Are staff members reluctant to use your organization's logo because they feel it does not project the right image? To put it simply, are you proud of your nonprofit's logo? If you and your staff are not excited about your logo, no one else will be either. It may be time to think about a change. It doesn't hurt to ask volunteers, clients and the public what they think about your logo. Just don't get defensive when they give you their honest opinions.
Are you using a logo that doesn't work just so you don't hurt someone's feelings? Nonprofits tend to depend on giveaways. Many times this is also the case with an organization's logo. Whether it is the founder of the organization or the godson of your biggest donor that designed your organization's logo as a "favor" – there is no excuse for continuing to use a logo that just doesn't work. Better yet, don't let your nonprofit be in this position in the first place.
Does your organization's logo look like someone else's logo? If your staff often hears, "your logo looks just like so-and-so's logo," book a meeting about your logo in the conference room right how.
Does your logo look good when it is copied, faxed or resized? Often, a logo looks great when it is printed in full color or viewed on a monitor. But a seven-color logo is no use if it does not reproduce well when copied in black and white (assuming your organization can't afford to always print in full color). Hard-to-read type treatments can also cause issues that can make a logo utterly useless. In some cases, your organization may not need a completely new logo, but perhaps an altered version of one that has limitations.
Does your name and logo say you do something or serve somewhere that is inaccurate? In many cases, nonprofit organizations simply outgrow their names. If you now serve all 12 counties in your state, but your name still states "Tri-County," you need a new name. Keep in mind your ever-growing services and mission to make sure you select a name that you won't outgrow again in the future. The same goes for services. If your name states that you do one thing but now you do eight, you should have changed your name when you moved into that new building during your organization's latest expansion. But it is never too late to get it right – even if it means having new signs made.
Do people call your organization thinking you are something you are not? An example of this is a child therapy center that constantly receives calls because their name sounds like a children's clothing store. If the public thinks you are something you are not, then you are making the communications game a lot harder than it has to be. To investigate this, include staff members that answer the phones and email in the conversation. If the public thinks your organization is something you are not because of your name, it is probably time to explore a new one.


* 4. If you are transferring, what school are you transferring from?
* 5. Why do you want to come to the Intercultural Institute of California (IIC)?
* 6. What classes do you want to take?
* 7. What type of schedule do you want?
* 9. Please type about 5-10 sentences about your educational objectives(reason why you want to study) for IIC.


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Demonstrators protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement outside the Senate office buildings on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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TPP would facilitate lawsuits against governments, critics say
Activists warn that lawsuits like TransCanada's legal action against the US over XL pipeline would grow under trade pact
January 21, 2016 2:05PM ET
by Renee Lewis @Renee5Lewis55
Corporate lawsuits against governments, like TransCanada's legal action against the United States for its rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, will escalate if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is approved, environmental activists say. That, they say, will erode American sovereignty and threaten progress on climate change.
President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone project in November on the grounds that it would exacerbate climate change. But international pacts like 1994's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) give companies the right to sue foreign governments if they enact new laws viewed as frustrating investor expectations.
The TPP broadened those rights, giving companies that invest in foreign countries certain guarantees — enshrining their right to "fair" treatment. That, according to Robert Kennedy Jr., an environmental law attorney and activist, gives more companies the right to sue over canceled projects.
"Instead of the American public making the rules that govern our country, we have foreign companies that are now in control of some aspects of American sovereignty," Kennedy said.
TransCanada is asking U.S. taxpayers to reimburse it for all of its expected profits, not just for the cost of the pipeline, Kennedy added. That could encourage any government to think twice about enacting environmental policies that could harm foreign investments.
"This is like paying a bank robber not to rob a bank," Kennedy said of the lawsuit.
Last week when announcing the legal action, TransCanada said that, under NAFTA rules, it had "every reason to expect its application would be granted as the application met the same criteria the U.S. State Department applied when approving applications to construct other similar cross-border pipelines."
The environmental group Sierra Club agrees that the TPP would expand the number of corporations able to sue governments for what they perceive as unfair restraints on trade.
"The TPP, in one fell swoop, would double the number of firms that could use the system to challenge U.S. policies," said Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Agreements program.
TransCanada would "just be the tip of the iceberg of what we would see under the TPP," Solomon said.
Under the TPP, about 9,000 companies operating in the U.S. would receive expanded foreign investor rights and the ability to sue over lost profits, according to Solomon.
"When the government puts in place a new law or policy that can be construed as frustrating the expectations of an investor, the investor can claim damages for that policy," Solomon said.
TransCanada had already begun leasing land and constructing sections of the planned pipeline, but was able to sue for more than just the cost of that work because of the trade agreements, according to Solomon.
To receive "unlimited cash compensation," she said, the company must take the case to a private tribunal comprised of three private attorneys under the World Bank or the United Nations.
Congress must still approve the TPP, and Solomon said there is a good change the trade deal will be defeated.
A coalition of about 1,500 groups, under the environmental justice group Citizens Trade Campaign, sent a letter earlier this month to Congressional leaders urging them to reject the TPP.
"We hope and expect members of Congress to side with their constituents and concerns about the environment rather than siding with big business," Solomon said.
While the White House has touted the environmental protections included in the TPP — including fishing regulations, wildlife protection and conservation measures —Solomon believes deal will ultimately hurt the environment.
"The vague obligations combined with the history of non-enforcement of such environmental regulations in trade deals, and a set of rules like the new corporate rights that would severely threaten our climate, makes our overall assessment that the TPP would present a major threat to the environment," Solomon said.
She noted that the words "climate change" do not appear in the 6,000 pages of the TPP text.
"It makes no attempt to grapple with any of these climate consequences," Solomon said.
Business & Finance, Climate Change, Commerce & Trade, Conservation, Keystone Pipeline
History's largest trade agreements are being negotiated in secret
Unelected representatives iron out logistics of massive TPP and TTIP deals between US and Europe, Asia-Pacific regions
Under Obama trade deal, disputes settled outside US judicial system
Trans-Pacific Partnership would create mechanisms for trade disputes beyond US law and democratic control
Liberal allies of Obama: 'Hell, no' to TPP trade deal
Labor leaders, environmental groups and lawmakers rally against fast-track authority for secretive trade pact

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Q: How to handle memory error while fitting GaussianMixture in sklearn python? I am trying to fit GaussianMixture using sklearn to a bunch of cat and dog pictures. I feed a numpy array of size (50,30000) where 50 number of data points(25 cats and 25 dog pictures), 30000 is the number of features after I convert each picture to numpy array and resize to (100,100,3). It is throwing memory error. I have 4GB of RAM and 70% used before running this code. Can anyone suggest me how to debug how much memory is used by GaussianMixture fit method in sklearn. Or can anyone provide some code to fit it in batches.
Following is the code
print(img_coll_cat_dog.shape)
print(img_coll_cat_dog.nbytes)
print(img_coll_cat_dog.itemsize)

Result:
(50, 30000)
12000000 bytes
8

gmix = mixture.GaussianMixture(n_components=2, covariance_type='full')
gmix.fit(img_coll_cat_dog)

Following is the error I am getting.
MemoryError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-32-c0370476a619> in <module>()
      1 gmix = mixture.GaussianMixture(n_components=2, covariance_type='full')
----> 2 gmix.fit(img_coll_cat_dog)

~/dl/dl3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sklearn/mixture/base.py in fit(self, X, y)
    205
    206             if do_init:
--> 207                 self._initialize_parameters(X, random_state)
    208                 self.lower_bound_ = -np.infty
    209

~/dl/dl3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sklearn/mixture/base.py in _initialize_parameters(self, X, random_state)
    155                              % self.init_params)
    156
--> 157         self._initialize(X, resp)
    158
    159     @abstractmethod

~/dl/dl3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sklearn/mixture/gaussian_mixture.py in _initialize(self, X, resp)
    629
    630         weights, means, covariances = _estimate_gaussian_parameters(
--> 631             X, resp, self.reg_covar, self.covariance_type)
    632         weights /= n_samples
    633

~/dl/dl3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sklearn/mixture/gaussian_mixture.py in _estimate_gaussian_parameters(X, resp, reg_covar, covariance_type)
    283                    "diag": _estimate_gaussian_covariances_diag,
    284                    "spherical": _estimate_gaussian_covariances_spherical
--> 285                    }[covariance_type](resp, X, nk, means, reg_covar)
    286     return nk, means, covariances
    287

~/dl/dl3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sklearn/mixture/gaussian_mixture.py in _estimate_gaussian_covariances_full(resp, X, nk, means, reg_covar)
    162     """
    163     n_components, n_features = means.shape
--> 164     covariances = np.empty((n_components, n_features, n_features))
    165     for k in range(n_components):
    166         diff = X - means[k]

MemoryError:

Any help is much appreciated.

