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Social media glossary
This is by no means a comprehensive list of all the digital and social media terms out there, but we hope we've managed to cover most of the basics for you!
If there's anything you think we should add, or you have a question please let us know.
Above the fold
The section of a web page that is immediately visible to a visitor without the need to scroll down.
An aggregator is a web site or computer software that aggregates (or collects) a specific type of information, such as news, polling data, movie reviews, or specific searches from multiple online sources and gathers it in one location for easy viewing. It means you don't have to visit multiple websites to read the relevant content you're looking for – you can pull the content to your desktop or a single website aggregator. Examples include the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, or Google News.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field that studies the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. The term was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy who defined it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."
An API (application programming interface) is the system or application that allows a software programme to integrate with other systems, and allows for data to be exchanged. For example photos can be shared from sites like Flickr to your own website or social network sites, and comments you make on Twitter can be shared directly on your Facebook page via an API.
App is short for application, computer software that is designed to perform a specific function on your computer or handheld device. Most commonly known as additions to your iPhone like the game Angry Birds, apps can be anything from Web browsers and games to specialized programs like digital recorders or online music players.
Avatars are graphical images representing people, or what you might look like in a virtual world. They can be used in online games and systems where you interact with other players (such as Second Life) and you can build a visual character with the body, clothes, behaviours, gender and name of your choice. They can also be used as a graphical image or likeness that replaces a photo of you on a blog or social media website. Avatar is also a term used in Hinduism for a material manifestation of a deity.
A blog is a self-published online journal that's updated on a regular basis. They can be about any subject and by anyone, from the CEO of a company updating customers with a personal insight into the business, to a student sharing their gap year experience with the world. Entries appear in reverse chronological order (the most recent first) and can contain photos, comments by other readers and links to other sites. They can also be available as feeds, meaning that you can subscribe and be updated when the blogger adds a new entry (or post).
Bookmarking is the act of saving the address of a website or an item of content in your browser so that you can return to it easily without having to re-type the address or search for it again. You can also bookmark websites on social bookmarking websites like del.icio.us which is like a public library of bookmarked websites.
A web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and accessing information resources on the Internet. Common browsers include internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari and, most recently, Google's Chrome.
Cloud computing
Cloud computing (also called "the cloud") refers to the provision of computer resources on demand via a computer network, meaning that users can access their data from anywhere rather than being tied to a particular machine.
Content is used to describe text, pictures, video and any other meaningful material that is on the Internet.
Content Management System
A CMS is the collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based and allow for multiple people to access, contribute to and share stored data. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, and publishing documentation. A web content management (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices — in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization and licensing system that offers creators the ability to fine-tune their copyright, spelling out the ways in which others may use their works.
CSR stand for Corporate Social Responsibility, a concept whereby businesses and organizations perform a social good or take responsibility for the impact of their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. This can often take the form of pro-bono work or philanthropic contributions to charities.
Digg is a popular social news website that lets people discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet. Users submit links and stories and the community votes them up or down and comments on them. Users can "digg" stories they like or "bury" others they don't.
An ebook (or e-book) is an electronic version of a traditional printed book that can be downloaded from the Internet and read on a computer or handheld device. Something as simple as a PDF document can be considered an ebook.
Embedding is the act of adding code to a website so that a video or photo can be displayed while it's being hosed at another site. Many users now watch embedded YouTube videos or see Flickr photos on blogs or other websites rather than on the original site.
With more than 600 million active users, Facebookis the most popular social networking site in the world. Users can create a personal profile with personal and work information, upload photos, add other users as friends, join groups and exchange messages.
Feeds are the means by which you can read, view or listen to items from blogs and other RSS-enabled sites without visiting the site, by subscribing and using an aggregator or newsreader. Feeds contain the content of an item and by subscribing to a feed you can receive frequently updated content in one place.
Flash mob
A flash mob is a group of people who gather suddenly in a public place for a specific purpose and then disperse with little notice e.g. the T-mobile flash mob dance at Liverpool Street Station. The meetings are typically set up through text messages, social media or viral emails.
Flickr is an image and video hosting and sharing site. Its members have uploaded more than 5 billion photos. It integrates with many other social media websites and is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs. Images are organized by tags, which enables users to search for images related to particular topics, such as places or subject matter.
Forums are discussion areas on websites, where people can post messages or comment on existing messages. Before blogs developed, email lists and forums were the main means of conversing online. Forum discussions happen in one place, and so can be managed and facilitated in ways that blog conversations can't because these are happening in many different places controlled by their authors.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a content monitoring service that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user. Notifications can be sent by email, as a web feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page.
Google Alerts only provides content from Google's own search engine.
A hashtag (or hash tag) is a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to tweets on Twitter. Similar to tags on Flickr, users add them in-line to Twitter posts by prefixing a word with a hash symbol (or number sign). Twitter users often use a hashtag like #bigdance to collate, organize and discover relevant posts.
A blog, video or podcast needs a hosting service before it can appear online. Companies sometimes host their blogs on their own servers, but there are many other choices for video or audio hosting such as YouTube.
Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) is the act of real-time chatting online with another person using an IM tool like AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. The tools allow you to indicate whether or not you are available for a chat, and are often used as an alternative to emails for a rapid exchange.
Mashups (or mash-ups) have several meanings. A music mashup is a combination of two or more songs, generally the vocals of one song overlaid on top of the melody of another. A video mashup is the result of combining two or more pieces of video, such as news footage with original commentary. A web mashup combines data and/or functionality from more than one source, with the aim of making enriching the existing information and making it more useful.
