican, Brewer is believed to be the first governor to publicly come up with a way to fund the controversial Medicaid expansion. Not even California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat in a state that largely supports the new federal health plan, has figured out how to pay for a boosted Medicaid plan.
Her proposal to add about 300,000 low-income Arizonans to her state's Medicaid plan relies on funding from hospitals through a so-called provider tax. The idea is already used to fund some Medicaid plans in 39 states, but none have tapped it to pay for the federal expansion and many have at least some room to expand their hospital taxes.
The Medicaid expansion is intended to cover about half of the 30 million uninsured people expected to eventually gain coverage under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The law expanded Medicaid to cover low-income people making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $15,400 a year for a single person. That provision will mainly benefit low-income childless adults, who currently can't get Medicaid in most states. Separately, the overhaul provides subsidized private insurance for middle-class households.
Washington, D.C., and 17 states have opted to expand their Medicaid rolls, but few have been explicit in how they'll pay for it, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Some GOP governors, including Rick Perry in Texas, Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina, have opted out, citing philosophical differences as well as worries about costs.
Under the federal legislation, Washington would pay the entire cost of the Medicaid expansion for the first three years, gradually phasing down to 90 percent of the cost after that. It's a far more generous matching rate than the federal government provides for other parts of the Medicaid program that's designed to get states to sign on.
But Arizona appears to be unique in that it will see large costs immediately because of how its existing plan is arranged. So it needs to come up with new funding by January, while other states don't.
Brewer is bucking party and philosophical lines and blazing a unique path in the health care debate. Time will tell if others follow her lead.
Under the federal legislation, Washington would pay the entire cost of the Medicaid expansion for the first three years, gradually phasing down to 90 percent of the cost after that. It's a far more generous matching rate than the federal government provides for other parts of the Medicaid program that's designed to get states to sign on.
But Arizona appears to be unique in that it will see large costs immediately because of how its existing plan is arranged. So it needs to come up with new funding by January, while other states don't.
Brewer is already facing opposition from budget hawks in her own party on the issue. Two bills have already been introduced that would essentially block her efforts.
She has found supporters, however, among many Arizona hospital executives and business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, a leading opponent of raising taxes.
For hospitals stuck with millions of dollars in uncompensated care each year, agreeing to be taxed makes sense. They pay 6 percent of their revenues and get a much larger amount back from Medicaid from the newly insured.
Among the supporters of a tax is Dignity Health, which has three Phoenix-area hospitals, including one of the biggest in the state, St. Joseph's Hospital. Suzanne Pfister, Dignity's vice president for external affairs, said St. Joseph's alone has seen a tidal wave of uncompensated care since 2010, rising from an average of $8 million a month to an "unsustainable" $17 million a month now.
Others, like the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, are opposed to the taxes. Mayo argues it provides specialized care for cancers and transplants and shouldn't have to pay to support general care hospitals with high numbers of indigent patients.
Mayo CEO Dr. Wyatt Decker said it would be extremely difficult if the not-for-profit had to pay the tax, which a 2009 state study estimated at about $38 million for his hospital.
"We do applaud the governor's commitment to helping provide access to health care for more Arizonans. It's a good thing," Decker said Thursday. "But we, in general, do not support provider taxes as a solution because it is ultimately a tax on patients."
Virtually all states are looking at ways to pay their share of the expansion, said Dr. Daniel Derksen, a University of Arizona public health policy and management professor who helped design New Mexico's health insurance exchanges in 2011. Many have looked at provider taxes in recent years, he said, and they could again.
Provider taxes aren't new. Thirty-nine states already use some form of hospital provider taxes to help cover their share of Medicaid costs, according to the Kaiser Commission. And all but Alaska have taxes on nursing homes or other providers to help pay for required state matches to qualify for federal cash.
But Brewer is the first governor to propose a stand-alone hospital tax designed specifically to fund the Medicaid expansion.
The federal government puts a cap of 6 percent of hospital revenues on those taxes, and the 11 states without hospital taxes can put them in place. Most of the 39 already imposing hospital taxes have room to boost them.
California does not. It initiated a hospital provider tax in 2009 that is used to cover uncompensated care. The state might be able to redirect some of the estimated $2 billion in yearly revenues to its Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, if uncompensated care drops. But shifting the funding is a complicated act, as complex as other aspects of federal health care funding, said Dylan Roby, an assistant professor and researcher at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Such taxes can be compelling to lawmakers because the economics means health care providers are more willing to sign on.
