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The Best Sites For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Posted by Larry Ferlazzo | May 20, 2009 | best of the year, learning games, social studies | 1 |
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States. Here's a short explanation of its background from Infoplease:
"In May 1990 …President George H. W. Bush designated May to be Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants."
The name has since been changed to Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (not in order of preference, and that are, of course, accessible to English Language Learners):
FOR STUDENTS:
Colorin Colorado has resources on the month specifically for ELL's.
Infoplease has a lot of resources, though most are not necessarily accessible to ELL's and would have to be modified by a teacher. But it's a great site, nevertheless.
The Smithsonian Institution has Asian Pacific American Heritage teaching resources.
EDSITEment also has lesson resources.
Most of these lessons (apart from the resources at Colorin Colorado), though, would have to be modified for ELL's.
U.S. official cites misconduct in Japanese American internment cases is a fascinating article in The Los Angeles Times discussing how the present United States Solicitor General is apologizing for the misconduct of one of his predecessors for his role in defending Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. During the war, he chose not to reveal a government study concluding that Japanese-Americans were not a risk to U.S. security.
World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans is a photo gallery from The Atlantic.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Women Profiles is from NBC News.
Moving photographs of Japanese American internees, then and now http://t.co/KSquhLyI0T via @MotherJones
— Jayne Marlink (@JMarlinkCWP) June 3, 2015
Teaching Untold Stories During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month http://t.co/d9cYZCM9a6 via @ZinnEdProject pic.twitter.com/nGCzl4UiWH
— Rethinking Schools (@RethinkSchools) May 20, 2015
May 1 marks the start of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Visit this page for resources http://t.co/cKbcsoIpqm pic.twitter.com/KnnIlejHtv
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) May 1, 2015
Here's a Playing For Change video. This is how they describe it:
"Hawai'i Aloha" features dozens of Hawai'i's top artists across many genres, and over 1,000 youth from 10 Hawaiian charter schools in one epic song. Recorded live across 27 locations, this is Hawaiiʻs most widely known song, used to close important gatherings of all sizes. It is a song of unity and Aloha 'Aina (Aloha for one's birthplace, land and home).
NBC Begins Useful Series Of Videos About Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
NBC "A To Z" Features Asian American & Pacific Islanders Making Their Mark
I Am Asian American is from Teaching Tolerance.
'I am not exotic. I am a human.' — This is why we need Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month pic.twitter.com/GVX9ZY9tqC
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 2, 2018
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Check out our latest Moment for a collection of TT resources to celebrate the heritage of this diverse group of Americans. #AAPIHM https://t.co/XzFpdELSdq pic.twitter.com/hB2w4gWjzA
— Teaching Tolerance (@Tolerance_org) May 1, 2018
Write Our Stories is a huge collection of stories from NBC News related to Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Learning Together is a new teacher resource site from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. It seems to focus on a new theme each month (how did I not know that April was Arab American Heritage Month?), and collects past resources in its archives section.
Asian Americans is the PBS site for the series of the same name.
The Diversity of Asian American and Pacific Islander Identities is from Teaching Tolerance.
AAPI FRONTLINE is from NBC News.
Viral Histories: Stories of Racism, Resilience, and Resistance in Asian American Communities is from The Smithsonian.
Google has made an announcement:
Google Arts & Culture has partnered with 48 cultural institutions and experts of Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) cultures to celebrate and launch a new hub dedicated to Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures.
Their announcement shares lots of details – it looks pretty impressive.
Just note that the announcement itself doesn't include the correct link to the new site (though I'm sure they'll fix it soon). Go to the link that I've included in this post.
What's Missing from Classrooms When Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices Aren't Included? is from Smithsonian Magazine.
Lesson Plans: Untold Civil Rights Stories Online is from the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is from The National Park Service.
May Is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! is from Learning For Justice.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders share their stories of racism and discrimination and how they've stood up. is from NBC News.
Classroom Resources on AAPI History and Contemporary Life is from Facing History.
Asian Pacific American History is from The Smithsonian.
100 ways Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and allies have found solutions to racism and violence. is from NBC News.
Perfect little short to make you tear up and feel proud to be Asian American for #AAPIHM pic.twitter.com/chP639gctE
— Nancy Wang Yuen (@nancywyuen) May 5, 2022
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another resource for Asian Pacific Heritage Month http://exchanges.state.gov/uploads/Cf/0O/Cf0Od735f8DJrr1K4dRO-A/AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth.pdf


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There are fewer and fewer television programs out there that I will watch. It seems that the world is constantly bombarded by hundreds of channels of nothing but junk. Every once in a while I find a show that I simply cannot miss. Unfortunately, I have already missed this one.
Invader Zim was canceled last year by Nickelodeon. I only ever found out about it because it has become something of a cult phenomenon on the Internet. After downloading a few of the episodes I was hooked. It was hilarious; I could not stop laughing after I saw it.
Invader Zim is about an overlydramatic alien that has been sent away to keep him out of his race's plan to take over the universe (Operation Impending Doom II). After causing a complete disaster in the first operation, and subsequent banishment, Zim is sent to conquer an out of the way planet by the alien leadership. They send him to "a planet so mysterious that no one knows its name. And those that do, dare not speak it." They send him to Earth. Zim, convinced of his self-importance, goes off with pride to complete his secret mission.
The show has a shockingly funny attitude that is reminiscent to Ren and Stimpy and, to a lesser degree, the Simpsons and the Family Guy. We laugh at Zim's vain attempt to be human in a world that never really notices him. This gives rise of his rivalry with Dib – the only boy in class that can see through Zim's disguise ( "OK, am I the only one here that can see the alien in class?"). We also laugh as Zim's little helper Gir, a defective robot, walks through the show with a very simple mindset. Gir's inability to perform even simple functions (at least without removing his guidance chip to make room for cupcakes) infuriates Zim and makes the robot hilarious and a much loved character.


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It's possible for you to prevent this issue quite readily using gutter guards in zip. The Gutterglove product is perhaps one of the most popular since it can be fitted to a lot of distinct sizes of gutter and the most recognized, although there are a lot of different kinds of gutter guards out there.
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Some more affordable guards have a simple, thin support frame, the drawback to this is that there is the risk of the framework falling, if not if it does hold up it might droop into the gutter, and collect debris itself. If debris is accumulating, then it is just better in relation to the gutter itself gathering it.
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With gutter guards, you Won't need certainly to climb up onto your roof to clean your gutters regularly through the year, this saves you time, and reduces the risk of harm being suffered by you. It also means that you just don't need to be concerned about the monetary cost of repairing your roof if things FAIL. But you should be aware of that gutter guards are not completely maintenance free, you will need to clean them sometimes. The good news is that when you select the best type, thickness and pitch you will find which you can go quite a while between cleanings, so the care burden will be minimal.
Make sure you get them professionally fitted, if you are going to purchase them. This will ensure that you simply don't end up with seeds and debris caught in your gutter, needing more cleaning. A professional fitting service that is good will install your guards at an identical pitch as your roof, ensuring maximum runoff, keeping your gutters free and clear.
If you opt for an ice–preventing gutter guard, choose one with only one cabledirty that is all you have to melt ice, and it's going to minimize the amount of electricity consumed through the year. Gutter guards can seem expensive, but the total cost of ownership is minimal when compared with the attempt that they will save you long term.
In addition to quitting a build-up of debris and leaves, ice cans also stop from forming in your gutter. There are high end gutter guards which are equipped with a single, low energy usage heat cable that melt ice which is already there, stopping it from enlarging and damaging your gutter or will stop ice from forming in the first place €".
An anodized aluminium channel frame will continue for quite a long time and withstand corrosion.
While general purpose guards will do a decent job, the more specialist Leaf Blaster or Ice Breaker guards have a transparent audience of homeowners, and it could be worth picking one of those specialist models if you live in an area where ice is a problem or there are lots of falling leaves at certain times of the year.
The LeafBlaster variety specifically is interesting due to the unique design which slips under the roof shingles. The guard clamps the gutter guard in position, keeping it secure, and rests on the top of the roof deck or your tar paper. The guard was made to match the pitch of the roof, ensuring that leaves flow over the top of it, not causing and accumulating problems with your gutter.