Metadata refers to information – Including titles, descriptions, tags and captions – that describes a media item such as a video, photo or blog post.
Microblogging, or microsharing, is the act of broadcasting short messages to other subscribers of a Web service, for example on Twitter where entries are limited to 140 characters.
Myspace is an online social network similar to Facebook. It was one of the forerunners of the social media world and caters to artists and bands who create pages and share their work with friends and groups. Some well known singers such as Lily Allen and Sean Kingston initially gained fame through Myspace.
Open Media
In its most common usage, open media refers to video, audio, text and other media that can be freely shared, often by using Creative Commons.
Open Source
In its strict sense, open source refers to software code that is free to build upon, permitting users to study, change and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. But open source has taken on a broader meaning — such as open source journalism and open source politics — to refer to the practice of collaboration and free sharing of media and information to advance the public good. Well-known open-source projects include the Firefox browser.
Personal media
Personal media (user-created material) refers to grassroots works such as video, audio and text. When the works are shared in a social space, the works are more commonly referred to as social media.
A platform is the framework or content management system that runs software and presents content. WordPress, for example, is a service that serves as a platform for a community of blogs. In a larger context, the Internet is becoming a platform for applications and capabilities, using cloud computing.
A podcast is audio or video content that can be downloaded automatically from a website so you can view or listen offline. A podcast also refers to the show that comprises several episodes that can be accessed via a subscription. A podcast uses a feed that lets you subscribe to it so that when a new audio clip is published online, it arrives on your digital doorstep straight away.
A post is an item on a blog or forum, such as a Facebook status update or a news/discussion item.
A profile is the information that you provide about yourself when signing up for a social networking site. As well as an image and basic information, this may also include your personal and business interests, a "blurb" about yourself and tags to help people search for like-minded people.
Public domain
A work enters the public domain when it is donated by its creator or when its copyright expires. A work in the public domain can be freely used in any way, including commercial uses.
RSS (short for Really Simple Syndication, sometimes called web feeds) allows you to subscribe to content on blogs or news stories and have it delivered to you through a feed, enabling readers to stay current with favourite publications without having to browse from site to site, by using an RSS reader.
Search Engine Marketing
Search engine marketing is the placement of paid ads for a business or service on a search engine results page. An advertiser pays the search engine if the visitor clicks on the ad (pay-per-click or PPC). SEM can help to attract customers and generate brand awareness.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is how you design and arrange your website to help it appear at, or near the top of search engine rankings. Adding key words and thinking strategically about the search terms that people will be using when they search for you, improving your content, design and layout can help your rankings.
Short Code
A short code is a mobile shortcut — a telephone number consisting of four to six digits that makes it easier for people to vote, subscribe to a service, order ringtones etc via SMS (e.g. text HAITI to 90999 in order to contribute to the Red Cross's relief efforts). This makes is easier for people to remember a word or number that they hear or see on an ad and they can then take action to buy discounted tickets or donate money to a cause.
Smart Phone
A smart phone (or "smartphone") is a mobile phone – or handheld device – that can do much more than make and receive phone calls and text. Capabilities might include email, chat, taking photos or videos or many other tasks that might already come with the phone or be able to be added as apps.
SMS stands for Short Message Service, a system that allows the exchange of short text-based messages between mobile devices. You use SMS each time you send a basic text to someone (without photos or other multi-media included – these require a Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS). SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a way of finding, storing, organizing, sharing and managing bookmarks of website pages without needing to be using a particular machine. You can store lists of online resources that you find interesting and log in from anywhere to access them. And you can usually make these lists publicly accessible. Delicious is the one of the best-known social bookmark sites.
Social Media
Now a very commonly used term, social media are works of user-created video, audio, text or multimedia that are published and shared in a social environment, such as a blog, podcast, forum, wiki or video hosting site. More broadly, social media refers to any online technology that lets people publish, converse and share content online – or a form of media that lets us be social!
Social Networking
Social networking is the act of socializing in an online community. A typical social network such as Facebook or LinkedIn lets users create a personal profile, find and add friends and communicate – or socialise – with other members using a range of social media tools including blogs, video, images, tagging, forums and messaging.
Social News
Sometimes called social sites, social news sites encourage users to submit and vote on news stories or other links, thus determining which links are showcased. Social news was pioneered by community sites like Slashdot, Metafilter and Fark and became more popular with the advent of Digg and similar sites such as Reddit, Newsvine and NewsTrust.
Streaming Media
Unlike downloadable podcasts or videos (which are downloaded and saved), streaming media refers to video or audio that can be watched or listened to online but not stored permanently. Streamed audio is often called Webcasting. Traditional media companies like to stream their programs so that they can't be distributed freely onto file-sharing networks.
Tags are keywords that can be added to a website page, blog post, photo or video to help users find related topics or media, either through browsing on the site or as a term to make your entry more relevant to search engines. Tags are also a kind of metadata.
Tag Cloud
A tag cloud is a visual representation of the popularity of the tags or descriptions that people are using on a blog or website. Popular tags are often shown in a large type and less popular tags in smaller type. A similar design concept is used in Wordles.
Threads are strands of conversation. On an email list or web forum they will be defined by messages that use the use the same subject. On blogs they are less clearly defined, but emerge through comments and trackbacks.
A tweet (noun) is a post, update, message or "short burst of information" on Twitter, a real-time social messaging system. A tweet can be a maximum of 140 characters in length. RT stands for retweet. Users add RT in a tweet if they are reposting something from another person that they wish to share with their own followers.
