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The New Hanover County Board of Commissioners nearly hour-long discussion on Marquis Hills and Heritage Park took a short detour Thursday evening to a Jonathan Barfield for Congress campaign stop.
The commissioners still seem to be divided on the proposed sewer project and a question by Commissioner Brian Berger provided a good launchpad for Barfield, who announced his congressional run in late February.
"What do we tell them, people who are having a hard time keeping their own roof over their head and who are looking at higher water and sewer rates, insurance rates and higher costs at the grocery store. What do we tell them about why they are paying to help someone else with the cost of their property when they can't even afford to maintain and care for the needs of their own?" Berger said.
Barfield responded passionately to Berger's question.
"Because that's what America does. We have people who go and fight in our armed services and protect all of us. Some people lose their lives and some lose their limbs for the benefit of all of us. That's what America does. We provide roads and services so that other people can drive on them. That's what America does…We are Americans and we take care of each other," he said. "We provide services to meet basic human needs — that's what America is all about. We are all consumers of services that some people use more than others, but we are share the cost because that's what America is all about. And that's my campaign speech."


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Eiffel 65
Eiffel 65 was an Italian electronic/eurodance/italodance three-piece group, formed in the late 1990s and best known for their international hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".
- Blue (Da Ba Dee)
- Too Much Of Heaven
- Dub In Life
- Living In A Bubble
- Move Your Body
- My Console
- Your Clown
- Another Race
- The Edge
- Now Is Forever
"The past is all that's gone,
The future is yet to come
This moment is all our own,
We should live this way,
Just building up our day..."
- Silicon World
- Europop
- Hyperlink (Deep Down)
- Lucky (In My Life)
- New Life
- One Goal
- King Of Lullaby
- I DJ With The Fire
"You see the walls around me
Come on, let's raise the roof
And so I'm spinning my best records tonight for you."
- Crazy
"Everyone's a little crazy"
- Far Away
- I Don't Wanna Lose
"Who knows what we
will find out there
- Morning Time
- Life Like Thunder
"I can't stand to live in a box.
No wind on my face,
No reason to race..."
"I can't stand the social routine.
I wanna go above,
I wanna reach above those clouds."
- Back In Time
- Johnny Grey
(Speaking) "Excuse me...Yeah, my name is Johnny Grey...Yeah of course it's just a name, but for you it's the same...You see the world I live in doesn't really seem to know me...Could you give me a call please? My name is Johnny Grey."
"I can't remember my phone number
All the calls I get are mistakes."
- Brightly Shines
"You used to hide behind a wall
The part of you nobody knows
No one ever saw it
And your flower deep down in the sea
Full of colors deep indeed
No one ever saw it before,
Your shine is leaving you alone..."
"Just put your trust in who you are,
In who you are..."
- Losing You
- People Of Tomorrow
"Today you're walking off to school
With your Game Boy
But tomorrow you will lead the way..."
- Journey
- World In The World
- 80s Stars
Eiffel 65 (Special Edition, Disc 1)
- Viaggia Insieme A Me
- Quelli Che Non Hanno Età
- Una Notte E Forse Mai Più
- Tu Credi
- Voglia Di Dance All Night
"E credo che la strada
sappia esattamente chi sei e chi
nel letto stanotte vorrai
con chi ti strofinerai..."
"Last night a DJ saved my life
singin' 'Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive,'
'Cause you make me feel
That that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it..."
- La Mia Lente
"È perchè tu sei
la mia lente con cui
guardo nel futuro per capire dove andrei
E perchè tu sei
il soggetto su cui
questo libro scriverei o meglio scriveremo io e te."
- Non È Per Sempre
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Figli Di Pitagora
- Sopra Un Palco Per Tutto Il Mondo
"E finalmente mangiamo anche noi
Ordino lasagne che non sbaglio mai
E c'è sempre qualcuno che poi
chiederà, 'Perchè Eiffel 65?'"
- Oggi
- Cosa Resterà (In A Song)
- Io E La Mia Stanza
Eiffel 65 (Special Edition, Disc 2)
- Follow Me
- Just One Night And Maybe Goodbye
- Time Is Not Our Cage
- You Believe
- Going To Dance All Night
- The Filter
- Like A Rolling Stone (English Version)
- On A Stage All Across The World
"No matter how we try, in the end we're always late."
"And finally we can sit for a bite
Go for the lasagnes that are always right..."
- Today
"All I want is breakfast right now..."
- The World Inside My Bedroom
"Tonight I'll hide in my bed
Out there I can get myself wet
It won't pour like this forever..."
Miscellaneous Quotes
Jeffrey: "The world is one hell of a beautiful place but there's no place like home!"
Jeffrey and Maury "You see, we came all the way from Texas, Tennessee right here... in Ligano Sabbiadoro, and we're gonna make it really, really cool tonight, and one helluva place---YOO HOO!" (Festivalbar 2003)

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New Missionary To Area
After serving three months in Hancock, Sister Jessica Manning has transferred to another area. Sister Caitlyn Byers has now joined Sister Krystyna Hales as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Before coming to Hancock, Sister Byers spent the first 13 months of her mission in Kent Island, Md., Petersburg, W.Va., and Mc- Connellsburg.
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After completion of her 18-month mission, Sister Byers will finish her degree and possibly go on to earn her master's. She plans to write young adult fiction and hopes to one day marry.


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Police marched into California's largest psychiatric hospital today and arrested its executive director on 35 felony charges stemming from the alleged molestation of a foster son for more than a decade. The alleged victim, who was 10 when the abuse allegedly began, came forward when he learned that Claude Edward Foulk Jr. was in charge of the hospital. Foulk is suspected of molesting at least four other boys going back to the 1970s.
Foulk was appointed to head the beleaguered hospital in 2007, shortly after the U.S. Attorney General's Office negotiated a consent decree mandating sweeping changes aimed at improving patient care and reducing suicides and assaults. The federal investigation had revealed widespread civil rights violations at Napa, including generic "treatment" and massive overuse of seclusion and restraints. Napa is the only state psychiatric hospital in Northern California, and houses defendants undergoing competency restoration treatment and those found not guilty by reason of insanity.
At the time of his appointment, Faulk was lauded for his lengthy career in mental health services in both the private and public sectors, according to news accounts.
The arrest, breaking news on television and in print media across the country and even internationally, will do nothing to boost staff morale, already abysmal at Napa and elsewhere in California's state hospital bureaucracy. It surely won't improve patient care, either.
