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Organizations, Occupations and Work
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Jennifer W. Bouek (Brown University, 2019)
Website: jenniferwbouek.com
Jennifer Bouek's research unites the sociological study of poverty and inequality; organizational and economic sociology; and the sociology of families and gender.
Her dissertation, The Ecological Patterning and Effects of Child Care Markets, is a mixed methods exploration of the institution of child care, supported by the National Science Foundation and Brown University's Program in Business, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations. Existing scholarship has demonstrated the robust relationship between child care availability and maternal employment. Yet this body of work does not adequately account for the role of politics and policies in structuring the child care market. Drawing on 89 in-depth interviews with mothers, child care providers, and policymakers, supplemented with spatial and archival analysis of administrative records, survey data, and non-participant observation at state meetings, she investigates three inquiries: 1) how and why child care organizational environments vary across socioeconomic bounds at the neighborhood and individual levels, 2) how the organization of the market shapes a mother's access to care, and 3) the effects of inequitable access to child care on a mother's employment trajectory, real and imagined. Through the course of three empirical chapters, Jennifer offer a revised account of the child care market to illustrate how institutional politics, policies, and practices, mothers' access to care, and maternal employment trajectories are intricately intertwined.
Daniel Davis (UC San Diego, 2018)
Website: www.danieldavis.net
Daniel Davis studies college-to-career transitions, organizations, entrepreneurism, and work. He won the James Coleman Outstanding Article award, along with his co-authors, for their paper in Sociology of Education (2016) titled "Career Funneling." He published a book titled Contingent Academic Labor: Evaluating Conditions to Improve Student Outcomes (2017, Stylus Press). A Kauffman Entrepreneurship Dissertation Fellow, Davis has another article published in the Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and several other works in progress from his dissertation, all related to how universities set students up (in good and bad ways) for their subsequent career paths. Skilled in mixed methods, he is currently a visiting scholar with the Yankelovich Center for Social Science at UCSD and on the sociology faculty at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. Daniel is in the process of building a tutoring website to help sociology undergraduates who struggle with their methods and theory courses (www.methodsmentor.com).
Michael Gibson-Light (University of Arizona, 2019)
Website: https://www.gibson-light.com/
Michael Gibson-Light is a scholar of work, punishment, and culture specializing in the study of prison labor and ethnographic methods. His dissertation, entitled "Punishment & Capital: Prison Labor & the Reproduction of Inequality in the Contemporary American Prison," examines the role of prison labor in shaping social inequality along class, racial, and ethnic lines. To do so, it draws on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork within a medium security, men's state prison, and 82 in-depth interviews with prisoners and staff. Through the institution of penal labor, which is often mandatory and is performed by most able U.S. prisoners, the prison acts as a sieve, sorting the incarcerated into different labor tracks based on their skills, resources, and characteristics. Certain prisoner groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, foreign nationals, and those lacking valued forms of cultural and social capital or marketable work skills, face significant hurdles to securing meaningful prison work, impacting their resources within prison and their prospects for release. Findings from this dissertation research have been published in Research in the Sociology of Work and Qualitative Sociology, and have been covered in USA Today, Atlantic, BBC, The Guardian, Time, Washington Post, NPR, and over 100 other news outlets internationally.
Dissertation Committee: Jeffrey Sallaz (chair), Phillip Goodman, Ron Breiger, Jennifer Carlson, and Kathleen Schwartzman
Jonathan Horowitz (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 2017)
Website: http://jhorowitz.web.unc.edu/
I am pursuing three lines of research that answer the following question: How do education processes and other changes in young adulthood shape inequality and politics? In my first area of research, I examine how the effects of education on individual outcomes have changed as the higher education system expanded. Second, I study how life course events—such as births, job changes, and degree completion—are related to migration, and how migration during life course events affect political, socioeconomic, and psychosocial outcomes. Finally, I am investigating the experiences of college activists in the years following graduation. This study is based on original data that I collected for my dissertation as a mixed-methods, longitudinal, multi-campus study following 192 college activists over a period of five years.
My research has appeared in the American Sociological Review (forthcoming), Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Sociological Forum, and Socius. I have also been honored with Best Graduate Student Paper Awards from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements and the Aging and Life Course sections of the American Sociological Association. Additionally, I received the Everett K. Wilson Award, honoring the most outstanding graduate instructor at UNC's sociology department.
Winnie Jiang (Yale School of Management, 2019)
Website: http://campuspress.yale.edu/winniejiang/
Winnie Jiang's dissertation, titled The Meaning of Work in Challenging Contexts, consists of three papers, each employing a longitudinal field study, that examine how individuals negotiate different challenges in their pursuit of meaningful work. The first paper of her dissertation examines how individuals, especially those with callings, navigate the decline of their occupation. She studies this question using a longitudinal qualitative interview study of newspaper journalists and finds that individuals' career trajectories in the midst of occupational decline are shaped by the meaning they derive from their occupation and whether they perceive the work components of their occupation to be fixed or flexible. The second paper builds and tests theory on how individuals pursue their callings in a longitudinal mixed-method study of MBA students. This study investigates the factors that encourage or discourage MBA students from entering work that they perceive as their calling. Findings suggest that individuals who intend to pursue their calling are derailed from calling paths as their levels of grit, perceived social support, and inclination to make social comparisons reshape their career choices. The third paper from her dissertation examines how employees sustain themselves in meaningful work when facing immense work demands. In a longitudinal mixed-method study of refugee resettlement employees, she finds that highly demanding work compels employees to change how they execute and interpret the meaning of their work, changes that fail to facilitate refugees' transitions. Winnie's dissertation deepens our understanding of the meaning of work and has clear theoretical implications for research on individual careers, occupations, and organizational management.
Ethel L. Mickey (Northeastern University, 2018)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College (starting September 2018)
Ethel Mickey's dissertation, Networks of Exclusion in a Gendered Organization in the High-Tech Industry, explores the everyday, gendered practices of networking through a qualitative case study of an American high-tech organization. As part of the reinvigorated #MeToo movement against sexual harassment following the 2016 US presidential election, a wave of high-profile complaints of sexism have surfaced against prominent technology companies including Google and Uber. Efforts to advance women in knowledge-based industries regularly focus on networking, evidenced by the plethora of support programs designed to help women overcome powerful, male-dominated networks commonly referred to as "old boys' clubs." She argues that networks and practices of networking inadvertently reproduce intersectional inequalities in organizations in the new economy, characterized by intensified precarity and workplace transformations. Networking interactions reproduce exclusionary mechanisms such as implicit bias and stereotypes, creating symbolic boundaries that limit opportunities for women and minorities. An organizational framework reveals how company features, including its gendered segregation and masculine culture of engineering, constrain women's relationships with influential organizational actors. The project contributes to gendered organizations theory, feminist studies of technology, and social network theory by examining the interplay between individual agency and organizational structures.
Selected publications and/or awards:
Mickey, Ethel L. 2018. "'Eat, Pray, Love Bullshit': Women's Empowerment through Wellness at an Elite Professional Conference." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
2018 Best Student Paper Award Co-Winner,CITAMS Section of the American Sociological Association, "Doing Gender, Doing Networks: Exploring Individual Networking Strategies in High-Tech."
Blum, Linda M. and Ethel L. Mickey. In press. "Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment: A Grassroots Struggle for Title IX Enforcement, 1978-1980." Feminist Formations 30(2). (Summer 2018)
Mickey, Ethel L.and Adia Harvey Wingfield, editors. "Identity, Race, and Work," Research in the Sociology of Work, volume 32. Bingley, UK: Emerald. (December 2018)
2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Office of the Provost, Northeastern University
Tim Rosenkranz (The New School for Social Research, 2018)
Website: https://rosenkranztim.wixsite.com/home
Tim Rosenkranz' dissertation analyzes the global commodification process of national culture through the case study of national destination marketing in tourism. He specifically examines the relations, practices, and transactions of market valuation and cultural production in local professional fields of marketing, journalism and travel industry. His study therefore focuses on the production and imagination of the nation through extra-national actors situated in global markets. Tim explores this commodification process through a global ethnography of national destination marketing taking place in India and the USA as source-markets, i.e. the places where potential tourists come from. These source-markets are crucial sites in the global commodification process of national destination marketing because here the tourist's expectations and decisions of where to go are formed. To reach these tourists most nation-states today have created official marketing organizations, the National Tourist Offices (NTOs) to manage their image production in such source-markets. He shows that while national differentiation itself has become of value in global competition, its production shifts from the territorial nation-state to the boundaries of the nation-state's global organization. Tim finds that the relations and practices of this production present a complex interplay of global organization and standardization; and of localized production and evaluation. Instead of thinking of market environments as external global forces, his dissertation therefore proposes that the imagination of nations as commodities constitutes new, expanded social, economic and cultural relations of the nation-state within global markets.
Jessica J. Santana (Stanford University, 2019)
Website: jsantana.org
Dissertation Title: "Embracing Failure: How Failure Rhetoric and the Peer Network Influence Entrepreneurial Success"
Failure is the most likely outcome for a new venture. Yet failure, even in Silicon Valley, is penalized. To continue as entrepreneurs, founders must successfully navigate the tension between sensemaking and stigma that follows failure. Jessica's dissertation explores how founders do this using failure narratives and peer networks. She takes advantage of the recent phenomenon of online startup postmortems to understand how entrepreneurs talk about failure. Through a cultural analysis of these postmortems, she finds that the peer community plays a critical role in failure recovery. She uses a combination of methods, including text mining, network analysis, and interviews, to identify how entrepreneurs talk about failure and how failure talk influences economic and social outcomes. She finds that there are two dominant "failure rhetorics" that map onto distinct cultural attributes and result in different economic and social outcomes. These social outcomes can be considered peer community boundary work, and may influence who is accepted as an entrepreneur and who has access to peer social capital. Using network analysis and Reddit data, Jessica tests theories of network dynamics to explain the relationship between failure talk and peer community boundary work. Her findings indicate that failure rhetorics connect failed entrepreneurs with a subset of supportive peers who may improve the entrepreneur's ability to recover from failure. In addition to their implications for the practice of entrepreneurship, these findings make important contributions to theories of community boundary work, entrepreneurship, and the sociology of knowledge.
