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The Chicago Police Department will begin patting down attendees of gang funerals to prevent violent attacks, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told CBS News.
"The police department is going to change the way they deal with gang funerals," he said. "If you cannot respect a place of worship, at a time of a funeral, we are going to show a different type of attitude."
The funerals will now be treated as "gang events" by the department.
Leonard Mather @ 12/6/2012 4:36 PM
Rahm should be very careful on this one. If Obama hears about it, he may get upset should any of those searched be Black. Violaton of Civil Liberties...Obama may even say, "If I had a son, he would look like the one being searched." Watch out for Jesse and Al who might get on the wagon. Anything that makes sense, especially if it works, is often denied by Obama.
Lee @ 12/6/2012 4:40 PM
^^^....Really leo.....really....?
Doug M. @ 12/6/2012 4:53 PM
While Mr. Mather's manner of expression is not all that great, and maybe some of his statements a bit off, there are major legal problems with the expressed plan of action. There is no legal basis upon which such actions can be taken of which I can think, and I have been practicing and teaching in search and seizure for years. This is not going to end well for the city of Chicago.
Are you kidding me? The US is officially lost. They have the freedom to kill each other at the funeral, where they previously killed each other. More wasted resources... What's next? Lets start doing the mayor's laundry...
TripWire @ 12/6/2012 5:29 PM
"Your papers please?"
Charlie @ 12/6/2012 6:05 PM
Better yet why don't you just bolt and bar the doors shut after all the gang bangers enter the church and let them settle their score once and for all?
[email protected] @ 12/6/2012 7:39 PM
Maybe he'll have his gang "mediators" do the patting down.
Doc @ 12/6/2012 7:43 PM
LOL, Rahm...at least you didn't call for more "gun control laws". I totally agree with Doug M. SERIOUS legal issues. But, Chicago pays millions of dollars a year in settlements and judgements for violating the law, peoples rights, etc., so the poor LEO's will just have to forego raises so that they can follow the illegal (also illogical) policies of the totally ignorant politicans.
buck @ 12/6/2012 10:16 PM
Kinda easy, no one will be forced to be searched. Kind of like the airport. If you dont want the TSA all up in your business then Go Greyhound.Dougno one will be detained and searched that doesn't "consent" to that brief detention and search. just like a pro football game, basketball, Etc...
Bluevixen @ 12/6/2012 11:48 PM
You know, I am getting so tired of people turning every conversation into a jib at the President or making it a race issue...bottom line is there are more than just "black" individuals in gangs, and as it has been mentioned, there are definitely some civil liberty issues at hand here, and that should be the focus of the conversation....
Mather, your statement wreaks of racial condmenation. Just because we have an African American president, doesn't mean he would or should respond to such actions. This decision is being made on a municipal level, not federal. I would agree with Doug M's statement regarding the legalities of search & seizure. And last i checked, Obama has two daughters and no male children.
I say let them kill each other. I mean its not like they can be stopped. Here is the proof of that. They walk right into a funeral and do the gang thing! What can the mayor or Police do? Not a damn thing. Its to late!
John @ 12/7/2012 8:45 AM
Bluevixen: is it that time of month?J.C.: our president wouldn't dare interject himself into local politics. Just like he wouldn't criticize Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department for doing his job.
Juan 10-13 @ 12/7/2012 8:47 AM
Really...really...you seem to forget that OFFICER SAFETY is most importante. Criminals do not abide by the law...that's why they are called criminals,skells,thugs,rapists,murderers,assassins,child molesters,wanna-be-gang-bangers!!! We have to maintain law and order and I don't feel we should entertain any of their winings resulting from this simple preventive proactive gesture!
Top Harris @ 12/7/2012 9:20 AM
I think Buck is on to something from a legal perspective. Search & Seizure issues may only arrise if you are 1. Seizing property or persons without probable cause and 2. If persons are being singled out or decriminated against in the course of the search. If everyone is searched simply as a matter of entry requirements, much like athletic events, governement venues, etc. and no action taken such as arrest or permanent seizure of property or persons, then is the 4th amendment violated? And Trip Wire...at some point we have to cease the philisophical arguement, (papers please) and deal with the reality of the dangers gangs pose to the general public. Gangs, unlike hispanics or any other ethnicity, are not a protected class thus we must take steps to offset their negative influence on society; at funerals or anywhere else they may be. Unless you see some good produced by gang membership. I'm all ears....