First launched in 2006, Twitter is a social network that lets members post text-based updates of no more than 140 characters which is displayed on the users profile page. An update or message is called a tweet and users can include links and hash tags as well as retweet (by including RT) other people's updates. Similar to the Facebook concept of friends or fans, users can follow each other's tweets and even create user lists to help categorize who they are following.
Twitter is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 190 million tweets a day and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet". Twitter users can use the service to point to news stories, to raise funds for charity, and raise awareness of social and political issues.
UGC stands for user-generated content, an industry term that refers to all forms of user-created materials such as blog posts, reviews, podcasts, videos, comments and more.
Unique Resource Locator is the technical term for a web address like http://www.bbc.co.uk, that includes the full website address.
A videoblog, or vlog, is a blog that contains video entries. It can also be called video podcasting, vodcasting or vlogging.
Virtual World
A virtual world is an online computer-simulated community like Second Life that mixes aspects of real life with fantasy elements. Typically, you can create a representation of yourself (an avatar) and socialise with other residents. Virtual worlds are also used extensively in computer games, particularly those with multiple players online. They can also be used for commercial and educational purposes such as the Starlight Children's Foundation which helps hospitalised children to create a comfortable and safe environment to help them better understand their illness. Second Life is also being used by some nonprofits and businesses to run discussions, virtual events and fundraising.
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of the Web, which enables people with no specialized technical knowledge to create their own websites to self-publish, create and upload audio and video files, share photos and information and complete a variety of other tasks. The Internet becomes a sharing and collaborative platform that anyone can use without having to go to an expert. Some of the best-known Web 2.0 websites include Wikipedia, MySpace, Digg, Flickr and YouTube.
Web Analytics
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of Internet data for the purpose of understanding who your visitors are and optimizing your website. The types of elements that are useful to measure include clicks, unique visitors, visitor location, page view duration and search engine referrals. One of the most common analytics websites is Google Analytics.
Web Conferencing
Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings or presentations over the Internet. In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet. This can be either a downloaded application on each of the attendee's computers or a web-based application such as Webex where the attendees will simply enter a URL (website address) to enter the conference.
Webcasting refers to the ability to use the Web to deliver live or delayed versions of audio or video broadcasts allowing listeners to tune in from anywhere in the world. It's the equivalent of broadcasting over the internet.
Short for Web-based seminar, a webinar is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the internet. In general, participants register in advance and access the presentation in real time over the internet and listen to the presenter either through computer speakers or a telephone connection.
Wi-fi (or wifi) stands for wireless fidelity, a simple system that allows enabled devices to connect to the Internet within short range of any access point without cables or adaptors. Many cafes and public places such as airport lounges now offer wi-fi access for customers / travelers to go online, either as part of the service when you buy a cup of coffee or for a small fee.
A wiki is a shared website that can be directly edited by anyone with access to it to create a collaborative online workspace. Wikis can be a good way for people to write a document together, instead of emailing files to and fro. The best known example is wikipedia, an encyclopedia created by thousands of contributors across the world.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers. Sponsored by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, it has editions in about 200 different languages.
Created by IBM researcher Jonathan Feinberg in 2008, this is an online application for creating artistic word clouds from user-supplied text. Similar to a tag cloud, words that appear more frequently are given more prominence within the randomly generated design.
WordPress is a popular open source blog tool and publishing platform powered. It's often customized into a Content Management System (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites.
YouTube is a video-sharing website where users can upload, share, and view videos. It's the world's most popular video hosting site, making up 10 percent of all bits that travel across the entire Internet.
SOURCES: The Social Media Guide, Socialbrite.org, Wikipedia.


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Will meetings produce a blockbuster?
A blockbuster could be in the works.
A variety of three-, four- and even five-team trades are in play at the winter meetings, mostly involving the same clubs and same principal players, according to major-league sources.
The clubs: Arizona, Cleveland, Texas and Tampa Bay.
The principal players: Diamondbacks right fielder Justin Upton, Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, Rays right-hander James Shields and, most likely, Texas prospects.
One proposed deal, according to sources, would send Upton to Texas and Cabrera to Arizona, with Cleveland likely receiving a package of young talent, possibly including Texas infielder Mike Olt (Tampa Bay would not be part of that particular trade).
None of the deals was close as of early Wednesday morning, and none is likely to come to fruition, considering the difficulty of putting such trades together, sources said.
In fact, the number of players and prospects under discussion is so vast, some club officials involved in the talks are not even certain which combinations are alive and which are not.
The motivations, though, are fairly clear.
The Rangers want Upton. The Diamondbacks want a shortstop. The Indians want to turn expensive veterans such as Cabrera into younger pieces and the Rays want to trade a pitcher for a hitter.
However, all of the teams involved are talking to other clubs, and the Rangers also are pursuing the two biggest free agents, outfielder Josh Hamilton and right-hander Zack Greinke.
The signing of either player could force Texas to shift direction in trade talks — the return of Hamilton, for example, would reduce the possibility of the Rangers trading for Upton.
Traditional two-team deals also are possible, sources said — the Indians, for example, have discussed sending Cabrera to the Diamondbacks, and the Rays have discussed sending Shields to the Rangers.
Will any of the above happen? At this point, it cannot be said that any trade is likely. But there is no limit to the proposals that teams exchange at the meetings. And sometimes, a blockbuster is the result.


