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Monday, May 07, 2007
Women's Insight In Engineering
This seems like an extreme measure, and I'm curious as to whether less extreme mechanisms for hiring women were first tried: e.g., having women participate in hiring committees and ensuring that talented women applicants for open positions are given full consideration.
The position involves an endowed professorship, and therefore it may come with some status, but I also wonder how a woman hired for a position that specifies it is for a woman engineer will be viewed by her colleagues. Presumably a talented woman will be hired and will be respected as much as any faculty member (??).
Some of my engineering colleagues, some of whom have spent sabbaticals in Switzerland, think that the weirdest part of the ad is the part that says that the position is intended "to promote women's insight in engineering". My colleagues and I were joking about this -- wondering if it meant that the woman is supposed to bring a 'feminine touch' to her engineering research. Then we wondered what 'women's insight in physics' or 'women's insight in chemistry' might be like.
28 comments:
- theverycold said...
Hmm, insight by force. yes, because that will just scream "we're not a foggy prudey sort of university! we got women on staff! see, lookee!"
maybe you should not underestimate translation approximations.
Indeed the press release seems less ambiguous
"EPFL announces a one-of-a-kind job opening : an endowed assistant tenure-track professorship destined for an outstanding woman in any field of engineering. The professorship, sponsored by swissUp, a foundation promoting higher education in Switzerland, is part of an effort to enhance the engineering contributions and increase the participation of women in engineering. The project is supported by EPFL's group of women professors, who will take an active role in the selection process."
In the extended french press release:
" La proportion d'étudiantes a augmenté de 16 à 24% entre 2000 et 2006. Quant au nombre de femmes professeures, il a passé de 4 à 19 sur la même période."
rough tranlation:
"Between 2000 and 2006, the proportion of female [engineering] students increased from 16 to 24% while the number of female professors went from 4 to 19 during the same period."
- Feminista said...
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- pluto said...
> wondering if the woman is supposed to bring a 'feminine touch' to her engineering research.
Yeah, well she'll be so in touch with the phases of the moon -- it'd be silly of her not to use that.
There's something to say for both stances I guess. Positive discrimination might help boost the numbers of female scientists, but at what cost?
Why is it that so few women have a scientific career? At our university, a questionnaire revealed that it was -- as always -- the combination of married life with children and the fact that PhD's are generally written during the child bearing age . Nothing can be done about that, I assume.
And that remark about advancing women insight into engineering? What IS that? I'll be laughing about that all day. Thanks!
Silly as it sounds, there is a body of "scholarship" that promotes the idea that women have special insight into science. One sees this particularly in the biological sciences, with such books as E.F. Keller's "A Feeling for the Organism", and other less publicized works. Keller argues that brining women into science is essential because women view the biological world differently than do men. It has nothing to do with such practical trivialities as pay equity, parental leave policies or on-campus day care, no. It's all about whether the nucleus (read: hierarchical, centralized, male) or the cytoplasm (read: vast integrated networks of equally essential components, harmoniously functioning to keep the cell in balance with its environment, female) is the dominant focus of cell biology. As a woman and a cell biologist, I find this rather silly. The nucleus/cytoplasm dichotomy is not anything like those sociologists make it out to be. The traditional lines between subdisciplines are blurring, and not necessarily along gender lines.
Besides, I'd rather have a daycare on campus that fight about studff like that.
- plam said...
Perhaps something that's a bit more normal is the University Faculty Awards by NSERC, Canada's natural science and engineering funding agency. If you get one, NSERC pays $40k towards your salary. It is open to female and Aboriginal faculty members.
Do you think it's possible that insight is a poorly translated word? What are possible other translations?
I find it strange as you do, but really more because it seems they've created separate hiring tracks for men and women. We decided awhile back in this country that 'separate but equal' is anything but.
- Female Science Professor said...
I should have noted that the phrase involving women's "insight" was in English.
- scholar henry said...
Literature on "Insight" expresses that insight lies in the manner of how we transform our view of a problem as the path to solving a problem.
The nut is not feminine insights vs or as different than masculine insights. The core of the concern is where does a person start the transformation of patterns to solve a problem. Perhaps men start from a reductivist perspective and women start from systems perspective.
The NHLBI's WHI, http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/ is an example in which women looked at their postmenopausal health as a systemic concern requiring a systems view as men had looked at PM health as a chemical imbalance problem. This is perhaps to narrow a view but I hope it illustrates the point.
- Lisa said...
"At our university, a questionnaire revealed that it was -- as always -- the combination of married life with children and the fact that PhD's are generally written during the child bearing age ."
I'm not sure how one questionnaire can "reveal" why there are so few women with a scientific career. Presumably many of the women who could've had a scientific career were not in science at the university to answer the survey; perhaps they had chosen a different field because of our culture's gender issues, or perhaps they had "leaked" out of the pipeline for various reasons already. I am even less sure how it could show that childbearing is "as always" the reason, since other studies have shown that this is not the only reason. There's a paper called "Do Babies Matter" that showed that the women who were married with children had pretty much the same probability of getting tenure as other women, provided they were on the tenure track. It seemed, though, that fewer women with children were choosing to take (or being offered) a tenure-track job.
The Luce Foundation here in the States endows similar positions, called Clare Boothe Luce Professorships. I applied for one in my field last year. I thought briefly about whether it might be uncomfortable to hold a position that had been specified for a woman. But ultaimtely I felt that being part of an institution and department that took the issues of women in science seriously enough to have been awarded the Luce grant outweighed any potential negative assumptions on the part of small-minded individuals. (However, I didn't get the job.)
At least they didn't say "intuition."
Once in a grad seminar on logic, the professor was having trouble with a proof. I offered a sketch of how it might be done, and he said, "Interesting intuition." I showed him my notebook where I had worked out the proof while he fumbled on the board.
By the way, did everyone notice that Purdue has picked an FSP for their new president?
Purdue U. Picks Chancellor of U. of California at Riverside as Its Next President
- lady macleod said...
I'm thinking we (women) might have something to say on our view of "the big bang"...
I like Pluto's comment.
May I use and example from a volunteer relationship with a HS after school technical program designed to introduce students to engineering problems. The students were asked to divide into two teams and build robots with help from undergraduate students. They divided themselves into all boy and girl teams. The boys were talking all about the mechanical aspects of the robot right away in their group. The girls first gave the robot a face, a personality so to speak, and then started mechanical. Their mechanical ideas were just as good (if not better) than the boy's, but I found it interesting they had to give the project a 'personality' first. Many of the biological sciences have 'faces' if you will, but engineering does not always have this concept and may be less attractive to the female student. Perhaps a unique view-point is what they are inferring in using the word insight. BTW, even in this country engineering has long been trying to attract females into the mix, as was stated by the French statistics. In fact one of the major selling points of an engineering school in higher education is their percentage of female students. While I understand your point that it may not be necessary to ask specifically for a women in a job description, perhaps women are so discouraged from tenure-track positions in Switzerland they need this specified.
If it were me going for this position, I'd be excited that it sounds like there's a network of women who support the opening, but quite worried about anyone thinking that I had gotten the job by being female and not by being a great scientist. But I'm sure that the position, particularly without looking for a specific field of research within engineering, will attract so many qualified candidates that the one who gets the position will, for the most part, be respected by her peers.
