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Will a pill make you less befuddled next time you try to master the controls of your new digital camera? Will it make you as intelligent computer-wise as your 10- year-old child? Are you continually losing your keys and glasses, feeling less alert and concerned about Alzheimer's Disease?
A U.S. study involving 750 average people showed that memory impairment affects the majority of people over 40 years of age. Now Canadian scientists claim they've developed a super ginseng pill, called "Remember-fX," that prevents us all from "losing it."
Today there are many ginseng products available, but their value has always been hampered by a complication. Ginseng purchased in stores isn't just ginseng. Rather, it contains many other active ingredients. Therein lies the "Catch 22."
Dr. Andrew Greenshaw is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Alberta where much of the ginseng research has been conducted. He says, "For years you've been able to buy ginseng over the counter and the label tells you what's in it, but it does not inform you how pure it is."
He adds, "Studies show that the amount of active biological ginseng varies, not only from product to product, but also from batch to batch. This is what has plagued the natural health industry for years. Consumers have had no way of knowing what they were buying."
During the past 10 years, an Alberta biotech company, CV Technologies, and a team of 25 scientists have developed and patented a process called "ChemoBioPrin." This technique isolates the active ingredients, called ginsenosides, from the root of the North American ginseng plant. Now, like prescription drugs, consumers can know exactly what they're buying, as the process assures batch-to-batch consistency, efficacy and safety.
Dr. Jacqueline Shan, President of CV Technologies and a renowned researcher, says "Remember-fX contains active phytochemicals and works by increasing choline uptake in the brain. This results in an increase of acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter essential for learning and memory function. And that this also prevents nerve cells from undergoing degeneration."
She reports that studies on rats showed that they learned more rapidly, could retain and recall tasks better and became smarter in avoiding situations that caused pain. Laboratory studies also showed that Remember-fX could promote the growth of nerve cells.
Shan adds that Remember-fX appears to protect the brain from the ravages of old age including degenerative diseases of the nervous system such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. And that its goal is to help the ailing brain store memories.
Dr. Shan is not alone in her enthusiasm. Dr. Christina Benishin, a professor of physiology at the University of Alberta, says that "Remember-fX increases function of the brain's neurons. People discover they've become more alert, attentive and focused. And that it's easier to retain things they've been studying."
One clinical trial showed that people between the age of 20 to 22 and another group from 45 to 65 years of age enjoyed an astounding 300% increase in memory when they were subjected to recollection tests.
This research is a ground-breaking event for a Canadian company and for the 364,000 Canadians and millions in the U.S. who suffer from memory loss, Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. What is particularly exciting is that for the first time there's no guess-work in what consumers are buying. It also means that CV Technologies' ChemoBioPrint process has created a unique and new playing field for natural herbal products. This is long overdue.
Be sure to see your doctor if you have trouble remembering simple words, balancing a chequebook, if you get lost in familiar places or notice drastic changes in personality, behaviour or mood.
Today several drugs are available to treat a failing brain. Unfortunately, prescription drugs are often associated with diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, headache and dizziness. Luckily, nutraceuticals such as Remember-fX are usually better tolerated and safer. For those of us who find the lost keys in the sock drawer, it may be time to try this medication. The cost for a month's supply of 60 capsules (one taken twice daily on an empty stomach) is $18.99 and it's currently available in Canada without a prescription. It is not available in the U.S.


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Feb 3rd, 2013 – Wasiu Ayinde KWAM1's New Wife, Titi Masha Gives Birth To Baby Girl In Chicago
It's a baby girl for pregnant Titi Masha, the new wife of King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal popularly Kwam 1 or K1 by fans. naijagists.com
Last year, the popular Fuji musician was involved in a dirty lover snatching scandal when he impregnated and secretly married the niece of his former wife, a socialite identified as Titi Masha.
It was a tough call for the musician but he later came open to admit that she is now his third wife.
To cut the long story short, Titi Masha put to bed in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday the 2nd of February 2013. She gave birth to a bouncing baby girl.
The excited mother of one is said to be doing well with her baby girl.
Titi Masha is the third wife of Wasiu Ayinde.
The self-proclaimed Fuji leader has a wife named Wendy in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
As at the time of this report, the musician is in Toronto, ON, Canada.
He is set to travel to Chicago this week to see his new baby girl.
Congrats to her.


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How to Extend a Drain Hose on a Dishwasher
A dishwasher can make short work of the dishes and silverware from your latest dinner party. These appliances spray water from your home water supply over the dishes to remove food and other debris. The water is then pumped out of the dishwasher through a hose and into your sewer system. In most installations, this drain hose is attached beneath your kitchen sink. Extending the drain hose on your dishwasher is a simple operation.
Turn off the power for the dishwasher at the main circuit.
Locate the end of the drain hose where it is attached beneath the sink. It will be attached either directly to the tail piece located just beneath the drain, or to a garbage disposal beneath the sink, depending on your installation.
Use the screwdriver to loosen the hose clamp holding the hose in place beneath the sink.
Apply a few drops of liquid soap to the drain hose coupling. Slip the coupling inside the end of the drain hose leading back to the dishwasher. Secure with the hose clamp.
Apply a few drops of the soap to the other end of the coupling. Attach a drain hose extension to this end of the coupling. Secure in place with a hose clamp.
Reattach the end of the extension hose to the drain inlet or the garbage disposal. Secure with the clamp.
Things You Will Need
- Drain hose extension
- Hose clamp
- Drain hose extension coupling
- Screwdriver
- Dish soap
- Instead of using a coupling to increase the distance of your drain hose, you can also install a longer drain hose. This option, however, requires a bit more work, as you will need to access the back of the dishwashing machine in order to remove the old drain hose and attach the new one.


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Title: The Encyclopedia of Useless Information
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March 18th
Yellow teeth
Here's an ad on my site.
And I'm thinking, there's so much more wrong with her teeth than just being yellow. Has she thought of going to a vet? Oh, that's mean. Isn't it? Just plain mean. (But they are a little scary.)
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Genre: Animation
Runtime: 112 min
Main Cast: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson
Directors: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore
Our big-fisted, warm-hearted villain is back. Ralph and Venelope go to the internet to find a replacement part for Venelope's broken game. The discovery of the internet hits both, Ralph and Venelope, in very different ways.
I found the storyline a bit slow and the comedy average. It lacked the originality of the first instalment and ended up feeling like a better-executed Emoji Movie.
The lesson at the end of the movie makes it worth the watch. Kids will thoroughly enjoy it, but parents will only be willing to sit through it once. It feels like there should be more to this movie, and this review, but unfortunately there isn't.
I enjoyed the story and most kids will find it very entertaining. Kids will miss most of the elements that make the movie memorable. The movie takes a stab at mocking some of the most baneful things on the internet.


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Helena, CA 94574
- Phone:
- 707-963-7115
- Location:
- Napa
- Type:
- Winery - Vineyard
- Price:
- $5 - $35
The Beringer Vineyards is the oldest continuously operating winery in Napa Valley and the very first to offer public tours. This may make Beringer sound like a historical curiosity, but the tours are still fresh and entertaining and they do say that wine improves with age.
Several tours are available here, from the shorter, more family-friendly tour of the winery and aging tunnels, to more extensive wine-tasting tours. In any of the tours, you'll see history play out and learn about the process of making wine.
Wine-tasting is here a-plenty, of course, and both the neophyte wine enthusiast and the experienced connoisseur will find a tasting suited for them. Tastings range from newer wines to reserve wines and can include food or cheese for more nuance. The taste relationship between wine and food is, after all, an important one.