February 24, 2010
Napa Hospital chief arrested for sexual assault
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TBH, it boosts it at least a little now that he's gone...hate to say it, but we were not sorry to see him go, even in the way he did.
- February 28, 2010
- Karen Franklin, Ph.D. said...
Anonymous -- Thanks for giving us a pulse on the internal sentiments. Not surprised to hear it. :-}
- March 01, 2010
Someone should be accountable for appointing him a chief position. The only position he should have is on his knees to God and behind bars. Help for his soul and safety for our children!
Napa State Hospital employee.
- March 15, 2010
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Windells Session Seven Recap
Words and Captions: Chas Truslow
Summer 2013 at Windells Camp has unfortunately come to an end. As sad as it is to say goodbye, campers and staff agree that Session 7 was one of the most fun sessions to date. The schedule was packed. Windells hosted the first annual Narly by Nature skate contest and TransWorld SNOWboarding brought their new snowboard film "Nation" to Windells for a late night premiere in BOB.
Session 7 was host to a dual Team Takeover with both the iPath team and riders from Nation rolling through. iPath riders Stevie Bell, Lucas DeBari, Kevin Kowalski, Shuriken Shannon, and Cody Lockwood kept campers busy by hosting a camp wide scavenger hunt throughout the entire campus, a game of S.N.O.W., and a high ollie contest.
The "Nation" crew of Dylan Thompson, Jonah Owen, Forest Bailey, Chris Brewster, and Austin Hironaka, were turning heads everyday in the Private Park with some of the best riding seen all summer. The premiere itself blew everyone away. Editing on the video was wrapped up that same afternoon. A premiere doesn't get any fresher than that!
The most anticipated event of the session was the first annual Narly by Nature skate contest, Windells' very first skate contest of its own. Some of the Northwest's best skaters were in attendance competing for a $2000 cash purse. Due to Oregon's famous unpredictable weather ( it rained) the event was moved indoors, but that didn't deter the competition. After one of the most heated sessions ever to grace BOB, Cody Lockwood walked away with the win and $1,000. Shawn Hale took second for $500, even with two hard casts, and Steven Reeves rounded out the podium in third with $250. Best Trick and $250 went to Michael Davis.
The summer on snow may be over, but the fun never stops at Windells.There is plenty of skating and BMX to be done as well as the return of Windells On The Road coming to your home mountain this winter. Stay tuned to www.windells.com, facebook and instagram for more updates throughout the year.
If you missed any of the action from this summer don't worry: you can catch all the edits here!


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In its own sweetly bombastic way the 2008 remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" did the job, the job being a 21st century 3-D bash starring Brendan Fraser — an actor who gives his all to the green screen, every time — and loosely based on the 19th century Jules Verne adventure, a natural for the movies. Its script proceeded from the idea that Verne, science fiction visionary, was in reality writing about real places and genuine fantastic phenomena only disguised as fiction.
Now comes the Fraserless sequel, "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island." And it's only disguised as fun.
Take away the 3-D shots of berries bouncing off Dwayne Johnson's vibrating pecs, and you have a pretty scrawny experience. Director Brad Peyton takes the reins for "Journey 2"; previously he gave us "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," one of the tougher sits of recent epochs. The visual quality of "Journey 2" is such that while Peyton and company filmed on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the results resemble "H.R. Pufnstuf" or the AMC theater chain's concessions promo, the one where placid teenagers hoisting 188-oz. cups of Coke are transported to a world akin to "Avatar."
Carrying over from the '08 film, a newly beefed-up Josh Hutcherson returns as Sean, now 17 and more sullen than ever. He has survived his journey to the center of the earth, but now his uncle, the Fraser character, is out of the picture. Sean's ex-Navy stepfather (Johnson) hasn't yet breached the boy's defense mechanisms.
Then comes a cryptogram from Sean's geographically distant grandfather (Michael Caine, decked out like a veteran member of the Indiana Jones fan club) containing news that Verne's mysterious island was no imaginative figment. Sean and stepfather Hank take off to the South Pacific to investigate and hook up with an islander (Luis Guzman) with a helicopter, a teenage daughter with college aspirations (Vanessa Hudgens) and a penchant for the broadest, most infantile brand of mugging. Guzman's usually a lot better than this, but then, so is everybody in "Journey 2."
The mysterious island's attractions include miniature elephants and giant ants, but the movie is weirdly disinterested in its own critter potential beyond the giant flying bees. These can be ridden like big fuzzy flying horses, but the magic isn't there. The bees won't give stop-motion effects master Ray Harryhausen, who created the giant crab and other beasties for the 1961 "Mysterious Island," anything to worry about.
Hutcherson spits his lines out as quickly as possible, which you appreciate, because the way the likable Johnson wrestles with his lines ("It looks like the liquefaction has tripled overnight!") you think, well, it's a living. Captain Nemo's submarine makes an appearance, as does the lost continent of Atlantis, and the script by Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn sets up a promising mash-up of literary antecedents ("Gulliver's Travels" and "Treasure Island" to go with the Verne stuff). But the promise goes unfulfilled, and the film is preceded by an equally disappointing 3-D Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd cartoon "Daffy's Rhapsody," a grating, pushy comedown from the Olympian heights of "Duck Amuck" or the gorgeous and eternal "What's Opera, Doc?"
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McDonnell and wife indicted
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell were indicted in federal court Tuesday on 14 counts of fraud, conspiracy and obstructing federal investigators, all stemming from a gift-giving scandal that clouded the governor's final months in office.
McDonnell and his wife, who have acknowledged taking financial and material gifts from businessman Jonnie Williams, are each the target of 13 of the 14 counts in the indictment, issued in the Richmond division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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The McDonnells have been summoned to appear in court in Richmond on Friday morning.
The indictments — which McDonnell's friends and political allies have anticipated for weeks — would seem to mark the final termination of the Republican's long career in public life.
( WATCH: McDonnell's political career from campaign to indictment)
Once touted as a strong potential presidential candidate, McDonnell's political stature rapidly diminished over the course of 2013 amid a deepening investigation into his family's ties to Williams, the CEO of the nutritional supplements manufacturing company Star Scientific.
The 43-page federal indictment details the vast array of favors Williams lavished upon the McDonnell family, including the use of Williams's private aircraft and vacation home, a nearly $20,000 shopping spree for the first lady, a Rolex watch for the governor and catering fees for the wedding of the McDonnells' daughter.