To Bel, I second some of Lisa's arguments, and also add that it is most certainly not true that "nothing can be done about that." In addition to half-time tenure track, having reasonable child care at universities, etc...people can work to change the attitude/stigma that surrounds so many working women with children, where no matter how much work they produce, they are judged more critically. In fact, this has recently begun to gain some recognition by the law as Family Responsibilities Discrimination. (See Scaling the Maternal Wall in Ms.)
- Life Lore said...
Feminine touch to engineering..lol!
I do think that women, in general, have a different insight into problem and that a science, a search for truth, is well served by the diversity of insights that come from gender and cultural background. A good example was pointed out recently in popular science journals. Ideas on human evolution may have been influenced by a male-dominated scientific community. To simplify, brain development was considered the result of Man turning into a killer of large predators, but recent research is showing that in fact, brain evolution may have been the result of getting smart in order to avoid or trick large predators, and not to kill them. An argument was made in the journals that had female scientists been better represented, this misinterpretation of data may have been avoided.
So I do believe the EPFL, after careful deliberation, indeed meant women's insight in engineering.
I'm sorry, I clearly did not word my comment correctly. The questionnaire was directed at men and women who had started their PhD research a couple of years before. The questionnaire revealed that fewer women then men, proportionally, finished the PhD track and that of those who did, a significant amount left the world of research after getting their doctoral degree, whereas a much larger part of the men did continue with their scientific career. The reasons stated amongst others (of course there were other reasons too) were family oriented.
I would be as surprized as you are if women who choose the path of a scientific career are less probable of getting tenure because of their choice to have a family by definition. But apparently, there is still a lot of ground to cover when it comes to this apparent gap between men and women when it comes to choosing that career. Why do women who have finished their PhDs feel the necessity of stopping their career? As in: why do THEY choose to do so, and men do not?
- Mr. B. said...
A few comments from Mr. B. in his anecdotage...
One of the last times I taught my biomaterials course (a course in the biomedical ENGINEERING deparment) I noticed for the first time in my career of teaching science/engineering courses that the women outnumbered the men...
When I taught at Katyland in the seventies - a large Catholic women's college - the last year I was there we had ten chemistry majors who were as strong, top to bottom, as the students at Carleton. And by the way, the female students at Carleton were fantasic and there never seemed to be any worries about their ability to compete in science.
And finally, I think this business about women and math is cultural. Mr. B. has had some very sharp female students - mathwise - work in his lab who learned math initially in the Ukraine, Poland, and India. There apparently "everyone does math." I am afraid that in the US the idea that math is hard and women can't do it has been drilled into our heads for many, many, years.
Just some thoughts.
I would be concerned about the respect the person who gets this position will get from her colleagues. I have wondered if I got into the well-respected university where I got my BSE in part because I was a woman interested in engineering. I don't think anyone treated women in the program differently because of this, but it may be more obvious in a situation like this.
I am also one of the statistics of a woman who went to grad school in engineering and then left academia. It wasn't because of work-family balance or wanting to have kids, though. I've seen people balance those, although it is certainly difficult. I think there are a lot of reasons women leave engineering more. Girls who show promise are strongly encouraged to try it, even if that is not their interest. I have recently changed fields and am halfway (hopefully!) through a PhD program in a different area. If I'd explored my options more in college, I might have gotten here a lot sooner. (Perhaps not, because I think it's really hard to find the right field when you have no experience in the "real world" but that's another story...) This happens for boys, too, but I think boys who show promise aren't pushed in quite the same ways.
One more tangential thing to mention is that the only thing that made me feel bad about leaving engineering is that now there's one less woman there to be welcoming to the next generation. I've heard the same thing from other women who have left. I usually was able to ignore it, but every once in a while it became obvious that I was the only woman in a room of 10 engineers. But to be unhappy there isn't being a good role model either...
I'm glad that people are trying to help promising women succeed, and if these kinds of searches are necessary, it's good to do. It is a bit depressing, however, that they feel it is necessary in the 21st century!
ffe (former female engineer. Still female, but not an engineer.)
- Sophie Claire said...
About engineering --
_Female Scientists and Engineers: Why So Few?_ was an NSF-funded study performed in the early 90s. It was intended to be followed by a later study. Never happened.
From what I've seen elsewhere, numbers of employed female engineers are down -- much lower than would be predicted by graduation rates.
I studied engineering because I absolutely loved the problem solving, am decently good at it, and had some very nice friends (generally male but also some female) who shared the same interests. And because my science and math professors encouraged me strongly to pursue engineering.
The problem solving is still attractive to me -- the field, definitely not.
School was really horrid. The work environment was a slight improvement. At my first job post-graduation, I was the only woman in a room of 27 engineers. Also the youngest, the new kid, and the subject matter expert for my area.
Professional respect and acceptance -- those are things I feel I did achieve, to the extent that women ever achieve such things in engineering. I keep in touch with several former colleagues.
But there was very little opportunity for advancement, and a very ugly competitiveness just as what I had encountered in school. Although my work was needed and often applied, there were persistently enormous differences between my work responsibilities versus stated authority. For example, I was frequently (at three successive companies) given responsibilities which exceeded my positional status by up to three grades. This represents not only a serious degree of under-compensation for me, but also was quite a hindrance to my ability to do the work I was assigned to do -- unnecessarily inefficient for my employer.
Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) is spot-on with his Alice character: in my experience, women engineers are too often given disproportionate levels of work, are saddled with social responsibilities such as keeping teams working well together and cheerleading, are regularly assigned social and administrative tasks, are held responsible for the social and personal behavior of others including their superiors, and receive less recognition, credit, and compensation for comparable work.
I've discovered that I truly don't care to break new ground. I regret my pursuit of an engineering career. I would rather have applied my talents where they would be useful to others and to my family.
As for my daughter -- I'm encouraging her to pursue research or clinical work in the allied health sciences, particularly if she can negotiate one of the fields which offers family-friendly flexibility.
My sister-in-law is a nurse. Nursing isn't the most optimal use of her considerable intellectual talents (no offense to nurses -- school can be very challenging, but after all, the work typically tends to become relatively routine), but it's otherwise truly wonderful for her, as she has the satisfaction of making a valuable, direct impact in the lives of others -- a refreshing degree of flexibility (working 38 hours/week spread over two days), and a comfortable income (more than most experienced engineers earn).
Frankly, I'm envious! And admiring -- she's found a great career which allows her to support her family and spend time with her child, where she is appreciated, valued, and promoted.
As an engineer and project manager, I worked countless 12+ hour days (and many 20 hour days), and I typically worked 6- and 7-day weeks. Compared to my SIL the nurse, I also earned far less, experienced far greater headaches, and had very little real flexibility. (Flexibility to come and go when I deemed necessary -- but so much work that it wasn't practical to do much other than work. I rarely saw my family.)
Forget engineering! It doesn't work for women because it truly doesn't want to.
I frequently run into female graduates of my engineering school -- we're just not working as engineers.
- Ms.PhD said...
I'm with fe, who wrote: "perhaps women are so discouraged from tenure-track positions in Switzerland they need this specified."
And with anonymous (and others) who discussed the value of diversity.
This is what affirmative action is for, people. Let's not put it down, because it works.
- Female Science Professor said...
I didn't put anything down, just mused.
- CJK said...