"If the folks that are going to be taxed say, 'Well, we really need to do this,' that's a lot easier lift legislatively than trying to force something on a reluctant group," Derksen said.
Arizona began covering many low-income childless adults after voters required it in 2000, but Brewer trimmed the ranks covered by the state plan, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, when the Great Recession hammered state revenues. She proposes restoring that coverage as part of the expansion.
But there are costs to states, even at first, depending on their current plan. In Arizona, the state expects to be on the hook for $256 million by 2016, when its expansion if fully rolled out.


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The design of the four arm carbon fiber cranksets that so well identify the Super Record, Record and Chorus groupsets has also found its way into the fantastic Campagnolo Potenza 11 drivetrain, albeit in an aluminum construction. The Potenza crankset is made with both left and right crank arms in hollow forged aluminum to keep weight to a minimum while maintaining the same performance characteristics of its carbon fiber counterparts. Potenza's four arm spider design makes for one single crankarm for all chainring options thanks to its unified bolt pattern which allows for all three chainring standards 53/39, 52/36 and 50/34 to be built upon the same crankset. Changing between compact and standard with the Potenza groupset is as easy as changing eight bolts and two chainrings. While the 4-arm bolt pattern offers advantages in terms of practicality, the Campy Tech Lab designed it primarily with performance characteristics in mind. The eight bolt pattern with a spider arm design that not only holds the chainring in place by way of the bolt but also supports the chainring and in doing so, increases system rigidity to the point of surpassing its direct competitors in laboratory tests.
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WACO, Texas (AP) — An explosion Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant near Waco sent flames shooting high into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin, causing major damage to nearby buildings and injuring numerous people.
KWTX News reported that Dr. George Smith, Director of West Emergency Medical Services, said 60 to 70 people were dead.
The blast at the plant in West, a community north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles north of West.
Debby Marak told The Associated Press that when she finished teaching her religion class Wednesday night, she noticed a lot of smoke coming from the area across town near the plant, which is near a nursing home. She said she drove over to see what was happening, and that when she got out of her car two boys ran toward her screaming that the authorities told them to leave because the plant was going to explode. She said she drove about a block before the blast happened.
"It was like being in a tornado," the 58-year-old said by phone. "Stuff was flying everywhere. It blew out my windshield."
"It was like the whole earth shook."
She drove 10 blocks and called her husband and asked him to come get her. When they got to their home about 2 miles south of town, her husband told her what he'd seen: a huge fireball that rose like "a mushroom cloud."
More than two hours after the blast, there were still fires smoldering in what was left of the plant and others burning in nearby buildings. In aerial footage from Dallas' NBC affiliate, WDFW, dozens of emergency vehicles could be seen amassed at the scene. Entry into West was slow-going, as the roads were jammed with emergency vehicles rushing in to help out.
Authorities set up a staging area on the local high school's football field, which was lit up with floodlights. Ambulances and several dozen injured people could be seen being taken away or seated in wheelchairs as they are treated and await transport.
Department of Public Safety troopers were using their squad cars to transport those injured by the blast and fire at the plant in West, a community north of Waco, Gayle Scarbrough, a spokeswoman for the department's Waco office, told television station KWTX. She said six helicopters were also en route to help out.
Glenn A. Robinson, the chief executive of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, told CNN that his hospital had received more 40 more people for treatment, both by ambulance and private vehicle. He said the injuries included blast injuries, orthopedic injuries, large wounds and a lot of lacerations and cuts. The hospital has set up a hotline for families of the victims to get information, he said.
Robinson did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press.
American Red Cross crews from across Texas were being sent to the site, the organization said. Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster said the group was working with emergency management officials in West to find a safe shelter for residents displaced from their homes. She said teams from Austin to Dallas and elsewhere are being sent to the community north of Waco.
A West Fire Department dispatcher said any casualties would be transported to hospitals in Waco, which is about 90 miles north of Austin.
The explosion knocked out power to many area customers and could be heard and felt for miles around.
Brad Smith, who lives 45 miles north of West in Waxahachie, told the station that he and his wife heard what sounded like a thunderclap.
Lydia Zimmerman, told KWTX that she, her husband and daughter were in their garden in Bynum, 13 miles from West, when they heard multiple blasts.
"It sounded like three bombs going off very close to us," she said.
