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"You should look into what Linda Norris did in Eugene, when she was City Manager there." When somebody told me this, naturally my curiosity was aroused.
Currently Linda Norris is Salem's City Manager.
This is an important position, arguably more powerful than the Mayor. The Mayor hires the City Manager, then the City Manager is responsible for hiring other employees. Plus, of course, managing city business.
I wasn't even aware that Norris had been Eugene's City Manager prior to coming to Salem. I asked the person who made the you should look into comment what Norris had done in Eugene that was disturbing.
"I'm not sure," I was told. "I just heard that it didn't make Norris look good." Well, after some Google research I can confirm the truth of that.
Linda Norris did indeed do some distrubing stuff during her stint as Eugene's interim City Manager. In my opinion, those actions throw light on the City of Salem's current corporate-friendly and ordinary citizen-unfriendly policies.
But as the saying goes, I'll report in this most recent Truth Bomb of my series, you can decide.
Here's the step-by-step facts the Great God Google revealed to me.
(1) According to a Eugene Weekly story, Linda Norris was interim City Manager for less than a year. She left to take an executive position with Hyundai, which had a semiconductor plant in Eugene. Later, in 2001, Huyndai changed its name to Hynix.
Here's how Eugene Weekly summed up part of the City Manager history in a 2007 article (when Hyuyndai had become Hynix):
Download Eugene Weekly : Coverstory : 7.26.07 | eugeneweekly.com
Mike Gleason, 1981-1996, 15 years. Resigned after widespread criticism that he was ignoring council direction, providing biased or inadequate information and pursuing his own pro-development agenda, especially in giving huge tax breaks to Hynix.
Linda Norris, 1996, less than a year. The interim manager left for a management job at Hynix.
Warren Wong, 1996-1997, one year. The interim manager also went on to a manager stint at Hynix. He now manages the Lane County Fairgrounds.
(2) So Norris, along with her Eugene City Manager successor, went to work for Hyundai before the company changed its name to Hynix. Who knows the reason why? We can say, though, that Linda Norris did a big favor for Hyundai while she was interim City Manager.
Here's a portion of a December 28, 1995 Eugene Register-Guard story:
Hyundai chalked up another victory with regulators on Wednesday, winning permission to work around-the-clock at its west Eugene site, despite protests by neighbors who could be disturbed by nighttime excavation and construction.
Acting City Manager Linda Norris signed the noise variance late Thursday, ending a two-week public comment period that drew seven letters in opposition to Hyundai's plan to work 24 hours a day and one letter supporting the company's request.
The variance lets Hyundai operate bulldozers, backhoes and other equipment at night, overriding a city ordinance that bans noisy work between 7 pm and 7 am.
Norris' ruling is important for Hyundai, which has said it needs to work nonstop to complete its computer chip factory in 12 months -- six months quicker than originally planned. Each day the factory is up and running it will rack up $6.7 million in chip sales, the company has said.
(3) Let's make that a big controversial favor for Hyundai, because people who lived near the construction site complained vociferously about the nonstop construction. See:
Download Hubbub over Hyundai hubbub
Here's a photo of how the piece starts (wasn't able to copy this "ancient" 1996 file). Click the image to enlarge.
That piece says the variance was extended until July 4,1996. I'm not sure what happened between then and April 20, 1997. On that date the Register-Guard reported the noise variance had been overturned by a hearings officer after an appeal by the disturbed neighbors of the Hyundai plant.
All is quiet on Eugene's western front, thanks to a hearings official's decision to ban noisy nighttime work on Hyundai's computer chip factory at the end of West 18th Avenue.
In a ruling released Thursday, Milo Meacham turned down Hyundai's request for a six-month variance from the local noise ordinance. That means contractors can't operate trucks or other noisy equipment between 7 pm and 7 am.
The ruling overturns Assistant City Manager Linda Norris' Feb. 7 decision to issue the variance. And it upholds appeals by 10 people worried that Hyundai's nighttime noise disturbs west Eugene residents.
(4) In August 1997, Linda Norris left her City of Eugene job and became the human resources director for Hyundai. This was after, as we've seen, Hyundai had been able to construct its computer chip plant non-stop around the clock for quite a few months because Norris had issued a noise variance in favor of Hyundai.
After neighbors complained the construction noise and lights were driving them, their animals, and wildlife crazy, a hearings officer eventually overturned Norris' variance. But, as noted above, every day Hyundai saved by shortening the construction period was estimated to bring the company $6.7 million in chip sales.
Quite a coincidence -- if you can call it that. Linda Norris does Hyundai a big controversial favor, then becomes the Human Resources director of Hyundai. Well, such is the way the world works these days.
(Footnote: in 2008 Hynix closed the Eugene computer chip plant after getting many millions of dollars in tax breaks and other incentives, putting more than 1,100 employees and 300 contractors out of work. After wrecking the environment, some in Eugene said. This also is how the world works these days.)
Download Eugene chip plant Hynix will close, erasing 1,400 jobs | OregonLive.com
Download Eugene Weekly : Coverstory : 7.31.08 | eugeneweekly.com


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Can Blogging Actually Kill You?
The New York Times has a short but interesting article triggered by the much-publicized heart attack of Om Malik, who runs the popular GigaOm Blog (note: I have been linked to by Om and consider him an online friend, although we've never actually spoken or even e-mailed each other).
As the article notes, being a successful Blogger means being a one-man (or woman), "twenty-four by seven content machine" in an environment wherein there is no fixed publishing deadline. Instead one is in a constant race with competitors (many of whom may be in different time zones) for link-worthy posts. Add the pressure to "monetize" one's pages and to publish frequently enough so that unforgiving Google (which counts newer pages as more significant than old ones) keeps you spidered every hour or so and you've got a prescription for a heart attack. I don't even need to mention how Blogging can reduce your intake of fresh air or Vitamin D through sunlight; the average American only spends 10 minutes outdoors and I'd imagine that the average Blogger only spends about a minute outdoors every two days.
One of my online buddies used to drink two gallons of diet cola each day as he created his online content, smoked a pile of cigarettes and continuously inhaled laser toner fumes. He's still alive after years of Blogging but another good friend, Steve Gilliard, died before he was 40. I can't say that Blogging killed Steve but it sure didn't help his health any. What I can say is that when you're Blogging in a conversational way, i.e. via the "comment" function or in a non-Blogging environment such as a Bulletin Board, your adrenaline levels spike and ebb violently during the day and night. Flame wars (which can be highly addictive) play havoc with your serotonin levels and sleep habits, which everybody knows is bad for you. Add to this the kind of substances (legal and perhaps non-legal) that you have to consume to stay "in the Blogging zone" (a zone slightly to the East of total Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and it's obvious that Blogging isn't just dangerous: it's a killer with the power to take out an entire generation.
I suppose one can make an argument, Freakonomics-style, that Blogging may have saved as many as it's killed. After all, when you're Blogging you're not likely crash your car into a pole or be run down by a bicycle messenger. But the same could be said for any activity that keeps you off the streets and roads.
I firmly believe that as we enter what techno-optimist Bill Gates calls "our second digital decade," we'll learn enough about the long term effects of our increased dependence on technology to scare us to death. The larger question is whether these revelations will be sufficient to cause many to rethink their total immersion in cyberspace and follow the course of Jennifer Ringley, who at the peak of her cyber-fame chucked it all and disappeared back into the analog world.
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Heather was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Performance before coming to the School of Architecture in 2008. Her first degree was in Fine Art (Sculpture) and she completed a Master of Arts in History of Art & Design in the Modern Period in 1993 (University of Southampton).
Heather teaches across all undergraduate levels in the School of Architecture. At Level 4 she is design studio leader and tutor for Interior Architecture and Design. She is module co-ordinator for History & Theory of the Interior at Level 5 and she is a Dissertation tutor at Level 6. Heather is School of Architecture Representative on the CCi Faculty Education and Student Experience Committee. She is timetable liaison academic, working with the Central Timetabling Unit to facilitate the timetabling of modules and events for the School of Architecture.
Research Interests
Heather is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her pedagogic research is focused on approaches to teaching design history that prioritise visual research, observation and experience and the use of primary research sources to engage students in the 'activity' of historical enquiry.


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The SirCam worm/virus has now crashed across the Internet and has pretty much taken its best shot at corporate e-mail servers. What is notable about this infection is not so much the complexity of the code but the response of corporate networks that shut this worm down as quickly as they did.
