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Sylvain Levy is a collector and, along with his wife Dominique, is one of the principals of the dslcollection, a major collection of Chinese contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the dslcollection promotes the discovery and study of Chinese contemporary artistic production. It embraces innovative technologies in order to foster greater visibility and to provide the means to share the experience of contemporary culture. Openness, the nomadic and sharing are core concepts of the dslcollection. In this, his inaugural column, he asks "What is a museum today?"
Venture investors are valuing the company behind the Museum of Ice Cream at $200 million. This museum has claimed more than 1.5 million visitors since it opened. Tim Schneider questioned this museum model in an article titled: "The Gray Market: Why New York's Museum of Ice Cream Wins at Business by Betraying Its Name?" The above highlights one of the main obstacles confronting museums today—that of fulfilling their academic mission, whilst reaching out to a larger audience and creating "wonderful experiences" for all visitors.
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Over the past one hundred years, the museum as an institution has changed dramatically. Gone are the days of being exclusive wunderkammers, where public museums, catering largely to an elite audience, could simply focus on their collections and scholarly endeavours. Historically, museums were in the business of delivering only goods and services (goods are defined as the artworks, while services relate to the museum's responsibility to collect, preserve, display and educate).
"Gone are the days of being exclusive wunderkammers"
The focus is no longer on the quality of its product offering, but on the satisfaction of the visitor's museum experience. Although museums are essentially experiential products, lasting customer satisfaction can only be achieved if museums proactively market their offerings in an experiential way. As found by Culture Track, visitors are spending an average of 15 seconds in front of an artwork and 81% of people are visiting museums for fun. It is the "Kusamafication" or the "Teamlab Phenomena".
With the inevitable integration of experiential marketing into the museum management rhetoric, critics are now questioning its authenticity. In substituting escapist, commodified leisure for authentic experience, they have fostered conformity, passivity and political indifference among participants turned spectators. To avoid deteriorating into sanitised entertainment centres, all marketing activities must be designed to reinforce the museum's mission, namely its principal undertaking to preserve and educate.
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So what should a museum be like today?
We are used to seeing a museum as a building, a precinct, an institution and a collection. It is much more than that today. They face issues from a broad range of perspectives; art history, popular culture, politics and philosophy. They have to constantly adapt to a competitive landscape—not only competing against other museums and galleries, but against alternative forms of leisure and educational activities, even if, superficially, public museums appear to be protected. By using educational and entertainment tools, museums need not only to increase the number of visitors (this remains the most common metric of success), but to engage them in a way that they become regular ones.
We live in an age when you can virtually "visit" the Louvre in Paris to see the Mona Lisa or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York—all from your phone or desktop. So museums have to actively expand in the digital world.
I believe that museums, as highly trusted organisations in civil society, are key intellectual and civic resources in a time of profound socio-environmental changes. One element that matters is the influence art can have beyond the walls of the museum. The community is still a relatively untapped resource. Museums should strengthen their missions by directly highlighting community challenges and by being a meeting place, a realm of diversity and dialogue. The new museum shouldn't be defined by architectural glamour or by a market-vetted collection, though it would certainly benefit from having these attributes. Structurally porous and perpetually in progress, it should be defined by its own role as a shaper of values, and by the broad audience it attracts.
To conclude, I shall say that the ideal museum today would be ''an institution'' but a flexible and continuously evolving organism connecting people locally and globally. It should be able to respond to the most diverse forms of thinking and media especially brought about by technology.
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Melih Eriten awarded NSF grant for mechanical characterization of bio-interfaces by shear wave scattering. Congratulations!
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Rega's Planar 1
Ian Peel tests out a true entry-level turntable, but with some of the trappings of higher-end decks – and pairs it with some eager-to-please wooden droids for speakers…
Turntable with Iota Alpha speakers by Neat
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We received some interesting feedback from a few readers recently on Rega's Planar 3, reviewed in Issue 2. At £600-plus, that's not really an entry-level turntable, you said. And quite right, too. Although what we were getting at was that the P3 was entry-level for what you might call a 'lapsed audiophile'. The sort of user who packed away their kit after the CD revolution of the 90s, but who's now ready to spend some (admittedly serious) money on vinyl and a turntable again. Re-entry level, you could say.
