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In a standing room only conversation that finished day one of the Schwab Impact 2012 conference in Chicago on Wednesday, Maria Bartiromo sat down with Chuck Schwab, Scott Nuttall and George Roberts of KKR. The three men took questions from Bartiromo and the audience of advisors, traded stories of their storied careers and discussed the investment opportunities they see even in these volatile times.
Schwab was clearly the star, and the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab & Co. spoke in his trademark blunt way about the role of alternative investments in his own portfolio, the likelihood that we will go over the fiscal cliff and why he's ready to write a "bigger check" in taxes to help address the nation's fiscal woes.
First, Schwab revealed that in his personal portfolio, he holds 15% to 20% in alternative investments, and that he likes the opportunities presented by private credit investment vehicles (which KKR offers) particularly now that the banks are not providing much in the way of financing to businesses.
When Bartiromo asked the panel how the audience of advisors can help get investors back into the markets, Schwab said the key was that "you have to have stability." Having faced such serious "cyclical events over the past 10 years," driven partly by "the Wall Street firms getting so over-leveraged," Schwab said that one of the benefits of the Dodd-Frank Act was that it might well help provide "some stability" to the markets.
As for the coming fiscal cliff, Schwab said he believed there was a "high probability" that we'd go over the cliff, with resolution not coming until some time in the spring, but he made it clear that he personally would have no problem if that resolution included higher taxes "for people like me."
In fact, while Schwab thinks there's a "high probability" that market volatility will continue, he noted that over the past 50 years of his investing life he's "made money" in volatile times, and also done so in higher tax times.
"There are still opportunities to make money" in the markets going forward, particularly in energy, he suggested, further counseling advisors that "we shouldn't be too depressed over the next few weeks or the next four years. We can live with this; I remain optimistic."
And how will the markets react to higher taxes? "It will take one day" for the markets to adjust to higher taxes, Schwab said, and suggested that while "people like me will be writing a bigger check," he was eager to do so if "we can then go back to making money."
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[Last updated: September 2014, to ask, What does the future of crowdsourcing hold?]
What is crowdsourcing?Definitions are tricky, aren't they? Even Jeff Howe, the author of 'Crowdsourcing' has two definitions:
The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.For many reasons, the term 'crowdsourcing' isn't appropriate for many cultural heritage projects but the term is such neat shorthand that it'll stick until something better comes along. Trevor Owens (@tjowens) has neatly problematised this in The Crowd and The Library:
The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
'Many of the projects that end up falling under the heading of crowdsourcing in libraries, archives and museums have not involved large and massive crowds and they have very little to do with outsourcing labor. ... They are about inviting participation from interested and engaged members of the public [and] continue a long standing tradition of volunteerism and involvement of citizens in the creation and continued development of public goods'
To summarise my own thinking and the related literature, I'd define crowdsourcing in cultural heritage as an emerging form of engagement with cultural heritage that contributes towards a shared, significant goal or research area by asking the public to undertake tasks that cannot be done automatically, in an environment where the tasks, goals (or both) provide inherent rewards for participation.
Who is 'the crowd'?Good question! One tension underlying the 'openness' of the call to participate in cultural heritage is the fact that there's often a difference between the theoretical reach of a project (i.e. everybody) and the practical reach, the subset of 'everybody' with access to the materials needed (like a computer and an internet connection), the skills, experience and time... While 'the crowd' may carry connotations of 'the mob', in 'Digital Curiosities: Resource Creation Via Amateur Digitisation', Melissa Terras (@melissaterras) points out that many 'amateur' content creators are 'extremely self motivated, enthusiastic, and dedicated' and test the boundaries between 'between definitions of amateur and professional, work and hobby, independent and institutional' and quotes Leadbeater and Miller's 'The Pro-Am Revolution' on people who pursue an activity 'as an amateur, mainly for the love of it, but sets a professional standard'.
There's more and more talk of 'community-sourcing' in cultural heritage, and it's a useful distinction but it also masks the fact that nearly all crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage involve a community rather than a crowd, whether they're the traditional 'enthusiasts' or 'volunteers', citizen historians, engaged audiences, whatever. That said, Amy Sample Ward has a diagram that's quite useful for planning how to work with different groups. It puts the 'crowd' (people you don't know), 'network' (the community of your community) and 'community' (people with a relationship to your organisation) in different rings based on their closeness to you.
'The crowd' is differentiated not just by their relationship to your organisation, or by their skills and abilities, but their motivation for participating is also important - some people participate in crowdsourcing projects for altruistic reasons, others because doing so furthers their own goals.
What isn't crowdsourcing?
...'the wisdom of the crowds'?Which is not just another way of saying 'crowd psychology', either (another common furphy). As Wikipedia puts it, 'the wisdom of the crowds' is based on 'diverse collections of independently-deciding individuals'. Handily, Trevor Owens has just written a post addressing the topic: Human Computation and Wisdom of Crowds in Cultural Heritage.
...user-generated contentSo what's the difference between crowdsourcing and user-generated content? The lines are blurry, but crowdsourcing is inherently productive - the point is to get a job done, whether that's identifying people or things, creating content or digitising material.
