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Ray LaMontagne reached new heights with his third studio release in 2008, "Gossip in the Grain," and the album solidified the musician as a great musician, and a worldwide phenomenon. Reaching #3 on the charts, Ray also performed on SNL. His fans across the world are hotly waiting for his new release of "God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise,"on August 17. This country tinged album, His new CD was recorded - with his band, The Pariah Dogs - complete with banjo and slide guitar in LaMontagne's woodsey home in Massachusetts.
Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs, will perform live on August 13 as part of WXPN's and NPR's Live Friday Free At Noon Concert Series. The new album can be heard on NPR.org/music, in its entirety, until its official release on August 17.
Ray LaMontagne plays with David Gray at the Susquehanna Bank Center, Friday night, August 13.
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When you come to XPN's Free At Noon Concerts, bring a can of food to support Philabundance, Delaware Valley's hunger relief organization. We have drop-off boxes to collect canned goods for the needy. Current priority items include: canned pasta, chili, beef stew, tuna, mac & cheese, ready to eat cereal, pork & beans/ baked beans, green beans, corn, fruit cocktail, creamy peanut butter and/ or grape jelly (plastic containers only), and boxed sugar. Thanks!
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Ashburn, E. (2009). College makes new connections with service-learning program. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 55(25), A25.
Ashburn's article skims the surface of a service learning program at Wagner College called Civic Innovations. The program narrows in on the quality of services that the students offer instead of quantity of volunteers participating.
Becket, D., Refaei, B., & Skutar, C. (2012). A faculty learning community's reflection on implementing service-learning goals. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 12(1), 7-87.
This article uses an open-access university faculty member perspective on service learning while taking into consideration civic responsbility, the connection to the community, and individual faculty goals of course curriculum. The article discusses the changing demographics of students on campus and the experience that their backgrounds can bring to service-learning projects.
Bowen, G. A. (2010). Service learning in the scholarship of teaching and learning: Effective practices. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 4(2).
As students are increasingly moving to getting an education online, service learning should not be left behind. This article introduce four types of e-service learning hybrids that can be incorporated into an internet-based society.
Ponder, J., Vander Veldt, M., & Lewis-Ferrell, G. (2011). Citizenship, curriculum, and critical thinking beyond the four walls of the classroom: Linking the academic content with service-learning. Teacher Education Quarterly. 38(4).
This article discusses the importance of engaging students beyond the classroom while connecting to civic responsibility through the lenses of 12 classroom teachers who enrolled in a graduate level social studies methods course that utilizes service learning.----------
Smith, B. H., Gahagan, J., McQuillin, S., Haywood, B., Cole, C. P., Bolton, C., & Wampler, M. K. (2011). The development of a service-learning program for first-year students based on the hallmarks of high quality service-learning and rigorous program evaluation. Innovative Higher Education. 35(5), 317-329.
The University of South Carolina facilitates a first-year student program called University 101 (U101) and includes a service learning component into the course. This article describes the purposes of service learning in U101 and the implementation of a transitional coaching program for the purpose of student mentoring.
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University of Alabama 2015-2016 Service-Learning Magazine
The International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
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A complete rebuilding and transformation of Evergreen Road, east of campus, will begin in May. During the 12 to 15 months of construction, the street will be upgraded to a four-lane boulevard with a landscaped median, bike path, stormwater mitigation, and mid-block crossings.
The $12.1 million project also includes underground utility upgrades, wayfinding signage, LED street lighting, and pedestrian-friendly amenities. It is being funded by the Michigan Department of Transportation, the City of Southfield, SEMCOG, and the Southfield City Centre.
Lawrence Technological University is part of the City Centre district, (www.southfieldcitycentre.com,) a roughly triangle-shaped area anchored by LTU's 102-acre campus on the west, Evergreen Road on the east, Interstate 696 on the north, and Ten Mile Road on the south. The district's boundary extends outward from this triangle to include Southfield's municipal complex which has a wide variety of amenities ranging from the city hall and its events pavilion, to the city library, hockey arena used by Lawrence Tech teams, a golf course, and more.
In 1992, a special assessment was created to provide for operation, maintenance, and promotion within the City Centre district, including pedestrian amenities and facilitating economic development. LTU Vice President for Finance and Administration Linda Height serves on the citizens' committee that helps oversee and encourage the District's growth.
Height, Dean of Students Kevin Finn, Campus Architect Joe Veryser, Associate Professor of Architecture Constance Bodurow, and others at LTU are partnered with Mayor Brenda Lawrence, the City Council, Southfield Planner Terry Croad, and corporate and business neighbors in the city to develop the types of amenities that attract students and others, and build the 24/7 community and relationships that distinguish vibrant "college towns." Bodurow's design lab, studio[CI], which includes students, is playing an important role in helping to visualize and plan the district's enhancements.
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Networked Readiness: Change in Methodology Shifts Rankings
By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist
Where is broadband deployment most widespread and thus most successful? Countless surveys, including some that we've referred to on the Connected Life Exchange, show Asia as the undisputed leader — especially South Korea.
But INSEAD (formerly known as the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) tweaked its methodology for tracking network readiness in its Global Information Technology Report (GTIR) between 2011 and this year, the rankings of its Networked Readiness Index (NRI) came out slightly different, and Asia's presence faded.
Here are this year's NRI top ten compared to last year's:
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According to INSEAD, the GITR provides "a view of how the industry of technology is developing in each country and taken together; this provides a global view of the world's economic and social development."
To compile the NRI, INSEAD uses "a combination of data from publicly available sources and the results of the Executive Opinion Survey, a comprehensive annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with partner institutes, a network of over 150 leading research institutes and business organizations." The executive survey polls more than 15,000 executives.
Affordability Affects Network Readiness Results
What changed with this year's NRI results? Among other tweaks to its methodology, INSEAD focused more on affordability rather than readiness, and more on skills than actual usage. Its focus on infrastructure remained similar.
With that change, the Nordic countries — which also appeared in last year's top ten — received higher scores because they offer tax deductions for buying computers. The report also noted that competition between global Nordic firms (including Ericsson and Nokia) brings pricing down in their home countries as well.
But the impact of affordability rippled through the list, so much so that INSEAD noted:
Defining technology standards by the existence of technology infrastructure is not enough; components such as affordability and skills are crucial to success. The "digital divide" still exists — not just in terms of infrastructure but also in terms of the skills necessary to make use of technology to better social and economic conditions. The main divide is between developed and non-developed countries (broadly, between the industrial northern hemisphere and the commodities-driven southern hemisphere); however, within regions there are also significant divides: within Asia Singapore is in the #2 position globally, while other Southeast Asian countries are at the bottom of the NRI list.
Other Factors: Skills
By focusing on skills over usage, the GTIR illuminates how readily a country's citizens can take advantage of the technology. In other words, anyone with a mobile device can access the Internet, and that's a step forward. But do they have the skills to capitalize on the Internet and improve their financial standing?
Do they have the skills to build a business, or to use the information they get online to make their pricing more efficient (as some farmers have done to check in which cities they can get the most for their crops)? That's clearly where skills trump usage.
Given the continuing efforts of companies like Cisco and others to seed the technology capabilities of underdeveloped countries, it will be interesting to see how this list changes over time — and how quickly it does so. Without the shackles of legacy ICT systems, will underdeveloped countries be able to leapfrog developed countries?