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Best of Publib Current Topics and Meeting at ALA
This week in Best of Publib includes an interesting combination of self-revelation, librarian aspirations, and children's literature. Topics we will be reviewing include:
- Don't Kid Yourself / Children's Books / Childcraft
- If I were a rich man / woman / lottery winnner
- Visiting librarians – housing librarian travelers
- Classic literature – definitions and classifications
Diane Harmon – Associate Director at Joliet Public Library – reminds everyone of the upcoming PubLib gathering at ALA being held at:
PUBLIB Get-together at ALA Annual 2009 5:30 p.m. –
Whenever, Friday, July 10, 2009 Sol y Nieve
215 E. Ohio St. Chicago, IL 60611
To all the ALA attendees, have a great time and remember the lessons learned in Seattle.
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Badger Ornament - Old World Christmas
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Guide to the Thomas Eakins Research Collection
With a Lifetime Exhibition Record and Bibliography
By Elizabeth Milroy, with contributions by Douglass Paschall
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A wealth of research material has grown up around the collection of works by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1929 and 1930. Over the years, generous contributions of Eakins scholars nationwide have augmented the material, which has been reorganized and catalogued here. Complete with 450 bibliographical entries, it is the most definitive and up-to-date guide to sources on this preeminent American artist. Also included is a record of some 277 exhibitions during Eakins' lifetime.


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On the 29th January 2016, the ESENIAS-TOOLS participant PhD student Alice Cardeccia defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled:
'Non-Indigenous Aquatic Species: Biological Traits Connected To Invasiveness'
at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Her tutor was Prof. Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, and cotutors: Dr. Agnese Marchini and T. Trichkova.
The second chapter of the thesis was devoted to 'Case study: Dreissena polymorpha in the Bulgarian inland water bodies - population structure and relation to environmental parameters'. The main aims of this study were:
(1) the analysis of the population structure in different sites in Bulgaria, in order to evaluate the establishment status of the translocated species D. polymorpha in terms of population density and reproductive capability; and
(2) the identification of environmental variables characterising invaded sites and, within these invaded sites, environmental conditions determining the achievement of high population densities.
The presented analyses and results are part of the ESENIAS-TOOLS project Case study 1: Biological and ecological traits of invasive alien freshwater mussels in Bulgaria (within bi-lateral cooperation Bulgaria – Italy).
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Sierra might have closed down, but the company's legacy lives on, as an agreement with parent company Activision brings classic titles Gabriel Knight and Arcanum to DRM-free PC game store Good Old Games.
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StormWhisper Titan Wise Men Distracted Monday 20/08/2007, 22:31
There is someone running about posing as me asking for passwords. DO NOT Under any circumstances give him your password. I nor any other real member of the UR staff would ask for your password.
If you receive a message from anyone posing as a moderator, and they ask for your password, notify me or another Moderator/Admin immediately and we well take care of the individual. Please don't delete the message from your inbox as we can use that as evidence.
While the person posing as me has been stopped for the time being, if you receive a message from Storm Wind Evo that is NOT me. As I said before, I would not ask you for your password and do NOT give this person your password.
StormWhisper Titan Wise Men Distracted Monday 20/08/2007, 22:38
Adding to this list are StormWind EV0 (with a 0) and StormWind both are already blacklisted, but there will probably be more. If they do not have a Moderator tag they are not me.
We are working to get this individual under control
StormWhisper Titan Wise Men Distracted Monday 20/08/2007, 22:53
We're working to shut him down. We've already blocked 3 accounts he's created and hopefully soon will put an end to this nonsense.
W M Daexen Titan Wise Men Distracted Tuesday 21/08/2007, 04:57
Lol...we should all keep a lookout. I doubt that StormWind here will be the only victim of "Moderator Identity Theft" =)
Blu Sevens Hero Tuesday 21/08/2007, 06:26
Thanks to Moderation for warning and taking care of that guy. *sigh* ...I hate it when people do things like this.
StormWhisper Titan Wise Men Distracted Tuesday 21/08/2007, 09:48
As an update we've identified who the person is and they shouldn't be causing any further problems. While some other yahoo might try this in the future, (though we certainly hope not), the best rule of thumb is not to give out your password to anyone. It's not a new scam by any means where someone will claim to be staff and try to get your password.
I can assure you that here, no real staff member will ever ask you for your password.
W M Daexen Titan Wise Men Distracted Wednesday 22/08/2007, 04:20
FYI - this isn't the first time that this type of scam has been attempted. There have always been people who try to get everything from nothing - even though this is just a game, that is the same kind of scam that can lead to identity theft in the real world. My dislike is for people who try to take advantage of others, whether they succeed or not and I'm happy to see that the administration and moderators of this game feel similarly.
BTW - I'm curious to know why you would want to defend them, Lilking.


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KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has said Afghanistan is lagging behind in the caravan of development, but compensating the time lost depends on efforts of teachers.
Talking at an event marking Teacher Day in Rabia Balkhi High School in Kabul on Saturday, Abdullah said: "Our teachers perform a very difficult job in the face of current critical security and economic situation of the country."
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A quick scan of the Aggie cross country roster reveals three things, one there are four sets of siblings on the men's and women's teams, the Ruybalid brothers, the Hart brothers, Schultz sisters and the brother and sister combination of Marcus and Carly Porter. Two, the cross country coaches Paul and Meaghan Harkins are married. And three, the overwhelming majority of athletes are from in-state.
So what makes such a unique situation possible? Cross country coach Paul Harkins, who married women's cross country coach Meaghan Gregory last summer, says it's part genetics, part luck and a lot of hard work. For the Aggies, the family atmosphere starts at the top. "My wife and I are both coaching here and we have a family atmosphere with us [as coaches]."