Rick Aztlan, (Sgt. retire @ 12/7/2012 9:30 AM
I am angered and feel great concern for my Chicago Police Family, many of whom will end up as defendants in federal lawsuits if this policy is enacted. Rahm's previous employment as Chief of Staff for Dictator Obama allowed him to circumvent Congress and the Constitution on a national level. However, Chicago is famous for wealthy attorneys, many of whom have acquired that wealth by suing the City Police Department. If Chicago police in uniform armed with their assault rifles interfere with funerals, by radomly stopping and frisking mourners, in "Minority" communities, and face reality that is where the gangbangers live and kill each other, police will clearly be in violation of the 1st Amdendment right to Freedom of Religion and Assembly. Searches and Stops without Reasonable Suspicion violate the 4th Amendment and Terry v. Ohio, and Racial Profiling. So, is Rahm going to stand next to the cop who has to list his assets at deposition? THE MEDIA HAS MADE THESE MEN MORE THAN WHAT THEY REALLY ARE: RAHM MAJORED IN COMMUNICATION AND BALLET, he is not a Constitutional Scholar. The U.S. Constituion still applies, even in "Crook" County. This type of heavy handed enforcement is absurd and illegal as it is currently proposed.
in my opinion, it would be easier to just set up a metal detector at the main entrance like they do at most the Highschools. That would be better than an a frisk of any sort.


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Devices and Desires by K. J. Parker
As a reader, I sometimes like to show off. To show off that I read, as well as, occasionally, what I read. It's completely shallow to want to show off a book, and I have shallow criteria for deciding which I want to show off. I don't do anything so obnoxious as announcing it to everyone I meet, but more subtle things like leaving it in a prominent position on my desk so that, as people walk by, they might be able to catch a glimpse in passing.
What books deserve to be flaunted? It comes down to a number of factors: cover art, book title, the quality of the prose, even the authors name plays into it. But when reading Fantasy, there are few books that I want to actively display. It is, in fact, a very rare thing. Not that I'm embarrassed, but most titles tend to get turned over when I set them down. The last Fantasy book that I felt the need to advertise was Bakker's Prince of Nothing (which I read almost a year ago). But now I'm doing it again with K. J. Parker's Engineer Trilogy.
I'm not trying to say that Parker is a that great of an author (and I'm not saying that she isn't), just that her books are aesthetically pleasing. On a purely superficial and self-serving level. Am I really impressing anybody? Probably not. It just one of my quirks.
Devices and Desires is the first book in K. J. Parker's Engineer Trilogy (the other two are titled Evil for Evil and The Escapement). First off, I'd like to give credit to Orbit for the fantastic covers (they do that a lot), and for releasing all three volumes with only a month's wait between them.
As the story goes, Ziani Vaatzes, a foreman and engineer in the Eternal Republic (whose people are referred to as Mezentines), is convicted of abomination, a crime of innovation, and sentenced to execution. Naturally, he escapes and flees the city, with no clear inclination of where to go, or what to do, and only the desire to someday be reunited with his family to spur him on. By chance, he comes upon the retreating army of Eremia, staggering their way home after a spectacular defeat at the hands of the Republic. Ziani quickly devises a plan to use his knowledge of the war machines that defeated them to entice the Eremian's to shelter him and to serve as the instrument of his revenge.
In the background is Duke Valens of the Vadani, chasing after his lost love, Veatriz, who is now married to the Eremian Duke, Orsea. And in the Eternal Republic, there is the political maneuverings, as they prepare for war with Eremia, in and effort to recover the deserter, Ziani Vaatzes.
It's an compelling story with many interesting plot twists along the way. But it's also a difficult book to read. The prose is somewhat mechanical. While it does serve the tone of the story, I have to wonder if it was deliberate, or if Parker is, in general, just a long-winded author. Her main focus is on world-building. Whether it's the scenery, political structures, mechanical processes, fencing maneuvers or hunting theory, the world is meticulously detailed (an impressive display of knowledge). So much so that the story often suffers for it. I had to dig through a lot of nonsense, things that I don't particularly care to know about, in order to find the story underneath.
In example:
"The Ducas rides to the hunt on a white palfrey. He wears a quilted pourpoint of white or gray silk over a white linen shirt, cord breeches and arming boots with points for his sabatons; the only weapon he carries is a slightly curved, single-edged hanger as long as his arm from shoulder to fingertips. He may wear a hat if rain is actually falling. He is followed by four huntsmen on barbs or jennets, who carry his armor, his great spear, his light spears, his bow and his close sword, which can be either a falchion or a tuck depending on the likely quarry. A page on an ambler or a mule follows with the wet-weather gear – a hooded mantle, a surcoat, chaps and spats – and the horn.
On arriving at the meet, the Ducas dismounts, and is accomplished for the hunt in the following order, which differs slightly from the proper order for war: first the sabatons, laced tightly at the toes and under the instep; next the greaves, followed by the leg-harness of demi-greaves, poleyns and cuisses (gamboised cuisses are considered excessive except where the quarry is exclusively bear of wolf) – these are secured by points to the hem of the pourpoint, and the usual straps and buckles around the thigh, the calf and the inside knee. Since the cuirass and placket are not worn for the hunt, the upper points are secured to the kidney-belt, after which the faulds are added to protect the buttocks, thighs and groin. The arm-harness is fitted next; in the hunting harness, the vambraces close on the outside of the forearm with buckles, and the half-rerebrace is worn, secured at the shoulder with a single point. Spaulders are preferred to pauldrons fort he protection of the shoulder, and a simple one-lame gorget suffices for the neck. Finally, the Ducas puts on his gauntlets (the finger type is preferred to the clamshell or mitten varieties) and his baldric, from which hang his close sword and his horn. He carries his great spear in his right hand. The four huntsmen carry the rest of the gear between them; the page stays behind at the meet to hold the horses." – page 375-376
I don't mean to present this as a bad book, but one should be aware of what they are getting in to. It takes considerable effort to get through, but there were many shining moments to make up for the sections that dragged. But, regretfully, I don't have any examples of them to display. I must blame my own poor foresight; I didn't think to note the pages of her greater moments when I came upon them. It'll be too much to go digging for them now. But I must offer something:
"'Hello,' Miel said, squeezing out a little more affability from somewhere. 'I'd forgotten, Jarnac mentioned you were coming along today.'
