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Here you will see some of the interfaces that were developed in the first half of the 1990s for ICTV's Interactive TV platform. Developing these interfaces was not simply an exercise in User Interface (UI) design as it required working with the hardware and software teams to provide the necessary functionality to allow these interfaces to come to fruition. The on-screen experience you see in the examples below was controlled by a relatively basic TV remote control which means there were even less navigation buttons and options then is found in today's mobile phones.
Above you will find ICTV's Video Application Interface. The challenge facing the team was that we needed the application to look and feel like TV as the user would get to this site by merely changing the channel. However, we needed time to load all of the game information so the user could make their selection. We bought time with a video fly-in that led the user to arcade selector. We dealt with the issues of frame matching by having the little explosion at the end of the fly-in. Once the game was selected we bought more time to load the game by having a fly-in to the Pin or Authentication screen.
Above is an example of ICTV's Shopping Application Interface. Here again is an interface that had to look like TV and was controlled by a slightly souped up TV remote control with only up, down, left, right and enter buttons added to the features one would have expected to see on their remote control in the early 1990s.


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NSF 19-059
Dear Colleague Letter: Research Opportunities Related to Coastlines and People (CoPe)
Dear Colleagues:
With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorates for Geosciences (GEO), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), Biological Sciences (BIO), Engineering (ENG), Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) announce their intent to support Research Coordination Networks (RCNs), a select type of Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER), conferences, and Non-academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) supplements that relate to Coastlines and People (CoPe). NSF first publicly explored this topic with 4 workshops held in September 2018. In those workshops, participants were challenged to think about the interdisciplinary science necessary to advance our understanding of coastlines and people, the ways that broadening participation can be integral to research in this area, and what type of research infrastructure, referred to as "hubs", is needed to enable both interdisciplinary science and broadening participation efforts. See coastlinesandpeople.org for the products of these workshops.
Through CoPe, NSF is interested in supporting projects to build capacity and explore research focused on understanding the impacts of coastal environmental variability and natural hazards on populated coastal regions. CoPe projects should explore the complex interface between coastal natural processes, geohazards, people and their natural and built environments. CoPe will include coastal variability and hazards on a range of spatial and temporal scales, from local to global and seconds to millenia to put current changes in context of pre-anthropogenic changes. The landscape of individuals interested in coastal research is diverse, including but not limited to researchers, decision-makers, practitioners (individuals dealing with the day to day operations in coastal areas), and stakeholders (communities impacted by coastal change). The following funding mechanisms are available to provide support for a spectrum of coastal interests from scientists to stakeholders, to develop partnerships and build the networks needed to delve more deeply into these ideas and/or explore novel ones, and to conduct small pilot projects related to CoPe.
Successful Research Coordination Networks will establish new collaborations among coastal research communities. The networks supported should: (1) identify and prioritize research topics for innovative CoPe science with well-defined research questions that span spatial and temporal scales across disciplines and sub-disciplines; (2) establish mechanisms for new coordination with ongoing or planned coastal research activities, especially with local communities and stakeholders; and (3) connect with the NSF INCLUDES National Network, the Geosciences Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD) program, or other broadening participation efforts to build relationships necessary to broaden participation in coastal research. While the duration of RCNs funded in response to this DCL will be 2-3 years, coordination efforts described above should develop a collaborative enterprise able to tackle major CoPe scientific problems that neither short-term nor single discipline efforts can address using this opportunity as a mechanism to start the collaborative building of capacity for CoPe research. Proposals for RCNs submitted in response to this DCL should follow the instructions provided in NSF's RCN solicitation (NSF 17-594) – with the exception that CoPe RCNs should only be 2-3 years in duration and proposals should be submitted following the guidance below.
NSF's Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) funding mechanism may be used to support proposals on exploratory research in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches related to CoPe. This work must be considered especially "high risk-high payoff" by involving radically different approaches, applying new expertise, or engaging in novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives. Within the context of CoPe, EAGERs may pilot high-risk efforts such as incubators, mobile hubs, untested instrumentation technology, and community responsive science teams. This list is not inclusive of the types of EAGERs that will be considered, but is merely examples from the scientific community building on the CoPe workshops. More information is available in the white papers on coastlinesandpeople.org. EAGERs submitted in response to this DCL must follow the instructions for the EAGER proposal type provided in the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Chapter II.E.2 and must be potentially scalable and represent an idea that is in clear alignment with CoPe.