So aside from a family atmosphere, which is something all teams strive for, how does one cross country program end up with three sets of siblings? "Distance running talent is genetic a lot of the time," says Coach Harkins. "If you get one kid and they have a sibling who is looking up their older brother or older sister, you treat them [the older sibling] well and they're doing good things and they're showing improvement, they [younger sibling] may want to follow them, especially if they're having some success," Harkins explained. Harkins chuckled a bit as he added one caveat, "As long as they have a good relationship with their sibling."
So know that you know the how, you're probably wondering what the benefit to having multiple sets of siblings on the team has done for the program. "We want people to feel comfortable [here]," says Coach Harkins. "It helps everybody enjoy their experience that much more. It makes it a lot more comfortable for them having their older brother there or twin brother or twin sister, it makes them feel at home." That family atmosphere has extended to all of the members of the cross country program, not just the sibling pairs. "Having the siblings, the twins [Courtney and Camille Schultz] on the women's side, the twins [James and Michael Hart] on the men's side, the Ruybalid brothers [Ian and Jonah] on the men's side, it just helps bring everyone together," says Harkins.
As is the case in any family environment, fairness is a big key in the Aggie cross country family. "Whether it's our top runner or our last runner it doesn't matter. Just as long as they're getting treated fairly," says Coach Harkins. "Our biggest thing is to try to develop these kids to the point where they're showing improvement."
"It's that family atmosphere that we've been trying to build since we've been here, that's what we want everyone to feel whether they have a sibling or not," says Harkins. "Making sure they feel comfortable and they're in a situation where they feel like they can do good things and they're comfortable working hard and showing who they are and that's what we've been trying to build."
The other thing you'll notice about the cross country program is that there are a lot of kids from New Mexico on the roster. In fact, 30 of the 43 athletes hail from New Mexico, including all three sets of siblings, along with two athletes from nearby El Paso, Tex. At almost 70 percent, the Aggie cross country team has the highest percentage of athletes from in-state of any athetic program on campus. At the University of New Mexico, the Aggies' chief in-state recruiting rivals, just 16 of their 40 men's and women's cross country athletes hail from the state of New Mexico.
While other sports in the state of New Mexico fail to produce high numbers of Division I talent, Harkins and his wife have found a gold mine of talent. "I think New Mexico has a lot of undiscovered kids and I think there's a couple reasons why," says Harkins. "One they're fairly underdeveloped." Harkins went on to explain, "Most of the coaches in the state do not train their kids super intensely. Some of the programs up in Washington do do that. Up in New York there are a couple programs that are producing national championship teams every year but their kids, they [coaches] run them a lot." He explained further, "A lot of those kids don't have as much upside potential because they're already training like college athletes for the most part."
So what does that mean for the Aggie coaches? "We've got a lot of these kids out of New Mexico who have been trained minimally, we've upped their mileage a little bit and started training them more intensely and they've just stated blossoming," says Harkins. "It's been exciting."
He added, "There's some definite talent here." That talent showcased itself last season as then-freshmen Courtney and Camille Schultz who are from Cloudcroft, N.M., finished one-two at the WAC Championship meet. Courtney Schultz was named the WAC Freshman of the Year. Schultz's twin sister Camille finished just one second behind her in the meet and both earned First Team All-WAC honors. On the men's side, sophomore Ian Ruybalid, who is from Los Lunas, N.M., has been a Second Team All-WAC performer each of his first two seasons and is the first male Aggie cross country athlete to accomplish that feat since Leon Garcia in the 1971-72 seasons.
So why have the kids from New Mexico gone largely unnoticed? Harkins says a lot of it has to do with a disparity in their times versus other athletes. "I think a lot of the personal bests that the kids have time-wise don't correlate with how good they really are," says Harkins. "One of the reasons is they're trained so minimally and the other reason is because they're running at altitude so the times look slower than they really are when you compare them to sea-level kids that are running out in California or up in Oregon and Washington."
That bit of misfortune for the New Mexico high school runners has turned into good fortune for the Aggies.
"There's a lot of good talent here, it's just tough to find sometimes," says Harkins. "It's just a matter of finding those kids who really have that desire to compete and who really have that desire to work hard." He added, "Once you find them here in the state they're usually so untapped, if we can get our hands on even a little bit of the potential they have, they're going to do great things and that's what's happened for us so far since we've been here."
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I have baked more goodies after my initial kick-off Chinese New Year baking and finally chosen to remake Green Pea cookies in batches for giveaways because it was oh-so-tasty and not too tedious to make. I mentioned that Peanut cookies seemed like a new cookie for Chinese New Year but oh boy was I wrong, Lily reminisced making these with her grandmother, only that the original called for lard! I stand corrected but I might try again to say these Green Pea cookies should be newer in generation, as I could not recall it before the appearance of Peanut cookies during Chinese New Year, and some even claimed that it was a variation of the traditional Peanut cookies. Correct me if I am wrong again! I do not know what the Green Pea cookies represent in Chinese in comparison to other more obvious cookies, if anyone does know, do let me know too!
As for now, pardon the short post, I need to get ready, pack my bag and head north to celebrate in gluttony. By the way, Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Green Pea Cookies
When I made my first batch, I found that it was too sweet, and so I went about researching on more recipes around the wonderful blogosphere and came about to my own measurement below. Also, on the first time I bought the green peas, it was the Jusco selection packet, that comes in 180g and it seem the green peas do look slightly smaller than the usual snack ones. The cookie came out so fragrant, I bought the same packets for my subsequent bakes! Note that these came salted so I omit the salt in the recipe. Also make sure you grind the green pea fine enough for the melt-in-mouth cookies. Similarly to the Peanut cookies, you should add the oil bit by bit until the dough comes together. This time I was a bit lazy and skipped the egg glazing steps, thus my cookies look pale but it still taste oh-so-good. This time I also learnt from the Peanut cookies bakes and used 1 teaspoon to shape my cookies and it came out just the right size to pop into the mouth.