Ziani Vaatzes turned his head and looked at him for a heartbeat before answering. 'I'm afraid I sort of bullied him into inviting me,' he said. 'Only, I've never seen anything like this before.'
Miel smiled. 'Anybody who can bully Jarnac has my sincere admiration.' He said. 'I'd have thought it couldn't be done. So, what do you make of it all?'
'Impressive,' Vaatzes replied; not that it mattered, since Miel wasn't particularly interested in the truth. 'I had no idea it'd be so formal. I expect I look ridiculous.'
'Not at all,' Miel said (it wasn't a good day for truth generally). 'What've you got there, in the bag?'
Vaatzes looked sheepish. 'I didn't know what to bring, so I fetched along my bow. I hope that's all right.'
'Very good,' Miel said. 'Is it one you made yourself?' he added, as a way of filling the silence.
Vaatzes nodded, loosed the knot and pulled something out of the bag. It would have looked quite like a bow if it hadn't been made of metal. He was holding it out fro Miel to examine, like a cat that insists on bringing small dead birds into the house." –page 377
Though not one of Parker's finest moments, between the two excerpts, I think that it gives a fair summation of her writing style, and the interplay between massive infodumping and dialogue. Much of the book follows a similar structure. While I hate to say it, you could probably skim half of it without missing anything.
The one place where Devices and Desires didn't get bogged down in details, was in battle sequences. In those scenes, Parker takes a narrow view of the field, without attention the greater flow of the fight. For that, I thought that the battles were the best part of the book. I found them to be suitably confused.
The environment is described down to the placement of every nail, but the characters are, as far as appearance is concerned, mostly left to the reader's imagination. She does, however, detail every facet of their personalities in the same manner that she does the world.
The characters are set up to extreme opposites, giving them something of a yin and yang effect (which I like to think was deliberate). Valens is a strong, confident, charismatic leader, while Orsea is weak and indecisive, leaving most decisions to others. Naturally the nations that they lead – Valens' Vadani and Orsea's Eremia – are old enemies. Then there's the calculating and methodical Ziani, who's main opposition, Miel, acts more on intuition and a sense of duty.
The same structure is applied to the nations themselves. The Vadani and Eremians take their cues from the Dukes. The Eternal Republic is excessively organized, while their greatest enemy, the Cure Hardy, are chiefly dispersive and nomadic. Accordingly, the strong and structured nations, the Vadani and Mezentine's, are rich, while their opposites are very poor.
The only flaw in her characterization (that bothered me anyway) was that her everybody was almost emotionless. When this was first pointed out to me, I wrote it off as: "well, nothing that bad has happened yet, but when _____ happens…" Only, when those things did happen, the characters all shrank down into contemplation rather than displaying any emotional reaction. Even at the beginning of the novel, when Ziani is fleeing his execution, it's more of a rational process than it is a desperation to not be killed.
Devices and Desires has it's strengths, certainly, but it's the things that went wrong that I always seem to dwell on the most. Besides the weaknesses of the characterization and the over-descriptiveness, there were a few points that struck me as especially jarring. First was the fact that the Republic is a highly industrialized society, while the rest of the world seems to be dwelling in the middle-ages. I can understand the Mezentines being secretive with their technologies, but it only stands to reason that someone else would be able to figure out how to make a few innovations themselves. Extra attention is given to innocuous events that will come into effect later in the story, making the foreshadowing feel artificial. I thought there was an over-reliance to the scorpion, and would have liked to see some other war engines get a little more spotlight. And the other major point was a "bad guy explains the plot" scene at the end. I had puzzled out a good deal of what happened on my own, so half of the explanation was redundant. The other half I liked better thinking of it as coincidental.
I can't help but to bring this all back to comparisons to R. Scott Bakker. I could easily draw parallels between the characters in both series – Ziani to Khellus, Miel to Achamien (no, Devices and Desires has no magic, I'm talking about personality), Valens to Conphas, etc. Not to accuse Parker of borrowing ideas; I think it's more of a "great minds think alike" proposition. The characters really are quite different, overall, but they share some fundamental similarities. The story's are nothing alike. But they both try to present higher concepts than might not be readily comprehensible to the average reader. Well, they were a little beyond my understanding at least. And they're both a bit of a chore to read.