Rachel Skaggs (Vanderbilt University, 2018)
Website: rachelskaggs.me
How do individuals enact careers within our increasingly precarious economic system? Examining workers in artistic careers can bring insight into this question, given their history of precarity and non-traditional employment. As analyzing artistic careers in aggregate is more difficult than simply mapping a corporate chain of command, Rachel developed a novel method, the "network-based sampling frame," that uses social network data to account for structural biases in snowball sampling and to examine the ways individuals enact careers when opportunity is concentrated in social space rather than within a bureaucratic organization. Her sampling frame facilitated the collection of novel quantitative data from 1197 songs written by 941 songwriters, social network data mapping the 2927 co-writing ties that created these songs, and 38 in-depth interviews with songwriters and recording artists who wrote these songs. She uses this data to examine the re-patterning of cooperation between songwriters and recording artists from 2000-2015. Rachel finds strong evidence as to how political economic shifts in the music industry at the turn of the millennium led to the restructuring of songwriting careers, which ultimately led to reduced chances for success without being socially tied to other successful songwriters. The changing nature of collaboration between songwriters and recording artists contributed to decreased songwriter agency in the writing room and a more homogenous cultural product, as the influence of recording artists' personal branding goals influenced the songwriting process. Her study deeply engages with Becker's theory of patterned cooperation, which, while cited thousands of times, generally is used to justify intra-occupational study into non-superstar occupations rather than examining inter-occupational patterns of cooperation within an art world. Rachel call afor more research into a "networked post-bureaucracy" that incorporates social networks as the structural basis for systematic analysis of careers that are increasingly temporary, part time, project-based, or otherwise casualized.
Megan Tobias Neely (Postdoctoral Fellow, Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University)
Website: www.megantobiasneely.com
Why are the upper echelons of business dominated by a "boys' club"? This question drives Megan Tobias Neely's recent study of the hedge fund industry. Now a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, Megan has worked in and studied the hedge fund industry for over a decade. Drawing on a unique dataset of in-depth interviews with hedge fund workers and field observations at workplaces and industry events, she finds that small firms organized around trust and loyalty allow the "boys' club" to become established and persist over time. Her most recent paper, in the current issue of Socio-Economic Review, explores how radicalized, patrimonial networks among elite white men restrict access to the rewards of this trillion-dollar industry.
Megan's research focuses on gender, race, and class inequality in the workplace and the labor market more broadly. Megan is currently writing a book with Ken-Hou Lin, Divested: Inequality in Financialized America (under contract with Oxford University Press), that explores how finance has widened economic inequality among workers in three spheres of American society: Wall Street, Main Street, and households. A recent paper from their research, in Social Currents, finds that high-status men, particularly white fathers, reap the benefits of financialization. In another line of research, Megan has collaborated with Christine Williams on gender, precarious work, and feminism in the new economy.
Recently, Megan has begun collecting data on technology firms as a comparative case, as both hedge funds and technology startups have unprecedented access to capital and low numbers of women and minority men in power-holding positions. Previously, Megan graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. She served as the 2017-2018 OOW Council Student Representative. Before pursuing sociology, she worked as a research analyst at a finance firm.
Emily Truelove (MIT Sloan School of Management, 2019)
Emily Truelove is an ethnographer who studies the changing nature of work inside organizations in a digital context—particularly ones where the Web and social media are paving the way for new forms of production and consumption. For her dissertation, she conducted a 24-month ethnographic study of how "openness" presented opportunities and challenges for members of an incumbent advertising firm. Emily's dissertation has three sections. In the first, she examines how teams inside firms can integrate the crowd into their production process. Using within-site variation in six project teams' success, she highlights the importance of "guided mobilization" practices and shows how team structure inside a firm can facilitate mobilization and direction of the crowd outside the firm. Section two examines the challenges that individuals entering digital roles inside established firms face as they help reconfigure offerings for an "open" world; here she introduces the concept of "social stewarding." The third section leverages rare data on 52 strategic decisions attempted by the firm's top management team over two years to add to our understanding of the microdynamics of managing strategic paradoxes during technological discontinuities.
Emanuel Ubert (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019)
Website: emanuelubert.com
Twitter: @EmanuelUbert
Emanuel Ubert studies why and how organizational populations and their institutions adapt to rare external shocks. The work lies at the intersection of economic sociology, organizational theory, and (new) institutional theory. His dissertation investigates the transformation of homeowner insurance markets in response to intensifying hurricane shocks in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew heralded a new era of record hurricanes that threatened insurer survival. Homeowner insurance withdrawal from high-risk states created insurance market failures and risked slowing residential housing growth. His dissertation identifies three key processes that restored private insurance supply and market stability in these states: changes in the rules governing those markets, organizational learning by incumbent insurers, and market entry by new firms. Three empirical chapters explore these processes.
A comparative historical study explains the contrasting policy responses to similarly sized record hurricane damage in Florida and Louisiana and has been published in the Socio-Economic Review. A multilevel statistical analysis of an original panel dataset shows how incumbent insurance subsidiaries used catastrophe models to reduce subjective uncertainty, learn from their local performance, and better adapt to record hurricane shocks. Count models explain why and when insurers entered hurricane-prone markets and thereby bolster overall market resilience. Two additional projects build on his dataset and the dissertation. The first expands the analysis of homeowner insurance market adaptation to the context of intensifying wildfire damages in the continental West. The second investigate the barriers to, emergence, and scaling up of technologically and organizationally innovative solutions to insurance-related (property) market problems created by climate change.
Katherine Ann (Kate) Willyard (Texas A&M University, 2018)
Website: http://www.katewillyard.com/
Dissertation Title: "The Effects of Organizational, Community, and State Regulatory Characteristics on Texas Oil and Gas Extraction Facility Venting and Flaring Practices" (Funded by the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, SES-1702683)
Why do some organizations pollute more than others? Using a mixed methods approach, this research explores this question by analyzing variation in Texas oil and gas extraction facility (NAICS 211) venting (i.e., releasing natural gas into the atmosphere) and flaring (i.e., burning natural gas) practices. Venting and flaring is a growing concern. In Texas in 2012, 48,192 thousand cubic feet of natural gas worth $228 million was wasted through venting and flaring at oil and gas extraction facilities, emitting more pollution than Texas oil and gas refineries. A conceptual model to explain the environmental behavior of these organizations was developed using an open systems organizational theory approach. To provide historical political context, an analysis of the politics of venting and flaring in Texas from 1889-2017 was conducted. Archival information obtained through a Public Information Act request to the Texas Railroad Commission is used to show how, due to direct involvement of large oil and gas companies, policy changed to increase the legal opportunities for companies to vent or flare gas. Then, a geographic information system is created using restricted (American Community Survey), and public (Texas Railroad Commission, National Center for Charitable Statistics and Census TIGER) data to examine how community characteristics are related to extreme emissions in Texas in 2012 at the block group (n=15,771) and facility (n=126,862) level. A zero-inflated negative binomial regression model shows that low poverty, low density, and predominately Hispanic neighborhoods are disproportionately exposed to venting and flaring. Finally, the effects of the internal characteristics of facilities (n=126,862), the companies that directly own them (n=4,608), and the political legal environment in which the facility is embedded on the environmental efficiency of facility operations are explored. A clustered two-part hurdle regression model shows venting and flaring practices are consistently associated with facilities with new drilling, few nearby wells, large oil production, and permitting, and operators that produce more oil. Findings suggests structural isomorphism, economic incentives, and state policy are key factors contributing to the environmental decisions of organizations. The dissertation concludes by suggesting political will be applied to enact political and economic incentives to reduce the pollution and waste caused by venting and flaring.
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'Something's fishy here': Why did Twitter ban Michael Oren?
Ex-MK and Israeli Ambassador to the US tells Arutz Sheva he was barred from Twitter with no explanation, only to be reinstated days later.
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Social media giant Twitter suspended the account of former Israeli ambassador and ex-Kulanu MK Michael Oren last week, with no prior warning or explanation, prompting criticism from pro-Israel activists.
Oren, 64, who served as Israel's Ambassador to the US from 2009 to 2013 before becoming an MK for the Kulanu party, found himself barred from Twitter last Wednesday night, with no prior warning.
The following message was put up in place of the account following the suspension: "Account suspended, Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules."
Oren's account was suspended from Wednesday night till Monday afternoon, at which point it was restored - following reports in the Jewish press on the account's suspension.
The former ambassador told Arutz Sheva he contacted Twitter, but said that initially there was no response, save for a confirmation of receipt of his message. After the story went public, Twitter told Oren the suspension was due to a "spam issue".
But Oren says the case sounds "fishy", hinting that Twitter might have suspended his account due to his criticism of the New York Times, which he accused of "whitewashing anti-Semitism".
"It was suspended without warning. I inquired via email, they confirmed receipt and then, nothing. I only got a bland response today after the story hit the Jewish press. They said it was a spam issue but I can't help feeling there's something's fishy here. The suspension followed two Tweets in which I criticized the NYT for misrepresenting BDS as an organization that seeks to end Israel's occupation of the West Bank and accusing the paper of whitewashing anti-Semitism. I stand by that," Oren told Arutz Sheva.
In a pair of tweets in December 2019, Oren wrote:
"NY Times calls BDS 'a movement...opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank.' In fact, BDS opposes Israel's existence and seeks it's [sic] destruction—by definition anti-Semitism. The Times cannot condemn anti-Semitism while whitewashing an anti-Semitic organization."
"Twice in one week The NY Times says BDS 'supports economic measures opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank.' This is a deliberate lie. BDS seeks Israel's destruction. Covering up anti-Semitism is anti-Semitic."