This is also why there are so many mixed feelings about affirmative action, especially among the minority group "beneficiaries." The process does cast doubt on how someone got their job in the first place, even if it the position was awarded to the best candidate from the *entire* pool of applicants, rather than a limited pool of women, or blacks or whatever. There is also a whiff of a suggestion that the minority group in question, in this case women, couldn't get the job if they weren't getting a leg up from "the man." Affirmitive action is an extreme policy designed to right grotesque wrongs, but it seems to have become standard operating procedure.
- Zuska said...
Well, the oppressor sure has gotten inside the heads of a lot of people. Here's something to consider: those who would question the credentials of a woman who would get this job in Switzerland are the same folks who would question the credentials of ANY woman who gets ANY job in science or engineering. There is NOTHING you can do to prove to those people that you are legitimate. They just don't think women are good enough, period. They think letting women in the door at all means "lowering standards". Why are we so frickin' worried about one job reserved for a woman when we know that most of the rest of them are reserved for men? So, she gets the job, and some people behind her back question whether she deserves it. So what? That's still one more woman on the faculty than there was before. You think that the rest of you aren't having your quality and "deservedness" questioned by men around you behind your back? In engineering, women are always being told "you just got in here because you're a girl" or "they only hired you because you're a woman". That's without any special positions created. Screw 'em. Let's not do their job for them and police ourselves. If we have managed to wrest one f*cking position out of the hands of powers that be, let's celebrate it, not wring our hands and worry whether some asshat guys will think we don't deserve it. If we wait for them to be convinced, we might as well wait for pigs to fly, too.
Regarding the insight bit: I don't think there is anything _inherent_ in women that makes them do engineering differently from men; that is, there is no biological basis for women doing engineering one way and men doing it another way. However, a person brings to engineering a set of life experiences that colors the way he or she looks at a problem and considers an approach to design a solution. Or even what the person considers IS a problem that needs addressed. Different people have different kinds of life experiences. The way our society is set up right now, men and women ON AVERAGE have very different sorts of life experiences and therefore are likely to bring very different sorts of insights to the identification of problems and design of their solutions.
This isn't just me talking. William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering (I think a new president has just been elected, but he's been president for the last several years)has made exactly this point in numerous speeches over the years. Here's one place where you can read his take on it: http://www.acec.org/publications/jul-aug04/rainbowcoalition.pdf


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As First Lady, Mary Lincoln was both a help and a hindrance to her husband. Mary transformed a White House that had become dilapidated during the administration of James Buchanan into a grand house worthy of the president. She was a gracious hostess, dressing stylishly and throwing elegant parties, dances and receptions. She also visited military hospitals to give gifts and solace to wounded soldiers. As a wife and mother, she comforted and supported her husband as he endured the trials of leading the nation through the Civil War.
Yet Mary Lincoln also embarrassed herself and her husband. She overspent her decorating budget by $7,000; she falsified and padded White House accounts and kept the money; she befriended individuals with shady reputations; and she accepted gifts and bribes in exchange for influence with her husband and government appointments.
Mary Lincoln could be cheerful, graceful and loving, but also vain, arrogant, and jealous. This dichotomy won her many enemies. She is now believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder, the symptoms of which were evident in her early life and worsened over time. During the White House years she suffered from anxiety, paranoia, narcissism, mood swings and depression, and in later years her symptoms grew to include hallucinations and delusions. Mary's mood swings and depression intensified in 1862, after the Lincolns' 11-year-old son Willie died of typhoid fever. Her grief was so pronounced that her husband actually warned her that if she did not overcome it, she would be driven mad and that he would be forced to commit her to an asylum.
Mary also became interested in Spiritualism, seeking solace in contacting the spirits of the dead in order to talk with them. She was distraught about the deaths of Eddie and Willie, and terrified by the constant threats of assassination against her husband. Mary's fear of death, exacerbated by the loss of Willie in 1862, was so strong that she refused the request of her oldest son, Robert, to join the Union army. President Lincoln acquiesced to his wife's refusal, and found himself roundly criticized in the newspapers. They accused him of being a hypocrite, willing to let other men's sons die but not his own.
On the night of April 14, 1865, Mary accompanied her husband to Ford's Theatre in Washington to watch the play "Our American Cousin." She was holding his hand when he was shot once in the head by John Wilkes Booth. She accompanied the dying president as he was carried by soldiers across the street to the Petersen House. As doctors attended to Lincoln and government officials came and went, Mary spent the night either at her husband's side or crying in the front parlor, lamenting, "Why didn't he shoot me?" When Abraham Lincoln died the next morning, Mary was inconsolable.
After Lincoln
After her husband's assassination, Mary Lincoln moved with her two sons, Robert and Tad, to Chicago, where she spent most of her time writing letters to various government officials seeking a government pension. She felt she deserved a pension as the widow of a fallen commander during a time of war, and regarded her situation as identical to that of the wives of fallen Army officers. But giving a pension to a president's widow was unprecedented in American history. It was even more difficult in Mary Lincoln's case because during her years as First Lady she had insulted and offended so many congressmen and senators, and had been the subject of so many malicious rumors and negative publicity about her supposed infidelity to both her husband and her country that congressional support for her request was practically nonexistent.
In 1868, Mary and Tad went abroad after first witnessing Robert's marriage. In Germany, Tad studied with a tutor and Mary continued her campaign for a pension, which she finally received in 1870. She and her son returned to America in 1871, but Tad, who caught pneumonia on the ocean voyage, died of pleurisy in July. The grieving mother spent the next four years alone, traveling to various health spas and spiritualist mediums.
In May 1875, after years of erratic behavior, Robert Lincoln came to the conclusion that his mother was mentally ill and, after consulting with medical experts and old friends of Abraham Lincoln, had her declared insane by a Chicago jury and committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium in Batavia, Ill. She left the sanitarium after four months, and went back to Springfield to live with her sister Elizabeth Edwards. In June 1876, Mary was declared sane by another Chicago jury, after which she immediately estranged herself from her son, whom she believed had her locked up in order to steal her money and possessions. Mary fled to Pau in France for a self-imposed exile that lasted from 1876 to 1880. During that time she remained relatively secluded, but at times traveled across the continent visiting health spas and popular tourist sites. In December 1879, while hanging a painting, Mary fell and severely injured her spine. She had difficulty walking and intense pain on her left side. Six months later, she further injured her back when she fell down a flight of stairs. Her declining physical health prompted her return to Springfield in late 1880, where she moved back in with her sister. By this time, Mary could barely walk and was nearly blind. She spent her days secluded in her room, lit only by candles, unpacking and repacking her 64 trunks of clothing. In May 1881, she reconciled with her son Robert.
On July 16, 1882, Mary Lincoln died at age 64 from a stroke, most likely of complications from untreated diabetes. The funeral was held in the parlor of the Edwards home, the same room in which she married Abraham Lincoln 40 years earlier. She was buried in the Lincoln tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Mary Lincoln's reputation has vacillated greatly between sympathy and condemnation since her death. She was described as a shrewish figure, an insufferable termagant, by Abraham Lincoln's law partner and biographer William Herndon. "After she got married, she became soured, got gross, became material, avaricious, insolent," Herndon wrote in a letter to his protégé, Jesse Weik. But the second half of the 20th century, especially during the height of historical revisionism in the 1980s, brought a kinder, more sympathetic view of her life and trials. The most famous and most studied aspect of her life remains her commitment to the insane asylum in 1875. Historians still disagree — often vehemently — about whether Mary was insane; about the nature and the degree of her impact on her husband's life and success; and whether she was a person to be lauded or censured.