Most important, even if education and infrastructure improves, will economic limitations — the ability for entrepreneurs to start businesses, knowing their work will be rewarded without the threat of corruption or intellectual property theft — still impact the results?
As the subtle shifts in INSEAD's methodology reveal, it is frequently small changes that trigger big differences. For policymakers, this could involve taking steps to improve the educational system, reducing tariffs on networks, or allowing for larger deductions for computing equipment (both for home and business use). Those kinds of efforts could boost any given country's ranking on this list, and any sign of progress is cause for celebration.
Soumitra Dutta, a co-author of the report, highlighted the key findings in an interview.
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After doing this for almost four years now, I can tell you one thing for sure -- trucks drivers are a lot smarter than almost anyone gives them credit for. Recently I talked to one driver about the move to build more toll roads and lease existing ones to private companies -- in some cases foreign-owned ones. I think toll roads are a bad idea -- they create massive bottlenecks and force a lot of trucks onto local roads as drivers try to avoid tolls. This driver, however, said private toll companies are a good idea. Why? Because privatization brings market forces to bear on toll roads -- which should improve road quality, encourage development of ways to reduce bottlenecks at toll plazas and make toll companies more repsonsive to customer needs. Another driver cited Ohio's efforts to provide frequent rest areas and free showers to drivers after raising their tolls.
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Republican takeover of Senate appears more and more assured
By Chris Cillizza August 10
The decision by Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) not to seek election in November in the wake of a plagiarism scandal is the latest piece of good news for Republicans as they strive to take control of the Senate in less than three months.
Walshs departure from the race came in the same week that two Republican senators Pat Roberts in Kansas and Lamar Alexander in Tennessee defeated tea party challengers in primary fights, ensuring that every GOP senator seeking reelection would be the partys nominee.
These past seven days typified the fates of the two parties this election cycle. Democrats have been hit by retirements in tough states Montana, West Virginia, South Dakota and, to a lesser extent, Iowa and Republicans havent nominated the sort of extreme candidates who lack broader appeal in a general election.
Those realities along with a national playing field in which a handful of incumbent Democrats are defending Republican-leaning seats in places where President Obama is deeply unpopular have made a GOP takeover a better-than-50/50 proposition.
Lets go through the races.
Walshs decision not to run takes what was an uphill climb for Democrats and turns it into something close to a no-chance race. (A committee of Democrats will pick the partys nominee by Aug. 20.) Montana joins the contests for open seats in West Virginia and South Dakota in that category, meaning that, unless something drastically changes, Republicans should have three takeovers in the bank a nice head start going into Election Day.
That means the party needs three more pickups to gain the Senate majority. And it has more than enough seats in play to do it. Democratic-held seats in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana and North Carolina are competitive at this point. (Races in Michigan, New Hampshire and Oregon seem to be moving in the Democrats direction.)
Of that group, the seats in Louisiana and Arkansas seem to be the most endangered for Democrats, in large part because of the strongly Republican nature of both states.
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) has run a very good campaign, while Rep. Tom Cotton (R) has underwhelmed somewhat. (To be fair, Cotton, a freshman member of Congress, entered the race with impossibly high expectations.) And yet, the public polling in the contest gives Cotton a narrow edge. (Internal polling shows Pryor in a slightly stronger position.)
In Louisiana, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) has a wide lead over Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) as well as two other Republicans in the contest. But Landrieu seems unlikely to win more than 50 percent of the vote Nov. 4, and if she doesnt, she will face a runoff Dec. 6 against the second-place vote-getter, who is likely to be Cassidy. Head-to-head polling between Landrieu and Cassidy gives the slightest edge to the challenger.
Iowa, Colorado and North Carolina fit comfortably into the next tier of vulnerability. Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst (R) has run a terrific campaign for the seat of retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D) and has been aided by the stumbles of Rep. Bruce Braley (D). Republicans last-minute recruiting coup in Colorado landed them Rep. Cory Gardner, although Sen. Mark Udall (D) hasnt been caught by surprise and is working hard to paint the GOP congressman as extreme on social issues. The North Carolina contest is the quietest close race in the country; Sen. Kay Hagan (D) isnt well-defined as a candidate, but she has endured millions of dollars in spending by conservative groups relatively well. State House Speaker Thom Tillis performed well in the Republican primary, but his stewardship of the chamber will be a major issue this fall.
Then there is Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who has run a solid campaign and is well-known and liked in the state. Republicans have a late primary on Aug. 19 and former U.S. attorney Dan Sullivan is expected to emerge with the partys nomination. Early polling gives Begich a slight lead, but Sullivan remains relatively unknown and would seem to have room to grow.
While Republicans are playing lots of offense this cycle, their path to the Senate majority is complicated by Democrats who are seriously contesting two GOP-held seats: in Georgia and Kentucky.
Of the two, Kentucky seems the better opportunity, given Sen. Mitch McConnells middling poll numbers and the able campaign being run by state Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. Polling gives McConnell a slight edge, but even his most ardent supporters acknowledge that his vote ceiling is somewhere between 51 and 52 percent.
Georgias open seat is competitive because of a terrific recruit by Democrats in Michelle Nunn. She has performed exceptionally well on both the fundraising and polling fronts. But Republicans picked businessman David Perdue as their nominee, countering Nunns outsider brand, and Georgia remains a comfortably Republican state particularly in a midterm election such as this one.
Add it all up, and Republicans have enough races within the margin of error to think that even the slightest national breeze blowing in their favor and that wind looks likely to be there will be enough to push them over the top in a few of these very close contests.
Democrats best hope lies in localizing races in places such as Arkansas, Alaska and Colorado, and maybe picking off Georgia or Kentucky. That looks possible but not probable at the moment.
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While proponents of a special tax district on Daufuskie Island circulate a report answering common questions from voters door to door, an opposition group led by a former councilwoman who resigned in protest over the measure is launching her own campaign less than two weeks before Election Day.
The referendum landed on the ballot with Beaufort County Council's approval in August, two months after the Lowcountry Regional Transportation Authority recommended exploring a special tax district as an answer to strengthening a service widely viewed as inadequate to spark commercial development and too costly for the limited runs it provides.
But divisions over the tax district have surfaced in the island community of about 400. Few disagree that a beefier service also linking Daufuskie to Savannah would help bring opportunity, but opponents doubt the revenue from it will be enough and question whether a special tax district comes prematurely. Those in favor see the special purpose tax district as the only viable option to provide a stable source of funding to leverage the grants and partnerships necessary to lift a public ferry service off the ground.
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The referendum allows the county to tax district residents up to 16.5 additional mills, or $0.66 per $1,000 of taxable value for primary residences and $.99 per $1,000 for all other property owners. If passed, a five-member commission appointed by County Council would act in an advisory role, with ultimate authority in Beaufort.
It took signatures from 15 percent of voters in the tax district to clear election rules. The affluent golf course community Haig Point wasn't included because the development already includes private ferry service in its homeowner dues - an exclusion resented by some.
The 16-page independent report produced by the Daufuskie Island Council's Ferry Task Force explains the legal framework of the special tax district, current costs, some alternative funding options and ferry operations, though the task force left questions about the location of ferry landings, expected revenue generated, levels of service and other arrangements unanswered.
Chuck Hunter, an Island councilman who first voted against a special tax district because he didn't believe there was enough information, chaired the task force.
