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This question arose from sums over zeros of Dedekind zeta function.
It is known that complex zeros of Dedekind zeta function are in pairs $\rho, 1 - \rho$.
Is it true that potential complex zeros not on the critical line of Dedekind zeta function must be in quadruples $\rho, 1 - \rho, \overline{\rho}, \overline{1 - \rho}$ ?
I am interested in the general case, not for specific number fields (or for number fields for which the answer is "no").


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I have no idea what Sam L Jackson is like in real life, but I sure admire the way many of his characters navigate the world. Not really feeling the excessive violence or the Pacino like shouting, but I do enjoy the indignation and the decisiveness in his responses to mellow harshers. There's a whole lot of chow chow in our culture about politeness and decorum. Lots of noise about "not making a scene" or "stepping on toes" and all kinds of colorful ways in which folks get told to "suck it up".
Excluding situations where not sucking it up could result in physical violence (I strongly encourage folks to suck it up until they are safely out of the situation) I can't think of any legitimate reason one should – you know – suck it up.
People close to me often call me a "bad ass", which while flattering is not entirely accurate. I don't stalk the streets, narrowing my eyes and asking strangers if they're feeling lucky and watching a movie like Silkwood just makes me tired. What they are probably observing is my directness and emotional discipline – neither of which are exactly the domain of the bad ass.
Pop psych frames verbal self defense as though we're all outgoing, flashy extroverts, possessing heaping amounts of privilege and devoid of fear or ties to our community. Oh yeah, you can get away with their version bad assery once if you're lucky. Ever notice how many bad asses (as framed in our society) end up chased out of town or dead?
Well, we're not looking to become subjects of a bio-pic, portrayed by actors who complain about having to gain weight to play us. We're looking to keep emotional bullies, Grabby Hands Christian Andersons, Concern Trolls and unrepentant close talkers from harshing our mellows.
Look, I do not cut an imposing figure. I have to get up real early in the morning if I want to spend much of it above 5'0.75 (yes that quarter inch matters). I don't have a big booming voice or command of a lasso. And while I'm hardly shy, I am not an extrovert, flashy or outgoing. But I do a good job harnessing my inner Sam Jackson and here's how I do it.
1. Decide
I don't how many hours your day comes with, but mine only has 24. So at some point you really have to decide what exactly are your "Rosa Parks" moments and let the rest go. You can't eat all the eggs or fight all the windmills.
2. Commit
okay, so you figured out where are your lines in the sand are. Great. Now own it. Don't diminish yourself by thinking your lines are petty, picky or foolish. That might well be the case, but who cares. Hey, I blast off into outer space when people don't use coasters. Even if the table isn't wood! That's just me. I own it.
3. Plan
While you're not going in search of mellow harshing situations, you still need to come up with a response plan. Or as Nathan Muir (Redford) said in SpyGame "When did Noah build the ark? BEFORE THE FLOOD". Grab your list of Oh no they didn't-s and for each one write exactly how you want to behave if faced with the situation. Again, NO JUDGMENTS! Yes, walking away IS is a viable option. Write your response plan in detail, including any theatrical hand gestures or props you might need.
4. Practice
My hair. Lots of bandwidth has been used ranting about folks playing Indiana Jones in some black woman's head. So let's all pretend that we've read them and agree with the premise it's WRONG. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm raging home grown or store bought, people like going all ST: The Undiscovered Country on my head! I've done the ragey/stabby/verbal body slam thing and I've done the suck it up and just be all passive aggressively pissy thing. Neither worked for me.
Now if I get the question I ignore it. I ignore all its overbearing out of town relatives, well intentioned neighbors and pushy supervisors. If I feel a hand about to storm my head like Normandy, I physically MOVE the hand and give the look. It's a cross between the look my mom used to give us when we were cutting up in church and the look DMV clerks have perfected. But it took practice. A lot of practice. At first I was still alternating between ragey/passy, but I just kept repeating steps 2 and 3 and now it's just something I do. I don't even think about it. And, see, it didn't involve any shift in my personality or lots of processing with people with summer homes and dreamcatchers dangling from their office windows.
5. Consistency
Stick to the response plan. Even if you feel silly and regardless of what they do/say (with the physical violence caveat still in place). Don't waver. See it through. Particularly with a repeat offender. You have to keep doing it every time they do that thing that you isolated on your list. The reason you practice is so it feels natural even if you don't feel natural doing it. You know your script, you know all the blocking and you're just giving a performance. And seriously, most of these ass clowns don't deserve your improvised efforts! Even if the situations themselves don't get better, most likely, you'll feel better and that's all we're aiming for. Assclowns don't stop being assclowns merely because you've mastered the force.
This doesn't come with a guarantee and it won't be applicable in a lot of situations, but hey it sure beats coffee table rings.
Okay, that was such a clown horn ending.


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After days of equivocation, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli on Thursday called on Congress to reopen the federal government, then fight over whether to starve the new health care law of funding.
Cuccinelli told reporters after a Thursday-morning event that shuttering the government is not the right way for opponents of the 2010 Affordable Care Act to gain leverage to defeat the law he wants to see repealed.
"Strangling government to do this is not an appropriate course to go,'' said Cuccinelli, the state's attorney general.
Previously, he had said he opposed the government shutdown, but had refused to specify whether he supported efforts led by congressional Republicans to make passage of a temporary federal funding authorization bill contingent on stripping the health care law of the funding necessary to implement it. That subjected him to days of attacks from Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe and unflattering headlines.
"Holding one part of government hostage to another part, I don't think is a proper way to govern,'' said Cuccinelli, who in 2010 became the first state attorney general to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care law - passed solely by House and Senate Democratic majorities that controlled Congress at the time.