In this week's From the Trenches, we'll look at TechRepublic's experience with SirCam and talk with a virus detection expert about what makes our response to the worm typical of the IT industry in general.
Does this sound familiar?
Perhaps as much as any industry on the Internet, TechRepublic depends a great deal on interaction with its membership (now approaching 2 million members). Like other organizations, our e-mail addresses are in the contact lists of members and customers around the globe.
With the spread of a virus/worm like SirCam—which essentially uses an infected user's address book and its own little e-mail client to spread itself to the addresses in the infected user's directory—any public company is likely to be a target of the next attack.
A couple of months after the LoveLetter virus struck, essentially knocking our operations offline for a day, we installed Trend Micro's VirusWall product on our e-mail servers.
A year later, that investment is looking better and better.
According to TechRepublic's Exchange Server administrator Mike Laun, the application was able to filter out the worm on all of our incoming messages without one infection getting through. "The Trend VirusWall was extremely fast in getting the update," Laun said. "I configured the servers to download the latest signature files at 8 A.M. every morning."
VirusWall routinely eradicates a number of other viruses on a daily basis, which can sometimes create a lot of traffic.
"Part of the obligation of running virus software is to notify the sender that they sent us a virus, particularly in our business, where we communicate with our members," Laun said. "What often happens, however, is that our system sends their system the notification, and that puts us back in their directory, perhaps with a different response address, and the virus picks up on the new address and sends the virus to us again. Our system then notifies them again, and sometimes the virus responds again and so on.
"These things create tons of useless traffic."
Luckily, SirCam hasn't been as bad as other notable viruses, such as I-Worm.Badtrans or I-Worm.Hybris.B, Laun said.
There's a reason SirCam flopped
TechRepublic's experience is more common this year than last, according to Pat Martin, a development manager for the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center. Symantec is a major provider of antiviral and security software.
"From a corporate standpoint, SirCam is more under control because of the security in place," Martin said. "Every IT manager right now is well aware of the filtering capabilities for e-mail servers and gateways."
Two years ago, filtering software was seen as simply a cool technology that would be nice to have but was difficult to justify without more financial data.
"AV software, or any kind of security software, is seen as an insurance policy," Martin said. "One of the hard things with that is how do you measure how much you save if nothing ever happens?"
That changed last year when the LoveLetter virus rocked the world.
"Companies were actually able to make a dollar figure as to how much it cost in downtime, how much in lost productivity, Internet bandwidth, etc.," Martin said. "Once they saw those numbers, they realized it's a very small investment, not only in the software but managing the software without much more effort than they are doing now.
"They're reaping the additional benefits of not having to worry about these kinds of attacks. I think the finance people in most corporations are sleeping better at night knowing that even though they are spending a little money up front, it's going to pay off many times through the coming years."
LoveLetter forced the issue of viruses to a higher corporate level than network administrators and IT managers, Martin said. Now, CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs understand what a virus can do—and that adds the support that admins need to justify protecting their networks.
How did you fare?
How did your filtering software work with SirCam? Do you even have filtering software? If you have antiviral software on your network, was it a hard sell to management? Send us a note or post a comment in the discussion below.


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RPMM is a brand new festival that offers a surrealist underground experience, in magical inner city Porto, Portugal. The festival brings together international names from the worlds of house and techno.
For its inaugural year, RPMM reached out to Minimax to manage their marketing and advertising for the global campaign in tandem with RPMM management. We developed a comprehensive campaign that covered branding, design, web, advertising, social media, and inbound search. The event that spans multiple locations in the historic city of Porto, Portugal played host to several world-class talents who were received by thousands of attendees over 3 days.


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External Anatomy and Explanatory Notes
External anatomy of a typical stomatopod
Regarding other species not on the list
Several other large spearers are available live in fish markets around the world. These include, but are not limited to, Lysiosquilla scrabacauda from the western Atlantic, Lysiosquillina sulcata in French Polynesia, Harpiosquilla harpax in Thailand and Hong Kong, Oratosquilla oratoria (shako) in Japan and Hawaii, and Squilla mantis in the northern Mediterranean. I have not included them here because they are often found on ice and rarely survive in the home aquarium. However, if you can find someone who works on a trawler, they will sometimes save live specimens for you.
Regarding the species descriptions
Species: Scientific name
Common name: In English; when possible, I have tried to provide common names used in the aquarium trade
Functional type: Spearer or smasher after Caldwell & Dingle, Scientific American, 1976
Range: General locations where the species is found
Habitat: General habitat such as reef flat, sand flat, coral reef, coral rubble
Depth: Depths at which captures have been reported; this will give you some idea as to the type of lighting required; only species occurring above 5 m tolerate full intensity lighting
Home: Type of cavity or burrow used
Diet: Where known, items found in the stomach or observed in the burrow or cavity
Size: Post-larvae to largest recorded adult; this is total length from tip of eyes to tip of telson
Color: Hopefully, the color images will be of more help
Distinguishing Characters: The characters I used to quickly identify animals; if you know the location that the animal is from, you should be able to identify the stomatopod from this information
Activity: When the animal hunts or leaves its cavity or burrow; some primarily day active animals will become active during the night when there is a full moon
Suitability for Aquarium: Basically reflects my success keeping these animals
Availability: From general experience with what arrives in the United States or that is available from U.S. collectors; I do not promote specific suppliers (so please don't ask!)
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Natural disasters can come with six-digit figures of damage and debt attached, even in Latin America's poorest country. Bolivia's rural areas, still dependent on rain cycles, are the most financially vulnerable to drought, frost, hail, floods and other weather adversities. Lose your crops, farmers say, and you're left with nothing but your debts.
Luis Alvaro Toledo, who's worked in the insurance business for more than 30 years, believes he has a solution. "To think of crop insurance in Bolivia used to be a utopia," he says. "But we're now going to give cheap and accessible insurance to very small farmers."
Toledo leads one of the partners in Bolivia's first crop insurance scheme, which will be rolled out as a pilot project in the southern region of Tarija, on the border with Argentina, before the onset of the rainy season at the end of the year. The scheme, undertaken with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and one of the first of its kind in Latin America, gives triple protection to very small farmers: insurance against the loss of food crops, life insurance in case a close family members dies, and property insurance should tools be stolen or a leaking roof damage food supplies.
Bolivia has one of the world's most far-reaching micro-credit industries. In a country of 10 million people, the biggest bank, BancoSol, is loaning $500m to more than 150,000 Bolivians. Yet Miguel Solana, a programme officer who runs the Bolivia project at the ILO, says: "Credit is not the only solution." He believes farmers in Latin America have wrongly been given loans for far too long, when they would have derived greater benefit from an insurance policy instead.
"We have to think that farmers need to have access to different financial products, to help them cope with different needs in their daily activities. But people ask for credit for things that happened [like a bad harvest] that could have been covered by insurance," says Solana.
He argues that if a farmer wants to grow by acquiring more land or better tools, for example, it makes sense to get a loan that can be repaid after a good harvest. But for credit to work well, he adds, harvests need to be protected by insurance. Otherwise, a farmer who loses an entire crop because of bad weather will have great difficulty repaying.
Farmers in the rural town of Tomatas, near the city of Tarija, are familiar with financial institutions like BancoSol, Banco FIE, Banco Los Andes Procredit, and Pro Mujer, all with branches in their rural community. At the age of 63, Abel Sigler still farms the land with his six children. "A lot of us ask for a loan to plant potatoes or peas," he says. "Come hail or a frost, we lose everything. But we still have to give back this loan no matter what, and have to sell a cow to pay it back."
José Santos has also been farming for decades. "We farm with the bones of our own hands, and hope we'll have good luck with the weather." But last year Feliciano Gallardo wasn't so lucky. "I planted corn and wheat in mid-November, but it still wasn't raining," he says. "Then a frost came and froze everything. The wheat hadn't grown, and the corn hadn't ripened – just very small grains. When this happens, we have to seek other work so that we can begin farming again the following year."
Work migrations are not only common, but sometimes permanent. "My three daughters live in Argentina," says Ruperto Segobia, another farmer. "People want to leave. There isn't a person in town who hasn't been to Argentina or doesn't have family there."