180g ground green pea cookies
180g all-purpose flour (sifted)
80g icing sugar
80 - 100g oil
1/4 tsp salt (omit if green peas are salted)
1 egg lightly beaten for glaze (optional)
Mix the ground green peas, sifted flour, icing sugar and salt (if using) together till well combined
Slowly add in the oil and mix till a pliable dough is formed
Shape them into balls or use a 1 teaspoon to shape it, and then line it on a tray
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CPAssassin wrote:Hey, guys. I'm new to the site, but I have some questions. I suppose they could also be counted as suggestions. I apologize if any of this comes off as ignorant since I really have no idea what goes into building a website.
• Have there been any suggestions made or consideration given to condensing the user's information that appears next to their logo? I'm finding that because there's so much of it, just to follow a conversation, I'm doing a lot of what I think is unnecessary scrolling on my phone. Maybe it appears differently using a PC, but underneath the user's profile picture on an iPhone, there is a lot of gray space because the text for the user's profile takes up a lot of room and runs down longer than the height of the picture. If everyone feels that all of that information should be present everytime a user posts, then maybe it could wrap around under the profile picture to reduce scrolling and eliminate the empty space.
• Also, how about an option to enter and display our real names?
Thanks for the time and consideration!
- Jay
Reposted from another thread as a separate to-do item.
Mobile experience is less than it could be at present, though we knew that already since it hasn't had a lot of attention paid to it just yet. The mini-profiles next to each post should be either condensed or removed when viewed on mobile, in my opinion, to help conversations on handheld devices flow a bit more easily and naturally and minimise scrolling.


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Advising will be overseen by both the Dean of Underegraduate Studies as well as the college deans. ACE will fall under Undergraduate Studies rather than Enrollment Services
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In UNF's legislative budget request, include expansion of undergraduate advising (5 upper division advisors and 3 advisors in ACE)
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With the new dean of UG Studies, the university will commence to develop and implement a Freshmen Experience credit-bearing course
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Improv 201 Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-6pm
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Students will be taught: 1) identifying "games", 2) heightening - finding new ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish, 3) realizing how patterns support the "game," 4) second beats (returning to scenes later in a piece).
This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long.
Students will take part in a class performance, generally held at the UCB Theatre.
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Robinson, Parker have a row over Bordeaux
2004-05-27 04:00:00 PDT BORDEAUX , France -- It's been called a storm in a wine glass, a row about a wine that most of us will never taste. But as the Bordeaux 2003 futures pricing campaign opens this week, the squabble has not just challenged the palates of two of the world's most respected wine writers, it has also brought into the open a battle of styles that is dividing the fine-wine world.
The wine is the 2003 Chateau Pavie, from the Premier Grand Cru Classé estate in St.-Emilion, Bordeaux. The critics are Maryland-based Robert M. Parker Jr., publisher of the Wine Advocate newsletter, author of "Bordeaux" and sometimes called the "god" of wine, and London-based Jancis Robinson, Master of Wine, columnist for the Financial Times of London and The Chronicle, author of the "Oxford Companion to Wine" and TV personality.
According to these two formidable tasters, Chateau Pavie is either "an off-the-chart effort" (Parker, 95 to 100 points on a 100-point scale) or "ridiculous" (Robinson, 12 points on a 20-point scale). There is nothing unusual, here -- two critics, two opinions -- except that an agreement to differ has turned to vitriol.
"Her comments," Parker wrote on his Web site, "are very much in keeping with her nasty swipes at all the Pavies made by Gerard Perse and mirror the comments of . . . reactionaries in Bordeaux."
"Am I not allowed to have my own opinion?" responded Robinson. "Only so long as it agrees with Monsieur Parker's, it would seem."
"And," she told me, "I would find it much worse if I thought for a minute my taste buds were lying."
The tiff highlights the role of the critic, especially when expensive wines are bought while still in the barrel, as they are in Bordeaux. As tasters, the two critics differ greatly. Parker prefers to spend his time in a hotel room, where barrel samples are delivered. He knows what he is tasting and may taste the same wine several times. Robinson prefers traveling through Bordeaux, tasting at organized blind tastings, which means she is unaware of the name of a wine. Both critics have been tasting for more than 25 years.
The Pavie polemic has made it open season for palate bashing. Go to any wine forum online, in any language, and Pavie and the Parker-Robinson dustup is up for debate. Michel Bettane (who tasted with Parker) is on opposite sides from Jean-Marc Quarin (both highly respected French wine critics); James Lawther (British) sides with James Suckling (American) with top marks for Pavie against Michael Broadbent (British) and Charles Metcalfe (British); Steve Tanzer (American) leans toward Pavie; Clive Coates (British) refuses to rate the wine, and the list goes on.
It makes the 2003 Chateau Pavie one of the hottest wines of the year. But the controversy over this estate runs deeper.
Pavie is at the heart of the way the style of Bordeaux, especially St.- Emilion, is changing.
In the view of the Parker camp, St.-Emilion wine (primarily Merlot and Cabernet Franc) is becoming richer, riper, more concentrated and altogether more exciting. The 2003 Pavie "is a wine of sublime richness, minerality, delineation and nobleness," Parker wrote. For the Robinson camp, it is becoming like any New World wine region, with blockbuster tastes that have no connection with place, traditions or food. "Ridiculous wine more reminiscent of a late-harvest Zinfandel than a red Bordeaux," she wrote in her 2003 Pavie note.