So, this month, we're looking at a 'true' entry-level product, Rega's Planar 1 which is, at £249, coincidentally around a third of the price of the P3. Their Carbon cartridge comes pre-installed, and it's the same needle you'll find on the Planar 2.
Rather rewardingly for a low-end product, the speed change is manual. So, instead of flicking a switch, you get to roll up your sleeves and lift off the platter and adjust the flywheel when you want to move from 33rpm to 45rpm or back again. And that platter is surprisingly light, being made from phenolic resin (or plastic, to you and me). The P1 is available in black or white. If you want red – and, indeed, a glass platter – it's a case of going for the next model up.
On the speaker front, we gave the Planar 1 a real treat in the form of a pair of Iota Alphas from Neat. Sure, this is rather like buying a Mini and adding a set of Ferrari tyres, but we've been itching to have a play with a pair of these speakers for some time, and they certainly lived up to our expectations – on two counts.
Firstly, there's their looks to consider. They're half the height of your average pair of medium-to-high-end floorstanding speakers. And secondly, their welly. With a top speaker tilted upwards and another hidden in the bottom (above some demonstratively large spikes), it rounds out the bass superbly, looking up at you like a droid that's just rolled off the Star Wars set, albeit with a satin wood finish.
I went slightly off-piste with the first of this month's test discs, and played a copy of Silva Screen's recent reissue of Puppet On A Chain, Piero Piccioni's soundtrack for the 1970 Patrick Allen movie thriller. And it's an incredibly dark and brooding experience. The low bass this system delivers really enhances the low brass on the Drug Dealers cue. And the strings – think Ipcress File intimidation or Persuaders-style tension – have an open-air feel, as if the orchestra's travelling with the action on Psychedelic Mood.
When playing back this first LP, it's immediately apparent that the tone arm lever is not only well engineered, but also designed superbly. Rega must agree, as they use the same lever on all their models, regardless of price. For something more modern, but still musically related, I tried out a copy of Caroline True Records' recent double-LP compilation, Perfect Motion – Jon Savage's Secret History of Second-Wave Psychedelia, 1988-93. And this is where the Neat's ribbon tweeter comes into its own, giving a very accurate reproduction of the very bass-light DNA Groove Mix of Electronic's Get The Message on Side Two.
Snap, crackle and pop
Being realistic, our playback of an LP such as Puppet On A Chain should have sounded pretty terrible. And, in a bygone era (with a 70s pressing on a 70s turntable), it would have. But now, with a combination of the Planar 1's robust build and musicality (and a good remastering session by the record label), this is an experience that's a compelling alternative to streaming and digital, delivering an experience that's physical, as well as sonically absorbing.
To give the deck one last test, we went for a very well-worn copy of Tracy Chapman's still-spellbinding eponymous debut. The bass was there on Fast Car, with all due respect to the Neat Iota Aplhas. And, let's not deny it, there were some very audible pops and crackles – this is a record that celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, after all.
But herein lies the key point, of course. When the CD age dawned, manufacturers would talk of these pops and crackles to dismiss vinyl. But now, we listen to them in a different context. The turntable gives such a great playback experience that the pops and crackles come across on the Planar 1 like sugar coating on a cake. Exactly what you expect to hear from your vinyl.
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We just wanted to send a quick message today to let you all know that we are very excited to have been shortlisted for Bristol Folk Festival's Isambard Folk Award!
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Key questions about how the general election results work, and how the BBC treats them, are answered below.
What has changed since the last election?
What happens in the Speaker's seat?
What is meant when a party wins, gains or holds a seat?
What does 'short by' mean?
What is an exit poll, and a prediction?
Why do postcode searches not give the result I expect?
The simple answer is by winning more seats in the House of Commons than all the other parties put together. At the moment there are 650 seats up for grabs, which means 326 seats are needed to win an overall majority.
Also called a "seat", in a general election, this is where the political battles are fought. Voters in each constituency choose just one MP. The constituencies are towns or areas all of roughly the same size.
In the 2005 general election there were 646 constituencies in the Commons, this time there are 650. This is because there have been changes to 512 constituency boundaries across the country (although none in Scotland) and four new ones created. This is a regular exercise aimed at taking into account population movements and ensuring every seat has roughly the same number of voters.
These changes make it difficult to compare the last election result with this one. To overcome this problem, independent polling experts have created a list of how these changed constituencies would have voted if the last general election had been fought using these new boundaries. These results are called "notional" results.