Overall Impression: Good.
Final Thoughts: Devices and Desires is a difficult book. It took a lot of effort to get through it, but it was, in the end, satisfying.
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Carl V. said,
Nice to hear someone else admit that they do that with books. I myself do that only I am probably not as discerning as you. I love to talk about whatever I am reading and so more often than not whatever book I am reading is out there prominently so that it might jump start a conversation. Perhaps part of that is that I do often judge books by their cover and rarely spend money on a book whose cover I am embarrassed to have laying around. I am proud of my geekiness. 😉
These covers have intrigued me ever since I first saw them on bookshelves and I have looked at them every time I go in the store. Nice to finally see a review of one. I think you did a really nice job and it encourages me to try these out despite your reservations and some of the problems with it. It certainly sounds like you felt the experience was worthwhile and that makes me want to take the risk.


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A combination of Jayhawk quarterback failed to navigate a porous Texas Tech defense last week as Kansas failed to capitalize on Red Raider quarterback Patrick Mahomes injuring his shoulder.
TCU lost at home to a reborn Oklahoma squad and now has themselves behind the 8-ball for the Big 12 title with road games at Baylor, West Virginia, and Texas still on the schedule.
TCU Horned Frogs
Kenny Hill – the Texas A&M transfer – dueled with Baker Mayfield last week but a 25 point fourth quarter deficit proved to be too difficult to overcome.
The usually solid TCU defense had no answer for Oklahoma's offense and was reamed by Gary Patterson in the media this week. Patterson's teams have prided themselves on defense and allowing 52 points certainly won't sit well with him.
In turn, the Horned Frog defense will be called upon to respond to Patterson's criticism and prove they can do their part in bringing TCU toward a Big 12 title.
TCU has had no issue scoring points this season – averaging 43.4 per game over the first 5 games of this season.
Their opponent – Kansas – has struggled to defend of late – giving up 45 points per game over the last three games.
The concern however is that TCU has overlooked Kansas over the last few seasons. Not enough to lose to them but TCU has won the last three meetings by a total of 20 points.
That hasn't been on par with the performance gap between the two teams as TCU has totaled 26 wins since the start of 2014 while Kansas has totaled just 4.
Kansas playing TCU close recently is alarming for betting TCU but the defense is likely to awaken after Patterson's chatter about them.
Also, factor in that Kansas's offense is very, very bad. TCU is shoe-in to win the game but the game could be closer than people expect.
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Kansas surpassed their win total from 2015 in the first game of the 2016 season. However, their victory was over FCS Rhode Island who didn't pose much of a threat.
In 2008, the Jayhawks at one point were ranked the number 1 team in the country. They finished the season 8-5 but since then have won a total of 4 conference games. 4 conference wins in 7-plus seasons!
It won't be any easier again this season as the Big 12 looks as loaded as ever. Kansas lost all 9 of its conference games last season by an average of 36 points per game.
However, their closest game was at TCU which they only dropped 23-17.
Yet, it doesn't look as positive going into this game. Their next closest loss last season was to Texas Tech by only 10 points.
Last week, the Jayhawks lost by 36 to Texas Tech who lost their starting quarterback in the third quarter.
And, in last season's 6 point lost to TCU, the Horned Frogs lost QB Trevone Boykin early in the game and had very poor quarterback play in his absence.
Kansas used both Ryan Willis and Montrell Cozart last week but both struggled against a bad Texas Tech defense.
The defense held up well for a half against Texas Tech but fell apart in the second half. The defense though is their strength and could slow down TCU enough to make the game respectable.
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I expect the TCU defense to be determined to prove their value after getting embarrassed by Oklahoma and Kansas shouldn't make that too difficult to do. The potential for Kansas to slow down TCU a little bit is there but isn't very likely.
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Kansas tried to play fast-paced with Texas Tech last week and that didn't work. I imagine they will at least attempt to slow the game down a bit and their defense is capable of getting enough stops to keep this game under.
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10 March 2011
Aw Shame
Poor widdle americans.
They do not know about big frogs.
I Africa big frogs play and win half rubber against crocs , but sometimes dey lose.
In any kase that monkey dick was raised somewhere in a zoo and fed government food.
If that was a African monkey or me, the frog would have exploded, struth.
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General Queries
- How will my daytime vet know I have been to Vets Now?
The details of your visit to Vets Now are automatically sent through to your day practice the following morning after your visit to the clinic. You will also be provided with a copy of the clinical journal for your own records when you leave the clinic. This contains all the details of your pet's visit to our clinic.
- Do I speak to a veterinary surgeon when I call with an emergency?
No, you will either speak to one of our dedicated call handlers who will take your details and inform the clinic of your imminent arrival or one of the clinic team.
- How do I get in touch with the clinic?
You can call the clinic on the emergency number. If you have an emergency then press option 1 or if you are calling for a general enquiry (including payment, insurance claim query, inpatient update etc.) please select option 2.
- What are Vets Now opening hours?