"I think this committee had to be able to give completely factual information," said Daufuskie Island Council Chairman Bill Greenwood, a supporter. "If they had to reach further than what would be a 100 percent fact, they chose not to."
Greenwood challenges marine transportation expert AJ Weis' argument that a service can't compete for grants before it's more established, arguing a public model lends itself to partnerships with the Lowcountry Regional Transportation Authority and Chatham Area Transit across the state line.
"LRTA is an entity that has been functioning, is functioning, is in the transportation business, and he (Chairman Dick Stewart) certainly can get money," he said.
Stewart favors a special tax district as the most reliable source of funding, though he called for further study at a June 4 County Council Finance Committee meeting. He said it's tough to say whether LRTA's current crop of grant connections would fit the ferry service, but he doesn't see its fledgling status as a non-starter and grant criteria change with time.
"I don't necessarily agree with that because we compete successfully for land-based facilities, so I don't see that as any different for water-based facilities," he said.
The county couldn't find funding for further study, according to County Administrator Gary Kubic, and revenue generated from an oft-mentioned alternative, tax increment financing, couldn't be used to fund general operations, though it could go to capital and infrastructure improvements, according to Staff Attorney Josh Gruber.
Tax-increment financing essentially pays for redevelopment through anticipated increases in property values, leaving risks if those gains don't cover the debt.
A partnership with Chatham Area Transit to provide service between Savannah and South Carolina's coastal islands would require legislative approval, though such agreements across state lines aren't uncommon, said Executive Director Chad Reese.
"It could work," he said. "It's as much political as it is legal."
Reese argues regular public transportation to Daufuskie would raise property values by allowing for the free flow of resources and the growth of commercial development on the island.
"The investment in public transportation is the best form of investment in transportation that can be made," he said. "Every one dollar invested equals four in growth and development."
Daufuskie Island has led the county in property value losses since the housing bust, falling 33 percent in assessed value between 2011 and 2012 alone, according to data prepared by County Assessor Ed Hughes.
Kubic, who remains neutral on the special tax district but supports the expansion of service as critical for development, said there's no guarantee greater accessibility will restore property values, but subsidies from the county will only become harder to come by and ferry service represents the best hope for opportunity.
"If they're saying, can you tell us what the future holds, that's an impossibility, because no one knows what the future holds," he said. "If you ask the question about factors that would better position marketability on Daufuskie… it gives you more possibilities than not knowing you have ferry service."
Greenwood, who previously estimated the district could raise upwards of $350,000, acknowledged that factors such as the upcoming reassessment hang over potential revenue growth, but he argued the commission established by the district has a real chance to find solutions with little risks, considering the county could dismantle it and return the extra tax dollars.
"If they can't do their job and the number is $100,000 instead of $350,000 and they can't make anything work, then we can go to the county and say 'Please kill this,'" he said. "Nobody loses a dollar in the process."
The skeptics
Cathy Tillman, a former councilwoman who resigned in protest, is circulating her own literature - a flyer encouraging residents to vote down the referendum.
She contends the measure amounts to "taxation without representation" because a majority of about 140 voters will decide on a tax increase for nearly 1,000 parcels of land, meaning more than 97 percent of taxable land is owned by secondary residents who aren't eligible to vote on the referendum.
She also takes issue with the exclusion of Haig Point, calling for "one island" solutions, as well as the County Council appointment of commissioners, the lack of specifics in terms of operations, and marine transportation expert AJ Weis' criticism that the nascent service wouldn't be able to attract the grant funding necessary for a more robust service.
"There are still so many unanswered questions," she said. "This flyer we put together was in response to the report."
She argues proponents of the tax district basically expect voters to take it on faith that the solution would be viable and raise property values.
"It's like, 'trust us,'" she said. "The other part of this is the people who will be on the commission - we don't even know who we're trusting."
She'll be canvassing with a "loose coalition of people from the Melrose Resort area, the historic district and some from Haig Point" as the days before Nov. 6 wind down.
Weis, an active captain in the U.S. Merchant Marines and a marine transportation expert with a long family history in the ferry business, addressed a group of island residents last week on the challenges of creating a sustainable service. Given the potential ridership and untested, relatively limited funding of the proposed system, the ferry service won't be able to compete for grants at the federal level, he argues.
"I'm not saying there's not money available, but if you don't have an existing system, they're not going to look at you," Weis said.
The island could have pursued money from the federal program Transportation Equity Act for the 21st century before imposing a new tax to build up the service, Weis says.
He charged leadership with ignoring the 2010 Comprehensive Plan for Daufuskie Island that outlined obstacles to growth and ways to encourage development.
"They've yet to start to implement that plan, start encouraging local businesses and create an environment that is welcoming to the establishment of a privately owned ferry system," he said. "Until you have an operator who feels they have a good sense of succeeding … you're never going to have a regional ferry service."


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Debbie Viess : "Wicked and Wonderful Amanitas of the West"
Cascade Mycological Society Presents
Debbie Viess
Wicked and Wonderful Amanitas of the West
Debbie is obsessed with mushrooms in general and Amanitas in particular, for close to 20 years. In 2006 she co-founded the Bay Area Mycological Society (BAMS), a science-centric mushroom club with her husband, David Rust. She has been instrumental in creating and managing the annual Pt. Reyes Nations Seashore Fungus Fairs, and has been a prominent contributor to the Pt. Reyes Mycoblitzes and the ongoing Yosemite Fungal Survey. Debbie has taught mushroom field classes for the California Academy of Sciences, the Audubon Society, Albany Adult School and Pt. Reyes Field Seminars, and has lectured about mushrooms to audiences around the country.
She has also written mushroom-flavored articles for "Bay Nature" magazine and is a contributing editor to "Fungi" magazine as well as "Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming. In 2009, she published an extensive, illustrated article on the Amanitas of East Bay in the well-respected botanical journal, "The Manzanita." She is a frequent mushroom spokesperson for radio and television and consulted on Bay area mushroom poisoning cases. Debbie loves making mycology accessible and fun for everyone and uses humor and great visuals to sweeten her science. CMS is proud to host Debbie Viess aka "AmanitaRita." Don't miss this event. Date: Friday, October 26th, 2012. Time: 7.00 P.M. Location: LCC Forum, Bldg. 17, Room 308, Cost: $5 suggested donation.


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After a short recovery, and just as the hospital staff was assisting him into my dad's car, Bruce passed out and fell to the ground. No one knew yet that a blood clot had dislodged from somewhere in his body and moved to the main artery to his lungs.
Bruce had fainted because no oxygen was getting to his brain and other vital organs.
That Saturday morning, Bruce coded three times in the hospital parking lot. Each time, the CPR team worked to revive him. Finally, they got Bruce into the emergency room. He was stable and still alive, but no one knew if he would come out of an induced coma. That was Saturday.
On Sunday morning the reports started coming in. Bruce's wife Judy had fought her way through the Saturday snowstorm and finally made it to the emergency room. What we read in her text messages brought us tears of joy.
Judy reported that doctors were using words and phrases like "miraculous," "amazing," "hard to believe" and "had to see it for myself" in describing the scene. Bruce had come out of the coma, and with the breathing tube still in his mouth was writing notes to his wife, asking why he was still in the hospital and why his chest hurt so badly.
All day, hospital staff visited Bruce in amazement. As soon as his breathing tube was removed, and for the rest of the day, Bruce gave testimony after testimony of the Lord's healing.