The BBC - as well as other media organisations, including ITN and Sky News - use these "notional" results when assessing how the parties perform at the 2010 general election, at every level: constituency, regional and national.
In 10 seats, the "notional" results mean that a different party would have won last time than actually did.
There have been 14 by-elections since 2005 (that is, one-off elections in seats where, for example, the sitting MP has stood down or died). But, for the purposes of tallying up the results and allowing a straightforward comparison with previous general elections, all by-elections are ignored.
For example, at the 2005 election Labour held Dunfermline and West Fife but in a February 2006 by-election in the same seat (caused by the death of Rachel Squire), the Liberal Democrats gained it from Labour. If Labour were to win this seat back at this general election, the BBC will describe it as a Labour "win", not a Labour "hold" or "gain".
This policy has been adopted because very different circumstances often pertain to a by-election. For instance, the first by-election of the new parliament was held in Cheadle, following the death of the Lib Dem MP, Patsy Calton. The campaign proved a very bitter and personalised contest between the Lib Dems and their Conservative challengers which helped secure the biggest turnout in a by-election for five years. Third placed Labour lost its deposit, as its vote was squeezed by both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives.
Defections of MPs from one party to another are treated in the same way.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is an MP and has to stand for re-election in his or her constituency at every general election. Traditionally the biggest parties in the House of Commons do not stand against the Speaker, although other parties do.
The current Speaker, John Bercow, is standing for election in Buckingham. The Speaker is a neutral figure in Parliament, so Mr Bercow is no longer a member of the Conservative Party as he was before his election to the role (by all the other MPs). However, for the purposes of calculating the number of seats belonging to each party - and calculating those held, gained or lost by each party - Mr Bercow is regarded as a Conservative MP and the seat is regarded as being held by the Conservatives in 2005.
What matters most is how many "seats" each party wins, and for things to change political parties need to win seats from each other. Because winning seats from each other is so important, a special language is used to show this. Seats that are won can mainly fall into two categories: "hold" or "gain".
Hold: If a party that wins a seat that it won in 2005, this is described as a "hold".
Gain: If a party wins a seat that it did NOT win at the last general election, this is called a "gain". Clearly these are really important to the opposition parties. If they are to form a new government, they need to win seats from the government and their opponents make "gains" and keep or "hold" all the seats they had last time.
There are two sets of circumstances where the BBC does NOT use "gain" or "hold" to avoid confusion.
1) Where there has been a by-election since the last general election and that by-election resulted in a different party gaining the seat compared to the general election result.
2) When the "notional" 2005 result in a constituency would have resulted in a different party winning than actually did in that constituency of the same name.
In both these circumstances the BBC uses the term "win" to describe the party that gets most votes. This applies to 14 seats.
There are four by-election seats: Dunfermline and West Fife, Crewe and Nantwich, Glasgow East and Norwich North.
There are 10 seats that, according to the "notional" results, were won by a different party than actually won the constituency of the same name in 2005: Croydon Central; Northampton South; Enfield North; Finchley & Golders Green; Sittingbourne and Sheppey; Staffordshire Moorlands; Thanet South; Wirral West; Rochdale; Solihull.
The big thing that matters in the end is which Party wins enough seats in the House of Commons to form a government. To do that simply one party needs to get one more seat than all the others added together. That is called an overall majority, but in the shorthand language of elections it is just called "a majority". In the 2010 elections there are 650 seats, so to get one more than everyone else put together a party must get 326 or more to get a "majority".
Of course it makes things much easier for a government if they have many more MPs than all the others put together. That number is called the "size of the majority. So, if one party were to win 326 seats, then all the other parties added together would be 324. The majority is therefore 326 minus 324: two. So the smallest majority possible is not one seat but two.
If the winning party has 350 seats what is the majority?
So the majority is 50.
A tip for any office sweep stake on the size of the majority is never bet on an odd number. The difference between the winning party and everybody else will always be an even number.
WHAT DOES SHORT BY MEAN?
If a party were to win 310 seats how many would they be short by?
So they are "short by" 16.
A hung parliament happens when no single party wins a majority over all the others.
A party can stay in power without an absolute majority by trying to forge an alliance with a smaller party to create a coalition government, or they could reach agreements with smaller parties that they will support the government if there is a vote in parliament aimed at bringing down the government and forcing an election.