In 2001, an explosion at a chemical plant killed 31 people and injured more than 2,000 in Toulouse, France. The blast occurred in a hangar containing 300 tons of ammonium nitrate, which can be used for both fertilizer and explosives. The explosion came 10 days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S., and raised fears at the time it was linked. A 2006 report blamed the blast on negligence.


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== '''April 8 Meeting Notes''' ==
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Revision as of 18:17, 8 April 2009
- 1 Project Overview
- 2 Timeline
- 3 Team Name, Members, and Initial Roles
- 4 Group Communication
- 5 Resources (On-Going List)
- 6 Mid-Winter Meeting Notes
- 7 February 17 Meeting Notes
- 8 March 6 Meeting Notes
- 9 Survey (Completed March 8)
- 10 March 17 Meeting Notes
- 11 March 25 Meeting Notes
- 12 April 8 Meeting Notes
Project Overview
Project Title: Lift Every Voice and Read: A Personal Library for Every Child
Project Description: The Coretta Scott King book awards committee propose a marketing campaign, directed at African American youth, parents and families, to consider award-winning Coretta Scott King titles as purchases to populate children's home libraries. The award identifies superior titles that reflect positive images of African American history, lifestyles and issues of concern to African American culture, for sharing with young people.
This proposal focuses on the impact of youth, especially African American youth, owning personal libraries of books that support them. Living with books that reflect their own faces, their own histories, and lifestyles proposed opportunities for positive self-worth in the lives of these young people. These titles can:
1. strengthen sense of selves for children and youth, their vocabularies, their awareness of their own histories and the roles African Americans have played in other histories. 2. help them to recognize familiar issues as expressed in the stories of African American lifestyles, often covered by Coretta Scott King Book Award titles.
The Coretta Scott King Book Award was established to highlight the creative talents of African American authors and illustrators of books for children and youth. The 2009 awards breakfast, held at each annual conference of ALA, will launch the 40th anniversary celebration, which will continue in libraries, schools, bookstores and family homes across the country.
The Emerging Leaders team would be expected to:
a. Be familiar with the history of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, as well as reading several of the winning titles www.ala.org/csk b. Investigate the impact of these titles with children and youth, especially but not only African Americans. We will provide opportunities for the project team to talk with librarians, winning authors, teachers, who ware familiar with the titles, the genre, and the impact. c. Examine strategies of publishers and booksellers marketing of youth titles for purchase, as well issues impacting purchasing from a myriad of economic perspectives. d. Meet virtually (regularly) with the other Emerging Leaders on your team, with upport from the project liaisons, to implement the project. To accommodate planning and discussion, a wiki will be enabled, as well as a discussion list and periodic conference calls as needed. e. Collaborate in the design and creation of handouts, such as bibliographies, logans, advertisements, and store, conference, website displays/images, and other tools for a 2-year marketing campaign that 1) addresses the goals of the project, including the use of the 40th anniversary logo and theme, and that 2) advocates the value of youth ownership of Coretta Scott King book award titles. These resources should be able to be replicated easily. f. Explore the potential costs for the duplication of each product for the public as well as for downloadable formats. Connsider/recommend "print on demand" as well as sales options. Staff liaisons will assist in this effort. g. Deliver examples of the completed marketing campaign products by June 1, 2009 considering a $10,000 campaign budget for possible implementation in 2010. h. Maintain communication with the project team and with the liaisons, at pre-determined intervals, toward resources and expertise to support the team's efforts. i. Celebrate the completion of the project at the 40th Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast on Tuesday July 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00am, as guests of the committee
Project Due Date: June 1, 2009
Team Name, Members, and Initial Roles
The King's Advocates include:
Lana Adlawan: Liason to Satia, Chrystal, or CSK Committee as needed
Marissa Alcorta: Will create bibliographies for younger children
Sarah Evans: Creator of Google Group and Calendar/Doodle
Yolanda Hood: Will create bibliographies for older children
Hayley McEwing: Posts to Wiki
Vonzell Yeager: Opal/Google Chat coordinator
Contact: Chrystal Carr Jeter
ALA Staff Liason: Satia Orange
Group Communication
Google Group ( firstname.lastname@example.com ): is where we collect related discussions, project ideas, and pertinent articles
Skype: has been used for real time group meetings via voice chat
Gmail Chat: has been used for real time group meetings via instant messaging
EL Project Listserv Email: used for daily clarification of ideas and scheduling of meetings
Doodle: used solely for scheduling meetings
Overall, group communication via voice/video chatting is a challenge. We are constantly exploring different systems that will meet each of our place of work's technological capabilities.