Conversely, the value of user-generated content lies in the act of creating it rather than in the content itself - for example, museums might value the engagement in a visitor thinking about a subject or object and forming a response to it in order to comment on it. Once posted it might be displayed as a comment or counted as a statistic somewhere but usually that's as far as it goes.
And @sherah1918 pointed out, there's a difference between asking for assistance with tasks and asking for feedback or comments: 'A comment book or a blog w/comments isn't crowdsourcing to me ... nor is asking ppl to share a story on a web form. That is a diff appr to collecting & saving personal histories, oral histories'.
...other things that aren't crowdsourcing:[Heading inspired by Sheila Brennan @sherah1918]
- Crowdfunding (it's often just asking for micro-donations, though it seems that successful crowdfunding projects have a significant public engagement component, which brings them closer to the concerns of cultural heritage organisations. It's also not that new. See Seventeenth-century crowd funding for one example.)
- Data-mining social media and other content (though I've heard this called 'passive' or 'implict' crowdsourcing)
- Human computation (though it might be combined with crowdsourcing)
- Collective intelligence (though it might also be combined with crowdsourcing)
- General calls for content, help or participation (see 'user-generated content') or vaguely asking people what they think about an idea. Asking for feedback is not crowdsourcing. Asking for help with your homework isn't crowdsourcing, as it only benefits you.
- Buzzwords applied to marketing online. And as @emmclean said, "I think many (esp mkting) see "crowdsourcing" as they do "viral" - just happens if you throw money at it. NO!!! Must be great idea" - it must make sense as a crowdsourced task.
But I'm worried about about crowdsourcing because...
...isn't letting the public in like that just asking for trouble?@lottebelice said she'd heard people worry that 'people are highly likely to troll and put in bad data/content/etc on purpose' - but this rarely happens. People worried about this with user-generated content, too, and while kids in galleries delight in leaving rude messages about each other, it's rare online.
It's much more likely that people will mistakenly add bad data, but a good crowdsourcing project should build any necessary data validation into the project. Besides, there are generally much more interesting places to troll than a cultural heritage site.
And as Matt Popke pointed out in a comment, 'When you have thousands of people contributing to an entry you have that many more pairs of eyes watching it. It's like having several hundred editors and fact-checkers. Not all of them are experts, but not all of them have to be. The crowd is effectively self-policing because when someone trolls an entry, somebody else is sure to notice it, and they're just as likely to fix it or report the issue'. If you're really worried about this, an earlier post on Designing for participatory projects: emergent best practice' has some other tips.
...doesn't crowdsourcing take advantage of people?
But in cultural heritage, no. Museums, galleries, libraries, archives and academic projects are in the fortunate position of having interesting work that involves an element of social good, and they also have hugely varied work, from microtasks to co-curated research projects. Crowdsourcing is part of a long tradition of volunteering and altruistic participation, and to quote Owens again, 'Crowdsourcing is a concept that was invented and defined in the business world and it is important that we recast it and think through what changes when we bring it into cultural heritage.'
[Update, May 2013: it turns out museums aren't immune from the dangers of design competitions and spec work: I've written On the trickiness of crowdsourcing competitions to draw some lessons from the Sydney Design competition kerfuffle.]
Anyway, crowdsourcing won't usually work if it's not done right. From A Crowd Without Community - Be Wary of the Mob:
"when you treat a crowd as disposable and anonymous, you prevent them from achieving their maximum ability. Disposable crowds create disposable output. Simply put: crowds need a sense of identity and community to achieve their potential."
...crowdsourcing can't be used for academic workReasons given include 'humanists don't like to share their knowledge' with just anyone. And it's possible that they don't, but as projects like Transcribe Bentham and Trove show, academics and other researchers will share the work that helps produce that knowledge. (This is also something I'm examining in my PhD. I'll post some early findings after the Digital Humanities 2012 conference in July).
Looking beyond transcription and other forms of digitisation, it's worth checking out Prism, 'a digital tool for generating crowd-sourced interpretations of texts'.
Ok, so what's different about crowdsourcing in cultural heritage?For a start, the process is as valuable as the result. Owens has a great post on this, Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down, where he says:
'The process of crowdsourcing projects fulfills the mission of digital collections better than the resulting searches... Far better than being an instrument for generating data that we can use to get our collections more used it is actually the single greatest advancement in getting people using and interacting with our collections. ... At its best, crowdsourcing is not about getting someone to do work for you, it is about offering your users the opportunity to participate in public memory ... it is about providing meaningful ways for the public to enhance collections while more deeply engaging and exploring them'.And as I've said elsewhere, ' playing [crowdsourcing] games with museum objects can create deeper engagement with collections while providing fun experiences for a range of audiences'. (For definitions of 'engagement' see The Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme. (2011). Evidence of what works: evaluated projects to drive up engagement (PDF).)
What about cultural heritage and citizen science?First, another definition. As Fiona Romeo writes, 'Citizen science projects use the time, abilities and energies of a distributed community of amateurs to analyse scientific data. In doing so, such projects further both science itself and the public understanding of science'. As Romeo points out in a different post, 'All citizen science projects start with well-defined tasks that answer a real research question', while citizen history projects rarely if ever seem to be based around specific research questions but are aimed more generally at providing data for exploration. Process vs product?