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– 8th Annual Jackpot Records Music & Film Festival, all week Monday-Friday beginning at 8:00pm; all shows are free for all ages and play at McMenamins Bagdad Theater.
– History Pub Monday at McMenamins Kennedy School "A Woman Alone": Mona Bell Hill and the Mansion on Bonneville Rock, starting at 7:00pm. Free, all ages welcome. Please bring a canned good to donate to the OR Food Bank.
– Today is National Coffee Day and you can get free coffee at 7-Eleven and Krispy Kreme.
Stop by 7-Eleven between 7:00am – 11:00am to receive a free medium-size cup of hot coffee, cappuccino or latte, while supplies last.
Krispy Kreme will celebrate National Coffee Day and its new Krispy Kreme Signature Coffee Blends by giving a free 12oz cup of House Blend Coffee to its guests in the U.S. and Canada. No purchase necessary.
– Last Thursday on Alberta, vendors and performers begin assembling around 5:30pm and the action is in full swing by 6:30pm.
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This is off the immediate topic, but I really wanted to thank you for organizing the birthday deals section. It was my partner's bday this past weekend, and we got her a free meal at Vege Thai, Denny's, and Pastini Pastaria, as well as free ice cream cones at Ben and Jerry's and BaskinRobbins. It was a delicious weekend!


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Q: Delete file from a file set I have a following file structure:
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/home/envs/ENVn

Inside each "ENVi" foled I have a "log" folder that collect log for application. I need to delete all logs for all envs periodically.
Is there any terminal command that I can do it?
Regards

A: This should do it:
$ rm ~/envs/ENV*/log/*

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Ross Clark
Does Taiwan hold the answer to the lab leak theory?
12 December 2021, 12:17pm
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It is nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) dismissed the possibility that the Covid 19 pandemic could have originated in a laboratory leak, calling it 'extremely unlikely'. Since then, much scientific opinion has been moving in the direction that it is at least a possibility – especially given that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been accused of engaging in 'gain of function' research into coronaviruses, involving manipulating the viruses into making them possibly more transmissible. Moreover, far from being rare, as the WHO intimated, the original SARS virus is known to have escaped from a laboratory on a couple of occasions.
But if Covid did get into the human population, how might it have escaped from the Wuhan lab? One possible answer lies in Taiwan, where a scientist working on Covid experiments at the Academia Sinica in Taipei has tested positive for the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus after being bitten by a laboratory mouse on 19 November. No community transmission of Covid has been recorded in Taiwan for a month. The same worker had previously been bitten by a mouse at the laboratory a month earlier, but on that occasion tested negative.
It is proof – as if any were needed – that laboratory accidents can and do occur, and that it must be assumed that any microbe that is contained within a laboratory may at some stage escape into the outside human population outside, however strong are the protocols for containing it. Following this pandemic there will have to be a serious discussion as to what experiments should be allowed and which should not. The Wuhan research was targeted at helping the world cope with a future pandemic – but if such research turns out actually to have caused a pandemic, then it is a form of research that the world might well conclude it is better off doing without.
The other implication of the Taiwan incident is that it appears SARS-CoV-2 can be carried in animals other than bats – from which it is believed to have originated – and infect the human population via that route. That makes it much harder to imagine that we could ever contain Covid via restrictions on human movement alone. Rodents are quite capable of scurrying across borders however stringent quarantine is placed on human travellers.
Written byRoss Clark
Ross Clark is a leader writer and columnist who, besides three decades with The Spectator, has written for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and several other newspapers. His satirical climate change novel, The Denial, is published by Lume Books.
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Apple executives, seeking to improve the performance of iPhone software after months of reported quality issues, have decided to delay some key features originally planned for this fall's update, according to a person familiar with the matter.
As part of an annual release of new iPhone models, Apple also usually rolls out a major iOS update each year. The current software version, iOS 11, added augmented-reality features, a file management app and business-user enhancements for the iPad. For iOS 12, Apple has been working on additions like a redesigned home screen app grid, a multiplayer mode for augmented reality games, and a merger of the third-party applications running on iPhones and Macs, the people said, asking not to be named discussing information that isn't public.
The shift in strategy comes following months of criticism due to bugs found in Apple's software. Late last year, researchers discovered a login flaw that allowed intruders to access files without a passcode on Mac computers and vulnerabilities in the company's smart-home platform. Apple has also publicly delayed key new iOS features in recent months, including a feature for synchronizing text messages across Apple devices and its peer to peer payments system, Apple Pay Cash.
New features for parents to better monitor how long apps are being used for by kids and their overall screen time, as well as improvements to Apple's FaceTime video calling service are still on track for this year's update, the people said. A shareholder group recently criticized the parental control on iPhones, pushing Apple to say earlier this month that improvements would be released in a future software update.
Axios reported earlier on the delay. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment. The company reports quarterly earnings on Thursday.
Earlier this month, Apple said it would release an update for iPhones called iOS 11.3 that would allow customers to disable a feature that slowed iPhone performance in favor of battery life. The update will also have improved AR apps, new video modes for Apple Music and Apple News, and security enhancements for smart-home appliances.


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Sound Suggestions is an album by the American jazz saxophonist George Adams recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "The playing is advanced but not as fiery as most of Adams' later sets". The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars, stating: "this was an uneasy collaboration, not really Adams's own session".

Track listing
All compositions by George Adams except as indicated
 "Baba" (Kenny Wheeler) - 13:00
 "Imani's Dance" - 11:00
 "Stay Informed" (Heinz Sauer) - 8:01
 "Got Somethin' Good for You" - 5:42
 "A Spire" (Wheeler) - 8:07
Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, West Germany in May 1979

Personnel
George Adams – tenor saxophone, vocals
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet
Heinz Sauer - tenor saxophone
Richard Beirach – piano
Dave Holland – bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums

References

ECM Records albums
George Adams (musician) albums
1979 albums
Albums produced by Manfred Eicher