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India plays Chinese checkers
2 min read . Updated: 14 Dec 2010, 09:28 PM IST
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Neighbourhoods can be a trying experience. Those who live next door can be friends one day and foes the next. Ties between adjacent countries are no different. China and India have had this kind of relationship for a long time, with conflict crowding out cooperation since 1947.
It would be wrong to say that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit, commencing today, will change matters. Most likely it won't for the causes of mistrust and conflict are deep and unlikely to be resolved soon. If anything, this aspect of the relationship has been heightened in the recent past. This, it has been argued, has come about because a new generation of leaders, civil and military, has come to the fore, one that does not believe in Deng Xiaoping's adage to "keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead—but aim to do something big".
The result is that China, after a brief glow of warmth in ties, has taken steps such as issuing stapled visas for visitors from Jammu and Kashmir, launched aggressive probing of the Indian border and has, in general, assumed a negative tone towards India. At the same time, India's ties with the US have grown.
The "China angle" in this development can hardly be ignored or denied for that matter. Indian fears of China and Chinese anxieties over Containment 2.0 are there for all to see.
There are, however, areas where India can deftly engage with China and also remove some irritants. The stapled visa issue, as the Chinese have indicated, can be resolved. Some pressing trade concerns, such as the large imbalance in trade, very largely in China's favour, can also be addressed meaningfully. It is high time the two countries signed a free-trade agreement and also laid some ground rules to ease the flow of investment in the two countries.
Where India cannot expect any concessions is in the strategic realm. It is, for example, futile to seek Chinese support for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Here, and in other areas where India seeks to expand its global presence, China's efforts to checkmate its neighbour have been constant. To expect otherwise would be naïve. Understanding the limits of what India can and what it can't do with China is the first step in easing ties with Beijing.
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Welcome to 2017's Winter Veil Forum Event: Legendary Weaponsmith!
visuals, theme, special powers and story behind the weapon's existence.
The artwork must be original. Copying artwork from the game won't do well. To be fair with people who aren't artists, they may use art from other games, but that isn't as much valuable as original art.
Weapon name must be World of Warcraft-like, meaning that Doom's Doomray of Doom isn't a fitting name for this event. The NPC who used to wield it, should be original as well, may even be one of the player's characters name.
Create a story for the weapon. No Artifact Weapon is Legendary without a good story behind it. Tell who wield it first, when, for what and where it has been lost, according to the legends. These are examples to help you get started.
Special Powers. Pick a theme fitting the class and specialization the weapon would be for. You can explain some divergences with the story, but a weapon for a Rogue that throws fireballs would be hard to justify, for example. Also, make sure to create a realistic item. It's meant to be powerful, but also something that could be in the game without destroying balance. Absurdly powerful items will just be disqualified and not considered (ex. a weapon that sunders entire worlds).
Forum Reward: Forum Title "Legendary Weaponsmith"
In-game Reward: one specific transmogrification of choice + item (except Legendaries).
Note: If you have previously won this event and have the title, you may choose to be granted "Legendary Weaponsmith+"
If you cannot draw, that's fine. You can make up for it in the other areas of the event. If you can design cool weapon powers and/or write a good story, you can go for that and still stand a chance of winning.
Thanks Mercy! I might try and team up with an artist!
This event could use a bit more definition. I feel like you perhaps deleted a few bullet points before posting.
Presumably we're imagining and defining a weapon. Are there any guidelines on what is sought in this weapon and/or the context of the weapon? Is it to be a class-weapon? A Boss-drop? An event reward? Thorandil the Star's Fury is a fine example of a Legendary Weapon with cruddy context, and is accordingly boring. So boring I got its name wrong and didn't even care.
You reference "artwork" - Are you looking for scans of drawings? (I presume it's not a mail-in contest) Are we supposed to be creating a Weapon-card in the fashion of an in-game hover-over? Or are you looking for something that's Hearthstone-card-like? What are the guidelines on "artwork"? Can I submit a song?
Are computer-generated images acceptable? I have MS Paint skills that are on point.
Are multiple submissions allowed? What if I have a MH/OH combo idea?
Cheers on a fun and interesting contest! Just need more details please!
Be creative. You're asking for hard limitations. There aren't any when it comes to these points. We'd prefer to see what people come up with, rather than give a more specific outline for everyone to follow.
Yes, multiple submissions are allowed. Only one submission per person can win, though. A MH/OH combo can be treated as a "packaged" concept.
@mercy Thanks for the clarifications.
how do u mean team up? im artist but im bad at writing stories :( maybe we can team up, but waht about prises? how will we be prized Mercy?
are shields included on this event?