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Lesson planning: the basics
Here are 6 main questions to consider when planning your lessons. Included also are some hints and ideas to help and further questions to consider.
What do I want the children to learn or start to learn?
- Begin with the end in mind. What do I want the children to leave with that they didn't arrive with?
- Am I going to share this purpose? Don't waste time getting them to write the objective out in their books though!
- Might the purpose be best articulated in the form of a question to answer?
- Pitch it high – avoid 'must-should-could' as it signifies low expectation. A possible alternative is…'We are learning… (objective) so that we can…' (tangible outcome).
- Base the purpose of the lesson on their precise need. What have they achieved recently that informs today or this series of lessons? What are they understanding less well?
- The clearer you are about where you want them to get to in this lesson or in a series of lessons, the better you'll be able to help them get there.
How will they show me they've learnt it?
- Have a tangible outcome. Remember this may not be achieved within this lesson. An end task or exit ticket may work well here. Flag this up at the start so that they are aware of the direction of travel.
How will I explain and model it so that they have the best chance of getting it?
- Understand how limitations in working memory may influence the manner of your explanation and modelling. Less is more so be clear, concise and 'choose the shortest path'.
- Consider the impact of dual coding (pairing words with graphics). Think about how you make the abstract more concrete and therefore make sense to them e.g. drawing diagrams, using manipulatives, providing demonstrations…
- Find out what they already know and then build on this. Possibly through a 'quick review', 'do now' or 'cold task' at the start.
- Use a worked example if they are novices moving onto problems if they are more proficient.
- If you use a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) deconstruct it, ensuring that you 'call your shots' and articulate your expert thinking out loud to the children. A visualiser may be helpful in some subjects.
- Spend more time thinking about how you are going to explain and model than anything else.
- The 'I We You' approach from Doud Lemov's 'Teach like a Champion' is a helpful structure to consider here.
What practice will they need to do?
- Plan in adequate time, during the lesson and over a series of lessons, for the children to practise using their new knowledge and skills.
- Be clear about what you want the children to achieve / produce during independent practice time. What are the key tasks children need to do during independent time?
- Relentlessly check their work. Prioritise who you visit – possibly monitor first fast starters and those who may need support.
- Allow for at least 5 minutes struggle time – no input from teacher or TA so that any support is required rather than assumed. Ensure they start well before any intervention.
- Align independent practice to the assessment – match the rigour of the upcoming assessment.
- Consider how many children should receive feedback from you. How could you increase that number? Who might you prioritise?
- During practice time constantly check all children for understanding – avoid traffic lights or thumbs but utilise instead observations, mini whiteboards, exit tickets and hinge questions.
What if they struggle and find it difficult to learn?
- What strategies should we be teaching children so that they can better cope with struggling?
- Some will need focused questioning; some might require a clear or different starting point; some might rush and have to redo the task.
- Some might need you to re-explain but possibly not all. Use 'drop in clinics'.
- Who is most likely to struggle? Knowing your class well will help you to prioritise.
What if they find it easy?
- How will you be 'responsive' if some children seem capable of working beyond the objective?
- Some will reach the objective more easily and need to be challenged further – what constitutes a good challenge without just doing more of the same work? A 'sideways stretch'?


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Tone & Stretch
Created over 60 years ago by the German dancer Lotte Berk, the exercises are based on modern dance, yoga and physiotherapy. A fun and deceptively challenging workout designed to achieve a lean, supple and toned body. The classes are an excellent complement to Yoga and Suzy is also a qualified yoga teacher.
Performed at the ballet barre and on mats, this 60 minute workout targets all major muscle groups. Regular practise gives you trimmer thighs, lifted buttocks, strengthened abdominals and improved balance, stamina and flexibility. The exercises are performed to music. No prior dance or exercise experience is necessary and all fitness levels are welcome. Come and try out a class!
Wednesday 6.15 - 7.15pm with Suzy


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This is common part that is misplaced, and lost. These are original.
You never know when you hit something or you like to run through sand or an oyster bar and damage the prop. These are original propellers.
This is an exact replacement of the twist throttle, cable, and sheath used on the engine legs. The kill switch and ground wires can be removed to use the original dead man style switch.
This is replacement for any worn clutch houings. Bolts right up to factory positions. Please use your original hardware bolts and washers.
This is an exact replacement of the tiller arm with twist throttle, cable, and sheath used on the engine legs along with the deadman style kill switch with lanyard and ground wires.


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Toyota to unveil self-driving cars at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Toyota to unveil self-driving cars at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Toyota plans to show of its self-driving cars at the 2020 Summer Olympic games in Tokyo, a similar timeframe to most automakers. The Japanese government is hoping to have autonomous cars driving before that time, to help with the influx of visitors to the country.
Demonstrations will be held at the Odaiba waterfront area, where most of the Olympics will take place. Compared to the rest of Tokyo, the Odaiba area has large, straight boulevards and light traffic, making it the ideal place to preview and demonstrate the company's self-driving capabilities.
"We want to show a high-spec technology as a showcase," said Toyota's executive general manager of autonomous driving, Ken Koibuchi, to Automotive News.
But how bold is Toyota?
Toyota expects the showcase to be a turning point for public perception of self-driving. At the moment, it does not see major public demonstrations as necessary, though the lack of publicity could haunt the company as consumers look to competitors that have actively promoted development for years.
That lack of boldness has not weakened Toyota's pursuit, according to Lux Research, the company is rated as one of the leaders in self-driving. It has partnered with Stanford and MIT to accelerate the development of AI and robotics, critical to the development of driverless cars.
Earlier this year, the company also announced a new self-driving vehicle, outfitted with Lidar, radar, and other high-tech sensors.
Toyota is the largest automotive manufacturer in the world by sales, so it needs to be ahead when it comes to self-driving. Forrester researchers predict that self-driving could have a severe effect on the global economy by 2035, harming automakers that don't pounce on the opportunities.
The post Toyota to unveil self-driving cars at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo appeared first on ReadWrite.


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Staci Haines, the author of The Survivor's Guide to Sex, has made a movie about what it's like to be someone who's experienced incest/abuse and has arrived at the place where they want to have a sex life that makes sense and feels great.
That's a tall order for anyone, actually!
When Staci first wrote her book, it was considered offensive to suggest that incest survivors would even want to have a great sex life... the notion was that they should just learn how to embroider and forget. —Or that they were damaged goods and nothing could be done about it.
The small corner of "advice" that was traditionally offered was always built around prejudiced assumptions about what was the "right" kind of sex and the "right" kind of relationship a "normal" person should have. That meant: no kinky sex, nothing except married straight monogamy, no fantasies, no erotica, etc.
Staci's book and therapy ideas broke all those rules, and she wanted to break some more when she decided to make a movie. She didn't just want to be a talking head therapist— she wanted to show what it's like for people to take the bull by the horns. She and SIR Video cast and scripted the stories of four different characters, who have all come to a point where they've decided, "a change has gotta come."
They're all so different from the Hollywood stereotype, or even the do-gooder stereotype. This is not a "Ozzie and Harriet Do Therapy" picture. (Would you expect anything less from the producers, Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano— who brought you Bend Over Boyfriend)
My special treat for this picture is that the producers asked me if I wanted to interview Staci for one of the special features on the DVD. I got to ask her all the difficult questions that I've ever confronted with as a sex educator or sexual radical.
I am not a survivor... not the incest kind, anyway! When I was in my 20s, I met my first lover who was beginning to admit what had happened in her family, and I was completely unprepared. We started out hot and heavy, and then... the wall came down. I felt guilty for even wanting to have sex after I knew what she had gone through. But I also knew I couldn't be with someone indefinitely when sex was so ambivalent and absent.
The same thing happened with a man I fell in love with, years later. I felt so helpless. With a man, there was a whole other take on it, even more shame about his very masculinity. I saw how incest could make one person frozen and another "promiscuous." It was never the same thing twice, except an incredible depth of betrayal and self doubt. Those of you who have been there, on any side of it, know what I'm talking about.
This movie is incredible; and it's such different kind of idea... a movie that's both a story and therapy, a documentary and a guide. DIY-survivor-sex! Every therapist should have a copy on their shelf— and if the incest has ever affected you, in any way, I hope you'll get to see it and tell me what you think.


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I downloaded some code from a university website that calculates a metric evolutionary trees. I'm trying to run the program (called example.py) and the first line of the program is
from TreeGenerator import Tree_generator
I did not think this would be a problem because TreeGenerator.py is another file in the folder I downloaded. However, when I try to run the program it says that it cannot find the module TreeGenerator. I tried putting the folder in my path but that didn't work. I was wondering if there was any specific place in thy python folder that I have to put modules like that. Thanks!


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- The non-absorbent shell which is puncture and mildew resistant. Folds up easily for storage and carrying • Sewn handle for easy transport
- Firm EPE eco-friendly and long-lasting foam enclosed in a durable PU leather cover
- Velcro strap on each panel allows for connection to additional mats for tumbling runs
- Ideal for martial arts, gymnastics, day care activities and other activities • Perfect for tumbling, exercise programs, pilates, stretching, yoga,
- Foldable design for versatility • Sewn handle for easy transport • Easy cleaning vinyl cover
The exercise mat has a unique striped pattern and is thick and is very durable. The exercise mat is covered with PU leather which is non- absorbent and easy to clean. With its ease of use and durability it is a perfect choice and equipment for a great workout.