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Performing as Miley Cyrus, Melai Named as the First "Your Face Sounds Familiar" Grand Winner!
Actress-comedienne Melai Cantiveros was crowned the first-ever grand winner of top-rating celebrity musical competition "Your Face Sounds Familiar" after garnering 51.93% of public votes in the program's grand showdown Sunday night (June 7).
Melai bested other Final 4 celebrity perfomers Nyoy Volante, Jay-R, and Edgar Allan Guzman with her impersonation of pop star Miley Cyrus. Melai brought the house down on Saturday's (June 6) show when she came out wearing a white top and underwear while singing "Wrecking Ball," and then swinging on a wrecking ball.
"To those who voted for me through text, thank you very much. To all Melason fans, thank you for your support and for voting for me," said Melai, who dedicates her victory to her husband Jason Francisco and their daughter.
Melai won P2 million, half of which will go to her chosen charity, the Alay Kapwa Desk Social Action Center of the Diocese of Marbel.
Nyoy, who belted out "I Will Always Love You" while copying diva Whitney Houston, placed second by getting 24.51% of the votes. Jay-R, who impersonated Frank Sinantra, and EA, who transformed into Chris Brown, came in third and fourth place, respectively.
The three placers all got P200,000 each, half of which will also be given to their chosen charity.
Melai, who admits she is not a singer, consistently gained high scores throughout the season from jurors Gary Valenciano, Jed Madela, and Sharon Cuneta, and was even named a top scorer for impersonating Elizabeth Ramsey on the show's ninth week.
Meanwhile, on Sunday's finale show, the bottom celebrity performers also took the "Your Face" stage, with Jolina Magdangal performing as Karen Carpenter, Maxene Magalona as Nicki Minaj, Tutti Caringal as Bryan Adams, and Karla Estrada as Gloria Gaynor.
Teen stars Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano also opened the show with a song number.
Host Billy Crawford, meanwhile, announced a second season of the top-rating program will be airing soon.
Since it started airing in March this year, "Your Face Sounds Familiar" has consistently topped the list of the country's most watched TV programs, as well as the trending topics on Twitter.
Viewers nationwide also tuned in to the grand showdown as proven by data from Kantar Media. The finale was the most watched program last weekend when it recorded a national TV rating of 37.6% last Saturday (June 6) and 36.7% last Sunday (June 7), according to data from Kantar Media.
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The 2004 Iowa Caucuses took place on January 19, 2004. They were a primarily Democratic affair due to the incumbent status of Republican President George W. Bush. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) placed first in a field of nine major Democratic candidates. CNN reported that Kerry had received thirty-eight percent of the total vote (twenty delegates) while his nearest rival, Senator John Edwards (D-SC), received thirty-two percent (eighteen delegates).1 Both of these candidates had seemed like a long shot going into the primary. They battled their way to the top two spots in Iowa and ultimately the 2004 Democratic nomination for President and Vice President.
Despite Dean's momentum, Senator John Kerry secured the victory in Iowa with thirty-eight percent of the total vote (twenty delegates). Kerry had battled his way to the top despite a general consensus that his chances in Iowa had appeared slim. Kerry thanked his Iowa supporters for making him the "Comeback Kerry," an allusion to Bill Clinton's "Comeback Kid" label. He then delivered a message to the Bush administration: "We're coming, you're going, and don't let the door hit you on the way out."8 John Edwards' robust thirty-two percent (eighteen delegates) showing kept him firmly in the race and also exceeded expectations.
John Kerry capitalized on his momentum from Iowa victory to launch an energetic campaign in New Hampshire. He won first place in the New Hampshire primary on January 27, 2004. Their early victories in Iowa paved the way for Kerry's presidential nomination and selection of Edwards as his running mate.
1Cable News Network, "America Votes 2004: Primary Results: Iowa, January 19," http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/states/IA/ , (Accessed May 12, 2014).
2Jeff Zeleny, "Gephardt hopes to repeat magic of 1988 in Iowa," Chicago Tribune, November 23, 2003, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-11-23/news/0311230422_1_missouri-congressman-iowa-federation-richard-gephardt , (Accessed May 12, 2014).
3Adam Nagourney, "Gore to Endorse Howard Dean for '04 Presidential Nomination," New York Times, December, 8, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/politics/08CND-GORE.html, (Accessed May 12, 2014).
4Associated Press, "Iowa's Senator Harkin Endorses Dean," January 9, 2004, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3918134/ns/politics/t/iowas-sen-harkin-endorses-dean/#.U3EyAygR-Cc, (Accessed May 12, 2014).
5Associated Press, "Moseley Braun ends campaign, endorses Dean," December 15, 2004, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3962175/ns/politics/t/moseley-braunendscampaign-endorses-dean/#.U3EzMCgR-Cc, (Accessed May 12, 2004).
6Register Editorial Board, "John Edwards – – his time is now," Des Moines Register, January 11, 2004, http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/cands/endorsements/dmr011104.html, (Accessed May 12, 2004).
8 MSNBC.Com News Services, "Kerry roars back to win Iowa caucuses," January 20, 2004, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3999491/ns/politics/t/kerry-roars-back-win-iowa-caucuses/#.U3E7oSgR-Cc, (Accessed May 12, 2004).
9ABC News, "January 19, 2004: Howard 'Dean Scream'," http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/jan-19-2004-howard-dean-scream-9438051 , (Accessed May 12, 2014).
10Cable News Network, "Gephardt to drop out of race," January 20, 2004, http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/elec04.prez.gephardt/index.html, (Accessed May 12, 2004).