I'm still thinking through the differences between citizen science and citizen history, particularly where they meet in historical projects like Old Weather. Both citizen science and citizen history achieve some sort of engagement with the mindset and work of the equivalent professional occupations, but are the traditional differences between scientific and humanistic enquiry apparent in crowdsourcing projects? Are tools developed for citizen science suitable for citizen history? Does it make a difference that it's easier to take a new interest in history further without a big investment in learning and access to equipment?
I have a feeling that 'citizen science' projects are often more focused on the production of data as accurately and efficiently as possible, and 'citizen history' projects end up being as much about engaging people with the content as it is about content production. But I'm very open to challenges on this...
What kind of cultural heritage stuff can be crowdsourced?I wrote this list of 'Activity types and data generated' over a year ago for my Masters dissertation on crowdsourcing games for museums and a subsequent paper for Museums and the Web 2011, Playing with Difficult Objects - Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections (which also lists validation types and requirements). This version should be read in the light of discussion about the difference between crowdsourcing and user-generated content and in the context of things people can do with museums and with games, but it'll do for now:
|Data generated
|Tagging (e.g. steve.museum, Brooklyn Museum Tag! You're It; variations include two-player 'tag agreement' games like Waisda?, extensions such as guessing games e.g. GWAP ESP Game, Verbosity, Tiltfactor Guess What?; structured tagging/categorisation e.g. GWAP Verbosity, Tiltfactor Cattegory)
|Tags; folksonomies; multilingual term equivalents; structured tags (e.g. 'looks like', 'is used for', 'is a type of').
|Debunking (e.g. flagging content for review and/or researching and providing corrections).
|Flagged dubious content; corrected data.
|Recording a personal story
|Oral histories; contextualising detail; eyewitness accounts.
|Linking (e.g. linking objects with other objects, objects to subject authorities, objects to related media or websites; e.g. MMG Donald).
|Relationship data; contextualising detail; information on history, workings and use of objects; illustrative examples.
|Stating preferences (e.g. choosing between two objects e.g. GWAP Matchin; voting on or 'liking' content).
|Preference data; subsets of 'highlight' objects; 'interestingness' values for content or objects for different audiences. May also provide information on reason for choice.
|Categorising (e.g. applying structured labels to a group of objects, collecting sets of objects or guessing the label for or relationship between presented set of objects).
|Relationship data; preference data; insight into audience mental models; group labels.
|Creative responses (e.g. write an interesting fake history for a known object or purpose of a mystery object.)
|Relevance; interestingness; ability to act as social object; insight into common misconceptions.
You can also divide crowdsourcing projects into 'macro' and 'micro' tasks - giving people a goal and letting them solve it as they prefer, vs small, well-defined pieces of work, as in the 'Umbrella of Crowdsourcing' at The Daily Crowdsource and there's a fair bit of academic literature on other ways of categorising and describing crowdsourcing.
Using crowdsourcing to manage crowdsourcingThere's also a growing body of literature on ecosystems of crowdsourcing activities, where different tasks and platforms target different stages of the process. A great example is Brooklyn Museum's 'Freeze Tag!', a game that cleans up data added in their tagging game. An ecosystem of linked activities (or games) can maximise the benefits of a diverse audience by providing a range of activities designed for different types of participant skills, knowledge, experience and motivations; and can encompass different levels of participation from liking, to tagging, finding facts and links.
A participatory ecosystem can also resolve some of the difficulties around validating specialist tags or long-form, more subjective content by circulating content between activities for validation and ranking for correctness, 'interestingness' (etc) by other players (see for example the 'Contributed data lifecycle' diagram on my MW2011 paper or the 'Digital Content Life Cycle' for crowdsourcing in Oomen and Aroyo's paper below). As Nina Simon said in The Participatory Museum, 'By making it easy to create content but impossible to sort or prioritize it, many cultural institutions end up with what they fear most: a jumbled mass of low-quality content'. Crowdsourcing the improvement of cultural heritage data would also make possible non-crowdsourcing engagement projects that need better content to be viable.
See also Raddick, MJ, and Georgia Bracey. 2009. "Citizen Science: Status and Research Directions for the Coming Decade" on bridging between old and new citizen science projects to aid volunteer retention, and Nov, Oded, Ofer Arazy, and David Anderson. 2011. "Dusting for Science: Motivation and Participation of Digital Citizen Science Volunteers" on creating 'dynamic contribution environments that allow volunteers to start contributing at lower-level granularity tasks, and gradually progress to more demanding tasks and responsibilities'.
What does the future of crowdsourcing hold?Platforms aimed at bootstrapping projects - that is, getting new projects up and running as quickly and as painlessly as possible - seem to be the next big thing. Designing tasks and interfaces suitable for mobile and tablets will allow even more of us to help out while killing time. There's also a lot of work on the integration of machine learning and human computation; my post 'Helping us fly? Machine learning and crowdsourcing' has more on this.