Helped by international donors, Bolivia does deliver emergency aid to communities after major natural disasters. But Ernesto Farfán of Profin, one of the partners in the project, believes farmers can't rely on this assistance, as it's patchy and largely ineffective. "It not only takes months for aid to reach these communities," says Farfán. "But it also comes with food, mattresses and blankets – things that aren't relevant to farmers to restart their productive cycle." Emergency aid is needed in such disasters, he agrees, but only with insurance can farmers speedily recover their financial investment, buy new seeds and bounce back.
The ILO, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, wants to empower farmers like the ones in Tomatas to make the right financial investment, so they don't fall into deeper poverty or find themselves forced to move to the city in search of work.
Solana wants to roll out the project nationwide next year and hopes to use the lessons learned from Bolivia in other countries in the region. "When I'm insured as a farmer," he says, "I feel like I never lose out. And that's why I invest in new machinery and better seeds, and how I get out of poverty." As in India, stories circulate in Bolivia of people who kill themselves when unable to repay a loan. The ILO believes offering small insurance policies to poor farmers is a way to avoid anyone resorting to such desperate measures.


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If you've seen Google ads for a book called Queers In History, then count yourself lucky. According to author Keith Stern, Google is about to suspend ads for the book – a collection of 900 biographies of gay and lesbian historical figures – claiming that it isn't "family safe" despite the book containing no graphic sexual content. Is Google just being homophobic?
Stern contends that the first he heard of any problem with the ads was at the beginning of this month, when Google emailed a "final warning" that an ad submitted to the company violated its adult and sexual content policies, because it contained one of the following violations:
*Any material intended for persons over 18.
*Mature sexual themes, nudity, and/or sexual activity.
*Crude or indecent language.
*Offensive or inappropriate content
The ad in question:
Further discussions with Google seem to have failed to ascertain exactly what the problem is with the ad, leaving Stern to fear the worst:
Google refuses to be specific, but apparently it's because the book identifies those people as queer. It's entirely possible that Google also would ban books called "Homosexuals in History" or "Gays in History."
Now that Stern has gone public with the story, it'll be interesting to see how – or if – Google responds.
More On Techland:
Google Launches E-book Store, Mobile and Web-based Apps
Google Loses Street View Trespass Case, Pays (Very) Small Settlement


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Known as "Green
Bursa", the city is filled with gardens and
parks and overlooks a verdant plain. It is at the centre of
an important fruit growing region. Bursa was, and is still,
famous for its silk trade, towel manufacture and thermal
springs. You must taste locally invented Iskender Kebab, a
dish of bread, tomato sauce, strips of grilled meat, melted
butter and yogurt. Candied chestnuts are another regional
tour of the city begins in the eastern section at the Yesil
T³rbe (Green Mausoleum). Set in a
garden and distinguished by its paneling of blue tiles, the
mausoleum holds the tiled cenotaph of Sultan Mehmet I.
Across the street, the Ye■il Mosque of 1424 reflects the
new Ottoman, as opposed to the Seljuk, aesthetic. A medrese
nearby completes the complex, which is also home to the
Ethnography Museum. Before exploring this area, stop for a
glass of tea in one of the traditional tea houses. Uphill,
to the east, you pass by the Emir Sultan Mosque in its
delightful setting, and after walking through a district of
old houses you reach the Y²ld²r²m Beyaz²t Mosque (1391).
Now make
your way to Cumhuriyet Square (known locally
as Heykel) and stroll along Atat³rk Avenue to Koza Park
where outdoor cafes are set among flowers and fountains. At
the back of the park, a long building, the Koza Han (1490),
houses the trade in silk cocoons. From here you proceed to
the covered bazaar area, with its narrow streets,
caravanserais and bedesten. On the other side of Koza Park
stands the Orhan Gazi Mosque, built in 1413, and one of
Bursa's oldest religious buildings. Nearby, the large Ulu
Mosque was constructed in the Seljuk style. A finely carved
walnut mimber and impressive calligraphic panels decorate
the mosque. The ■ad²rvan (ablutions fountain) lies
amazingly within the mosque itself under the ceiling of
twenty domes.
west from Ulu Mosque you arrive at Hisar, an
old and picturesque quarter of Bursa. In the park that
overlooks the valley are the mausoleums of Osman, the
founder of the Ottoman Empire, and his son Orhan Gazi, who
commanded the army that conquered Bursa. The cafes of
Tophane offer a good place to stop for refreshment. In
nearby Ressamlar Sokak (Painters' Street), local artists
work in the open air. At the Y²ld²z Park, Tea
Gardens in the Muradiye quarter, you
get a superb view of the Muradiye Complex. The
compound, in a tranquil park-like setting, contains the
Mosque of Sultan Murat II (1426) built in the style of the
Ye■il Mosque and the tombs of Murat II, Cem and ▐ehzade
Mustafa. These contain some of the loveliest decoration and
tile work. The nearby Ottoman House Museum in a restored
l7th century dwelling provides an interesting glimpse into
the lives of wealthy Ottomans.
A tour of
the city begins in the eastern section at the Ye■il T³rbe
(Green Mausoleum). Set in a garden and
distinguished by its paneling of blue tiles, the mausoleum
holds the tiled cenotaph of Sultan Mehmet I. Across the
street, the Ye■il Mosque of 1424 reflects the
new Ottoman, as opposed to the Seljuk, aesthetic. A medrese
nearby completes the complex, which is also home to the Ethnography
Museum. Before exploring this area, stop for a glass
of tea in one of the traditional tea houses. Uphill, to the
east, you pass by the Emir Sultan Mosque in its delightful
setting, and after walking through a district of old houses
you reach the Y²ld²r²m Beyaz²t (1391). Other places of
interest in Bursa include the Culture Park with the Bursa
Archaeological Museum, and the Atat³rk Museum on the road
to Ūekirge.
western suburb of Ūekirge has been known
since Roman times for its warm, mineral rich springs. Many
modem hotels have thermal bath facilities and you can also
visit the old hamams. Yeni Kapl²ca (New Spring) was built
by S³leyman the Magnificent Grand Vizier, R³stem Pa■a, in
1552. The Eski Kapl²ca (Old Spring), built on the site of
the original Byzantine baths, is the oldest bath. The
Karamustafa Pa■a baths are reputed to have the best hot
mineral water in Bursa. Buildings of interest in Ūekirge
include the Mosque and Mausoleum of Murat I and the tomb of
S³leyman Ūelebi, a religious poet. The monument to Karag÷z
commemorates the character whose humorous antics are
immortalized in Turkish shadow puppet theater.
is the largest winter sports center in Turkey and offers a
variety of activities, accommodations and entertainment.
Thirty-six kilometers from Bursa, the slopes are easily
reached by car or cable car (skylift). December to May is
the best time for skiing, although the area, which is a
national park, is well worth a visit at any time of the
year, for the lovely views and wonderful fresh air.
A seaside
resort town 25 km from Bursa, Mudanya's fine fish
restaurants and nightclubs are popular with the residents of
Bursa. The Armistice Museum is worth a visit.
Just 12 km from Mudanya, Zeytinbagi (Tirilye) exemplifies
the architecture and layout of a typical Turkish town. The
Gulf of Gemlik, 29 km from Bursa has wide sandy beaches;
Armutlu and Kumla are the favorites. The province of Bal²kesir
borders both the Marmara and Aegean regions. In the capital
of Bal²kesir, nature and interesting historical sites blend
in harmony. The mid-l4th century Y²ld²rim Mosque, built by
Beyaz²t I, is the city's oldest mosque. Of Zagnos Pa■a
Mosque, built in 1461 by Mehmet the Conqueror's Grand Vizier
Zagnos Pa■a, and once part of a great complex, only the
mosque and bath remain today. The Saat Kulesi (Clock Tower)
built in 1827 by Mehmet Pa■a imitates the Genoese
Galata Tower on a smaller scale. The Karesi
Bey Mausoleum of 1336 contains the cenotaphs of
Karesi Bey and his five sons.
Once known
as ancient Erteka, Erdek is just
14 km northwest of Band²rma. One of the Sea
of Marmara's oldest and most famous resort areas, it offers
pristine beaches and every type of accommodation.