A: Try to set covariance_type='diag'

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What is radon and what can we do to prevent it?
When buying a new home you might hear talk about radon and think, what exactly is radon and should I be concerned? This is definitely a topic where having a bit of knowledge can protect your family's health. The truth is, radon is indeed a dangerous radioactive cancer-causing gas which you cannot see, smell or taste. It occurs naturally in the environment and can enter your home through cracks in floors and walls, construction joints or gaps around service pipes, electrical wires and sump pits. It is essentially naturally decaying uranium that seeps up to the surface. If radon is present in your home, the highest levels are usually concentrated in basements.
The Surgeon General warns that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. There are no known short-term radon exposure symptoms. It takes years of contact to radon at fairly high levels before you are likely to develop any symptoms. Trace amounts of radon can be found in all 50 states in the U.S. but certain areas tend to have a higher concentration levels.
However there is good news! While radon is certainly not something you should overlook there are "acceptable" levels that are considered non-toxic (under 4 picocuries per liter).
Testing your house for radon yourself is possible for around $30 with a home kit from your local hardware store or online. There are also professionals that perform the test which often are included as part of the new home inspection process anyway and may cost up to $300.00 but can be well worth it since they are experts in radon inspections and their knowledge could be lifesaving.
More good news: If a test determines there are unsafe levels of radon in your home, please don't panic! There are ways to lower and even eliminate radon levels with mitigation systems. The primary method to decrease radon is a vent pipe system and a fan. This process pulls radon from beneath the house and vents it to the outside. You can build a mitigation system on your own with the help of some online tutorials and resources or hire a professional to save you the trouble.
All-in the materials to build a mitigation system of your own may cost an estimated $500.00. If you are interested in trying to build your own D-I-Y mitigation system, check out this helpful guide. While installing the mitigation systems yourself may prove to be cost-efficient, the EPA recommends using a state or nationally certified contractor and we highly recommend this too. Your family's health is always the priority. If you would like to have a qualified professional take care of your radon issue ask your real estate agent as they work with radon professionals all the time.
Helpful hint: The EPA has published a very useful guide on how to fix your home and rid it of that irritating radon which can be found here. Radon has the potential to be a very dangerous problem for you and your loved ones after prolonged exposure, but with a proactive approach of utilizing the proper procedures to adequately test and rid your home of radon, you should be stress and radon-free in no time!
For more information regarding radon safety and prevention, check the EPA website.


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package eu.tankernn.accounts.util.encryption;

import org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;

public class EncryptedComplex {
	private byte[] salt, iv, data;

	public EncryptedComplex(byte[] salt, byte[] iv, byte[] data) {
		this.salt = salt;
		this.iv = iv;
		this.data = data;
	}

	/**
	 * Convert the legacy format into the new one.
	 * @param b The old encrypted complex format.
	 */
	public EncryptedComplex(byte[][] b) {
		this(b[0], b[1], b[2]);
	}

	public EncryptedComplex(String salt, String iv, String data) {
		this.salt = decode(salt);
		this.iv = decode(iv);
		this.data = decode(data);
	}

	private String encode(byte[] b) {
		// Easily switch to other encoding types
		return Base64.encodeBase64String(b);
	}

	private byte[] decode(String str) {
		try {
			return Hex.decodeHex(str.toCharArray());
		} catch (DecoderException e) {
			return Base64.decodeBase64(str);
		}
	}

	public byte[] getSalt() {
		return salt;
	}

	public byte[] getIV() {
		return iv;
	}

	public byte[] getData() {
		return data;
	}

	public String getEncodedSalt() {
		return encode(salt);
	}

	public String getEncodedIv() {
		return encode(iv);
	}

	public String getEncodedData() {
		return encode(data);
	}
}

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Q: Laravel: Nesting query join results in a sub array NOTE Please do not suggest using Eloquent, this is specifically for the Laravel query builder.
For performance reasons we are using Query Builder to retrieve results from a table:
DB::table('posts')->get();

If we then want to join a relation onto that query:
DB:table('posts')
    ->leftJoin('comments', 'posts.id', '=', 'comments.post_id')
    ->get();

The results are merged into the array of each post:
[
    'id'                => 1,
    'title'             => 'My Blog Post',
    'content'           => '
This is a post

hello world
',
    'post_author'       => 'Billy',
    'comment'           => 'This is a comment',
    'comment_author'    => 'Andrew',
]

How can we have the joined results placed into a nested array? Such as:
[
    'id'                => 1,
    'title'             => 'My Blog Post',
    'content'           => '
This is a post

hello world
',
    'post_author'       => 'Billy',
    'comment'           => [
        'id'                => 22,
        'comment'           => 'This is a comment',
        'comment_author'    => 'Andrew',
    ],
]

A: Dont think its doable out of the box without Eloquent.
You can go the primitive route:
$results = DB:table('posts')
    ->leftJoin('comments', 'posts.id', '=', 'comments.post_id')
    ->select('posts.*', 'comments.*', 'comments.id as comments_id')
    ->get();

foreach($results as &$result)
{
    $result['comment'] = [
        'id' => $result['comment_id'],
        'comment' => $result['comment'],
        'comment_author' => $result['comment_author']
    ];
    unset($result['comment_author'], $result['comment_id']);
}

A: Since you work with DB facade and not Eloquent, and cannot use built-in with() method, you have to implement it yourself:
$posts = DB::table('posts')->get()->toArray();
$comments = DB::table('comments')->get()->toArray();

foreach($posts as &$post)
{
    $post->comments = array_filter($comments, function($comment) use ($post) {
        return $comment->post_id === $post->id;
    });
}

return $posts;

If you want to get rid of post_id for comments entries, you can do:
$posts = DB::table('posts')->get()->toArray();
$comments = DB::table('comments')->get()->toArray();

foreach($posts as &$post)
{
    $comments = array_filter($comments, function($comment) use ($post) {
        return $comment->post_id === $post->id;
    });

    $post->comments = array_map(function ($comment) {
        unset($comment->id);
        return $comment;
    }, $comments);
}

return $posts;

(I guess the runtime would be similar to with(), since after-all MySql does not provide this functionality out-of-the-box).

A: Here some new information:
$data= $DB->select("select posts.*,comments from posts left join comments on posts.id = comments.post_id");

I am not sure it is work or not but you can try

A: You can try with this
$data= $DB->select("select *,(select json_agg(datas) from (select * from comments where posts.id=comments.post_id) as datas) as comments from posts;");

But you may need to decode at comments as well


Izvornik: The 9th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb (ERFCON 201) : book of abstracts / Hržica, Gordana ; Jeđud Borić, Ivana (ur.). - Zagreb : Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb ; Scienific series, Book No. , 2017. 180-181.
Mjesto i datum: Zagreb, Hrvatska, 17.-19.5.2017.
The concepts of behaviour patterns in conflicts are known within the theory of conflict management while developmental and theories of social learning suggest that they are transferred generationally from parents onto children. The aim of this paper is to determine the connection between parental attitudes towards behaviour patterns in social conflicts ( winning, avoidance/adjustment, cooperation) and also to determine the contribution of parental attitudes to each of the child's behaviour patterns. In Rijeka, 404 parents (M=40, ages 27-54 ; 79% mothers) have, anonimously and voluntarily with informed consent, filled in a questionnaire with the Scale of attitudes towards behaviour patterns in social conflicts of parents and with the Scale of estimate of children's patterns of behaviour in conflicts (M=10 years, ages 7-15 ; 51% boys). The parents attitudes towards winning and avoidance/adjustment are weakly positively and towards winning and cooperation weakly negatively correlated. The winning behaviour of children is in weak to moderate positive correlation with avoidance and in weak to moderate negative correlation with cooperation behaviour in conflicts. Parents attitudes towards winning are weakly positively correlated with winning behaviour and weakly negatively correlated with cooperation behaviour of their child. Parents attitudes towards avoidance/adjustment are weakly positively correlated with avoidance behaviour and weakly negatively with cooperation behaviour of their child. Parents attitudes toward cooperation are weakly to moderately positively correlated with cooperation behaviour of their child. There is no age correlation with the observed constructs in either parents nor children while the fathers more often stated their own attitudes toward winning and the mothers toward cooperation. By utilizing regression analyses it has been determined that, based on the parents attitude toward winning, the future behaviour winning can be predicted and, based on the parents attitude toward avoidance/adjustment, the future behaviour of avoidance int he child, and according to the parents attitude toward cooperation the future cooperation behaviour of the child can be predicted. These insights could be relevant in the planning of prevention of undesirable behaviour in one segment of children at risk. The results confirm previous theoretical insights about primary parental influence in the shaping of children's behaviour and suggest we should simultaneously work with both parents and the children who are considered at risk on changing the attitudes towards a more constructive behaviour in conflict situations.