Resources (On-Going List)
Andrea Pinkey's article in Booklist on CSK (2/09) [1]
Obama reads from a CSK book at a D.C. school (2/09) [2]
Booklists, Related
The Brown Bookshelf [3]
CSK Award 40th Anniversity Gala Reception [4]
Guides, General Classroom
Classroom guides for individual titles[5]
Guides, CSK
Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Awards: 101 Ideas and Activities [6]
Coretta Scott King Award Books: Using Great Literature with Children and Young Adults [7]
Thinkfinity @ your library [8] See especially, Read Write Think link: [9]
Interactive Websites
Scholastic Rise and Read [10]
Toolkit Examples
Gaming [11]
Jane Addams Children's Book Award [12]
Mid-Winter Meeting Notes
February 17 Meeting Notes
As we talked about different strategies to market the CSK books and create a toolkit, we volunteered for the following tasks.
1) Creating a survey to send to librarians/educators through listservs that would provide information on current awareness and use of CSK (Sarah)
2) Compiling currently available resources and articles on using CSK (Yolanda)
3) Creating bibliographies of appropriate CSK books for K-6 (Marissa)
4) Creating bibliographies of appropriate CSK books for teens (Lana)
5) Creating ready-to-use library programs involving CSK books (Hayley)
6) Creating/Compiling ready-to-use lesson plans involving CSK books (Von and Sarah)
7) Tying CSK books into curricular standards (Yolanda and Sarah)
8) Marketing plans, to include a Designated Marketing Analysis (Von)
9) Creating bibliographies of CSK books based on issues (Marissa and Lana)
10) Creating bibliographies pertinent to each month (Hayley, Marissa, and Lana)
11) Creating a contact list of organizations and institutions who will be interested in receiving the above information/toolkit (Hayley)
In our individual research, we also hope to find games and activities to accompany the CSK books that we could add to our toolkit.
March 6 Meeting Notes
Lana, Marissa, Yolanda, and Sarah were able to get together and respond to our mentor's concerns about meeting our project description.
Below is listed tasks in our project description (bold text), our mentor's concerns (plain text), and our group response (italic text).
Be familiar with the history of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, as well reading several of the winning titles www.ala.org/csk.
I assume that all of you are already familiar with the titles.
We are! And the CSK book that Satia provided for us has been very helpful.
Investigate the impact of these titles with children and youth, especially but not only African Americans. We will provide opportunities for the project team to talk with librarians, winning authors, teachers, who are familiar with the titles, the genre, and the impact.
We can add you to the member list to talk about your project I will assume you will use that opportunity to ask about the impact of the award titles on children and youth, as identified in the charge for the project, not to get ideas from them, as originally stated.
This statement seems to be in conflict with what Satia has recommended in the past of collecting ideas from teachers and librarians in the use of these awards in classrooms and libraries. By collecting and organizing program ideas that have been successful, we collect the information and the testimonials of how and why these programs have been successful in influencing many communities, not only for African-Americans. Our goal in connecting with the CSK committee was to introduce ourselves and make ourselves available to any suggestions they offered.
I can see its useful to connect you with librarians, winning authors, teachers, etc. who can articulate their opinions and observations on impact of the titles on young people. Let us know when that is on your agenda, and we will start those connections.
We have created a thorough survey to access and archive this information.
Our winning authors and illustrators will welcome the opportunity to chat with you, when we can schedule it.
If our technology problems are resolved soon, it'd be wonderful to schedule an OPAL chat with some of the award winners to capture their opinions.
Examine strategies of publishers and booksellers marketing of youth titles for purchase, as well issues impacting purchasing from a myriad of economic perspectives.
We can connect you to our advisory committee of winner publishers and booksellers, so you can query them on the impact of purchasing during this economic challenge for families. Provide a plan for investigating these strategies, and we'll set up that opportunity.
This bullet point is very problematic for us a group. We were told in Denver that the CSK committee has hired a marketing agency to handle the larger needs of marketing to bookstores and the general public. The "purchasing" issue would be at these places, and not necessarily in schools or libraries. We were told to focus on marketing to schools and libraries, which is why the idea for creating a toolkit to "market" these titles to educators was decided upon. We would love the chance to connect with this advisory committee, however, if it will help to streamline the tools we offer to educators, and give us more information of what is actually available to offer the public from the publishing industry.