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27-Year-Old Becomes The First Black Woman To Earn Ph.D. In Nuclear Engineering From University of Michigan
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At only 27 years old, Ciara Sivels is the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan.
The Chesapeake, Virginia, native has accomplished a major win at the top nuclear engineering program in the country. In October, Sivels successfully presented her thesis on "Development of an Advanced Radioxenon Detector for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring," but she didn't always have a passion for science.
When she graduated from high school, the scholar wanted to study culinary arts. It wasn't until her teacher encouraged her to try her hand at STEM that she developed interests in nuclear science and engineering.
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The road to earning her Ph.D. was not easy, but Sivel received support from mentors like Dr. Sara Pozzi, the academic advisor for her thesis.
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Geminga
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0
06h 33m 54.15s
+17° 46′ 12.9″
Apparent magnitude (V)
Distance 815 ly
(250 pc)
Spectral type Pulsar
Other designations
SN 437, PSR B0633+17, PSR J0633+1746
Geminga is a neutron star approximately 250 parsecs[1] (around 800 light years) from the Sun in the constellation Gemini. Its name is both a contraction of "Gemini gamma-ray source", and a transcription of the words gh'è minga "it's not there" in the Lombard dialect of Milan (pronounced [ɡɛˈmiŋɡa]).[2]
Geminga.
The nature of Geminga was quite unknown for 20 years after its discovery by NASA's Second Small Astronomy Satellite (SAS-2). Finally, in March 1991 the ROSAT satellite detected a periodicity of 0.237 seconds in soft x-ray emission. Thus, it is supposed that Geminga is a sort of neutron star: the decaying core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova about 300,000 years ago.[3]
It was once thought that this nearby explosion was responsible for the low density of the interstellar medium in the immediate vicinity of the Solar System. This low-density area is known as the Local Bubble.[4] Possible evidence for this includes findings by the Arecibo Observatory that local micrometre-sized interstellar meteor particles appear to originate from its direction.[5] More recently, however, it has been suggested that multiple supernovae in subgroup B1 of the Pleiades moving group were more likely responsible,[6] becoming a remnant supershell.[7]
Discovery and identification
Position of Geminga in the Milky Way. Credit : NASA/DOE/International LAT Team.
Geminga was the first example of an unidentified gamma-ray source, a source which could not be associated with any objects known at other wavelengths. It was first detected as a significant excess of gamma-rays over the expected background of diffuse Galactic emission, by the SAS-2 satellite (Fictel et al. 1975) and subsequently by the COS-B satellite. The SAS-2 group reported a pulsation in the gamma-ray signal, with period approximately 59 s, although the limited number of detected gamma-rays (121 over a period of four months) led them to conclude that the pulsation was not statistically compelling. Due to the limited angular resolution of the instrument (approximately 2.5° at 100MeV) and the small number of gamma-rays detected, the exact location of the source was uncertain, constrained only to be within a relatively large "error region". At the time of detection, four weak radio sources were known within this region, two supernova remnants bordered it and a known satellite galaxy to the Milky Way lay nearby. None of these known sources were convincing associations to the gamma-ray source, and the SAS-2 team suggested that an undiscovered radio-pulsar was the most likely progenitor.[8]
Despite the investment of a significant amount of observation time, the source remained unidentified through the COS-B era; their data did, however, rule out the claimed 59 s pulsation. Many claims were made about the source during this time, but its nature remained a mystery until the identification of a candidate source by the Einstein x-ray satellite, 1E 0630+178.[2] The characteristics of the x-ray source were unique: large x-ray to optical luminosity, no radio emission detected by the sensitive VLA instrument, point-like emission in the Einstein imager and an estimated distance of approximately 100 pc, placing it within the Galaxy. An association between the gamma-ray and x-ray sources was not conclusively made until the ROSAT x-ray imager detected a 237 ms pulsation,[9] which was also seen in gamma-rays by the EGRET instrument[10] and retrospectively in the COS-B and SAS-2 data.[11][12] Geminga thus appeared to be the first example of a radio-quiet pulsar, and served as an illustration of the difficulty of associating gamma-ray emission with objects known at other wavelengths: some characteristic of the gamma-ray source, such as periodicity or variability, must be identified in candidate counterparts at other wavelengths in order to make the connection of their identity.
Finally, this principle held true when radio emissions of matching 237 ms periodicity were found at previously unsurveyed frequencies of 100 MHz and below.[13]
Proper motion
The proper motion of Geminga is 178.2 mas/year which corresponds to a projected velocity of 205 kilometers per second.[1] This is very fast for a star, comparable to Barnard's star.
Timing measurements
Geminga underwent a minor glitch in the late part of 1996, with a fractional change in frequency of 6.2 × 10−10.[14] A 1998 study of the pre-glitch ephemeris suggested that the timings were being affected by reflex motion due to the presence of a low-mass planet in a 5.1-year orbit,[15] however this was later shown to be an artifact of noise that affects the pulse times from Geminga rather than a genuine orbital effect.[14]
1 2 Faherty, J.; Walter, F. M.; Anderson, J. (2007). "The trigonometric parallax of the neutron star Geminga". Astrophysics and Space Science. 308: 225. Bibcode:2007Ap&SS.308..225F. doi:10.1007/s10509-007-9368-0.
1 2 Bignami, G. F.; et al. (September 1983). "An identification for 'Geminga' (2CG 195+04) 1E 0630+178 - A unique object in the error box of the high-energy gamma-ray source". Astrophysical Journal. 72: L9–L13.
↑ Geminga, Internet Encyclopedia of Science
↑ Gehrels, N.; Chen, W. (1993). "The Geminga supernova as a possible cause of the local interstellar bubble". Nature. 361 (6414): 706. Bibcode:1993Natur.361..706G. doi:10.1038/361706a0.
↑ "The Sun's Exotic Neighborhood". Centauri Dreams. 2008-02-28.
↑ T. W. Berghoefer; D. Breitschwerdt (2002). "The origin of the young stellar population in the solar neighborhood - a link to the formation of the Local Bubble?". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 390 (1): 299–306. arXiv:astro-ph/0205128v2 . Bibcode:2002A&A...390..299B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20020627.
↑ J. R. Gabel; F. C. Bruhweiler (8 January 1998). "[51.09] Model of an Expanding Supershell Structure in the LISM". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
↑ Thompson, D. J.; et al. (April 1977). "Final SAS-2 gamma-ray results on sources in the galactic anticenter region". Astrophysical Journal. 213: 252–262. Bibcode:1977ApJ...213..252T. doi:10.1086/155152.
↑ Halpern, J. P.; Holt, S. S. (May 1992). "Discovery of soft X-ray pulsations from the gamma-ray source Geminga". Nature. 357: 222–224. Bibcode:1992Natur.357..222H. doi:10.1038/357222a0.
↑ Bertsch, D. L.; et al. (May 1992). "Pulsed high-energy gamma-radiation from Geminga (1E0630 + 178)". Nature. 357: 306. Bibcode:1992Natur.357..306B. doi:10.1038/357306a0.
↑ Bignami, G. F.; Caraveo, P. A. (May 1992). "Geminga - New Period Old Gamma-Rays". Nature. 357: 287. Bibcode:1992Natur.357..287B. doi:10.1038/357287a0.
↑ Mattox, J. R.; et al. (December 1992). "SAS 2 observation of pulsed high-energy gamma radiation from Geminga". Astrophysical Journal. 401: L23–L26. Bibcode:1992ApJ...401L..23M. doi:10.1086/186661.
↑ Gil, J. A.; Khechinashvili, D. G.; Melikidze, G. I. (1998). "Why is the Geminga pulsar radio quiet at frequencies higher than about 100 MHz?". ASP Conference Series. 138: 119. Bibcode:1998ASPC..138..119G.
1 2 Jackson, M. S.; Halpern, J. P.; Gotthelf, E. V.; Mattox, J. R. (2002). "A High-Energy Study of the Geminga Pulsar". The Astrophysical Journal. 578 (2): 935–942. arXiv:astro-ph/0207001 . Bibcode:2002ApJ...578..935J. doi:10.1086/342662.
↑ Mattox, J. R.; Halpern, J. P.; Caraveo, P. A. (1998). "Timing the Geminga Pulsar with Gamma-Ray Observations". The Astrophysical Journal. 493 (2): 891–897. Bibcode:1998ApJ...493..891M. doi:10.1086/305144.
Fichtel, C. E.; et al. (May 1975). "High-energy gamma-ray results from the second small astronomy satellite.". Astrophysical Journal. 198: 163–182. Bibcode:1975ApJ...198..163F. doi:10.1086/153590.
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"Will your party hand over our right to make laws to the US?" ask doctors
Doctors are calling on all political parties to immediately declare their position on the re-drafting of New Zealand's laws that protect health under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Medical professionals concerned about the health risks from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, today reacted with shock at the revelations that New Zealand laws could be effectively re-written without the public's knowledge by the United States..A new website launched today(http://tppnocertification.org/) shows how trade deals such as the TPP have interfered with laws, pushing the commercial interests of United States ahead of other countries' needs including health.
"Many of our laws form the building blocks for fair and healthy lives. These include laws that protect health through fair access to medicines, clean water, food and air, and well-functioning life-support systems like the climate. Losing our sovereign right to create and strengthen these building blocks for health will make it extremely difficult for New Zealand to maintain and improve our quality of life", says Dr Macmillan, Acting Co-Convenor of the NZ Climate & Health Council.
"New Zealand must have the freedom to make laws for New Zealanders' best interests. We need to protect our access to affordable medicine with Pharmac, and be free to legislate to promote New Zealanders' health now and into the future - without interference or re-writing from other countries"
Earlier this year over 250 senior health professionals signed an open letter of concern to the Prime Minister about the risks of the TPP(http://www.orataiao.org.nz/TPPA+letter ). The concerns included the way that trade agreements could stifle laws to protect against hazardous substances (such as plain packaging on tobacco), interfere with environmental health and safety legislation or block necessary controls on excessive use of drugs manufactured by transnational companies.
"Like the Director General of the World Health Organisation Dr Margaret Chan we are particularly disturbed by 'the use of foreign investment agreements to handcuff governments and restrict their policy space' http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2014/wha-19052014/en/ . We've had bland reassurances that the TPP offers no problems for health, but these are especially hollow in the light of new revelations that the TPP will allow off-shore interests to meddle with our health-protecting regulations designed" Dr Macmillan said.
"Every political party needs to publicly state their position on the TPP before this election, including whether they agree with New Zealand's laws being 'certified' by the United States" she said.
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. (Jan. 3, 2019) — Yannis Alekos Floros, 21, and his passenger, Tabia Watson, 20, both died in a two-vehicle collision on Campo Road, according to the San Diego Medical Examiner.
The crash took place about 11:27 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2018. Floros was driving eastbound on Campo Road when he reportedly lost control of the vehicle, spun sideways and veered into oncoming traffic where the vehicle was struck by an SUV at Lyons Valley Road. The SUV struck the passenger side door of the vehicle where Watson was seated.
Firefighters and paramedics responded and found both Floros and Watson unresponsive. They performed life saving measures, however, Watson died at the scene at 11:40 p.m. and Floros was taken to a trauma center where he later died at 12:37 a.m. on Jan. 1.
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Nation's Favourite Gardens: Winners announced
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Thousands of gardens, from country estates to tiny urban plots, open to visitors to raise money for the National Garden Scheme and the charities that are its beneficiaries, exemplifying our country's spirit at its best.
As the National Garden Scheme's patron, HRH The Prince of Wales, says, it's a unique blend of Britishness: gardening, the role of volunteers, the cumulative power of small events, and a celebration of what gardens can do to benefit us all.
What is the National Garden Scheme:
A visit to a National Garden Scheme garden is an essential part of the gardening year, and through their visits garden lovers have raised more than £50 million for nursing and caring charities since the Scheme's inception in 1927. Having donated £16.7 million to Macmillan Cancer Support alone over the past 30 years, the Scheme is Macmillan's largest funder.
The link with nursing is embedded in the National Garden Scheme's DNA, since it was founded by the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) to raise money for district nurses. Before World War II, there was no National Health Service and virtually all nursing was funded charitably, with district nursing a vital part of the nation's healthcare.
History of the Scheme:
In 1926, Miss Elsie Wagg, a trustee of the QNI, suggested approaching the owners of lovely gardens and persuading them to open to visitors and donate the money raised to the QNI. Less than a year later 600 gardens opened, each charging admission of one shilling: they raised £8,000. The first National Garden Scheme guide was published in 1932, taking on its famous yellow livery in 1949. In 1992 the landmark annual donation of £1 million was achieved for the first time and in 2018 more than 3,500 gardens participated, raising a record figure of £3.1 million.
The famous 'Yellow Book' that lists all the gardens that open for the Scheme
Continuity is a great theme of the National Garden Scheme, exemplified by the select group of gardens that took part in the very first openings in 1927 and are still opening today. Two have opened for every one of the 92 years, Ramster in Surrey and Sandringham, the Norfolk home of Her Majesty The Queen.
For all its heritage and royal patronage, the core element of the National Garden Scheme today is the diversity of its gardens and audience. There are still many stately homes and country houses, but also hundreds of small urban gardens, allotment groups, community gardens, plus the gardens of primary schools, hospices and even barges on the River Thames. All do their bit, raising money through admissions – and, of course, tea and cake.
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Competition to find the Nation's Favourite Gardens:
Through our competition to find the Nation's Favourite Gardens, we want to reward the hard-working gardeners who have done so much to help the scheme's causes, so thank you for nominating your favourite garden in the scheme.
Voting has now finished and we are pleased to announce the winners of each of the scheme's six regions, as well as one champion of champions with the most votes overall. Find our winners at theenglishgarden.co.uk/ngs.
We are happy to announce that Elizabeth Noble has been named winner of the luxury Viking Cruise for two, awarded at random from the list of those who nominated or voted in the competition.
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Q: List used TCP port using C# This is the answer to my questions.
How to list binded/used TCP port in C#. Used modified code from jro
        static void ListUsedTCPPort(ref ArrayList usedPort)
    {
        IPGlobalProperties ipGlobalProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
        IPEndPoint[] tcpConnInfoArray = ipGlobalProperties.GetActiveTcpListeners();
        IEnumerator myEnum = tcpConnInfoArray.GetEnumerator();