One doctor told Judy that Bruce was a new member of the "1 Percent Club," that what happened to Bruce happens in less than 1 percent of all the cases he sees.
The 1 Percent Club. What an awesome place to be. We know that not everyone will experience physical healing here on earth, but everyone can be part of God's 1 Percent Club.
Amidst the chaos and a world full of emergency room experiences, God's Word reminds us that all of us in the family of faith have experienced an amazing spiritual miracle.
In the chaos of Israel's day long ago, the prophet Isaiah brought words of encouragement to the faithful remnant. God encouraged the faithful then, just as He encourages the faithful today, with the hope of a New Heaven and a New Earth.
God promised that in that future day, "Never again will there be in it infants who live but a few days, or older people who do not live out their years," and, "Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear" (Isaiah 66:20a, 24).
When Jesus sits to rule on the throne on that day, the promise is made that "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away" (Revelation 21:4).
Let the faithful anticipate His coming again with great joy and courage this holiday season.
Greg Smith is associate vice president for academic administration and associate professor of Bible at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
these are the contents of my head
14 comments:
- Carys said...
I love your dress, it's so sweet!!
From Carys of La Ville Inconnue
- January 4, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Chiho said...
love the dress! sooooo cute:]
- January 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- CAITLIN said...
fantastic dress!! don't you just love when you find something so on-trend in a thrift store for such a low low price?? clearly whoever gave this dress away wasn't up on her style blogs ;)
- January 4, 2011 at 10:39 AM
The upper portion of the dress looks wonderful!
- January 4, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- Victoria / Justice Pirate said...
I think these shoes look so great with the whole outfit. I think you did a great job in only spending $3 for it too!! wow. Sorry about the commuting issues. Much love!
- January 4, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Amanda, The Upside of Wonder said...
I love the dress! Thrift store sales are the best. I love going to Salvation Army on their half-off days. I usually go about an hour before they close and it's great because no one is there and all the good stuff is half the price!
- January 4, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Cassandra said...
I love your dress! I have a thing for Peter Pan collars at the moment, haha.
- January 4, 2011 at 2:18 PM
- Sophi said...
I love your dress! I just got a really similar one at Salvation Army recently--I'm obsessed with going there on wednesday... half-off all clothes every single week!
I also just wanted to tell you that your blog is one of my favorites. I'm so glad that I found it :)
- January 4, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- yelizabeta said...
my husband and i went to miami right after thanksgiving and it looks like visited almost the same places you did! how nostalgic. also, we ended up at the salvation army in the design district where i got stuff for half off. made my day.
such a fun time - thank you so much for keeping up your blog so well.
- January 4, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- Meggstatus said...
Oh my gosh Amanda this dress is perfect!!!!!!!
- January 4, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Ana - Toil and Trouble said...
SO much outfit envy right now. That dress is perfect, and just yesterday I was trying to find some two-tone oxfords in my size. No luck.
- January 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM
- veronika, tick tock vintage. said...
this dress is adorable - the collar, the cuffs, the length. i LOVE it.
- January 5, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- Mama Wolf said...
I'm loving this whole outfit!
xoxo mama wolf
- January 5, 2011 at 10:47 PM
- 20 York Street said...
That dress is brilliant and I love love your tights!
Happy, Happy New Year!
- January 6, 2011 at 9:36 PM


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Butler's Lives of the Saints – Saint Bridgit, or Bridget, Virgin and Abbess, Patroness of Ireland
[And by contraction, Bride] She was born at Fochard, in Ulster, soon after Ireland had been blessed with the light of faith. She received the religious veil in her youth, from the hands of Saint Mel, nephew and disciple of Saint Patrick. She built herself a cell under a large oak, thence called Kill-dara, or cell of the oak; living, as her name implies, the bright shining light of that country by her virtues. Being joined soon after by several of her own sex, they formed themselves into a religious community, which branched out into several other nunneries throughout Ireland; all which acknowledged her for their mother and foundress, as in effect she was of all in that kingdom. But a full account of her virtues has not been transmitted down to us, together with the veneration of her name. Her five modern lives mention little else but wonderful miracles. She flourished in the beginning of the sixth century, and is named in the Martyrology of Bede, and in all others since that age. Several churches in England and Scotland are dedicated to God under her name, as, among others, that of Saint Bride in Fleet-street; several also in Germany, and some in France. Her name occurs in most copies of the Martyrology which bears the name of Saint Jerom, especially in those of Esternach and Corbie, which are most ancient. She is commemorated in the divine office in most churches of Germany, and in that of Paris, till the year 1607, and in many others in France. One of the Hebrides, or western islands, which belong to Scotland, near that of Ila, was called, from a famous monastery built there in her honour, Brigidiani. A church of Saint Briget, in the province of Athol, was reputed famous for miracles, and a portion of her relics was kept with great veneration in a monastery of regular canons at Aburnethi, once capital of the kingdom of the Picts, and a bishopric, as Major mentions. Her body was found with those of SS. Patrick and Columba, in a triple vault in Down-Patrick, in 1185, as Giraldus Cambrensis informs us: they were all three translated to the cathedral of the same city; but their monument was destroyed in the reign of king Henry VIII. The head of Saint Bride is now kept in the church of the Jesuits at Lisbon.
- Father Alban Butler. "Saint Bridgit, or Bridget, Virgin and Abbess, Patroness of Ireland". , 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 1 February 2013. Web. 17 January 2019. <>


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President Barack Obama's re-election will cause problems for Israel and Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It's very unlikely now that Israel can count on Mr. Obama and U.S. support as far as the Palestinians go, or on efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Mr. Obama's support and endorsement of the establishment of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders is one of the worst and most dangerous foreign policy decisions his administration has made so far.
Mr. Obama has alienated Israel since he entered office in 2009 . Its no secret that he and Mr. Netanyahu have clashed; remember how Mr. Obama snubbed Mr. Netanyahu when he visited the United Nations in September? Mr. Obama had no time to speak with the Israeli leader, but he had plenty of time to appear on The View and continue his negative campaigning.
Mr. Obama's second term is bad news for the safety and security of Israel, which is the only friend the U.S. has in the Middle East
Al Eisner, Silver Spring


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After a World Cup quarterfinal match against France, England rugby league player Sam Burgess took off his game shorts and gave them to an excited female fan. She was so elated to get Burgess's post-match shorts that she took a big whiff of them.
Unfortunately for her, and luckily for us, television captured this beautiful moment, and actually did us one better by getting Burgess's reaction. Burgess was interviewed after the match—still in his underwear—and had the luxury of watching what happened with his shorts. "Oh, she smells them, doesn't she?" How'd he figure that out so quickly?
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Coca-Cola is all about sharing happiness. So why don't they turn these concept Coke cans into a reality to make that slogan applicable on a more literal note?
Ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Singapore originally came up with the idea of these two-part soda cans that can be twisted and separated into two. That way, you can keep one half for yourself and share the other with your best mate. The cans are currently being handed out by the "Happiness Trucks" that are making the rounds in Singapore, although they're probably limited promotional cans which won't be sold commercially.


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Report: State economy has worsened
New data show that Connecticut has a deeper economic hole to dig out of than analysts imagined a few months ago.
The federal data, analyzed in the latest edition of the quarterly publication The Connecticut Economic Outlook released today, indicate that residents are still feeling the effects of the Great Recession and that the state, which has gone a generation without job creation, will be lucky to produce another 10,000 positions over the next two years.