We have 55 clinics throughout the UK and there can be some small differences relating to opening hours, dependent on the clinic. Check with your own day practice who will be able to confirm the exact opening hours of the appropriate clinic. In general we are open Monday-Friday – from 6pm/7pm-8am/9am and Saturday from midday to Monday morning 8am/9am.
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How Can I View My Account Usage?
What Are The DTS DNS Servers?
What Are The DTS Mail Servers?
How Can I Manage My Services?
How Can I Contact DTS For Support?
How Can I View My Account Usage?
Dataview is a simple yet concise tool developed to assist our customers view their data usage.
Login using your full DTS username and password
What Are The DTS DNS Servers?
The following is the primary and secondary DNS servers for DTS customers
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How Can I Manage My Services?
The Account tools page provides direct links to many of our service ports such as;
Sentinel Monitoring: Access your DTS Sentinel account here, just enter your username and password for access.
Verse Login: Access your Verse account here, just enter your phone number and password for access.
As well as other helpful tools to assist you manage your services;
What Is My IP?
Speed Tests
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You can lodge a support ticket anytime using our online support request form. DTS will reply promptly and issue a ticket number for your future reference.
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Project Name : Nihon Intranet Management(NIM)
Technology Used : ASP.Net 2.0, ADO.Net and MySQL.
Description : NIM is the inhouse project .It consist of several modules like purchase order, Travel, Reimbursement Detail. Designing the WebPages in the Nihon Intranet Management. Develop the module for Purchase order and Reimbursement Detail.
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Project Title : Vibration Monitoring System
Client : Taiyo Denki, Japan.
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'Arrow's' Willa Holland on Thea's 'Dark' Road: This Is the Start of Her Downfall
In Starling City, danger is never far and this time Thea is the latest victim.
On Wednesday's Arrow, Slade makes his move against Oliver and the repercussions are big. While Oliver scrambles to protect his family, namely Thea (Willa Holland), whom Slade has in his clutches, a member of Team Arrow starts to doubt Oliver's decisions.
"Thea learns something pretty massive in episode 18, and it will cause a tectonic shift in her relationship with Oliver," previews Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim, hinting that Oliver's sister finds herself in physical and emotional danger.
STORY: 'Arrow' EP and Stars Preview Huntress' Stormy Return and Deadly Goal
"It's a double-edged sword," he adds. "I can guarantee that by the end of [the episode], one of those blades is going to cut her."
"Deathstroke" is the first of many showdowns between nemeses Slade and Oliver and provides "a lot of insight into what's going on in [Slade's] head," Guggenheim says. The episode, which he calls the "mid-midseason finale," offers viewers a better understanding "of Slade's agenda" and "where he's coming from.
"The circumstances are really scary and thrilling, in the sense that Thea has no idea what's happening -- all of a sudden, she gets kidnapped," Holland tells The Hollywood Reporter. "She's not being tortured by Slade physically; he's mentally toying with her and with Oliver. It's an intense episode for Thea, especially toward the end."
When Thea made the ill-timed decision to get into Slade's car at the end of last week's episode, the youngest Queen was left reeling after Roy's abrupt breakup, unaware that her family members were, and are, keeping vital secrets from her -- notably Oliver's superhero life and the identity of her biological father.
STORY: 'Arrow': David Ramsey on Eye-Opening Pasts, Enemy Team-Ups and 'Flash' Crossover
"There's a lot going on in Thea's life that she's aware of and that she's not aware of," Holland says. "This episode and the next few episodes are detrimental for a lot of characters -- they're bringing to light a lot of things that [can destroy] them all. This episode is the start of Thea's somewhat downfall."
The aftereffects of Roy's abrupt breakup will have a major impact on both characters moving forward. "She is the only thing that keeps him in check because she keeps him grounded. If we were going to play Thea in jeopardy, we wanted Roy to feel some sense of complicity in that," Guggenheim says.
Not only that, but the Queen family secret over Thea's biological father, Malcolm Merlyn, will continue to loom large. "The secret that Moira and Oliver have been keeping from Thea will be casting a very long shadow for the rest of the season. It will play a very big role all the way up to the finale," Guggenheim hints.
If and when Thea finds out about her father, Holland posits that things won't be pretty -- rightfully so. She "would handle it the same way most people would handle it -- if you found out something that is detrimental to your livelihood, you would probably freak out a little bit," Holland hypothesizes.
And should Thea uncover Oliver's Arrow identity -- brother and sister already have a "long history of problems with trust" -- their relationship may never be the same again. "She's starting to finally come to a place where she can trust him and he is the only one who she can trust," Holland says, hinting that Thea isn't "too satisfied with her life at the moment."
Coy about the remainder of the sophomore season, the actress teases that the final six episodes bring her character "to a place we definitely did not see coming." Either way, Thea is in for a world of hurt: "Either road she takes, it's pretty dark and dim."
Arrow airs Wednesdays on 8 p.m. on The CW.
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It's been awhile since I've bought a Sara's City video, and I was happy to see that the video quality has improved somewhat over the past few years. The picture is not as grainy and the sound is better and more consistent. We're still not talking movie quality, but good enough for me.