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Annual Website Review Checklist
Many websites grow almost as large as a house. Throughout the year it seems to get new pages, links, images and user generated content. That's why I recommend performing an annual review of your website. To help get you started and get your site in shape for the New Year, here is an Annual Website Review Checklist.
1. Review Your Domain Name Record
Don't let outdated information cause you to miss renewals and other important notices. Verify that the contact names and addresses on your domain record are correct once a year. Use these resources to review your domain record now:
2. Check Website Email Addresses
Added new staff? Replaced some others? You could have invalid email addresses on your site. Make a list of all the email addresses on your site and confirm that they're still active.
3. Update Your Confirmation and Automated Messages
If the automated messages from your registration, request, order and other forms have not been updated in the last year, it's time to review them. These messages can be powerful customer relations tools, but only if they're meeting your customers' needs. Make sure your automated messages are serving your customers—not spamming them.
4. Test Your Forms
In conjunction with updating your automated messages, you should test your forms to make sure that they're still functioning correctly—and to review how easy they are to use. Simply submit each as if you were a visitor on your site. Be sure to review your error messages as part of this process. You should test your forms often and immediately look into any sudden drops in the number of submissions.
5. Validate Your Links
Do your part to stop link rot, while improving your site, by making time to check your internal and external site links—especially if you've neglected this task due to more pressing demands. Here are a couple of basic tools that can help:
- Link Runner[http://viablesoftware.com/viaalertlr.htm]
- Web Link Validator[http://www.relsoftware.com/wlv/]
6. Check Your Site's Search Feature
Like most of the items on this list, checking your site's search feature should be done more than once a year. But we know it's not always possible to review all aspects of your site on an ongoing basis. That's why it's important to make sure your search is functioning effectively and that outdated content isn't showing up as part of your annual review.
If you don't have a search feature on your site, now's a good time to see if adding one would enhance your site's usability.
7. Check Your File Sizes and Download Times
If a lot of updates and additions have been made to your site, it might be time to check your site's performance. It's not unusual for page and image files to slowly creep up in size with each successive update. Re-optimizing your files so your pages load faster will make for a better user experience.
8. Review Your Stylesheets, Standards, Accessibility and Compatibility
If you want to save some serious time for your visitors—and for yourself during site maintenance—the annual review is the perfect time to revisit or set site standards covering CSS, Web Standards, Accessibility and Browser Compatibility.
To help you wrestle with the issues surrounding evolving your site to new standards, we offer these articles and resources:
Web Standards
- What are Web Standards and Why Should I Use Them? from the Web Standards Project[http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/]
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS):
- CSS Work from meryerweb.com[http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/]
Browser Stats:
- Browser Stats & Trends from Browser News[http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm"]
9. Update Your Time References and Copyright
About Us and other background information on your site may contain specific time references such as "for five years". Your site may also include a historical timeline or list of accomplishments that should be updated at the start of the year.
In addition, your copyright should be updated when your content is updated. During your annual review, check to make sure this task hasn't been overlooked. Although you can simply use the date that the content was first created, it's a good idea for your copyright to reflect when content was created and when it was modified. This is not only to protect your work, but also to avoid having visitors think that your content is out of date. Below are some examples of the syntax:
- Content created in 2009:
Copyright (c) 2009 nxtConcepts, Ltd.
- Content created in 2007 and updated in 2011:
Copyright (c) 2007, 2011 nxtConcepts, Ltd.
- Content created in 2007 and updated in 2009 and 2011:
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 nxtConcepts, Ltd.
Learn More About Copyrights:
- What is Copyright Protection from WhatisCopyright.org[http://www.whatiscopyright.org/]
10. Check Your Search Engine Visibility
Search engines are one of the most important and cost-effective sources for attracting targeted traffic and increasing brand awareness for many sites. At the same time, many changes have taken place in how search engines return results and display paid (sponsored) listings. As a result, I check your site's visibility on the top search engines by searching for your company name, products and other appropriate keyword phrases.
If your site isn't coming up near the top of the results for these terms, you should look into the benefits of marketing your site through search engine optimization and paid placement:
- Search Engine Marketing Basics from Search Engine Watch[http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters]
- Major Search Engines and Directories from Search Engine Watch[http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221]


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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Among Nation's Most Endangered
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The jewel of Minnesota's natural resources and tourism industry is also among America's Most Endangered Rivers for 2013."
The group American Rivers says the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is being threatened by a proposed copper and nickel mine near a popular entry point.
Aaron Klemz, communications and engagement director for Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, said the mine would release toxic waste into the South Kawishiwi River, threatening the ecosystem.
"A lot of folks like to talk about how there's new technology that will make this safe," he said. "No sulfide mine has ever operated without causing serious water pollution, and we can't just afford to use the Boundary Waters as a guinea pig for an industry with this track record. That's why we're so concerned about this issue."
Klemz and other advocates are calling on federal and state leaders to block mines and proposals to weaken water quality standards in the Boundary Waters. He said protecting the BWCA is about both the environment and the economy.
"Annually, $100 million is attributable to people just visiting the Boundary Waters alone; and the Superior National Forest, the area outside of the wilderness area, is worth half a billion dollars to the regional economy," he said. "All that's threatened if we have a mining zone that creates substantial pollution just outside the wilderness area."
Topping this year's "most endangered" list is the Colorado River. Matt Niemerski, American Rivers' director of western water policy, said it's being threatened by outdated water management and persistent drought.
"We're in our 13th year of drought," he said. "If we invest in these conservation and efficiency solutions now, we're going to be thankful we did that 10 to 15 years from now."
The Colorado River provides drinking water for 36 million people from Denver to Los Angeles and irrigates nearly 4 million acres of land. Those demands are expected to increase in coming decades, while climate change continues to reduce the flow.
More information is online at americanrivers.org.


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A while back we did a tribute shirt to one of my favorite bands Bad Brains. They have been a constant staple on my playlist as long as I can remember. Not only were they one of the first African American punk bands to become well known, but they were also one of the most influential bands in the last 40 years, inspiring everyone from Janes Addiction to In Living Color to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. There's something about the stripped down energy and versatile range that I always found refreshing in a sea of bands that sounded and looked alike.
Bad Brains never got the recognition that they truly deserved. Especially since they influenced many bands that have gone on to become some of the biggest acts today. Since I'm such a fan of the underdog, I thought I'd share the following mini documentaries and music videos with you in hopes of reminding those of you who are fans, and those of you who have not heard of them, about how ground breaking this little band from Washington DC really was. PMA!


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We are a father and son, both whistleblowers; one
from industry and the other from government. We have experienced the satisfaction
of doing something that was morally right -- blowing-the-whistle -- and both experienced
workplace retaliation for our actions against fraud, waste, and abuse. We also have
extensive experiences in what it means to try to pursue justice through Federal
and State Court systems, seeking whistle-blowing protection and to make us "whole"
We have constructed this site so those who have blown-the-whistle, and those who are thinking about whether to do it, will have a place to seek the type of free information that could only come from experienced whistle-blowers who are motivated to share with others what they have learned in "the real world". This will apply to public sector as well as private sector employees. In so doing, we hope to help others make the best decisions that are right for their circumstances.
We have included a page called"Our Stories" that gives a brief description of our whistleblowing. The purpose of doing so, is not to highlight, focus upon, or dwell upon what our situations were; rather, only to demonstrate to you we have "been there" -- "done that"!
