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Bibliographical data and working with Special Collections
- Catalogues
- Full text
- Microforms
- Researching Print Runs
- Incunabula: Price Index
- Judaica
- Needham's Ruler - instructions for use
- Printers' Devices
- Provenance Information
- Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records
- Digitising Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
- Tools for transcribing manuscript and archival materials
- White gloves debate
- Watermarks and papermaking
- Various
Fun overview of History of Printing by Chris Landry, Managing Director at Colourfast, an international printing company
- Bibliopoly is a multilingual database of valuable and antiquarian books for sale from leading dealers on four continents.
- CICLE(Corpus of Classic Latin Incunabula in Spain) is a relational database which is focused on the heritage of incunable editions of Latin classics produced in printing presses located in Spain from the 1470s till 1500, including printings in Latin and in translation. The database identifies the collection of editions and the surviving copies in Spain as well as elsewhere.
- CICLPor(Corpus of Classic Latin Incunabula preserved in Portuguese libraries) is a database which comprises the Portuguese heritage of copies of incunabula of Latin authors from the Archaic period until Late Antiquity, ending at the time of Isidore of Seville (ca. 560-636). Incunabula included in CICLPor were printed outside of Portugal since in this period no Latin classic texts were produced by printing presses located in the country. Editions in Latin as well as translations are included.
- ESTC (English Short-Title Catalogue – books printed up to 1800)
- Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB / formerly the Hand Press Book Database)
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (over 500 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide)
- Library Hub discover, giving you access details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries.
Booksellers' catalogues
- Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books in Basel has a website that provides various kinds of information for researchers, art historians, historians and everyone who has an interest in precious and rare books. Their more recent catalogues are available online, and the website also offers detailed information about manuscripts, single leaves and incunables, as well as selected images of artworks.
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The Deutsches Textarchiv aims establish a cross section corpus of important works in the German language printed between ca. 1600 and 1900, it covers different genres such as fiction, science, technology, medicine, philosophy and law. The Deutsches Textarchiv presents almost exclusively the first editions of the respective works. The project offers digital facsimiles and full-text encoded in XML TEI P5 format. The text files can be downloaded in XML or HTML format. Linguistic search routines are available: serialization of tokens, lemma, phonetic search (with rewrite rules for historic spelling). Currently, 352 texts dating from between 1780 and 1900 are online (November 2010).
- Text-Inc has the objective of assembling the corpus of texts printed in the fifteenth century (see 15cBOOKTRADE project)
European Register of Microform and Digital Masters (EROMM) - free access to CERL members
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Researching Print Runs
Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the 'printing revolution' in fifteenth century Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) lists more than 28,000 fifteenth-century editions that are represented by surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate. The second factor in the equation – the typical or 'average' fifteenth-century print run – is just as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the 'editions × copies' formula has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material. Such irreconcilable results (in which the margin for error may be larger than the answer itself) only serve to demonstrate that any effort to arrive at a meaningful quantification of fifteenth-century press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on print runs.
Eric White has conducted a study; a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, which takes a step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data?
Download Eric White's full introduction and database of 15th century print runs of incunabula.
Incunabula: Price Index
The Glasgow Incunabula Project references prices of books as actually recorded in the books, and also prices from other sources such as marked up booksellers' catalogues etc. Listed chronologically (earliest first) and then in shelf-mark order, differentiating between currencies: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/incunabula/prices/.
The database Mapping Jewish Libraries allows you to locate Jewish libraries and collections of Jewish materials across Europe.
Printers' Devices
CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers' and publishers' devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ''Imprint Names'' section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to
- English printers' devices up to 1640 from R.B. McKerrow, Printers' & Publishers' Devices
- Italian 16th-century printers' devices held in the EDIT16 database
- 15th and 16th-cnntury Parisian printers' devices from P. Renouard, Les marques typographiques parisiennes des 15e et 16e siècles (Paris, 1926)
- Spanish printers' devices up to 1850 from F. Vindel. Escudas y marcas de impressores y libreros en Espana durante los siglos XV a XIX (1485-1850).
- Printers' devices brought together at the University Library of Barcelona: covering the 16th to the 18th century, geographically from all around Europe but mostly from Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Low Countries, reflecting the collection's own personality. The records in the CERL Thesaurus are http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cni00045319 to http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cni00047557.
Digitisation of further reference works is planned, including Paul Heitz, Elsässische Büchermarken.
Other on-line repertories of printers devices
- MAR.T.E. - Marche Tipografiche Editoriali: Italian 17th-century printers' and publishers' devices - (English version)
- Ronald B. McKerrow. Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640
Provenance Information
See separate Provenance Information section.
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Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records
- PICA and a format description in German
Subject Headings
Digitising Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
IFLA Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- link to website, and link to free PDF
White gloves debate
- Reading Room policy, Stanford University Libraries
- Reading Room policy, National Archives, the Netherlands
- Reading Room policy, Royal Library, Sweden
- Reading Room policy, Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
- Reading Room policy, Getty Institute
- Post by Kimberly Kwan in Ransom Center Managezine (July 2018)
- Misperceptions about white gloves, a Paper by Dr. Cathleen A. Baker, Conservation Consultant and Independent Scholar and Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian, University of Utah
- Blog post by Danielle Westerhof, independent historian
- Blog post by Hannah Clare, Conservator at The National Archives, UK
- Blog post by Rebecca Romney, the Rare Book Expert on Pawn Stars and former manager at Bauman Rare Books
- Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard: Digital Publication of the Piccard Collection of Watermarks - The complete "Piccard" watermark collection - including the printed as well as the unpublished items - is available on-line. About 92,000 records are accessible to a wider public. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and is based in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart.
The web site has introductions in English and German. There is a full-text search interface in English, French and German, and a thematic browse interface also in English, French and German.
- Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries (WILC). The WILC web site gives a description of the project which was intended to provide additional dating evidence for the large number of undated incunables printed in the Netherlands. There is a brief introduction to the creation of watermarks during the paper-making process and a page showing methods of recording watermarks.
The search interface provides a simple search, and advanced search and a thematic browse index.
- Bernstein was an eContentPlus project which started in September 2006 (funding for a total of 30 months). It was a co-operation between nine institutions from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. The objective of project Bernstein was to create an integrated European digital environment for the expertise and history of paper. The project interlinks all existing European databases of paper reproductions, makes their content accessible to specialized image processing tools for the measurement of paper features, and provides an interface to the digital resources of domains related to paper studies or by which the knowledge about papers can be enriched and contextualized. Additionally, a strong dissemination plan included ready to deploy paper expertise software packages to ensure the sustainability of growth and interest in paper studies beyond the project's lifetime. Link to the Bernstein Project
- Watermarks in English incunabula. The Bibliographical Society has awarded a grant for a project led by Dr Lotte Hellinga which will scan images of watermarks from English Incunables prepared for the English volume of the British Library's catalogue of incunabula BMC. The project will develop a database which will be compatible with the WILC and Bernstein projects.
- Watermarks in Spanish incunabula. The Bibliographical Society has also awarded a grant to Dr Gerard van Thienen to prepare a database of images of watermarks from Spanish incunables which will also be developed in a format compatible with WILC and Bernstein.
- The International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) also maintains a web page of IPH related databases which include watermark information.
- Nicolas Oikonomides, 'Writing Materials, Documents, and Books', in: Angeliki E. Laiou (ed.), The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century(Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002), pp 589-592. On 11th-century papermakers in Greece.