"Connecticut was still contracting when the rest of the nation was beginning to recover," the report by University of Connecticut researchers stated. "The contraction was worse than previously understood."
The realization about how deep the state's economy sank during the recession came as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data on Connecticut's economic output, showing sharply lower numbers than previously had been projected. The numbers resulted in a chart of Connecticut's gross domestic product showing a much deeper economic trench in 2009 than had previously been known and a less robust recovery as well.
"It was a bit of a shock," said Fred Carstensen, director of the Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis at UConn and a co-author of the report, in a telephone interview. "This explains why the unemployment numbers have been telling us a much more pessimistic picture than what the output numbers were telling us - because the output numbers were wrong."
The new data caused UConn economists to refigure previous employment projections that now appeared to be overly optimistic. This resulted in job-number projections over the next two years that look relatively flat if done with conventional methodology, while showing a slight incline using more optimistic assumptions that anticipate continued low federal borrowing rates and economic boosts from the build-out of the Jackson Laboratories-UConn Health Center bioscience hub.
Even the more optimistic measure leads to projected job increases of only 10,000 in the next two years - "insufficient to return total employment to anything approaching the level of 2008," according to the report.
Through the end of last year, the state's economy had generated only a third of the job growth required to compensate for the 120,000 Connecticut jobs lost since the last employment peak in 2008, the report noted. The state still boasts job numbers below the level seen in 1988, more than a generation ago.
Carstensen added that employment problems seem to have hit southeastern Connecticut particularly hard, thanks largely to the financial struggles of the region's two casinos and to layoffs at Pfizer Inc.
"The one big challenge is we have to figure out how to help southeastern Connecticut," he said.
Carstensen suggested one way to generate economic growth locally and throughout the state would be to implement a proposal UConn economists put on the table two years ago to release nearly $2.5 billion in so-called "stranded tax credits" to fund major capital projects in key industries such as pharmaceuticals. The idea, which has not earned much traction in the Malloy administration because of its impact on state revenues, would allow companies such as United Technologies Corp. that are unable to use all of their tax credits to sell these write-offs to other corporations looking to make major investments in the state.
Carstensen said changing the tax-credit system could help Pfizer in the marketing of more than 750,000 square feet of research laboratory space it has listed for sale or lease at its campus off Eastern Point Road in Groton. Pfizer has announced that it plans to demolish the largest of these facilities, the company's original R&D headquarters known as Building 118, if it doesn't find a buyer by the end of the year.
"We need a very aggressive response," Carstensen said.


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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Museum of Natural History
Join us for a short interactive demonstration exploring how fossils are created. What parts of animals become fossilized? How old are the earliest fossils? Families will discover how fossil casts are made in the museum by making their own casts to take home. This short program offers something for all ages – exciting information about fossils and fun, hands-on exploration of fossil casting!


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April 6, 2007
Box Score - Game 1
Box Score - Game 2
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - It was a tale of two games on Friday afternoon at Briggs Field, as WPI used a complete game three-hit shutout effort from senior pitcher Meghan Kelly to squeak past NEWMAC foe MIT, 2-0, in the day's first game, before busting out the big bats for a 10-5 triumph in the nightcap. WPI pushed its overall record to 11-6 and its conference ledger to 5-1 with the victories, while Tech fell to 1-13 and 0-6 with the pair of setbacks.
Kelly, who entered the day with a remarkable earned-run-average of 0.48, picked up seven strikeouts while walking none in her seven innings of work in the afternoon's first contest. The gem was her sixth complete game of the season - three of which have been shutouts - and it moved her record to 5-1 on the season.
Freshman Lauren Balek was nearly as impressive for MIT, going the distance while allowing just two hits and two unearned runs. She struck out three and walked four while dropping to 0-4 overall.
The first game was one of few chances, as each team struggled to put runners on base in frigid temperatures.
WPI threatened in the first, but sophomore Nicole Maglione was stranded at third base after leading off with a single, stealing second, then being bunted over. Balek induced a popup before fielding a come-backer herself to get out of the inning.
The visitors did push the eventual winning run across in the top of the second, however, as junior third basemen Nicole DeCampo walked, moved to second on error, then was sacrificed to third by freshman Amanda Matori before scoring on a passed ball.
WPI grabbed an insurance run in the top of the fourth, and it was DeCampo again who crossed the plate after walking to lead off the inning. She advanced to second on a passed ball, moved to third on a ground out, then scored on a fielding miscue to provide the final score line of 2-0.
MIT put a scare into its opposition in the bottom of the sixth, as consecutive two-out hits by junior Amanda Poteet and Balek put two runners in scoring position with two outs. However, Kelly forced a ground-out to second to end the threat.
The second half of the twinbill was quite a different story, as the bats came alive for both teams in an energetic encounter. Sophomore catcher Sara Migdal led the way for WPI, going 2-for-2 and driving in five runs while providing the highlight of the afternoon by smashing a monstrous grand-slam over the left field fence in the top of fourth.
Junior pitcher Leah Bogsted and freshman catcher Kasey Rowe were Tech's most consistent offensive contributors, as each notched two hits, while Poteet provided the power, driving in two runs with a double to right center in the fourth.
Following two scoreless innings to open the contest, each team exploded in the third frame. WPI put up a six-spot in the top of the inning, highlighted by a two-RBI triple by freshman Kelly Johnson, while MIT answered right back with four of its own in the bottom of the frame, as Poteet's two-RBI double was bolstered by an Amanda Jason RBI single.
Migdal's grand slam in the top of the fourth was a back-breaker for the Cardinal and Gray, as it stretched the lead to 10-4 so shortly after the team had cut the deficit to two.
MIT grabbed a consolation run in the bottom of the sixth when freshman Chelsea Ostrander picked up her first intercollegiate RBI with a run-scoring double.
Senior Jennifer Parker allowed four runs (none earned) in three innings and struck out two, while junior Heather Hassett was strong in relief, tossing four innings and allowing just one run while notching two strikeouts to pick up the win and move to 2-2.
Bogsted (1-5) went the distance for MIT and picked up eight strikeouts while scattering nine hits. Though she allowed ten runs, just three were earned.
Both Tech and WPI will return to action tomorrow afternoon in noon-time doubleheaders against NEWMAC opposition. MIT will travel to Coast Guard, while WPI will host Wheaton.


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Editor's Summary
While the distinction between complex and complicated may seem negligible, the key is understanding that complexity applies to a system that cannot be simulated, modeled and predicted. Website architecture within the Internet environment may be just such a system with evolving underlying technologies and demands, and handling their complexity is the information architects challenge. Complexity is added by the undercurrent of social, cultural and economic influences, infusing pervasive layers of extra meaning, often indirect and detached from the immediate content in a postmodern sense. Progress has moved to postdigital, where the focus is on the user, not the technology, generating pseudo-modern cultural products dependent on user interaction. The result is a new need for place and meaning that supports the users cross-channel experience. Resulting websites, still complex, may elude modeling, but with new meanings and structures emerging from a new style of usage, they can still be designed.
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Information Architecture in the Age of Complexity
by Andrea Resmini
In my undergraduate and graduate courses, a sizable fraction of the time is spent working on hands-on projects, and in the past two years these projects have largely become cross-channel projects [1]. We tackle transportation, healthcare, student services, media-oriented services, all of them from an ecological perspective where the single device, channel or platform plays second violin to the overall user experience.