"The defendants participated in a scheme to use Robert McDonnell's official position as the governor of Virginia to enrich the defendants and their family members by soliciting and obtaining payments, loans, gifts, and other things of value from [Williams] and Star Scientific," prosecutors allege.
( PHOTOS: Bob McDonnell's career)
In exchange, the indictment claims, Bob McDonnell and the governor's office were "performing official actions on an as-needed basis, as opportunities arose, to legitimize, promote, and obtain research studies for Star Scientific's products, including Anatabloc. And as also detailed below, the defendants took steps throughout that time to conceal the scheme."
The indictment details what it calls a close correlation between Williams's gifts to the McDonnell family and actions by the governor to support Star Scientific.
On July 31, 2011, for instance, Maureen McDonnell emailed Williams a photograph of the governor in Williams's Ferrari, according to the indictment. The same evening, Bob McDonnell emailed the Virginia secretary of health requesting that one of the cabinet official's deputies attend a briefing with Maureen McDonnell regarding the Star Scientific drug Anatabloc.
( Also on POLITICO: The GOP's tarnished boys)
In another episode the following year, the indictment states that "on or about Feb. 29, 2012," Bob McDonnell met with Williams "to discuss potential ways that JW could transfer 50,000 shares of Star Scientific stock" to the McDonnells' ownership. Around the same date, the McDonnells hosted a reception at the governor's mansion "for healthcare leaders in Virginia," including a number of Star Scientific executives and researchers, as well as "medical professionals whom Star Scientific was attempting to impress (including from Virginia research universities.)"
The McDonnells have admitted to taking gifts from Williams, but the governor has maintained that he never used his government position to reward the GOP donor and has denied legal wrongdoing. He told POLITICO in an October interview that there had been "absolutely nothing done for Star Scientific or Jonnie Williams or any business that isn't appropriate." He stuck to that line in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
"I repeat emphatically that I did nothing illegal for Mr. Williams in exchange for what I believed was his personal generosity and friendship," McDonnell said. "We did not violate the law, and I will use every available resource and advocate I have for as long as it takes to fight these false allegations, and to prevail against this unjust overreach of the federal government."
( PHOTOS: Scandal pols: Where are they now?)
In addition to defending himself against the accusations, McDonnell also said that the charges brought against him and his wife are an example of federal overreach.
"Federal officials in Washington, in their zeal to find a basis for charging Maureen and me, have decided to stretch the law to its breaking point in this case," McDonnell said Tuesday. "I will use every available resource and advocate that I have for as long as it takes to fight and prevail against these false allegations and the unjust overreach of the federal government."
Prosecutors said McDonnell and his wife face potentially decades in prison and millions in fines, though the penalty is unlikely to be that severe should they be convicted.


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Cellular Therapy and Transplantation (CTT), Vol. 2, No. 7
Please cite this article as follows: Bersenev A. Scientific blogging as a model for professional networking online. Cell Ther Transplant. 2010;2:e.000084.01. doi:10.3205/ctt-2010-en-000084.01
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Submitted: 23 July 2010, accepted: 29 July 2010, published: 2 August 2010
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Scientific blogging as a model for professional networking online
Alexey Bersenev, MD, PhD
314G Abramson Research Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Correspondence: Alexey Bersenev, 314G Abramson Research Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St. and Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. Tel: +1 (267) 426-0870, Fax: +1 (215) 590-4834, E-mail: email@example.com
Scientific blogging is a relatively new kind of activity that scientists and people related to science do online. In this essay I'm sharing my own experience about how scientific blogging could be used to establish and advance your professional networking online. The model I use proposes blogging analytical content in a precise scientific niche and sharing discussion and expert opinions through web tools. I use a blog as a central hub for analysis of information flowing from my personal filters and for setting up collaborative filters online, based on professional trusted content. Overall, I think a blog could be one of the best web tools for scientists to build a professional network online.
Keywords: science online, Web 2.0, blog, scientific blogging, networking
Scientific blogging is a Web 2.0 tool [1], which combines all blogs about different aspects of science, which are usually run by scientists or people familiar with science. As examples of this growing online community you can look at some platforms and aggregators: ScienceBlogs.com, ResearchBlogging.org, and Nature Network.
There are many reasons why scientists blog. To get a sense you can read "The science blog meme", an online interview with 34 scientists on the subject "Why do we blog" [2]. The most common reasons mentioned are the following [3]: passion to share new exciting research (done by you or others) in your field and discussions with colleagues around the world, to talk about science in informal settings, to learn online tools for scientists, to improve writing skills, etc.
I have been blogging for 7 years and stayed tightly in my area of expertise (niche). When I started blogging in English (my first language is Russian), I set up a few goals:
It turns out that the networking part has worked especially wonderfully for me. I'll share my experience in this essay.
Information overload and its management
During my PhD work I started to look for literature online and useful tools that would allow me to manage information, and there was nothing at the time that was specifically suitable for scientists. Now we have a lot of scientific information available online, frequently called "information overload", but also enough tools to manage it. The problem is that not many scientists know about these tools and sometimes don't want to pick them up if they do know. I started intensively using RSS technology and reference managers, which allowed me to deal with this information overload.
I use a RSS Reader to set up my personal informational filters online. I subscribe by RSS to PubMed via the query "stem cell" (about 50 new articles daily), about 20 "stem cell blogs", about 10 scientific blogs, some scientific journals (which get indexed in PubMed slowly after publication release), and a few news services.
For managing web pages that I like, including articles, I use online bookmarking tools (reference managers [4,5]), such as: Connotea and Mendeley. These two and some others (Zotero, EndNote, Papers, etc.) were designed specifically for scientists. They allow you to create your personal searchable online library by keywords (tags) and find like-minded people who are using the same tags. So, your scientific library could be completely in the web (cloud) or in your pocket (though smartphone mobile applications) and you don't need to pack your computer.
At some point, I wanted to make notes from my tagged references online in order to summarize current knowledge and trends. I decided to blog, because the number of reasons that I mentioned above motivated me and I wanted to share information with other professionals in my field. I set up the first blog — Hematopoiesis.info, dedicated to professional networking in 2007.