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Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual
- Great performance for high resolutions, supports up to four monitors, doesn't require a CrossFire-capable motherboard
- Large size, not well reinforced, no exhaust fan
Bottom Line
This graphics card offers good performance, but it's just too big and not well built.
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Compared to other graphics cards on the market, the Sapphire X1950 Pro DUAL is huge. The reason for its size is the two ATI Radeon X1950 Pro GPUs (graphics processing units) which reside on the one circuit board. Measuring over 30cm, it is about 7cm longer than a regular Radeon X1950 Pro-based board, especially when you take its two supplemental power connectors (one for each GPU) into account. We tested the performance of the card and were quite impressed with the result. However, despite the grunt, the build quality leaves a lot to be desired and isn't as sturdy as we would have liked.
Installing a card of this size can be tricky, especially if your motherboard has IDE or SATA ports located near its main PCI Express graphics slot, and also if your case has a populated hard drive cage directly in front of the graphics slot. We didn't have any problems installing the card in case with two hard drive bays, although if we had a drive cage with three or more bays, then we would have struggled. We used an ASUS P5B Premium motherboard for our tests, on which we also didn't have any problems installing the card. The ASUS P5B is a CrossFire-capable platform, but this isn't a requirement for the X1950 Pro DUAL card. It should also work on most motherboards with a single PCI Express slot. We also used an Intel Core 2 QX6700 Quad Core CPU, 1GB of 800MHz Corsair RAM, a 150GB Western Digital Raptor hard drive and a Seasonic SS-650HT power supply.
Sapphire ships the card with a standard set of ATI Catalyst drivers, and we didn't have any problems using these drivers for our installation. To get the second GPU on the card to work, we simply enabled CrossFire in the driver. The system didn't require a restart and we were able to use all of the card's available grunt immediately.
Testing with FEAR at resolutions of 1280x960 and 1600x1200 with 4x anti aliasing (AA) averaged results that were similar in both tests. The card averaged 67fps (frames per second) at 1280x960 with 4x AA and 65fps at 1600x1200 with 4xAA, indicating that high resolutions won't phase it.
Testing with Quake 4, a resolution of 1280x1024 with 4xAA averaged 123fps and a resolution of 1600x1200 with 4xAA averaged 84fps.
The scores in FEAR and Quake 4 at 1600x1200 are better than what a top-of-the-line Radeon X1950XTX-based card can achieve when used in the same test machine (57fps and 60fps, respectively).
In a non-CrossFire configuration, the card was 11 frames slower in FEAR at 1280x960 with 4xAA--56fps--but its average at 1600x1200 with 4xAA was 27fps slower--38fps. Again, this shows that the second GPU produces much needed power for high resolutions. In Quake 4 the difference between CrossFire and non-CrossFire configurations was even more impressive. At 1280x1024 with 4xAA, the card averaged 61 more frames per second with CrossFire enabled (123fps as opposed to 62fps) and, at 1600x1200 with 4xAA, it averaged 22 more frames per second (84fps as opposed to 65fps).
The specifications of the Radeon X1950 Pro GPU are strong. It has 36 pixel shader pipelines and eight vertex shader pipelines, which can process high dynamic range (HDR) scenes with AA enabled. The GPU itself runs at 580Mhz, while the memory is clocked at 1404MHz, which is slightly faster than a standard Radeon X1950 Pro GPU. The Sapphire X1950 Pro DUAL has two of these GPUs, of course, and each can access its own 512MB of GDDR3 memory. For those of you who use, or plan to one day use a huge monitor, the card supports Dual-link DVI and can support resolutions up to 2560x1600. The card has two DVI ports on its bracket, but Sapphire also supplies cables and brackets for two VGA ports. In non-CrossFire mode, this enables the card to drive up to four monitors.
The card scored 9680 in 3DMark06 which is almost on-par with cards based on the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS GPU. As the Radeon X1950 Pro doesn't support DirectX 10 (it's based on DirectX 9), it doesn't have the same graphics capabilities as that GPU, but it's nevertheless a powerful solution.
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While this card is powerful, it looks like a bit of a novelty due to its size and poor build quality. If your current card is slower than a Radeon X1950 Pro, if you want a single-card solution to drive four monitors, and if your case is big enough to support it, you should definitely think about upgrading to the Sapphire X1950 Pro DUAL.
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In the heat of postseason defeat it's easy to blame a coach or a manager.
That's prototypical of Boston, where championship expectations have surrounded our professional sports teams since Super Bowl XXXVI, when this outstanding run of excellence started.
Perhaps nobody has taken more heat in The Hub over the last few years than Red Sox manager John Farrell.
Manager John and the Local Nine were bounced Monday from the American League Division Series by Houston, losing to the powerful Astros in four games.
The Sox were six outs away from sending the series back to Texas, but Chris Sale and Craig Kimbrel ran out of gas.
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A short memo: Just stop.
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Let's remember that Farrell courageously beat cancer a couple years ago.
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Farrell has skippered this young band of Red Sox to consecutive 90-win seasons and division titles, the latter of which coming in a year when David Price was banged up and Rick Porcello didn't look like the 2016 version who won a Cy Young. Dustin Pedroia and Hanley Ramirez played hurt virtually the entire year.
Farrell also saved Pedroia from getting ejected in Game 4 against Houston when Pedroia looked at a controversial third strike that had the second baseman fuming. Any sign of a great manager is one who sticks up for his players, especially in a game of this magnitude.
The Astros were simply a better team. They have power up and down their lineup, something the Sox sorely missed when David Ortiz retired after last season. A power bat should be Farrell and Dave Dombrowski's top objective this offseason.
Houston, like the Red Sox in 2013, is also playing for its city, which was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. The Sox won one for their city four years ago in the wake of the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, and since the Texans and Rockets likely won't sniff championship parades this season, I hope the Astros bring one home for their city.
Red Sox Nation is an understandably rabid fanbase, and the anti-Farrell social media remarks remind me of the way University of Maine hockey fans were super critical of former coach Tim Whitehead.
Like Farrell in Boston, Whitehead had success in Orono, taking UMaine to four Frozen Fours and two national championship games, both of which the Bears could have won had it not been for controversial calls in each game.
With a fully healthy Price and Pedroia, arguably the best defensive outfield in the game and Chris Sale heading into his second year in Boston, expectations will again be high for the Red Sox in 2018.
It would help if Sox fans had a little faith in their manager the way they do in their team. Remember, Grady Little and Valentine could still be occupying the Fenway corner office.