Where can I find out more? (AKA, a reading list in disguise)
- Read the original article about crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine or Jeff Howe's book, Crowdsourcing: why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business.
- My MW2011 paper, Playing with Difficult Objects - Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections and (deep breath) I've posted my MSc dissertation 'Playing with difficult objects: game designs for crowdsourcing museum metadata' online
From tagging to theorizing: deepening engagement with cultural heritage through crowdsourcing.Curator: The Museum Journal, 56(4) pp. 435–450 (Mia Ridge; link is to university repository version for those who don't have access to Curator)
- Workshop activities and notes for 'Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions' (for the British Library's Digital Scholarship programme)
- Trevor Owens' blog on 'User Centered Digital History'
- Rose Holley's (of Trove fame) blog
- @benwbrum's Collaborative Manuscript Transcription blog
- Peer-to-peer foundation crowdsourcing page
- steve.museum reports - the first museum tagging project
- Why Crowdsourcing? Why Scripto?
- Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
- Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Heritage Domain: Opportunities and Challenges, by Johan Oomen and Lora Aroyo (PDF).
- Bringing Citizen Scientists and Historians Together
- Final report on 'crowd-sourcing in the humanities' of the AHRC Crowd Sourcing Study
- Accessible resources on doing crowdsourcing well: try How to Effectively Use Incentives in your Crowdsourcing Project, The Magic of Participation, Building and Maintaining a Vibrant, Creative Crowd.
- If you're into mapping, geography or just geospatial work, check out volunteered geographic information (VGI).
- Crowdfunding Culture: Namaste, and Welcome to the Smithsonian lists a hit (yoga, a popular topic) and a miss in crowdfunding at the Smithsonian. You might also find CrowdFunding Website Reviews useful.
Liked this post? Buy the book! 'Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage' is available through Ashgate or your favourite bookseller...
Thanks, and over to you!Thanks to everyone who responded to my call for their favourite 'misconceptions and apprehensions about crowdsourcing (esp in history and cultural heritage)', and to those who inspired this post in the first place by asking questions in various places about the negative side of crowdsourcing. I'll update the post as I hear of more, so let me know your favourites. I'll also keep adding links and resources as I hear of them.
You might also be interested in: Notes from 'Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities' and various crowdsourcing classes and workshops I've run over the past few years.


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Early stage, HER2-positive breast cancer patients at increased risk of recurrence
Early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, compared to those with early-stage disease who do not express the aggressive protein, according to a study led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
The findings, presented today at the CRTC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, is the first large study to analyze this cohort and represents a shift in the way women with early-stage HER2 positive breast cancer should be assessed for risk of recurrence and considered for treatment, said the study's senior author, Ana M. Gonzalez-Angulo, M.D, assistant professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Breast Medical Oncology and Systems Biology.
Herceptin, also known as trastuzumab, was approved for use in 1998 for women whose advanced breast cancer expresses Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor 2, or HER2. Approximately 15-20 percent of breast cancer cells produce an excess amount of the HER2 growth protein on their surface, which makes the cancer more aggressive. Herceptin is a monoclonal antibody that latches on to these proteins and inhibits tumor growth.
"This study represents a current debate within clinical practice - the risk of recurrence for early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller," said Gonzalez-Angulo. "Our findings show that women with early stage HER2 positive breast cancer have a 23 percent chance of recurrence. In contrast, the five-year survival rate of all women with such early-stage breast cancer is more than 90 percent.
"The findings indicate that physicians need to consider offering these women Herceptin-based therapy in the post-operative, or adjuvant setting," Gonzalez-Angulo continued.
Current guidelines call for no additional therapy after surgery and radiation if tumors are less than five millimeters and Herceptin-based adjuvant therapy should be discussed with patients if the tumors are from six to 10 millimeters, Gonzalez-Angulo explained.
According to Gonzalez-Angulo, the number of patients with HER2 positive tumors smaller than one centimeter continues to increase as breast cancer surveillance and early detection become increasingly sophisticated.
"Before now, there's been no data regarding how to treat these women because they were excluded from all the definitive trials confirming Herceptin's benefit. This data strongly suggests that we need to rethink how we treat early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors and likely offer anti-HER2 therapy in the adjuvant setting."
For the retrospective study, Gonzalez-Angulo, Ranjay Rakkhit, M.D., a fellow in M. D. Anderson's Department of Hematology and Oncology and the study's first author, and their colleagues used M. D. Anderson's Breast Cancer Research Database to analyze 965 patients treated between 1990 and 2002. All of the patients' tumors were smaller than one centimeter; patients whose receptor status could not be analyzed and/or had received adjuvant chemotherapy or Herceptin at any time were excluded. The median age of the women at diagnosis was 57 years. To validate the findings, a second cohort of 350 patients from European institutions was also analyzed.
Of the M. D. Anderson patient population, more than 10 percent, or 98 patients, had HER2 positive tumors. In addition, 77 percent were hormone-receptor positive and 13 percent were triple receptor-negative.