This DCL encourages convening, within the US, conferences (which may take the form of symposia or workshops) related to CoPe research priorities and broadening participation efforts. Conferences will be supported only if equivalent results cannot be obtained at regular meetings of professional societies. While the mission of NSF centers on basic research, exploring which basic research topics will be most useful for practitioners and other researchers is encouraged in this DCL. Conferences proposed in response to this DCL should: (1) bring together a diverse group of scientists and practitioners to work together to explore new synergistic research topics related to coastlines and people; (2) discuss novel, new strategies to integrate broadening participation into CoPe activities; and/or (3) explore how academic and industry partnerships can advance CoPe related research. Conference proposals submitted in response to this DCL should follow the instructions for the conference proposal type provided in the PAPPG Chapter II.E.7 and not exceed $100K in their budget.
NSF DCL NSF 18-102 outlines an opportunity for PIs to request up to six months of additional support for graduate students on active NSF awards so that students may gain knowledge, skills and experiences that will augment their preparation for a successful long-term career through an internship in a non-academic setting. CoPe will support INTERN supplements to active awards that allow a graduate student to intern with a non-academic partner on a topic relevant to CoPe. Internships in a non-academic setting may include: for-profit industry laboratories or industry research and development groups; start-up businesses, such as (but not limited to) those funded through the NSF's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program; government agencies (all levels) and national laboratories; policy think-tanks; and non-profit organizations. Successful INTERN supplement requests will articulate how the internship will contribute to the graduate student's professional development and how the work with the non-academic partner will advance CoPe interests.
While coastal communities vary extensively, most of the world's largest cities are coastal and the amount of urban infrastructure built along coastlines continues to grow. For reference, NSF's efforts in urban systems, namely Coastlines and People, Sustainable Urban Systems, Smart and Connected Communities, and Long-Term Ecological Research –Urban Ecology, are compared and contrasted on the NSF Environmental Research and Education web site.
TARGET DATES AND SUBMISSION
Proposals must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the guidelines contained in the NSF PAPPG and the title must start with "CoPe:".
For INTERN supplements related to CoPe, PIs should follow the instructions of DCL NSF 18-102, as well as articulating CoPe relevance in the two-page summary that describes the internship. PIs should email NSFcope@nsf.gov before submitting a supplement request. Upon submission of an INTERN supplement, PI should send an email to NSFcope@nsf.gov that includes the original award number, the supplement proposal number, and the name of the managing program director.
PIs interested in submitting RCN, EAGER, and Conference proposals in response to this DCL for FY19 should contact NSF at NSFcope@nsf.gov by May 31st, 2019 with a one-page summary of their plan to submit. This one-page summary should identify the type of opportunity (e.g. EAGER, RCN, Conference), the institutions involved and a brief summary of the CoPe effort to be proposed. NSF will respond to the inquiry with encouragement or discouragement of submission, as well as more details on how to submit a full proposal by the target date of June 28th, 2019. Inquiries about this DCL and questions about submission of RCN, EAGER, Conference proposals or INTERN supplements, in response to this DCL should be directed to NSFcope@nsf.gov.
William E. Easterling, Assistant Director, GEO
Arthur Lupia, Assistant Director, SBE
Joanne Tornow, Assistant Director, BIO
Karen Marrongelle, Assistant Director, EHR
Dawn Tilbury, Assistant Director, ENG
Suzanne Iacono, Head, OIA

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Casting is the metal melting into that meet certain requirements and the liquid poured into the mold, the cooling and solidification, finishing after processing has a predetermined shape, size and properties of the casting process. Casting is the modern machinery manufacturing industry based on process.
Casting is the human grasp of the earlier one of hot metal processing technology, has a history of about 6000. China in about 1700 BC between 1000 before has entered the heyday of bronze casting, technology has reached a very high level. Chinese Shang Dynasty weighs 875 kg Si Mu Wu Fang Ding, the Warring States period, Ceng Houyi, disc, the transparent mirror, are ancient casting products on behalf of.
Early casting is mostly agricultural production, life, religion and other aspects of the tool or utensil, artistic strong color. The casting process with ceramic technology developed in parallel, greatly influenced by pottery.
China in 513 BC, cast out of the world's earliest found in written pieces of cast iron casting - Jin Ding, weighs about 270 kilograms. Europe in the eighth Century AD and also began producing iron castings. Cast iron castings, enlarges the application range. For example, in 15 ~ seventeenth Century, Germany, France and other countries successively laying a lot to the residents for drinking water cast iron pipe. Eighteenth Century after the industrial revolution, the steam machine, textile machine and railway industry is arisen, casting into industrial service in the new period, casting technology began to have great progress.
Enter twentieth Century, casting the development rate is very rapid, it is one of important factors is the product of advances in technology, requirements for casting various mechanical physical properties better, while still having good mechanical processing performance; another reason is the machinery industry and other industries such as chemical industry, instrument development, to casting industry has created favorable material condition. As the development of detection means, to ensure improve casting quality and stability, and to the casting theory development has provided the conditions; electron microscope of the invention, help people into metal micro world, exploration of metal crystal mystery, study of metal solidification theory, guiding casting production.