Previous PostA Letter to the Narcissist – No. 34Next PostWhy?
Stop you seeing what they are doing on social media.
Hi Lori, did the narc finally unblock you?
Well there will be other people providing fuel and if there are other conduits opens between you and the narcissist, blocking one may provoke you into contacting us through a different conduit and providing fuel anyway.
True and to be honest that has always been the case but not this time. I honestly am surprised I haven't. I don't know why I haven't. I suppose on some level your psyche just becomes sick of it all. Anytime I have had the urge to contact the first thing I do is ask why ? The answer is always he's a narcissist. How many times do you have to touch a hot stove and get burned before you realize it's going to burn you? And then I put the phone right down.
Remember the golden rule…EVERYTHING is about THEM! When they unblock you, they have a motive…to see what YOU are up to, or to access your photo's, etc. Social Media is a HUGE tool for Narcs. They can easily paint a false picture of both YOU and THEM. It simply is NOT usually within their best interest to have you as a social media friend. You would object to much of what they are doing because they are constantly looking for fuel and/or your replacement.
a) Did he ever intend visiting?
b) How could he resist my fuel even if he is tired?
c) Is this some sort of test?
d) Is this an exercise purely in asserting control?
e) Genuine and courteous in letting me know?
Best wishes for a fuel filled bank holiday!
How true! A weapon used for triangulation, control, and facade management. Thank you, HG!
Ha! The meme is hilariously true.


Photographs show close-ups of a nurse with a patient being given insulin coma therapy.These photographs are stills from a scene in the film 'Light through the Cloud' (see RET 1/6/1/26) which dealt with mental nursing at the Retreat.
Photograph 1 is with Sister Tutor.Photograph 2 is without Sister Tutor.
Five pages of pencil or ink and watercolour sketches, mostly still life, dated 1920, presumably also by C. Horner.


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Famous Name: Adam
Posted by A.O. in Famous Names
Akkadian names, Arabic names, Assyrian names, Babylonian names, Biblical names, hebrew names, Irish names, modern classics, name history, name meaning, name popularity, popular names, royal names, Scottish names, Semitic names
On Australia Day, the Australian of the Year for 2014 was announced, and it was AFL footballer Adam Goodes, who plays for the Sydney Swans.
Adam is a distinguished player who has experienced a great deal of success in his field, and is very active in the Sydney Indigenous community, providing leadership and guidance to troubled Indigenous youth, including those in youth detention. He has also started an Indigenous football academy, and he and his cousin Michael O'Loughlin founded the Goodes O'Loughlin Foundation which focuses on education, employment and healthy life choices. Adam plans to use his profile as Australian of the Year to help raise awareness of the push for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.
Adam is well known to almost everyone, even those with no religious background, as the first human mentioned in the Bible. He was created by God out of earth, and placed in the paradisical Garden of Eden with his companion Eve. However, they were expelled from the Garden after disobeying God's commands, and went on to become founders of the human race. Adam is also seen as the first human in Islam, which regards Adam as a prophet, and the first Muslim.
In Hebrew, āḏām is the word for "human", and the creation story in Genesis uses this word for "mankind", "humanity", "a man", and the person named Adam, in an ambiguous and complex play of meaning. The word comes from a Semitic root meaning "red, fair, handsome", and is also the masculine form of the Hebrew word adamah, meaning "ground, earth", related both to the word for "red", and the word for "blood". In Arabic, Adam means "made from the earth".
Putting this all together, the impression one gets from the name is that Adam is a signifier for all men, and all humans, a handsome man created from the red earth, the colour suggesting that of life-giving blood (the clay become flesh), and perhaps even implying that his skin tone was meant to be a coppery, reddish-brown – which seems reasonable given the story's Middle Eastern origins.
Genesis emphasises Adam's connection to the earth, for God set Adam to work on the land, to get his hands dirty, scratched by thorns in order to eat and survive. God's curse was From dust you were made and to dust you will return, meaning that humans were condemned to mortality (still echoed in the funeral service, ashes to ashes, dust to dust). Adam is separated from nature by his humanity, yet inextricably part of nature and still tied to the earth and his earthy instincts – a succinct précis of the human condition.
The first historical person named Adam we know of is an Assyrian king named Adamu, who lived more than 4000 years ago (it is probably worth mentioning that the Babylonian creation story, many centuries older than Genesis, has the same main features, and there the first man is named Lullu, meaning "man, human being"; when the Assyrians copied the story, they called the first man Adami, possibly from the Akkadian for "to make").
The name Adam came into common use in Britain in the Middle Ages, and became more popular after the Protestant Reformation. It has particularly strong ties to Scotland, perhaps because it was used to Anglicise the Irish name Áedán (an older form of Aidan), traditional amongst the royal houses and nobility of medieval Scotland.
Although in rare use early in the twentieth century, Adam only began charting in Australia in the 1940s. It raced up the charts during the 1950s to make #51 for the 1960s. It peaked in the 1980s at #10, and is still in the Top 100. It is #66 nationally, #55 in New South Wales, #57 in Victoria, #99 in Queensland, #44 in Western Australia, #84 in Tasmania, and #60 in the Australian Capital Territory.
Adam is a modern classic, yet it is an ancient name – the oldest name in the Book! Brief, strong and primal, it is earth and blood, flesh and bone, birth and death, innocence and guilt: the most human of all names, with its hands buried in the soil and its soul yearning for paradise. Adam is all man and all men; we are all Adam and the children of Adam; and yet Adam is still too archetypal to ever become an Everyman name.
It will always remind us of the first man in one of the oldest stories we know. A man whose descendants have continued to live and die and toil and survive – and remember paradise.
POLL RESULT
Adam received an approval rating of 64%. 30% of people saw it as strong and handsome, but 14% thought it was too common.
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Samantha Krotzer, Content Manager at Temple University discusses how their Nutshell Newsletter serves to fill the gap between enrollment and alumni communications and better engage current students.
36: Current Student Communications at Temple University w/ Samantha Krotzer
Our goal with nutshell and its contentis to maintain students interest in campus life and then we want them to beengaged in the university. You're listening to enrollment growth university from Helix Education,the best professional development podcast for higher education leaders looking to grow enrollment at theircollege or university. Whether you're looking for fresh enrollment growth techniques and strategies ortools and resources, you've come to the right place. Let's get into theshow. Welcome back to enrollment growth university, a proud member of the connect eTou podcast network. I Americ Olson, AVP of marketing at Helix Education,and we're here today with Samantha Crotzer, content manager at Temple University. Samantha, welcome to the show. Thanks so much. Super excited to talkwith you today about how to better communicate and engage with current students. Butbefore we dig too deep into that, Samantha, can you get the listenersa little bit better understanding of both Temple...
University and your role there? Ofcourse. So Temple University is a large urban university. We are in NorthPhiladelphia, just a few minutes a subway stop away from center city, andwhen I say large, we have about fortyzero students, which is a prettybig population, and our students are diverse. We have a vibrant campus, soit really is an exciting place to be in higher education as an employee, and I also studied at temples, so I kind of had of astrong affinity anyways for the school. So to explain a little bit more aboutwhat I do at Temple, I work at the University Central Marketing and CommunicationsDepartment and what we do is we manage internal communications with the university community aswell as external things such as, you know, marketing, collateral for perspectivestudents, add copy, executive communications, all of that. So in away we kind of think of ourselves as almost a creative agency that supports theuniversity. Awesome, awesome, Samantha.
You noticed a gap in communications betweenwhere your enrollment team left off then alumni services picked up your current student communications. Talk about one solution. Your team came up with with the nutshell newsletter. Sure, so, in two thousand and fifteen is when the nutshell newslettercame to be. So just to baxt up a little bit to understand howwe got to that decision prior to two thousand and fifteen we had a newsletterthat was sent to all Temple Faculty, staff and students, including undergraduate studentsand graduate so you can see how, if you're thinking about your audience,faculty, Staff and students, they don't want to hear the same things.But we want everyone to be engaged with the university. So thinking of howto achieve that in two thousand and five team we made a separate newsletter,which is nutshow, to speak directly to students. So the newsletter is gearedmore towards undergraduate students, but the information...
...is still applicable for Grad students.Well, it's so so geared toward undergrads. What types of content are you creatingfor the newsletter and what are your primary goals behind it? Yeah,sure, so I'll start with the goal, since you know, we in marketing, you always think about the goals first. So our goal with nutshelland its content is to maintain students interest in campus life and then we wantthem to be engaged in the university all throughout their academic year, not justfrom their first year. We want them to be connected throughout their four yearsthat they're here, because if you have engaged students then you're more likely tohave engaged alumni. So we can't think or forget about that critical step ofof the current student experience. Awesome. Yeah, and I can speak moreabout the content that we're creating to kind of support those goals. So whatI do with my team is we kind of map out the year and youknow in higher education there are certain things that we know we're happening, forexample homecoming or when students can register for...
...classes, and we try to thinkof more creative ways to support those messages. For example, last semester, whenit was nearing time for students to reading for classes, we pulled togethera list of the coolest classes that are going on at Temple and it wasone of the most engaged with stories all year because it gave students the informationthat they need at the time that they needed it. So we're always tryingto think ahead and plan how we can support these messages in a way thatis easier for a student to digest and interesting. They want to click onit, love it. Let's dig into results. How are you and whereare you promoting the newsletter today and what sort of engagement are you seeing withits content? Yeah, sure, so since two thousand and fifteen two nowwe've had a pretty steady average open rate of forty percent. Were super happyabout that because that is well above industry...
...standard right and the click through rate, we're seeing kind of a steady increase there. I would say this yearit's averaging around maybe five to six percent, but in the first year of nutshelltwo thousand and fifteen, it was more around three to four percent.So just just to give a little bit more information there, the goal ofnut show isn't necessarily the CLICKTHROUGH rate because we're trying to give all the informationthat they need in that email. If they want to click out to getmore that's fantastic, but ideally it's kind of you get the information you needwithin the email. So click through rate, it's great that it's improving. Itshows us that the content is meeting our audiences needs, but that openrate is a really proud point. What I considered to be a huge winis that not only our campus admins coming up to you and your team andasking for their content to be included in nutshell, but you have students doingthat as well, because they really believe the newsletter is one of the bestways to reach their peers. How do you control content governance, what youchoose to include and not, and how...
...do you communicate those decisions back?So when we're thinking about what content we can include and can't include, itall rolls back to those goals. So we need to make sure that theinformation we're putting in nutshell will enhance the student experience. Though, have informationthat they need to be successful at temple to do things that they might otherwisenot know about. So as long as content that is either a pitch tous or we're thinking about internally, as long as it's meeting the goal ofnews you can use for students, then we're usually okay promoting it. Andsomething that we're thinking about, of course, is our audience. So, forexample, if a student wants to promote something that could only really applyto an extremely small population of student, then it might not work in nutshelland we just communicate. We communicate just that. You know we're we tryto be as transpire of as possible about what we can and can include,and everyone has been respectful of that.
I think it's clear nutshells purpose andpeople understand what would work and what wouldn't work. And I think we've donea good job communicating that. And a solution can be if there isn't roomand nutshell or that isn't the most appropriate channel, sometime we can shift thatover to our social media team and say hey, you know, this eventdoesn't necessarily work for this channel, but we're happy to support you in thisway and that that's usually satisfies our campus partners and students as well. Lovethat approach, is Samantha. Any final next steps? Advice for institutions whoare looking to up level their currents communicate student communication strategy? Yeah, well, I would hope everyone wants to up their level. I have so muchfun with it and I encourage you to get your hands on nutshell and readit because we have a peer to peer voice and I think it's a funread. So if you want to up your communication or just start something thatdoesn't even exist yet, I would always encourage everyone to start with research.You know, that doesn't mean that you...
...have to go hire a consultant agency, just but dig around to see what other schools are doing. Like nutshell, I think a lot of schools are adopting a news letter specifically for studentssee what voice they use, check out the content that they create. Tryto connect with those people. You know, I think higher at is a greatcommunicate or community to share information. So just try to have a conversationand see what other people are doing and, of course, if you're talking tostudents, your most valuable resource will be your students. Try to doa small focus group, talk to student workers, if your university uses them, just to see how do they want to be communicated with? What contentdo they feel like they're not getting? What content do they like? AndI think that's the most critical starting point, is just talking to people and gatheringinformation. Some Athas suge good stuff. What's the best place for listeners toconnect with you if they have any followup questions? Yeah, I canshare my email, so it would be sak at temple dot Edu. Awesome. Thanks against so much for doing us...
...today, Samantha. Yeah, thankyou so much. Attracting today's new post traditional learners means adopting new enrollment strategies. Helix educations data driven, enterprise wide approach to enrollment growth is uniquely helpingcolleges and universities thrive in this new education landscape, and Helix has just publishedthe second edition of their enrollment growth playbook with fifty percent brand new content onhow institutions can solve today's most pressing enrollment growth challenges. Downloaded today for freeat Helix educationcoms playbook. You've been listening to enrollment growth university from Helix Education. To ensure that you never miss an episode, subscribe to the show onItunes or your favorite podcast player. Thank you so much for listening. Untilnext time,.
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Jay Goff, Vice President for Enrollment and Retention Management at Saint Louis University discusses how SLU has moved away from the spray-and-pray model when it comes to prospective student list buys and found a much more creative and data-driven targeting approach.
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Jennifer Fellinger, Vice President of Public Affairs and Marketing at Hope College, talks about all the reasons institutions should take blogging seriously and about how to move from blogging at a small scale to managing a network of blogs.
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Q: Error starting JSF application on Jboss 5.0 I'm new to JSF, I've recently started working with a tutorial. I've created application exactly as the information provided in the tutorial. However when I start the server, I'm getting following error:
Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.faces.config.WebConfiguration cannot be cast to com.sun.faces.config.WebConfiguration
    at com.sun.faces.config.WebConfiguration.getInstance(WebConfiguration.java:154)
    at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:145)