The Father's whistleblowing case has now come to a final conclusion, with the refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case (denial of Certiorari) . The Father's statement about this event can be read by clicking here.
Change of Viewpoint
In 1998, after we had created this Father & Son whistleblowing
website, we thought about devising what we would call a Whistleblowing Self Inventory
Analysis. This was to be a self questioning, in the privacy of one's home, for
the purpose of a person determining whether or not to blow the whistle, and how
well they might cope with the aftermath of such an action. Before completing the
Whistleblowing Self Inventory analysis, we wanted to first gain the experience of
the kind of situations other whistleblowers face and how they reacted to them. After
receiving hundreds of E-mails from all over the United States (and some from persons
in other countries), describing their situations, we experienced ourselves a sort
of "awakening" to the reality that whistleblowing is often a spontaneous action/reaction
to a workplace situation, and the whistleblower is often already so involved that
our attempting to apply some sort of self-analysis would often not only be a "too
little-too late" situation, but could result in misleading conclusions being formulated
by the whistleblower. Remember the old saying: "If only we could really see ourselves
as others see us!" Additionally, some persons might unknowingly answer a self-analysis
question one way because that is how they see themselves, whereas, the reality may
be just the opposite. Thus, there could be some "danger" in a self-analysis, and
it could lead to undesirable consequences. Added to that was the fact that we found
ample general information for whistleblowers on numerous other websites.
So we concluded that we should abandon trying to produce a self analysis and should communicate with whistleblowers on a one-to-one basis as the best approach; thereby permitting us to provide comments and suggestions appropriate to the specific Whistleblower's situation and the Whistleblower's circumstances. That "formula" has now worked successfully over many years, and we now feel is the best approach for us. So, if you are concerned about a potential or actual whistleblowing situation and/or have a question in that subject area, let us hear from you by E-mail and we will do our best to share with you our knowledge, our experience, and our thoughts.
Philosophy of Our Site
let us observe/acknowledge that there may be a number of ways to spell the word
such as:
Whistle blowing
(Please note that our preference for the spelling is: "Whistleblowing".)
Our definition is as follows:
"Whistleblowing" is a verbal and/or written communication,
to a Person, Organization, or Activity,
which is in the Public Sector (Government - local, state, or federal) or
Private Sector (Business/Industry/Non-government),
the purpose of such communication being to expose and/or inform upon,
alleged wrongdoing (fraud, theft, etc.), or discrimination (race, religion, national origin, gender, etc.), or retaliation, or some other type adverse occurrence that violates a law, or a regulation, or a policy, or morals, or ethics, or decency, and especially those matters that endanger public health and/or public safety.
Perhaps we are somewhat unique, but not long after
we started our web site, we conceived that our whistleblowing experiences should
be put to good use by interacting on a one-on-one basis with whistleblowers, actual
and those contemplating, so we could share our knowledge and interact with whistleblowers'
individual, and specific to them, circumstances. We have received thousands of E-mails
from all over the United States, from private and public sector employees and fired
employees. (We also hear from students in the U.S. and foreign countries studying
ethics/whistleblowing and we are immensely pleased to help them, because we firmly
believe classroom academic education is one of the keys to resolution of Society's
workplace problems regarding whistleblowing.) We treasure the few "God Bless you"
E-mails that we received over the years, after our final response to some
whistleblowers with whom we have communicated. We don't identify ourselves by name
nor provide phone numbers on our web site, to purposely keep people from spending
money calling, spending money to duplicate lengthy documents of their case to send
by mail to us, or in any way causing any expense to us or to those who contact us
by E-mail. We give of our time and our knowledge freely, to quietly, without fanfare,
try to help people see facts and circumstances they may have overlooked, or through
their passion/emotion for their whistleblowing cases end up in effect self-destructing
themselves for life. We have tried at this web site to project sincerity, and we
think we have been successful because many people in "delicate" work situations
read our site and in their very first E-mail to us reveal their names, addresses,
and telephone numbers. Although we do not need that data, we must know what State
in the USA the whistleblowing situation occurred and what State the whistleblower
lives in now. (Often that is a factor in the preciseness of our comments).
So we have deliberately chosen not to strap on a sword, nor to mount upon a white horse like a gallant warrior of old, nor to publicly yell "charge" and go into battle; not because we have no courage, but because we believe that a sort of "quiet diplomacy" and a "calm and mature" sounding board is what many whistleblowers need in the initial stages of their whistleblowing problems. We leave to the capable hands of others the "frontal assault" on the evils of employer retaliation. We work on that problem in other "quiet ways" not connected with our Father and Son Site. We do not join with other whistleblowers in "battle" because at this stage we want to devote our time and our talents to individual help.
Resolution of the "ills in our Society" is a long term proposition at best; but a multitude of whistleblowers need a personal and private "sounding board," so to speak, right now, and we try to fill that void. Just as we respect those who "organize for battle" and go forth to so do, we sincerely hope that they will respect the methodology we have chosen, so as to maximize being of timely help to those in greatest need.
We have given you the foregoing explanation so that you will understand why there are no links on our web site to other sites. We have a whole array of useful private sector whistleblowing web sites and some public sector Government Information web sites that we use in our E-mails (as hyperlinks) that we give to those who communicate with us, but first we tailor the list so the whistleblower can go to the sites that will help further him or her in their particular case. Often times we research some aspect raised by the whistleblower and give them the results in our reply, and they are very grateful for the time we spent on their problem; at no cost whatsoever to them. We want people to stop at our website and talk to us, not link out right away to other places searching for something that they are not sure even fits their problem nor understanding what they really need to look for. Our "formula" for interacting with whistleblowers we think works well, and we are hopeful over time that our Father and Son effectiveness will be publicized through word-of-mouth by those we have helped, and our reputation for being ethical and competent will grow by that means.
We hope that this information has shed some light
on our modus operandi, so to speak, and in the event you do not agree with our methodology
you will have at least the facts by which to have seen what may be "the other side
of the coin" or "the rest of the whistleblowing story."
Our best wishes to you and again our thanks for stopping by.
Whistleblowing is sometimes like climbing a mountain with a heavy load on one's back. Success at such an endeavor can only be possible from knowing where one is going and how best to get there!
Please let us hear from you if you have a Whistleblowing question or situation:
Privacy Information: When you communicate with us, we will not share, sell, trade, rent, or give your E-mail address or your personal details to anyone.
DO NOT USE OUR GUESTBOOK TO ASK US ANY QUESTION(s) -- USE E-MAIL FOR THAT.
If, after looking
at our website, you are motivated to publicly share any thoughts/comments
with others who will visit this website, then please click on the "View/Sign
GuestBook" button/link below, to go to our
for the public GuestBook; and there, click on the "Sign GuestBook"
link and place your comments, for the whole world to see, on the form
that appears.
We thank you in advance for your views.
NOTE: If you attempt to write any comment in the GuestBook that is not written in the English language, regrettably the Father & Son must delete it.
If you are not an attorney, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PUT ANY ADVERTISING IN OUR GUESTBOOK. IF YOU DO WE WILL FILE A COMPLAINT WITH YOUR E-MAIL/INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER.
The Father and Son


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I had a bunch that I proposed to my players in response to the complaints I was getting (but never got to implementing them), and was surprised to see how many of them became official rules in 4e. To name a few:
--Ranged flanking, so that you could be an effective Rogue with a ranged weapon. In 4e, you can now use a ranged weapon to flank.