Blogging analytical content
Because now there are a lot of tools available for information management, I decide to fill my blog with analytical content. I pick and summarize the most exciting and controversial work in my field — adult stem cell research. I'm writing about current trends in the field with a translational focus. My content is based not only on publications, but also on information from conferences that I attend and personal communication. It makes the content quite distinctive in my niche. Each of my posts contains links to a few papers, all connected by a particular topic. I put some of my thoughts into it and try to provoke reader discussion. I also try to incorporate some online tools in the blog that could be very useful for scientists.
I think with the variety of tools available right now, there is no need to have a blog just for quick sharing of some links or news or videos or fresh papers with your peers. We can do it on so-called microblogging platforms, such as Twitter or on Google Buzz or Facebook. Another great online communication aggregator, FriendFeed (FF), allows you to easily share links from any web-services that you use and become social by commenting. I was so excited by the possibilities of FriendFeed for science online that I wrote a post entitled "FriendFeed as a blogging killer" [6].
Finally, I came up with the idea that nothing can replace a blog post if it's made in the format of a unique analytical thoughtful mini-article. You can even consider scientific blog posts as a small online publication judged by your peers from networking. I think blogging will be widely accepted in the scientific mainstream only if it can bring some professional value, i.e., unique trusted information with the possibility of real time discussion in informal settings.
The blog as a professional networking tool
So I'm using a blog as a hub for gathering information picked from my bookmarks, and its analysis. In this case, high quality analytical information is an input, but what is the output? I consider a blog as a part of an online project, which connects the shared information with professionals working in the same field. In order to get the output I share links to my blog posts in professional networking web-services, such as LinkedIn. I'm networking in 20 LinkedIn professional groups, where I can submit discussion (as a forum) or share a link and switch to personal communication. Unexpectedly, I started to get more productive discussions about my blog posts on LinkedIn than on the blog itself. If people like my thoughts in the post, they contact me personally and make a connection. I was lucky enough to meet some people from my online connection on LinkedIn and Twitter in person through conferences. So professional networking online in your niche can be easily transformed to real connections.
Besides LinkedIn, I'm also submitting links to my posts to Twitter, sharing them in FriendFeed, Google Buzz, and Google Reader. I'm doing that because different people prefer different platforms for discussions online. I'm getting the maximum feedback only from all tools combined, where I share my blog posts. Recently, I've gotten more than 35 comments in LinkedIn and 10 comments on Google Buzz on one of my recent posts (Do we really need hematopoietic stem cell expansion for clinical use?), but nothing on the blog itself. Sometimes, I have discussion only via emails, because some scientists do not trust blogs and hesitate to post information online for public exposure.
So, discussion about my blog posts can occur anywhere: comments under the post itself, comments in LinkedIn groups, replies on Twitter, comments on FriendFeed, and personal communication via email. I think that using a few tools together makes your networking online more productive and valuable.
From personal filter to collaborative filter
Scientists like to collaborate. I started to collaborate online simply by sharing drafts of my blog posts with my friends via Google Documents. I asked their opinions about the draft, and even for them to check my grammar. It was my first experience with sharing documents online. Later, I was trying to move from my personal information filters to collaborative filters.
Collaborative filters aim to sort the information stream from the popular (mass-media) and search engines (Google, PubMed) to professional user-trusted content with the possibility of discussion and collaboration [7]. The blog could be a good start for setting up a collaborative filter in your professional niche. You can use FF-like a tool to filter "trusted content" recommended to you by friends and experts, but not search engines [8]. Today we can use a number of tools for collaborative filters with or without blogging.
I was always thinking about how to move the blog with my professional networking to collaboration. Via my connections online I simply sent a message and found a person who was interested in an online collaboration with me in setting up a new project — Stem Cell Assays. This project is dedicated to promoting rigorous reproducible results in stem cell research by sharing methods.
Another example of collaboration online is to make a community project. I created a Google Wave "Cell processing devices in cell therapy", made it public (everyone can read it) and embedded it into a Stem Cell Assays blog post. The link to this blog post went to LinkedIn groups and Twitter. The next day I got very good traffic from LinkedIn, but again people didn't comment on the blog post. Instead, I got some nice feedback in comments on LinkedIn and some people came directly to the Google Wave and started to update information in real time.
Figure 1. The model of scientific blogging as a platform for professional networking online
Concluding remarks and future perspectives
There is a lot of discussion going on on the Web about the future of scientific blogging [9]. Will academic blogging advance your career [10] or is it a waste of time? Scientific blogging is evolving [11]. I think blogs and scientific blogging in particular will survive and take a very precise niche among the variety of other web tools, only if it can provide trusted, valid, and useful content. Some analytical blog posts with ideas could be cited [12] in scientific papers. Blogs will play more of a role in "article-level metrics" [13] if the paper was mentioned by a blogger. Real time and updatable comments more likely will not be anonymous [14] and more valuable for scientific community. This could be the biggest advantage compared to traditionally published papers.
Taking into account all of the good things about scientific blogging, I wouldn't say that everyone should do it. You should try to blog if you're curious and motivated enough to do it. Not every scientist is very social and curious about web tools. Not every scientist feels like sharing information online [15] and being publically exposed [16]. Importantly, scientific blogging is your continuous contribution in science after hours. So, you have to feel a strong commitment to a particular scientific field (your niche) and also realize that it's time consuming. You should be responsible for high quality valid content, which could be citable and trusted by your peers. Scientific bloggers also have to realize that unpublished information (that you have heard from yesterday's talk, for example) should be very carefully chosen, and that its release is not going to hurt your colleagues. Only in this case you can build your "scientific equity" or authority successfully.
I think that the proposed model (Figure 1) of scientific blogging as an online networking tool will work the best for junior investigators, e.g., PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and young PIs. In part, because these categories of people don't have enough scientific authority yet to be heard by established academic professors, clinicians and business executives. When a young generation of scientists is coming to LinkedIn to discuss recent advances and controversies they have much less chance to be heard by established and respected scientists. In this case, building a meaningful foundation online, such a blog, could work nicely in order to network professionally at a high level.
I declare no conflict of interest.
I'd like to thank Joanna Balcerek (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA) for her contribution to the Hematopoiesis.info project and for reviewing this manuscript.