Meet virtually (regularly) with the other Emerging Leaders on your team, with support from the project liaisons, to implement the project. To accommodate planning and discussion, a wiki will be enabled, as well as a discussion list and periodic conference call as needed.
Satia's offer to sponsor a conference call through OLOS is still open. Just tell me when you need it and I can be sure it happens.
Sarah is looking into OPAL as a solution. Would you and Satia like to be included in our conference calls?
Collaborate in the design and creation of handouts, such as bibliographies, slogans, advertisements, and store, conference, website displays/images, and other tools for a 2-year marketing campaign that 1) addresses the goals of the project, including the use of the 40th anniversary logo and theme, and that 2) advocates the value of youth ownership of Coretta Scott King book Award titles. These resources should to be able to be replicated easily.
When does the design and creation begin? Where does the toolkit fit in here? I don't understand how the advocacy for youth ownership is reflected in toolkits.
Again, there seems to be a discrepancy in what we were told would be our primary audience. It seems like many of the things listed in the bullet point will be covered by the outside marketing agency. Would this marketing agency partner with us in the design elements of our project? Bibliographies are currently in the midst of being created. If you access our wiki page and look at the Feb. 17th notes, you will see a breakdown of all of our tasks:
From our understanding, our project is to be implemented in 2010. It seems that section (1) of this bullet is underway and taken care of. We love the theme, "Lift Every Voice and Read" and hope to have this theme imprinted on the materials we create.''
Explore the potential costs for the duplication of each product for the public as well as for downloadable formats. Consider/recommend 'print on demand' as well as sales options. Staff liaisons will assist in this effort.
We have ALA staff that, once you have determined what you are developing, can assist you with the pricing and preparation of downloadable formats.
We will definitely need this support.
Survey (Completed March 8)
March 17 Meeting Notes
Marissa, Yolanda, and Von met via Google Chat and decided that each team member would individually re-evaluate and create more action plans to better meet our project description and mentors' concerns.
March 25 Meeting Notes
Project Title: Lift Every Voice and Read
May add other "taglines" to slogan such as, "Explore Your World ... Yet (or "And") Find Yourself"
Audience: youth, parents, and families
Goal: to have the audience consider award-winning Coretta Scott King titles as purchases to populate children's home libraries
Marketing Ideas:
CSK Winner/Honor Interviews: Via instant messaging or voice chat over the internet, invite a pre-registered group to prepare and ask questions of a CSK winner/honor author or illustrator. While there is always one winner in each of the following categories (author, illustrator, and new talent), there can be up to nine honorees. This allows for potentially one interview a month during the school year. (Not assigned – Isaac with Opal for tech? Moderated by CSK member?)
Public Service Announcement: Text written and suggestions of when to announce. (Von)
Greeting Card/Postcard: available to download from the website or send as e-card. Accompanying this download or e-card, post links to www.amazon.com or http://www.bookweb.org/index.html to encourage purchasing CSK book for home library. (Not assigned) Types of Cards = Birthday, Graduation, Congratulations Images = Lift Every Voice and Read (already approved). Recommend use of award winner's covers though copyright concerns? Texts = To be created
Bibliographies: Chrystal suggested dividing by age THEN theme. Available online as well as downloadable document. (Marissa K-6/Lana 7-12) Themes: Family, He-roes/She-roes
CSK Book Club: Encourage youth to read a CSK book every month. (Not assigned) Downloadable Calendar: Each month recommend a book to read. (Hayley, Marissa, Lana?) Downloadable Stickers: "I read a CSK book." Receive during club for successfully reading monthly book? Free Book for Registering: Explore publishers' donations as Chrystal successfully got from Hyperion for her project with http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Games/Activities: Compile into "Parent/Child Home Guide?" Include word searches, scavenger hunts (etc.) downloadable from site. (Not assigned)
Discussion Guides: Are already available through CSK, though not marketed recently and not yet downloadable on CSK website. Recommend this. Also, Yolanda suggested creating one per book as booksellers have in their displays which could be downloadable as well. (Not assigned)
Survey: Chrystal will check with Satia about the need or alteration of the survey. The information gained by its return may aid the CSK committee in further projects or our own marketing above. (Sarah)
Research: Chrystal will check with Satia on how much research we need to provide. However, due to our timeline and the above ideas we have already, making such recommendations (without in depth research) will probably be sufficient. (Not assigned)
April 8 Meeting Notes
April 8 Meeting Notes Word Doc[13]


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VATICAN CITY » Cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to elect the next pope, a milestone in this unusual papal transition and an indication that even without an obvious front-runner, the cardinals have a fairly good idea of who best among them can lead the Catholic Church and tackle its many problems.