--Doing away with multiclassing (with eight players, half the party had Fighter dips, so I just said screw it, play your real class please). In 4e, there are feats you can take to mimic other class abilities, but you never divide your levels anymore.
--Toning down the complexity of the skill system (I went a lot farther than 4e tho- basically you have all of your class skills and no cross-class skills, to make things easy for character generation.) 4e has less skills with broader applications.
--Getting rid of a lot of the little subsystems like Grappling and Bull Rush (the party wanted AoOs gone, so I responded by taking away all the extra moves that provoked them as well). These are now covered by an overarching rule in 4e.
One thing I never came up with a solution for is how boring the non-combat rules are. Combat was richly detailed, but everything out of combat came down to a single die roll. I like the new rules in 4e for non-combat encounters a lot.
Your Paul rule looks like it's no longer necessary- if someone went away to watch TV, I'd be tempted to throw several noncombat encounters at them and call it a day.


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Athlete's foot is an infection of the feet caused by fungus. The medical term is tinea pedis, or ringworm of the foot.
Tinea pedis; Fungal infection - feet; Tinea of the foot; Infection - fungal - feet; Ringworm - foot
Athlete's foot occurs when a certain fungus grows on the skin of your feet. The same fungus may also grow on the heels, palms, and between the fingers.
Athlete's foot is the most common type of tinea fungal infection. The fungus thrives in warm, moist areas. Your risk for getting athlete's foot increases if you:
Athlete's foot is easily spread. It can be passed through direct contact or contact with items such as shoes, stockings, and shower or pool surfaces.
The most common symptom is cracked, flaking, peeling skin between the toes or side of the foot. Other symptoms can include:
If the fungus spreads to your nails, they can become discolored, thick, and even crumble.
Athlete's foot may occur at the same time as other fungal skin infections such as jock itch.
Your health care provider can diagnose Athlete's foot simply by looking at your skin. If tests are needed, they may include:
Over-the-counter antifungal powders or creams can help control the infection:
In addition:
If athlete's foot does not get better in 2 to 4 weeks with self-care, or frequently returns, see your health care provider. Your provider may prescribe:
Athlete's foot almost always responds well to self-care, although it may come back. Long-term medicine and preventive measures may be needed.
Call your doctor right away if:
Elewski BE, Hughey LC, Sobera JO, Hay R. Fungal diseases. In: Bolognia JL, Jorizzo JL, Schaffer JV, eds. Dermatology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 77.
Habif TP. Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Mosby; 2009:chap 13


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|Registration Deadline:
|May 14, 2010 almost 9 years ago
|To apply for Funding you must register by:
|February 10, 2010 about 9 years ago
|Parent Program:
Show List of Speakers
- Mina Aganagic (University of California, Berkeley)
- Manabu Akaho
- Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley)
- Bertrand Eynard
- Hiroshige Kajiura
- Anton Kapustin
- Yong-Geun Oh (Institute for basic science)
- Hirosi Ooguri
- Yongbin Ruan (University of Michigan)
- James Simons (Simons Foundation)
- Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)
- Dmitry Tamarkin
- Bruno Vallette
- Katrin Wehrheim (University of California, Berkeley)
Sponsor: Hayashibara Foundation Symplectic geometry originated as a mathematical language for Hamiltonian mechanics, but during the last 3 decades it witnessed both, spectacuar development of the mathematical theory and discovery of new connections and applications to physics. Meanwhile, non-commutative geometry naturally entered into this picture. The workshop aims to highlight some of these connections and further boost interactions between mathematicians and physicists working in related areas. It will consists of 3 minicourses given by Denis Auroux, Yan Soibelman and Katrin Wehrheim, as well as lectures given by physicists and mathematicians. Organizers Yakov Eliashberg* (Stanford University) Alan Weinstein* (Berkeley) Dusa McDuff (New York) Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam) Paul Seidel (Masachussets) Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto) Tohru Eguchi (Kyoto) Yoshiaki Maeda* (Keio University) (* lead/contact organizers) Mini Course Lectures Denis Auroux (Masachussets) Yan Soibelman (Kansas) Katrin Wehrheim (Masachussets) Plenary Speakers Mina Aganagic (Berkeley) Manabu Akaho (Tokyo) Tohru Eguchi (Kyoto) Bertrand Eynard (Saclay) Hiroshige Kajiura (Chiba) Anton Kapustin (Pasadena) Yong-Geun Oh (Wisconsin) Hiroshi Ooguri (Tokyo) Yongbin Ruan (Michigan) James Simons (Stony Brook) Dmitry Tamarkin (Chicago) Bruno Vallette (Nice)
Please be aware that there is no funding provided by MSRI for this workshop, although you can register with a funding request!
Accomodations: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The cut-off date for reservations is April 23, 2010. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: MSRISYMPLECTICGEO. If you are making your reservations on line, please go to Hotel Durant website, choose your dates of stay and enter the "123MSRI" promo code in the box. The cut-off date for reservations is April 13, 2010. The rate is $110 per night plus tax. New, completely renovated Hotel Shattuck Plaza has rooms available for you! MSRI's preferred rate is $131. Guests can either call the hotel's main line, 510-845-7300, and ask for the MSRI rate or go to http://www.hotelshattuckplaza.com, click on "Corporate Rates" in the reservation screen and type the code msri10.
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Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.
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Sex addiction, if it comes in the anatomy of paid sex, can accept a greater abrogating appulse on a person's activity than some added sex addiction behaviors. Not alone can it anatomy a assurance on adulterated relationships, but can could could cause financial, legal, and bloom problems.
Paid sex comes in abounding forms, from the a lot of accepted buzz sex to the accomplished profile, prostitution, but all are forms of sex addiction.
Phone sex is one of the easiest to admission adaptation of paid sex, but because the calls are answerable by the minute, it can bound become a ample banking accountability for a being with sex addiction gluttonous this as an outlet. Buzz sex offers a affiliated of intimacy, or apocryphal intimacy, if you will, aloft pornography, but allows for some distancing, authoritative it an adorable advantage for an aficionado searching for a basal bulk of acquaintance but may be too shy or abridgement the amusing abilities to admission sex in addition fashion.
A bulk of things can action during buzz sex. Altered casework action altered options, and paid sex workers, sometimes referred to as "fantasy artists" or "adult buzz entertainers," are usually accomplished to accommodate these assorted casework to callers. The conversations can cover evocative language, descriptions of animal acts, the exact acting out of animal acts, or guided sex tours. These things can circumduct about taboos or added acts the addition does not accept admission to in absolute life. Callers will generally masturbate during the conversations or anon after.
Someone who uses buzz sex to cope with a botheration or ample a charge can bound acquisition him or herself in a ample bulk of acclaim agenda debt, or with a top buzz bill. If the being is adversity a accurate sex addiction, the antecedent "sticker shock" may not accept abundant shock amount at aboriginal to get them to stop, and in actuality can amplify the addiction by incurring even added acclaim agenda and buzz bills. This can could could cause a bottomward spiral, with the banking burden blame the sex aficionado added into the behavior, or causing them to seek added outlets for it. If they are larboard unstopped, they may resort to bent behavior to pay for buzz sex, such as burglary corpuscle phones or acclaim cards.