In those analyzed with HER2 positive tumors, the five-year, recurrence-free survival was 77.1 percent; in contrast, HER2 negative patients' recurrence-free survival was 93.7 percent. Five-year distant recurrence-free survival was 86.4 percent in women with HER2 positive tumors compared to 97.2 percent in women with HER2-negative tumors. Patients with HER2-positive tumors had 2.68 times higher risk of recurrence and 5.3 times higher risk of distant recurrence than those with HER2-negative tumors.
In addition, women with HER2-positive tumors had 5.09 times the risk of recurrence and 7.81 times risk of distant recurrence than women with hormone receptor-positive tumors.
The European subset confirmed the M. D. Anderson findings and showed reproducibility, said Gonzalez-Angulo.
"The risk of recurrence was much higher than we suspected. With this study, we now have concrete evidence to discuss with our HER2 positive patients with even the smallest of tumors, and Herceptin alone or combined with chemotherapy should be strongly considered as adjuvant therapy," said Gonzalez-Angulo. "This data should also encourage this subset of patients to be included in ongoing clinical trials with HER2-targeted therapies."
Gonzalez-Angulo hopes that a specific, three-arm clinical trial can be designed comparing observation, Herceptin, and Herceptin combined with chemotherapy.
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Many radios are dubbed 'kitchen radios' solely for the reason that this is the room they end up getting most of their use in. Roberts has gone the whole hog and designed a radio specifically for kitchen use. The first thing to note about the RDK-2 is that not only is it designed for the kitchen from a functionality perspective …
An analogue radio is essentially a few transistors and maybe a simple IC or two thrown together with the odd resistor and capacitor as glue. A DAB radio is to all intents and purposes a miniature computer bolted on to a conventional tuner, and whilst they are still a bit over-priced, it will pretty much inevitably always be a bit more expensive than its analogue counterpart.
Mind you, Roberts radios of any flavour don't tend to come cheap, so a lot's in the name. For affordable and stylish DABs, look to Intempo and the like. Rather like with "real" computers, you'll find there's actually only a very small number of people manufacturing the innards, and you may even end up with pretty much exactly the same radio in a different and more affordable case.
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All human beings deserve to live a life free from violence. Unfortunately, far too many people will experience violence in their life time. In Indigenous communities, across Canada, violence against Indigenous women has become normalized but occurs in epidemic proportions. Ending violence against Indigenous women requires the commitment of all of us, especially men to end violence in Canada.?
We acknowledge patriarchy – where male dominance and male power privileges men over women – as an important cause of violence against women. ?We also see the strong connection between colonization and violence against Indigenous women. Many non-Indigenous anti-violence movements do not talk about this connection. Understanding violence against Indigenous women means dispelling the view that patriarchy is the sole and/or dominant causing factor in violence against women.
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Craig Roberts is a former Assistant to the Treasury Secretary and is giving very truthful answers to Max's good questions…
"I think the U.S. economy is already gone…"
I also hope everyone pays attention to what he is saying about the connection of money to politics and to the military….
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The money shot is in the last minute of this next video as Max asks some very pertinent questions like, "Who does the Treasury Secretary work for, the people or the banking system on Wall Street?
Robert's reply, "He works for Goldman Sachs." LOL, this is a former Assistant
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Aided by break, Miller tweaks pitching approach
ST. LOUIS -- Friday marked the three-quarter point in Shelby Miller's stretch of 12 days in between his last start and his next. And while the primary purpose of Miller's extended break was to get him rest and preserve innings for later in the year, the rookie right-hander found an indirect benefit, too.
With the luxury of having three side sessions scheduled during his break, Miller found an opportunity to work on a few specific mechanical and mental tweaks that he believes can help him regain his early-season form.
"[It is] stuff that I think will help me get my control back to where I want it to be," Miller said. "I know my last start [on July 10], it was a little off and a little wild. This break also helps me in that sense as well. Getting to throw three sides in between starts, you get to work on things, and I'm getting back more to where I need to be."
Miller threw two side sessions during the team's trip to Chicago just before the All-Star break. The first was of normal length (about 20-25 pitches). Miller made the second one longer (about 30-35 pitches) and approached it "more game-like," as he described. Miller was to throw one more side session during this first series of the second half before starting against the Phillies on Tuesday.
"Physically, I feel great," Miller said. "I feel like I'm where I need to be. These sides that I've been having, I'm just working on getting the ball down and throwing strikes. That's the biggest thing."
Miller enters the second half having already thrown 104 2/3 innings. If he stays healthy and in the rotation, Miller will easily surpass the 150 1/3 regular-season innings he pitched last season between Triple-A and the Majors. While the Cardinals haven't publicly revealed how many innings they are comfortable letting Miller throw this year, the right-hander said he has his sights set on 180.
He picked the number largely because hitting it would require Miller to be more efficient than he's been for much of the year. Understanding, too, that he doesn't want to exhaust himself before October, Miller welcomed this opportunity to save some innings.
Miller finished the first half 9-6 with a 2.92 ERA. He averaged 5 2/3 innings per start and struck out 112, while walking just 29.
"I think we've been very clear about giving Shelby as much time as we have and being smart with a young player," manager Mike Matheny said. "He's been working very hard in the gym and very hard on his mechanics and his diet and his program. If all those weren't in place, we'd be a lot more cautious and concerned. Right now we're just going to keep watching and listening to how his body responds with the number of innings that he gets."