        while (myEnum.MoveNext())
        {
            IPEndPoint TCPInfo = (IPEndPoint)myEnum.Current;
            usedPort.Add(TCPInfo.Port);
        }
    }

Original questions.
This is how i list TCP port using C#. It is modified code i found in this forum(forgot exactly where i got it. If you are the original developer, notify me and ill put credits where due.)
    //List used tcp port
    static void ListUsedTCPPort(ref ArrayList usedPort)
    {
        IPGlobalProperties ipGlobalProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
        TcpConnectionInformation[] tcpConnInfoArray = ipGlobalProperties.GetActiveTcpConnections();
        IEnumerator myEnum = tcpConnInfoArray.GetEnumerator();

        while (myEnum.MoveNext())
        {
            TcpConnectionInformation TCPInfo = (TcpConnectionInformation)myEnum.Current;
            usedPort.Add(TCPInfo.LocalEndPoint.Port);
        }
    }

Problem is, the results is different from used tcp port listed in TCPview(Protocol-TCP, Local port).
By the way, i do know that this list used TCP port at the EXACT time its called.
What did i did wrong?

A: I get the same result:

But it does also show listeners (ipGlobalProperties.GetActiveTcpListeners()) which may or may not be closed down.
using your example (with an extra Console.WriteLine in there
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Collections;

namespace ConsoleApplication1 {

    static class Program {
        //List used tcp port
        static void ListAvailableTCPPort(ref ArrayList usedPort) {
            IPGlobalProperties ipGlobalProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
            TcpConnectionInformation[] tcpConnInfoArray = ipGlobalProperties.GetActiveTcpConnections();
            IEnumerator myEnum = tcpConnInfoArray.GetEnumerator();

            while (myEnum.MoveNext()) {
                TcpConnectionInformation TCPInfo = (TcpConnectionInformation)myEnum.Current;
                Console.WriteLine("Port {0} {1} {2} ", TCPInfo.LocalEndPoint, TCPInfo.RemoteEndPoint, TCPInfo.State);
                usedPort.Add(TCPInfo.LocalEndPoint.Port);
            }
        }

        public static void Main(){
            ArrayList usedPorts = new ArrayList();
            ListAvailableTCPPort(ref usedPorts);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

A: It's a bit of a guess but TCPView probably also shows listener tcp ports (ipGlobalProperties.GetActiveTcpListeners())


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Q: Insertar datos desde campos dinámicos Estoy tratando de insertar datos desde campos dinámicos generados con jquery, en los cuales puedo agregar y eliminar dichos campos, el atributo name lo voy incrementando para diferenciarlos (agr0, agr1, agr2, agr3....). El problema lo tengo al intentar insertar datos después de haber borrado algún campo, por ejemplo si borro el campo agr2 mi código inserta solo agr0 y agr1 dejando fuera el agr3.
Este es el código que estoy utilizando:
$i=0;
while(isset($_POST['agr'.$i],$_POST['mon'.$i],$_POST['date'.$i])){
  mysqli_query($con,"INSERT INTO monitoreo VALUES (null, '".$_POST['agr'.$i]."', '".$_POST['mon'.$i]."', '".restaurarFormatoFecha($_POST['date'.$i])."', $folio)") or die (mysqli_error($con));
  $i++;
}

A: Eso ocurre porque tu ciclo dice Mientras exista..... se ejecutara tu codigo, si no, no sigue le ciclo. Cuando while comprueba que dicho elemento no existe corta el ciclo.
Lo mejor que puedes hacer es recorrerlo con un ciclo for en este caso
[0] = arg0
[1] = arg1
[2] = arg2
[3] = arg3
...