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Healthy chickens will be able to produce eggs of a greater quality so it'll be in your best interest to have a clean coop. Chicken coop owners frequently face one common issue which is having an untidy and dirty environment inside the coop. It'll additionally be a great idea to clear out the coop occasionally to make sure that their waste can be removed. It is strongly suggested that you cover the floor in the coop with straw as it can certainly soak up the humidity.
Be generous when it comes to constructing nesting containers for your chickens because this will assure that the chicken eggs might be laid in a comfortable manner. Or else, in the event the chicken eggs are strewn out in the open, the other chickens could trample over them unintentionally.
Something else you will need to check for specifically is possible predators. Hardware cloth far more practical even with being a little more costly than chicken wire. When you install it correctly, your chickens' protection will essentially be guaranteed.
You must choose the right kind of feed that you give to your chickens also. Chickens eat almost everything and of course, if they're hungry, they might even feed on pests that they may find. A lot of the chicken feed may be easily procured from a specialized feed retailer or pet store. It wouldn't be wise to supply your chickens with your home cooked food mainly because it wouldn't be suited to them.
A clean and fresh source of water will be ideal. Whenever possible, try to keep these sources far from their nesting or sleeping places, in which their waste are generally located. In any other case, they might wind up ingesting their very own poop unintentionally and become sick for that reason.
You might also want to make sure that the chickens are properly vaccinated for evident reasons. Even with being fairly pricey at the start, being able to sustain your chickens' health and wellbeing would be a sensible step.
You might construct a chicken coop yourself if you would like to but it'll take you some time if you're unfamiliar with it. Go on and buy a chicken coop in the event you only want to undertake it as a short-term project.
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Forging He-Man's Sword of Power
WOW! I never thought I'd see him tackle this one! It looks so much better than the Dolph Lundgren version. I've always loved the silhouette of the Power Sword and I think Tony does an amazing job of capturing it. To me, it's one of the most iconic weapons of all cartoons.
I still wish these episodes were longer. Amazing work.
So, what nerd weapon would you like to see Tony tackle next?
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Every element in every one of these photos is perfection. The colors, the fashion, the happiness...perfection.
{photos by jeanne ciasullo via sweet n flour}
Monday, May 11, 2009
Pops of Green
7 comments:
- Kathryn said...
These are GREAT!
- May 11, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- . . . said...
So inspiring - green is my favorite color!
- May 11, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Julia said...
that top shot is so pretty!
- May 11, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- Sweet n' Flour said...
Hi Erica,
I cannot thank you enough for featuring our wedding photos & for your kind words. Jeanne was/is amazing in ways that I simply cannot describe. It was incredible how well she was able to capture love we were feeling on that day, along with all the details and colors. We were incredibly lucky in all aspects!
P.S. Congratulations are y'alls new bundle of joy & your offical launch of the Thoughtful Day site... I had plans to post on your gorgeous new paper sets later this week... I'll let you know when I do! :)
- May 11, 2009 at 2:59 PM
- brittni of papernstitch said...
yeah marisa and jeanne! you looked so beautiful marisa and i can't wiat till jeanne shoots our wedding in just over a month. :) great pictures.
- May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- Bridechka said...
Just beautiful.
- May 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- {The Perfect Palette} said...
we're loving this green!
- May 17, 2009 at 10:15 AM


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Using Ubuntu NBR [Jaunty], When I right clicked on Firefox 3 icon in "Favorites" and selected "Remove", nothing happend. Other icons can be removed and added but not this one. Could it be because I had aready removed Firefox 3 in synaptic in order to install Firefox 3.5? The answer was to remove the icon file firefox-fav.desktop from /usr/share/applications/ using the [terminal] as follows.
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop


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"Por nuestra cultura hablarán nuestros libros. Our books shall speak for our culture."
Las Niñas: A Collection of Childhood Memories. By Sarah Rafael García ISBN: 978-1-888205-09-1 $19.95
Las Niñas is a collection of autobiographical childhood memories of three Mexican-American sisters. It recounts their struggles while being raised as the first generation born in America of their Mexican family. Las Niñas portrays common situations that immigrant families can relate to through their own process of cultural assimilation. Each chapter is a different childhood memory celebrating Latino culture, life and change through humor and self-reflection. Its creative style and unique display of a child's perception will entice many generations of readers and provide insights on the possible challenges that many recent immigrants face with their family's new generation in America. The childhood memories lightly touch on issues of immigration, learning English as a second language and assimilating into the American culture. Las Niñas reveals the most humorous, intimate and traumatic events that occurred as Sarita, Chuchen and Nini grew up in their family's new country, ultimately providing the foundation for surviving their father's death at such a young age. The bond among the three sisters allows the reader to feel their family's pride and growth in a dual culture. Nevertheless, the reader's own entertainment and personal relevance will be the greatest contributor to Las Niñas' popularity and triumph.
Hispanic literature, Latino literature, Mexican American literature,
Latin American literature, Chicano literature, Latino barrio in fiction, Chicanos social life and customs Fiction, Mexican Americans social life and customs Fiction, Latinos social life and customs Fiction


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Exceeding Your 2018 Revenue Targets With AI And Data
Post Labor Day, B2B revenue teams are heads down in closing out 2017 and planning for 2018. This session will walk through the key plays you must have in your 2018 plan to increase sales and marketing alignment, drive pipeline and exceed revenue targets.
You will see how Sage Software, which sells software to businesses of all sizes in Europe, North America and Asia, used these plays to achieve 6x higher opportunity conversions and 12x higher customer revenue. With a target market of 72M businesses worldwide, Sage used AI and Oracle Eloqua to transform their sales and marketing to drive global market leadership.
- Key takeaways from the session will include:
- How to drive sales and marketing alignment at scale;
- Key use-cases for AI across the entire buyer's journey from account selection to lead prioritization to retention to upsell; and
- How to drive sales adoption and follow-up on leads provided by marketing.


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|Brown suede skirt Creations - Brown top Oscar de la Renta - Grey flats Zara
So very true..
5 comments
- Closet Fashionista said...
Yep, so true! It's our memories that make us enjoy life, not the things we have ! :D
- Feb 6, 2015, 10:02:00 AM
- Witchcrafted Life said...
Goodness, yes! That is so wise, true and important. The older I get, the more I understand and try to live this approach to the world and my place in it.
♥ Jessica
*PS* Love your earrings and nails!
- Feb 6, 2015, 11:07:00 AM
- Mimi said...
Wow, suede is gorgeous love, love love this skirt! If you ever get sick of it, you know where to find me! And couldnt agree more about this philosophy!
Aesthetic Lounge
- Feb 6, 2015, 12:54:00 PM
- LyddieGal said...
Always good to keep in mind!
I just got my year end credit card report that tells you how you spent your money. I'm sure you can guess which category was the most... travel was the least.
Chic on the Cheap
- Feb 7, 2015, 12:29:00 AM
- Mica said...
So very true! :)
I've been spending a lot of time with my grandparents visiting and it's been so good just to be with them every day going out and doing things, haven't been shopping at all, even with the Christmas gift cards I have!
Away From The Blue
- Feb 8, 2015, 6:38:00 AM


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RoboCup World Championship 2013 in the Netherlands
RoboCup, the annual robot soccer championships, will take place in the Netherlands this year.
Eindhoven Technical University is set to defend its world title in RoboCup Soccer during the RoboCup – a yearly international competition designed to advance the development and application of robotics.
Following editions in Singapore, Istanbul and Mexico City, the competition comes to Eindhoven and will be held between June 24th and July 1st, 2013. It is expected to attract some 2,500 participants from 40 countries. Although there is a fun element involved, the drive behind the RoboCup is to help speed the development of robotics for broad applications in society and, consequently, embraces the following themes:
- RoboCup Soccer: creating teams of fully autonomous, cooperative robots that exhibit advanced competitive behaviours and strategies;
- RoboCup Rescue: assisting emergency responders to save people and perform hazardous tasks with highly mobile, dexterous and semi-autonomous robots capable of mapping and negotiating complex environments;
- RoboCup @Home: helping people in their daily lives at home and in public with autonomous and naturally interactive assistant robots;
- RoboCup Junior: motivating young people to learn skills and knowledge necessary in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as to foster their soft skills through participating in the creative process of building and programming autonomous robots.
Further information: www.robocup.org and www.robocup2013.org