Many producers in Bordeaux say that Chateau Pavie and the other Perse properties in St.-Emilion (Chateau Pavie Decesse, Chateau Bellevue Mondotte, Chateau Monbousquet and Chateau la Clusiere) aim for super-ripeness and high alcohol.
The classicists, whom Parker describes as "reactionaries," feel that these wines have nothing to do with Bordeaux, and everything to do with getting high ratings and high prices -- the aim being the American market, where cult and blockbuster wines are known, respected and bought for serious money.
Broadbent, who is firmly in the Robinson camp and is considered the godfather of British wine tasting, summed up the difference: "Parker is looking for concentration, opulence, impressiveness," he said. "He should be looking for a wine that is civilized, that is for drinking with food."
If there is also jealousy of Perse, owner of Chateau Pavie, a self-made millionaire who is a newcomer to wine, then that just adds spice and gossip to the mix. Bordeaux insiders are annoyed at the way he muscled into St.-Emilion, buying three prominent estates, creating a fourth and spending millions on renovating the vineyards and the cellars. They are annoyed at the way he floodlights Chateau Pavie at night -- "like Disneyland," said one St.- Emilion resident.
And they are annoyed, and mystified, by his pricing policy, which has placed Pavie on the same pocketbook level as the two unarguable greats of St.- Emilion, Chateau Ausone and Chateau Cheval Blanc.
It's a well-known secret in Bordeaux that very few bottles of 2001 and 2002 Pavie were sold as futures because of their high price (the 2001 was priced at $150 to $175 a bottle, the 2002 at $140). With 2003, "I would have thought Perse would be beside himself to sell the wine," says Bordeaux negociant Hamilton Narby. "He gets high ratings, but it seems as if there is almost a conspiracy in Bordeaux to boycott him."
Could it be, the gossip runs, that all this publicity is being artificially generated to muster sales for Pavie? Poor sales and a phone call from American Jess Jackson, who Parker says wants to sell hot Bordeaux wines to the U.S. market, have led to plans by Perse to sell his wines directly, just like a California winery, rather than going through the Bordeaux negociant system.
The plan didn't materialize for the 2003 wine, according to Bordeaux negociant and San Francisco native Jeffrey Davies, who is close to Perse.
Parker denies any business interest or friendship with Perse and Robinson denies any attempt to bash him. Perse turned down several requests for an interview for this story.
But whether or not Perse wanted publicity, he has it, by the bottle-full. His 2003 Chateau Pavie has finally brought out the dramatic differences in taste among critics. The result, said one post to an online French tasting forum, "Parker is no longer 'the' single reference.' "
2003 Chateau Pavie: From 'brilliant' to 'ridiculous'
Young wine still in the barrel is always difficult to taste. Samples vary from day to day during the week of the en primeur (futures) tastings, held in Bordeaux in late March. This is when critics make judgments on wines that won't come onto the market until early 2006. Here are the tasting notes for Chateau Pavie from writers based in the United States, United Kingdom and France. Most Europeans use a 20-point scale, Americans a 100-point scale.
Michael Broadbent -- "Very deep, extraordinary nose. Slightly fishy, tarry; fairly sweet, full bodied, powerful, dense and again tarry."
Rating: 14 of 20 points
Clive Coates, The Vine -- "Anyone who thinks this is good wine needs a brain and palate transplant. This wine will be scored simply as undrinkable."
Rating: n/a
James Lawther, Decanter -- "Big, powerful wine in the super-ripe mould. Rich, confit nose of dark fruits woven with liquorish-vanilla oak. Almost portlike. Palate full and fleshy with a muscular tannic frame. Firm, persistent finish."
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
Charles Metcalfe, Wine International -- "Samples and opinions varied. This has very high tannins -- daunting and mouth-drying at present -- and there is a great deal of oak flavor. But behind all this (is) fresh, raspberry fruit with length and perfume. Not one to approach for a long time, but should be excellent in time. Something of a return to traditional form for this estate."
Rating: 90-94 of 100 points
Robert M. Parker Jr., The Wine Advocate -- "An off-the-chart effort from perfectionist proprietors Chantal and Gerard Perse, the 2003 Pavie was cropped at 30 hectoliters per hectare. A blend of 70 percent Merlot, 20 percent Cabernet Franc and 10 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, it is a wine of sublime richness, minerality, delineation and nobleness. Representing the essence of one of St.-Emilion's greatest terroirs, the limestone and clay soils were perfect for handling the torrid heat of 2003. Inky/purple to the rim, it offers up provocative aromas of minerals, black and red fruits, balsamic vinegar, licorice and smoke. It traverses the palate with extraordinary richness as well as remarkable freshness and definition. The finish is tannic, but the wine's low acidity and higher than normal alcohol (13.5 percent) suggests it will be approachable in 4-5 years . . . A brilliant effort, it, along with Ausone and Petrus, is one of the three greatest offerings of the right bank in 2003."
Rating: 96-100 of 100 points
Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com -- "Completely unappetizing overripe aromas. Why? Porty sweet. Oh REALLY! Port is best from the Douro, not St.-Emilion. Ridiculous wine more reminiscent of a late-harvest Zinfandel than a red Bordeaux with its unappetizing green notes."
Rating: 12 of 20 points
James Suckling, Wine Spectator -- "Super-ripe and almost jammy. Very New World on the nose but impressive. Bordeauxlike on the palate. Berries, raspberries and strawberries. Hint of wood. Full-bodied with ripe and round tannins and a long finish. Chewy. Got to like this."