McAuliffe spokesman Josh Schwerin said Cuccinelli finally gave a definitive answer Thursday "only after taking a political beating.''
The government shutdown has taken on special resonance in Virginia, where state officials estimate that perhaps one-third of the more than 170,000 federal employees could face furloughs. They say that the state's struggling recovery could suffer.
No state has a larger per-capita ratio of civilian and sworn military personnel from major defense installations. Virginia is home to the Pentagon and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval station. A large number of military retirees also live in Virginia.
While Congress acted to ensure that those in military service are paid, some non-essential defense personnel are subject to unpaid furloughs. Besides that, other federal services deemed non-essential - including national parks, some block grants, the Women Infants and Children program that helps pregnant women and new mothers afford nutritious food and home-weatherization initiatives - are suspended.
Effects of the shutdown, particularly in the state's most populous and wealthy area neighboring Washington, D.C., prompted one state legislator Thursday to propose a special General Assembly session to enact a state law to bar Virginia courts from accepting or processing debt collection claims against furloughed federal workers.
Del. Robert G. Marshall's proposed legislation would also keep utilities from disconnecting electrical service for federal employees while they're not being paid. Marshall, whose Prince William County district has a large number of federal employees, asked Gov. Bob McDonnell, a fellow Republican, to convene an immediate special session. The governor's chief spokesman, J. Tucker Martin, said McDonnell had no plans to do so.
The politics of the federal shutdown had been particularly difficult for Cuccinelli, who campaigns Saturday with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the Senate's leading Republican advocate of using the stalemated budget fight to defund the health care law.
"Look, I have a lot of people supporting me across the spectrum,'' he said, noting a new television ad featuring Richmond school board member Tichi Eppes, a Democrat. "I haven't found a human being I agree with 100 percent of the time yet, but I haven't found one I don't agree with on something and we just try to build on those areas of unity and agreement.''
Cuccinelli: Open Government, Then Fight Health Law
After days of equivocation, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli on Thursday called on Congress to reopen the federal government, then fight over whether to starve the new health care law of funding.


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White Sox - 100 000 000 - 1 5 0 Red Sox - 100 000 04x - 5 10 2Adrian Gonzalez's three-run opposite-field home run in the eighth inning snapped a 1-1 tie. He finished the game with two hits and four RBI.
David Ortiz singled in the first and walked in the eighth - and became the first player in Red Sox history (since at least 1918) to have at least one hit and walk in 10 consecutive games.
Carl Crawford, playing in his first game of 2012, began both Boston rallies. With one out in the first, he singled up the middle, was off with the pitch and raced to third on Ortiz's hit, and scored on Gonzalez's liner to right.
Crawford began the eighth with a five-pitch walk against Leyson Septimo. Ortiz also worked a five-pitch walk and Gonzalez drove a 2-1 pitch into the Monster Seats in left center. After a pitching change, Cody Ross singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and scored on Mike Aviles's single.
Aaron Cook (7-5-1-0-0, 97) allowed an unearned run in the first inning. Kevin Youkilis - who had three of Chicago's five hits - singled. He took second on Adam Dunn's groundout to second and, when he saw that the entire left side of the infield was empty (because of the shift on Dunn), sprinted for third. Gonzalez's throw to Will Middlebrooks was wild, and Youkilis scored. It was the only time the White Sox got a runner past second base. (Yook also doubled in both the third and sixth innings.)
Pedro Ciriaco had two singles and a double.
Ellsbury, CF
Crawford, LF
Ortiz, DH
Gonzalez, 1B
Ross, RF
Saltalamacchia, C
Middlebrooks, 3B
Aviles, SS
Ciriaco, 2B
Crawford underwent wrist surgery in January, then sprained the ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow during spring training. In an 11-game rehab assignment with the Gulf Coast Sox, Portland, and Pawtucket, Crawford batted .306 (11-for-36) with an on-base percentage of .432.
(In his last 17 games, Daniel Nava is hitting a paltry .127 with a .501 OPS.)
Today is also the return to Fenway Park of Kevin Youkilis, who was traded to the White Sox on June 24. In 16 games with Chicago, Yook is hitting .295/.397/.475.
Youkilis thanked Red Sox Nation for his wonderful memories of Boston:
What an amazing run I have had these past 8½ years in Boston!
It has been an honor and a privilege to play every home game of my career in Boston before a sold out Fenway Park. I would like to thank everyone who gave me an opportunity in Boston, and stood behind me through all these years. To the Spinners, the Sea Dogs, the PawSox, and to all those teammates on the Red Sox since 2004, I am forever grateful. ...
And, last but no means least, to all the Red Sox Nation, the home of the most dedicated and knowledgeable fans in baseball, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. That final game at Fenway was the most emotional day of my life on the baseball field. It could not have been scripted any better. And to all those kids out there in Red Sox Nation, I can give you my Dad's advice. "Life is like a throw to first base, always aim high."
I love you all, and thanks,
Kevin Youkilis


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March on Washington Commemoration by NBC and PBS to Include Contributions by Ithaca College Professor and Students
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Newswise — A documentary produced by an Ithaca College faculty member will be aired on public television stations as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In addition, 18 Ithaca College students will conduct on-site interviews in partnership with NBC News and PBS for their extended coverage of the historic occasion.
James Rada, associate professor of journalism in the Roy H. Park School of Communications, interviewed participants in the watershed 1963 event, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 250,000 people on the National Mall and to millions more watching on television.
The resulting hour-long documentary, "Meet Me at Equality: The People's March on Washington," is scheduled to air so far on four PBS member stations, including one in the nation's capital. It will also be streamed on the PBS website.