Because of the affiliated of animal alternation traveling on, a being with this addiction can advance an unrealistic faculty of what a absolute accord entails. If the behavior carries on for a continued time and the sex addiction is abysmal enough, it can anticipate a being from basic accurate relationships if the befalling arises, or alienated an absolute relationship. The sex aficionado comes to await on these "relationships" as real. Buzz sex is advised cheating by many, and because of the announcement bearings can be difficult for a sex aficionado to conceal. This can advance to emotionally answerable and abrupt scenarios if the apron or accomplice discovers their cogent added is not alone in debt, but had been paying for buzz sex.
Aside from paid buzz sex, an aficionado can aswell use Websites that accept a paying component. There is an affluence of chargeless chicanery online, however, and while these Websites are able to do business, a sex aficionado who is relying on them has them as beneath cher options compared to buzz sex or prostitution.
Like buzz sex, corruption raises a amount affair which we accept covered. Besides banking ramifications, corruption presents cogent bloom risks to the addict, not the atomic of which are sexually transmitted diseases. Corruption is aswell actionable in a lot of places and is usually amidst by added actionable activities and agitated humans acknowledging and practicing them. A being with a sex addiction who sees prostitutes on a approved base aswell exposes him or herself to acknowledged after-effects which can accident a acceptability or amount a being their marriage, family, relationships or job.
A sex aficionado application corruption may be gluttonous a affiliated of acquaintance not begin with added forms of animal absolution accessible to them. While the alternation may simulate the affectionate locations of a absolute relationship, it alone leads the sex aficionado to advance a poor compassionate of allusive adventurous interaction. And like buzz sex, it can achievement or block a accurate accord from basic or abort an absolute one.
Prostitution, and to a bottom extent, buzz sex, aswell creates a apocryphal ability activating that can add to the adulterated abstraction of what a accord should be. The prostitute is a paid contractor, and will accomplish sex acts the applicant ability not contrarily be able to appoint in with anyone not assuming for money. The prostitute is in a abject position added affiliated to an agent rather than a caring adventurous partner. This may become allotment of the allure to the being with this addiction and they may backpack some of the mindset into a absolute accord by attempting to barter favors, gifts, or amore for sex.


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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.
It stands. What? Yes. Say it stands. Had to up in the end and stand. Say bones. No bones but say bones. Say ground. No ground but say ground. So as to say pain. No mind and pain? Say yes that the bones may pain till no choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Or better worse remains. Say remains of mind where none to permit of pain. Pain of bones till no choice but up and stand. Somehow up. Somehow stand. Remains of mind where none for the sake of pain. Here of bones. Other examples if needs must. Of pain. Relief from. Change of.
All of old. Nothing else ever. But never so failed. Worse failed. With care never worse failed.
Dim light source unknown. Know minimum. Know nothing no. Too much to hope. At most mere minimum. Meremost minimum.
No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last. Not now. Fail better worse now.
Another. Say another. Head sunk on crippled hands. Vertex vertical. Eyes clenched. Seat of all. Germ of all.
No future in this. Alas yes.
J.P. Morgan Co. Building, Wall Street: photo by Paul Strand, 1915


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Persuasive Games: The Picnic Spoils the Rain
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[Ian Bogost looks at Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain in the context of film and cinematography's history -- including spoilers for the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3 game -- to explain why he feels the game, billed as an "interactive film," is not quite that.]
Heavy Rain is not an interactive film.
I know that's what its creators were after, and I know that's how it's been pitched to the market, and I know it's been critiqued as both a successful and an unsuccessful implementation of that goal.
To understand why the game is not a playable film, it's important to review what makes film unique as an art form. There are conflicting opinions, of course, but one stands out: film is editing.
Soviet filmmaker and theorist Lev Kuleshov first suggested editing as film's primary quality.
His well-known "Kuleshov Effect" seemed to prove the point: in the experiment, Kuleshov cut between the expressionless shot of a famous Russian silent film actor (Ivan Mozzhukhin) and a variety of other shots: a young woman reposed on a chaise, a child in a coffin, a bowl of soup.
Even though the shot of Mozzhukhin's face remained identical with each cut, the audience made different assumptions about the meaning of his expression.
Kuleshov's influential pupil Sergei Eisenstein believed it too, arguing that editing techniques (particularly montage) made it uniquely possible for cinema to link seemingly unrelated images through juxtaposition.
The Soviets weren't alone in their reverence of editing. D.W. Griffith's early work made strong use of editing and cross-cutting, for example. And as the years and then the decades passed, editing only increased in importance. Stanley Kubrik adopted Kuleshov's position more or less directly. Francis Ford Coppola has said this about the practice:
"The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images, images of people during emotional moments, or just images in a general sense, but put together in a kind of alchemy. A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually."
Indeed, editing has become an ever more important tool in filmmaking. The use of jump cuts (edits that disrupt the continuity of a sequence) and quick cuts (rapid edits that increase the pace of a sequence) have become ever more common and familiar as action films and television have increased creators' reliance on editing as a central cinematic aesthetic.
But generally, video games don't have cinematic editing. They can't, because continuity of action is essential to interactive media. In fact, that continuity is so important that most games (3D games, anyway) give the player direct control over the camera, allowing total manipulation of what is seen and from what vantage point.
Perhaps, if we're being particularly generous toward cinema, we could count shifts in fixed-camera views in games like Heavy Rain and Metal Gear Solid as a type of jump cut, since the action is disrupted rather than continuous. But in most of these cases, shifts in camera correspond only with changes in location, not changes in the way a video game mediates the player's relationship to space or action or theme.
Survival horror games offer the best specimen of film-like editing in games. By holding the camera hostage, games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill remove player control, a technique needed to create tension and fear. The best example of this effect through camera editing alone might be Fatal Frame 2, which creates an effective sense of simultaneous familiarity and dread as the player moves through rooms of the possessed homes in a village.
In modern cinema, edits move action forward. Films are short compared to games, for one thing, but more importantly, editing helps a filmmaker focus the viewer's attention on important plot elements through abstraction. For example, instead of showing a character get ready and leave for work, a few rapid quick cuts can communicate the same information more efficiently: closet door opens, fingers button shirt, hand grabs keys, car backs out of driveway.
Like many interactive narratives, Heavy Rain appears to adopt the practice filmic editing by allowing the player to control how sequences of narrative appear based on quick-time event (QTE) actions. In this respect, it follows in a long lineage of titles starting with Dragon's Lair.
But that similarity is a foil. Instead, the most important feature of Heavy Rain, the design choice that makes it more important than any other game in separating from rather than drawing games toward film, is its rejection of editing in favor of prolonging.
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Dear Credit Card Adviser, I recently applied and was approved for a business credit card. I used my name as the name of the business and my Social Security number as the employer identification number, and I classified myself as a sole proprietor.
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Other than the credit inquiry to open the account, do business credit cards show up on personal credit reports? While I understand I'm liable for the charges, is it possible for me to bury my spending on my business card to keep my personal credit report free and clear and create a nice, healthy credit history for lenders to see? -- Nick
Dear Nick, Unfortunately, you've basically signed a personal guarantee on the small-business credit card, and your personal credit could be at stake. Because the card was given to you based on your individual credit history and credit score, the issuer most likely will report the card's performance to your personal credit files. But what issuers report varies by company.
Some issuers may report all information to your personal credit files. Others may only report negative information from small-business credit cards and ignore the positive payment history. That means if you only use your small-business credit card -- and you use it responsibly -- none of that good performance is recorded on your credit report and can't help your credit score.