Another possibility is for the biggest party to form a minority government with no agreements with other parties and just try to form majorities in favour of each individual bill as it comes up.
If no party is prepared to go down one of these paths then parliament will be dissolved again and there will be another election.
The last time a hung Parliament happened in the UK was in February 1974. Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson led a minority government, after taking just four more seats than his Conservative rival Edward Heath.
Swing is a tool which helps explain how elections are won and lost. In simple terms it is a way of measuring how the public's support of political parties changes from one election to the next.
Although it gives an apparently clear picture, the disadvantage of swing is that it can only tell you about a shift from one party to another, not the shift between three or more parties.
Swing is calculated by taking the average of one party's fall in the share of the vote and another party's gain in support.
The important point to remember when considering any individual constituency is that the swing required for the defending party to lose to the party in second place is half their percentage majority at the previous election.
For example, if Labour is defending a seat which they won over the Conservatives with a 10% majority in 2005, it would require a swing of 5% for the Conservatives to take it from them. This is based on the principle that you add 5% to the Conservative vote last time and subtract 5% from the Labour vote last time, thereby neutralising the previous 10% majority.
An exit poll is conducted by approaching voters as they leave polling stations and asking them to fill in a mock ballot paper to indicate how they have just voted.
The results of this year's exit poll, conducted at 130 polling stations up and down the country, will be broadcast at 2200 BST on 6 May.
Conducted by Ipsos MORI and gfkNOP, it has been commissioned jointly by the BBC, ITV News and Sky.
Later in the night, once sufficient results have been declared, the BBC will broadcast a prediction of the final outcome based on the results in so far. This will subsequently be updated as more results come in.
This means that the election result will be made up of a total of 649 seats, not 650.
We are aware of a small number of discrepancies where a postcode search result on our election website - which is based on latest available data supplied to us by Ordnance Survey - returns a different constituency to the one given on polling cards sent to an address at the same postcode.
We would advise people affected to follow the information on their polling card in terms of the constituency they are in and the polling place to be used on 6 May.


Youth signup details can be sent to youthsports@presstelegram.com. Include with each submission the final date the ad should appear in the newspaper. All leagues require birth certificates. Proof of age is necessary for entry and placement.
Bixby North Little League: Ages 5-16. Signups and tryouts Sunday at Ramona Park. Managers and coaches needed. Info: James at (562) 499-9783.
Hawaiian Gardens/Lakewood Little League: Ages 5-18. Signups. Challenger Division also available. Info: Bob McKittrick (562) 429-8073.
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Tryouts for two teams. 6th Graders are also welcome to try out at 7 p.m. Wednesday nights through March 31 at Long Beach City College. Info: Karen Brown at (310) 704-1758.
Youth Basketball League: Ages 6-12. Practices on Mondays 3:45 p.m.
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Johnson Junior Golf: Ages 7-17. Year-round program offers tournaments on regulation golf courses in Southern California. Info: (562) 866-8685 or www.jjgt.org.
Long Beach Golf Learning Center: Ages 4-17. Girls-only, parent-child classes available. Info: Joesjgolf@aol.com or (562) 896-2539.
Lakewood YMCA: New classes forming for boys. Info: (562) 425-7431 or denise.porazzo@LBYMCA.org.
Cerritos United Soccer Club: Seeking players for boys U9, U10, U11 teams. Info: (562) 402-0502 or Benprado@aol.com. Info: (323) 842-3762, (714) 894-1977 or www.cuscsoccer.org.
Cerritos United Soccer Club: Seeking players for boys U12. Info: Raul Albeno (562) 762-6472 or www.cuscsoccer.org.
Cerritos United Soccer Club: Seeking players for boys U13. Info: Steve Nadal (562) 920-8202 or Ben Prado (562) 402-0502.
Cerritos United Soccer Club: Seeking players for girls U9, U10, U11. Info: Javier Benito (562) 809-1404 or Ben Prado (562) 402-0502.
City of Compton AYSO: Ages 4-16. Signups start Monday at recreation office, 1108 N. Oleander Ave., Compton. Info: (310) 605-5688. Also at Macdonald Park. Fee: $11.75. Info: (310) 638-6414.
Long Beach Soccer Club: Girls U17 team looking for experienced players. Ongoing tryouts Tuesdays and Thursdays at Stanford Middle School, 5871 Los Arcos St., Long Beach. Info: (562) 755-5377.