How did I not know this? There actually is a monthly wine club that is the original and much imitated Wine of the Month Club. I'm very familiar with winery wine clubs and their regular shipments. From my youth I recall the Book of the Month Club and the Columbia Record Club.
For those last two, I believe much of their sales originated from the fact that the books or records kept on coming unless you were wiley enough to, through great effort, cancel the membership. Today there are plenty of wine clubs, many with a unique twist. One offers to help you figure out your wine style and ship you wines that are in harmony. The Turner Movie Channel Wine Club pairs vintage wine with vintage movies. Others specialize in California wines and some from other specific regions.
Acording to Paul Kalemkiarian Sr., he invented the idea of mail order wine in 1972. He points out that many of the competitors mimic the original with newsletters, recipes and free binders.
The company, now owned by son Paul Kalemkiarian Jr., says the difference between the original Wine of the Month Club (WOMC) and everyone else is its history – which allows it to command better quality wines at better prices.
Paul Sr. studied Pharmacognosy (study of plant based medicines) at the University of Cairo, Egypt. He then moved to America and got his Masters degree at USC. He began working in a pharmaceutical company and opened his first pharmacy in Inglewood in 1955.
His company grew to a point where he bought and sold 12 pharmacies and had five open at one time.
One of these purchases was key to the origin of WOMC.
One of the Kalemkiarian pharmacies was located in Malaga Cove Plaza, but oddly enough, there was another drug store in the same plaza. The owner of the drug store owned a liquor store next door. Paul Sr. agreed to buy the pharmacy, but only if the liquor store was included.
The liquor store became Palos Verdes Wine and Spirits. To help patrons who would walk in and say, "My boss is coming for dinner and I need a nice wine," he started to pick monthly wine selections.
The monthly selections were the root of the WOMC. As time went on, patrons would rely on the monthly selections that were pre-screened for quality, variety and value. Store customers soon wanted their monthly selections delivered.
Hand delivery continued until it was no longer practical. Delivery then moved to UPS. Paul Sr. sold Palos Verdes Wines and Spirits, but retained the mail order rights and trademarked the name "Wine of the Month Club." The club operated as a freestanding entity and they continued to be the only service of its kind until the mid-80s. Today Paul Jr. is the owner, president and cellarmaster.
The flagship offering of WOMC is the two-bottle clubs. The two-bottle Classic Series is $454 for a 12-month members and you can also purchase four and six-month options. That comes out to about $38 a month – not bad to have two interesting wines delivered to your door.
Three other series are offered. The Vintner Series, designed for someone who is interested in a variety of grapes and regions, is $589 for 12 months. The Limted Series, their top tier, includes unique wines that have aging potential. The cost is $725 per year. There is also a California Series at a $535 price tag.
The wines listed in the materials are interesting. I am not familiar with most of the wineries producing the monthly selections, but upon checking, these are choices I'd be interested in trying.
The November 2015 Classic club had four offerings. Two were produced by Spur Ranch. Spur Ranch is a brand of O'Neill Vintners, which specializes in bulk wines and private label wines. These wines might be quite good, but there isn't a Spur Ranch winery.
The Vintner club offered a 2013 Skyline Pinot Noir. Skyline is a brand of the Owl Ridge Wine Services, which is a custom crush pad. Customers provide the grapes and the crush pad provides the equipment and expertise. The wine is produced by winemakers Joe Otos and Chris Loxton. So this could be a limited production gem.
The suggested retail prices for the bottles are very reasonable. Based on the materials I reviewed, wines in the Classic line are under $22, the Vintner line under $25 and the Limited Series under $35. The prices are lower to WOMC members and are quite a deal when reordering.
I'm a sucker for surprises, especially with wine. Receiving two new wines each month, learning about them and (especially) quaffing them is a fun idea for yourself or as a gift. If you are interested in a wine club – here's the granddaddy of them all, the original Wine of the Month Club.