This is a 40-minute step workout followed by lecture. The 40 minutes includes a 5-minute (each) warmup and cooldown. Gay teaches 4 combos, TIFTing from time to time, but not too much. If the workout had been any longer, I probably would have gotten bored, but this was the perfect length for the choreography. The choreography and intensity are both intermediate to high-intermediate -- I would not call this an advanced workout, in spite of the name. The music is okay, perhaps slightly above average. Some of it has a Latin feel to it. I enjoyed doing this workout. It's great for time-crunched days or for combining with some strength or other work. Grade A-.
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Much of the work around institutional repositories explores one specific function of repositories: to store and/or catalogue scholarly content such as research papers, journal articles, preprints and so on. Ariadne has reported on many of these developments [1] [2] [3]. However, as stressed by the JISC senior management briefing papers [4] for Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE), repositories can be a tool for managing the institution's learning and teaching assets too.
The West Midlands Share project (WM-Share) [5], funded under JISC's Distributed E-Learning Strand Regional Pilots [6] is looking at repositories that support the sharing of learning and teaching content within FE and HE in the region. As well as institutional repositories the project's scope covers the use of regional and national repositories. Examples may be found in the following references: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
There is an increasing number of repositories for learning and teaching. However we do not yet have sufficient understanding of how repositories might be used to facilitate the use and sharing of content in a way which is embedded into normal working practices. WM-Share aims to find out what the emerging reality is, and how these developments can best be supported within the region. This article sets out some of the ideas we are now addressing, and highlights the likely characteristics of successful e-learning repositories.
So what do we know about how repositories of learning and teaching content are being used?
We will outline here four usage scenarios. The scenarios are not intended to be a complete classification of usage types, but represent a set of illustrations to demonstrate the distinctive and varied nature of repository use in e-learning.
Amanda is a member of a community of practice centred on a common teaching area. The members belong to different institutions in the region. They have met and know each other. All members have created their own online learning content and recognise that it may be very useful to others. Amanda agrees to share her content. She uploads her files to a central store, gives the content a good description, classifying it by subject. Users can then search the store, find that content, download it, tweak it for their own purposes and use it in their teaching. The people who get resources also put their own resources here. As time goes on, the amount of content reaches a critical mass and the community decides to make it available via open access to anyone.
This subject community scenario may be familiar from e-learning research, and represents a good practice model that some projects seek to reproduce. In our research so far, we are finding little evidence that this type of practice is common on a day-to-day level. This scenario represents an extremely beneficial way of working for this particular type of community and is well worth supporting; however, it will nonetheless be very difficult to reproduce successfully as standard practice for everyone, as not everyone is a member of such a community. Other ways of working need to be considered.
Brian is one of a team of four maths lecturers at the same university. Between them the lecturers teach a number of first year courses. They are all confident VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) users and are happy to share teaching resources with each other. This is the third year they have taught these modules between them, and Brian has had to spend several weeks rebuilding the courses on the VLE. They are also developing some new materials for the spring term and are currently emailing the drafts around as they develop them.
They start using a repository to upload their worksheets, presentations, problem sheets and study materials, adding descriptions, version numbers and comments; they also place their draft materials there. Instead of uploading every document to the new course area in the VLE, Brian is able to have one browser window open on the VLE administration page and another open on the repository, and upload links to the repository content into the VLE. When anyone updates or replaces a file in the repository, the VLE course is thereby automatically updated. In the repository Brian can sort the resources A-Z, and he can classify them by topic area. He starts to add some of the key Web sites he uses for his research work so that all his key sources are in one place. He also has his own space on the departmental Web site where he puts his project work so he also adds a link to this in the repository.
This institutional course team scenario reflects some of the willingness to share evident in the first scenario, but only within a small, closed group. The resource collection is highly specific to this course team, and contains Web links and drafts as well as finished teaching content. No one outside the team would ever see the content repository because students are just linked direct to the content from within their VLE courses.
Clare is a foundation degree course leader. A number of neighbouring FE colleges all teach similar curricula for one of their foundation degrees. Among the seven colleges, two are WebCT users, three are Moodle users, one is a Learnwise user and one has no VLE. They already collaborate and share practice, and are keen to avoid 'reinventing the wheel'.
They discuss creating some shared courses in Moodle, as the most common VLE within the group, but that still means staff from the other four institutions having to learn Moodle. They decide that their aim is to share teaching content via a repository, and that they will each take local decisions about how best to deliver that content. Clare asks them to email her 10 content files each to make a start, along with descriptions of each file. She uploads the files onto the repository, then when a reasonable amount is there, she sets up user accounts for the rest of the group. They continue emailing her their content during the year, and they download the content they want direct from the repository into their own VLE. Unlike the previous scenario, the repository is not being used as a tool behind the VLE. Instead it is used as an alternative file store that is institution-neutral and VLE-neutral. The collection is intentionally shareable and reusable. Staff do not directly upload their own content, instead they contribute to the collection via Clare.