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This method of alcohol delivery is, from a certain very twisted point of view, quite clever. The gut is a tube. This means that regardless of which orifice alcohol enters your gut,you can still uptake the alcohol into your system and enjoy the intoxicating effects.
Now, a new paper from Jaeckle and Strathmann looks whether sea cucumbers might be able to ingest food via the back door. It turns out that sea cucumbers have an odd system for taking up oxygen. They have respiratory trees that connect to the anus, shown below:
Consequently, the anus isn't just an exit point for undigested waste in sea cucumbers. There is much more activity than simple expulsion, with water being moved to and fro to allow for respiration. Given this, there would seem to be much more opportunity for nutrition to enter the digestive system through the anus.
To test this, they performed two experiments. In the first, they put giant California sea cucumbers (Parastichopus californicus) in tanks with algae that contained a heavy carbon isotope (14C). Let's look at Figure 2.
What the authors are trying to show is that the closer you are to the respiratory tree, the proposed entry for the food, the more of the heavy carbon isotope you find. After 24 hours, though, the level is nearly as high in the digestive system as the respiratory tree. But a close look at the figure starts to see some significant shortcomings.
First, the more disturbing thing about this graph is the error bars. There aren't any. There is no indication of sample size anywhere in the paper. There are no statistical analyses, either. I suspect that each data point was pulled from one individual. If so, that is a huge problem that makes it difficult to conclude much of anything.
Then, notice the time collection intervals. You get a lot of measurements in the first 8 hours, then nothing until 25 hours. I am betting the #OverlyHonestMethods version of this would read, "We did most of the work in one day, went home to eat and sleep, and came back the next morning." That day long cycle might matter for the results, depending on the behaviour of the sea cucumbers. Are they nocturnal? Do they feed differently in the day that the night? Those sort of questions are not answered. They also don't appear to take any steps to try controlling for ingestion through the mouth.
In the second experiment, they exposed the animals to large molecules containing a lot of iron. The iron allowed them to stain it later to see if it had been taken into the tissues.
I don't like this experiment as much as the first one, because it seems unlikely that sea cucumbers are hanging out in regions that are rich in large nutritional molecules. The previous experiment seems to better represent actual ingestion of food in cells: the sort that a sea cucumber might encounter in the wild.
Again, there are some shortcomings in how they present their results. In their figures 4 and 5, Jaeckle and Strathmann show that there are bits of respiratory tree tissue that have stained blur for iron, indicating that those molecules were incorporated into the animal. But... the authors show only the positive experimental stains. While they say in the text:
In the respiratory trees of control animals, there was no equivalent presence of the blue reaction product.
It would be much better if they also showed the negative control in the pictures.
And another weird thing that you can see in the acknowledgements is that this work was done in 1996. While this is not a record for delay between the experiment and publication, over 15 years in the waiting has to be in the top one percent of waits.
The authors note that even if the sea cucumbers were able to retain all the food in the water, the amount of food they would be getting would probably not be that large. The authors do raise the possibility that this unusual way of feeding might allow sea cucumbers to get different kinds of food than they would get by ingesting it through the mouth. But this is speculative, and it seems likely that anal feeding would contribute at best only a small amount of the animal's nutrition.
This paper makes a plausible case for this sea cucumber species to be able to get some nutrition via the anus, but it is very limited in what you can conclude from it.
P.S.—And if all that didn't make sea cucumber anus remarkable enough, it can also provides a home for fish.
Jaeckle WB, Strathmann RR. 2013. The anus as a second mouth: anal suspension feeding by an oral deposit-feeding sea cucumber. Invertebrate Biology: in press. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12009
Giant California sea cucumber photo by Ken-ichi; sea cucumber diagram from here.


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It's so nice when a restaurant delivers more than they need to, more than you expect to receive. When looking at a chalkboard menu filled with cheap small plates, one rarely hopes for anything more than simple products. But here at Au Passage, your 8€ octopus dish has undergone three days of preparation. There's a quiet ethos at work beneath the blaring bustle of the dining room: staples are homemade (butter, bread, stock, charcuterie), vegetables and fish receive priority attention, and meat is served in a nose-to-tail spirit with every last offaly bit turning up on the menu. So much heart and creativity for so little money. Au Passage is not for everyone, nor is it trying to be. If the loud music, frenzied service, and worn-out interior turn some people away, that leaves more space for me.
Practical information
Address: 1 bis passage de Saint Sébastien, 75011
Nearest transport: Saint-Sébastien Froissart (8), Saint-Ambroise (9)
Hours: Closed Sunday; Open Monday-Saturday for dinner
Reservations: Book a few days in advance for the first service; Reservations not accepted for the second service at 9:30pm
Telephone: 01 43 55 07 52
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Au Passage in photos
What people are saying
Reviews citing Edward Delling-Williams as chef
The Wall Street Journal (2014) "Under its new chef, Edward Delling-Williams, the three-year-old Au Passage, in an alleyway south of République, has become a go-to for winemakers and off-duty cooks… The draw is the menu of small plates that are highly ambitious yet reasonably priced."
Ruth Reichl (2014) "Casual, comfortable, raucous and delicious, this little wine bar/bistro is the perfect place to fall into when you're hungry but not in the mood for an enormous, expensive deal."
Reviews citing James Henry as chef
Le Figaro (2011) "Décor de zinc popu à classer d'urgence et petits plats goûtus, boutiqués avec énergie sous couvert de désinvolture."
Wine Terroirs (2011) "All the wines here are chosen with care… The bottle wine-list is quite good for a restaurant of this size…"
Pierrick Jégu (2011) "… spécimen de bistrot local qui popote avec malice… Une bonne surprise derrière des airs de nonchalance."
Alexander Lobrano (2011) "A perfect example of one of the most welcome recent trends in Paris–relaxed and affordable wine bars serving interesting small plates and 'natural' or organic wines."
Au Passage in video
Anthony Bourdain's Paris episode for "The Layover." The segment Au Passage begins around the 7:05 mark.