For example, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reports delinquencies that are 60 days past due on small-business credit cards to the consumer's personal credit report. Otherwise, Chase reports to the commercial bureau to help the business build its credit profile, according to company spokeswoman Laura Rossi.
The second major factor to consider is consumer protections. The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 banned many egregious practices such as retroactive interest rate increases, double-cycle billing and unreasonable fees, but small-business credit cards aren't covered under those protections.
That means if you're 30 days behind on a payment on your small-business credit card in the first year, your issuer can charge you a late fee of more than $25, charge you more than one fee for the late payment, raise your interest rate on new and existing charges without warning, and maintain that penalty rate for as long as the issuer likes. All that can't happen with a consumer credit card, thanks to the Credit CARD Act. So, if you put all your business and personal spending on the small-business card and have trouble making payments, you are opening yourself up to a world of fees and high rates.
Small-business credit cards work well for an established business with a healthy, dependable monthly revenue stream. They can help separate business expenses from personal spending. Some small-business credit cards also come with useful rewards programs that award points for purchases of office supplies and business travel as well as phone, computer and Internet services.
But, like a consumer credit card, it's important for your business to be able to pay the entire credit card bill in full every month to avoid accruing more interest debt. This can be tough for new business owners who must balance their optimism with reality. I hope this helps.
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A couple months ago, Oh Nuts! sent me some jordan almonds and said create. I held on to them idealess for many weeks too long. Of course Easter eggs seemed like the obvious answer. Ombre? Everyone's doing it. So I removed some of the color from the egg with a wet q-tip. The results were subpar. Speckled, speckled, speckled—I could hear them chanting in the background. With an extra toothbrush and some blue food coloring, they quickly became robin's eggs.
And now all they needed was a nest to call home. Back to the drawing board. Pinterest. Google. And finally, Sylvie's blog—Gourmande in the Kitchen. Coconut Macaroons deconstructed would make for the perfect little nest. A couple tries later, and they were cute, nesty, and festive. Kid-friendly. Adult approved.
- 1 large egg white
- 2 tbsp. honey
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- dash sea salt
- 1 c. + 2 tbsp. shredded coconut
- Jordan Almonds
- blue food coloring
- 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate
- Preheat oven to 400°. Lightly spray mini muffin pan. Set aside.
- In a bowl, combine egg white, honey, vanilla extract, and salt. Add in coconut until evenly moistened. honey measuring tip
- Add about a tablespoon of the mixture into each of the tins. Press coconut mixture against the side of the tin to create a nest, making sure the coconut reaches to the top. The middle should be hollow.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes. Macaroons will puff a bit.
- Meanwhile, lay almonds out on a covered surface. Add a drop of blue food coloring into a bowl with a splash of water. Using the bristles of a tooth brush, spray the eggs. Allow to dry before using.
- Remove nests from oven. Allow pan to cool. Carefully remove with a thin knife, separating from the edge (not so kid friendly). Note—macaroons will not come out perfectly, however this adds to it's messy nesting quality. Reserve remaining pieces.
- Melt chocolate. Add just enough chocolate to the hollow area of each nest to act as glue. Place three eggs per nest.
- Transfer nests to freezer for five minutes to secure the position. Remove and serve at room temperature. Sprinkle with leftover coconuts shreds.
Macaroons adapted from Gourmande in the Kitchen.
Update: Shared these little guys on a local Connecticut station 3/26/13.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IikNGQeQO0A?list=UUOkkX_8teI_g7ousojivHAg


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17/04/2012 Teaching, Academics & Counselling
Description This kind of IR camera is efficient and compact and makes for a great addition to any surveillance system. The camera can see during the day or night as it produces both color and black and white images, depending on the time of day. The camera can even work in the water because of it special waterproof design. The camera's 1/3 inch CCD image sensor is made by Sony, one of the most popular and respected brands in the surveillance business.


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New York, NY (PRWEB) October 24, 2013
Two Mount Sinai physicians have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
The two Mount Sinai honorees, recognized for outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service, are:
- Diane E. Meier, MD, MD, FACP, Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; Vice-Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States.
- Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Founding Chief of the Division of Psychiatric Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is a neuroscientist, human geneticist, and psychiatrist investigating the genetic causes of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Drs. Meier and Sklar were among the 70 new members and 10 foreign associates announced on October 21 at the IOM's 43rd annual meeting. Established in 1970 by the NAM, IOM is a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on health issues. With their election, members make a commitment to volunteer their service on IOM committees, boards, and other activities. IOM has 1,753 active members, including Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; President for Academic Affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System, and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System.
Dr. Charney expressed gratitude to both Dr. Meier and Dr. Sklar for their contributions. "We are very proud of Dr. Meier, who is a model educator, researcher, physician and human being. She has improved outcomes and enhanced quality of life for patients, survivors and their families, at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and globally," said Dr. Charney. "I also congratulate Dr. Pamela Sklar for this outstanding honor from the Institute of Medicine," said Dr. Charney. "Her research has greatly enhanced our understanding of the role of genetic variants in mental illnesses, and supports Mount Sinai's commitment to precision medicine, by developing therapies tailored to individual patient needs through the application of genomic information."
"I am tremendously honored to be invited to join the Institute of Medicine," said Dr. Meier. Under Dr. Meier's leadership, the number of palliative care programs in US hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. Dr. Meier served as founding director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mount Sinai from 1997-2011. She is currently Principal Investigator on a National Cancer Institute-funded five-year multisite study on the outcomes of hospital palliative care services in cancer patients. Dr. Meier is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.
"The election is an honor, and I hope to contribute to the IOM on issues regarding the role of genetics in personalized medicine, ethical questions surrounding genetic testing for psychiatric diseases and translating research findings into clinical practice," said Dr. Sklar. Dr. Sklar has an extraordinary track record of leadership in collaborative research settings, including the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Her research focuses on DNA and RNA variation, rare and common, trailblazing with studies effectively utilizing the newest high-throughput genomic technology in mental illness. Her work has made integral contributions to the understanding of gene variants and structural variants that increase the risk of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. In 2011, Sklar moved to Mount Sinai and established a Division of Psychiatric Genomics, hiring faculty in statistical genetics, stem cell biology, neurocognition, and imaging to pioneer applications of genetics to patient care.
Fourteen IOM members are from Mount Sinai. In addition to Drs. Charney, Davis, Meier and Sklar, they are: Robert J. Desnick, MD, Dean for Genetic and Genomic Medicine; Angela Diaz, MD, Director of Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center; Valentin Fuster, MD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart; Bruce D. Gelb, MD, Director of the Child Health and Development Institute; Kurt Hirschhorn, MD, Professorial Lecturer of Pediatrics and Human Genetics; Philip J. Landrigan, MD, Dean for Global Health; Eric J. Nestler, Director of the Friedman Brain Institute; Maria Iondolo New, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology - Adrenal Steroid Disorders; Peter Palese, PhD, Professor and Chair of Microbiology; and Hugh A. Sampson, MD, Dean for Translational Biomedical Research.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health system committed to providing distinguished care, conducting transformative research, and advancing biomedical education. Structured around seven member hospital campuses and a single medical school, the Health System has an extensive ambulatory network and a range of inpatient and outpatient services—from community-based facilities to tertiary and quaternary care.
The System includes approximately 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians, 12-minority-owned free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, over 45 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, as well as 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
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