1. Crotty David. Web 2.0 for Biologists–Are any of the current tools worth using? Bench Marks blog. April 3, 2008. http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/2008/04/03/web-20-for-biologists-are-any-of-the-current-tools-worth-using/
2. Fenner Martin. Why do we blog and other important questions, answered by 34 science bloggers. Gobbledygook blog. November 30, 2008. http://blogs.nature.com/mfenner/2008/11/30/why-do-we-blog-and-other-important-questions-answered-by-34-science-bloggers
3. Brown Daniel. Science blogging: The future of science communication & why you should be a part of it. Biochemical Soul blog. March 17, 2009. http://biochemicalsoul.com/2009/03/science-blogging-the-future-of-science-communication-why-you-should-be-a-part-of-it/
4. Fenner Martin. What is a reference manager? Gobbledygook blog. May 19, 2010; http://blogs.nature.com/mfenner/2010/05/19/post
5. Fenner Martin. What is the right reference manager for you? SlideShare presentation. http://www.slideshare.net/mfenner/which-reference-manager
6. Bersenev Alexey. How FriendFeed is killing blogging. Hematopoiesis blog. Septermber 3, 2009. http://hematopoiesis.info/2008/09/03/how-friendfeed-is-killing-blogging/
7. Bersenev Alexey. Collaborative filters online. Hematopoiesis blog. January 26, 2009. http://hematopoiesis.info/2009/01/26/collaborative-filters-online/
8. Rubel Steve. Friendfeed can disrupt search and reshape advertising. Micro Persuasion blog. June 11, 2008. http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/06/friendfeed-can.html
9. Neylon Cameron. The nature of science blog networks. Science in the Open blog. July 25, 2010. http://cameronneylon.net/blog/the-nature-of-science-blog-networks/
10. Lemire Daniel. The negative myths about academic blogging. Daniel Lemire's blog. April 4, 2008. http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/04/04/the-negative-myths-about-academic-blogging/
11. Zivkovic Bora. A farewell to Scienceblogs: the changing science blogging ecosystem. Blog Around the Clock. July 19, 2010. http://coturnix.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/a-farewell-to-scienceblogs-the-changing-science-blogging-ecosystem/
12. Zivkovic Bora. Why or why not cite blog posts in scientific papers? Blog Around the Clock. June 11, 2009. http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/why_or_why_not_cite_blog_posts.php
13. Article-level metrics information. PLoS ONE. http://www.plosone.org/static/almInfo.action
14. Gunn William. Online Engagement of Scientists with the literature: anonymity vs. ResearcherID. Synthesis blog. May 24, 2009. http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/2009/05/24/online-engagement-of-scientists-with-the-literature-anonymity-vs-researcherid/
15. Bersenev Alexey. What makes scientists not comment online? Hematopoiesis blog. April 6, 2009. http://hematopoiesis.info/2008/04/06/what-makes-scientists-not-comment-online/
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Frenchman Benjamin Hebert completed a stunning hat-trick of Challenge Tour victories this season by winning the Rolex Trophy by one shot after a five under par 67 in the final round.
The 24 year old had an anxious wait as, unusually for a last round, he finished some five hours before play was completed. Thunderstorms marred Friday's third round, leaving 16 groups to return on Saturday morning. As a result, the fourth round had to be played with exactly the same draw as the third round in order to finish on time, and Hebert was out at 8.30am.
Having already claimed the Credit Suisse Challenge and the English Challenge in consecutive weeks earlier this summer, Hebert's hat-trick gives him automatic promotion to The European Tour for the rest of this season and 2012.
Remarkably, he has won three of the last five events on the Challenge Tour schedule – and two in Switzerland.
"I am delighted," said Hebert, whose scores of 66, 65, 71 and 67 gave him a 19 under par total for the €24,400 winner's cheque and a Rolex watch. "It's like a dream. It was unusual to have to wait that long to find out if I'd won. I was pretty nervous watching the scores on the computer back at the hotel.
"I am very happy because I had a great finish. I putted brilliantly on the back nine. I holed a putt from 15 metres on the sixth, then one from five metres down the hill on the eighth for par as I'd hit my second shot in the water with a three wood. So that was crucial.
"And on the ninth I hit it very close with my approach and had an easy birdie putt. It was not easy out there with all the water on the course."
Englishman Sam Hutsby had a one shot lead at the start of the final round, and extended that to two strokes at one stage, but his bid to match or exceed Hebert's score unravelled at the seventh and eighth – his 16th and 17th – with a bogey and a triple bogey eight for a level par 72 and fourth place.
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Austrian Florian Praegant and Englishman Tommy Fleetwod needed respective scores of 65 and 64 in the afternoon to force a play-off, and the latter nearly managed it, missing a five-metre birdie putt on the last to tie with Hebert.
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Anybody else meditate? Have you ever had strange "visions" (subconscious thoughts surface) while meditating? I meditate on a daily basis and find it very useful for stress - especially in ways that other activities just can't quite root out. I just wanted to know if anyone else out there does it.
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I do. It's not on a daily basis. More like once or twice a week. I mostly do it for introspection and stress relief. I haven't had any thoughts surface that I'd say were strong enough to be called "visions," but I have found that I can create a near orgasmic feeling at will (most of the time)... which is awesome. Needless to say, I feel pretty happy after that.
I try to do it twice a day - twenty minutes in the morning and 40 minutes in the evening (so so desired). Most of the time I get the evening one in and not the morning one, and During those times I've actually exceeded 40 minutes - the longest being two hours. When that happens, I automatically think "What the hell?" It's obvious at that point my subconscious is really trying to work something out - especially if I have had a rough day.
Occasionally, I get "visions." Basically cryptic messages that my subconsciousness is trying to get me to recognize regarding a certain experience I have had, or a conscious thought I may have produced earlier but didn't quite fully understand (though granted, I don't understand the subconscious visualization either most of the time). It is definitely not dreaming in the sense of sleep because I am fully aware of what is going on in the room around me, though I lose track of time. It can be a little freaky, but I definitely feel more refreshed and at peace afterward.
When I first started, I confessed "Why the hell haven't I done this before?" But then, with my upbringing, the church frowned on such things and all out of their own ignorance.
Interesting. Maybe it has to do the length of time then? I can hardly make it past 20 minutes. Although, my best meditation comes from running. I've been clearing my mind and focusing on breathing for years doing that because I'm slightly asthmatic. I sometimes "detach" from myself and it's like watching a movie with a surround screen. I start to wonder why the camera keeps bouncing. It's weird to lose that sense of self and literally feel displaced from what's happening to you.