Island, formerly known as Prokonessos,
rose to prominence in the Roman period and
retained its importance in the Byzantine and Ottoman
periods, because of its marble quarries, which supplied the
luxurious stone for the extravagant imperial building
programs. Near Saraylar village, Marble Beach derives its
name from the natural marble that lies just off the water's
edge. In town, an open-air museum displays artifacts which
date back to Roman and Byzantine times, and the marble
quarry, where tourists can see every step of the quarrying
(Avsa) is another holiday island that boasts
of spectacular beaches and clear water as well as famous
vineyards and wine cellars. In the Manast²r district stands
the Byzantine Meryem Ana Monastery.
kilometers southwest of Band²rma, G÷nen is Turkey's most
important thermal resort. The springs were used even in
Roman times and a fifth century mosaic remains from what was
originally a Roman bath. These waters come from 500 meters
below the ground and emerge heated at approximately 82oC.
Another 30 km to the northwest, Denizkent is a nice vacation
spot with lovely beaches.
lies at the base of the Alańam Mountains amid beautiful
forests and meadows in a region known for the weaving of
superb Turkish carpets. The rugs of Yac²bedir
are among the most prized in the country and grow more
lovely the older they become.
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The Funeral of Melvin W. Keber, June 30, 2003
Psalm 23, Ezekiel 37
Our Old Testament reading this morning is one of the great prophecies of Ezekiel. Ezekiel, remember, was a prophet of the Lord among the people of Israel who had been taken into captivity into Babylon. They had been taken out of their land because of their disobedience to the Lord. Part of that responsibility fell to their leaders, their kings and priests, who had not led the people in the way of righteousness, in God's way, and instead had turned to other gods and other countries to help them. They had placed their own needs ahead of the needs of those whom they were called to serve. They were not the "shepherds" they should have been to God's people. And God was calling them to account. They would be punished, God said.
But then, the Lord spoke a word of comfort to the people. "I myself will search for my sheep… I will rescue them… I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep. Then you my people will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them . I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD."
Jesus was the fulfillment of this prophecy of the Lord. In Jesus, God himself IS the shepherd for the sheep. As Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd."
Both these passages are based upon an even earlier passage, a Psalm where David, the great inspired by God, wrote the words of Psalm 23.
There are many Psalms we know well. Psalm 119, for example, we know as the longest Psalm, but also because of its great statements concerning the word of God. The church father from the fourth century, Augustine, is said to have had a dream in which the 119th Psalm rose up as the tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God. A nineteenth century writer commented that if that was the case, then Psalm 23 should be considered the fairest flower that grows around that tree.
Let us speak this word of God together, you may find it on the back of your worship folder.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Thus far, the Word of the Lord.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
My dear friends in Christ, especially Arlyn:
The 23rd Psalm, the psalm of David, down through the centuries has been the most cherished and most loved of all the psalms by the Christian people. And so it was with Mel. The imagery of the psalm is drawn from the early scenes of David's life. He had been a shepherd, and he knew by experience the tender feeling which a true shepherd has for his sheep. He called God his shepherd, and in so doing he voices his confidence in God's care and protection—in the midst of danger and death he is safe. No harm shall befall him. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death," he says, "I will fear no evil. For Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me."
The psalmist realized that he must descend into the valley of the shadow of death. He realized this because of the fact that we all must be aware of, that we all must descend into the valley of the shadow of death. There is no escape from it. It will come to all of us at last. For Scripture itself says, "As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. " It also says, "Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment. The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span a is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away." The Christian knows that Christ has redeemed him from eternal death, but he knows just as surely that there is no escape for him from the temporal death. He must die, in order that his body may rise again in a new body, transformed and glorified and fitted to be the eternal abode of the glorified soul.
And as we know that we must all descend into the valley of the shadow of death, and that we descend by different paths and at different times, yet all things are in God's hands, and that the path and the time are determined by the Shepherd. He leads us. Our times are in His hands. He has numbered even the hairs of our heads. The time when He will lead us into the valley may be much nearer than we think, Who can tell what even a day may bring? Three Sundays ago Mel was talking to me about how often he was walking and what he was doing in physical therapy. Who among us imagined that we would assemble here so soon. And while today we are well. Tomorrow we may be the ones to lie here. Who knows how near his end may be? How many persons are today planning for long years in the future? But will they live to carry out their plans? God alone knows.
The end of our lives may come, and will come with solemn prospect for us all. It will mean the leaving of this life, the leaving of the things that we wish to do, the tasks that still remain undone; work that we would like to finish, things that we would like to do, and yet we must leave them undone and we must go.
And it means a going forth alone. Our friends and our relatives may not accompany us on our journey. We go through the valley of the shadow of death, and there we go to meet our eternal destiny. When death comes the period of probation is over. The time allotted to us for hearing and obeying the Gospel is passed. The time for eternal reward or retribution is at hand. We descend into the valley. In the valley is the transition of eternal joy and woe. With this our destiny is determined forever. We go to hear Christ say, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world," or hear Him say, "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." Surely death is a solemn and momentous event. All the changes of this earthly life are insignificant by comparison with the change which we call death.
But let us look again at the psalm. We see that David does not say "the valley of death," but he says "the valley of the shadow of death." This is not the valley of dry bones, this not the picture of a people who have no hope and no land. For the believer there is no death. There is only the shadow of death. Since Jesus has died and risen again, death is robbed of its sting and the grave of its victory. What we call death is only the entrance upon a new and glorious life above. Trusting in Jesus, the believer is able to say "I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAYS, NO, WELCOME THE TOMB SINCE JESUS HAS LAIN THERE, I DREAD NOT ITS GLOOM." Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, deathhas become the portal to eternal bliss. It is only a sleep with a blessed awakening. It is a falling asleep amid the toil and turmoil of earth to awake amid the rest and peace of heaven. Death is only a shadow of what it would have been without Christ and what it is for those who are living without Christ in this world.
What a comfort this is to the dying Christian. It is not death that comes upon him but the shadow of death. It is only a change for the better, a laying aside of mortality to put on immortality. When the trumpet shall sound the dead shall be raised incorruptible, the soul shall be reunited with a glorified body, and transformed in body and soul the believer shall enter in and dwell with Christ forever.
What a comfort this is to all of us who grieve. We see our dear ones passing away, but we know that he is falling asleep in the Lord, and that this sleep is a blessed one. The waking shall be in eternal joy, for St. Paul tells us, "I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU BE IGNORANT BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHER WHICH HAVE NO HOPE, FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED AND ROSE AGAIN EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN CHRIST WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM. NOW IS CHRIST RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND BECOME THE FIRST FRUITS OF THEM THAT SLEEP. FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER — CHRIST, THE FIRST FRUITS, AFTERWARDS THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING. As we've borne the image of the earthly, so shall we also bear the image of the heavenly.
This then is the confidence of the psalmist. So too we may with confidence contemplate our eventual and certain death. For he says, "THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL." And why? Because, "THOUGH ART WITH ME. THY ROD AND THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME."
In the darkest and loneliest valley the sheep is safe because the shepherd is with it, guarding it from danger and protecting it from harm. Mel is safe in death, because God is with him and keeping him. Mel goes forth alone — yet not alone, for the Good Shepherd is with him to guard him with his rod and staff. The Good Shepherd, who is with his sheep, also certainly will not forsake us in the hour of our greatest need. He will uphold the believer, will guide us in safety to our heavenly home. As the end approaches, Our Good Shepherd says to you and me and each believer: "FEAR NOT, FOR I AM WITH THEE, BE NOT DISMAYED, FOR I AM THY GOD. I WILL STRENGTHEN THEE, YES I WILL HELP THEE, MORE THAN THAT, I WILL UPHOLD THEE WITH THE RIGHT HAND OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS."
God brought Ezekiel to the valley of death and asked him, "Son of man, can these bones live." You and I are lead through the valley of the shadow of death, and we hear the tender voice of our Shepherd saying, "FOR I HAVE REDEEMED THEE; I HAVE CALLED THEE BY THY NAME; THOU ART MINE. WHEN THOU PASSETH THROUGH THE WATERS, I WILL BE WITH THEE; AND THROUGH THE RIVERS, THEY SHALL NOT OVERFLOW THEE, FOR I AM THE LORD, THY GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, THY SAVIOR.,'
Yes, the Christian must descend into the valley, but it is not the valley of death and desolation that we so richly deserve on account of our sin. The Christian is lead by his Savior into the valley of the shadow of death, but he fears not, for he knows Christ is with him and keeps him in safety as "THY ROD AND THY STAFF, THEY COMFORT ME." The Shepherd leads his sheep through the dark valley, but he does so only in order that he may bring his sheep to his heavenly fold to feed in green pastures and to rest beside the still waters. For the relation between the Shepherd and his sheep is a dear and tender abiding relation. Christ says, "MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME, AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE, AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND." Let the blessed truths of the our texts comfort you, my sorrowing friends, in this your hour of bereavement. You know that Clara was a believer, a sheep of Christ's flock. You were witnesses of her faith and Christian patience. She has gone into the valley, but it is only the valley of the shadow of death, and she has gone, not alone, but accompanied and guarded by her Shepherd. The darkness of the valley was illuminated for her by faith. Its terrors were removed by the comforting presence of the Shepherd with his rod and staff. An you have the blessed consolation that after her days of suffering she is now at rest, a rest not merely of the body, but the rest of the people of God, the rest of those who have fallen asleep in Christ.