On Saturday, Aug. 24, Rada will travel to Washington with 13 students from the Park School to conduct interviews for the weekend edition of "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt." Rada will return to the capital with another 5 students on Wednesday, Aug. 28, to cover events for the social media outlets and online news site of "PBS NewsHour."
Saturday's activities as part of the commemoration include the Realize the Dream March and Rally from the Lincoln Memorial to the King Memorial. On Wednesday, the actual anniversary of the march, the Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action on the National Mall will include an address by President Barack Obama.
Visit http://meetmeatequality.com for more information on the documentary and the related projects.
"Meet Me at Equality" takes a look back at the momentous day through insightful commentary from a panel of historians along with the stories of more than two dozen march participants. Included in the group are a World War II veteran who saw marching as part of his patriotic duty, an immigrant from England who never knew the sting of segregation until he arrived in America, a seven-year-old girl who thought she was going to meet Martin Luther King himself that day, a white minister who grew up in the segregated South, a mother-daughter pair and two sisters, and five D.C. Metropolitan Police officers who were on duty that day.
You can watch a preview of "Meet Me at Equality: The People's March on Washington" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZB3p9k0KI.
"In producing this documentary, it was fascinating to learn some of the logistics that unfolded behind the scenes," said Rada. "Many of the historians spoke about the role of the media, specifically television, in how and why this march made such an impact. This was the first major march to be covered live on TV, a fact that did not go unnoticed by its organizers. For this event, the focus was less on movement and more on one static spot — the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. So it was not just an exercise in democracy, it was also an example of brilliant event planning and message coordination."
Rada shot and edited "Meet Me at Equality" and coproduced it with Washington, D.C.–area photographer Shane K. Gooding. Rada teaches courses in documentary journalism in the Park School and previously produced "Deeds Not Words: The Buffalo Soldiers in World War II," about one of the last segregated U.S. Army units.
The documentary will air several times between Aug. 28 and Sept. 8 on Howard University's WHUT-TV in Washington, Colorado Public Television in Denver and WPBA-TV in Atlanta. It will be broadcast on WSKG-TV in Binghamton, N.Y., at 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 30.
The most up-to-date list of broadcast stations, dates and times is at http://meetmeatequality.com/air.
For more information on "Meet Me at Equality," contact Rada at email@example.com or (607) 274-3637.


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Michelle Obama's Tracy Reese Dress Sells Out in Less then 24 hours…Posted: January 6, 2013 Filed under: Fashion, Politics | Tags: Best of Luxe, Democratic National Convention, Dress, Fashion, Michelle Obama, ModCloth, Pink Wallpaper Combo Frock, Tracy Reese 1 Comment
…on ModCloth, the online retailer and my guilty pleasure. On the Tracy Reese website all sizes but 4, 6 and 12 had sold out by 3:30 am the early morning after they went on sale. By 10:45 pm however, it looks like Reese ordered a new batch of dresses for production as now the dress is available in all sizes from 0 -14.
ModCloth, however, is still out of stock.
The official name of the dress, according to the Tracy Reese website is "Pink Wallpaper Combo Frock." Really boring, and borderline horrible of a name, if I must say.
ModCloth went with "Best of Luxe" which is infinitely better. Pink Wallpaper Combo Frock may be more practical of a name but it lacks imagination and means nothing to me, a woman who would want to buy this dress. Well, actually, it does say something: it says you are wearing a combination of wallpaper as a frock. "Best of Luxe" does not evoke "you are wearing wallpaper."
Luxe, a word I had not seen before, means "the condition of being elegantly sumptuous."
Best of Luxe is a rayon/silk mixture though, so not really the best of "being elegantly sumptuous." Despite the exaggeration of luxury, the ModCloth name implies that while wearing the dress, you then become the best at being elegantly sumptuous. Which again, is better than wearing wallpaper.
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Log In and Add $86.88 -1.67 (-1.89 %) (As of 02/28/2020 01:40 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range$85.18Now: $86.88▼$88.1950-Day Range$92.00MA: $100.99▼$104.5852-Week Range$77.07Now: $86.88▼$105.62Volume819,920 shsAverage Volume6.27 million shsMarket Capitalization$135.30 billionP/E Ratio30.38Dividend Yield1.07%Beta0.83 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email NIKE, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and sells athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories worldwide. The company offers NIKE brand products in six categories: running, NIKE basketball, the Jordan brand, football, training, and sportswear. 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Read More… Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NYSE Industry Rubber & plastics footwear Sub-IndustryFootwear SectorConsumer Discretionary Current SymbolNYSE:NKE Previous Symbol CUSIP65410610 CIK320187 Webhttp://www.nike.com/ Phone503-671-3173Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.66 Current Ratio1.98 Quick Ratio1.23Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio30.38 Forward P/E Ratio29.35 P/E Growth2.23 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$39.12 billion Price / Sales3.46 Cash Flow$2.85 per share Price / Cash Flow30.45 Book Value$5.75 per share Price / Book15.11Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$2.49 Net Income$4.03 billion Net Margins11.21% Return on Equity50.03% Return on Assets18.38%Miscellaneous Employees76,700 Outstanding Shares1,557,370,000Market Cap$135.30 billion Next Earnings Date3/24/2020 (Confirmed) OptionableOptionable Receive NKE News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for NKE and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. NKE Rates by TradingView Nike (NYSE:NKE) Frequently Asked Questions What is Nike's stock symbol? Nike trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NKE." How often does Nike pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Nike? Nike declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 13th. Investors of record on Monday, March 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.245 per share on Wednesday, April 1st. This represents a $0.98 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 28th. View Nike's Dividend History. When did Nike's stock split? How did Nike's stock split work? Shares of Nike split on the morning of Thursday, December 24th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, November 19th 2015. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, December 23rd 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of Nike stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split. How will Nike's stock buyback program work? Nike announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan on Thursday, June 28th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $15,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 12.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued. How were Nike's earnings last quarter? Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, December, 19th. The footwear maker reported $0.70 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.58 by $0.12. The footwear maker had revenue of $10.33 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $10.09 billion. Nike had a net margin of 11.21% and a return on equity of 50.03%. Nike's revenue for the quarter was up 10.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.52 earnings per share. View Nike's Earnings History. When is Nike's next earnings date? Nike is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 24th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Nike. How can I listen to Nike's earnings call? Nike will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, March 24th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available. What price target have analysts set for NKE? 35 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Nike's stock. Their forecasts range from $82.00 to $150.00. On average, they anticipate Nike's share price to reach $108.04 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Nike. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Nike? 35 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Nike in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Nike. What are Wall Street analysts saying about Nike stock? Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Nike stock: 1. Pivotal Research analysts commented, "We expect another solid quarter, in line with the company's guidance. With NKE, there are always several factors to consider. There is the global macro, including trade, FX, GDP growth, etc. There are the company-specific strategies, including innovation, direct, speed, etc. All of this is important, and we don't mean to discount any of it. But, for us, the main lens with which we evaluate NKE is market share. In short, we believe NKE is taking share and expect this to continue, and this is the main reason for our bullishness. At the premium end of the spectrum, two of NKE's biggest franchises, Max, are two of the strongest performing franchises in the market today, and the company has done well to layer on new programs such as the portfolio." (9/19/2019) 2. Guggenheim analysts commented, "We expect China to be a major focus for management, both in regards to the current trade tensions and consumer demand in the region. NKE remains a global company, with a diverse sourcing, manufacturing, and selling footprint. While China remains a significant portion of the company's manufacturing base and we expect the region to account for ~18% of Nike brand revenue in FY20E, we believe NKE is one the best positioned companies to navigate the current environment. Over the years, NKE has invested in and fostered a strong relationship with both the Chinese consumer and government, demonstrated by the robust growth over the past three years (added +$2.4bn in top line from FY16-FY19). While concerns are warranted given the size and the scope, we remain confident in NKE/management's ability to drive continued outperformance." (9/19/2019) 3. According to Zacks Investment Research, "NIKE fared better than the industry in a year, driven by robust surprise trend, stemming from the execution of Consumer Direct Offense. NIKE delivered positive earnings results for over three years now, with third-quarter fiscal 2019 marking the 27th straight quarter of earnings beat. Moreover, sales surpassed estimates for the eighth straight quarter. Strong progress on Consumer Direct Offense, as well as growth in international and NIKE Direct businesses are the key drivers. However, the company provided a soft view for the fiscal fourth quarter, owing to unfavorable currency. Higher SG&A expenses due to increased investments are likely to remain a drag. Further, higher input costs like cotton, chemicals and labor as well as the shift in supply-chain investments from the fiscal third quarter to the fourth quarter should hurt results." (5/27/2019) Has Nike been receiving favorable news coverage? News coverage about NKE stock has been trending very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Nike earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the footwear maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Nike. Are investors shorting Nike? Nike saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,710,000 shares, a decrease of 10.7% from the January 15th total of 9,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,190,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Nike's Current Options Chain. Who are some of Nike's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Nike include Skechers USA (SKX), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Steven Madden (SHOO), Wolverine World Wide (WWW) and Crocs (CROX). What other stocks do shareholders of Nike own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Nike investors own include Walt Disney (DIS), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), Starbucks (SBUX), Visa (V), Home Depot (HD), Intel (INTC), Bank of America (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM). Who are Nike's key executives? Nike's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Mark G. Parker, Chairman, Pres & CEO (Age 63)Mr. Andrew Campion, Exec. VP & CFO (Age 47)Mr. Eric D. Sprunk, Chief Operating Officer (Age 55)Ms. Hilary K. Krane, Exec. VP, Chief Admin. Officer & Gen. Counsel (Age 55)Mr. John F. Slusher, Exec. VP of Global Sports Marketing (Age 50) Who are Nike's major shareholders? Nike's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (3.79%), FMR LLC (1.93%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.67%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.49%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.34%) and Capital World Investors (1.30%). Company insiders that own Nike stock include Andrew Campion, Elizabeth J Comstock, Elliott Hill, Eric D Sprunk, Hilary K Krane, John C Lechleiter, John F Slusher, Johnathan A Rodgers, Mark G Parker, Monique S Matheson and Peter B Henry. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Nike. Which institutional investors are selling Nike stock? NKE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital Research Global Investors, Capital World Investors, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Fred Alger Management LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Janus Henderson Group PLC. Company insiders that have sold Nike company stock in the last year include Andrew Campion, Elizabeth J Comstock, Elliott Hill, Eric D Sprunk, Hilary K Krane, John C Lechleiter, John F Slusher, Mark G Parker, Monique S Matheson and Peter B Henry. View Insider Buying and Selling for Nike. Which institutional investors are buying Nike stock? NKE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., 1832 Asset Management L.P., FMR LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Marshall Wace North America L.P., Geode Capital Management LLC, Fiera Capital Corp and Jensen Investment Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Nike. How do I buy shares of Nike? Shares of NKE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Nike's stock price today? 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In a city where the lights are literally going out, it's good to know that there are some glimmers of hope. For Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy mid-July, and where nearly 40 percent of the city's streetlights remain dark, that glimmer is innovative programs, like Kiva Zip and Michigan Corps, that are committed to creating jobs through funding small businesses and entrepreneurs who are not eligible for traditional small business loans.