"Occasionally, I get "visions." Basically cryptic messages that my subconsciousness is trying to get me to recognize regarding a certain experience I have had," -
I would suggest that these are because of the stress you've been under. Quite possibly it's a coping mechanism of an over-strained mind. Recently I read that one of the main functions of consciousness is to construct stories or explanations of the world so that it makes sense to us so that we can function. Maybe your brain/mind is having to work extra-hard at the moment to construct its meanings - hence the freaky dream-like images. I put it to you, each of these has a relevant meaning. Just listen to them, like you're intended to. Once you get back to full strength, they will probably disappear.
I entirely agree. Although, I do find some of the "visions" inspirational, so the subconscious is more than welcome to keep sending the good ones my way once I am back in the mix.
Maybe some of them are pretty random
Do you have any tips on meditation? I've tried with minimal (some) success, most of what I've gotten from research has proven more or less disappointing overall.
Focus on breathing in slowly, pause, then breathe out and pause. No matter what - especially more so in the beginning your mind will wander into thoughts that may distract you. Just acknowledge the thought and then let it go to focus on your breathing. A dimly lit room with candles helps soften the atmosphere for meditation, as well as quiet. Also find a comfortable position to sit, stand, or lie down in. I prefer lying down on my back, hands at either my side or gently lying on my stomach. Loose fitting clothing helps too.
One major thing I use as well is meditation music. Meditation music is used to aid in relaxation and focus, and it really helps as a guide. I have tried silent meditation, but prefer instrumental aid. There are a host MP3 files you browse through on in iTunes to find what you think would fit you. There are also apps for smart phones that provide the same thing. I have one on my android called Meditation moment. It has settings for 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours. I don't typically use this one though because I prefer what I have from iTunes.
Thanks, I think the biggest thing I can take away from this is "Just acknowledge the thought and then let it go to focus on your breathing." At start, my breathing in this fashion seems to be shaky and my mind jumpy, and this seems to not only be effective in "regulating" my breath but surprisingly (for how simple it is) clearing my mind.
Also I found this: http://8tracks.com/explore/meditation/popular which I know has an android app etc.
Great! Just remember: focus on your breathing, and above all, don't get discouraged!
The more you focus on your breathing - slowing it down, taking deep breaths (from the belly and not the chest), and concentrating on the rhythm the more your mind will quiet.
Oh, and there have been plenty of times when I started where my mind jumped everywhere and in frustration I gave up for the evening because my mind wouldn't be quiet. Yet, every day I was right back at it and it got easier and easier. It is now a critical part of my daily routine.
"From the belly, not the chest" was the reason the breathing was a little shaky-- assuming that probably takes a while to get used to as well.


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The financial sector has outperformed the broader S&P 500 since the June 2012 lows, up 14% versus an S&P's gain of 8%. But there certainly is more than meets the eye when it comes to the financial sector's performance.
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The Large Financial Sector
As of the September quarter end, the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEARCA:XLF) makes up over 15% of the S&P 500 by market weight. It's the second largest sector by market cap, behind Technology at 19%. A summary of those sector weightings is best captured in the chart from Standard & Poors (NYSEARCA:SPY) below.
Most investors are aware of the immense size of Apple (NASDAQGS:AAPL) in the Technology sector with 24% of the sector's weighting. But many are not aware that there are similar dynamics occurring in the financial sector, albeit the domination is not by one single company, but by an elite few.
Financial Sector Weightings
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The spreadsheet captures the breakdown of the financial sector by market cap weighting including the top 10 companies in the index.
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After 4 months, these sectors continue to lead the markets higher, barely; the financials with the help of its top 5 holdings. Once these large financial companies break down from their impressive strength since June, we expect XLF and thereafter the broader markets to confirm that a near-term top is in place.
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Register a class that knows how to handle template files with the given extension. This can be used to implement new template types. The constructor for the class must take the ActiveView::Base instance as a parameter, and the class must implement a #render method that takes the contents of the template to render as well as the Hash of local assigns available to the template. The #render method ought to return the rendered template as a string.
# File actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb, line 244 def self.register_template_handler(extension, klass) @@template_handlers[extension.to_sym] = klass end
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NatureSweet to buy tomato growing firm
San Antonio-based company NatureSweet Ltd. plans to buy the assets of EuroFresh Farms, an Arizona greenhouse grower that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, the second time the company has sought protection from creditors in four years.
"This acquisition represents an exciting opportunity for us to grow our company and expand our business," NatureSweet CEO Bryant Ambelang said. "EuroFresh offers a line of products that will add significant value to our company and customers."
NatureSweet employs about 5,000 people, most of them in greenhouse operations in Mexico. It is known for niche products such as "cherub" and "sunburst" tomatoes.
EuroFresh Farms has 1,100 workers growing greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers in Willcox and Snowflake, Ariz.
It was unclear Monday whether NatureSweet planned to take on the Arizona employees and expand into greenhouse cucumbers or other specialty tomatoes.
"Given that NatureSweet just announced today its intent to acquire EuroFresh Farms' assets, and this is the start of the process, not the completion, it is premature to speculate," said Denise Clarke, a spokeswoman for NatureSweet.
EuroFresh was founded in Pennsylvania in 1990 and relocated to Arizona in 1992. It has more than 300 acres of glassed-in growing area producing more than 150 million pounds of tomatoes a year.
According to documents filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tucson, Ariz., EuroFresh had assets of between $10 million and $50 million, based on preliminary estimates, with liabilities estimated at between $50 million and $100 million.
Its largest unsecured debt is $1.5 million owed to Southwest Gas Co. Other unsecured creditors include a trucking firm, International Paper, and Arizona Correctional Industries.
The filings indicated that the company would not have funds available to pay unsecured creditors.
EuroFresh previously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2009. It emerged as a reorganized company in November 2009.
The NatureSweet acquisition will take place through a so-called 363 sale, which allows a company filing for bankruptcy to immediately market its assets to bidders, subject to approval by the federal bankruptcy court.
"We are pleased to have received this offer from a financially strong organization," EuroFresh Farms CEO Johan van den Berg said in a news release.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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At Official Design in Dallas, Texas, you'll find thoughtful, high quality furniture. This is the Peanut Rocker, inspired by the traditional rocker, but given a modern twist. As stated on their site, "We worked the steel by hand, from the milling of the runner connections to the welding of the upper frame. We sculpted the walnut seat and runners with a CNC router." Simple screws and bolts were the finishing touch.
Mark Leveno, a graduate of SCAD, is the furniture and architectural designer at Official. I particularly like his Mango Bench made of mango wood and steel and inspired by a three dimensional line drawing of a cube.