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A kitchen and bath design professional in Waukesha, WI knows to take all of these crucial points into consideration and can help plan the layout, materials and overall look and feel of either of these rooms in your home.
Kitchen designers, as well as bathroom designers, are constantly staying on top of trends in the ever-changing industry. The designer also knows the best layout for your room, and can configure the layout for optimal functionality and utilization of the space. In the kitchen the refrigerator, stove and sink should be laid out in relation to one another, and it should be seamless and easy to move from one to the other. A Waukesha kitchen and bath designer will know how to work with a contractor and architect to plan the flow of the room to work best for your needs. Here are some related professionals and vendors to complement the work of kitchen & bath designers: Kitchen & Bath Fixtures, Appliances, Tile, Stone & Countertops, Cabinets & Cabinetry, Woodworkers & Carpenters.
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I love writing stories about the paranormal. Perhaps that comes from the fact that I also love reading them, and watching them, in film, TV, or even animated form. I love stories about ghosts and hauntings, eerie possessions and exorcisms, and of course, supernatural creature features. So it's no surprise I've fallen in love with the world of vampires, werewolves, demons and angels.
It should come as no surprise that I'm a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer die-hard. I can even tell you which season we're watching based solely on Sarah Michelle Gellar's hair. But what's important about my love for Buffy is that it's very much the soil from which the seedlings of my own paranormal world of Blood and Fire first bloomed.
I'll never forget Buffy's speech to a cult of vampire worshippers in Season 2 of the series:
I've got a news flash for you, braintrust: that's not how it works. You die, and a demon sets up shop in your old house, and it walks, and it talks, and it remembers your life, but it's not you.
This very line sums up the foundation of my Blood and Fire series. Whether it's a vampire, a werewolf, a witch, an incubus, or a shadow-walker, the demons are not the people they were before they were transformed. The change destroys the person that was, and brings on a true creature of the damned in its place.
Have you ever looked at the word "paranormal"? It literally means, "to one side of normal; beyond normal". It's the world we know, everything that's normal, but it's twisted away, lying at some illogical angle. So when your good friend becomes a werewolf, zombie, or vampire, they're not the good old normal person you knew; they're skewed.
Paranormal is like a funhouse mirror for the soul. The world of the paranormal, now, that's a whole house of mirrors, where everything is just to one side of what you think you recognize. Everything is so beautifully, beautifully strange.
The best paranormal tales, in my opinion, are ones rooted in actual mythology, with deep ties to true beliefs. Vampires compelled to count the grains of salt you throw at their feet. Werewolves whose weakness isn't just silver, but silver inherited from another. I love it when the paranormal isn't easy to deal with, and requires knowledge, ritual, coordination, and sacrifice. Even if we want a hero to prevail over the dark, uncanny valley of spirits and monsters, we still want to delve into those secret passages and discover all the fascinating mystery.
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Senvion will likely withdraw from 'about 30 markets' and reduce the number of turbine variants it offers, according to an internal Q&A with CEO Yves Rannou.
It is set to focus on "around 20 countries" in markets including Europe, Latin America, Australia and India, according to a document seen by Windpower Monthly.
The Q&A does not specify which markets it intends to withdraw from, or provide further details about its target markets.
The manufacturer circulated the Q&A among staff to address concerns about the launch of a "transformation programme" to stabilise the company after downgrading its guidance for the fiscal year.
It makes no mention of job losses and Rannou said "all Senvion employees have a role to play in this transformation and have an impact".
Rannou, who took over as CEO on 1 January, said "simplification" was the key concept behind the company's action plan.
He added Senvion had "not translated valuable orders into cash via excellence in execution in some countries".
This was due to it "not show(ing) enough discipline" as well as "unforeseen circumstances", including the discovery of a live WWII bomb at an unspecified site.
Rannou said Senvion had used "incorrect processes", was "an overly complex organisation that had spread itself too thinly across new markets", and had "a lack of customer focus".
Senvion has also commissioned a restructuring opinion — an independent business review of the company.
Rannou claimed this would give the company "support documentation for (its) talks with lenders" as it "proves (its) plan is robust, provides a lot of confidence to (its) stakeholders and will help (the company) find the most efficient solution".
The German manufacturer is in talks with the company carrying out the independent review and the opinion is due to be available "in the next few weeks", he added.
Earlier today, Senvion hired a chief restructuring officer to oversee the company's 'transformation programme'.
Neil Robson, a partner at restructuring advisory firm THM Partners, will sit on Senvion's management board during the company transition.