Rating: 95-100 of 100 points
Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar -- "Explosive, super-ripe aromas of cassis, violet, minerals and licorice. Thick on entry, then chewy as a solid in the mid-palate, with powerful, super-concentrated dark berry and mineral flavors and enough ripe acidity to give the wine shape and freshness. Best today on the great building finish, which features huge but thoroughly ripe tannins and palate-saturating berry and mineral flavors. An impressively rich, structured wine that wears its high alcohol gracefully."
Rating: 92-95 of 100 points
Roger Voss, Wine Enthusiast -- "With its aromas of raisins and sweet jam, this wine smells like port. To taste, there are dark tannins and huge wood. It is very tough and needs more fruit. Black and toasty and overripe. Maybe the fruit will develop, but it will take many years."
Rating: 87-89 of 100 points
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In scandal-plagued Washington, lawmaker struggles to keep track of issues | The Ticket - Yahoo! News:
With the rumbling of so much scandal ripping through Washington this week—woeful stories about Benghazi, the DOJ subpoena of journalists' phone records and the IRS unfairly targeting conservative groups—it's hard to keep track of all the terrible.
Even lawmakers sometimes struggle.
At Rep. Steny Hoyer's weekly meeting with reporters on Tuesday, the Maryland Democrat was asked if he was concerned about the DOJ seizing phone records from Associated Press journalists working in the House press gallery in the Capitol building.
Hoyer's answer was well-delivered: Articulate, clear, firm and precise.
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Motivation -- an opensourcer's tale
Today was a day that contained one of what cartoonist Keith Knight calls "Life's Little Victories".
"Why do you write opensource?" an enterprise systems programmer pal asked me today.
We had been debugging PigIron , or so we thought. The problem turned out to be on the other end. Score!
My pal is down at SHARE in Austin right now listening to announcements of new technology like an x/86 or PPC external processor plugged into the IBM z-class mainframe backplane like they did already with the AS/400 in, what, 1996? Time flows like molasses in the mainframe world, a world which sometimes seems like Tolkien's Land of Lorien where aging and decay are magically held back, and at other times seems like a very small town in rural Utah.
There is an answer to his question, why I write open source. At this point in my career I have roughly two (2) choices:
- I can sit somewhere in corporate America eating you-know-what sandwiches in return for health insurance.
- Or I can sit on my duff and rack up consulting hours based on the sheer brazenness of thumbing my nose at the norm and writing great software because I've nothing else to do.
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How Well Do You Know Your Koi?
Koi add color and movement to your pond. They're relaxing to watch. And they're likely the centerpiece of your water feature. But how much do you really know about your finned friends? Check out these five factoids about koi and impress your fish-keeping pals during your next pond-side shindig.
1. A Long Life Span: Have you heard of Hanako? He's the fabled koi who lived for 226 years after being supposedly passed down through the generations and was aged by counting rings on his scales. To set the record straight, Hanako has been proven to be an urban myth. Koi typically live 25 to 35 years in a well-maintained fish pond – but that's still not a bad life span, all things considered!
2. Growth Spurts: Koi, like most other fish, start out as teeny-tiny fingerlings and grow to their genetically determined adult size. But unlike many fish, koi will grow to fit their accommodations – which means they'll develop into super-sized beasts in the right environment. In their first three to four years of life when housed in an adequately sized pond, a koi will reach about 18 inches long. Throughout its lifetime, it can grow to reach up to 3 feet and more. That's some big fish!
3. Colorful Gastronomes: The ultimate underwater foodies, koi will eat just about anything, with the exception of meat. Though they love their commercial pelleted diet, like Pond Logic® Growth & Color Fish Food, koi will happily gobble down lettuce, apples, oranges, watermelon, and even tiny shrimp. So why not treat your scaly pals to some healthy fruits and veggies now and then!
4. Feast and Famine: Koi love to eat and will chow whenever food is offered, but these guys can actually go more than 10 days without food during the warmer months – and fast even longer when temperatures drop and they go into their winter torpor, or hibernation, when they pass on meals for months at a time. Of course, if you feed your fish regularly, don't suddenly stop as doing so can affect their health and happiness.
5. Koi Agility? No, koi unfortunately cannot be trained to jump through hoops like a dolphin or fetch a floating ball like a Labrador, but they can be conditioned to recognize your footsteps and come to the water's edge for a visit. Simply feed your fish from the same place consistently and, before long, they'll learn to go there for food and even learn to eat from your hand! Now that's a cool party trick.
Pond Talk: What other interesting factoids have you heard about koi?
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Yes, if renting Lego sets is something you'd like to do, then you'd best bookmark Pley.com immediately. The site allows you to rent your choice of Lego sets on a monthly basis, and then return them. Yes, really.
It sounds crazy, but the joy of playing with Legos is generally the building, not the finished product. I can see a lot of parents going for this. Here's the details:
• There are three levels of membership, depending on whether you want to rent small, medium or large Lego kits. Small is $15 per month, medium is $25, large is $39.
• The shipping is free both ways.
• You can rent as many sets as you want, but only one a time.
• The sets are sanitized in-between uses, so you don't have to worry about someone else's kid wiping his bubonic plague-snot over the pieces.
• If you lose a piece, it's cool.
• If you get attached to the set (no pun), you can purchase it from Pley.
• If you're still on the fence, you can sign up for a free trial and see what you think.
You know, given how expensive some of these sets run, this is actually a pretty good deal. The more I think about it, the less crazy it seems. Hmm...
[Via The AV Club]