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Oh oh here she comes, watch out boys she'll chew you up... The superhit "Maneater" (1982) by Daryl Hall and John Oates is one of my all-time favourite "chick" songs.
Colloquially, of course, a "maneater" refers to a dominant woman who has many sexual partners. Love is not of any consequence in these conquests. The closest a man comes to this definition is "womaniser", a word first used in the 1593. "Love" does play a small role here. According to the Urban Dictionary definition, a man who womanises often needs to work his charm to make his target believe he is in love with her. So who's the stronger sex then? I'm sorry. I think the womaniser is a wuss in comparison to the maneater.
Priyanka Chopra aka Alex Parrish could have gone down in Indian entertainment history in her Quantico avatar as India's first unabashed maneater. But though we crowned her Miss World we denied her this title -- the real action in the car sex scene was deleted on the editing table, though the "pick up" and "drop" were left intact. Someone in India actually still believes a woman needs a man's permission to get her rocks off. Think again.
"India is more evolved than it cares to admit. We may exploit our women at home but at least we empower them in our films."
Our entertainment culture has, until very recently, judged a sexually liberated woman as a "slut". In early Bollywood language she was either the "vamp"or the cabaret artist in the movies. Her sole role was to pour the whiskey ("soda ya on rock?" said such a lady on screen once, in her one line of dialogue, written "specially" for her). She was only ever seen either pre- or post-coitus with the bad guy. "Mona Darling", one of the more famous ones, actually made the name synonymous with women of questionable honour. For a while at least. Recently, we have a more sophisticated term for a woman on screen who is sexy and she knows it. "Item girl" (yes, good heavens!). Ever since, our biggest female actors have been seen on screen jiggling their way through ' item numbers' into the common man's fantasy. And raking it in later by performing these numbers to live audiences in Bollywood stage tours abroad. These are the songs families dance to at big fat traditional Indian weddings. Everyone approves and overlooks the meaning in the song. It suits them at the time.
India is more evolved than it cares to admit. We may exploit our women at home but at least we empower them in our films. And this hypocrisy, funnily, is also why television is at least a quarter century behind real time in its narrative of women in Indian society. We are still projecting women as either scheming or simpering, while the objects of their desire in the show remain the man and his mangalsutra. The reason is simple. The alpha male of the family is often around during prime time and he doesn't wish to be challenged in his own home. Today, he's the real prude.
I had said in an interview in 2000 that we were many moons away from shows on TV where women smoked cigars and swirled their cognacs. It was true at the time. But the last 15 years have seen a dramatic shift in the perception and, more important, the projection of the modern Indian woman. A movie called Race in 2008 became the first superhit for the multiplex movie audience without women in stereotypical roles. It had only dark characters in the lead, and confident relationships in 50 shades of grey. No one was into each other for anything except the money. And having sex for the women or even faking love was just a way of getting the booty. The film redefined what was OK for modern Indian women to do and, for once, neither the conservative men nor women's organisations raised any flags. The sole objective of every woman in the film was the money, not the man. We have since had a Race 2 in 2013. It went down as India's first "international hit" and grossed Rs 1.62 billion worldwide.
Sign of the times. Too much "western influence", some would say. We cut our hair, wear clothes that show skin, have multiple sex partners (sometimes even after marriage) and are basically as dysfunctional now as any other society on earth. Somewhere, Indian tradition has given itself away to international television. And the internet. Digital literacy is creating emancipation. Beware, wusses. We women have no intentions of turning back to analogue.
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Crochet Vintage Sunflower Throw
This versatile pattern is called the City Solarium Throw. Originally, when I looked at the pattern I thought it was cute but I really noticed how big the flowers were on the square. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cute if it was a Sunflower instead? So I changed the colour to suit.
Remember in the early 90's where many of us, including myself, bought forest green furniture and accented it with sunflowers? I remember that very clearly. I still think it's a nice combination, even today.
To some, the Sunflower look is vintage but there's something cozy, homey and soothing about it. Being a former truck driver and being able to pass through 100's of kilometers of sunflowers across the Canadian Prairies, it was magnificent and I was struck in awe. It's so pretty.
Colours Used – Bernat Super Value
Here's a link directly to the Bernat Super Value Colour Palette.
- 2 – Balls Forest Green
- 2 – Balls Bright Yellow
- 1 – Ball Gingerbread
- 1 – Ball Taupe
So use this pattern, switch up the colours and you will have an afghan to celebrate with.


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Join Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a workshop about the EFF's large-scale project to inventory what technologies law enforcement agencies around the country are deploying in our communities.
You will learn how to use advanced search engine functions and comb government websites to dig up information on body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, drones and more, while also contributing to a greater data mapping project. You will also get to test run EFF's research platform, Report Back, developed in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno's Reynolds School of Journalism.
Please bring a laptop to this workshop in order to participate.
What: Atlas of Surveillance: A Workshop on Crowdsourcing Research on Police Tech
Who: Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass
Where: Second floor events space, 838 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
When: 3 pm, November 2, 2019
he Glass Room is a 28,000 square-foot pop-up store with a twist, presenting more than 50 provocative tech products in an unexpected environment. This installment arrives in San Francisco to turn a mirror on Silicon Valley, to the people who make our technologies and those who are affected by its impact on society. The Glass Room is a great way for users of technology to engage on a deeper level and make more informed choices. Each piece in The Glass Room tells a different story about data and technology, so there is something for everyone to connect with."
In addition to the exhibits, the Glass Room will host programming and talks to foster debate, discussion, and solution-finding on the relevant and hot topic issues facing the industry and consumers today.