web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
    <display-name>Hello, World</display-name>
    <description>Welcome to JavaServerFaces</description>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

</web-app>

As indicated in tutorial I've added jsf-api and jsf-impl in Web-Inf/lib, however googling for the same I found that jboss has its own jsf version which might be polluting my application with multiple jsf versions. If that's the case then how do I resolve the issue or if I'm wrong then what is the reason behind the error ?
Just to add, as I believe its the jar files conflit I've tried to add the jar files imported with jboss from jboss-5.1.0.GA\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar\jsf-libs, still all in vain.
Please help.

A: A better way to cope up with the conflict is to add a context parameter in web.xml as I've mentioned below:
<context-param>
      <param-name>org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL</param-name>
      <param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

Check out: Bundling JSF Inside Your WAR

A: I don't know how your Eclipse is configured(Java EE/JBoss tools and so on). But you should  add a server runtime to your webproject:

*

*Add server runtime

1.1 open Server view in Eclipse
1.2 Context menu and then -> new Server->select JBoss 5.0 server type
1.3 Server runtime enviroment-> add
1.4 Home directory-> your sever home/default for example

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*Now change the buildpath of your webproject.

2.1. Add library->server runtime->select your new runtime
2.3 No JSF or other libs in your ear or in your webprojects Web-Inf/lib
Now you have all the Jboss-libs including the jsf-libs in your classpath - controlled by Eclipse - and you don't have to worry about setting jars from server lib and so on.
I hope it helps. In a similar way I just create a test-project

A: Yep looks like a jar version collision
Remove JSF dependencies from Application:
If you are building the project using maven,  you can set the dependencies scope to provided.
Remove dependencies scope from JSF (if you want to use your own jars.)
Consider using Jboss application description and exclude the JSF dependecies.
I am not aware of JBoss 5 XML format, so posting for JBoss 7
<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <deployment>
        <exclusions>
            <module name="com.sun.jsf-impl" />
        </exclusions>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

Should be something similar to this.


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What climate does Eastern Europe have?
What are the types of climate in Europe?
What are the 4 climate regions of Eastern Europe?
What is the climate in the Eastern?
How cold is Eastern Europe in winter?
What climate zones are common in Eastern Europe?
What is the climate like in the Arctic regions of Europe?
Why is the Eastern US so wet?
Does it snow in Eastern Europe?
What is the coldest place in Eastern Europe?
What is the warmest country in Eastern Europe?
Since it's such a huge area, it's also similarly varied in climate: there are at least eight distinct climates in Europe. These climates include semiarid, Mediterranean, humid subtropical, marine, humid continental, subarctic, tundra and highland climates.
Europe has three main climate zones—marine west coast, humid continental, and Mediterranean. Five additional climate zones appear in small areas of Europe—subarctic, tundra, high- land, steppe, and humid subtropical.
Type A & B. Type A climates are better known as being humid tropical climates. In the Eastern Hemisphere, much of central Africa has a type A climate. These climates involve a lot of rainfall and have a temperate climate, with the coolest month of the year reaching around 18 degrees C (65 degrees F).
Temperatures remain around freezing, on average, throughout most of the country, but some regions at higher elevations may experience temperatures below 30 degrees Fahrenheit in January and February; plains cities like Bucharest and Galati will be relatively warm compared to cities on the Transylvanian Plateau west of …
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There are many different climate zones found in Europe. These include the Marine West Coast climate zone, the Humid Continental climate zone, the Mediterranean climate zone, the Subarctic and Tundra climate zone, and the Highland climate zone.
The climate of the Arctic is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. There is a large amount of variability in climate across the Arctic, but all regions experience extremes of solar radiation in both summer and winter. … The Arctic consists of ocean that is largely surrounded by land.
The cold temperature on the East Coast is due to the winds. In the winter, the westerly winds blow warm moist air onto the West Coast, which makes it rain so much. … By the time the moisture in the air gets to the East Coast, it is cold enough to produce much snow instead of rain.
Meanwhile, significant snow is likely throughout the week in Eastern Europe, with double-digit totals possible in eastern Poland, southern Belarus and Ukraine. The wintry weather began over the weekend when a series of low-pressure systems began moving east across western Europe.
Cities in western Russia, including Moscow and Saint Petersburg dominate the rest of the coldest ten. In fact Ufa, located near the Ural Mountains, has average lows that are nearly four degrees Celsius (7 °F) lower than Reykjavík's.
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In Eastern Europe, Bucharest, Romania and Budapest, Hungary are the hot spots, and the only significant cities there with averages above 15.5 °C (60 °F). Marseille, France enjoys some of the warmest weather in Western Europe.