Such a multi-institution model can exist in many forms. For example, repository uploading can be either mediated (as here, by Clare), or team members could upload themselves directly. Use of the VLE can be independent at each institution (as here), or the whole course could use just one VLE course area (as we have also observed in the West Midlands). There are many possible variations of this model.
Dave works within the History Department and has his own teaching area in which he is the departmental specialist. He manages all his own online courses himself, with the assistance of one of the University's learning technology officers. He has read a lot about how institutions are setting up repositories full of learning materials, and how JORUM and other regional and national initiatives are encouraging people to share. At the moment he is trying to find a repository somewhere which might cover his specialist area, but so far he has not had much success. He uses Google Scholar [13] and Humbul [14] a lot, and is discussing with Library staff how the Library catalogue search tool can be developed further. This way he has found quite a lot of descriptive information, film clips, and journal articles; but would find it helpful in building his courses to have some teaching resources such as materials for role play scenarios, multiple choice questions for formative assessment, and topics and background information for group project work.
In this scenario we simply have an individual teacher wishing to benefit from the online resource collections which have been set up. A large number of online repositories are being set up with the idea that the resources in them can be openly shared by all. But how is the average lecturer, pressed for time, going to find a way to search through them all and find what is needed?
Though in previous scenarios we have emphasised the use of repositories as tools for teams and communities, there is a challenge in making the tutor-created content developed within these teams available alongside professionally produced, quality-checked learning materials so that the individual tutor has access to the most useful content.
These scenarios are just a sample of the activity that we have found in the West Midlands and are by no means an exhaustive classification of usage. But they do illustrate some common themes. Although it is very early days, it is becoming clear that the latter three types of repository use may become far more common than those in the first scenario. If this is the case then we need to explore how these models can be integrated into the Common Information Environment 15] for the benefit of users.
We are finding many different of types of learning and teaching content in repositories and this means that no single type of repository structure and organisation could be expected to cope with them all. We will now describe some examples of the types of learning materials in use.
Repositories can be a home for publicly-funded learning objects e.g. NLN (National Learning Network) Materials in FE repositories, and soon, X4L content in JORUM [9]. Many repositories also provide a player for content-packaged materials, enabling users to 'try before they buy'. The content is intended to be downloaded as required into a VLE. Such content has perhaps initially been developed by teachers but has been subjected to a strict quality management system and likely to be of a high professional standard.
A simple object is a tutor-recommended Web site link. Tutors who are keen to share useful resources for their colleagues often start sharing details of Web sites as well. This may seem to duplicate the role of library subject gateways, but from the tutors' point of view it gives them more ownership of the recommended resource, they can provide their colleagues with a more complete picture of their sources, and they might not feel they are in a position to contribute to the library-controlled lists.
Working teachers produce tutor-created content. In the course of their work, most academics and teachers create their own content. These materials, such as worksheets, learning materials, presentations, case study notes etc, may be used as electronic resources or they may just be printed out, but either way they are created electronically and stored in the VLE, shared drive or personal file store. They might be as basic as a one-page PDF document, or as complex as a set of Macromedia Flash animations.
A common concern we have heard raised is that such tutor-created material might be of low quality. Issues mentioned are: faulty spelling and grammar, uncleared third party copyright, technical problems (for example, badly rendered Web pages), style over substance (lots of pretty pictures but very little depth) and so on.
Of course some tutor-created content may indeed be of poor quality but equally, a vast amount is of a good professional standard. It is true that such content is perhaps not as polished as other content might be, but nor is it in any way sub-standard; after all, it is being frequently used with students and has often been refined by the tutor over several iterations. In fact, it might be highly refined to support the objectives of the course, with a tight focus on learning objectives and activities. There is a large amount of this type of content in use, and there are some services already supporting the sharing of such content [16] [17]. It is very likely that institutional repositories will make this content more visible and accessible.
The nature of the content held in repositories raises a number of questions:
In exploring usage we have found it useful to classify activities as putting and getting. Putting involves uploading, meta-tagging: describing, classifying and keywording; and getting includes searching, browsing, locating a known item, downloading, linking to.
Our first scenario suggests that each user engages in both these activities on any one visit, and most repository software is designed on that premise. But the other scenarios show that a more diverse picture is emerging. 'Putting' might be a totally separate activity from 'getting' in the majority of cases.
Most tutors do not necessarily have to 'put' their content in the repository at all, since this might be mediated or supported by a colleague or a learning technologist as part of the team organisation. Experience from institutional repositories (for example, Glasgow's DAEDALUS Project [18]) echoes this finding. Since the effort required to 'put' may be perceived by the user as outweighing the benefits, it may be necessary to do the putting for them, perhaps on a central basis via learning support services. Whatever the situation, the process of 'putting' needs to be easy and straightforward if it is to be embedded into practice.
The activities in the course team scenarios both result in small collections of content that would only be of use to very specific users. Even in the initial subject community scenario the content might be limited to a very specific subject area. The members of the groups know they can get useful content in these very particular locations, but people outside such groups would view these repositories as rather 'empty'.