The initial reaction of many of my students to the one-page project briefs I hand over is a plain and simple, This is way too complex.
I usually spend a little time there being the pedant old guy in the room and explaining that there is a difference between complex and complicated. I write the two words on the whiteboard (how is that for pedantry?), and proceed to lecture them on the fact that what they are actually trying to tell me is that the project brief they have in their hands seems very complicated to them complicated as in not easy to understand or analyze. Which is to be expected, of course. And yes, I argue, you can find similar definitions for complex in the dictionary, but the word has now so many attachments to the theory of complexity, we cannot really use it technically that way anymore. So, what does complex mean, Mr. Pedant? Well, Ill tell you what I tell my students: I dont know.
The Complicatedness of Complexity
In his discussion of Robert Rosens [2] definition of complexity, Tim Gwinn offers the following example of what complex means in Rosens terms:
Consider the categorization of certain highway vehicles as oversized. This means that they exceed some defined legal dimensional (size) limit. (...) Vehicles that are not categorized as oversized are constrained to specific well-defined limits of certain size characteristics. Conversely, a vehicle that has been categorized as oversized may exceed the legal limit by a little or a lot, and may do so in one or more size characteristics. [3]
In what sense is this example complex? Are we just trying to dodge a curveball here? Well, no. It just happens that there is more to that I dont know above than might be apparent at first. Logic is our friend here, and Rosen is just what we need. What is he trying to tell us?
First of all, the example reminds us that complexity is not an intrinsic characteristic, but rather that it works by comparison. Here, we can easily see how one set is quickly singled out: all vehicles under certain size-limits are part of one grouping. This group will also be a fairly homogeneous set, at least as far as size goes.
But what about the remaining vehicles the other set? Its boundaries are overly fuzzy, and it is evident that exceeding the limits by a few inches in length is totally different from exceeding the limits a couple of yards or miles in all directions. If we assume the upper limit to be 18 feet in length, anything from a car to a battle cruiser to a generation ship might be in that second set. In terms of categorization, this set is still a group, but it only works in comparison to the other one. Its a complex set, not easily known.
In theoretical terms, this comparison can be translated into one between a real-world system and its model. From that comparison, Rosen works out a working, negative definition of complex. A system is simple if all its models are simulable. A system that is not simple, and that accordingly must have a nonsimulable model, is complex. [2, p. 292]
If modeling is the act of establishing congruence between the elements and entailment structures of two systems, the object and its model, complexity is simply what belies modeling. Behavior in a simple model (and hence in a simple system) can always be correctly predicted: not so in complex systems [4].
Phenomenological descriptions of complexity, those that deduce general laws from whats observable, offer remarkably similar takes. For Neil Johnson a necessary attribute of complex systems is the presence of many interacting parts or agents, with no general rule for how many is "many" [5]. Again, another way of I dont know-ing without saying it directly, but one which takes us directly to the role of information architecture in all this.
The Information Architecture Lens
While Morville & Rosenfeld could argue in 2002 that the web was the unifying factor for many different technologies and wildly diverse types of content [6], we cannot do so anymore. The web is but one piece of a larger mechanism now: our perspective moves away from the single artifact and considers the ecology, this complex information-based, distributed beast being disseminated, split up and reconnected over an arbitrary number of different interacting channels by an ever increasing number of actors.
There is a shift here from Rosenfeld and Morvilles concept of merging aesthetics and mechanics to design websites [6] to Saul Workmans making the complex understandable[7]. The two goals are not mutually exclusive, of course, and I suppose it would be hard to tackle the second without tackling the first.
Regardless, in this perspective mobile itself is not the revolution: its an enabler. The revolution is what mobile access to information is allowing us to do, how it allows the digital to seep into physical space, how it turns receivers into writers, constantly weaving new subjective narratives.
This new power is what cross-channel is all about, and there is no way we can wish away the complexity this new world brings along. Even those who still fail to see why these new developments should be relevant, maybe because my clients dont do cross-channel, are coming along for the ride. The world has moved on. So have we; so has information architecture. Handling complexity is now the relevant task.
Its not the website or the single artifact: its the system, the architecture. This environment is where information architecture really comes into its own, in the structuring of the pervasive layer of meaning that spans across channels [8]. So, yes, you may find that your clients are not considering the social, cultural and economic changes that come with being constantly jacked-in to what, to all effects, has become cyberspace. Nonetheless, these changes already affect how we perceive, research and practice what we do.
Postmodern, Pseudo-modern, Postdigital
To fully appreciate the pervasive layer of meaning, its useful to look at changes in what we perceive. Lets start by looking at the postmodern condition.
In Cinema in the Digital Age [9], Nicholas Rombes emphasizes how parodies and citations are now most often known and learned before, or instead of, the originals they refer to. If you or your kids have seen the Shrek movies but your direct knowledge of the Brothers Grimms fairy tales is somewhat lacking, you know what he means. And this reversal is by no means limited to that really ancient stuff, as my 12-year-old daughter trenchantly addresses anything before 2006. If you are a Quentin Tarantino fan and loved the dance competition scene, chances are you dont know how that was a direct homage to Jean-Luc Godards Bande à parts [10] own dance scene. Secondary narratives turn primary, create new story arcs and produce new meanings: Pulp Fiction is laden with circumstanced references and citations most of us will never grok [11], but we certainly can enjoy Vincent and Jules underworlds romp.
This evolution is what the postmodern condition is all about: the pastiche, the detachment, the irony. But it is also a world where Twitter, Facebook or Path have no place. In The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond, Alan Kirby writes
Somewhere in the late 1990s or early 2000s, the emergence of new technologies re-structured, violently and forever, the nature of the author, the reader and the text, and the relationships between them. [12]
As a result, as much as postmodernism expressed continuity with modernism and even Romanticism by fetishing the author, current culture fetishises the recipient of the text to the degree that they become a partial or whole author of it.
This new direction is a full speed 180-degree turn, handbrake and all, and it goes hand in hand with the death of the designer in the most radical user-centered practices. It also illuminates the other side of the coin, the more technology-centered idea of this being a postdigital world, a world where the focus is shifting away from computing per se. In his 1998 seminal piece for Wired titled Beyond Digital, Nicholas Negroponte wrote
Is digital destined for the same banality? Certainly. Its literal form, the technology, is already beginning to be taken for granted, and its connotation will become tomorrows commercial and cultural compost for new ideas. Like air and drinking water, being digital will be noticed only by its absence, not its presence. [13]
Postmodernism is eminently an old media phenomenon. Books, films, the television screen. Culture, says Kirby, is a spectacle before which the individual (sits) powerless. Now we have pseudo-modernism, where
content and dynamics are invented or directed by the participating viewer or listener (although these latter terms, with their passivity and emphasis on reception, are obsolete: whatever a telephoning Big Brother voter or a telephoning 6-0-6 football fan are doing, they are not simply viewing or listening.) [12].
As much as user-centered artifacts or current social media, pseudo-modern cultural products cannot and do not exist unless the individual intervenes physically in them.
Designing for Complexity
Strangely enough, Kirby clearly sees the Internet, the web, as the one bounded artifact where pseudo-modernism is better represented. Only, there is no such thing as a separate web. Information has gone mobile and has bled into physical space: cross-channel ecology is where pseudo-modernism meets postdigital [14], producing a new need for place and meaning.