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Time: Thu Feb 25, 2016, 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Jordan Auditorium: Mendoza College of Business
The English Department cordially invites you to a lecture by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Hazel Carby of Yale University. Professor Carby will speak on "Black Futurities: Shape-shifting beyond the Limits of the Human" at 5:00 pm Thursday, February 25, in the Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business. A reception will follow.
Hazel Carby is the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies and director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization. Awarded the Modern Language Association's 2014 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies, she is the author of, among others, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist; Race Men; Cultures in Babylon; and Imperial Intimacies (forthcoming), which deals with the intimate imperial entanglements of the islands of Britain and Jamaica from the anti-Napoleonic war to the anti-fascist war. Her new work in progress is entitled Treason-Workers. At Yale she teaches courses on the literature and art of the black Atlantic and the Caribbean; the transnational imaginaries of contemporary fiction; and science fiction in literature, visual culture and music.
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Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program has been offering undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America's most distinguished scholars. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. The Visiting Scholars travel to 100 colleges and universities each year, spending two days on each campus and taking full part in the academic life of the institution. They meet informally with students and faculty members, participate in classroom discussions and seminars, and give a public lecture open to the academic community and the general public. Over the last 59 years, 636 Visiting Scholars have made 5,188 visits to Phi Beta Kappa sheltering institutions.


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Illinois Gaming Board Chops South Suburban Casino Applicant List In Half, 2 Bids Remain
Written By Joe Boozell on October 20, 2021 - Last Updated on December 8, 2021
The Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) narrowed the list of South Suburban casino candidates to two.
Wind Creek LLC Homewood East Hazel Crest and South Suburban Matteson are the final two bids remaining. During the IGB meeting Wednesday, the board voted "no" on Southland LIVE LLC and Southland Ho-Chunk Entertainment LLC Lynwood.
Wednesday's vote was long-anticipated. Three of the four groups applied for a casino license all the way back in October 2019. The process has moved at an extremely slow pace, but at last, it is picking up steam.
On Oct. 28, the two applicants will each have an opportunity to present their case to the board if they so choose. With that said, a presentation is not mandatory.
We are expecting to have a final IGB decision for the south suburban and Waukegan casinos by mid-January. There are also two applicants remaining in the Waukegan casino license process.
But on Wednesday, the board only addressed matters related to the south suburbs. Here's what we know about the remaining two applicants.
And then there were two South Suburban casino candidates
Either Wind Creek Homewood East Hazel Crest or South Suburban Matteson will win the south suburban license.
Below is a quick breakdown and rendering of each bidder:
South Suburban Casino Matteson
Application date: Aug. 26, 2020
Partner: Choctaw Nation
Will there be a temporary casino? Yes
Permanent location: Former Lincoln Mall, near I-57 and I-30, in Matteson
Key features: Hotel, indoor pool and spa, indoor golf, multi-purpose event center, upscale restaurants and multi-cultural heritage exhibit
The project would create 609 permanent jobs. The space would have 123,000 square feet of gaming space, featuring 1,300 slots and 42 table games.
Unlike Wind Creek, we do not know the development cost or plans for a sportsbook.
Wind Creek Casino Homewood/East Hazel Crest
Application date: Oct. 25, 2019
Partner: Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Will there be a temporary casino? No
Permanent location: On property near East Hazel Crest and Homewood, at the interchange of I-80/294
Development cost: $440 million
Other features: Four-diamond hotel, restaurants, bars and entertainment center and skyline lounge
The Wind Creek project would create 800 permanent jobs, and we know it plans to have a sportsbook.
It would be smaller than the Matteson casino, however, with 69,190 square feet of gaming space. There would be 1,350 slots and 56 table games.
Homewood/East Hazel Crest is about six miles northeast of Matteson.
Key Chicago casino deadline approaching
On Friday, Oct. 29, Request For Proposals (RFP) are due for the Chicago casino license.
The deadline was previously in August, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot extended it to give bidders more time to assess the project. It appears as though there wasn't much interest in the license, as various large gaming companies have said they will pass.
We know, however, that Rush Street Gaming is interested in the license. Rush Street also recently dropped its bid for the Waukegan casino license.
And it's possible that another gaming giant is in play. Hard Rock chairman Jim Allen said the company is "reevaluating the opportunity." This isn't the biggest vote of confidence, but it's more optimistic compared to statements from other company CEOs.
More than two years after Illinois passed gaming expansion, we are starting to see some tangible progress.


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John Sier Magee
Full Name: John Sier Magee
Date of birth: May 2, 1857
Date of death: April 20, 1946
H 32 Jan 10, 1933 - Jan 8, 1935 43rd (1) Democrat Tyler / Smith Smith
H 33 Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 10, 1933 42nd Democrat Tyler / Smith Gregg, Smith
H 33 Jul 9, 1929 - Jan 13, 1931 41st (2) (3) (4) Democrat Tyler / Smith Gregg, Smith
H 27 Jan 12, 1915 - Jan 9, 1917 34th (5) Democrat Tyler / Smith Smith
(1) Name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, relationship to persons in state or county government. Resolution, 9/18/1933, pp. 45-48, and Questionnaire Authorized and Directed by Resolution Adopted by the House, 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal.
(2) 41st Legislature, 3rd C.S. - Oath of Office Administered (to J. S. Magee), 7/9/1929, p. 12. No committee appointments for Magee listed in 3rd-5th Called Sessions. House Journal.
(3) John S. Magee, in special election 7/6/1929, sworn 7/9/1929, succeeded Travis E. Smith, resigned 6/10/1929. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(4) Assumed Democrat based on listing as Democrat in subsequent Legislatures. Texas Legislative Manual.
(5) Occupation and religious affiliation, 34th Legislature. "Occupations of Members of Legislative House," 3/14/1915, p. 4. Galveston Daily News.
John Sier Magee, birth date 5/2/1857, death date 4/20/1946, interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County; inscription notes legislative service. Find a Grave.
Photograph. John Magee, 34th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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Photograph. John Magee, 42nd Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. John Magee, 43rd Legislature, State Preservation Board
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42nd session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.
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Is there evidence of volunteerism?
Is it clear what to do there?
Is it clean, does it feel safe?
What's good about the place now?
What would you add or change in the short, mid, and long term?
So the members of BikeWalk Logan Square, MPC, and the volunteers in attendance discussed these questions, problems they saw, and potential lying there the whole time.
The group was able to gather some great ideas and is looking for your help. What do you want the Blue Line Station to be? Let us know below!
Thanks to the Metropolitan Planning Council for leading the audit and providing pictures from the event.


Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application program interfaces designed to handle tasks and functions related to multimedia. Especially for game programming and videos. Direct was the name given to the family of a collection of application program interfaces to run on Microsoft platforms. The initial ones were named DirectDraw, DirectMusic and so on and so forth. Later when Microsoft ventured to develop a gaming console, X was the name given to it to indicate the number of such applications. Thus their gaming console was coined Xbox.
Technically the DirectX software development kit consists of runtime libraries in redistributable binary forms. Fix razer synapse not working It is accompanied by headers used for coding. DirectX was made for the first time commercially available with windows 98. Since then it has been upgraded to accomplish better handling and requirements. The software development kit for Direct is available as a free download and the runtimes are proprietary. For Windows 8 and above it has been integrated as a part of the manufactured product. DirectX 9 and above are only compatible with operating systems like Windows Vista and above because they use windows display driver model that was developed for the Windows Vista. The new WDDM graphics manager that is used in Vista and above operating systems include a new video memory manager.
Windows XP requires a DirectX and above version to suit its WDDM graphics manager architecture. The DirectX has a variety of components. Direct 3D is used for drawing 3D images. T is necessary to support programs that are to be used for drawing three-dimensional diagrams. The Direct 2D is used for viewing images and drawing 2D diagrams. DXGI is used for enumerating monitors and adapters and swap management. Direct Write is used for fonts. Direct Compute for graphical processor unit computing. There is also Direct sound 3D for playing 3D sounds. Direct Media for encoding and streaming videos and others.
Various versions of Windows have supported DirectX. It has been made so to ensure that programs and multimedia applications designed for use on previous operating systems are compatible with the subsequent versions too. Application processor interfaces such as the DirectX 3D need to interact with the hardware too. This is attained by the use of a device driver. Hardware manufacturers have to write these drivers for a particular DirectX versions device driver interface. Testing of such hardware's is also required to make them DirectX compatible devices.