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Do Landscape Aesthetics Go Beyond Scene Content? Testing the Preference Matrix Using an Improved Methodology
IntroductionThe goal of this study was to investigate the extent to which the informational variables from the preference matrix (Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989) are predictive of landscape aesthetics. In a recent meta-analysis covering empirical research on the preference matrix, it was concluded that consistent support was lacking for each of its component variables (Stamps, 2004). Possible causes for the inconclusive findings in the past are outlined and addressed in the present study. Amongst the methodological improvements are the use of a statistical test which takes into account the ordinal distribution of the data, improved definitions of some of the preference matrix items based on participant comprehension scores, a substantially sized image database (N = 1600) with high quality images from natural, built and "mixed" scenes, and use of beauty rather than preference as target variable since the latter is deemed to be sensitive to the goals and intentions of people (Herzog & Leverich, 2003). In addition, any confounding effects of scene familiarity and both natural and built content on ratings of the variables from the preference matrix were taken into account and the frequently suggested interaction between complexity and coherence was investigated.Method Results and Discussion In contrast to findings reported previously (Stamps, 2004), this research shows that all variables from the preference are positively predictive of beauty. The lack of consistent findings in previous studies is therefore likely a consequence of methodological shortcomings. In addition, this study has been the first in which support for an interaction between coherence and complexity was found. Furthermore, both natural and built content of a scene, as well as its familiarity, were found to be related to reported beauty. This finding is interesting because it implies that natural and built content are concepts that are not directly opposite. It is concluded that the preference matrix should be regarded a valuable paradigm for informing future research that has a focus on human preference for specific kinds of spatial information.
Anable, J, APN Van der Jagt, T Craig, M Brewer, and DG Pearson. "Do Landscape Aesthetics Go Beyond Scene Content? Testing the Preference Matrix Using an Improved Methodology." In Human Experience in the Natural and Built Environment: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice (IAPS 22 Conference, Abstracts of Presentations). IAPS. Glasgow, UK: University of Strathclyde, 2012.
Beauty Or Branches? Exploring Rapid Affective Processing as a Function of Preference and Naturalness
de Kort, Yvonne, and Wijnand Ijsselsteijn. "Beauty Or Branches? Exploring Rapid Affective Processing as a Function of Preference and Naturalness." In Environment, Health and Sustainable Development (IAPS 19 Conference Proceedings on CD-Rom). IAPS. Alexandria, Egypt, 2006.
Simple Design Measures for Increasing Preference of Urban Wilderness
Hofmann, M.. Simple Design Measures for Increasing Preference of Urban Wilderness In Urban Diversities, Biosphere and Well-Being: Designing and Managing Our Common Environment (IAPS 20 Conference Proceedings on CD-Rom). IAPS. Rome, Italy: Aula Magna Sapienza University of Rome, 2008.
On Relations Between Environmental Preference and Well_Being
Hartig, Terry, H Staats, and E. Maris. "On Relations Between Environmental Preference and Well_Being." In Shifting Balances: Changing Roles in Policy, Research and Design (IAPS 15 Book of Abstracts), 23. IAPS. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Eindhoven University of Technology, 1998.
The Preference for Nature and the Role of Urban Nature in Psychological Restoration
Staats, Henk, Dirk Loekemeier, and Mischa Van der Velde. "The Preference for Nature and the Role of Urban Nature in Psychological Restoration." In Vulnerability, Risk and Complexity: Impacts of global Change on Human Habitats (IAPS 21 Conference, Abstracts of Presentations). IAPS. Leipzig, Germany: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 2010.
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Q: Effective control entry into the array - JAVA i want to ask you, what is better way, how to add item to array if i need check if the index exists(array length is OK)?
1)
private void addItemToArray(int[] arr, int index, int item)
{
     if(index >= 0 && index < arr.length) {
          //put item
     }
}