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Avitae USA, LLC, the leader in the caffeinated water category, will unveil its new dynamic packaging for its all-natural Avitae Caffeine Water and a third SKU, a 125-milligram caffeine level, at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, Calif., July 7-9. The packaging initiative is the latest step in the company's ongoing commitment to bring the brand to the forefront of the beverage industry.Avitae will begin rolling out distribution of the new bottles in grocery and retail stores in March.
The new packaging represents a move to highlight the brand and enhance the simplicity of "caffeine + water" by making it more noticeable for consumers. The most innovative and prominent look on the new packaging is the die-cut holographic label – with its wave theme design and light reflection – meant to remind shoppers of a natural flow of water and to stand out on store shelves. The Avitae name is more prominent on the label, and information is easier to read. The new bottles, now in a more traditional cylindrical shape, still hold 16.9 ounces (0.5 liters) of Avitae Caffeine Water.
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Along with the new packaging, Avitae has added a stronger caffeine-level option for consumers interested in a higher-level energy kick. The new 125-milligram-level bottle is equivalent to one and a half cups of coffee. The 45-milligram and 90-milligram bottles are equal to a half-cup of coffee and a cup of coffee, respectively. Avitae Caffeine Water contains natural caffeine derived from green coffee beans, zero calories, no sugars or artificial ingredients, and no bitter aftertaste.
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Kelly's Brewpub (Albuquerque, NM)
On my last night in Albuquerque, I had dinner with a group of friends and decided to let the local decide where to go. There were quite a few constraints. She had her kid with her so it'll have to be a place where she can bring him. My other friend wanted to check out the Nob Hill area. There has to be alcohol, and it can't be very expensive. We ended up at Kelly's Brewpub, a popular local hangout - probably partly because it's a sports bar and partly because they have 20 of their own brews at a pretty cheap price (you can also apparently make your own beer here).
The food is your typical bar food, and from the little I tried they're pretty mediocre. We did like the green chile cheese fries, because it's hard to go wrong with that.


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She noted that Hytrol made the decision to implement Lean manufacturing in 2004 for one reason: their customers. "By applying this demand-base flow to our manufacturing processes, we have increased productivity, lessened inventory and decreased cycle times," she said. "This method of operation also allows us to continually reinvest in the business and implement the latest technology."
Cole explained that Lean manufacturing can provide many benefits to any organization, but it can be difficult to know where to begin. "By continually performing iterations of Lean processes, businesses will garner employee involvement, standardization in processes, and more," she said.
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At 5:15 on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 29, James Frey informed his fans, in strikingly confident terms, that he had finished his first novel. "Done," he wrote on his blog. "To be released in 2008."
Two weeks later, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Jonathan Burnham of HarperCollins had acquired the book after Mr. Frey's highly regarded new agent, Eric Simonoff of Janklow & Nesbit—who also represents Jhumpa Lahiri and Vikram Chandra—had given Mr. Burnham an exclusive first look at the manuscript. Set in contemporary Southern California, the novel will be published next summer under the title Bright Shiny Morning by the house's flagship Harper imprint. Mr. Simonoff would not confirm a report on the Web site Gawker that the deal was worth $2 million, though Mr. Burnham called the figure "far off" without elaborating.
Like much else with the meticulously planned rollout, the fact that The Journal got the scoop was no accident. According to Mr. Simonoff, HarperCollins gave them the story, deliberately passing over The New York Times, because the Gray Lady had been hard on Mr. Frey last year when he was found to have made up substantial portions of his best-selling addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces. "The New York Times has never been a friend to James Frey," said Mr. Simonoff. "They kept the original Million Little Pieces story alive day after day after day."
Thus Mr. Simonoff and HarperCollins took the first step in what will likely be a long, painstaking campaign to rehabilitate the career of James Frey. Since the deal was announced, Mr. Simonoff has been driving a publicity blitz designed to emphasize the enthusiasm with which the publishing industry greeted the news of Mr. Frey's comeback effort. Mr. Simonoff's goal, in the words of one top agent, has been "to say that he's not tainted. To legitimize him and legitimize the book and to remove any stigma around it by saying that all of New York publishing was hungry to see it."
Considering the humiliations Mr. Frey suffered when his fabrications were uncovered last winter—his agent left him, his publisher, Riverhead Books, killed his contract and Oprah Winfrey brought him close to tears on national television—that taint may be hard to shed. For a while there, after all, Mr. Frey was an emblem of everything said to be wrong with the publishing industry, which in the wake of the scandal stood accused of routinely marketing memoirs as nonfiction without conducting even cursory fact-checking, simply because true stories sold better than made-up ones. Some commentators went further still. Frank Rich of The New York Times connected what he saw as Mr. Frey's smug, halfhearted dishonesty to the deception that led the U.S. to war in Iraq.