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Anritsu Leads Industry with GCF LTE Protocol Conformance for Chinese Carriers
By WDD Staff | November 17, 2014
Anritsu Company, as part of its commitment to support global wireless standards, announces that it is the market leader in approved test cases for TD-LTE Carrier Aggregation and is the only test company with Global Certification Forum (GCF)-approved TD-LTE test cases in the IMS Voice over LTE (VoLTE)-related technology of aSRVCC. Anritsu's leading position in these work items, as well as the FDD variant of aSRVCC, was confirmed by GCF at the CAG meeting held October 14-15 in Los Angeles.
The approved test cases are for Anritsu's industry leading ME7834L Protocol Conformance Test (PCT) Platform. The most recent GCF approval further positions the ME7834L as the most comprehensive test solution for verifying mobile devices worldwide, including test coverage in key technologies for Chinese carriers.
The Time Division Duplex (TDD) variant of the LTE standard, also known as TD-LTE, has become increasingly important following the award of LTE TDD spectrum licences in China last year. Throughout 2014, leading carriers have been rapidly developing their LTE network capabilities to include cutting-edge technologies of LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation and IMS call features.
"We've been diligent in our efforts to support the needs of Chinese carriers and other members of this ecosystem. The result is industry and carrier approvals of our ME7834L PCT Platform for LTE TDD, FDD and IMS technologies. When this is combined with our continued delivery of 'world firsts' in leading-edge test case approvals, Anritsu helps its customers succeed in their goal of bringing new technology to market as quickly as possible," said Bob Kersey, Marketing Director of Wireless Testing Solutions for Anritsu Company.
The ME7834L is a test platform used to verify that LTE terminal and base station signaling communication procedures comply with 3GPP standards. It has led the market in GCF and PTCRB LTE protocol validations since 2011. The PCT platform supports market-leading LTE/LTE Advanced and VoLTE technologies, and is widely used for mobile carrier acceptance tests in North America and Asia. It is the ideal flexible test solution meeting most test objectives.
For more information, visit www.anritsu.com.


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Q: Creating an Objective-C object that wraps another object with the same interface - KVC/KVO issues I need to create an object in one class hierarchy that wraps an object from a different one. They both have very similar interfaces, and I'd like to automatically have my wrapper forward messages it doesn't recognize to its target in lieu of implementing its own properties. I got this to work using something like this:

- (id)forwardingTargetForSelector:(SEL)sel
{
    if ([self.wrappedObject respondsToSelector:sel])
        return self.wrappedObject;

    return self;
}

But this doesn't work for key-value coding. How can I go about having my wrapper implement key-value coding in a way that uses the properties of its wrapped object?

A: You'll have to overwrite valueForKey: and setValue:forKey:. An example:
- (id)valueForKey:(NSString *)key {
  if (/* wrapped object has key */)
    return [self.wrappedObject valueForKey: key];
  else
    return [super valueForKey: key];
}

The tricky part will be to determine the keys the wrapped object does implement. The easy way is to hard-code them, but that's not too nice. If you want to do it very generic, you'll do something using the reflection APIs of Objective-C. Here are two ideas:

*

*All your properties are actually declared properties. You can use the runtime function class_getProperty to check it's existence and optionally extract additional information. The check could then look like this: if (class_getProperty([self.wrappedObject class], [key UTF8String]) != nil) {...}.

*Your properties could also have accessors only. Then you should construct the selectors from the key and use [self.wrappedObject respondsToSelector: ...] just as you did before. The getter's name is the key plus a colon. The problem with this, however, is properties that have different getter/setter name. The first option is definitely the best.