Long Beach Soccer Club: Boys U14 team looking for experienced field players. Info: (562) 714-0025.
Long Beach Soccer Club: Boys and girls U10-U18 team tryouts. Practices at parks and schools in Long Beach. Info: www.longbeachsc.com or Trey Scharlin at (310)-650-2208.
Long Beach Supreme Soccer Club: Boys U11 team looking for experienced field players. Ongoing tryouts Mondays and Wednesdays. Info: (562) 221-0055 or (562) 424-4060 or clechner@verizon.net.
Long Beach Supreme Soccer Club: Girls U13 team seeking players. Ongoing tryouts Mondays at Mayfair Park. Info: (562) 225-6440, soccercoachj@verizon.net or www.lbsupremesc.com.
Long Beach Swim Club: Ages 7-18. Competitive year-round program at the Belmont Olympic Pool Plaza. Tryouts and signups ongoing with free two-week trial period. Cross-training program also available. Info: (562) 597-9744 or www.beachswimclub.com.
Barracuda Aquatic Club: Boys and girls ages 5-18. Ongoing signups and tryouts for year-round competitive swim team at Thompson Park in Bellflower. Info: bacswimming.org.
Seal Beach Swim Club: Ages 5-18. Tryouts and signups ongoing daily at U.S. Water Polo National Aquatics Center in Los Alamitos from 4:30-6:30 p.m., and at McGaugh School in Seal Beach from 4-5:30 p.m. Info: Coach Patti Haney (562) 431-7526 or manager Maria Fattal (562) 430-1092 or www.sealbeachswimclub.org.
Bay Cities Unleashed youth Track Club: Ages 5-18. Signups ongoing. At Vernon E. Hemingway Memorial Park. Practice times are Tuesday Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. Info: Head coach George Cannon (310) 632-3908.
Long Beach Sprinters Youth Track Club: Practice ongoing. Heartwell Park, Monday and Wednesdays at 4-6 p.m. Fees: $175. Paid at time of registration. Practice days: Monday & Wednesdays 4-6 p.m. Info: Head coach Chucky Hampton (562) 428-2466 or Assistant coach Deborah Reid (310) 346-4149.
United States Youth Volleyball League: Ages 8-14. League runs Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-11 a.m. at Whaley Park in Long Beach. Info: (888) 988-7985 or www.usyvl.org.
Long Beach Viking Aquatics Water Polo: Beginning players are always welcome. Info: Chris Oeding (562) 938-4056 or vikingaquatics@hotmail.com.
Long Beach Shore Aquatics Water Polo/Swim Team: Ages 5-14. Signups. Age group practices are held weekdays from 5-7 p.m. High school practices Monday-Thursday from 6:45-8:30 p.m. Info: www.shoreaquatics.com or shorepolo@hotmail.com.
Los Alamitos Youth Water Polo Club: Boys and girls 3-14. Club seeking new members and no previous experience required. At Los Alamitos High and U.S. Aquatics Center on the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos. Info: (562) 433-3612 or www.losalamitoswaterpolo.com or coach@losalamitoswaterpolo.com.


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In our ongoing coverage of DeVos-led AmplifyGR group and their partner, Rockford Construction, we want to continue to ask relevant questions and raise the level of awareness about those who are part of the local power structure are planning to do in neighborhoods across the city.
In our original story, we looked at what the AmplifyGR/Rockford Construction efforts were proposing in the Southtown area of Grand Rapids. We reported that over the past 6 months AmplifyGR and Rockford Construction have been meeting with city planners and people who make up part of the Southtown Corridor Improvement District committee.
In Part II of this series, we looked at the number of plots that Rockford Construction has already purchased in both the Boston Square Area and the Cottage Grove area. We made the point in this post that AmplifyGR is really a project that amplifies the voices of developers and investors who have already created an unequal power dynamic by virtue of how much land they control in the target areas.
In our third article on AmplifyGR, we wanted to alert people to a meeting that AmplifyGR was hosting on June 29, shed some light on the process and provide some information on the entity that is financing AmplifyGR – the Doug & Maria DeVos Foundation.
In today's post we continue to want to raise relevant questions about the AmplifyGR project.