The role of information architecture is to answer this need.
The closest we get to this important recognition is in the outline to an article on The Guardian online, Welcome to the post-digital world, written by Simon Jenkins [15], which rolls out as a faint echo to the Institute for the Future take on cyberspace [16] but brings the idea of connected complexity up front: The web is not a destination in itself but a route map to somewhere real were coming together again.
So if this is the role of information architecture, designing cross-channel user experiences in this postdigital conundrum of complexity we find ourselves in, why are we reframing [8] it more strictly (or broadly, depending on your point of view) as a design discipline? Or, as Dan Klyn argues, an architectural practice? [17]
Ill tell you what I tell my students: because this is design of information spaces as architectures, places for human beings to live, work, and play in. [18] We can see it more clearly now that complexity has forced us out of the world wide web, a simpler world where the lens provided by library science or graphic design seemed to be enough.
With Europeans averaging 25.9 hours per week online, including an incredible 39 hours for the United Kingdom, in 2012 and numbers growing fast [19], cyberspace time is quickly approximating the amount of time we spend at the workplace. We normally do not own these new digital dwellings, in Andrew Hintons words, as we used to own the website or the employer owns the office: they are the product of complexity and emergence, with users pushing toward spontaneity, ephemeral or temporary structures of meaning, and constant change. [20]
While they cannot be modeled, they definitely should be designed and weave their stories. In time we, the users, will create our own architectures of meaning out of them, as we have been doing since the times of cave paintings. Old structures will be changed, new structures will be created, and different meanings will emerge. Complex, yes. Complicated? Not necessarily.
I owe thanks to Thom Haller for getting me to write this down, but this article is really just a small part of a conversation that goes all the way back to the early 90s when I was working on my masters degree at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Celestino Soddus seminal work on morphogenetic design and its theoretical roots in the works of Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend provided me with the practical and disciplinary basics of complexity in architecture and design. More recently, and in strict alphabetical order, Jorge Arango, Terence Fenn, Andrew Hinton, Jason Hobbs, Dan Klyn, Luca Rosati and Dan Willis all provided me with more insights, comments, the necessary occasional slap on the face and the visionary brilliance I honestly needed.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] For a quick breakdown of what I intend for cross-channel here, see Resmini, A. (2012). What is Cross-channel? http://andrearesmini.com/blog/what-is-cross-channel.
[2] Rosen, R. (1998). Essays on life itself. New York: Columbia University Press.
[3] Gwinn, T. (n.d.). Rosennean complexity. Panmere [blog]. Retrieved September 12, 2012, from Panmere at www.panmere.com/?page_id=16.
[4] Rosen, R. (1978). Fundamentals of measurement. New York: North Holland.
[5] Johnson, N. (2007). Twos company, Three is complexity. Oxford, UK: Oneworld.
[6] Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (1998). Information architecture for the world wide web. (1st Ed.) Sebastopol, CA: OReilly.
[7] Wurman, R. S. (2001). Information anxiety 2. Indianapolis, IN: Que.
[8] Resmini, A., & Rosati, L. (2011). Pervasive information architecture. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kauffman. For a shorter, edited version see Resmini, A., & Rosati, L. (2012). A brief history of information architecture. Journal of Information Architecture, 3(2). Retrieved September 15, 2012, from http://journalofia.org/volume3/issue2/03-resmini/.
[9] Rombes, N. (2009). Cinema in the digital age. New York: University of Columbia.
[10] A rather low-quality TV-capture can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=47XX-h_hMME.
[11] See also Sleeper, M. (1997). La fiction de pulp. Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from www.imagesjournal.com/issue03/features/tarantino1.htm.
[12] Kirby, A. (2012). The death of postmodernism and beyond. Philosophy Now. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from http://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond.
[13] Negroponte, N. (1998). Beyond digital. Wired, 6 (12). Retrieved September 15, 2012, www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/negroponte.html.
[14] Bergman, C. (September 5, 2012). Big Brother Twitter voting a first for reality primetime TV. Lost Remote. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from www.lostremote.com/2012/09/05/big-brother-twitter-voting-a-first-for-primetime-tv/.
[15] Jenkins, S. (December 1, 2011). Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility via Facebook and Lady Gaga. The Guardian. Retrieved September 15, 2012, www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/post-digital-world-web.
[16] Institute for the Future. (2009). Blended reality: Superstructing reality, superstructing selves. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from www.iftf.org/node/2598.
[17] Klyn, D. (2012). Architecture is not design. Wildly Appropriate [blog]. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from http://wildlyappropriate.com/2012/08/12/architecture-is-not-design/.
[18] Wodtke, C. (2000). Information architecture defined. Sitepoint. Retrieved September 16, 2012, from www.sitepoint.com/architecture-defined/.
[19] comScore. (August 31, 2012). Brits most engaged online audience in Europe. comScoreData Mine. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from www.comscoredatamine.com/2012/08/brits-most-engaged-online-audience-in-europe/.
[20] Resmini, A. & Rosati, L. (2009). Information architecture for ubiquitous ecologies. Proceedings of the ACM MEDES 09. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1643859.
Andrea Resmini is a researcher at the University of Borås (Sweden) and an information architect with FATDUX. With Luca Rosati, he is the author of Pervasive Information Architecture, recently published by Morgan Kauffman. He can be reached at andrea.resmini<at>gmail.com.
Articles in this Issue
Information Architecture Overview
Information Architecture in the Age of Complexity
The Architecture of Information
Optimizing Websites in the Post Panda World
A Metaphor for Content Strategy
A Conversation with Eric Reiss, Author of Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better
Sustainability: Scholarly Repository as an Enterprise
Spelunking in the Archives: Or How I Learned to Love the Art of the Unexpected
IA; Attending to the Existing Landscape
RDAP: NSF DMP Content Analysis: What Are Researchers Saying?


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Some might say the Joe Torre business in Tampa involving the Yankees yesterday is a sign of organizational chaos, but, frankly, this seems like the way it probably had to go down all along. (Some even saw it coming.)
At his postgame press conference after the Game 4 loss, Torre looked like a man at peace with the fact that he wasn't going to manage the Yankees anymore. And the Yankees looked like a team that couldn't exactly keep matters the way they were going. So everybody gets to save face. Torre gets to walk away, head high. The Yankees get to pretend they wanted Torre to come back, and even though no one believes them, they at least have talking points to follow.
An era ends, but it was probably time. We can all move on with our lives now. And by "move on with our lives," we mean "strap in for around-the-clock A-Rod coverage." Are you prepared for the Yankees leading "SportsCenter" over Game 5 of the World Series? Get ready.
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A retired New York City police officer living in Florida has been ordered to take down his flag commemorating September 11 by his homeowners' association, WPLG reports.
Richard Wentz, who helped victims out of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has been told he has just days to take down his flag or face possible legal action.
"That flag means the world to me. Other than my children, that flag means the world to me," said Wentz.
A letter from the Fairways at Heron Bay association said the flag detracts from the aesthetic harmony of the surrounding properties. Wentz said he was confronted by Patricia Favata, president of the property's board of directors, according to the station.
No one was at Favata's home when WPLG Local 10 tried to talk to her.
Wentz said he ran into Tower 1 and started pulling out people before the building collapsed. He said he lost 43 friends and colleagues that day.