Si tu eliminas arg2
[0] = arg0
[1] = arg1
[2] = arg3

Tambien el problema que tienes es que cuando generas los campos dinamicos, si tu generas 4 y eliminas 1, los indices de arg1, arg2.... deberian cambiar y disminuir en 1.


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50 Years of World Titles Surfing
International Competitive Surfing Turns 50.
On the 7th of June a gala diner was held in Manly Beach in Sydney to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first official Surfing World Titles that were held at that famous break. This last Saturday morning, Max Wetteland, South Africa's lone participant at the event is on the beach in Durban. His phone rings and it's Midget Farrelly, the winner of the event back in '64. "So where are you, Max? The diner is about to start." asked a jesting Midget. The two surfing pioneers met in the quarter finals of the famous event, Max called Midget onto a wave. The wave helped get Midget through the heat and the gesture sparked a life long friendship.
The winners podium. (left to right) Mike Doyle (2nd) Midget and Joey Cabell (3rd) Photo Bob Evans
In a final Midget beat a very strong field that included such magic names as (the late) Bobby Brown, Mick Dooley, Joey Cabell, Mike Doyle and LJ Richards of America. Superstars of the day.Functional surfing as apposed to hotdogging was in vogue and much in the style of Phil Edwards, the nineteen year old Midget beat the favourite Joey Cabell into third place.
Phyllis O'Donell of Australia won the ladies division.
The event was a massive turning point for international competitive surfing. Up until then the premier international event was held at Makaha, which Midget won in 1963. So to, once and for all, determine who the best surfer in the world was, the Australian Surfing Association with the help of movie maker Bob Evan, Manly Beach and Ampol (the sponsor) put on the inaugural World event at the North Sydney beach.
France, South Africa, England, Peru and New Zealand were invited to send their best surfer to the event to join a horde of Aussies that had pre-qualified to compete. The rest is history.
Pictured Below is Max and Midget shaking hands after their quarter final heat. Below that is the letter to Harry Bold (Surfer magazine distributor for South Africa and the only South African in touch with anyone in international surfing at the time) from the Australian Surfing Association asking for the attendance of the SA national champion at the 1964 World Championships.
by Patrick Flanagan
Written for the Zig Zag Web site's 'Throw Back Thursday' feature.
http://www.zigzag.co.za/featured/throwback-thursday-the-birth-of-competitive-surfing/
http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/world-surfing-championships-1964 for more


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Middle Coast Film Fest in Bloomington
By Visit Indiana on July 30, 2015
When you hear "film festival," you probably think: expensive, far away, gotta have an industry connection to even get near it.
Middle Coast Film Fest, happening August 13-15 in Bloomington, is something entirely different: affordable, accessible, and close to home.
More than 60 movies will screen at a variety of venues over the weekend, including a mix of feature-length and short films. There's everything from comedy to horror, animations to documentaries, coming-of-age tales to love stories. Some are being shown to the public for the very first time, and others have already screened at big-name film fests, like Sundance.
A day pass for the festival is $25 and a weekend pass is $40, available here. Early-bird pricing through Aug.1 is $20 for a day pass and $30 for a weekend pass. At the door, day passes are $30 and a weekend pass is $50.
It's the second year of the fest for co-founders Jessica Levandoski and Chelsea Sanders. The fest was a trial of sorts last year, Levandoski says, and it has grown immensely in just a year.
We spoke with Levandoski, the festival director and a filmmaker herself, about what to expect:
Visit Indiana: What made you decide to start Middle Coast?
Levandoski: We are in an often-overlooked state, a "flyover" state if you will, and yet you come here and you just. can't. believe all the hidden treasures Bloomington has. We are one of the country's best kept secrets both geographically and culturally speaking, and our festival reflects that. We are The Middle Coast. Our shorelines are different and way less expansive but it's the people here that provide the creative buoyancy that keeps projects like ours afloat.
We are a festival aimed at providing an intimate connection between filmmakers and our audience, we want all aspects of filmmaking to be showcased and talked about. From the on camera talent, to screenwriters, directors of photography, and set and costume design, to CGI and marketing, all the way to the catering teams that keep film crews fed. We want to implore our Midwestern audience to consider filmmaking as another industry that can grow and thrive here, and we want Bloomington to be at its epicenter.
Middle Coast Film Festival movies are screened at a handful of Bloomington venues, including the Indiana University Cinema.
Visit Indiana: Which movies will everyone will be talking about?
Levandoski: I think Runoff, Wildlike, The Manifesto and I Dream Too Much will have the most buzz. Especially I Dream — it was directed by Katie Cokinos and exec-produced by Richard Linklater, and it stars Diane Ladd. Katie is coming to the Festival to hang out and do a panel called "Creating Where You Are, With What You Have" with director David Anspaugh. Katie is THE nicest person, so down to earth and approachable, and David is just a wealth of knowledge and an inspiration to so many filmmakers. They both can speak about going against the Hollywood format and creating on their own terms, so it should be a fantastic experience that tons of folks will be tweeting and snapping pics about.
I also think festival goers will be talking about the web-series programming that will play before each program block. It's not like anything they've seen before, it is a completely refreshing spin on the classic "Friends" setup. It's called "Weekend Plans."
Middle Coast FIlm Festival event in 2014 at Blueline in Bloomington.
Visit Indiana: Are any movies made by Indiana residents and/or filmed in Indiana?
Levandoski: Absolutely! The Thin Brothers Visit Room 213, A Stone's Pace, Daystime, 2.0.1, Old Dogs Never Die, Slide, #STRONGSMARTBOLD, Duck Tape.
We take a special interest in putting Hoosier-made films in front of visiting industry insiders, so that they can see the level of quality film that is being made with zero state infrastructure for film, and shoestring budgets. Some of our Hoosier-made films were made for as little as $1,700. In Hollywood, NYC or even Atlanta you couldn't shoot for one day with that budget.
Middle Coast Film Fest co-founders Chelsea Sanders and Jessica Levandoski
Visit Indiana: Anything else we just can't miss?
Levandoski: This year we are featuring an awards ceremony with some special guests that could only be seen in Bloomington. Let's just say that some cinematic legends will be on stage and handing out the awards to the winners….
Also, our closing party was epic last year, and it will be epic again this year. We project our Music Video Selections onto the back of the 4th street Garage and have an outdoor dance party at the legendary bar, The Back Door. Cardinal Sprits, Upland Brewing Co., and KingDough Pizza will all be on hand to serve up the good stuff.


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Garden Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks-ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 227 at the 2000 census.

History
Garden Township was organized in 1881, and named for their fertile soil.