In a city where the lights are literally going out, it's good to know that there are some glimmers of hope. For Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy mid-July, and where nearly 40 percent of the city's streetlights remain dark, that glimmer is innovative programs, like Kiva Zip and Michigan Corps, that are committed to creating jobs through funding small businesses and entrepreneurs who are not eligible for traditional small business loans.
For a city that was once the fourth largest in America - driving progress through the booming automobile industry, the recent abandonment of big business and the off-shore exodus of factory jobs has been devastating. While it felt like Detroit might be left alone in a pulverized economic aftermath, some aren't ready to throw in the towel just yet.
Kiva Zip, along with organizations like Prosper and Lending Club, make it possible for a small business owner, who may have trouble accessing credit due to the risky or new nature of the business, lack of collateral, or poor credit history, to obtain a loan without going through traditional funding sources. These companies offer peer-to-peer lending services that operate on different credit checking criteria and lending platforms than traditional financial institutions.
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Kiva Zip is a vehicle for small businesses to obtain interest-free loans up to $5,000 that are crowd-funded, $25 at a time. It might seem similar to websites like Kickstarter or AngelList, but Kiva Zip is more laser-focused on helping grow small businesses that might be left out by the traditional funding bureaucracy.
Kiva Zip's trustees include corporations, small business development groups and community organizations that work to help disabled veterans, the homeless and even parolees. Trustees provide assistance and support to entrepreneurs or businesses that they have endorsed for a Kiva Zip loan.
In June 2011, Kiva partnered with Detroit-based organization Michigan Corps to launch Kiva Detroit, a grassroots effort to channel capital and community support to Detroit's emerging small businesses through Kiva's platform. Michigan Corps continues to lead Kiva Detroit as part of the organization's mission to "empower Michigan citizens globally to use the web and more to lead change in our home state."
Michigan Corps has since worked closely with Kiva Zip to invite Detroiters, and those passionate about Detroit's revival, to invest directly in the launch and growth of dozens of community-minded small business entrepreneurs throughout the city. Recently, Michigan Corps extended the Kiva Detroit model to Flint, a city located about an hour from Detroit, to get citizens involved as champions of local business and invigorate the community.
"The launch of Kiva in Flint extends a unique opportunity to nurture community pride and engage citizens in contributing to positive developments across our city", Flint Mayor Dayne Walling told mlive.com. "It's great to have a new way to bring our community together in support of small businesses in this exciting way."
Two of the first five loan recipients include Fannie Lucille, a fashion design company, and Max Beef, a restaurant located in a struggling area of Flint. Both companies were endorsed by Michigan Corps and plan to use their microloans to take their businesses to the next level and become part of Flint's economic recovery.
Pictured: (T) Kiva Zip Borrower Kala Wilburn (B) Kiva Zip Borrower Issa of Max Beef
Back in the fading streets of Detroit, several businesses have already received a lifeline from funding through Kiva Zip. Puzzle Piece Theater, an experimental community theatre, was the first Detroit recipient of a $5,000 crowd-funded loan from Kiva Zip. And it's these kinds of reciprocal community connections that Kiva Zip and Michigan Corps hope will make a lasting difference as Detroit struggles to regain solid footing after years of economic downturn.
Pictured: Puzzle Piece Theater
Not only do crowd-funded microloans help entrepreneurs and business owners, but there are positive side effects for local communities in the form of job creation and economic stimulation. And not only do they put their money where their mouth is, but Kiva Zip loan recipients have an 85.9 percent repayment rate - proof that their system is working.
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While Kiva Zip has the power to initiate change, create jobs and make a difference for struggling former giants of the American Dream like Detroit, the best part about the program is that everyone can participate. If you have a passion for energizing local communities and want to learn how you can endorse a business or help by loaning $25 to your favorite Kiva Zip entrepreneur, go to zip.kiva.org.
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Foppa will meet us ink-stained wretches at 5:30 local time, so it won't be long before I'll be hoofing it over to the arena to see the man himself again.
I'm not a betting man – because you need money to bet – but if I were, I'd make a small wager Foppa will play Saturday against the Kings. He doesn't have to play 20 minutes or anything. Just 8-10, maybe mostly on the power play. The Pepsi Center is going to be so full of anticipation that I'm thinking Peter won't want to disappoint the fans, and will play a few minutes.
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This has to be one of the best stories I've heard lately. Leonie Russell's world is turned upside down, when she discovers a mysterious mummy in the river close to her home. She and her husband Junius find Indian artifacts for a buyer from the Smithsonian. This mummy however, has a message for Leonie that unsettles the life she has known for the past twenty years and she's in no rush to give her up.
Clue after clue surfaces in this tale and had me speculating throughout as to what the mummy was trying to covey. Then when a link to Jun's past appears at the door, everything completely unravels in everybody's world.
I loved these characters and the world they lived in was so descriptive you can imagine being there.
Completely deprived me of sleep, as I couldn't put it down.
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No sex for me today—with D. or solo. I've always heard that women who have a lot of sex tend to pleasure themselves more, but so far that's not the case for me.
Do you find that the more sex you're having, the more you have solo sex? Or do you tend to self-love more when you're not getting regular booty?


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The Easter Bunny has hopped back down the bunny trail and all that's left behind are several dozen deviled eggs and about twenty pounds of holiday-themed candy. Chocolate rabbits, peanut butter eggs, colorful malt balls and jellybeans galore filled baskets to capacity and you may even compound the problem if you get sucked in by the bins of colorful confections marked 50% off the following week. Seems like we just finished up all the Halloween candy garnered last fall when this pastel flood of sweetness descended on our holiday-loving home. Candy is dandy, but sicker comes quicker with Easter candy threatening our waistlines and our sanity.
Too much Easter candy may be a first-world problem, but so it goes. What's to be done with a sugary seasonal surplus? Here are a few things to try when trying to close the door on Easter excesses.