In this period of time to develop a large number of superior performance, a variety of new metal materials such as casting, ductile cast iron, malleable cast iron welding of ultra low carbon stainless steel, copper, aluminum, silicon, aluminum and magnesium alloy, titanium, nickel base alloy, and the invention of the grey iron inoculation treatment new the casting process, the more widely adaptability.
After 50 time, appeared in wet sand high pressure molding, the chemical hardening sand molding and core making, negative modeling and other special casting, shot blasting and other new technology, make the castings have high shape, dimensional accuracy and good surface finish, foundry working conditions and environmental health is also greatly improved.
Since twentieth Century, significant progress in foundry industry, gray cast iron, inoculation treatment and chemical hardening sand molding two this new process has a special significance. The two invention, break continue thousands of years of traditional methods, to casting technology has opened up a new field, to improve the competition ability of castings produced major effect.
Casting by the general modelling approach to classification, customarily divided into general and special casting sand casting. Sand casting including wet sand, dry sand, chemical hardening sand three class. Special casting by modeling of the different materials, and can be divided into two categories: one category with natural mineral sand as main materials, such as casting, shell mold casting, pressure casting, clay mold casting, casting, ceramic mold casting; a metal as the main mold material, such as metal type casting, centrifugal casting, continuous casting, pressure casting, low pressure casting.
Casting process can be divided into three basic parts, namely the casting metal preparation, mold preparation and casting processing. Casting metal refers to the casting production of cast metal material, it is a metallic element as a main component, and join the other metal or metalloid elements and the composition of the alloy, traditionally known as cast alloy, cast iron, cast steel and main nonferrous cast alloys.
Metal melting is not merely a melting, also including smelting process, so that the metal poured into the mold, temperature, chemical composition and purity are consistent with the expected requirements. Therefore, in the smelting process to be performed in order to control the quality for the purpose of testing, liquid metal at specified metrics before allowing the casting. Sometimes, in order to meet the higher requirements, the molten metal in the furnace and the furnace processing, such as desulfurization, vacuum degassing, refining, pregnant or modification. Smelting metal commonly used equipment cupola furnace, electric arc furnace, induction furnace, resistance furnace, such as furnace.
Different casting methods have different mold preparation content. The most widely used sand casting for example, mold preparation includes modeling material preparation and moulding core making two items of work. Sand casting is used to modeling the core making all kinds of raw materials, such as foundry sand, sand binder and other materials, as well as the mixture of sand, sand, paint and other known collectively as the molding material molding material preparation task is in accordance with the casting requirements, metal properties, select the appropriate raw sand, a binder and accessories, then according to the certain proportion mix them into a certain properties of the sand and core sand. Commonly used sand mixing device has a sand roller mill, counterflow type sand mixing machine and the blade groove type sand mixing machine. The latter is designed for mixed chemical self-hardening sand design, continuous mixing, fast speed.
Modelling core is based on the casting process requirement, in determining a good modeling method, ready to molding materials based on. Accuracy of casting and the whole production process of economic effects, depending on the procedure. In many modern casting workshop, molding core are realized mechanization or automation. Commonly used sand molding core equipment is high, low pressure molding machine, polishing, sanding machine, flaskless shoot squeeze molding machine, core shooting machine, hot and cold core box machine.
Casting casting casting from cooling after removal, a gate and riser, metal burr scull, sand casting casting also adhered sand, therefore must be cleaned process. The working device has shot blasting machine, gate cutting machine. Sand casting shakeout is labor conditions of poor working procedure, so the choice modeling method, should be taken into consideration for the shakeout to create convenient conditions. Some castings due to special requirements, but also the process of castings, heat treatment, such as plastic, anti-rust treatment, rough.
The casting is economical of blank forming method, for the shape of complex parts can show its economy. Such as automobile engine cylinder block and cylinder head, the ship propeller and exquisite works of art. Some hard cutting parts, such as gas turbine Ni-base alloy parts without casting method to form.
In addition, the cast part size and weight of the adapted to a wide range of metal type, almost without limit; parts in general mechanical performance at the same time, also has wear resistance, corrosion resistance, shock absorption performance, other metal forming methods such as forging, rolling, welding, punching and other do not. Therefore in machine manufacturing casting method for producing components, in the number and tonnage is still the most.
Casting production is often the material to be used with a variety of metal, plastic, wood, coke, gas and liquid fuel, modeling materials. The equipment required for a variety of metal smelting furnace, a sand mixing with various mixer, a molding core making use of a variety of molding machine, core making machine, cleaning out the casting shakeout machine, shot blasting machine. Also available for special casting machines and equipment as well as many transportation and material treatment equipment.