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As of the census of 2000, there were 227 people, 84 households, and 65 families residing in the township. The population density was 6.7 people per square mile (2.6/km2). There were 109 housing units at an average density of 3.2/sq mi (1.2/km2).  The racial makeup of the township was 100.00% White.

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A Subocka egy patak Horvátországban, Szlavóniában, a Veliki Strug jobb oldali mellékvize.

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Saint-Pôtan è un comune francese di 799 abitanti situato nel dipartimento delle Côtes-d'Armor nella regione della Bretagna.

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The Carework and Codework of the Digital Humanities
Below is the text of a talk delivered at the Digital Antiquarian conference in May 2015. (The slides can be downloaded from the conference website). I am grateful to the conference organizers, Molly O'Hagan Hardy and Tom Augst, and the staff of the American Antiquarian Society, for the opportunity to present my work "under the dome."
When it comes to the digital humanities, my most strongly-held belief is that the field, in its most powerful instantiation, can perform a double function: facilitating new digital approaches to scholarly research, and just as powerfully, calling attention to what knowledge, even with these new approaches, still remains out of reach. I will illustrate this double function through the example of the TOME project, a digital tool that I've been developing with my colleague at Georgia Tech, Jacob Eisenstein, and a team of several graduate and undergraduate students. Our tool employs topic modeling, a technique that derives from the field of machine learning, to support the interactive thematic exploration of digitized archival collections. (And more on that soon).
But since our test archive consists of a set of abolitionist newspapers, including many held at the AAS, I thought I'd use this particular occasion to work through some of the things that our tool, and the process of its development, have taught us about nineteenth century knowledge production, before considering how digital tools, more generally, do—and do not—help to bring that process of knowledge production to light.
To this end, I want to introduce two concepts that, to me, strongly resonate in both historical and contemporary contexts. These are carework and codework, as the title of this talk indicates, and I want to begin by briefly explaining what I mean by each.
"For those of us who do the work of editing in large part because we envision ourselves as careworkers for the commons: how do we articulate this work?"
– Sarah Blackwood, "Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals" (Avidly, 2014)
Carework, as we know, most commonly refers to the subset of feminized reproductive labor that is undertaken out of a sense of compassion with or responsibility for others, rather than with a goal of monetary gain. The concept meant to be problematic, as Natalia Cecire observes—that is, if you do it because you care, it's not supposed to be work. And yet—ask anyone who's ever cared for another—it is most certainly work! Sarah Blackwood, in the essay you see quoted above, has suggested that carework is central to the production of scholarship, especially public scholarship. Following from this line of reasoning, one of the main questions I want to ask today is how DH might be better served if we re-envisioned our work as carework—and not just the obvious parallels, like project management or mentoring; but also in relation to practices like tool-building, that are so often framed in masculinized terms, and that are so central to the field.
"Codework: The computer stirring into the text, and the text stirring the computer."
– Alan Sondheim, "Introduction: Codework"" (American Book Review, 2001)
The second concept I want to engage is that of codework. And it's important to note that codework, at least as it was originally conceived, has nothing to do with labor. Alan Sondheim, the poet-theorist who coined the term, employed it to refer to the genre of electronic literature that mixes computer code with natural language. According to Sondheim, codework is characterized by "the computer stirring into the text, and the text stirring the computer." In applying the concept of codework to DH, I want to explore how we might facilitate the creation of digital tools for stirring into the archive, while also allowing the archive to stir the tool. I will argue, moreover, that by thinking about digital tools in terms of codework, we can more fully account for the carework involved in their creation, as well as in the creation of the archives that in designing our tools, we seek to more fully understand.
I've been fortunate enough to spend time at the AAS immersed in some of these archives, although it's actually at the New York Public Library where you can read the correspondence of one individual responsible for this content: Lydia Maria Child, who, between 1841 and 1843, edited the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, The National Anti-Slavery Standard. Child, as we know, was at that time most famous as a novelist, but she also wrote stories for children, and had published a bestselling cookbook. So when the Society was looking to broaden its reach, William Lloyd Garrison suggested that Child be appointed editor of the Standard. Garrison hoped she could "impart useful hints to the government as well as to the family circle," thereby inviting women into the abolitionist fold. But did she? And if so, how effective– or how widely adopted– was this change in topic or tone?
Questions like these, about the evolution of issues and ideas, were what prompted our work on the TOME project. TOME, short for Interactive TOpic Modeling and MEtadata Visualization, is, as I mentioned before, a tool designed to support the exploratory thematic analysis of digitized archival collections. It rests upon the technique of topic modeling, a technique developed by computational linguists that, by automatically analyzing the words or phrases that tend to appear together in a collection of documents, helps to identify their thematic or stylistic patterns. Topic modeling, in other words, is a technique that stirs the archive. To give a specific example, if you wanted to find out whether Child's editorial oversight influenced the contents of the Standard, you could run a topic model, and, by taking the additional step of incorporating metadata, such as date or editor, into the model, as we did, you could see which topics were most prevalent in the issues that she edited.
When you run a topic model, the output typically takes the form of lists of words and percentages, like the ones that you see at left, which I've re-formatted from plain text, removed some statistical information, and for ease of reference, given descriptive names. Here you see several of the most prominent topics in four distinct sets of newspapers: one consisting of all of the articles published in the Standard during the time when Child was editor; one of all of the articles published in the Standard over the course of its entire run (at least all that have been digitized to date); one of all of the abolitionist newspapers in our dataset; and then a set I find quite interesting, of only the black-owned and edited abolitionist newspapers that we have.
Within each topic, you see listed the words that appear together with the most statistical significance. So the word "soap" often appears in the same article as "acid," as does "soda," "gallons," etc. So to begin to answer the question I just posed, about whether Child's editorship coincided with a turn to more domestic issues, the preponderance of topics related to recipes and advice about the home—those I've labeled "cleaning," "sewing," and "baking"—as opposed to the topics that deal explicitly with slavery and its abolition that dominate the other sets of texts—suggest that yes, Child did have an impact on the Standard's content and tone.
But in spite of the thematic associations that these topics so often suggest, there's no inherent reason to believe that words grouped together on the basis of co-occurrence statistics really mean or prove anything. A topic model is, after all, a model. And for the model to be truly meaningful, domain experts—that's us—must be able to probe the semantic associations that the model proposes, and seek out additional perspectives on the model, as well as on the archive itself. In other words, they need a tool that facilitates codework.
So what you see here, at left, is a screenshot from our visual interface—and now I'll explain it a bit more fully. The interaction begins with your standard keyword search. So if you had a question like, "How did the discourse surrounding emancipation differ in white- vs. black-owned newspapers—and in fact, some sort of difference is suggested by the topics in the previous slide—you might type "emancipation" into the search box at the top of the page.
But instead of the results being a list of links to specific documents, as you would then see with a standard database search, what is displayed is, instead, a visualization of the topics that contain that keyword. We chose to display this information visually, rather than in list form, because we wanted to convey the degree of abstraction that a topic model necessarily entails. We wanted a dynamically-generated visualization because, with the notion of codework in mind, we also wanted the archive to be able to stir the tool.