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KDE 3.0: A New Era In Desktop Choice
Today the KDE Project proudly announces the release of KDE 3.0 (fully mirrored below), a release which marks a new era of choice on the desktop. Every advance opens the door to a group of new adopters, and KDE 3 is set to tear the doors asunder. In celebration of the release, the KDE League has posted the text KDE: The Complete Enterprise Desktop Solution, a work-in-progress but already something useful to show those who are considering the migration to freedom. Enough talk, time to download.
Re: Leading
of course noone can say for sure what is the leading desktop for unix/linux etc., but most polls indicate kde is far ahead. Polls are obviously not reliable and vary depending on where/what site they are, but i haven't seen a poll in the last two years where gnome was ahead of kde.
also, i think kde got a lot more awards (from magazines and fairs) than gnome.
You might also want to look at the number of posts in the mailing lists. Might give you an impression where development is more active. To be honest, i never compared that cause i'm quite sure i know what i'd see ;)
By me at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Leading
ummm... why not gnome, it works well for me and many others.
By me at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Leading
And Blackbox works for me, so maybe it's the "leading desktop".
But of course, Blackbox isn't the leading desktop, despite its sublime elegance. KDE is.
By David Johnson at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Leading
KDE is the default desktop environment on almost every major Linux distribution except for RedHat (which, ironically, is the most popular distro, but anyway). I think this is good justification to say that KDE is the leading Linux desktop.
By Justin at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
RedHat and KDE
Ironically most of the time I hear about desktop deployments running Red Hat... they use KDE.
By ac at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Conflict in RH packages
Is anyone else seeing this?
Xconfigurator < 4.9.42-1 conflicts with hwdata-0.9-1
Are people ignoring and simply --force(ing) the issue? The conflict is only the matter of one file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards and I assume the format hasn't changed?
Apart from that, I'd just like to thank all the KDE developers and packagers(Bero in particular for the RH packages) for the best desktop(I've been running CVS on my home machine, but don't have the time/resources to compile here).
By Rob at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Conflict in RH packages
I got the Xconfigurator-4.10.1-1 RPM from RawHide and it solved the problem. Try rpmfind.net or one of the RH mirrors
By Uri Shohet at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Conflict in RH packages
Thanks, I was considering that, but I think I'll either use --force or uninstall Xconfigurator(I don't *really* need it). I've been bitten before using Rawhide packages...
By Rob at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Conflict in RH packages
looks great. only problem: i cant seem to get anti-aliasing to work, even after i configure it in the control panel->look and feel->fonts.this worked well in 2.2.2.
By shiva at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Wow! This release rocks!
It is hard to express in words how much I like the new KDE3. I am running it since yesterday when there was that premature announcement on heise.de, and I am really, really impressed. From the little time I had to test it, it seems much more stable than the KDE2.0 release. In fact, it does not feel like a .0 release at all.
There are some minor rendering bugs (I will of course post them on bugs.kde.org), but nothing drastic such as konqueror crashing. The performance is really improved. I am using a 256 meg machine, so I can not really say how fast it is on low memory machines. But on my machine konqueror is now overall the fastest browser. It outperforms mozilla on windows and even sometimes IE on windows. Other applications also come up much faster than before.
I also really enjoy the new kmail. It looks much better, and (most important for me) it finally supports SMTP AUTH, so I can remove that horrible SMTP after POP script from my mail server. The PGP/GPG integration also looks nice, but I did not have time to test it yet.
The new printing system, especially in conjuntion with CUPS, is a much needed addition. Printing was always some kind of weak spot for the UNIX office. It does not affect me much, since I do not see the point of putting information on paper anyway :-), but some people just love printing out documents and web pages and reading them on paper. I guess that is what they mean when they say paperless office...
So to all the KDE developers reading this: You guys are cool. Seeing a project like KDE growing gives me back some faith in humanity.
p.s. is there a way to donate to the KDE project so that the donation can be written off from the income tax (in germany)?
By Androgynous Howard at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Wow! This release rocks!
By Anonymous at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Wow! This release rocks!
> p.s. is there a way to donate to the KDE project so that the donation can be > written off from the income tax (in germany)?
Yes, see http://www.kde.org/support.html
By Carsten Pfeiffer at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
I look forward to trying kde3, but that probably won't be until i upgrade do a distribution upgrade because i've wasted enough time sorting out rpm dependencies. In gnome i use red-carpet, and that makes installing/removing/upgrading software easy, so i have gnome2 snapshots running already. What i really want to know is if there is any similar utility planned for kde? (even just a kde channel on red-carpet would do) - otherwise i, along with most other users (excluding debian), will never upgrade kde by hand so will always be using an old version.
Re: Installer
What the heck dist are you using?!
urpmi, Yast2 AND dpackage ALL have upgraded my KDE between releases of the dists and i have never had problems.
By far Mandrakes is the most strait forward, followed by Yast2 and dpkg.
I would look into it, and you will see why no-one has ever desired to implement this.
-ian reinhart geiser
By ian geiser at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Installer
Redhat (the only distribution apart from debian that's worked relaibly and stably for me, and i've tried mandrake, suse(when they had isos available, their net installer failed miserably for me), caldera, lycoris...) - it does have it's own updater (up2date) but i very much doubt they'll put kde3 packages on there any time soon (of course i could be wrong).
Anyway that's all getting a bit offtopic, well done on releasing kde3, i'll give it a go next time i upgrade.
Re: Installer
well on the off chance you actually bought software you would find both Mandrake and SuSE install very easily and work very reliably.
The only difference is that both Mandrake and SuSE seem to put more effort into makeing KDE work.
My advice to you is to upgrade, or at least try bero's packages.
I have found you never get more than what you pay for, and for me the $60 USD to SuSE was well worth it. In fact I am all ready to preorder my next one. Yes as a shocker I am a Linux user and I do _pay_ for software ;)
-ian reinhart geiser
By ian geiser at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Installer
I have also paid for linux software - my most recent purchase being codewarrior for linux (they normally produce great software, at a decent price, and have been very responsive to my emails about problems i have found with the linux version).
The problem with suse linux is that the last time i tried it it crashed on me, regularly (every few hours, and no it wasn't just x) so i wanted to try a newer version, tried the network install and that failed miserably - maybe it is worth the money now, but i am a sudent so i hold onto my money tightly and i'd rather stick with a distro i know to be stable rather than pay for one that was useless last time i tried it.
Re: Installer
I'd love a red-carpet installer and all, but the thing is that it is a nightmare implementing one (and supporting all major distros), without something like Ximian's resources.
Notice that GNOME itself only officially releases source packages, just like KDE. It is only a third party (ximian), that makes it available. If a few of the KDE developers formed a company, then it might be possible, but that's rather doubtful.
OTOH, why not a straight-forward port of red-carpet to qt/kde (pretty easy, red-carpet isn't that big), or a KDE channel in red-carpet (if Ximian doesn't want to, use a thirdparty server).
By fault at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: Installer
A Red Carpet type download management program for KDE would be wonderful - at least for me anyway.
By Smith at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: Installer
Well for suse-7.3 it is possible to apt-get kde3.
By Richard Bos at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Cool! A very good work guys! This will begin a new era in UNIX desktop computing.
By SilvereX at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Super ... Great ... Wooaaaooo
Everybody did a marvellous job. Congratulations!!!!!!!!
By Nassos Koyrendas at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
Anyone had problems with aRts not starting? It complains about not being able to autodetect Input/output method or something like that...
By Namar Gonzales at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
Try downloading the rpm from ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8...
This is the ftp server attached to http://pclinuxonline.com
They often have updated or interesting files there and interesting tips and tricks for Mandrake.
Justin T.
By Justin T. at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
I have! The same problem with a mad16 board.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
hope this helps
By crazycrusoe at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
Worked here, thank you very much.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
these directories do not excist anymore
i still have no sound, and i have a ess maestro soundcard, on a Gateway Solo 2550
By Peter at Sat, 2002/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake 8.2 aRts problems
could you send me some art peroblems, their causes and how it is solve?
By rongie isip at Thu, 2004/03/04 - 6:00am
problem with kpersonalizer
I installed KDE3 on mdk 8.0 with old kdelibs to keep old kde 2.x apps working.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: problem with kpersonalizer
~/.kde3/share/config/kpersonalizerrc needs to look like:
Then you shouldn't see this popping up anymore.
Justin T.
By Justin T. at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: problem with kpersonalizer
So why doesn't kpersonalizer do that itself? Not very user friendly, is it?
By Einar Larsen at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: problem with kpersonalizer
Worked, thank you very much.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: problem with kpersonalizer
Hay, Thanks for your help Justin!!!
I saw their was that file there but i dint know what should be in it.
Thanks Again
Coomsie :3)
By Coomsie at Mon, 2002/04/22 - 5:00am
Re: problem with kpersonalizer
I accidently started Kpersonalize and it started showing up at each subsequent logins. The kpersonalizerrc file was existant but empty... could this be a bug or a file access issue which is silently discarded by the software?
By Eric Thibodeau at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: problem with kpersonalizer
Thanks! I use Kubuntu, and upgraded from KDE 3.5.2 to 3.5.4. Upon realizing I still did not have the "extras" (games, toys, etc.), I installed the kdebase metapackage. Kpersonalizer kept popping up on boot, and this fixed it. :-)
By William H. at Fri, 2006/09/22 - 5:00am
solaris 8 pkg's?
good work guys, anyone know the schedule for the Solaris 8 binaries?
By swongy at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: solaris 8 pkg's?
I heard Slowlaris packages were coming next week... :)
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: solaris 8 pkg's?
Please please make it work before Gnome 2.0 comes standard with Solaris 9.
By Redingofish at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: solaris 8 pkg's?
To my knowledge KDE has always worked well with Solaris. Sun just doesn't care. So why would this make a difference?
Are there really that many Sun desktop users?
By Navindra Umanee at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: solaris 8 pkg's?
Hi Navindra,
where can i download Kde 3.x packages (pkg format )for solaris 7 and 8?
By Amit at Thu, 2002/06/13 - 5:00am
APT repository
Is there any APT repository to get kde 3?? (RedHat 7.2)
By Marcos Tolentino at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
Re: APT repository
For SuSE-7.3 there is, for RedHat I don't know.
By Richard Bos at Thu, 2002/04/04 - 6:00am
unable to access programs menu. control center
After installing kde3 rpms on mandrake 8.1, i am unable to access the program
By Pringles at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: unable to access programs menu. control center
I know that Mandrake 8.2 has menudrake that can be used to fix the problem. I dont remember if 8.1 has the menudrake. It it does, use menudrake to create the kmenu.
By Paul at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: unable to access programs menu. control center
Thanks a lot! menudrake is available on mdk8.1.
Thanks again! kde rocks!!!
By Pringles at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
No SOUND with SuSE 7.3 x86 rpms - rc3 was good?
What did you get?
Apart from that KDE 3.0 is GREAT.
By Dieter Nützel at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: No SOUND with SuSE 7.3 x86 rpms - rc3 was good?
I have the same problem.
I use a self-compiled kernel with OSS drivers, maybe that is the problem?
Ironically arts works with xmms and arts-output plugin, so I think the SuSE package kdemultimedia3 is broken in some way.
By Moritz Moeller-... at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: No SOUND with SuSE 7.3 x86 rpms - rc3 was good?
Yes, I think so.
By Thowil at Fri, 2002/04/05 - 6:00am
Re: No SOUND with SuSE 7.3 x86 rpms - rc3 was good?
On the kde-ftp server there are some new SuSE-RPMs (arts/base/qt). I'll give them a try to see if they fix my problems...
By Schwann at Sun, 2002/04/07 - 6:00am