2)
private void addItemToArray(int[] arr, int index, int item)
{
   try {
       //put item
   catch(Exception e) {
       return;
   }
}

A: An exception is definitely a better alternative than doing nothing, since the caller of the method must have a way of knowing that the index they supplied was invalid. Though catching the exception and doing nothing in the catch block, as you did in the second snippet, is pointless.
You can take example from ArrayList, which contains an internal array :
/**
 * Inserts the specified element at the specified position in this
 * list. Shifts the element currently at that position (if any) and
 * any subsequent elements to the right (adds one to their indices).
 *
 * @param index index at which the specified element is to be inserted
 * @param element element to be inserted
 * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
 */
public void add(int index, E element) {
  if (index > size || index < 0)
    throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException(
    "Index: "+index+", Size: "+size);

  ensureCapacity(size+1);  // Increments modCount!!
  System.arraycopy(elementData, index, elementData, index + 1,
         size - index);
  elementData[index] = element;
  size++;
}

If you must avoid throwing exceptions, the very least you can do is have the method return a boolean that indicates whether the array was modified.

A: Using the if (first method) is better, as catching errors is costly in terms of performance.
Just a note, the if clause is wrong, you want to check
if(index > 0 && index < arr.length){
          //put item
     }

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Q: Rearrange an array by an array of indexes - PHP I have an array of $Percentages1 that I have ordered in descending order using arsort() and then I have taken an array containing the new key order using array_keys() called $keyorder
My question is how do I now rearrange another array $Percentages2 into the same key order as $Percentages1?
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks very much!
Edit - Code as requested:
//$Percentages1 before sort for example =
// Array ( [0] => 5.10 [1] => 1.52 [2] => 8.42 [3] => 1.11 [4] => 1.35 )
arsort($Percentages1);
//$Percentages1 after sort =
// Array ( [2] => 8.42 [0] => 5.10 [1] => 1.52 [4] => 1.35 [3] => 1.11 )
$keyorder = array();
//So $keyorder is =
// Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => 0 [2] => 1 [3] => 4 [4] => 3 )
$keyorder = array_keys($Percentages1);

//Now I want to do something here to rearrange a $Percentages2 array
//in the same index order as $keyorder.
//For example from this
// Array ( [0] => 2.50 [1] => 3.52 [2] => 9.42 [3] => 9.81 [4] => 0.35 )
//To...
// Array ( [2] => 9.42 [0] => 2.50 [1] => 3.52 [4] => 0.35 [3] => 9.81 )

A: If you are not adverse to creating another array variable, the simplest course here is just to loop over $keyorder and append the elements at the corresponding key from $Percentages2 onto a new array;.
// Sorted as you already have it...
$keyorder = array_keys($Percentages1);
// Final array
$output = array();
foreach ($keyorder as $key) {
  $output[$key] = $Percentages2[$key];
}

// Don't need the source anymore
unset($Percentages2);

Their key order as appended onto $output will be retained in the final result.
Given your input arrays, this produces
print_r($output);
Array
(
    [2] => 9.42
    [0] => 2.5
    [1] => 3.52
    [4] => 0.35
    [3] => 9.81
)

You actually don't need to use array_keys(). Following the call to arsort(), you can foreach over the sorted $Percentages1 and sort to $output by key:
// Skip array_keys, and read the sorted array directly
arsort($Percentages1);
foreach ($Percentages1 as $key => $value) {
  // Same as before inside the loop
  $output[$key] = $Percentages2[$key];
}