God's ways are not our ways, neither are His thoughts our thoughts. We cannot understand the mystery of His dealings, nor explain why this heavy blow has fallen upon us. But this we know, that God is love and that in all his dealings with His children He is guided by love. All things, even the loss and grief you now experience, shall work for your good, just as it will work together for good to all that love God. We know that even as the Shepherd's rod and staff comfort the believer as he descends into the valley, so they also comfort those of His flock who remain behind under the shadow of affliction and grief. The Good Shepherd would not leave you comfortless Arlyn, but will strengthen and uphold you. Cling firmly to Him as your Savior and trust in Him as your loving Shepherd, then He will be able to say, even amid your tears, "HE DOETH ALL THINGS WELL," and though now your eyes are hidden and you cannot penetrate the mystery of His dealings with you, some day you shall know and understand that all has been done with love and wisdom. "FOR NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE. NOW WE KNOW IN PART, BUT THEN WE SHALL KNOW, EVEN AS WE ALSO ARE KNOWN." Amen.
And now may the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the true faith which is Christ Jesus. Amen.


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Anderson Creek Takes Name from Early Phoenix (Ore.) Settlers
Anderson Creek, which enters Bear Creek at the south end of today's Phoenix, Ore., was named for Eli Knighton Anderson and his brother, two of the first settlers in the Rogue Valley.
Born in Indiana, Eli Anderson, at age 23 in 1849, drove an oxen team and wagon to California for the gold rush. He first tried mining at Redding Springs in Shasta County, and then he and his brother James filed for neighboring land grants near today's Talent, Ore., in 1852. The brothers built a shared cabin straddling the property line between their claims.
Anderson planted seeds from the Willamette Valley, and by the following fall, sold wheat in the Rogue Valley at eight dollars a bushel. He started orchards of apples, pears, and peaches and was an early owner of the Ashland Flouring Mill and Ashland Mine.
When he was 30, Anderson married Elizabeth Myer, daughter of a neighboring farmer. The Myers had crossed the plains from Iowa three years earlier.
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In support of the government's efforts, MEASURE Evaluation-PIMA (MEval-PIMA), funded by USAID/PMI, developed a comprehensive malaria surveillance training package and a roll-out plan for malaria surveillance in the country. To date, MEval-PIMA has supported training of 40 Training of Trainers (ToTs) and 649 health workers in four malaria-endemic counties (Migori, Homabay, Kisumu, and Kakamega) since March 2015.
Timely recording, analysis, interpretation and sharing of data, as well as the testing, treatment, and tracking of malaria, are among the skills that participants learn during trainings.
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"This being the rainy season, we expect to receive more patients, especially in the evenings. We usually have 10 to 20 patients diagnosed with malaria hospitalized daily between April and June," adds Collins.
Those numbers are down from five years ago. To illustrate the trend, Mr. Moses Otieno, a lab technologist and also a beneficiary of the training, showed his records that demonstrate the reduction of numbers.
"In July 2010 we had about 2,200 positive malaria tests, with 718 being children under five years. One year later, we had 1,700 positive malaria tests, with 301 being children under five. Today, we have 758 positive malaria tests," says Mr. Otieno.
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As a child I used to pick out seeds from a catalog with my grandfather. We'd pick out various vegetables to grow, and fruit, and what sort of things we'd be eating all year as my grandmother and mother spent days and days putting it all up after the harvest.
One special thing we'd plant together were our sunflowers. Planted on the north end of the garden, every day once they'd sprouted we'd walk out together to see if they were taller than I.E Eventually they were, reaching up to the sun, while the bees swarmed around the flowers and the hot Hoosier sun beat down on us and we took in their beauty. Continue reading


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Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Georgia Bulldogs Football Betting Lines NCAA
After a full season of ups and downs, the football betting lines NCAA are primed for this year's national title. First, we had to witness the first round of the college football playoffs which pit some of the best programs in the nation against each other. In the Sugar Bowl, football betting books and players alike witnessed the Alabama Crimson Tide extract their revenge on the Clemson Tigers 24-6 to punch their ticket to this year's national title. In the Rose Bowl, we witnessed a tough match between Oklahoma and Georgia that ended up in a close 54-48 double overtime win in the Bulldogs favor. What will the odds makers have to say about this year's Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Georgia Bulldogs national title matchup?
Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Georgia Bulldogs – Monday, January 8th
When: 8:00 pm ET
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Alabama Crimson Tide
The Crimson Tide rolled their way to a 12-1 record this season. Surprisingly, the Tide's only loss of the year came against the Auburn Tigers 14-26. However, it was this loss that led many players doubting Bama's right to this year's college football playoffs. Specifically, many bettors felt that the NCAA was purposely favoring Alabama over UCF, who finished the year undefeated, in order to help out the postseason's ratings. It was a mild conspiracy theory but one grounded in reality. However, most people's complaints about this year's playoff seeding were wiped away once New Year rolled around and Alabama absolutely light up Clemson on the national stage. Now Nick Saban's squad looks to do the same on the biggest stage in college football.
Without a doubt, Alabama has the statistical advantage in this matchup. At the present time, Bama is averaging 37.9 points on offense. At the same time, the Crimson Tide is allowing a slim 11.5 points on the defensive side of the ball. Those are some pretty great numbers and they're significantly better than Georgia's numbers. Comparatively, the Bulldogs are putting up 36.3 points on offense while their defense is allotting 13.2. With this in mind, it's clear that this year's national title match will be on for the history books.
Georgia Bulldogs
The Georgia Bulldogs had a great season this year as the program finished 13-1 overall. This led to a 1st place finish in the SEC – East, earning Georgia ta ticket to the SEC Championship game. The Bulldogs' lone loss of the season, like the Crimson Tide's, came against the Auburn Tigers. However, Georgia was able to avenge that loss in the SEC Title game by picking up a 28-7 win over Auburn. The Bulldogs finished the year with a 3-game winning streak. Nevertheless, the football betting lines NCAA will favor Bama in this Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Georgia Bulldogs championship matchup.
Sportsbook players placing proposition bets football on this year's national title matchup should consider backing Bama straight up as well on the spread. Early estimates have the Crimson Tide favored at -200 on the money line, which offers plenty of value on the betting favorites.


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Standard ASTM F1223-08
1.1 This test method covers the establishment of a database of total knee replacement (TKR) motion characteristics with the intent of developing guidelines for the assignment of constraint criteria to TKR designs. (See the Rationale in Appendix X1.)
1.2 This test method covers the means by which a TKR constraint may be quantified according to motion delineated by the inherent articular design as determined under specific loading conditions in an in vitro environment.
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The subject line was ominous: "This is difficult to watch," it said. I probably shouldn't share with you what sort of video I was expecting to find upon opening the message, but I can tell you that the enclosed clip, though not what I imagined, was indeed difficult to watch, especially for a huge hip-hop fan like me.
If you like politics and have HBO, or are just into YouTube, perhaps you've seen the video of rapper Mos Def and author Christopher Hitchens, bookending Salman Rushdie and Bill Maher on Maher's talk show, engaged in a conversation about the Taliban. It is a conversation that quickly devolves into the sort of scene that usually precedes a shouting match, or even a fistfight. In and of itself, angry, televised ranting about politics is a vulgarity too often tolerated by Americans (a problem The Root has touched on before), but what made this heated bickering particularly cringe-worthy was the imbalance of it.
Mos Def was overwhelmed by men far more learned about the topic at hand than himself, and in the carnage that ensued, viewers were exposed to one of the sadder problems plaguing parts of the African-American community today: an immovable distrust of everything.