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It's tough to get funding for your venture, whether you're seeking it from your local bank (in which case you must be a hopeless optimist) or your long-suffering family (have they started screening your calls yet?). It's a problem that IndieGoGo's Slava Rubin and his co-founders, Danae Ringelmann and Eric Schell, were discussing over dinner back in 2005, when the latter two were still attending the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. Ringelmann had helped various independent filmmakers raise money, Schell was on the board of a theater company and Rubin (pictured) had started his own not-for-profit organization. The three came up with an idea to "democratize fund-raising," recalls Rubin. "Why not let lots of people support something? Why should five people sitting in a room decide who gets a grant or a loan?"
Why indeed. Out of their frustration, IndieGoGo.com, one of the first crowdfunding sites, was launched in the beginning of 2008 with a niche focus on helping independent filmmakers finance their projects. "We did a lot of surveys and we used Danae and Eric's business school connections to pilot it manually," says Rubin. Before launching their website, they tested the concept using e-mail, Excel spreadsheets and good old-fashioned checks. "But we always knew we wanted the site to be for all kinds of projects," says Rubin.
Four years later, San Francisco-based IndieGoGo is a website where individuals and teams can post any project—whether it's a new company that makes 3D printers, or a plea to help fund a root canal or in-vitro fertilization (no joke!)—state their financial need and solicit funding. IndieGoGo charges a fee of 4 percent if the project meets its stated funding goal, and 9 percent if the poster opts for "flexible funding," meaning that funds are distributed even if the project falls short of its goal.
Note the absence of the word "investment," since that would run afoul of SEC rules; crowd-funding sites, of which there are now many, are not permitted to offer returns on investment. Instead, donors typically receive perks—like discounts, T-shirts or posters—or an actual product. For instance, if you donate $25 to LuminAID, you'll receive one of their inflatable, solar-powered lamps. That project, by the way, had a funding goal of $10,000, but earned over $50,000. IndieGoGo holds the funds in a special account, and then distributes them at the end of the campaign.
Is every fund-raising campaign that successful? Of course not. But Rubin says that IndieGoGo now hosts over 50,000 worldwide campaigns and distributes "millions of dollars every month." Half of those are creative projects, like films or books, and the rest are entrepreneurial ventures or cause-related initiatives. "The majority get funded if they do the work," says Rubin. That means posting a video to the site and reaching out to prospective donors via social networking sites, e-mail marketing and blogs. IndieGoGo tracks how active your campaign is in terms of views, funding, commenting, etc. and features the projects with the highest "GoGofactor" on its homepage.
With 18 employees and under $5 million in revenue, Rubin says IndieGoGo now has a slew of competitors—almost 250 of them. But he doesn't appear concerned. "We just focus on maintaining an open platform, customer happiness and being global," he says. "We just want lots of happy customers all around the world."
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In two weeks (on September 19th), my fifth book, It's Not Jack in the Beanstalk will be released. To celebrate, I'm sending Exclusive Signed "Collector's Card" Postcards to anyone* that pre-orders or orders** the book for themselves or their school/classroom/library/dentist-waiting-room/etc by October 1, 2017!
Wait, what is this book even about? Here's what the publisher has to say:
Jack is not fond of the bossy narrator of his fairy tale! When Jack is told to trade his beloved cow Bessie for some magic beans, throw the beans out the window, climb the ENORMOUS beanstalk that sprouts overnight, and steal from a GIANT, he decides this fairy tale is getting out of control. In fact, he doesn't want to follow the story line at all. Who says Jack needs to enter a life of daring, thievery, and giant trickery? He takes his story into his own hands—and you'll never guess what happens next!
With laugh-out-loud dialogue and bold, playful art (including hidden fairy tale creatures for kids to find), this Jack and the Beanstalk retelling will have children rolling with laughter till Bessie the cow comes home.
Now that you're convinced, links to order are here:
Indiebound B&N Amazon BAM! Book Depository Indigo/Chapters
Simply tell me where to mail the postcard once you've ordered your copy***. Please use this online google form (or the one embedded below). I promise I won't share your address with anyone. Period.
* Open to US and CAN mailing addresses only.
** We're using the #KidLit Honor System. Please don't abuse.
*** If you already ordered it days/weeks/months ago, I'd be happy to send you a postcard. You don't need to order another to be eligible (but you'll probably want to).
Where I'll Be Next
- Sunday, 9/10 at 2pm: Bookseller Panel at The Writers' Loft, 20 North Main Street, Sherborn, MA, USA
- Saturday, 9/16 at 11am: It's Not Jack and the Beanstalk Book Launch at Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, USA
Saturday, 9/23 from 11am-4pm: Princeton Children's Book Festival at Princeton Public Library and the Albert E. Hinds Memorial Plaza, 65 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ, USA
Two for You
(two books I recommend you read)
1. What Makes a Monster? written by Jess Keating & illustrated by David DeGrand
2. Boo Who? written and illustrated by Ben Clanton