Freeze It
Jellybeans don't fare well in the deep freeze, but most of the other treats found in the Easter basket will last for many months when stored in an airtight container and hidden away in the back of the freezer. Seal chocolate, marshmallow, caramel and other freezer-friendly candy in Ziploc bags, freeze 'em and forget 'em. Sometime this summer the candy that you were sick of in April will be a delightful find.
Transform It
Easter sweets lose their charm more quickly than we expect, but copious candy can find new life in baked goods. Chocolate bars and Peeps will be a campfire favorite melted on graham crackers for colorful s'mores. M&Ms are great stand-ins as chocolate chips in cookies or brownies, Peeps can used to make Rice Krispies treats and over-sized chocolate bunnies can be melted down and combined with cream to produce a bunny-fueled chocolate fondue.
Decorate With It
Jellybeans, M&Ms and malted robin's eggs all stand up pretty well at room temperature. Fill a vase or decorative jar with the leftovers to add a colorful accent to any room. Better still, fill decorative candy dishes and leave them within reach.
Just Go With It
We have a tradition at our house I refer to as the "After Easter Sundae," but the kids gleefully call "Dead Bunny Day." Gather up family and friends for an ice cream social at which leftover Easter candy is chopped, grated, melted or otherwise mutilated for use as ice cream toppers or blended into milkshakes. Adorned with diced peeps, crushed creme eggs and the occasional trophy chocolate bunny ears, it is sugar-fueled madness that clears away much of the leftover candy and extends the holiday to include one more get-together.
Give It Away
Sometimes the only solution is to banish the once appealing surplus from the house. Office break rooms are well-known black holes in which candy left on the counter will quickly disappear without a trace. Unopened candy can also find a welcoming recipient when donated to organizations who accept candy for distribution to hospitals, homeless shelters or troops stationed overseas.


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- Merrill
After my crostini post last week, I couldn't stop thinking about little toasts, and my favorite things to put on them. I remembered another recipe I used to make all the time -- a smoked salmon "mousse" with cream cheese, lemon and, according to both Amanda and me, perhaps one of the most underrated ingredients out there: onion juice. The original recipe is from the Williams-Sonoma Hors d'Oeuvre cookbook, and the salmon mousse is served on what the authors refer to as "endive boats," topped with a few pearls of salmon roe and a pinch of sprouts.
Amanda and I were talking about this mousse and suddenly thought, why not put it on a crostino? And since it's smoked salmon, what could be better than some nice little rye toasts? Below is the adapted recipe for salmon mousse (I add more onion juice and some lemon zest) on rye toasts.
Smoked Salmon Mousse on Rye Toasts
Adapted from Williams-Sonoma Hors d'Oeuvre
Makes 24 toasts
1. Heat your oven to 325 degrees. Cut the bread into small triangles or squares and arrange on a baking sheet (you should have about 24 pieces). Bake until crisp, turning once, 10 to 15 minutes.
2. Combine salmon, cream cheese, crème fraiche or sour cream, grated onion, lemon juice and zest, and black pepper, to taste, in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to combine, scraping down the sides of the bowl once or twice. Taste and season with salt and more black pepper if necessary.
3. If you feel like being fancy, spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch star tip and pipe a generous rosette onto each toast. Or just spread a little bit of the mousse on the toasts. Serve immediately.
*The salmon mousse may be prepared and refrigerated up to 24 hours ahead. Leave it at room temperature for about 20 minutes before piping/spooning onto the toasts.
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
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Quiet, by CAIN, SUSAN
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/24/2012
|Author's Note
|p. xi
|Introduction: The North and South of Temperament
|p. 1
|The Extrovert Ideal
|The Rise of the "Mighty Likeable Fellow": How Extroversion Became the Cultural Ideal
|p. 19
|The Myth of Charismatic Leadership: The Culture of Personality, a Hundred Years Later
|p. 34
|When Collaboration Kills Creativity: The Rise of the New Groupthink and the Power of Working Alone
|p. 71
|Your Biology, Your Self?
|Is Temperament Destiny?: Nature, Nurture, and the Orchid Hypothesis
|p. 97
|Beyond Temperament: The Role of Free Will (and the Secret of Public Speaking for Introverts)
|p. 115
|"Franklin was a Politician, But Eleanor Spoke Out of Conscience": Why Cool Is Overrated
|p. 130
|Why Did Wall Street Crash and Warren Buffett Prosper?: How Introverts and Extroverts Think (and Process Dopamine) Differently
|p. 155
|Do All Cultures Have an Extrovert Ideal?
|Soft Power: Asian-Americans and the Extrovert Ideal
|p. 181
|How to Love, How to Work
|When Should You Act More Extroverted Than You Really Are?
|p. 205
|The Communication Gap: How to Talk to Members of the Opposite Type
|p. 224
|On Cobblers and Generals: How to Cultivate Quiet Kids in a World That Can't Hear Them
|p. 241
|Conclusion: Wonderland
|p. 264
|A Note on the Dedication
|p. 267
|A Note on the Words Introvert and Extrovert
|p. 269
|p. 273
|p. 277
|p. 325
|Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.
Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts—which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts—in other words,one out of every two or three people you know. (Given that the United States is among the most extroverted of nations, the number must be at least as high in other parts of the world.) If you're not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one.
If these statistics surprise you, that's probably because so many people pretend to be extroverts. Closet introverts pass undetected on playgrounds, in high school locker rooms, and in the corridors of corporate America. Some fool even themselves, until some life event—a layoff, an empty nest, an inheritance that frees them to spend time as they like— jolts them into taking stock of their true natures. You have only to raise the subject of this book with your friends and acquaintances to find that the most unlikely people consider themselves introverts.