Without a doubt, for blacks in America, maintaining a cautious disposition is a good idea. Many African Americans who have let their guard down in the past have paid for it, sometimes dearly. But caution becomes problematic when it goes from simple self-preservation technique to worldview, something affecting a person's every interaction. Like the shellshocked soldier who sees even his comrades as enemies, a person who has come to trust nothing is a danger to everything and everyone—most of all himself.
Shun the government completely, and you'll miss out on the occasional JFKs of the world. Distrust the entirety of the mainstream media, and you'll never be privy to the brilliant work of Woodward and Bernstein. You believe white people are out to get you? Then how to account for John Brown?
The true danger in mistrust is that it ultimately leads to fear, which in turn can lead to any number of negative outcomes. It was mistrust and fear just as much as it was a bullet that cut down Martin Luther King Jr., and it was mistrust and fear that caused black activist Kamau Kambon to proclaim on C-SPAN that the answer to the world's problems is the extermination of all the whites. More recently, mistrust and fear mucked up what should have been a very simple interaction between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a Cambridge police officer.
Luckily for Mos Def, thus far, his mistrust and fear have just made him look pretty silly on television.
It began innocently enough, with Mos calmly asking, "What are al-Qaeda and the Taliban's political ambitions?" It was an odd inquiry, as decades of violent attacks and fiery rhetoric from Osama bin Laden have clarified for most people the goals of those groups. Nevertheless, it was also a question for which Hitchens, Rushdie and—to a lesser extent—Maher, had a variety of answers:
- The return of an Islamic empire
- An ultra-puritan agenda
- A fascist state
- The death of all Jews, Hindus and secularists
In the end, Maher tied it all together, pointedly telling Mos, "They're bad motherf—kers!"
For many, a Hitchens-Rushdie assurance that the Taliban is committed to reckless and violent ends would be reason enough to close the debate and move the conversation on to something else. Despite what you think about the controversies surrounding both men, it's undeniable that they are both well-versed in Middle Eastern radicalism (Rushdie was once even forced to hide out from an Iranian fatwa). Yet Mos Def pushed back against the assertions in the strangest ways possible.
Seemingly ignorant of the insidious ways of both the Taliban and al-Qaeda—"You're sounding as if you've only just heard of this," Hitchens noted—the talented hip-hop artist grew obstinate at the three men before him, at one point declaring, "I don't believe that someone's bad just because you say so." He sounded both childish and churlish, the statement coming across like something a teenager who's just discovered punk music would shout at his parents. Then Mos went further off the rails, bringing up Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther convicted of murder who escaped prison and has since lived in exile in Cuba. The rapper's point being: "There have been lots of crimes leveled against people which they didn't do."
Mos might have made sense had bin Laden et al. not released multiple videos over the past decade affirming their roles in several heinous crimes and assassinations. When Hitchens suggested Mos watch those videos, Mos, a devout Muslim, contended that he didn't trust the media's translations of the videos. A few moments later, when Hitchens, grinning and catty, said Mos should "do some work on [his] own account" and look into the Taliban's crimes, the rapper, angry now, shouted, "Don't start no shit, Mr. Hitchens! I'm from Brooklyn! I'm not afraid of nothin'!"
That's when I stopped the clip, clicking it off the way someone at a bullfight might turn away from a speared, dizzy, increasingly lifeless bull.
To be sure, after watching that video, I was embarrassed for Mos Def, a smart guy who went up against equally smart guys and lost both the argument and his cool, but I was also fully aware of why he flamed out so horribly.
Growing up as a person of color in America, you're often astounded to learn how poorly your ancestors were treated. From slavery to the three-fifths compromise to lynchings to redlining practices, the horror stories are endless, and they can plant in you an onion of bitterness and suspicion. If you're unlucky, it's not only stories of prejudice that will add layers to that onion but actual incidents of bigotry, too. For some, eventually, that ball of embitterment can simply grow too big, leading them to trust only themselves and their own kind, even if that means forsaking rationality. It's one of the cruelest paradoxes of the black experience: an unreasonable fear of the world around you, and it happens for good reason.
Such was the case, I'm afraid, with Mos Def that night on Real Time with Bill Maher. In just a few short minutes, before HBO viewers' very eyes, Mos revealed a pain so deep that he was unwilling to believe mainstream (read: white) media reports about something as simple and irrefutable as the maliciousness of Osama bin Laden.
Ultimately, you have to wonder if Mos Def actually believes that the news stations would collude to intentionally deceive viewers with fudged translations of bin Laden's terror rants. If he does, then you mustn't giggle at him, the way Chris Hitchens did—you have to feel sorry for him, and then wonder how much pain it takes to get to where he is.
Cord Jefferson is a writer living in Brooklyn. Some of his other work has appeared in National Geographic, The Daily Beast and on MTV. You can contact him here.


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Today there is much discussion about the limitations of usability evaluations that focus on the cognitive dimensions of user experience. Usability supposedly is relevant only to goal-directed tasks whose outcomes can be judged relatively objectively. In contrast, other kinds of interactive experiences aim to achieve a subjective state, often construed as affective, such as engagement, arousal, and pleasure. However, cognition and affect are not as independent as they may seem, and therefore usability and other aspects of experience overlap significantly. In this forum, I suggest that incorporating aspects of play experiences may help solve a pressing problem in user experience design: the need to draw people into discovering value in new features, starting from a point where, if they even know the feature exists, they do not yet have a clear vision of what it will do for them.
Distinctions, Apparent and Real
Although it has face validity, the distinction between cognitive usability and the subjective, affective aspects of user experience is overly simplistic. For example, attention is usually thought of as a cognitive variable, but fun certainly involves attentional phenomena. People having fun tend to feel as if they are responding to something that intrinsically draws their attention. In contrast, when directing and maintaining attention requires disproportionate effort, we are rarely having fun. Even in games that challenge the user's ability to maintain vigilance, the level of vigilance required must be sustained by the arousal the game creates.
Curiosity, the desire to know more, seems like a hybrid of emotion and cognition. When some stimulus arouses us and orients our attention, it leads us to explore more thoroughly. If we hear a twig snap in the brush beyond the edge of our campsite, alertness, arousal, and fear occur spontaneously, along with a question, such as, "Was that a bear or my partner returning from the latrine?" We may consider this primarily an affective experience because, at the outset, arousal and attention are automatic, making the experience seem spontaneous. But it includes perceptual and cognitive processes, such as distinguishing the sound of the twig from the background noise and consciously directing attention in an effort to assess the situation.
Sometimes, even the sensory pleasure that some designed experiences deliver can be intertwined with cognition. In shopping for a car, the pleasure we get from the supple leather seats is meaningful because it suggests that other aspects of the car will live up to the impression of quality. We may confirm this impression by testing the feel of the door locks, window controls, and gear shift. The smooth but solid feel of the gear shift does not just give sensory pleasure, but also reduces ambiguity about its position.
While affect and cognition are entangled throughout, behavior at the beginning of these examples seems relatively spontaneous (alerting to the twig snapping, feeling the leather, etc.), and becomes more specifically goal-directed and planned as the person becomes more engaged. This progression looks a lot like play, especially play that someone is tempted into and then becomes hooked on. Like millions of others, I began playing Angry Birds by casually "checking it out," but soon I was consciously trying to plan the trajectories of the birds to hit what my experimentation led me to believe were weak spots in the pigs' defenses.
Play and learning are intertwined. Just as a kitten at play carries out a built-in program that causes it to learn hunting skills, human play propels us on a pathway toward consolidating new skills and knowledge. This process is exploited in the educational movement known as constructivism, which uses physical and mental engagement and experimentation as the basis for conceptual learning. A great constructivist teacher tries to entice learners into a playful interaction that leads to learning, beginning with and building on their existing experiences and mental constructs.
Years ago, a brilliant clarinet teacher gave me a great example of this. Clarinetists live in fear of "squeaks," the loud, high-pitched squawking sounds the instrument makes at the worst possible moments. Once, when I flinched after a squeak, my teacher took away all of the instrument except the mouthpiece and upper section, leaving me with no keys. He then challenged me to learn to play the remainder as if it were a trumpet, after showing me that this was possible. At first, I managed only to get out a few raucous sounds. By the end of the week, though, I could play simple bugle calls on it. I had learned the trick of "overblowing," which is how a trumpet or flute can play different notes with the same fingering. For each note, there is a sound spectrum of higher overtones. In the flute, the octave is the strongest overtone, making it easiest to reach. I learned that the clarinet does the same thing, except its strongest overtones are at intervals of a twelfth, making its accidental leaps particularly startling. I could apply my new skill to avoid a high note's awkward fingering by overblowing the appropriate lower note. Meanwhile, my tone improved, squeaking greatly decreased, and concepts about the instrument's acoustics became much more real to me.