So, it can be very useful to have some kind of broad categories as facet-style limits to partition your result set. When you get way too many results, and want to narrow down, narrowing to just "Art" or "Biology" or "Nursing" can be pretty useful. Actual LCSH are way too narrow a categorization to be useful this way (whether or not "de-coordinated" into subdivisions), the user may not be ready to narrow down to so specific as specific as an LCSH subdivision or heading, but still want to use a broad categorization to explore the result set.
And a piece of traditional cataloging data actually provides some meaning which can be used for such a broad categorization as a limit, even though that's not exactly how it was intended to be used: The classification, ie the "classified call number", that is Dewey call number or Library of Congress Classification.
Most of our collection is LCC, although we've got a significant minority of Dewey (as well as plenty of records with no classified call number at all, more on that later). Dewey has a better hieararchical set of classes (which I don't believe is publically available in it's entirely, but here's the first couple levels, you can pay OCLC for the rest), but LCC still has an okay couple of levels.
So as a first pass, I figured, for items that have an LCC, take the top-level LCC schedule name, and just use those as a set of broad categories. If you have an LC call number, you can just take the first letter of it, and easily determine the LC "schedule" it comes from, and use that as a broad category.
I figured I'd use both LCC's from the bib record itself (usually assigned by LC itself, or else by another cataloger and obtained by us from WorldCat), as well as any locally assigned LCC's, for maximum coverage.
Sounds simple, right? Oh, if only. It turns out actually identifying an LCC from an actual bib record is anything but simple. And if your software takes the first letter from a call number that is NOT LCC Scheduled (I say 'scheduled' for reasons that will become apparent later), you're going to put it in an arbitrary broad category that in fact it wasn't classified as.
MARC 050 is titled "LC Call No." At first I figured, great, so if something is in an 050, that means I can take the first letter and determine the LCC Schedule.
But it turns out not every "LC Call No." is actually from the LC Schedules. This field is used for any call number assigned by LC, and not every call number assigned by LC is actually the kind of "Library of Congress Call Number" we think of — some of them are not from the schedules. (Thus I've started talking about "Scheduled" or "Classified" LCC to be specific when talking about ones from the schedules — what do actual catalogers call these?).
The OCLC documentation has a few examples of such non-Scheduled LCC's, including "Microfilm 19072 E", and "Newspaper". You have software just taking the first letter of these, and you'll wind up with M=="Music" and N=="Fine Arts". Nope.
An additional example not mentioned in the OCLC documentation but found in the wild is 050 of "MLCS 83/5180 (P)". A local cataloger tells me this is called an "MLC", and is sometimes assigned by LC as a "LC Call Number" when they don't want to spend the time to actually create a classified call number. And it turns out these aren't the extent of it, there are a whole bunch more non-Classified/Scheduled LC Call Numbers that can be in 050. And they have exactly the same indicators and subfields as an actual scheduled LCC, there's no clear distinction made in the Marc record.
Oops. This is yet another example of Marc showing it's age and origin as a format for specifying printed cards. If you're just printing cards, who cares if the call number is classified or not? But it's yet another example of catalogers spending expensive expert time creating data that can not be unambiguously extracted from the records they create — there are all sorts of interesting things you might want software to do with a Classified/Scheduled LCC, but it requires being able to identify it as a Classified/Scheduled LCC!
So the Marc alone isn't going to do that, but I still really want to. At first I considered trying to blacklist certain known starting strings, like "Newspaper", "Microform", and "MLCS", having software know those are not Classified/Scheduled LCCs. But it is still very unclear to me if there is any such list of all these "bad" prefixes, or even if all the non-classified LCC's can be identified by prefixes.
So instead, we're going to have to try and use a regular expression to have software positively identify 050's that do look like a classified LCC. This turns out to be trickier than you might think too. It would be nice if LC itself provided some canonical regular expression they guaranteed would match all legal scheduled LCC's and be unlikely to match other things, but they don't, so you've got to reverse engineer it hoping you get it right. One or two letters followed by a number? Oops, sometimes it can be three letters. Followed by a number? Sometimes with no space between the letter and number, but sometimes with space.
So, okay, after fighting with this for a while, I asked on the code4lib list, and several people had already experimented to come up with a good one (coming up with several different variations), but I eventually settled on my own local variation of this awfully crazy complicated one from Bill Dueber. (Thanks Bill for posting your work in public, many of us do that not enough).
And why do I mention 060? Well, 060 is a National Library of Medicine (NLM) call number, and we've got a bunch of records in our database that don't neccesarily have an LCC anywhere on em, but do have an NLM. NLM classification is sort of an 'extension' to LCC, they all begin with letters un-used in the LCC.
For this initial broad categorization attempt, I figure, okay, anything with an NLM call number at all, just call it "Medicine", one of the top-level LCC schedules, as a broad-categorization.
Okay, 050 and 060 is one place to find classified LCC/NLM call numbers. But if you forget the 090 and 096, you'll end up not assigning some records that could be broadly categorized becuase of scheduled class numbers in 090/096.
090 is for "Locally Assigned LC-type Call Number". How is this different than an 050 with second indicator 4 "Assigned by agency other than LC". I have no idea. 096 is "Locally Assigned NLM-type Call Number", which again I'm not sure how that's different from an 060 with 2nd indicator 4 "Assigned by agency other than NLM". And on top of that, OCLC documentation for 096 says "Call numbers based on National Library of Medicine (NLM) or Library of Congress (LC) classification schedules" — wait, so a locally assigned LCC might be in 096 instead of 090, or instead 050 with second indicator 4? You got me.
Aside from it being an interesting ironic case of MARC seeming to make too many distinctions with unclear use when it usually makes too few (like not being able to distinguish from classified and non-classified 050), it doesn't really matter that I have no idea when a local LCC/NLMC would be in one field instead of the other, for this particular project. All that matters for this particular project is that I better look at all of those fields if I want to minimize the "Not able to categorize" records, get the categorization out for anything that has a call number at all. Okay then.
You just take that as it is and decide that C="AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY" (or, erm, "History"), no that's not right. But we already learned that we had to put these things through a regex anyway to confirm "possibly a real classified LCC." (Actually the order I learned these things isn't nearly as neat as the order I'm recounting them for you, but anyway). But if you put "CAGE QK3 .B592 1817" through the regex, it will just say "not a valid classified LCC", and this thing might get thrown in the "unknown" bucket instead of the possibility of correctly assigning it to Q="SCIENCE".
So, okay, I could try to get a list of all the possible prefixes we use, and skip over them when determining a possibly valid classified LCC. That list might (or might not) exist locally, but not in any easy place for me to get, and at this point (actually near the end of my trevails, although only the middle of this blog post), I just wanted to be done with it.
So I noticed that they had handily put "$a CAGE" in a different $a subfield then "$a QK3". I have no idea if that's what everyone does, but it seems to be what has been done (mostly? Always? I don't know) here. So, okay, I just take each $a, and match it against the pattern matcher. "CAGE" is thrown out, then "QK3" is accepted by the pattern, and matches Q=Science. Great.
Until I noticed that repeated $a's are sometimes used in my local records, for some reason I don't know, for the 'cutter' part of the call number.
Wait, why is the N277m part in an $a instead of a $b? Cause now what I arrived at to deal with the "$a CAGE" is going to first decide that Q=Science (true!), then decide that N="FINE ARTS" — no!
I think that's just a cataloging error, and the N277 should be in a $b, but I'm not really sure. (The docs for 096 do say that the $a is repeatable, although I'm not sure why. The docs for 090 say the $a is not repeatable, which doesn't mean it never repeats in our data).
Nonetheless, at this point, I'm really ready to be done with this and cry 'good enough for now', realizing I'm going down a bottomless pit of effort to try and make it 'perfect', so I just leave the algorithm as is, that record is indeed incorrectly put into both the Science category (true) and Fine Arts (not true).
Now, our actual locally assigned call numbers on our individual items don't appear in the MARC at all. Sometimes the locally assigned call number is put in the 090, but sometimes it isn't, even if it is indeed a classified LC call number. I imagine practice here has changed several times over the many decades we've been cataloging.
Even if I get every single valid classified LCC/NLMC out of the record, there's still a bunch (nearly 1/3rd of our database) with no LCC/NLMC at all, so I don't want to miss any valid one in the record.
So in addition to looking in the MARC, I want to get the call numbers actually assigned to our individual items, which our ILS does not put in the MARC ordinarily.
The ordinary export from our ILS doesn't include these, but we had already paid John Craig of alpha-g consulting for a custom exporter that is capable of including local call numbers in the export, so it will be available for our Solr indexing stage for our discovery layer. Great.
Again, there's the problem of telling the actual LCC/NLMC's from the chafe. At first (many months ago), I was thinking of the chafe being Dewey that would begin with a number and would not map to an LC schedule anyway, so just ignored it. But no such look, there's all sorts of local call numbers that begin with a letter but are not a classified LCC/NLM, from SuDoc classifed numbers, to "VIDEO 1234", to the forementioned "CAGE[etc] [followed by actual LCC!]".
So, okay we throw all these through the regex too, and only use them for broad categorization if they match the pattern. In this case, the "CAGE" and the actual LCC aren't in seperate fields, so at the moment my algorithm is missing out on classifying those, so be it.
I also realized that while SuDoc call numbers couldn't be put into broad categories using the LCC Schedule, there was useful information there, these items didn't need to just wind up in the "unknown" category. So everything with a SuDoc, let's put it into a "Government Publication" category; not exactly a 'discipline', but it is a 'perspective', which is what 'discipline' really gets at, seems more useful than not.
So how the heck do I tell if a local item call number is a SuDoc? Well, I could try to come up with a regex pattern for them, but man, I'm even less familiar with SuDocs and not sure if there's any "prior art" to copy. So, okay, theoretically my ILS keeps track of "call number type" internally. So, okay, go back and reconfigure the alpha-g custom exporter to include that in the export too. (Possible to do becuase the alpha-g product is nice and flexible, although adding this additional element in the export does slow down the already slow export).
If the ILS internally says there's a local item-level call number that's type "SuDoc", we throw it into "Government Publication" category, great. And in fact, for consistency, as long as we're making a "Government Publication" category, if the record has any 086 at all, we'll also throw it in "Government Publication", even if it doesn't have a locally assigned call num of type "SuDoc".
That last ends up being handy, because it turns out the ILS tracked "call number" type isn't all that reliable. There could be a locally assigned SuDoc call number, but it's not actually marked as "SuDoc type" in our ILS. (After all, this wasn't used for too much before — except putting the call num in the right 'call number browse' list, but apparently nobody noticed the lots of call numbers missing from these lists before).
In fact, originally I had tried to just trust the internal 'call number type' to map to LCC schedule too. But then I realized how unreliable it was (both false negative and false positive). And by that time I had already been forced to use the regex pattern for the 050, so I swung back around and used it here too. Phew.
Did anyone actually make it this far? If you're exhausted, you're not half as exhausted as I got trying to implement it. It seemed so straightforward at first! And it's still not perfect, it's missing out on broad categorizations for some of those "[LOCAL PREFIX] [Classified LCC]" types, and it's incorrectly categorizing some of those repeated-subfield-a types, and there are probably some other problems I have yet to discover. But I think it's good enough for now. (Note: The final procedure I describe here hasn't yet been applied to our live index as I write this, but it should be in place by tomorrow or the next day).
But I think this illustrates a couple really unfortunate things about our current metadata environment I keep harping on, because on some of the listservs I read some catalogers are still resisting recognizing they are unfortunate things at all.
And very expensive and very expert cataloger time is spent creating these classified call numbers — but then they're stored in the record in such a way that the software can't really figure out if or where they're in there for sure, I'm reduced to confusing guessing.
I firmly believe that we will continue to need metadata experts (ie, catalogers) in the foreseeable future. But inefficiently spending time recording info that can not in fact be efficiently retrieved by software is not the way to make the case for that.