It makes sense that so many introverts hide even from themselves. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight. The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risk- taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of being wrong. She works well in teams and socializes in groups. We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire onetypeof individual—the kind who's comfortable "putting himself out there." Sure, we allow technologically gifted loners who launch companies in garages to have any personality they please, but they are the exceptions, not the rule, and our tolerance extends mainly to those who get fabulously wealthy or hold the promise of doing so.
Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second- class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talkative people, for example, are rated as smarter, better- looking, more interesting, and more desirable as friends. Velocity of speech counts as well as volume: we rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones. The same dynamics apply in groups, where research shows that the voluble are considered smarter than the reticent—even though there's zero correlation between the gift of gab and good ideas. Even the wordintrovertis stigmatized—one informal study, by psychologist Laurie Helgoe, found that introverts described their own physical appearance in vivid language ( "green- blue eyes," "exotic," "high cheekbones"), but when asked to describe generic introverts they drew a bland and distasteful picture ("ungainly," "neutral colors," "skin problems").
But we make a grave mistake to embrace the Extrovert Ideal so unthinkingly. Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions—from the theory of evolution to van Gogh's sunflowers to the personal computer— came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there.
Copyright © 2012 by Susan Cain. From the book QUIET: The Power Of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain, published by Crown, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission.


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. . . [he] proves the accordion can make a hauntingly beautiful sound.
Martynas's subtle control of dynamics and lyrical line . . . [is impressive]. Try his lovely suave delivery of Verdi's "Force of Destiny" theme . . . [the arrangements] are effective, polished and skilfully produced . . . [if you cannot] smile at Bizet's "Carmen" Habanera, cleverly fused with the tango faithful "La Cumparsita", perhaps you should visit the doctor.
. . . [Martynas is as] formidable as an arranger as he is as a player; in the Vivaldi he is playing the role of a good deal of the orchestra as well as of soloist, and the small ensemble accompanying him is deployed in such a way that the contemporary pop rhythms seem to flow naturally out of the tangos and Eastern European dances of yore. The bottom line is that this is a tremendous amount of fun, and if you think you don't like accordions, think again.


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Second Annual President's Diversity Initiative Awards - Call for Nominations
Do you know someone who deserves an award for their exemplary diversity work? Here is the opportunity to nominate your favorite PSU diversity advocate (or advocates) for recognition! You only have until Monday, April 17 to do so, so act quickly!
Portland State University's Diversity Action Council is
requesting nominations for the first annual President's Diversity
Initiative Awards. The awards will be presented at the Council's annual
Focus on Diversity Awards
June 6, 2006 from 3:00 pm-6:30 pm.
The Diversity Action Council wishes to recognize one faculty member, student, and staff member of the University who exemplifies and honors the President's Diversity Initiative, which focuses on the following:
- Enhancing the institutional environment, curriculum, and scholarship
- Increasing numbers of students from under-represented groups
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|Instrument: GERB : Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget
Instrument Category:
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments
Instrument Class: Passive Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument Subtype: Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers
Associated Platforms
Spectral/Frequency Information
Wavelength Keyword: Ultraviolet
Number Channels: 2 broadband channels, one covering the solar spectrum (0.32 to 4.0 µm), the other covering a wider portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (0.32 to 30 µm).
Spectral/Frequency Coverage/Range: 4.0 - 30 µm
Spectral/Frequency Resolution: With and without quartz filter: 0.32 - 4.0 µm, 0.32 - 30 µm
Related Data Sets
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The MSG system has been outlined to support additional or research missions. ESA selected the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument for flight on the MSG-1 satellite. The GERB instrument is developed by a European consortium led by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), United Kingdom, under a cooperation between the UK, Italy and Belgium. The EUMETSAT Council decided in November 1998 to fund the flight of two additional GERB instruments on MSG-2 and MSG-3.
The first images from the GERB instrument flying on Meteosat-8 (MSG-1) were taken on 12 December 2002.
The principle objective of the GERB mission is to measure the Earth radiation budget, in support of climate research and monitoring. A GERB International Science Team (GIST) had been established and tasked inter alia to define the science requirements, products and processing algorithms, and to implement science and validation activities. The consortium that developed and is responsible for operating the GERB system includes the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (ICSTM), UK; Hadley Centre, UK; Leicester University, UK; RMI, Belgium; Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems Ltd (AMOS Ltd), Belgium; and Officine Galileo, Italy.
The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) was a key player in the development of the GERB concept, and Belgium provides half of the GERB ground segment infrastructure and services.
The GERB instrument, as part of the satellite, is operated by EUMETSAT in coordination with the GERB Operations Team based at ICSTM.GERB data are received at the EUMETSAT ground segment and passed to the GERB ground segment for data processing. The data and products are then distributed by RAL to centres throughout Europe which use the information to evaluate and improve climate monitoring and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models.
The GERB instrument is a scanning radiometer with two broadband channels, one covering the solar spectrum (0.32 to 4.0 µm), the other covering a wider portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (0.32 to 30 µm). Together these channels are used to derive the thermal radiation emitted by the Earth in the spectral range 4.0 to 30 µm. Data are calibrated on board in order to support the retrieval of radiative fluxes of reflected solar radiation and emitted thermal radiation at the top of the atmosphere with an accuracy of 1%. The radiation budget represents the balance between incoming energy from the Sun and outgoing thermal (longwave) and reflected (shortwave) energy from the Earth.
The GERB broadband channels span the twelve much narrower channels measured by the MSGs other instrument the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI). Thus GERB fills in the gaps in the thermal radiation spectrum missed by the SEVIRI channels. However, the GERB measures the thermal radiation at a coarser spatial resolution. Back on the ground, RMI scientists use the finer spatial resolution of the SEVIRI data to improve the spatial resolution of the GERB images.