Wentz says he now has cancer, from breathing in all the particles during the cleanup of Ground Zero.
"I will not take that flag down. That flag will remain up. I don't care how many fines they want to give me, how many notices they want to give me, I refuse to take that down," Wentz told the station.
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Odd choice of fonts. Only one way to improve on it. —JH
Odd choice of fonts. Only one way to improve on it. —JH
Above, the full name of the Philadelphian typesetter who was otherwise known as "Wolfe+585," or less mercifully, "Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr." to his friends. Could there have been many? —JH
We will, we will Rockwell. Rock the Caslon. I Meta Girl. ITC Clearly Now. Tempted by the Frutiger 'nother. Weiss Do Fools Fall in Love? Rockwell Amadeus. Dax The Way (uh huh, uh huh) I Like It. Please Mistral Postman. If I Could Turn Back Times. Gill Sans in a Coma. Get Down Onyx. Myriad a Little Lamb. Clarendon (I Know This World is Killing You.) On the Wingdings of Love. I Wanna Bold Your Sans. Some Like it Haettenschweiler. Janson Queen. I Do Not Want I Avant Garde. Scenes From an Italic Restaurant. Hang On to Your Eagle. Take a Janson Me. My Name is DIN (and I am Fonty.) Font Like an Egyptienne. Hotel Caledonia. Electra Avenue. Garamond (My Wayward Son.) My Tahoma. Fear of a Black Italic. I'm So X-Heighted. Nothin' V.A.G. Thing.
Twitter is reaching a cultural apotheosis right now with the #fontsongs topic, still trending strong. (Ms. American Typewriter Pie, Burning Down the House Gothic, Love Me Two Times Roman, Ring My Bell Gothic...) Special thanks to everyone who included an H&Co font in their title (We Are The Champion, Knockout on Heaven's Door, Whitney Baby One More Time, Dirt Didots Done Dirt Cheap, Auld Verlag Syne, It's a Hard Knox Life, Chronicle Man…)
Yesterday I asked — rhetorically, I thought — "who can work Arnold Böcklin into one of these?" Meeting the challenge triumphantly came @mattwiebe with It's Arnold Böcklin Roll (But I Like It), @mlascarides with Keep Arnold Böcklin (In the Free World), @angvalenz with Block Böcklin Beats, and @e_limbach's No Sleep Till Böcklin. (I would also have accepted They Say The Arnold Böcklin Roll Is Still Beating.) Anyway, next challenge: "Figgins' Two Lines Pica Antique No. 2."
The thread's still running if you want to join in. And if you really love me, darling, bring me Exocet. —JH
Some would argue for Bleak House, others Middlemarch. The Great Gatsby has its proponents as well, along with Lolita and Heart of Darkness. But for me, it is none of these: there is a clear winner in the category, a single book that is the finest work of literature written in the English language. It is English As She Is Spoke, an 1853 phrasebook by Pedro Carolino, offered to Portuguese speakers as a guide to the English language. Uniquely, Carolino spoke not a word of English, and was not possessed of an English-Portuguese dictonary.
He overcame this disadvantage through the clever combination of a Portuguese-French dictionary and a French-English one, through which the entire corpus of English idioms was dragged, backwards, screaming. Thanks to Carolino, Portuguese readers of the nineteenth century might have learned such workaday English expressions as "to look for a needle in a hay bundle" and "the stone as roll not heap up foam." Other timeless chestnuts include "take out the live coals with the hand of the cat," "he has fond the knuckle of the business," "he has a good beak," and, bewilderingly, "to craunch the marmoset." Mark Twain said of the book, "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect." Twain wrote the introduction to the American edition, which was first published in 1883 and has remained in print ever since. It is a classic.
Our industry's standard-bearer seems to have gotten the Carolino treatment this morning. This profile of Matthew Carter that ran in the Washington Post has somehow found its way into and out of another language, presumably courtesy of some cruelly indifferent software. Of the craft of type design, our subject is quoted as saying, "the options are rattlingly limited. I can't determine one forenoon I'm fatigued of the 'b' and I'm attending redesign it from excoriation. There holds defeat and captivation." (What type designer has not experienced this?) Pay special attention to the passage in which Carter designs "the lowercase hydrogen," whose ascender, of course, distinguishes it from the lowercase nitrogen.
Even we weren't spared offering up an encomium or two. "He holds the footing to be sort of haughty or elitist," begins one observation, "but that ne'er haps to him." And I obligingly identified Matthew as "the bozo who formulated brown." But in any language, I think we all agree that Matthew Carter is "the Jehovah of Georgia." —JH
I pretty much agree with Anil Dash on the topic of wacky April Fools' jokes for websites, so instead I thought that today might be a good day to share a piece of genuine idiocy from the archives.
By the time Tobias and I began working together in 1999, we'd been friends for a decade, and had spent most of the previous years in close contact by phone. Our biographers will report this as a period of august correspondence in which we developed the philosophical framework that would inform our later collaboration, but the truth is that much of this time was spent goofing off, and naturally the arrival of the internet helped this project immensely.
Since we'd always been the types to tackle exhaustive projects, we both spent most of the nineties utterly exhausted. Many of our late night conversations were wits-end grievances about the impossibility of doing something or other, and these commonly degenerated into a discussion of Dumb Ideas for Typefaces. One of these, which I suggested in 1995, was that the OCR-A font — used on bank statements and designed for optical character recognition — really needed to be outfitted with a set of swashes. Using Adobe Illustrator, I ginned up the image above in about ten minutes, and sent it to Tobias. His response, which arrived within the hour, was a file named ¡¡¡Estupido-Espezial!!!.sit, which contained the following:
My reputation compels me to deny that I ever spent adolescent weekends hanging out at Tannen's Magic Shop or The Compleat Strategist, and I certainly never wasted sunny afternoons playing with the Ohio Scientific computer downstairs at Polk's Hobby Shop (even if it did have Lunar Lander in 16 colors.) But having burnished my nerd credentials through a career as a type designer, it seems safe to admit that, as a teen, I sported an enviable collection of golf balls for the family typewriter, a beloved IBM Selectric II.
Yesterday, a conversation with my friend Tal induced a Proustian flash in which I recalled — and was actually able to find in the studio's library — the above: entitled "GP Technologies Typing Element Handbook," it's a brochure from the early eighties that shows the complete range of styles available for the IBM Selectric typewriter. Sure, I had Courier, Orator, and both Prestige Pica and Prestige Elite, but it was more exotic numbers like these that I really went in for. A major coup was scoring Olde English, warts and all (let's talk about that capital H some time), but my unattainable Philosopher's Stone was Oriental, which no office supply shop in the five boroughs seemed to carry. What I would have done with the typeface is anyone's guess (utility isn't always relevant to the completist), but I can only imagine, given the font's facile design and appalling intent, that it would have been something spectacularly ghastly.
Still, there are things to admire in old Oriental. Its ampersand is a model of efficiency, and the economy of its at-sign (@) is downright clever. That this goofball font was outfitted with such serious accessories as a paragraph mark and a set of fractions hints at the work of a wicked mind, not unlike that of the latter-day typefounder who soberly includes an fffl ligature in text face. Perhaps these are subtle absurdities that lie in wait for attentive eyes, or perhaps they really are useful things to have in a font. In either case, it seems evident that type designers of all ages are, in their hearts, completists. —JH