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To: Crecente
From: Bashcraft
RE: On The Road Again
Today I spent most of the day on the phone. I had an interview with an American famous music person. And since he's super famous (and super busy), it was a matter of trying to squeeze an interview in his schedule before he went on vacation today and before my deadline for the article I'm doing on him. Was able to schedule a slot while he was at the airport, waiting for his plane. But catching him on his cell phone while he was getting ready for international was kinda tricky, but his people was super helpful in coordinating. Anyway! The interview was pretty great and the American famous music person was super humble, super sharp and a great interview — especially under the conditions. Seemed like a normal enough dude. Super!
What you missed last night
New SFIV boss character
More freaky GTA hands!
TGS 2008 official poster
Fatal Frame IV
New Rhythm Heaven, new Wario
Vadar SCIV footage
Bionic Commando Rearmed delayed
SFIV officially multi-plat
Resident Evil 5 screens


text: Well in case it wasn't enough to walk around the hood and ask dudes if they want to buy guns, or snatch their phones, or say "What Up Neighbor". These fucking idiots took it to a Whole new level. Stepping on dudes Jordan's!! Man you could slap these dude mom's and get away with it before you can step on their J's. Every single time they get their ass kicked. I don't know how much $$ these kids make by making these videos but Shit. Hope its enough to pay for their funerals. I can't believe they have made it this far. Stepping on a Brotha's J's…that just suicidal.


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The Great Canned Pumpkin Shortage of 2009: A Lame Marketing Strategy?
In a possible attempt to goose sales, Libby's (owned by Nestlé S.A., the multinational packaged foods company) seeded fear before Thanksgiving by warning everyone that it might not have enough canned pumpkin to satisfy demand, blaming pumpkin scarcity on things like "soggy fields" and "fungus." Of course all the news outlets (including the Associated Press) and blogs couldn't help themselves in parroting the news (ed note: we did too but were suspicious). Even Whole Foods exploited the news by sending out a press release touting that they had "plenty of our Whole Foods Market 365 Everyday Value™ canned 100% pumpkin in stock."
As seen in the above photo, taken the day after Thanksgiving in Andronico's Market in San Francisco, CA (and part of a much larger display!) — and from personal random supermarket research in Brooklyn the weekend following Thanksgiving — it's possible that the "warning" of a "shortage" was just a deceptive marketing ploy to generate buzz and extra sales. Did anyone have a hard time finding canned pumpkin?
Update: The Big Money affirms that there is indeed a pumpkin shortage. It's still unclear as to why canned pumpkin was readily available in some cities and completely sold out in others.
—Raphael Brion