To finally get to the bottom of all of this stuff I've painfully recounted for you, it's not like I just looked at some documentation, oh, no problem. I did look at the OCLC documentation, but it was not nearly sufficient, while it hinted at the fact that non-classified LC Call Numbers might appear in the 050, I didn't realize what it was really saying until I was forced to, going back to figure out why my initial naive approaches weren't working. To really get to the bottom of it, I had to look at documentation in several different places, talk to several different catalogers (each of whom had to think carefully, as well as consult several different pieces of documentation, some of which are not in publically available spots), and then talk to several different programmers who had tried to deal with this before too.
This LCC/NLMC problem isn't even close to the worst one that I or other programmers have dealt with. All this makes trying to get the most out of our MARC data very expensive in terms of everyone's time, the programmers, the catalogers who the programmers ask questions to, etc. Again, very expensive to make use of the data is not the best way to make the case for cataloger staff positions being used efficiently.
So, I've got the broad categorization on LCC basically working. (Again, as of the time of this writing it's not deployed live yet, but will be in a day or two). It's mis-categorizing some things, which I could try to fix (neccesarily by getting a list of all local "prefixes" we use before LCC's — hmm, unless I can write a regex that ignores any arbitrary prefix while still matching LCC's and excluding most other things).
But in addition to that, I can think of two major enhancements, that would certainly be interesting to spend time on, but I probably won't until higher priorities are done, and unless we have additional evidence that this kind of broad categorization is a significant benefit to users.
The LC top-level schedule names are better as broad categories than nothing, but they're definitely a bit dated, both in terms of the labels they use (easy to fix), and more importantly in terms of the categories they represent. They're not quite the categories that well match contemporary research needs.
Umich has very usefully come up with a mapping from LCC to more useful modern categories. That mapping was pretty expensive for them to come up with and maintain, but certainly less expensive than trying to reclassify millions of documents according to some new system (outright infeasible).
So I might in the future want to put all my LCC's through the umich mapping (which they've conveniently made available in XML), to get better categories. Umich's mapping is customized for their own local academic divisions (schools, departments, programs etc), but it's probably close enough to any other large research university to be useful. Or really close enough to just about any user group's needs to be more useful than the straight LCC classification, and a lot easier than creating and maintaining a mapping of your own.
The umich mapping doesn't include NLM call numbers, but the NLM schedule is a little bit less dated then the LCC one, the actual labels from the NLM schedule could be used, instead of just calling all NLM's "Medicine". (It might or might not be important to also do a bit of normalization between the NLM schedule labels and the health-related labels in the umich mapping).
Also, I could go similarly go further with SuDoc's, using the SuDoc schedule to get more specific than "Government Publication", perhaps normalizing labels to match the "Government Information" section of the umich mapping.
Using the procedure described above, still around 1/3rd of our collection is left unclassified. I believe this is by and large items which really lack any useable classified LCC, NLM, or SuDoc call number, rather than items with classified call numbers missed by the procedure. Examples include third-party-vendor supplied records for electronic books, which usually lack 050's in the bibs, and for which we don't locally assign call numbers either (we don't put em on a shelf, why would we? But even with this new use, we simply don't have the resources to.) Or items that are on our shelves with unclassified call numbers like "VIDEO 1234", and which also have no classified call numbers in 050/060/086/etc.
I can think of a couple interesting ways to try to automatically classify these records into broad categories.
One might be to try using the OCLC Classify service. Although for the best use, that requires supplying an OCLCnum, LCCN, or ISBN, which not all my records have. (And for those that do…. oh boy, see my rant on the 020$z issue. If an 020$z is a print ISBN on an e-record, that would be the best one to use with the classify service, most likely to get a match in WorldCat. But if the 020$z is truly a mis-assigned ISBN, then using it would get the wrong record. And there's no good way to know which an 020$z is.) Theoretically, author/title could be used instead, with presumably more risk of both false negatives or false positives — it's still just trying to match a record in Worldcat and give you it's classified call numbers.
The other option, which I can do on my local catalog. If I have a record that does not have any classified but does have subject headings. Then look up in my local catalog records that have as many of those same subject headings as possible (either all, or if none have all, whatever have the most). Then from the result set, see what the most popular Broad Categories are, and figure those broad categories are probably appropriate for THIS record too. Wow, that's a pretty clever idea, huh? Once you have your records loaded in Solr anyway, as I do, Solr facetting can be used to answer this question. Or you could even use the Solr "more like this" function to do the same thing on records with no subject headings at all, just finding records with similar words as a whole, although I'm not sure how well that would work on library metadata records (as opposed to full text, for which it's intended). Would be fun to play around with though.
Since that last idea maps to a Broad Category, not to an actual call number, you'd want to decide whether you were going to use LCC Schedule straight labels, or umich mappings, or something else, first.
If anyone actually made it to the end of this hugely painful essay, let me know? I'm wondering if I'm writing for anyone other than myself when it gets this long and detailed.
I follow your exploits with great interest. I'm working on projects aimed at how we map from data that served to print masses of catalog cards to a future that truly enables discovery and navigation across all the resources that research universities produce and consume. Publishing the work you do in this realm is extremely valuable.
This blog is the one I most look forward to reading because you deal with the same problems that have to be fought through. It's refreshing to read any and all articulate and accurate examinations of both MARC and modern computing. Too many things slide into false oversimplification of one or the other (or abandon the fight with hopes of a new technology to come). For those of us working with making MARC work in modern terms, we want it to be simple, but getting it there is very complicated thanks to basic errors, the weird not-really-a-computer format known as MARC, and all of the odd practice that's grown to support MARC . I greatly appreciate your blog and especially appreciative of your long and detailed posts on MARC because you often uncover problems I've yet to face (and hopefully help for when I'll encounter them).
I read it all the way through – laughing (in a "nod, oh yes" kind of way). I too greatly appreciate your blog and your faith in the value of library metadata (not the container that currently holds it).
You say "LCC still has an okay couple of levels" – yes and no there. The page you link to offers versions in PDF, Word and Word Perfect. Not great for extracting the full range for easy manipulation.
BTW I haven't had issues with getting the call numbers out of the database (so far) as we store ours in the holding (852$h) rather than bib record.
I'd echo your words "Thanks Bill for posting your work in public, many of us do that not enough" and use the same praise for you – doing and sharing this stuff is key – so thank you.
Posts like this are extremely important and I hope many catalogers read your blog, because as Esther said we get a glimpse into an area we're not directly involved with but where what we do and especially how we do it makes a huge impact. We (catalogers and programmers/developers alike!) are in a real pickle and I wonder how to clean up all this mess? Anyway, keep up the great work!
Wow. That was long. As a self-trained cataloger, I had to read half way down and then come to the comments to see if you were a "good guy" or a "bad guy." Then I read half way up and down. But yes. I did read the whole thing.
And I understood what you were talking about!! I work at a Dewey library, so the 082 is what would be the equivalent for us.
And yes. Catalogers and meta-data folk will be needed. Shout it from the rooftops, we STILL need libraries and librarians in this digital age, and maybe more so, as the information increases.
I find that a lot of these problems are caused by historical practices (changes in practice over time) rather than what we are currently doing as cataloguers. The best place for call number in our Voyager records seems to be in the 852 of the marc holdings format record which does have an indicator for whether or not the class number is LC, DDC, etc. However, for things like rare books that just have a shelving number, you would then want to look back at the 050 in the bib record to get a subject facet! Tricky, very tricky! After reading this I think I may have to go back and tweak our normalization rules in Primo… Great post!
Like the rest, I do read it with great interest. As a cataloger who is buried in MARC, your travails are one of the best examples of why MARC does need a replacement. My biggest frustration? Nobody seems to be offering anything that I've heard of. People keep talking, but nobody seems to be doing anything about writing a new code. And it is not something I have the knowledge to do.
Anything you write that is library-related is automatically on my reading list, Jonathan. I've wrestled with some of these same issues. In theory, certain data in the MARC record should be programmatically useful. In practice, we discover the complications that confound such use.
I find your posts so valuable *because* of the detail you put into them. To borrow from Michael's comment, it's exactly those practical complications confounding programmatic use of library data that are hugely important to know and document. For those of us who aren't skilled catalogers and don't know the complex history behind how various cataloging practices developed, the only way to learn is through investigations like yours. What you're doing by posting it here in some part addresses the (great) points you make in the Documented…where? section. And sure, local practice is going to vary, but at least it gives us a foothold on what we need to watch out for. So…thank you. Please know that you're providing a valuable service by documenting this stuff.
As others have said above, I find your posts valuable and always read them the whole way to the end. At MPOW we're a good bit behind y'all at Johns Hopkins (although I aspire to do a lot of the same kinds of things you are doing), so I find it quite helpful to have your detailed warnings about the pitfalls we're going to face if/when we tackle some of the things you've tackled.
I read every word you write. Every single one. Don't stop writing; what you're doing is crucially important.
I read all of this, Jonathan! While I don't understand everything (being a reference librarian), it makes me a better catalog and database user. And it lets me know how much you CARE about your work. I think all the ref librarians at JHU should be reading your blog.
I read the whole post with great interest as usual. The concepts of your posts are applicable even in sweden.
Wow, I didn't really mean to be begging for compliments, but thanks anyway, appreciated! So, okay, I know that someone is actually reading when I write this stuff, I'll keep writing, thanks!
Another cataloger here. I look forward to seeing your results on helpfulness to users published (whether here or in a journal), and of course would also be interested in seeing (1) what changes were suggested to local cataloging practice to facilitate the process and (2) whether they were adopted, and why or why not. I think that often catalogers are blamed for having a "stuck in the past" attitude, when the real problem, as I see it, is that we just don't have R&D money. Not to mention that we have to maintain our 100+ years of legacy data because the cost of redoing it all would simply be astronomical. There are others out there who are, like you, working on these problems and sharing the results, but not enough–and certainly not enough people who are both catalogers and programmers. Thank you for sharing via your blog!
Procedure described here is now represented in our live catalog.
I read the whole thing. God willing, I'll never have to *know* this stuff, but it's like reading a mystery novel. I love how you reveal all of the things you tried and the dead ends you encountered. I'll definitely appreciate the discipline categories more now.
Thanks Christina. I'm still not actually sure the discipline facet works all that well; I've still got various ideas for improvement, just a question of how important it would be to users even if it were improved, compared to other things, with limited time to do everything. The nature of the business we're in, you can spend a lot of time on something and it sometimes still needs even yet more to actually be good enough, and sometimes it's not possible in the actual real world with the real data we've got. Other times you can find some clever with huge benefit for less work, those are the best ones.
This really help me a lot when i am working with local marc data.
This is exactly my problem and it provided a lot of valuable experience.
Second indicator values distinguish between content actually assigned by the Library of Congress and content assigned by an organization other than LC.
Oops. This is yet another example of Marc showing it's age and origin as a format for specifying printed cards. If you're just printing cards, who cares if the call number is classified or not?
But IMO the blame lies with OCLC and with anyone putting a non-LCC call number in an 050 field — not with MARC21 (and USMARC before it).
Apparently, it's PCC, I think, Paul? Which isn't OCLC. Or LC. We have too many different standards which are all theoretically supposed to go together, but make it hard to predict what 'standardized' data will look like. Yeah, ideallyI think guidelines/standards by someone like PCC or OCLC should be consistent with the underlying Marc21 standard and not conflict with it, but it doesn't end up working that way, maybe because those making the other guidelines find MARC (as in the Marc21 standard literally) not flexible enough or not clear enough to meet their needs.


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