What were the key ingredients of this process? First, I had a general motivation to increase my mastery. Next, my teacher intervened at a moment of ripeness, just after I squeaked. He created a challenge for me that aroused my curiosity and focused my attention. The element of surprise and absurdity made it sound like fun. By demonstrating, he showed me that the goal was attainable and gave me a model to imitate. Finally, he enabled me to enter a process of playful experimentation, without risk.
Enticement as an Ingredient of Usability
The process of engagement often requires users to begin interacting with something before they can envision how it will ultimately benefit them. They may form a detailed idea of how they will exploit new capabilities only after a period of casual discovery, exploration, and experimentation. This means we should think about how the process of engagement begins.
I tend to think about the process of engagement with a product or feature in terms of the following stages:
- Awareness: Acquiring the notion that something of potential benefit might exist
- Discovery: Locating a feature and recognizing its potential relevance to some particular needs or goals
- Exploration: Attempting to dig deeper, to confirm the impression that it could be beneficial in principle
- Experimentation: Verifying that the capabilities of the product are relevant, by applying them to some personally meaningful task
- Adoption: Continuing usage of the feature that progressively incorporates it into the user's "standard" practices
Of course, you may conceptualize stages of engagement differently. For example, many usability professionals might group discovery and exploration together. Also, the progression is not strictly linear. Experimentation may lead to discovery of more facets of the technology, generating more exploration and experimentation. Finally, some stages may not apply in all cases.
The goal is to remove cognitive obstacles to progressing through the stages. But since we cannot rely on a user's conscious purpose to drive them through the earlier stages, we need to make the entire pathway enticing, rather than simply making work during the final stage easier to execute. Unfortunately, product teams sometimes load software with features in the hope of delivering value to hypothetical already-committed users, giving too little attention to the challenge of leading them into a process that will result in commitment.
This is relevant even in a domain as classically "task oriented" as business applications. It is misleading to think that user experience issues beyond efficiency, learnability, and accuracy are unimportant in business applications because their use is non-optional. While usage for routine administrative tasks may be obligatory, usage of many "value add" capabilities by knowledge workers, who have discretion about how they work, is optional. Lacking adoption, their usability and usefulness are like the sound of one hand clapping, a concept without a real manifestation.
However, as potentially valuable capabilities are continually added to software, more things compete for the user's attention, features are harder to locate, and the higher-order functions they enable become more abstract and harder to envision using. Thus the challenge of enticement and engagement increases, and we need more active strategies to draw users in.
Rather than trying to make applications look superficially like entertainment or games, we need to think more deeply and less literally about the underlying characteristics of play that make it enticing.
We need to go beyond crude approaches, such as trying to cram a link to every feature into the limited real estate of a home screen. Enticing users into playing with new features may help address this need. This may sound obvious, and many product teams may object that they already try various things to do this. However, too often these seem like add-ons, rather than being integrated into the experience.
Sometimes, product teams simply overlook the entry process. Often, the value of a proposed product or feature is promoted internally in optimistic scenarios portraying its benefits for hypothetical future users. These scenarios, typically written in the present tense, describe people who have already adopted the technology and are richly and successfully applying it in their jobs. Sometimes, these stories are repeated so often that people lose sight of the boundary between truth and fiction and forget that they depict the imagined end point, not how someone gets there.
The concept of the "early adopter" may divert attention from the design as a source of enticement. Often, early-adopter status seems to be construed as a deep personality variable, one that may even generalize across technologies. While every product will have some who adopt it before others, relying on the presumed internal motivation of hypothetical early adopters, or assuming that early adopters will start a viral process, may relieve product teams of too much responsibility for engagement.
Conventional usability evaluation tasks often start by assuming the user is already trying to do something with the software, and therefore skip or compress the first few steps of the process. It is difficult in the lab to study the process of experimentation, because the limited realism of a simulation makes it hard for users to apply newly discovered capabilities to things that matter personally. And the partly spontaneous process does not usually unfold in a 60- to 90-minute test session. Thus, we have to rely on opportunistic, indirect evidence, such as when a user departs from the task scenario because of curiosity about something else noticed on the screen.
Advertising certainly attempts to entice by communicating value propositions for the product that will attract users and motivate them through the early stages of engagement. However, depending on how well marketing and product development work together, the actual designed user experience may or may not be aligned with that value proposition. When there is a disconnect, this can create not only disappointed expectations, but confusion as well. A service and associated Web tool I once consulted on promised a highly personalized medical insurance signup process, for example, allowing different coverage levels and medical-provider choices in multiple specialties for each member of a family. Unfortunately, it presented users with a complete default set of choices as soon as they submitted identifying information. Personalization had to wait until 13 screens into the process, when users could "edit" these default choices (if they had not already dropped out of the process).
User assistance, such as tutorials and context-sensitive suggestions, are other attempts to make users aware of the potential value in new features before they have "tasted" them. Users often experience these as detours or distractions. Tutorials too often tell users what they could do, without giving them an idea of why and when they would want to do it. They rarely receive the same level of user experience attention as the main pieces of functionality themselves. This is unfortunate because there are plenty of user experience issues to address in these approaches.
The "gamification" movement is exploring the application of user experience lessons from games to other domains, such as education and business applications, to make applications more engaging or to motivate effort and productivity. However, sometimes these approaches seem like surface add-ons to the experience, rather than ways to exploit users' intrinsic interest to draw them in. Points, competition, leader boards, and game-like visuals may represent too literal and superficial an application of game design to these other domains. Recently, Google introduced a "News Badges" feature, in which people can earn points based on how many items they read on a given topic. I may be proven wrong, but I question whether points would add to the motivation of someone who is already interested in news, or whether anyone not interested in the news would care about earning news badges.
Another problem is that levels of difficulty are much easier to define in the world of games than in productivity and business tools, making it easier to design a fairly standard progression of experiences ("leveling") along which people can be lured. Productivity tools and business tools need to support a wide range of pathways based on the specifics of users' job design, tasks, and goals. It is also notoriously difficult even to determine what functions belong under "advanced," because this is so specific to users' roles and task patterns.
Rather than trying to make applications look superficially like entertainment or games, we need to think more deeply and less literally about the underlying characteristics of play that make it enticing. Here are some principles that may help draw users onto a pathway of exploration and adoption:
- Seek ways to arouse users' interest in new features with personally relevant information and examples, provided in context, rather than by explaining functional capabilities hypothetically or didactically.
- However, don't exaggerate intelligent software's ability to provide personalization or accurately targeted, in-context information. Users will be more forgiving of "misses" if they are presented tentatively.
- Exploit the power of imitation, for example, by using social computing tools to show related examples of value from peers, or by repurposing input from the user to provide demonstrations of new capabilities.
- Evaluate the expectations created by marketing messages, and then compare the early user experience to these. This can mean beginning usability evaluations with an assessment of the expectations aroused by marketing messages or home-page text.
- In storyboarding scenarios, conceptualize usage as evolving through a sequence of stages, making sure the steps are chained together plausibly. Design to support multiple pathways into more comprehensive usage.
- Provide a safe place for users to experiment in applying new capabilities to their own personally relevant information and tasks, without fear of losing work, contaminating data, or getting stuck in a blind alley of steps that have to be undone.
- While leveling may be difficult, some aspects of it may be transferrable. Use any sign of progressive engagement by users to show them that more is possible. Offer indications of additional potential value in small increments. Provide feedback to the user regarding their mastery or progress in expanding their toolkit over time.
As I mentioned earlier, many product teams may feel they are already trying to apply principles like these, but often the efforts are not integrated into the overall experience. These principles don't provide easy answers and their application will vary in different contexts. We also have to avoid hubris. Sometimes the obstacle to adoption is not lack of awareness of the feature, but that its claimed benefits are not meaningful to users, it does not deliver the promised benefits, or its cost in usability hassles is too high. Finally, just as my clarinet teacher needed to deeply connect with my goal of becoming a better player to have a chance of engaging me in a new, transformative experience, enticing users to discover, explore, and experiment with new features raises the stakes for deeply connecting with their motivations and mindsets.