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Review by Leslie H. Nicoll
False Colors, by Alex Beecroft, is one of two books recently released by Running Press in their new line of m/m historicals (the other is Trangressions, by Erastes). Two more books are scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2009. I have read both False Colors and Transgressions and if these are indicative of the types of books Running Press will be publishing, we fans of the genre are very lucky readers, indeed.
False Colors is Ms. Beecroft's second historical novel and like her first, Captain's Surrender, it takes place during the time when the British Royal Navy ruled the seas and half the world—-the golden "Age of Sail." The story opens in 1762 with Lt. John Cavendish receiving his first captaincy and an assignment to stop the Barbary Corsairs off the coast of Algeria. Alfie Donwell signs on as his first lieutenant and it is clear from their very first meeting that Alfie has eyes
for John. But it will be a long time, ie, the whole book, with lots of adventures and misunderstanding in between, before they get to the point where they are able to negotiate their relationship and realize how they feel about each other.
Because John and Alfie spend so much time apart, the book is very much about their individual journeys to discover who they are—-until they have come to this realization, they can't really be together. It's an interesting dynamic and Ms. Beecroft handles the character development skillfully, having both men grow and mature from page to page. John's growth is fueled by some particularly horrific situations in which he finds himself, as well as working to cast off beliefs ingrained into him from his youth and family life. Alfie, on the other hand, matures by falling in love with another man (although he never really falls out of love with John). As I enjoy character studies, I found Alfie's portion of the story to be a bit more engaging but really, we're talking "great" and "greater"—minute gradations of difference in excellence.
There's a cast of secondary characters who are extremely well-drawn. In particular, I found myself going back and re-reading the parts of the story that featured Charles Farrant, Captain Lord Lisburn. He's the Captain of the Britannia, the second ship in the story on which Alfie serves. He's attracted to men and knows it but has done the things "required" of him to deny his homosexuality, including marrying, fathering children, and undergoing various "cures" from his physician in an effort to treat his "perversion." All of this has created a man who is now, in his forties, angry, repressed, frustrated, and cruel. But he can also be kind, tender, and even loving, and flashes of this come through, when he lets down the wall he has so carefully built around his feelings. Of all the characters in the book, my heart ached the most for Charles and I wished his life could have been different. He deserved more than he got.
The story is carefully and thoroughly plotted. No loose ends, no characters swooping in from the wings to magically save the day. This is an improvement over Captain's Surrender (which I enjoyed, but there were a few implausible moments in that book). Likewise, I think Ms. Beecroft's writing has improved since her first book. She did tell me in an exchange of emails that she didn't edit Captain's Surrender as much as she wanted but I contend that it is not just editing differences between the two. In this book, Ms. Beecroft is more skillful in her writing and confident in her ability and it shows. Every word is precisely selected and there for a reason. It is a pleasure to read a book that is so beautifully constructed.
In sum, I highly recommend False Colors. My highest rating is what I call "the incredible sadness"—that feeling that I will never read a book again that is quite this good. Of course, I know I will but in interim I satisfy my longing by re-reading favorite parts and yes, re-reading the book. Which explains why it has taken me two weeks to write this review. 🙂
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My interest in the Owls Club was both sinister and typical. A recently opened cocktail bar located a little south of downtown Tucson's main hub, I was curious to see what the new hot spot was like. But there were darker motivations, too.
The Owls Club is located in a renovated, former funeral home. On the day it opened, a friend told me that she had visited and joined a group on an informal tour, which included the former embalming room. Upon entry, she described feeling utterly creeped out—the temperature dropped and her chest felt heavy.
It was my mission to experience it for myself.
The Owls Club is like entering a vampire's lair. Navy walls and dim lighting resulted in several patrons using their phone flashlights to read the menu (unfortunately, it also meant that my photos were horrendous).
Church pews serve as additional seating to the bar, while wooden beams make for an architecturally interesting ceiling and intricate lighting fixtures add elegant beauty. A separate room from the bar feels similar to a very stylish friend's living room (a brick fireplace, wooden dining tables, plush patterned rugs), and is perfect for long, drawn-out conversations over some good red wine.
The specialty cocktail menu is very short, listing just six exclusive-to-the-Owls-Club beverages, but bartenders whip up other favorites off the menu (Manhattans, Gimlets, the like). Whiskey is the specialty here, with about 100 different brands listed.
I felt like a cat watching a bird feeder as the bartenders whipped up Old Fashioneds and Whiskey Sours, flirting and flicking and swirling and shaking behind the bar as my head bobbed from left to right to follow them.
Over a Tin Lizzy, a citrusy gin-based cocktail, I tried to play it cool with the bartenders, slyly expressing my interest in checking out the embalming room that my friend had seen. I was quickly rebuffed—"your friend shouldn't have been in there," one responded. Whoops!
No worries, though—there are other places I can go to for a ghostly encounter. The Owls Club building is just one of several in downtown Tucson that are rumored to be haunted: Club Congress, Reilly's (another renovated funeral home that's one of my top five favorite restaurants in Tucson), and, oddly enough, the building that I work in.
The MacArthur Building (which you probably have never noticed until it's pointed out to you) houses the company that I've worked for for the past four years. In my time here, I've never come across any ghosts, but that's no thanks to the company's owner herself.
The building, which was constructed in 1907, was a hotel (first the Hotel Heidel; then, the MacArthur Hotel) that served passengers arriving via the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, which is across the street. Apparently, some guests never left.
When a construction worker was working on the building one night, all alone, a voice shouted from the top of the stairwell: "Get! Out!" I've also heard that when two coworkers were working late and discussing the building's spiritual activity, two books flew off the shelf of the office they were chatting in.
The company's owner reportedly came into the building and asked for peace Monday through Friday when employees were in the office. Sounds crazy, but I haven't heard any stories since.
One thing about the Owls Club definitely haunted me: the variety of liquor types I consumed. Gin! Vodka! Wine! Yikes. Beware.
Check out the Owls Club at 236 S. Scott Ave. in downtown Tucson (just behind the Children's Museum, north of the Temple of Music and Art). The nearest Streetcar stop to the Owls Club is Broadway Blvd. at Stone Ave. if you're heading east (stop 8E), or Congress St. at Stone Ave. if you're heading west (stop 8W). Hours are from 5pm to close, every day.
The Owls Club's Instagram account is another good source for updates.


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I often think about all the land that's used up by cars in a city. I'm not just talking about the public roads and highways. I mean the private property that is exclusively devoted to cars in one way or another. Even a fairly old pedestrian oriented city like San Francisco has a huge amount of car based establishments. You never see images like these on a postcard. But if lots of people own and drive cars the city needs a certain number of gas stations, muffler shops, parking lots, and car washes.
Victorian era builders didn't construct gas stations. At one time these streets were lined with grand homes and businesses that were incrementally torn down and replaced with new auto-oriented establishments. People often forget that San Francisco went in to serious decline for a few decades after World War II and followed the same general trajectory as many other industrial port cities like Cleveland and Detroit. There was a time in the economic and cultural history of the city when traditional buildings were out of fashion and economic liabilities. It made sense to clear away underperforming buildings to make way for more productive and profitable structures.
San Francisco's economy recovered sooner and stronger than most other inner cities. Today real estate in once undervalued neighborhoods is astonishingly expensive. The culture has changed and so has market demand. As a result many aging gas stations, auto repair shops, and parking lots are being converted back to residential buildings – many incorporating retail shops on the ground floor.
This particular auto repair joint sat vacant for years. It's finally been removed and new construction has begun. On average it takes a full decade to get zoning and planning permission to build anything in San Francisco. Absolutely nothing is legal as-of-right so zoning hearings, environmental impact reports, and an endless number of review boards must be worked through before permits are finally issued. This involves an army of consulting engineers, architects, lawyers, professional fixers, and middle men to grease the wheels of the system. All of that costs serious money.
And then there are the inevitable community activist groups and social justice demonstrators who lobby and sue to get the approved building stymied because the city needs more affordable housing rather than luxury condos. A common form of detente involves a few of the new apartments being set aside as workforce or affordable housing in order to move the project forward. These new buildings must be fantastically expensive by the time they hit the market in order to justify the massive up front costs, otherwise no one would ever bother to build anything. Keep in mind, no one ever lived in the old Jiffy Lube.
Here are some comparisons of buildings that went up a century or more ago and new buildings currently under construction. The overall size, shape, and uses are nearly identical. These construction sites were most often occupied by parking lots and gas stations for the last several decades. That's the low hanging fruit. People may strenuously object to the demolition of an historic building, but there's less push back when a fifty year old Shell station goes away.
And here's the context for these new buildings. What we're witnessing isn't a modern aberration of multi story buildings being imposed on the traditional city. It's actually a return to the historic pattern after an odd twentieth century hiatus. The car oriented land use pattern was the real anomaly.