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Here are a few sketches that I made as illustrations for the collection I am working on.
These might be used in addition to some of the already published xykademiqz cartoons.
Academic Job Search
The Life and Times of TT Academics: A Stream-of-Consciousness Post
Psycgirl had a couple of posts on mentoring that made me think about my own experiences.
A while ago, I wrote a book review of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In". There are several things I still remember about the book, and one is her view of mentorship: Mentors are problem solvers, give them a problem to solve. Don't use them to vent your frustration, use their time wisely. People mentor those in whom they see something; unfortunately, the last one, more often than not, translates into people mentoring the likes of themselves; we all know how well that works out for underrepresented minorities.
There are many people who do very good, solid work. However, most of them don't get much recognition; instead, only a select few get all the recognition. You could argue that it's because they are the best of the best, but in my opinion that's not true. I have met a number of people who are young superstars in their fields, and for the most part they are not all that better than many others who are not equally recognized. However, while people are comparable at 30 or 40, by 60 or 70 that means the select few are National Academy members, while most others are not. What really makes a difference is being networked with the people who have the willingness and ability to champion you, who recognize the importance of having junior colleagues nominated for stuff early and often, and who will do it for you either on their own or without much prodding. Getting recognition early is a prerequisite for getting it often, because awards beget awards.
The point is that you have to be meritorious, but you also have to have someone who will be happy to nominate you, proactive about doing it, and who knows how these nominations are written. And it needs to start early, as early as possible. Before the PhD, actually (so yes, foreigners are a bit screwed right there.)
I work with a woman who is considered a superstar, so I am closely familiar with how she does things. I can tell you that she most definitely keeps an eye on her CV and makes sure that she gets nominated for something every year, and has a great network of intra- and extra-departmental supporters who are very happy to write these nominations for her.
I work with a young male superstar with very high energy. Recently, I watched his PhD advisor give a plenary talk. The man showed the pictures of all his students, and specifically highlighted my collaborator and a couple of others who are professors, mentioned their recent achievements, and for my collaborator used the words "high-impact assistant professor". You cannot buy type of promotion. The collaborator's PhD advisor is a really big name, and gives many talks, everywhere, which means that my collaborator gets this type of lip service in a lot of places, including at federal funding agencies.
I got my TT position straight out of grad school, so my PhD advisor remains someone who I presume is the person most invested in my success. Unfortunately, he is of the mind that going after awards is in poor taste, and that you do good work and the recognition will come (this is a man who really should have been in the National Academies, but is not because of personal conflicts). So when I ask him to nominate me for stuff, he does it, but he never thinks about doing it on his own. (Cue: Feel free to think I don't deserve it; I think that all the time.)
I have various colleagues and collaborators who are happy to contribute letters of evaluation for me, but they are not invested in my career. People are too busy taking care of their own careers, and hopefully the careers of their own academic progeny, to worry about mine. Another aspect is that my immediate scientific community is truly international, with more than 50% of people in Europe. The importance of a steady trickle of recognition is probably less important, or differently important, outside of the United States.
I am now at a position in my career where I am no longer junior, which is fine. But, I feel like I am entirely alone, that I really don't have a community or a support network in my field. I can see how people turn into the jackasses we know from conferences, who seem to be in your shit because you didn't cite their paper from 30 years ago and who put down your work. It comes from realizing that they are isolated, that nobody cares about them or their work, and their options are to either get demoralized and quit working (hence deadwoodification) or they realize that the only way to keep going is to emotionally distance themselves from everything and everyone about their work, rely on their own devices, put their head down, and plow. The deadwood/jackass are two possible outcomes for smart, passionate people, who invest a lot of energy into their work but who keep getting overlooked. Sometimes they quit or retire early.
According to my unscientific observation, most men on the tenure track seem confident about what they do, most but not all women seem fraught with doubts about every aspect of their work. For instance the first few years on my TT were really stressful for me, probably because I started out right of grad school and quickly realized the job was very different than what I had envisioned. I have no idea what I had envisioned, really, perhaps what astonished me was the sheer amount of work, the unrelenting demands on faculty time. It was a very steep learning curve, but one of my redeeming qualities is that I generally know when I am in over my head and I seek advice. In other words, I have never had the problem of being overconfident about something, and I always look for ways to improve, and then I do. (In contrast, a supremely confident guy who started the same time as me didn't get his contract renewed after 3 years. Some men don't ask for help or take advice even when they really, really should. )
Unless I have a great track record doing something, I generally assume I don't know squat, then I ask and I learn. But, a side effect is that the people I asked for help now think I don't know squat and they will take it into account when evaluating me in the future. And this is the double-bind (or is it triple?) of asking for help, especially while female, where the default assumption is "incompetent until proven otherwise": if you need help and ask for it, you will get it but be held in low regard for asking, which will then lead to reduced support, and could result in failure due to this second-order effect. If you need help but don't ask for it, you will either figure it out on your own, which will generally take more time and energy than necessary but then you will succeed, or you won't figure it out and you will fail due to incompetence. When you objectively don't know what you are doing, there is a small chance you will do fine by persevering on your own, but a high chance that you will either ask for help and be resented for it, or that you will downright fail.
Many young women in academia lament the lack of support (emotional and practical) for the struggles they are facing. Here is my attitude. Your department colleagues, those who evaluate you, are not your friends. They are your colleagues. They should not know your innermost dark secrets and doubts. THEY WILL EVALUATE YOU. So be prudent about what you discuss with them. I am not saying that there are no exceptions, that you can't have real friends in the department, but it's probably safest to do it after you are both tenured.
Who do you vent to? People who really love you, even if they don't understand what you are going through. Then, people who really care about your success, even for selfish reasons [e.g. your former advisor(s) or non-departmental collaborators]. Then, a peer, ideally from another department or discipline, or another university; someone who is in the same boat, but with whom you are not in direct competition.
I think the key to a good peer relationship in which you can vent is that there is no power differential and that you both need each other for venting, at least at times. For instance, there is a relationship I have with a so-called peer mentor (a person a few years ahead of me career-wise), and the person never wanted to break the facade of infallibility with me, I think because it was important to them to remain superior (or just because it's WASP thing, who knows). Since I have a deep belief that we are all human, and that we all have flaws and fears and doubts, and that everyone's $hit stinks, I decided I wasn't going to keep pursuing an honest relationship with someone who insisted on keeping their guard up. End of story. We now have a nice arms-length relationship, where my shell communicates with their shell, exchanging content-free sugary pleasantries. The relationship is so warm, there are icicles on my sleeves after every interaction.
I have a good mentoring relationship with a couple of senior faculty, who are so senior and so well-established that there is no way in hell they would ever consider me as an equal. But that's fine, as I get good honest advice from them as they would give to a daughter. One is my PhD advisor, another a very senior collaborator. They are the only ones with whom I don't mind sharing doubts and insecurities; they enjoy dispensing wisdom, and I take what makes sense and discard the rest. With everyone else, I assume they would judge or dismiss me for showing weakness, or I had already made the mistake of oversharing, which resulted in uncomfortable squirming, followed by them indeed judging and dismissing me.
(Of course, I am talking about colleagues. My DH is very supportive and listens to 100% of my whiny $hit, on repeat. He is as clued in about the life of women in academia as any man on Earth. Thank you for putting up with me, DH!)
So what's my advice on getting mentored and championed? Based on my own experiences, this is what would say:
Get as much help and advice and learn as much as you can about being a TT professor before becoming one. Afterwards, seek help at your own risk — past the first year or two on the TT, people will take it against you if you ask for advice about doing your job. Your colleagues will take your insecurities to mean that you don't have what it takes. Separate asking for specific problem-solving advice from asking for moral support. I have found that the long-term acceptable questions have to do with personnel or university politics, because everyone assumes all scientists and engineers are clueless about dealing with other people.
Go for advice only to people you trust to really have your back or be invested in your success. For instance, your grant got trashed in review. I know how disheartening and disorienting it may be; my heart still sinks every time I get a rejection even though you'd think I'd be used to it by now. And I am, on an intellectual level, but not emotionally. So I bitch and whine and moan to my husband, but to absolutely nobody else any more. Whining about grant rejection is, as one of my colleagues says, 'loser talk.' Most people think the same thing, they just don't say it. Just like most people think men are the default in STEM and women are not "real" candidates, but can be considered if exceptional, they just no longer say it. (Yes, I am disillusioned after spending too much time serving on the recruitment committee.) So whine about grant rejection to department colleagues at your own risk; I assure you most will think it's your fault.
What if you crave external validation, someone to give you thumbs up that you are doing a good job? I certainly do. Here's the deal — it's just not coming, definitely not with the frequency or the intensity that you need. People are too busy worrying about themselves, and it is assumed that, as a grownup scientist, you are confident (hahahaha). Unless you have the right network of accolade-nominating champions around you, pretty much all you have to go on are published papers, invited talks, awarded grants. They do mean that you are doing well, or at least not doing poorly. (This is me taking myself up as much as spewing advice into the ether.)
As for me, I find that focusing on my academic kids is really fulfilling. I make a point of supporting the people who are mine to support — my students and postdocs — in the strongest possible terms, in the way I wish I had been supported by my elders, making sure they get the recognition and opportunities they deserve. So at least my scientific progeny will be able to say there is someone out there who looks out for their careers.
I have been a professor for nearly 10 years. I am good at what I do and respected within my community, as small as it is. I am well-funded, although that's always a temporarily accurate statement. As I do theory and computation, I don't bring in oodles of money, but I have always been able to support a viable research group of between 6 and 10 people. I publish in well-respected society journals, interspersed with some high-profile papers. My students are good and have been able to get good jobs after graduation. We look at interesting problems and publish papers that I would like to think are original, insightful, and well-written. I am successful, but I don't think I am wildly successful. I would not classify myself as a hot commodity. Perhaps only a hot-as-a-hot-shower commodity, say 100-110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yet, over the past few years I have been getting "feelers" from other institutions with increasing frequency. Usually it goes along the lines of me going to give a talk and then several people asking me if I am happy where I am and what my husband does and if I would consider moving/leaving my university. I used to think people were just making conservation; I was very naive. Nobody ask you about your happiness and well-being unless they are your mother, a close personal friend, or they have a very good and far-from-selfless reason to ask.
So far the feelers have been from places that would present a lateral or even a slightly downward professional move, but with potentially a lot of money. A few came from places that are in a growth mode. In contrast, my current place is good, but uncomfortably stagnant. Declining state support has everyone tightening their belts, wondering what comes next. The college has lost a number of successful mid-career faculty.
For me, the biggest reason for not considering moving at this time is my family. If it were up to me alone, I would move. I hate the freakin' weather where I am now, the endless winters, and I would honestly move for the sunshine alone (several recent feeler places are in very warm locales, such as the one I am visiting at present). Another reason is that, as much as I have been willing myself to love the city I live in, I just don't. We don't really have good friends here like we do, for instance, where my PhD alma mater is (yes, I got a feeler from them, too). Have I mentioned the endless cold weather where I am now? I know, it sounds very shallow even considering moving for the climate, but I will ask you how you feel about it after you have been snowed in for 6 fuckin' months. We had a new snow fall snow earlier this week. (Note: DH greatly prefers cold to hot; DH may be crazy.) As for friends, we have several couples whom we see on occasion, but I doubt any of them would be shattered if we left. We are situational friends — friends only because life threw us together, not because we are particularly compatible or drawn to one another — and, after 10 years here, it's likely that situational friends are all we will have. They are basically someone to kill a bit of time with, but nothing deep by any stretch. We are too foreign, too accented, and too godless for the locals, so we are not even bothering any more with anyone whom we don't know from work.
But with crappy cold weather come good public schools for my children. And my children have their friends and their memories tied to this place; they have real childhood friends here. I have a colleague who's from a fairly traditional culture who says that his kids get no say in what he does professionally; if he gets a good offer and decides to move, they move, end of story; he says he doesn't care what the kids think or feel about the ordeal. With my eldest starting high-school, I could not bear to destroy the comfortable life he has now by moving; he is such a happy, well-adjusted kid, and I think moving him cross-country would hurt him.
I would love for the place where I am now to become a place I am content with both professionally and personally. It's a very good place professionally, but it could be better. For instance, after I had visited my alma mater, I was reminded how nice it was to have several faculty in the same area, who could collaborate and go for bigger grants and even take care of each other's students. I remember loving the fact that I was part of a large, probably 30-student group of all these different professors together when I was in graduate school. In contrast, my students are somewhat isolated, in that there is no one else at my current place of employment who does work similar to mine. While I can have my pick of experimental collaborators, being the only one is quite limiting — I don't have the bandwidth to do all the things I could potentially do. It's also quite taxing on me that I am the only source of technical knowledge in my subarea. Where I went to school, there were several professors and a much wider variety of courses was offered between the 3-4 of them; here, it's just me. And being that I am a well-liked teacher, I end up teaching undergrads a lot. Which does actually shaft my grad students, as the graduate courses they need just don't get offered if I don't teach them, and these days I rarely do.
On the other hand, there are many good experimentalists where I work now, and they bring in money, and the money raises the profile of the place, which in turn brings in good students. Indeed, the students here are pretty good, both undergrads and grads. Or, I should perhaps rephrase — one can hand-pick very good students here, those who have a good background in math and physics, and are motivated — and these students come for the school's name.
If I didn't have a family, I would move someplace warmer, where there are other people doing what I do and where they would pay me a lot. Actually, if it were just me, I would probably move every 4-5 years, as I tend to get very restless. But I have a husband who is very happy with his job, kids who are very happy with their schools and friends and one of whom would be devastated to move. I could potentially move in 3-4 years, as the eldest starts college and the middle one (who is currently very much on board with moving to someplace with hot weather) starts middle school. But even so, I feel heartbroken — even if just in theory — for my eldest to not be able to see his childhood friends when he comes back home during college.
This whole feeler business and the possibilities of going someplace are making me restless; they are enticing, and possibly even more enticing since I can't really act on any of them. I don't want to make the people interview me formally and give me offers when I know I am tied down (although plenty of people do precisely this, make the other institution interview and make a formal offer just to get leverage with their home institution; I think it's douchey to do unless you are seriously considering moving). I am not unhappy or unproductive where I am; the feelers don't come from the places that would be a blatantly obvious step up (do you hear it, MIT and Stanford? I am still waiting), i.e. they are not something nobody in their right mind would miss. There is no pressing reason to move, except my restlessness, dislike of cold, and a lack of good friends. There are reasons to not move, such as uprooting my family from a good situation, which includes good public schools and a solved two-body problem, for essentially no reason.
Yet, I wonder…
What say you, blogosphere? Is it hopelessly shallow to want to move for the weather and because you just don't feel love for your place of employment? Should I just target to move in 3-4 years and let people know that's when I will be available for wooing, and in the meantime just work my butt off? Should I just take a chill pill and bury my head deep into work and not concern myself with foolishness, waiting for the global warming to bring tropical heat to my cold cold place?
Ah, possibilities. And at the same time, impossibilities.
Guest Post: Interviewing for a Job at an Undergrad-Oriented School