This is the Yeti. With a cushion made of wool, it is referred to as the "softer, more tactile cousin of the Mango bench." The Yeti was featured in the Milan Furniture Fair of 2012.
The Droid Stool was also exhibited in Milan. See the process of its creation here.
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- In a recent survey of mobile learners, 99% believed the format and presentation enhanced their learning, and more than 75% praised the convenience and time management benefits.
But is m-Learning secure?
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Vigorous Exercise Increases Risk of Heart Disease
Dr. Mark Wiley
(We received this article via an e-mail.)
In my search for the best in holistic medicine I have traveled the globe and spent time with healers of all types: shamans, psychic surgeons, qigong masters, faith healers, herbalists, bone setters… you name it.
While studying a method of qigong known as zhan zhuang (pile standing) in Asia, my teacher told me something very strange. He said: "This qigong exercises forces you to stand still and not move for a long time. Because of this, your energy will increase, your body will warm, and your muscles will strengthen. But you will not damage your joints from excessive movement, nor tax your heart through robust movement, nor damage the lungs through too rapid respiration."
I have to say that I had trouble swallowing this last part and for the past 15 years I have been trying to reason out in my mind: why not increase heart rate and respiration? After all, isn't the entire fitness industry in the Western world based on elevating heart rate, increasing lung capacity and burning calories from sweating and muscle strength development? Well, like with so many other things, it looks like the ancient Chinese knew what they were talking about.
Recent research coming out of New York University Medical Center suggests that the more often one engages in vigorous exercise the greater their risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF). AF is a condition characterized by irregular, rapid heart rate, which affects people in many ways from simple fainting to heart failure and stroke.
But isn't this always the way? First something is bad for you, then good for you, then bad for you again. Don't raise the heart rate doing vigorous exercise, said the ancient Daoist masters. Train hard and break a sweat and elevate the heart, said the masters of sport science. Sweating and elevated heart rate lead to heart disease, now say the academics—but with more tangible and less metaphoric examples for the whys of it.
Odd thing is; there are always two sides to every coin. It's not always so easy as good vs. bad, but the degree of good vs. bad on a continuum depending on who you are and where your health condition is. For relatively healthy people with no serious biological health issues, exercise has been proven time and again to balance the body and stave off potentially life-threatening diseases, like obesity and diabetes. However, if on the other hand you do have unrecognized heart disease, then exercise may cause you to die from sudden heart attack. And the leading cause of exercise-related death among high-level athletes is coronary heart disease!
Before you decide that you do or don't have heart disease, there's more to the study that is important for you to know. In the study there were exercise and non-exercise groups. Men who exercised long or hard enough to break a sweat five to seven days per week actually increased their chances of developing AF by an enormous 20 percent! And the non-exercise control group? No increase in their propensity for AF.
The big surprise is this: the participants who were in the "break a sweat" group were deemed to be "healthy," and made up of men under the age of 50 who run on a regular basis. Common sense would say the opposite results should be the case. But no, the study clearly shows that the incidence of atrial fibrillation in men who jog increased by a massive 50 percent! And it was up by 74 percent in young men who break a sweat on a regular basis!
By now you may be worried about your own condition. However, it seems that AF is common and even expected in so-called healthy athletes. This is the case because cardiomegaly (enlargement of the heart) is so common in athletes that doctors don't even tell athletes they have a condition that can lead to heart disease. Yes, in normal, non-athletic people, if their electrocardiograms showed these same signs the docs would be very concerned and let them know.
The long and short is this: the essence of the study indicates that breaking a sweat on a regular basis is bad for your heart. And history shows that marathoners and other top athletes die at a young age as a result of heart disease. And in China, where tai chi and qigong are practiced by millions, the rate of heart disease and young heart-related deaths is among the world's lowest.
No wonder slow-burn exercises like walking, yoga, tai chi and qigong are considered as the safest and most effective exercises around the world. And the world is a whole lot bigger than the "experts" in the United States that get all the press.


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Mentoring Organization Application
This page provides a workspace where we can prepare our application. Previous years' applications are at Google Summer of Code 2012 Application Questions and Mentoring Organization Application 2013.
Organization profile
ID: clojure
Name: Clojure
Description: Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), JavaScript, and Microsoft's .Net framework. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.
Clojure, as a GSoC mentoring organization, includes projects from all parts of the Clojure ecosystem, from IDE tooling to logic programming libraries.
Tags: Clojure, Lisp, Functional Programming
Main License: Eclipse Public License
Logo URL: http://www.deepbluelambda.org/images/Clojure-logo.png
Ideas list: http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Project+Ideas
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure
Organization website: http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Google+Summer+of+Code+2014
IRC Channel: #clojure on freenode
Feed URL:
Google+ URL:
Twitter URL:
Blog page:
Facebook URL:
Veteran organization? Yes
Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013? What do you hope to gain by participating?
The Clojure community has been growing at a healthy rate since the initial language announcement in 2007. The Clojure mailing list now has nearly 9000 subscribers, the Freenode IRC channel sees greater than 400 participants, and there were three conferences scheduled last year dedicated to Clojure. At these conferences, the question is no longer 'Do you get to use Clojure at work?' or 'Are you using Clojure in production?', but 'How are you using Clojure in production?'. All of this activity means many open source projects within the community need help, including porting Clojure to new platforms and improving mobile and web development. Given the interest from students and mentors on the mailing list has encouraged us to apply again for GSoC.
How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them?
Need an estimate on number of mentors
We select mentors based on their prior participation in the Clojure community. A mentor for a given student project will usually be a lead developer for an existing open source project related to the student's project. This will help ensure the mentor has both an interest in success of the GSoC project as well as the necessary expertise to be an effective mentor.
Our mentors are generally leaders within Clojure community who have been involved in the development of the programming language more than three years. These community leaders have shown a dedication and level of involvement that is simple to verify.
What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
It is most critical to prevent such a scenario entirely. We attempt to accomplish this through careful selection of the proposal, mentor, and student. A proposal of proper scope, a dedicated mentor, and a student with a visible history of seeing projects to their end is critical to success. Also critical is observing their involvement in the community prior to the student's selection. We prefer students who have already started developing a working relationship with their mentor and interacting with the community. Finally, a proper interview is probably required in order to find out whether the mentor/student pairing is ideal and whether the student will be free of time conflicts during the GSoC time period to see their project to completion.
What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
Ideally, all projects will have at least one backup mentor. Even so, mentors are selected from the community precisely for their history of involvement in the community and the issues surrounding proposal.