So that's the rationale that underlies the colorful "race tracks" that you see. Each color represents a topic as it appears in the archive over time. The topics are ranked from top to bottom in terms of relevance to the initial search query—here, "emancipation." (The height of each topic block corresponds to its overall prevalence in the corpus). So you can see how the various topics that deal with "emancipation" wax and wane in the archive over time. Using the drop-down menu at the top, you can select specific subsets of newspapers; and then you can observe how, for instance, topics related to "emancipation" feature quite prominently in white-owned newspapers, but are much less prevalent in black-owned newspapers, which are more concerned with the lived experience of slavery: how you're perceived as a slave, how you might escape northward from slavery to freedom, what sorts of things (and people) you experience along the way, and the like.
In the live interface, clicking on a topic gets you more information about it: its keywords, its overall popularity in the dataset, its geographical distribution, and the documents in the dataset that best encapsulate its use. (There will also be a keyword-in-context view). With these features, which we're hoping to complete in the coming academic year, the interface will facilitate a very useful new method of exploring archives according to the themes they contain.
But even still, there will be certain things that this tool will never be able to convey. Consider this evidence (at left) from another archive, the letters of Lydia Maria Child that are housed at the NYPL. Writing in March 1842, after a merger with the Pennsylvania Freeman required her to republish large amounts of its content in her paper, Child laments, "I cannot manage the paper at all as I would. Public documents of one kind or another crowd upon me, and since the union with the Freeman, I am flooded with communications, mostly of an ordinary character." She admits to rewriting almost all of the content she receives in order to make more room for her own editorials, but even then, she can't find enough space: "I fear to injure the interest of the cause and the paper by omission!"
So here you have an example of influence that operates in the negative; it could never be uncovered by our digital tool. Child's own arguments—those that she believes will best advance the abolitionist cause—never make it into her paper, and therefore not into the archive. While we might infer, on the basis of her other writings, what Child might have argued, the "three editorials" she claims she'd have rather written remained uncomposed. What we do have in these letters, however, is a record of Child's carework: her editing, of course, as well as the effort of arranging the articles on the page. We have evidence of her management of relationships—with the Freeman's editors, with Garrison, with her good-for-nothing husband. (And that's the subject for another talk entirely). How might we design an interface to exhume this work? Or, to phrase it in the terms of my talk today, is it possible to use codework to bring carework into view?
One of the most interesting aspects of Sondheim's formulation of codework is how it describes a genre, as well as the effect of that genre on the reader. When a reader confronts computer code inserted into—or in this case (at left), as a poem—he or she isn't supposed to be able to understand what the code actually does or means. The code is intended to prompt a figurative interpretation. And in fact, it's this interpretive component of codework that has held the most resonance for digital humanities scholars over the years. Thinking about how we might incorporate interpretation into tools for archival exploration and discovery—and to do so with attention to carework—is one of the most exciting new directions for digital humanities scholarship—and in particular, for the kind of scholarship that the Digital Antiquarian initiative is so well poised to be able to achieve.
Consider, for instance, this tool that the NYPL has developed for visualizing the metadata recorded in its finding aids. The tool employs a network model of visualization, in what I think is a very important acknowledgment of the distributed efforts that bind its holdings together. So what you see here is the network centered on the Lydia Maria Child Papers, which houses the letter I just had up on the screen. Clearly on view is how subject headings, such as "abolitionists," span multiple archival collections. You can also see how letter-writers, such as Child and Loring, are linked to each other, as well as to others whose papers the Library contains. And from this image, I think, it's possible to get a sense of the complexity of the relationships among the various abolitionists, even if it is impossible to make visible, let alone quantify, the carework they invested in maintaining these ties. Also implicit in this diagram, I think, is evidence of the work involved in the creation of archives—the bringing together of disparate collections in order to help constitute knowledge; the creation of metadata and other annotations that facilitate these collections' discovery. This could be said to be a form of carework, too.
But even still, you don't see evidence of the Freeman's editors, the women who Child characterized, in another letter to Loring, as "fussy [and] ignorant," who sent her nothing but the "dullest communications," filled with "bad grammar, and detestable spellings." These women were not deemed important enough—by Child, or by anyone else at the time, who could have preserved their correspondence, allowing it to enter our archives today. And this is all to say nothing about the actual enslaved men and women, whose liberty was being argued about in these newspapers, but who were so rarely given the opportunity to speak for themselves, let alone to have that speech recorded in print.
This is a case where we might, yet again, recall the concept of codework—whether explicitly enabled by the tools we employ, or where I think, for the time being, it must lie: implicit in our interactions with each and every one of the digital tools that we, as scholars and as archivists, employ. If our tools do not prompt us, we must prompt ourselves to remain attentive to the "reading and revealing" of the codes that helped to constitute our sources—their original media format, of course, but also the social and political conditions of their making, and the contexts of their production, dissemination, and reception (Kirschenbaum 234). And then, of course, you have the various factors that contribute to their preservation and subsequent scholarly use.
What I hope this talk has allowed us to see is that codework, in its most capacious sense, should lead us to carework, because carework is the source of some of the most meaningful stories embedded in our archives. We in this room need no convincing. But this belief is what we "digital antiquarians" might bring to the digital humanities writ large. Our attention to the margins of texts, to the gaps in our archives—we must ensure that these features are acknowledged, if not always fully reconstituted, as we chart the shift from physical to digital archival form.
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NYPL Blog Post
Last spring, I spent a month in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library, conducting research for my food book. I recently wrote a blog post about that experience– and the experience, more generally, of conducing archival research. It's now been posted on the NYPL blog, and you can read it here.
Image at left: Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Ellis Loring, March 9th, 1842. Source: NYPL MssCol 532.
Author adminPosted on June 16, 2014 Categories Archives, Early American Literature, Fellowships, Food Studies, ResearchLeave a comment on NYPL Blog Post
NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant
I'm pleased to announce that my project with Jacob Eisenstein, Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, has been awarded a Digital Humanities Startup Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Our project, TOME, which stands for Interactive TOpic Model and MEtadata Visualization, is a tool to support the interactive exploration and visualization of text-based archives. Drawing upon the technique of topic modeling—that is, a computational method for identifying the themes that recur across a collection of texts—our tool will allow humanities scholars to trace the evolution and circulation of these themes across social networks and over time.
An archive of nineteenth-century antislavery newspapers, characterized by diverse authors and shifting political alliances, will serve as our initial dataset. Our analysis promises to motivate new methods for visualizing topic models and extending their impact. In turn, by applying these methods to these important texts, we hope to illuminate how issues of gender and racial identity affect the development of political ideology in the nineteenth century, and into the present day.
For updates on the TOME project in the coming year (and beyond), check back in on the Digital Humanities Lab website.
Author adminPosted on April 21, 2013 Categories American Studies, Archives, Data Visualization, Digital Humanities, Early American Literature1 Comment on NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant
Lost in the Stacks
Last Friday, January 25th, 2013, I was interviewed on Georgia Tech's student radio station, WREK 91.1, for an episode of "Lost in the Stacks." Lost in the Stacks– they claim, and I believe to be true– is the "one and only Research Library Rock'n'Roll radio show." With Wendy Hagenmaier, of GT Archives, and Charlie Bennett, the show's producer and host (and also of the GT Library), we discussed the myth of the archive, the issue of archival silence, and the future of the archive in the digital age. We also played a series of archive-related rock songs.
You can listen to an archived stream of the show here and view the show's playlist here. Most of the songs can also be found on this Spotify playlist. For "Don't Throw Out Your Books" by Piano Moscow– a song I discovered in my own college radio days— click here.
Author adminPosted on January 26, 2013 Categories Archives, Invited Talks, New MediaLeave a comment on Lost in the Stacks


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