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The opening scene of Prometheus features an alien landing on a lifeless earth, drinking some black goo, and then dissolving into a cloud of life-granting DNA.
I missed that scene.
The movie makes a lot more sense without it.
Prometheus is a prequel to the seminal 1979 sci-fi horror flick Alien, directed by Ridley Scott. It's not a "side-quel" as originally suggested, it's a straight-up prequel that explains how the alien-infested ship in the first movie came into being.
Prometheus can only marginally be said to explain anything. Well, that's not fair: It actually does explain Alien. It does so in such a way that raises a whole bunch of other questions that it can't possibly answer.
New franchise anyone?
The Red Letter guys did a bit where the one guy (who plays "Plinkett", I think, in the mega-star-wars-hooker-killing reviews) just fired off a series of things that don't make sense for about five minutes while the other guy sat there dumbfounded.
I thought one of the questions missed something pretty obvious, and a few others were deliberately raised, but there were a bunch of illogical things in the film, and a few of them bugged me. There's a couple of twists toward the end that are so obvious from the beginning that they're silly.
Actually, if the movie suffers from anything, it's the number of well-established sci-fi/horror tropes it hits—which it then feels the need to spell out. Not often in great detail or anything, but it has been over 30 years since the original Alien and we all know the drill by this point.
That said, I confess I liked this movie. I guess a lot of people had higher expectations because they were thinking "Ooh, Alien! By the original director! And the guy who did Blade Runner!" And maybe a few were thinking Gladiator, too. But, of course, those are three films over a 35 year career. And, if you think about it, it's really H.R. Giger's alien design in Alien—and a whole mess of visionary artists in Blade Runner—that make those films so iconic.
Not to minimize Scott's contributions to those movies in any way, but it's remarkable lightning struck twice in his career, and that shouldn't be confused with an ability to call lightning at will.
But I do tend to like his films, and I include this one with it. Noomi Rapace, the formerly dragon-tattooed girl, shows another side of herself: Sigourney Weaver's Ripley character is split between her, on the softer side, and Charlize Theron, whose character seems to have been almost entirely transplanted from Snow White and the Huntsman. Irdis Elbra reprises a character close enough to Al Matthews' Sgt. Apone in Aliens to where I started to wonder why they didn't just call him Sgt. Apone, Sr.
Other than that, there's Guy Pearce in ridiculous old-age makeup. As I mentioned in my review of J. Edgar, old-age makeup is always bad and that doesn't usually bother me. In this case, it called to mind an episode of "The Brady Bunch" where Peter (I think) plays Benedict Arnold on his deathbed. He's supposed to look like he's only got a few days to live, besides being 112-years-old or something.
The other characters are alien-fodder. The attempts at characterization clearly buckle under the larger need to put said characters in jeopardy.
The other thing that I really enjoyed about the film was the way it referenced and set up the original. The original, if anyone were to think about it, makes no sense either. How does it happen that a bunch of creatures on a forsaken planet are waiting there—completely untended—for untold time for compatible biological life to come along? It don't make no sense.
This, at least points to a connection that, if not plausible, is still way more plausible than any aspect of the "Star Wars" prequels. But there were nice directorial touches, shots and moments that pleasantly recalled the original.
You could say, in fact, this is one of the better Alien rip-offs. That's damning with faint praise, of course.
The Boy was fairly "meh" about it. Not too impressed, and a little insulted by the lampshade hanging, I think. Well, not really lampshade hanging but maybe more Narrating The Obvious. Ridley Scott hasn't directed a sci-fi or fantasy movie in over 25 years, but I am beginning to suspect he hasn't seen one in at least as long.
But, look, if you go in with modest expectations and a high proficiency at belief suspension, you'll see an expertly shot movie that moves almost fast enough to escape it's own illogic. Well, okay, not really, but you might not care.
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Finding Heroes 'Right in Our Own Hometown'
By Erin Albanese
Earl Lutey, World War II and Korean veteran, chats with Byron Center High School senior Matthew Bridges
Veterans were the stars of the show when high school seniors gave a heartfelt salute and thank you by documenting the former service members' words.
Students in English teacher Trevor Muir's class interviewed and recorded the stories of eight World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans, who now live at Railside Assisted Living Center in Byron Center. The six-minute documentaries premiered recently at Van Singel Fine Arts Center, sharing details of the vets' lives from when they enlisted or were drafted to their personal experiences in war and life after service.
Students interviewed the veterans at their residence and created the documentaries, art and podcasts. They wrote the men's and women's biographies and assembled a book titled, "Honoring the Greatest Generation: Stories of Valor from Byron Center World War II, Korean & Vietnam War Veterans." All work was on display in the Van Singel lobby.
Muir, for a unit on storytelling, wanted to connect his students to stories that would show them the power of preserving history through words. Muir's grandfather, who died 10 years ago, was a World War II veteran.
"Nobody ever recorded his story, so when he passed away everyone was like, 'Why did we never film or write it?'" Muir said. "Ever since I started teaching, it's been a huge passion of mine to capture the stories of veterans."
Veteran Mary Overby, who joined the military because she couldn't afford college
Connecting the Generations
Senior Leah Cook helped document the story of Josephine Velding, a World War II veteran born in 1921. "She was one of the first woman Marines," Leah said. "She just did it because it was something new and something she wanted to try."
That boldness is impressive, Leah added: "We tend to glorify the big heroes across the country, but there are so many right in our hometown. There are people I live right next door to who have been through so much but I don't know their stories."
Senior Trevor Skipper helped create a podcast on Franklin Smith, who served in World War II.
"Although he seemed willing to share the stuff that happened, he seemed scared," Trevor said, wondering if Smith still feels the trauma of war.
Muir said he also wanted his students to see the impact they can have through writing, art and technology. "Now the kids see we can actually create stuff that matters," he said. "We have heroes in Byron Center a mile and a half from school."
Veterans said they were honored to be recognized by students.
"They did a good job," said Ben Baird, who served in the Korean War. "It's a good idea because we've got to get the kids more involved."
Veteran Mary Overby said she was surprised to see herself on the big screen. "I thought it was wonderful," she said. "I enjoyed everything."
GVSU Veterans History Project
Erin Albanese is associate managing editor and reporter, covering Byron Center, Kentwood, Wyoming and Grand Rapids Community College. She was one of the original SNN staff writers, helping launch the site in 2013 and enjoys fulfilling the mission of sharing the stories of public education. She has worked as a journalist in the Grand Rapids area since 2000. A graduate of Central Michigan University, she has written for The Grand Rapids Press, Advance Newspapers, On-the-Town Magazine and Group Tour Media. Read Erin's full bio or email Erin.
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Some blog readers wonder about how to follow blogs, recently turned private by their owners. We see some concern, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue.
I Follow a blog which was recently made private. Its entry in my dashboard Reading List froze, and I can't get it working by removing and re adding!
This would be reader does not realise the results of making a blog private.
Private blogs do not publish blog feeds. When a blog is made private, the feed stops - and the Reading List and all other feed subscriptions - comments and posts - stop updating.
With no feed published, a blog cannot be added to Reading List - though the members picture icon may remain visible, in the Followers cloud.
With a private blog, there remain 2 options for reading blog content, using email.
Neither option will provide newsfeed content, readable in Reading List or any other Atom / RSS accessory. Using Google+ is an option, best used with blogs which have reader populations who use Google+.
Blogger dashboard distributions are simple - but limit reader population.
BlogSend (for posts), and Comment Notification (for comments) are a pair of Blogger dashboard settings, at Settings - "Mobile and email". "Comment Notification Email", and "Email posts to" are limited to 10 email addresses each.
Per my firm recommendation, that any blog owner always subscribe to any medium that he might depend upon readers using, that would leave a maximum of 9 readers (less any team blog members, too) who could be served. This is not an option that encourages blog readership growth.
Note, too, the implications with using - and the irregularities with email distribution of both comments and posts publications.
Google+ stream distributions are complicated - and provide more options.
Google+, on the other hand, provides a somewhat less limited subscription capability - both in email, and Google+ stream. Members of specific Google+ Circles can view posts and comments in stream - or can receive email, at the option of the blog owner.
The owner has to maintain both the Blogger and Google+ distribution populations.
The BlogSend and Comment Notification subscriptions are controlled by the owner - there are no options for reader maintenance. Besides adding each new private blog member (who must then accept membership) using the Blogger dashboard Permissions list, the owner must add each new member to the Blogger dashboard list(s) (again, up to a maximum of 9 members).
It will be up to the blog owner, to synchronise the Blogger dashboard Permissions list, with the Google+ Circle membership. Having Circle members who get post notifications in email / stream - but cannot click on the post link, and read the complete post in the blog - won't produce membership activity. Nor will having members who can read the posts, but get no Google+ email or stream notifications.
Google+ post distribution will require some effort, by the blog owner.
With BlogSend / Comment Notification, email goes out automatically - as each new post / comment is published. With Google+ distribution, the owner will have to intentionally share each new post, with a specific Circle - as automatic Google+ sharing only works, right now, for Public sharing of new posts.
Google+ comment distribution will require no effort by the blog owner.
Google+ Comments, on the other hand, are shared to the Google+ stream of the comment publisher (not to the comment stream of the owner) - at the option of the comment publisher. The blog owner may not, necessarily see comments, mentioning the blog - and will not control any comments, that he, himself does not make.
Use of both Google+ comments and Google+ posts, for private comment and post notification, will work better if the blog owner is willing to accept the various oddities associated with Google+ stream content distribution.
Private blog membership simply means more work for the blog owner. If you are considering making your blog private, keep these details in mind.
I've been using a Google Group to send email notifications on posts from my private blog for more than a year. It's been working well. Recently Blogger just stopped sending emails on new posts. I also tried adding my email address to the blog instead of the Google Group and it still doesn't trigger an email on a new post. Any ideas? Thanks.
Is it a private blog, then? How many notification targets?