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May 18, 2010
Editor's note: The bill is 10 pages long. Does Napolitano have a reading problem?
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who has been a vocal critic of the new Arizona immigration law, told Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Monday that she had not reviewed the law in detail, but nevertheless repeated criticism she made in April on ABC's "Good Morning America" that the law is a "bad law enforcement law."
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder said he hadn't read the law either, although he too has criticized it. He told the House Judiciary Committee he'd "expressed concerns" about the Arizona law, "on the basis of what I've heard about the law" from newspaper and TV reports. Holder has questioned whether the law is constitutional and has said the federal government may challenge it in court.
On Monday, Sen. McCain asked Napolitano, who is the former governor of Arizona, about the law during a hearing on the federal response to the oil spill off the Gulf Coast –"Have you had a chance to review the new law that was passed by the state of Arizona?"
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In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the mobility of the network users can heavily affect the performance of networking protocols because it causes sudden connectivity changes and topological variations.
This is even more important in recent promising paradigms proposed in this field, such as opportunistic and delay tolerant networks. For this reason, it is important to understand the characteristics of the user movements in order to properly handle mobility when designing networking protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. In addition, it is highly desirable to have a mobility model that accurately reproduces the user mobility, thus enabling researchers to evaluate, either analytically or by means of simulations, their protocols under realistic mobility conditions. Recently, there have been many studies aimed to uncover the nature of human movements. In this paper, based on recent literature, we identify three main properties that are fundamental to characterize human mobility. Then, we propose a mobility model (HCMM) that integrates all these three features. To the best of our knowledge, the model proposed is the first one that combines notions about the sociality of users with spatial properties observed in real users movement patterns, i.e., their preference to spend time in a limited number of popular locations and to preferentially select short distances over longer ones. We study the HCMM both through simulation and analysis. Based on this study, we highlight some of its important temporal and spatial features, and we show that they are correctly reproduced in terms of key indicators such as jump size and inter-contact time distribution.


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Here's the key question Labour was asking a few months ago: Who do you trust? The Police or Andrew Mitchell?
According to an official police report, Conservative Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell said to a police officer:
"Best you learn your f***ing place … you don't run this f***ing government … you're f***ing plebs."
Andrew Mitchell is denying it. But he won't admit what he said. And David Cameron is choosing to believe the word of a Tory MP over the word of a hard-working police officer.
But, strangely, when you visit http://www.labour.org.uk/plebsforpolice today that question's no longer being asked…
That's the risk of leaping on the Milibandwagon, I guess…
(My thanks to @stackee for finding the original image from Labour's 'Plebs for Police' webpage via Reddit.)
* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.


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Recently I shared an article on Facebook by a Bernie-supporting Hillary skeptic who articulated his reasons for voting for her. He'd decided the volatile political climate and the increasing unreliability of polls made it too risky–even in "safe" states–to stay home or to vote for a third-party candidate.
I had not heard this argument before, and wanted to inject this thoughtful piece into a discourse largely dominated by bashing from both sides of the political divide.
Right away a Facebook friend I haven't seen since college commented: "Don't you think that incessantly hectoring people might have the effect opposite to that desired?"
I was taken aback. My posting rate on Facebook hardly qualifies as incessant. Besides, there was nothing remotely hectoring about this article. Still, there's no denying that my motivation in sharing it was to persuade reluctant voters to choose Hillary.
I decided to engage with rather than ignore my friend. He immediately replied that he didn't mean me personally, "but that the daily attacks on the folk who are not gung-ho for HRC, including the accusation that we are women-haters, are really counterproductive." He likened well-meaning attempts at political persuasion to the noxious proselytizing meant to convert people from one religion to another. Besides, it made him think that Hillary's supporters lacked the faith that she should and could win, and found their apocalyptic pronouncements about not voting for the Un-Trump unhelpful.
His response reminded me of a party I attended right before the 2004 election. Amid a dozen or so Chardonnay-sipping liberals eternally bitter over the selection of W four years earlier was one lone Nader supporter. Unrepentant, he planned to vote for Nader again.
"How COULD you?" everyone exploded in unison. As we all moved in for the oh-so-persuasive kill, I could see this man's jaw tighten, his posture stiffen. You can probably guess who he voted for.
I've learned a lot since that encounter—if you want to preach outside the choir, it's better not to screech or beseech. Still, there are reasons to try. Or was my Facebook friend a case in point that such attempts invariably backfire?
Recently I've had many conversations with my friend Linda (who also doesn't like Hillary but who will vote for her). She has been talking with her son and his friends, most of them young, fervent Bernie supporters who care deeply about racial justice. They now feel totally disillusioned by the political process, seeing little difference between the parties and no point in voting. Linda has a lot of empathy for this viewpoint, and mostly listens. But when she does talk, whatever she has to say doesn't only fall on deaf ears—it closes those ears further.
Periodically I send things with a fresh or compelling perspective to Linda, saying, "What about this? Could this help?" One was a recent column by Charles Blow. Linda was almost persuaded until the last paragraph:
Protest voting or not voting at all isn't principled. It's dumb, and childish, and self-immolating. I know you're young, but grow up!
With those words, Blow blew it. Of course, Linda never forwarded the article to her son, and has wisely stopped talking to him about the election altogether.
Years ago Republican pollster Frank Luntz quipped, "The trouble with Hillary is she reminds everyone of their first wife." She also reminds people of their mothers. There are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of Hillary, but this unconscious association has gotten short shrift in understanding the level of antipathy generated by the candidacy of the first woman who has a shot at the presidency. Often what mothers say, no matter how wise and well-intended, has the effect of generating resistance. You should listen to your mother, but do you really want to? Middle-aged mothers like me who are trying to persuade others, especially young people, may only be perpetuating the maternal nag problem.
Is it possible to change people's minds? We are now inundated with 24/7 information and misinformation, and live in silos that reinforce our worldview while keeping out other perspectives. Social science research demonstrates that when people are shown evidence contradicting their firmly held beliefs, they don't reconsider; instead, they double down.
If one person's persuasion is another's hectoring, what's a mother to do? What's a concerned citizen to do?
Have you tried to influence anyone's vote in this election season? Has anyone tried to influence yours? What works and doesn't work?


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