Last year, we ran a story about a Rockford Construction development plan that had created some controversy at the time, because they already had a proposed plan before even discussing the development idea with people who actually live in the target neighborhood. The development project became public when someone from Linc posted information on Facebook and in their online news section. The online news piece is entitled, Rockford Construction's "Hushed" Plan for Southeast Redevelopment Brought to Light .
Strategic Planning Session – Greg Giornelli visited Grand Rapids to review the fundamentals of the Purpose Built Model and to assist in goal-setting. While the pillars of Purpose Built are foundational for every member community, each neighborhood bring its own unique challenges, and each community must craft its own approach to solving problems.
Members of the Grand Rapids team attended the Purpose Built Conference in September, 2014. Other Purpose Built Members were in attendance and topics ranged from neighborhood resident engagement to early childhood brain development. Of note was the wide variety in both the physical characteristics of each neighborhood and the organizational approach to implementing strategies.
So, it seems clear that Rockford Construction has been working on a plan to re-develop part of Southtown since 2014, based on their own report comments about meeting with folks from Purpose Built Communities. Three years later, they appear to be ready to implement such a plan, even before those who live in the target area even know what the hell is going on.
We also looked closer at the land purchases that Rockford Construction has been making in the Southtown area, particularly the Boston Square neighborhood and the Cottage Grove area. Below you can see which parcels they have purchased, for how much and in what year.
All of the property purchases combined is an estimated $10 million that Rockford Construction has spent on the land in the two areas of Southtown. This is an incredible amount of money and one wonders if the company has that kind of money to spend or if they have other financial backers?
One thing that isn't clear from the 2015 Rockford Construction document is who will ultimately maintain control over all this property in the Southtown area, not how much the company stands to profit off of such a plan. The company clearly is motivated by profits, so it will be interesting to hear what their CEO has to say about this at the public meeting on June 29.
What the mission statement says to this writer is that this is all just another neoliberal capitalist scheme that will make money off of poverty, while attempting to present the proposed development and Rockford Construction as Saviors of the neighborhood.
What if instead, people were to make a counter proposal back to Rockford Construction and AmplifyGR. The community proposal could go something like this: How about all the land you have purchased, and the additional money that investors are willing to throw at this project, were given to those who live in the community to be put into a Community Land Trust (CLT). This CLT would be completely under the control of those who lived in the neighborhood, could provide tremendous financial opportunities for home owners and tenants in the area and could lead to community based ideas for how best to move forward. If Rockford Construction and the DeVos-created AmplifyGR really wanted these neighborhoods to truly prosper, then they wouldn't have a problem transferring all those assets over the the people who live there.


iNaturalist is a place where you can record what you see in nature, meet other nature lovers and learn about the natural world. Courtesy of iNaturalist.
Texas Parks & Wildlife employs a handful of urban biologists to cover all of North Texas. Millions of urban animals, two footed and four, everything from wild feral hogs marauding the Great Trinity Forest to a mother hawk divebombing patrons of a local park to protect her chicks. With manpower stretched that thin, getting an accurate picture of urban wildlife and human interactions was almost impossible.
Enter the crowd-sourced marvel that is citizen science. Amazing advances in astronomy have arisen from amateur observations. Citizen research is upending archeology. When it comes to ecology and wildlife biology, nothing makes citizen science easier than iNaturalist, acquired by the California Academy of Sciences in 2014. The site was inspired by the very popular, but more narrowly targeted, eBird by Cornell University and the annual Backyard Bird Count. To date, more than 34,000 observations of plants and animals in North Texas have been reported to iNaturalist for government and non-profit wildlife professionals to analyze.
Cicada in Fort Worth by iNaturalist photographer Griff.
The vast iNaturalist web portal enables anyone to record and organize observations and photos of nature. It's easy to do that out in nature with the free iNaturalist smartphone app. You can make maps, charts and graphs of your observations, even meet up with other nature lovers. At first glance, the web portal can seem intimidating. Give it time. It will bloom for you. YouTube tutorials are a big help and more are in the works.
Put off by sweaty research in tick-laden landscapes? iNaturalist can accommodate. Ace your backyard by keeping a detailed seasonal journal. Note when migrating birds first appear and when they depart. Follow a family of raccoons and see when you note a pregnant female, when young ones appear and when they strike out on their own. Search for the presence of snakes and be surprised at how many you find. Observe how weather changes impact your yard's wildlife.