By psykadamnit
I want to follow up on xykademiqz's posts on job search strangeness. I'm in a STEM discipline at an undergrad-oriented school. My department has no graduate program, and those departments that do have graduate programs usually only have small MS programs. The focus is on undergrads.
For some reason, most of our candidates in our current search showed the same missteps in their interview presentations. Being an undergrad-oriented institution, one certainly does have to aim a research seminar in our department a bit differently than a seminar at an R1.The audience won't include many direct competitors who can pick apart your research proposal, and it will include many undergraduates who know nothing about your topic (or, worse, have a bunch of misconceptions about your research area). So you certainly need to spend more time than usual on background. This is the standard advice, and all of our candidates followed it. The problem is that most of them followed that advice a bit too well. They spent so much time on background that it was really hard for faculty to figure out what they actually do and what they actually want to do. Some of them showed at least a few results, others showed literally nothing of what they do. Only a couple actually got very specific about what they themselves do and why their approaches and results are so exciting.
"Wait, isn't the point of the seminar just to give undergrads an idea of what you do and why you do it?" Yes, that is a big part of it, but it isn't all of it. We are not looking to hire somebody who will publish in Glamour on a regular basis, but we are looking for somebody who has exciting research projects that are intellectually significant, sustainable, and amenable to undergraduate involvement. In order for us to figure out if you meet that criterion, you have to use your seminar talk to tell us what it is that you actually do. You can't spend 43 minutes on background and then spend 2 minutes saying "So, I work on stuff related to what I just showed you. Any questions?" Um, yeah, I have a question. What the **** do you actually do?
"But I wrote a research plan! Didn't you read that?" First, I'm not on the committee. Second, there's nothing more adorable than a n00b. Tenured professors reading? Really? Most of us are too busy napping! But, seriously, we did read about your research, but we aren't in your field, so we'd like you to summarize your key approaches and findings thus far, and then follow it with something like "So here's what I want to do next…" Then we can have a Q&A.
"But won't that go over the heads of undergrads?" Well, yes, they are kind of stupid. That's why we really only expect you to spend about 50% of the talk at their level before taking it up a notch. Second, are you saying that you are unable to take what you do and bring some of the essentials to undergrads? Are you sure you should be working here?
Anyway, having been harsh on candidates, I'll say this much for them: I think they've been hit over the head a bit too much with good advice. They were told again and again and again (and then some) that they need to take it down a notch for students. And when we look for people who have a lot of teaching and mentoring experience and want to go to an undergrad-focused school, we probably select for overly-conscientious types. It also doesn't help that we are doing a search in one of the more abstract corners of our discipline, and people in that sub-field are especially likely to be told "Remember, most undergrads do not appreciate the abstraction the way you do. Take it to their level. You need to take this weird stuff and make it accessible." Still, at the end of the day, you need to tell us what you do, and tell us why it is exciting and show us how smart you are. Yeah, yeah, the earnest progressive types will say that you shouldn't be a sage on the stage, but we want to hire a smart scientist who does stuff. Show us what you do, you smart scientist! I mean, otherwise, why would we hire you?
Notes from the Search
We have been interviewing and it's been quite exhausting. But, the process reveals more about the colleagues with whom I interact in regards to the search than it does about the candidates.
My school is a large and reputable public school and the department ranks about 15th in the discipline. We are no MIT or Stanford, but we are nothing to sneeze at, so I think it makes sense to look for a candidate who actually wants to come here, as opposed to someone who is settling for us. No one knows what tomorrow brings, but I want a candidate who, at the time of signing the contract with us, is genuinely excited about joining the department and enthusiastic about all the years of hard work and collaborations ahead.
I don't want a candidate who is taking this offer because we were the safety school and they didn't get any offers from any of the several schools where they also interviewed, all located in a specific, widely desirable part of the country far from here. This candidate will likely be out of here before you can say "Rumpelstiltskin" because they never actually wanted to be here anyway.
One straw-man counter-argument that was raised is why would you want someone who can't leave? You want someone who is very good and can leave whenever they want.
I don't want someone who can't leave. I want someone who can but doesn't want to leave, at least not before the ink dries on the contract. Yes, I want us to hire someone who is very good and can leave whenever they want, and who has multiple offers, but who actually chooses to be here. I don't want us to hire someone whom no one else wants; however, I also don't want someone (no matter how good they seem) who feels that we are beneath their level and who will be looking for the first chance to upgrade.
Signing that tenure-track contract is like getting married — you better be enthusiastic about it on your wedding day, otherwise what's the point? Sure, people "get divorced" from their institutions and move on, but if you don't actually want to be doing it from the get-go, better not do it at all. Start-ups cost money, searches require energy and time. I know that the loss of each faculty member due to moving or retirement disrupts the department. I don't like the attitude that we should be grateful to get the "best possible person" if even for a few years. That argument is based on a fallacy that there is such a thing as "The One Best Possible Person"; there are plenty of very good and excellent people who would do great if given the chance. I don't want someone who will be entirely focused on getting out of here from day 1, I cannot imagine such a person would be a very good colleague or collaborator or contributor to the department.
Another interesting issue came up. We have a candidate who is fairly polished, but the past work is not particularly original. However, the candidate does give off the same vibe as one of our best-funded people, so I am confident the candidate will be be successful in the game of schmoozing with program managers. Another candidate is less polished but much more creative and intellectually unique. Some people have raised concerns that the latter candidate might not be successful in talking to grant managers.
Look, I am not deluded, I fully understand that you cannot do science without money. But I really don't understand when the ability to sell, and sell hard, became the most important criterion in recruitment. I would like to think that a person who has interesting and varied ideas and is not a douche could be trained to write grants, alone and with collaborators. I don't know that you can actually train someone to become original or creative. Are we supposed to do the best science, and raise the money to support it, or are we supposed to raise the money, regardless of what it's for?
Bias rears its ugly head. People are really, really drawn to the candidates to whom they are very similar.
- For several searches in a row, a colleague always favors a candidate from the same country of origin, even when others in-area unanimously favor someone else. (That same colleague also collaborates only with compatriots and only brings in students from the same country. This cannot be a good thing.)
- Some colleagues will penalize a candidate for having a presentation style and general demeanor different from their own; we have a subarea that is starting to look like it's populated by clones or, at the very least, siblings.
- Chubby candidates seem to fare worse than thin ones; I wish it weren't true, but it is. No matter how well they present, they are never perceived to be quite as polished as the very thin ones, especially by the very thin and polished members of the faculty. This makes me want to eat a cookie.
Interview Season Fatigue
I am fortunate to have a faculty job at a great public R1 university. Owing to the high research activity, there is always someone here to give a talk. There are three seminar series, associated with three departments, that I usually attend (generally biweekly), and another 1 or 2 where occasionally an interesting seminar comes up. (Which begs the question: what's the ideal seminar attendance frequency? Too many, and you infringe upon your work time, too few and you start getting out of touch, missing potentially important info about trends somewhat removed from your immediate expertise, which is where juicy inspiration for new projects comes from!)
On top of that, we are interviewing for multiple parallel searches, so we have been having 2-3 guests every single week over the past few weeks. Considering that I am involved in the search, I am supposed to not only attend each talk, but also formally meet with every candidate as part of the committee. And let's not forget that candidates have to be taken out to eat, several times per visit. I know I am supposed to enjoy department-sponsored meals at nice restaurants and the chance to talk to smart new people, but I am mostly just resentful. My family doesn't care for me repeatedly staying out and disrupting their evening routine either.
The face-time fatigue during interview season is brutal for job seekers, but if it makes you feel any better, it sucks pretty fiercely for the people on the other side who are involved with the search. As exciting as the prospect of bringing in bright new colleagues is, all the meetings and chit-chat and the extra seminars are simply… exhausting.
Good luck to all who are interviewing! If an interviewer dozes off or their eyes start to glaze over, don't take it personally.
Musings on Networking
Presenting work at conferences is an important part of being a scientist. It falls under the broad umbrella of making your research known to the scientific community. Being able to create and deliver a good presentation is an inherent part of graduate and postdoctoral training.
Let's say you are a junior scientist — a graduate student or a postdoc — and you are attending a conference. Generally, your primary purpose is to present a paper (otherwise it would be considerably harder to justify your expenses to the university financial services and therefore harder to get your trip reimbursed on the professor's grant). You present a paper and hopefully do a decent job. The probability of having a talk versus a poster depends on the field and the particular conference. In some communities posters are looked down upon; in others, poster sessions are a very important mode of interaction among the conference participants. If you have a talk, ideally you practiced in front of your group members at least once ("the dry run"); in my group we do it once for senior grad students and postdocs, usually more than once for inexperienced students.
So you survived the talk and/or your poster session. What do you do the rest of the time? Are you alone at the conference, without anyone you know? Do you perhaps have some of your group mates around? Is the whole group attending, including your advisor/PI? If there are other group members around, you may even go together to do some sightseeing. Also, it is important to actually take advantage of the technical program and attend the talks and poster presentation of other people whose work relates to yours.
But whether you are attending the conference by yourself or are there with the group, conferences are your chances to meet other scientists and enhance your professional… NETWORK. (bwahahahaha!) Networking is considered a dirty word among many academics, who seem to viscerally reject it as being a gauche corporate term for schmoozing, something that the presumably intellectually pure ivory-tower dwellers needn't engage in. In my opinion, it just means meeting people, getting to know them, and generally trying to not be a douche to them, whoever they are. Some small fraction of the people you meet may turn out to be professionally useful to you. Others, not so much. But spending a few minutes chatting with someone need not be torture.
Like any group of people, scientists vary in their social prowess. Still, I think it's safe to say that people in the physical sciences are not considered the beacons of congeniality. These days, however, you cannot be an extremely successful scientist without at least average social skills. For instance, I know a very successful young PI who would come to a conference with a list of people he wanted to meet, and he literally would not rest until he met every single one of them. He is supremely energetic and charismatic, probably on par with the best ad executives, lawyers, or businessmen. He also happens to be a very creative scientist, and this combination of extroversion, charisma, and technical excellence is a great recipe for his success in today's "show me the grants" science model.
Most other scientists are more introverted or not quite as charismatic. Still, networking is necessary, unavoidable, but can luckily be even fun. Or, at least, it can be practiced to the point of becoming bearable.
— The best way to make good professional connections is at small or mid-size meetings, like workshops, where attendance is smaller but the attendees have a lot of chance to interact with one another. After 2-3 years of showing up, people will start recognizing you and saying 'hi' just because they have seen you around. Even if you feel awkward and totally out of place the first (or second, or third) time around, just showing up repeatedly will make people used to you and you might actually start feeling like you belong there. What I would recommend for a junior scientist from grad student to tenure-track faculty is to identify 2-3 small or medium conferences where if makes sense for you to show up every time; it is the best way to find a community where you will comfortable, and where you can feel supported, both in the abstract sense and in terms of having future collaborators or just general connoisseurs and proponents of your work.
— You don't have to force it. There are plenty of relatively low-effort opportunities for networking at conferences. Every conference has some sort of an opening reception, most have a banquet near the end, then there is the poster session or sessions, coffee breaks, and lunch breaks. These are all chances to talk to people if you feel like it. I completely understand not wanting to talk to anyone, wanting to have your lunch or your coffee in peace. But try not to spend 100% of your lunch or coffee breaks alone or with the people whom you know well from your research group. Even if you aim for meeting one new person per week-long conference, that's still something!
For instance, when you are alone at a conference, if you pay attention you will see there are always tables with people who also seem to be there on their own. You can certainly sit at one such table and try to start a conversation. Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it's no big deal. The point is to meet someone new, practice small talk, talk about what you do, hear about their work, and then move on. (The art of moving on is also a very important one and one that even many senior folks really have to master — reading cues that the interaction has run its course and you should go your separate ways. And try not take it personally.)
— Many people are very discriminating when it comes to chatting with people at conferences. Both junior and senior people are often guilty of bending over backwards to talk to someone they perceive as important , and don't think twice about ignoring someone they consider lower on the totem pole, unimportant, or generally unremarkable (a student, a postdoc, a woman they consider to just be someone's accompanying person…) . I have often been on the receiving end of people assuming I am no one of consequence — usually because they think I am a student or someone's wife, although the former becomes less common the older and fatter I get — so I am relatively desensitized to it, I generally correct people or assert who I am, and it doesn't bother me too much unless it's really egregious. One example of a blatant slight was the guy I met at a recent grantee meeting for a federal agency. We were all walking up to the cafeteria and I was talking to a big-shot graybeard from another institution with whom one of my former undergrads is now a grad student. This other guy came up to us, looked me over like I was the shit on his shoe, wedged into the conversation then quickly screened me out, first passing by me then starting to walk right in front of me and cutting me off from the person I had been talking to. You bet I will remember this guy, but not fondly.
It is basic decency to talk to anyone like they are a worthwhile human being. But when it comes to forwarding their professional agenda, many people seem to forget this rule. So perhaps it's useful to rephrase it in the professional networking context: talk to everyone as if they matter to your agenda, because you have no idea when a certain connection, a certain 10-min chat, may actually materialize into something that benefits you. It is never a bad idea to be kind to another person. I personally don't mind small talk; people usually like to talk about themselves, and I like hearing their stories and learning something new about different universities and areas of research. So I just go on autopilot and ask questions along the following lines: I ask about the university, how large it is, what they do for research, how large the group is, if they come to this conference often, what are the other important meetings in their field. Then if it's a PI at a public university, I may ask about state support, departmental size, if they have had recent hires, how are tenure criteria, then we may kvetch about funding in general if there is time, discuss where each one of us gets funding from etc. If a student or postdoc, I ask what they do, how far along the program they are, what they plan to do when they graduate, where have other people from their group ended up. If I happen to talk to someone's spouse, there's stuff to ask about the city they live in, how their trip was, if they have stuff planned for after the conference, sometimes we talk about kids, which I enjoy. When you think of it, the whole small talk business is quite formulaic, and thus hopefully less intimidating. The point is that it should not be hard to spend a pleasant 10 min talking to pretty much anyone and learn a little about them. Being a listener is an excellent quality for making connections with other people.
— One thing that someone mentioned years ago in response to one of my posts over at the Academic Jungle, I think it was Pika, is to forget about sucking up to the big guys and hang out with your peers. This is a very important point.
Everyone always tries to chat up the big shots, who might meet you but will usually forget you, especially if you are junior [unless they know of your work (i.e. they know your advisor) or you have been introduced to them by your advisor (i.e. they know your advisor)]. It's also quite amusing how much many of the big shots enjoy all the attention… but I digress. So just hang out with the people your own age instead. Making friends with other young folks is not only easier when you are a student or postdoc, but those young folks are your actual peers. They are the leaders of tomorrow, and those conference connections of today are collaborative proposals, grants, and postdoc placements for your students of tomorrow.
— Finally, you don't feel like interacting with other humans? Then don't. If you are painfully shy, too busy, temporarily not in the mood to talk to people, or generally misanthropic, that's fine. It's OK to keep to yourself, no need for to torture yourself or others; you have my blessing.
But… If you don't actually mind talking to people, I would say just relax and talk to whoever seems interested in talking to you. That's all you need to do, that's networking.