At what point does an open access repository contain enough content to make it worth coming to as a place to get content? How should that informal content collection be promoted? Can it be promoted as quality-assured? Will it all be focused on a specific subject area?
How can the general individual user such as Dave in the final scenario easily find very specific subject resources across the distributed collection of repositories now emerging nationally and internationally?
Given all the factors above, it is quite possible that the activity of 'putting' will often happen quite separately from the activity of 'getting'. It is also clear that it may be rarely worthwhile for individual tutors to go directly to a repository to obtain content; it would be far more efficient for them to search across a number of distributed repositories.
It cannot be assumed that all e-learning repositories will be open access. So how does a collection in a closed repository become available more widely?
To return to the course team in Scenario B, how does the maths lecturers' content become openly available? There are a number of steps they need to consider:
This is a lot of work for a small team to undertake, and we cannot assume that it will be willing or able to do it. Whilst it is all possible, it requires a lot of effort and therefore may never be carried out.
Once several repositories have agreed to open up access then developments such as open standards, search agents, aggregation tools and authentication frameworks will be needed to make their use an operational reality. This work is being undertaken under JISC's Digital Repositories Programme [19].
The model outlined in the initial scenario, of a user who is both a contributor and a searcher, may only occur in the minority of cases. If users can access the contents of the repository alongside other collections without having to visit it directly, then the collections themselves do not have to be either large or comprehensive. In that situation they do not have to promote themselves directly to the users, only to the search agents. This is quite a different approach.
A shared understanding of what the user really needs should enable repository providers to make best use of emerging technical solutions.
The following suggestions are based on our observations so far and are subject to further refinement, but they are shared here to give an indication of the emerging key factors for success.
Much of the content will be 'working content' shared by a group of people who work together. They need the ability to set up group areas in the repository, perhaps not initially viewable outside their community. The community ownership might need workflow tools for the management of content so that the responsibility for the system can be shared appropriately among skilled members of the group.
Unless content is uploaded by professional central teams, it will be uploaded by a busy working lecturer. Therefore systems involving processing the material prior to uploading (e.g. IMS packaging) might be seen as too complex. A very simple upload mechanism and metadata entry is needed.
Users of working content will need to feel comfortable about the Intellectual Property Rights of the materials; since the community members know and trust each other, more relaxed rules for sharing would be acceptable locally. Perhaps different parts of a repository or even different items in the repository would have different rules.
The repository is highly likely to be used in conjunction with some kind of VLE as the means by which the repository resources are presented to the students. There needs to be a simple process by which resources are first downloaded from the repository and then re-uploaded into the VLE, or whether they can be transferred directly, or whether the VLE can simply contain a direct link using the URL of the repository resource. All this VLE awareness affects the functionality needed in the repository and its surrounding support tools.
There will be a variety of practices among users, and the lecturers and tutors will want to have a say in how things are organised. This means they need a host who will listen, and who will act on their wishes.
In response to the growth in repository provision throughout the FE and HE sectors, search agents will need to access these diverse content services. The many development projects funded by JISC in this area will need to address the diversity of repository provision.
As illustrated by the requirements listed above, no single type of repository system is going to meet all needs. No one host institution or organisation is going to be able to run a repository for every purpose. The content will vary from informal, through 'working content', to formal polished professionally produced content. No one repository will have the technical or management structure to deal with all these different types. We will find ourselves in an environment containing a variety of different repositories. It is very important for repository owners to think very carefully about who their users are and exactly what kind of repository they are developing.
There is an increase in use of repositories to use and to share online learning and teaching content within and between institutions. As well as national and regional repositories, all FE and HE institutions are being encouraged by JISC to develop and run their own repositories. This growth complements the drive towards scholarly repositories, but should be understood as a distinct activity.
The benefits to users depend on how they already share their teaching content with their peers. Some may benefit most from a closed, team-only institutionally-provided solution, whereas others may prefer an open access repository used by a community of practice; and many users may require something in between. There is no single set-up to suit every arrangement. The content collected within these teaching repositories will make up diverse collections, varying in quality and purpose, raising questions for library services. The methods for sharing these informal content collections beyond the immediate user groups have yet to develop, but individual repository owners will need to address issues of ownership, content quality and metadata, according to the particular type of use to which that repository will be put.
By focusing on the user perspective, we see a rich but complex pattern emerging which may greatly challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. The West Midlands Share Project is exploring these issues and we hope to report our findings here in 2006. If you have evidence of repository use that supports or challenges our thinking, we would very much like to hear from you
Authors' note:
Please note that the views in this article are the authors' own, and do not represent formal project findings or recommendations. The WM-share project concludes in April 2006 and its formal outputs will be made available via its Web site as they become available. The authors are very grateful to Sue Moron-Garcia and Viv Bell, fellow members of the project team, for helpful and challenging discussions, and to JISC for funding the project.
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Poverty, spirits and sommunity : explorations in intercultural philosophy
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