The conclave date was set this afternoon during a vote by the College of Cardinals who have been meeting all week to discuss the church's problems and priorities and the qualities a new pope must possess.
Tuesday will begin with a morning Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, followed by a solemn procession into the Sistine Chapel and the first round of secret balloting in the afternoon.
Only one vote is held the first afternoon. If black smoke is sent snaking out of the chapel chimney to indicate there is no immediate victor, the cardinals will retire for the day. They will return Wednesday for two rounds of balloting in the morning, two rounds in the afternoon until a pope has been chosen.
In the past 100 years, no conclave has lasted longer than five days.
That said, there doesn't appear to be a front-runner in this election for a successor to the retired Benedict XVI, and the past week of deliberations has exposed sharp divisions among cardinals about some of the pressing problems facing the church, including of governance within the Holy See itself.
U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, considered a papal contender, said in a blog post today that most of the discussions in the closed-door meetings covered preaching and teaching the Catholic faith, tending to Catholic schools and hospitals, protecting families and the unborn, supporting priests "and getting more of them!"
"Those are the 'big issues,'" he wrote. "You may find that hard to believe, since the 'word on the street' is that all we talk about is corruption in the Vatican, sexual abuse, money. Do these topics come up? Yes! Do they dominate? No!"
Early in the week, the Americans had been pressing for more time to get to the bottom of the level of dysfunction and corruption in the Holy See's governance that was exposed by the leaks of papal documents last year. But by Thursday afternoon, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles tweeted that the discussions were "reaching a conclusion" and that a mood of "excitement" was taking hold.
Vatican-based cardinals had been angling for a speedy end to the discussions, perhaps to limit the amount of dirty laundry being aired.
A Tuesday start date could be read as something of a compromise. Monday had been seen as an obvious choice to start the conclave to ensure a pope would be elected and installed by Sunday, March 17, the last Sunday before Holy Week begins.
American and some German cardinals had argued that the time for discernment should come during the pre-conclave meetings, when there is more time for discussion and information-gathering.
Once the conclave begins, there is actually very little time for discussion since the proceedings are conducted in an atmosphere of silent prayer. The Americans had argued for more consultation time so the conclave itself doesn't drag on.
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"Obviously the cardinals must arrive at this moment with all the information that is useful to make a judgment on such an important issue," he said. "The preparation is absolutely fundamental."
According to Vatican analysts and even some cardinals themselves, the list of papabili, or those considered to have the stuff to be pope, remains relatively unchanged from when Benedict XVI first announced he would resign Feb. 28, kick-starting the papal transition. But some Italian media have speculated that with governance such a key issue in this conclave, the cardinals might also be considering an informal pope-secretary of state "ticket."
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Also today, the cardinals formally agreed to exempt two of their voting-age colleagues from the conclave who in past weeks had signaled they wouldn't come: Cardinal Julius Darmaatjadja, emeritus archbishop of Jakarta, who is ill, and Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who resigned last week after admitting to inappropriate sexual misconduct.
That formality brings the number of cardinal electors to 115; two thirds of which — or 77 votes — is required for victory. Benedict in 2007 changed the conclave rules to keep the two-thirds requirement throughout the voting process after Pope John Paul II decreed that after about 12 days of inconclusive balloting the threshold could switch to a simple majority.
By reverting back to the traditional two-thirds requirement, Benedict was apparently aiming to ensure a consensus candidate emerges quickly and ruling out the possibility that cardinals might hold out until the simple majority kicks in to push through their candidate. His decision might prove prescient, given the apparent lack of a front-runner in this conclave.
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The pope is expected to stay there for a few weeks even after the election, since the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace must be renovated. The apartment was sealed Feb. 28, just after Benedict resigned, and cannot be reopened until the new pope formally takes possession of it.
Lombardi explained that after an eight-year papacy, certain plumbing and maintenance work that had been put off must be carried out — work that cannot begin, however, until the seal on the doors is broken.


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