What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program?
We will be clear that community involvement prior to selection will be a strong factor for being considered for a proposal. Our experience in previous years has taught us that those students with the strongest community/mentor involvement before the program performed the best. We believe that open source contribution is not solely a summer time affair. Students should be talking with mentors from the start in order to develop the adequate understanding and material required to tackle the proposal. This may include, but is not limited to, showing familiarity with an API, submitting patches, and reading papers and discussing them with mentors. We believe that a well considered proposal/mentor/student combination reinforces student engagement during the GSoC period.
We will strongly encourage students to provide updates to the community at large about the work they are doing on a biweekly basis. To increase the effectiveness of this, we will make it easy for the community to be able to follow our students' progress. In previous years, a number of students were interviewed in community electronic publications, and we would like to encourage that once more.
What will you do to encourage your accepted students to stick with the project after Google Summer of Code?
Most of the proposal are significant enough that students should feel a sense of ownership about their accomplishment. At the same time, the proposals are important enough to the Clojure community that members can provide support once the intensive GSoC period is done and the student must focus more time on academic responsibilities. We will encourage students to submit talks about their work to community conferences, and we will take the opportunity to use GSoC's travel stipend to get our students to conferences.
Are you an established or larger organization who would like to vouch for a new organization applying this year? If so, please list their name(s) here. Optional
No answer.
If you chose "veteran" in the organization profile dropdown, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.
We have participated the past two years as a GSoC mentoring organisation. In 2012 all four of our students passed, and in 2013 6 of 7 students passed.
We are most proud of the several students who have continued their GSoC work and have taken up leadership roles within the community. For example, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant (2012, 2013) successfully raised over $35,000 to continue his work on Typed Clojure, part of which went to help Nicola Mometto (2013) continue his Clojure in Clojure work. Nicola's work has also been sponsored by Cognitect. Alexander Yakushev (2012, 2013) has taken the lead in the Clojure/Android community and has significantly helped increase the adoption of Clojure on Android.
Despite our successes from the past two years, there is still plenty of room for improvement. We did a better job last year on keeping the community updated on students' progress, and we will need to continue improving on that. We will also need to figure out ways to improve communication between administrators and mentors. We set up a mailing list last year, and that helped. We will also be trying to get more people involved in the program both as mentors and as administrators. We think that by delegating duties and improving communication, it will be easier avoid the situation where a single person that gets too busy with duties outside of GSoC causes a lot of problems for others.


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Hmmm, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you there. For one, I'm not much of a believer in the existence of pure good or pure evil. I think there are good people who are capable of evil things and vice versa and every shade in between. But beyond that, I really don't think that the only reason evil acts are committed is because good people allow it to happen. Evil acts will happen no matter what. They just will. Bottom line. Period. You can't "wipe it out." And frequently I consider the "wiping out" to be just as evil as whatever deed supposedly justified the wiping out in the first place. But that's my two cents, and I understand that a lot of people believe differently.The Dark Knight wrote:
***No question here. Evil exist because good men lack the courage to wipe it out.
Deeper like what? Those were the main ones I could think of.The Dark Knight wrote:*** Do you think there are deeper drives than that?


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Sigh. This is all nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. Outsourcing, or offshoring is very simple to understand, if you but take a moment. Let's take a typical reaction to offshoring and reduce it to the absurd:
Indiana Gov. Joseph Kernan in November ordered a state agency to
cancel a $15.2-million contract with an outsourcing firm after
citizens went ballistic at the notion of workers in India upgrading
their state's computers to, of all things, process unemployment
claims of laid-off Hoosiers.
Indianans think that money sent to India somehow disappears, or is lost to Americans. Let's say that, to stop that from happening, Indiana hires an on-shore firm. They're still sending their money out of Indiana. Were they to hire me to upgrade their state's computers, I must surely admit that I have absolutely no plans to buy anything from Indiana. Their money is equally as lost to them by spending it on-shore in New York as it is off-shore in Bangalore.
So let's say that the state government in Indianapolis hires somebody in Bloomington. Trouble is, that money is lost to the state government, since the Bloomington company spends it on Michigan outsourcers.
So they hire somebody in Indianapolis. They, in turn, have outsourced the work to somebody in Elkhart, Indiana, and that money has no return path to Indianapolis.
So they give up, and hire an Indianapolis resident to actually work full-time in the state IS department. Trouble is, nobody currently in Indianapolis is qualified to do the work. So they move from Bangalore, New York, Michigan, Bloomington, or Elkhart into Indianapolis, and no employment for any current Hoosier is created.
I'm running out of imagination, but the eventual end of this process is that Indiana Gov. Joseph Kernan has to perform every state job himself, because otherwise, some Indiana dollar might leave Indiana.
Can everyone see the absurdity here? There are no dollars that say "Indiana" on them. There aren't even any dollars that say "India" on them. It's too bad that Indians can't stamp the dollars that we pay them with "India Money". If they did, then we'd start to see India dollars in circulation inside the US.
The economic fallacy being promulgated by offshoring complainants is simple to explain but hard to internalize: The dollars that we pay to Indians don't get magically converted into rupees. They stay as dollars, and have absolutely no value to Indians unless they are ultimately spent as dollars back in the good old USA. Perhaps those dollars take a side trip to France, and then Britain, before coming back to the USA, but it should be emphasized again and again and again: we buy other countries products so they can buy our products.
You want to support Americans? Buy other countries products.
You want to support Indianans? Buy New Yorkers products.
You want to support Indianapolisians? Buy Bloomingtoners products.
You want to support Main Street Indianapolis? Buy Elm Street Indianapolis products.
Buy from whoever provides you with the most value regardless of their country, state, city, or street of residence.
There should be no confusion about how value is created: when two parties trade freely, each of them gains. The more that each of them thinks they got the better of the other, the more value created and the better the trade. Don't worry so much about who is getting the value. Worry more that the value created should be as large as possible.
Let me make this as absolutely simple as possible: nobody, but nobody refrains from outsourcing their own personal needs. I don't wash my toilet paper--I buy new, with the full confidence that, if I continue to do things that other people want, I'll get that money back as pay.
If there is to be a great hue and cry about offshoring, it should not be about the lost jobs, but about the new jobs that will be created once those dollars find their way back home.
Update: John Parmater's response was published on Dave Farber's Interesting People list. He says much the same as I, but probably more eloquently.