David Siegel, vice president of Dray & Associates, is a user centered design consultant who has contributed his research skills to a wide range of technologies and to all phases of product development. He uses methods ranging from contextual field research to laboratory evaluation. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA.
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Tragedy, Blacklisted & Morne @ Studio B – pics & video
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"Am bummed that I missed Tragedy at Studio B, , but I have to tell you..." -Ted Leo
Tragedy @ Studio B - July 12, 2009
Due to a layover on their way to Europe, crusty hardcore gods Tragedy did their part to help shutter the stages of Studio B on July 12th with a little help from Morne (mems-Grief, profiled here), Blacklisted, Brain Handle, and Brain Killer. I got to the venue moments after the great Blacklisted started. I unfortunately missed Brain Handle and Brain Killer.
"We don't take requests", vocalist George Hirsch quipped from on stage, not that the band needed to. Blacklisted ran through some favorite selections of older material, as well songs from the excellent Heavier Than Heaven, Lonlier Than God from last year. As far as stage presence and performance, Blacklisted as a band is as impassioned as Hirsch's lyrics, and the barefooted vocalist took command of the crowd with ease. I'm a big fan.
Morne followed with their crusty Amebix/early Neurosis slant, drawing from their new LP due on Feral Ward. Their sound has infinite potential, but I found them to be less than energetic on stage. Nerves? They had second billing above Blacklisted (which I didn't understand) and were sandwiched between two of the greatest current hardcore bands today.
Though there are a few notable exceptions to this rule (like Blacklisted), I think hardcore should have an element of danger to it. A fire. A pissed off quality transcends the musician's ability, propelling the music forward with an intangible, urgent quality. Tragedy has that rage, which is why this band is so compelling both on record as well as on stage. They did not disappoint on Sunday night, save for the fact that the sound was muddy at different vantage points and their show clocked in at under an hour. I could have gone for two.
"Lemme just put it this way. I usually follow the "No crowd-surfing/stage-diving for kids over 175lbs" rule pretty fucking strictly. It definitely makes the show more enjoyable for the majority. For Tragedy, I smashed that rule to fucking pieces for the first time in years. I definitely heard "Not Fucking Fodder", "Call to Arms", "The Day After", and "The Ending Fight". They also played one, possibly 2 new songs as well. Could this mean a new album? Who knows?! Shit dude, for a bunch of semi-drunk dudes they were tighter than Nancy Reagan's asshole and heavier than a 10 ton weight. EURO-FRIENDS: GO SEE TRAGEDY." [NGNV]
Pictures of the last two bands, some videos, and more Blacklisted and Morne tour dates, below...
Jul 31 2009 Sound and Fury 2009 Oxnard, California
Aug 1 2009 Sound and Fury 2009 Oxnard, California
Aug 2 2009 Sound and Fury 2009 Oxnard, California
Aug 16 2009 Starlight Ballroom- This is Hardcore 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aug 12 2009 KOPI Berlin,GERMANY
Aug 13 2009 ajz Neubrandenburg,GERMANY
Aug 14 2009 doedsmaskinen Copenhagen,DENMARK
Aug 15 2009 alte meierei Kiel,GERMANY
Aug 16 2009 lobusch Hamburg,GERMANY
Aug 17 2009 az Osnabrueck,GERMANY
Aug 18 2009 Az Mülheim,GERMANY
Aug 19 2009 acu Utrech,NETHERLANDS
Aug 20 2009 @onderbroek Nijmengen ,NETHERLANDS
Aug 21 2009 az de noodzaak festival Gent,BELGIUM
Aug 22 2009 la miroiterie Paris,FRANCE
Aug 23 2009 @kalkbreite Zurich,SWITZERLAND*
Aug 24 2009 Schrottbar Biel,SWITZERLAND*
Aug 25 2009 pmk bogen Innsbruck,AUSTRIA
Aug 26 2009 komma Esslingen,GERMANY*
Aug 27 2009 ajz Aachen,GERMANY**
Aug 28 2009 TBA,GERMANY**
Aug 29 2009 Paranoia Fest Dresden,GERMANY
Aug 30 2009 007 Prague,CZECH
Aug 31 2009 TBA TBA,SLOVAKIA
Sep 1 2009 Ciprus bar Budapest,HUNGARY
Sep 2 2009 ekh Vienna,AUSTRIA
Sep 3 2009 pod radhostem Roznov,CZECH
Sep 5 2009 Play fast or don't Fest Hradec Kralowe,CZECH
Sep 6 2009 TBA Zdunska Wola,POLAND
Sep 7 2009 @ Tektura Lublin,POLAND
Sep 8 2009 TBA Warsaw,POLAND
Sep 9 2009 @ Rockz Gdynia,POLAND
Sep 10 2009 TBA Wroclaw,POLAND
Sep 11 2009 ZORO Leipzig,GERMANY
Sep 12 2009 Friese Bremen,GERMANY
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The liberal media apparently forgot in their headlines that the private sector can be incentivized to pick up the slack left by the federal government. Also, President Trump submitted a budget proposal to Congress, but Congress has the power of purse.
All these histrionics could be moot when Congress takes a look at Trump's budget cut proposals, which would cut science funding.
Here's what the liberal media headlines said about Trump's budget cuts:
- CNN: Medical, science research faces huge cuts under Trump budget
- Washington Post: Trump budget would gut science, environment program
- Los Angeles Times: Why Trump's budget proposal may not be a blueprint for economic growth
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Poaching centrists: Lib Dems reach out to New Labour group
Liberal Democrats cheekily tried to highlight Labour's internal battle over Progress today, when they invited the group to their party conference.
Unions have been trying to have the New Labour organisation expelled because of its private funding model – much to the anger of centrist MPs in the opposition party.
"I have noted the moves from the GMB [trade union] and others within the Labour party to sideline Progress and force its members out of the party," Lib Dem president Tim Farron wrote in a letter to Progress chairman Andrew Adonis today.
"This is a great shame. I do not mean to patronise you or your members by suggesting your response should be to join the Liberal Democrats.
"I know that you very much consider yourselves a part of the Labour movement. But you are modern, progressive reformers and you deserve to be a part of the political debate in this country."
The letter then proceeds to invite Progress to the party's autumn conference, because the Lib Dems "are a party that is prepared to work with others for the good of the country".


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Executive Producer Tim Disney & Producers Bill Haney & Maura McCarthy
Directed by Julianna Rees
July 29 – August 3
A power-hungry ruler leads a government eager to please him. A nation's values quickly shift: family, friendship, and hard work are soon replaced by love of greed and power. What is the impact on a society that abandons its sense of self in blind pursuit of money and naked ambition? France in the late 17th century discovered the consequences, when Louis XIV Dieudonné ("God-given") reigned as the Sun King at Versailles. Otherwise rational people found themselves entrapped in ridiculous ceremonies, where the rules of etiquette were so rigid and extreme, courtiers were unable to knock on doors or sit on chairs, and their lives revolved around the whims of their capricious monarch.
Molière wrote The Miser in 1668, 24 years into Louis XIV's reign. Molière sought to satirize the French court of his day- Harpagon's home is Versailles writ small. Notice themes that return: sycophancy, avarice, etiquette, class division, the tension between love of people and love of money. Harpagon will gladly sacrifice anything to keep what he holds most dear- the gold he has buried on his property. What price does he pay? And what price, ultimately, did the French kings, and their country, pay for building their gilded palaces and hoarding their treasure? People starved, and heads rolled.
We chose this play because we found many parallels between Molière's France and today. What values has our country sacrificed to pander to a leader who needs obedience and devotion, who prizes money and strength over human relationships? The plot of The Miser resolves when people Harpagon ignores or disdains – the lower class and women – end up being smarter and more resourceful than he expected. Perhaps our salvation lies in their hands as well.
Finally, Molière worked throughout his artistic life with a small company of actors who traveled, worked, and often lived together for many years. We ourselves have formed an ensemble of actors, designers, and technical crew from the tradition of CTE, where we actively teach and practice ensemble and generosity. From students just leaving their Freshman year to our elder statesman, a graduate of 1984, we have come together to create a play we hope will make you think and laugh.
We would like to thank our generous producers, Tim Disney, Bill Haney, and Maura McCarthy. Molière was able to write, direct, and act in his remarkable productions due to the vision and financial support of Monsieur, Louis XIV's brother. We're grateful our producers believe in our work, and have made it possible to share it with you.


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