Source: EUMETSAT
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Instrument Logistics
Data Rate: 50.6 Kbits/sec (L Band)
Instrument Start Date: 2002-12-12
Instrument Owner: European consortium led by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), United Kingdom, under a cooperation between the UK, Italy and Belgium.


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For the first time ever, I have submitted proposals to speak at conferences. Obviously I'm not exactly itching to be famous. Over the past month, I sent in two. As I was preparing my most recent one, I read the recent posts at Information Wants to Be Free complaining about librarians having to pay their own way to speak at conferences, and the disproportionately negative effect this has on newer librarians and librarians with poor institutional funding.
I feel most badly for those librarians on the tenure track who are more or less required to speak and yet also don't receive adequate funding, and who also most likely aren't particularly well paid as newish librarians at poorly funded libraries, but it's not clear that we as a profession suffer because they can't afford to speak at a particular conference or that it's a problem for anyone but them specifically. Just being a good speaker or saying well what any number of librarians could say equally well isn't necessarily a reason to feel bad that people can't afford to speak. I also would want to know why the person wants to speak. If it's required for the job, that's one thing, but there are plenty of motivations for speaking that don't particularly deserve any special sympathy.
There's the professional advancement argument, for example. There's the possibility that being a popular speaker might lead to better jobs. But how necessary is this? It's not necessary for career development or getting good jobs, at least in my limited experience. I have a great job, and I've spoken and published very little. Is it the case that "famous" librarians get better jobs? I don't know, but I do know it's possible to get good jobs without being particularly well known, and I also know I can't think of any librarians on the conference speaking circuit that I'd willingly trade jobs with.
Then there's speaking just to speak more, to be "famous" for its own sake. I find this the least sympathetic motivation. Many people understandably thrive on widespread recognition and speaking offers. They want to be well known and desired, and I see nothing discreditable about that, but I also don't see how it's of any benefit either to anyone else or to the profession as a whole. For one thing, it leads to a saturation of the same old librarians and a limitation on new voices. Librarian celebrity perpetuates itself, so prominent speakers get asked to speak because people have heard of them, not necessarily because they have anything particularly relevant or fresh to say in the context of a particular program or conference. This is no insult to popular speakers. Speakers tend to be popular because they're good at it. But there are other good library speakers who are never considered because they're less prominent.
We're getting closer to a reason for concern here, but I see no reason to sympathize with librarians who just want to become more prominent and might not have anything to say that isn't already being said. After all, conferences seem to get speakers, and there are plenty of librarians motivated to speak because they just want to speak or because they have to for tenure and are funded adequately. And if we're honest, do we really think there are that many librarians who have such novel contributions to make that we'd benefit from hearing them speak? Would they really be saying anything that isn't already being said by other speakers and better funded librarians?
We just don't know. That's one reason why this would be a problem at all. Systematic exclusion of new library voices could very well be limiting useful contributions and interesting professional discussions, and newer librarians who haven't yet been fully indoctrinated into traditional ideologies of librarianship might have a lot to offer. Without some change, we'll never know.
I've argued that a problem of excluding these librarians from conference speaking and participation is that there's at least the possibility they have novel and worthwhile contributions to make to the profession and that their voices won't be heard, but we know that's not exactly accurate. These librarians aren't being silenced in any way. The biggest hole in my argument is that it's easier than ever to put your ideas before librarians. Once upon a time one either wrote for the limited library press or one spoke at conferences, but times have changed. Any librarian with something to contribute can start a blog and put forth their ideas. So if these librarians have so much to contribute, why not just start a blog?
There are several reasons why not. For one, it's not like one starts writing a blog and the world sits up and takes notice. Trust me on that one! Blogs also require some sort of sustainability. There's a huge difference between having good ideas and sharing them at a few conferences and writing about those same ideas week after week. How many blogs have you seen that start up with a "Hello, World!" post about how excited the librarian is to be blogging and sharing professional ideas with the world, but then end six months later after a sporadic few posts that as often as not apologize for not blogging for a while?
Then there's the difference between speaking and writing. Speaking and interacting with live human beings in a discussion of trends or ideas is very different from sitting alone with the laptop. Good writing takes effort, even if one has a sustainable blog, and a lot of librarians who might very well have good ideas and want to speak out might not write well. Also, blogs and conference presentations reach different audiences. There are a lot of librarians, perhaps the majority, who read no blogs at all, but who go to conferences and workshops. Thus, because of the difficulty of getting noticed, sustainability, writing ability, and audience, a blog will only be a useful approach to entering the professional conversation for certain types of librarians.
We're still left with the question of whether excluding poorly funded library voices from conference participation excludes worthwhile and novel contributions that we otherwise would benefit from, and we still don't know. I think the fact that librarians are required to speak at conferences but aren't funded by their libraries is much more regrettable than that any specific library conference won't compensate their speakers. Partly this is because of my conception of what a conference should be. I'd much rather conferences be considered places where professionals come together to confer with each other than gather to listen to the same group of "famous" librarians time after time, but this is more difficult to achieve when many librarians don't have adequate funding in the first place. This is more a problem of insufficient institutional support for professional development, though, rather than a problem of conferences not paying for people. Paying people to speak at conferences goes against the idea that conferences are places for professionals to come together to confer with one another.
So not compensating some speakers means that some librarians who may have novel or useful contributions to make to the profession are not heard, but compensating speakers goes against the conception of a conference as a place where professionals come together to confer with one another. For me at least, I think it's more important to address the issue of inadequate institutional funding than to expect to be compensated for speaking to your fellow professionals during an ordinary library conference.