Children are down there at animal level, watching things all the time. iNaturalist can be a great way to channel your kid's energy. It's an area where some autistic children can excel. For the techo-minded, get them a durable Toughbooks. School systems increasingly have outdoor learning centers, some even with wi-fi, perfect for iNaturalist.
"We all know 6 year olds, 8 year olds, and their flavor of the week can be quite an impressive knowledge base," says Broman.
You don't even have to go outside to be part of iNaturalist. Security cameras can be a naturalist's tool. A woman in East Dallas is tracking a family of foxes that dens beneath her backyard deck. Motion-detector cameras that are used to monitor rural wildlife work just as well in the city.
"I've been very surprised to see how many people are using trail cameras in the city. One quarter of my bobcat data comes in that way," says Broman.
A big use of the program is enthusiasts identifying species for amateurs, something even homebound people can participate in.
Local photographer Sean Fitzgerald, founder of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the North American Nature Photography Association, says it's a great way to educate North Texans about local wildscapes.
Above, the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the North American Nature Photography Association in the field. Courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald.
The omnipresence of cameras on smartphones is aiding iNaturalist, says Fitzgerald.
Coneflowers at the Dallas Arboretum by iNaturalist photographer nanjii.
Plans are in the works for a photographic bio-blitz of some critical North Texas locations, such as Pemberton's Big Spring in the Great Trinity Forest, with legions of photographers thoroughly capturing an environment at a moment in time. But most work is ongoing.
When naturalists utilize iNaturalist, benefits bloom. Activists such as Jim Flood and Ben Sandifer have been essential in the protection of Great Trinity Forest, Trinity River and other important areas. Chris Jackson's DFW Urban Wildlife now interacts with iNaturalist. With the deep cuts to government budgets for wildlife and habitat, it takes statistics to make a case for the preservation and iNaturalist provides. The Biodiversity of the Cedar Ridge Preserve project is used the same way.
Another big success for iNaturalist is the DFW Carnivores study, which includes bobcats, coyotes, and foxes, plus omnivores like opossums, skunks and raccoons.
"One of the reasons I pushed hard to get iNaturalist in this area was to get bobcat observations," says Broman, noting that they've been less studied than coyotes.
Right, roseate spoonbill by Chris Jackson.
"By seeing all these dots on an iNaturalist map of bobcats, coyotes, skunks and so forth, it gives the public feedback that these animals are indeed everywhere and that we've been coexisting with them for the most part without any conflict," says Broman.
Broman is available for talks to schools and other organizations. Contact him by email mailto:derek.broman@tpwd.texas.gov, or call 972-293-3841. A great way to keep up with Texas Parks and Wildlife's urban wildlife efforts in North Texas is through their Facebook page.


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Well-performing colleges in Karnataka can take in more students: Education Department
The initiative is to promote quality education in colleges across Karnataka
Published: 26th April 2017 04:24 AM | Last Updated: 26th April 2017 04:24 AM | A+A A-
By Rashmi Belur
Express News Service
BENGALURU: Higher education institutions which perform well can get incentives in the form of permission to increase their intakes.
This policy of the Higher Education Department is aimed at promoting the quality of education by incentivising well-performing institutions across the state.
The basis for the incentive is consistency in the performance - the results in the final year of courses. Another parameter is that the institutions should have secured A+ or A grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
The incentive comes with a rider: A 25 per cent of the additional intake rewarded to the institutions should be reserved for economically poor students.
Institutes seeking the incentive should submit requests to the Principal Secretary to Higher Education Department mentioning the proposed increase in the intakes in the courses in question.
The proposal should be submitted by December 31 of the year preceding the academic year.
Interestingly, the state government will communicate the "acceptance" of the request to the institution without an inquiry within 15 days. "If no communication is received from the government, it may be deemed to have been accepted," said an official of the Higher Education Department.
Once the proposal is accepted, a copy of the acceptance letter will be forwarded to the university concerned. The university can send a Local Inquiry Committee to the colleges seeking the incentive. The university can forward its comments on the infrastructure and teaching staff to the Principal Secretary of the department, the official said.
In fact, the police came into effect from the academic year 2016-17.
Recently, St Joseph's Commerce College of Bengaluru had applied for an increase in its intake for BCom course from the existing 490 seats to 690 and for BBA course from 150 to 300 under the incentive policy. The same was approved by Bangalore University at its syndicate meeting held on Monday.