In response, Mr. Frey, predictably, talked about the relative nature of truth. "I hope the emotional truth of the book resonate[s]," etc., etc. But by the time a wounded Ms. Winfrey lectured Mr. Frey on the difference between an idea and a lie, the "emotional truth" spiel felt like little more than a dull, sophomoric excuse. Soon Mr. Frey moved to France and retreated from the public eye. His name seemed destined to be invoked only as part of the familiar litany of journalistic fabricators: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair … James Frey.
That was then, though. If A Million Little Pieces taught us anything, it's that readers love a good tale of redemption, and now that Mr. Frey is back with a new novel, the people who have agreed to help him sell it are going all out to convince the world that New York has forgiven Mr. Frey his sins.
When the writer, having moved back to New York last year, met Mr. Simonoff at a book party for Mr. Chandra in January, the two of them hit it off immediately, and shortly thereafter the author was in the Janklow & Nesbit offices pitching Mr. Simonoff on his latest project. In an interview Monday, Mr. Simonoff described Bright Shiny Morning as "a big, ambitious, sweeping social novel" that features "thousands of characters"— Mr. Frey himself not among them.
By February, Mr. Simonoff says, author and agent were in business, and Mr. Burnham, who had become friendly with Mr. Frey over the course of the past year, promptly expressed an interest in the book. From there, things fell into place very quickly: Mr. Burnham had the book in his hands eight days after Mr. Frey finished it. Four days later, by last Monday night, a deal was just about struck.
But a major part of Mr. Simonoff's work was just beginning. Minutes after HarperCollins issued their press release, Mr. Simonoff was telling the industry blog GalleyCat, "When word began trickling out that I had a novel from James Frey, every publisher in town contacted me." If he hadn't agreed to sell it to Mr. Burnham on exclusive, he added, "there would have been a bidding war."


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Hi Alex
The FS-Bet thread has in the meantime reached 21 pages, but we still have no answer from you...
Just to make things very clear:
* i fly 7.5 takoon wook, 11.5 takoon scoop2 and gaastra gxr16.5
* i have learned on a arc840, but never flown another foil
* i am definitely NO FS PIMP
* i am seriously considering to buy a hellfish to replace both the gaastra (quite a truck) and the beloved scoop2 as it probabely doesnt make it over the summer.
So i am not biased against Best, all the contrary.
BUT: I really think it is a highly questionable attitude to first
* blast all over the place that no other kite could, by far and wide, beat the hellfish as a light wind kite.
* offer a theatralic bet
* when someone (Armin) takes the bet, and makes a realistic and objective proposal how to test the performance, just go out of sight and not even respond to the proposal, forget to take it.
I and a lot of kiters expect of you to stand up to your word, take the bet and allow an objective competition between the hellfish and the speed to take place.
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Phenomena in dermatology
Bhushan Madke1, Bhavana Doshi1, Sushil Pande2, Uday Khopkar1
1 Department of Dermatology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012, India2 Department of Dermatology, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Hingna, Nagpur, India
Correspondence Address:Uday KhopkarDepartment of Dermatology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai - 400 012 IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheck1DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.79695
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For a better understanding of various dermatoses, it is imperative for any physician practising dermatology to have a good theoretical knowledge of the underlying pathophysiologic processes involved in various systemic diseases involving the skin. For an easy grasp over this topic, we have discussed the various phenomena under three broad categories, like (a) clinical - Meyerson, Meirowsky, pathergy, Renbok, (b) laboratory - LE cell, prozone and (c) histopathology - Splendore-Hoeppli.
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It used to be that the Red Sox always wound up with the "other" brother.
The Yankees had Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio; Boston had Dominic, a fine player but not Marilyn Monroe's husband. The Royals had Hall of Famer George Brett and the Red Sox had Ken, a good hitting pitcher. The Cubs and Braves had future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux, and the Sox had Mike, a fine pitching coach. The Yankees had catcher Bill Dickey, in the Hall of Fame; Boston had catcher George Dickey, who was 1 for 34.
That seemed to change with the acquisition of Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox even wound up with his older brother Ramon for a little while, but Pedro was definitely the big brother when it came to things like wins and earned run averages.
Now, the Sox have taken it to a new level with the Brothers Drew.
Neither is very good, but there's something about a Drew that whoever Boston's general manager is can't resist, be it Theo Epstein or Ben Cherington.
OK, J.D. Drew had a couple of respectable seasons with the Red Sox. And, OK, Stephen Drew is a good defensive shortstop. Still, starting with Opening Day of 2010, Boston has committed $37.5 million dollars to the brothers with an aggregate result of a .239 average and 30 home runs.
That's not much of a return on an investment.
Signing Stephen Drew will never be a mistake like signing J.D. was. Stephen got just a one-year contract, and given that Jose Iglesias was a huge question mark after his terrible offensive performance at the end of 2012, Boston needed some sort of insurance policy at shortstop.
And, Stephen Drew has been a fine defender. Former manager Terry Francona defined good defense as "the ball winding up where it's supposed to" — Drew has done that consistently.
Can Boston win with Drew at short on an everyday basis, or should he become a spare infield part?
Depending on how important you perceive defense to be, Drew can be part of a winning infield combination. In fact heading into yesterday's game, Drew, Dustin Pedroia and second and Iglesias at third have combined to commit one (1, uno) measly error in 561 chances. That's a fielding percentage of .998.