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Guatemala fundraiser at Love Lane Kitchen, Mattituck
On Feb. 27, Love Lane Kitchen will host a fundraiser for Programa Sueños, a nonprofit that supports the education program in the village of San Antonio el Angel, Guatemala.
If you're wondering about the connection between Love Lane and San Antonio el Angel, it's the restaurant's assistant manager, Jazmin Carrillo, a native of the village. On a trip to her hometown in 2012, she was dismayed to find her old school overcrowded and in severe disrepair. Back on the North Fork, she started a small scholarship program that blossomed into a full 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. (Click here to read Newsday's story.) Carrillo will be on hand to answer questions about the work her charity is doing.
The benefit is a joint project of Love Lane Kitchen and Gerry Hayden, executive chef and partner at North Fork Table in Southold. North Fork Table will be providing passed hors d'oeuvres such as tuna tartar, smoked salmon on blini with horseradish, potato-truffle-crusted scallop, and fluke seviche. Love Lane Kitchen will provide mini lobster rolls, and lamb chops. East Marion's Grace & Grit will provide bacon-wrapped dates, and coffee-rubbed steak. Local beer from Greenport Harbor and wines from Roanoke, Bedell, and McCall will also be served.
A raffle and auction will also be conducted and prizes include dinner at The North Fork Table & Inn and a gift certificate from First & South in Greenport.
Festivities begin at 6 p.m. on Feb. 27 at Love Lane Kitchen, 240 Love Lane, Mattituck, 631-298-8989, lovelanekitchen.com. The price is $100 per ticket, which must be purchased in advance at programasuenos.com/Fundraiser.
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