Although the Red Sox seem reluctant to admit it, their best lineup has Drew at shortstop and Iglesias at third. Will Middlebrooks has options left. If Boston can send Alfredo Aceves down, it can send Middlebrooks down.
Stephen Drew won't be in Boston long enough to create the same unpleasant memories J.D. did. If he can help the Sox get back into the playoffs, then depart in favor of Iglesias, fans will actually remember him fondly.
They just don't need to see any more Drews in a Boston uniform, wearing No. 7 or not.
1. The Hall of Fame outfielder who has hit the most career home runs at Fenway Park off Red Sox pitching, none while playing for the Yankees.
2. The only Red Sox pitcher to throw a shutout against a National League team in regular-season play.
3. He leads the Red Sox in career wins by a pitcher born and raised in Mexico.
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Notes from the observation deck:
•Nobody in recent Red Sox memory can make a routine play look spectacular better than Jonny Gomes.
•One of the things managers and pitching coaches worry about with Franklin Morales is that he has such a — what they call — violent delivery. It's hard to maintain consistency with that many moving parts, and it increases the risk of injury.
•Beginning with their 17-5 win over the Rangers on June 4, the Red Sox played nine games in a total of 32 hours, 38 minutes. For anybody who watched every pitch, that's 1-1/3 days of your life gone forever.
•The Sox played 12-2/3 innings in Baltimore on Thursday night without drawing a single walk. The last time they played that many innings without a walk was on April 15, 1993, when they beat the Indians in 12-2/3 innings at Fenway, 4-3, on a game-ending double by Jeff Richardson. You remember him, right?
•Not sure why this is, since both are considered to be bad things, but Boston is 12-6 when one of its pitchers hits an opposition batter and 20-13 when one of its batters grounds into a double play.
•The Red Sox are not a team designed to win 2-1 games, as they did at Tampa Bay last week. Since 1988, Boston is 140-663 (.174) when it scores two runs or fewer. However, in that same time frame, the Sox have played 140 games that wound up 2-1. They've won 70 of 'em, and lost 70 of 'em.
•So much for the power of positive reinforcement. In a three-day span late last week, Aceves gave up one run in six innings in Boston's 2-1 victory at Tampa Bay, and got sent down the next day. Jose de la Torre helped save the bullpen by going 3-1/3 fine innings in an 8-3 loss, and got sent down the next day. And Alex Wilson looked sharp finishing up the 13-inning marathon in Baltimore, even though he was stuck with the loss, and got sent down the next day.
Next time they're in the majors, they should all allow eight runs in two innings and see what happens.
•Daisuke Matsuzaka is with the Indians' Triple-A team in Columbus. It is minor league d�j� vu for him. He spent almost two months on the DL, came back to pitch on Tuesday and had to leave the game in the third inning after throwing a pitch that bounced in front of home plate and hit the umpire. In six starts, he is 0-2 with a 3.47 ERA and has walked — it never changes — 18 in 23-1/3 innings.
•Ever wonder how all the other players perceive Pedroia? While the disabled lists are overpopulated with pulls, strains and sore spots caused by babies sleeping on shoulders, Pedroia plays through torn ligaments and hits .325, all the time saying that injuries are part of the job description so shut up and play.
In the minors, righty pitchers Brandon Workman and Anthony Ranaudo are a combined 12-2 at Portland. Workman, a second-round pick in 2010, is 8-2 since being promoted to Double A last year. On Thursday, Ranaudo got the win in a 2-0 victory for the Sea Dogs over Erie. He gave up just two hits and two walks, and struck out 13, in 7-1/3 innings.
And look out, Middlebrooks — the Red Sox promoted Xander Bogaerts from Portland to Triple-A Pawtucket. Bogaerts has been a shortstop but as Jose Iglesias has shown, it's an easy transition to third base. Bogaerts hit .311 at Portland this year and is a career .316 hitter in Double A including last season.
However, local fans won't get to Bogaerts close up for a while now. The PawSox are home this afternoon, then hit the road for a long trip and don't get back to McCoy Stadium until June 26.
Speedy utility man Eric Patterson of the 2010 Sox is with York of the Atlantic League; well-traveled hurler David Pauley, who always seemed to pitch against the Yankees when with Boston, is back in baseball with the Diamondbacks' Triple-A team in Reno; dangerous pinch hitter Curtis Pride has put in five seasons as head baseball coach at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
Wily Mo Pe�a, who came to the Red Sox for Bronson Arroyo, is with Fukuoka in the Japanese major leagues; infielder Bill Selby of the '96 Sox is a coach at Northwest Mississippi Community College; Joe Thurston, a short-timer for Boston in 2008, is playing for Yucatan of the Mexican League.
1. Who is Al Kaline? He hit 62 home runs at Fenway, all for the Tigers.
2. Who is Josh Beckett? He blanked the Braves, 3-0, at Fenway Park on June 20, 2009.
3. Who is Alfredo Aceves? His win at Tampa Bay on Wednesday was his 15th for the Sox, snapping the tie he was in with Vicento Romo, who had 14 wins for Boston.
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