Casting production and other processes of different features, mainly adaptability, needed materials and equipment, environmental pollution. Foundry production will produce dust, harmful gas and noise pollution to the environment, compared to other machinery manufacturing technology to more serious, need to take measures to control.
Casting product development trend is the requirement of castings have better performance, higher precision, less volume and more smooth surface. In addition, the requirement of saving energy and society to restore the natural environment more and more is also high. In order to meet these requirements, the new cast alloy will be developed, smelting new technology and new equipment will occur.
Casting production of mechanization degree of automation in the rising at the same time, will be more to the flexible production development, to expand on the different batches and production of many varieties of adaptability. Save energy and raw materials of new technology will get preferential development, produce less or no pollution new technology new equipment will be the first attention. Quality control technology in the process of detection and non-destructive testing, stress testing, will have new development.
Foundry workers in electronic technology and testing means progress condition, will be on metal solidification and compaction theory for deeper exploration, research to improve casting properties and internal quality effective way. Robotic and computer in foundry production and management in the field of application, will be increasingly extensive
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Therapy is begun at home with the owner administering Lysodren at a dosage of 50 mg/kg/day, divided and given BID (twice a day).
Glucocorticoids (prednisone) given together with the Lysodren is not advised during loading, but the owner should have a small supply of prednisolone or prednisone tablets for an emergency.
The owner should receive thorough instructions on the actions of Lysodren and should also have specific instructions on when the drug should be discontinued.
1. the dog demonstrates any reduction in appetite; this might mean just pausing slightly during meal consumption, stopping to drink some water, or stopping in response to the owner's voice.
2. the polydipsic dog consumes less than 60 ml/kg/ day of water.
5. the dog is unusually listless.
The first two indications for stopping the medication are strongly emphasized because they are common and they precede worrisome overdosages. The occurrence of any of these signs strongly indicates that the end point in induction (loading) therapy has been achieved.
Because of the potency of Lysodren, the veterinarian is encouraged not to rely on the instructions given to an owner. Never provide the owner with more than 8 days of Lysodren, initially. This drug is highly successful in eliminating the signs of hyperadrenocorticism because of its potency coupled with close communication between owner and veterinarian. Either the veterinarian or a technician should contact the owner for a verbal report regarding the dog every day beginning with the second day of therapy. In this way, the owner is impressed with the veterinarian's concern and the need to observe the animal closely.
It is wise for the owner to feed the dog two small meals each day, as previously described. The dog's appetite should be observed prior to each administration of Lysodren. If food is rapidly consumed (with or without polydipsia), medication is warranted.
If food is consumed either slowly or not at all, medication should be discontinued until consultation with the veterinarian.
Usually the initial loading dose phase is complete when a reduction of appetite is noted or after water intake approaches or falls below 60 ml/kg/day.
The water intake in polydipsic dogs may decrease to the normal range in as few as 2 days or take as long as 35 days (average is 5 to 9 days) Owners must continue to monitor the water intake daily until it falls to or below 60 ml/kg/day. Usually the water intake diminishes within days of beginning treatment, but it does not usually become normal until after some reduction in appetite is observed.
A small percentage of dogs demonstrate mild gastric irritation or systemic signs of illness from the Lysodren 1 to 3 days after medication has been started. These signs include anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness and lethargy.
If any of these signs are observed, the medication should be discontinued until the veterinarian can evaluate the dog. If the signs are the result of drug sensitivity and not because the treatment is complete, dividing the dose further may be helpful; discontinuing the medication for a few days may be necessary.
It is recommended that treatment be initiated on a Sunday, so that if illness develops after a few days, the veterinarian should be available during the regular work week rather than on a weekend.
According to the protocol for Lysodren loading described above, the loading dose is usually 50 mg Lysodren per kg of the dog's weight (50 mg/kg/day) and is given each DAY of the loading period.
Once the dog is successfully "loaded" (also called "induced") the maintenance phase of treatment will begin. The maintenance dose is usually 25 to 50 mg of Lysodren per kg of the dog's weight per WEEK (25-50 mg/kg/week) and can be given in divided doses. Example: 500 mg Lysodren per week can be given as 250 mg twice a week, or 375 mg per week could be given as 125 mg three times a week etc. The entire weekly dose is often the same amount as the dose per day that was given during the loading phase.
The weekly maintenance dose is usually determined by weight of the dog, but the Vet will also take into account how quickly the dog becomes successfully loaded, which may help to indicate the particular dog's sensitivity to the Lysodren. A dog that loads in 3 days might be started on a lower maintenance dose than a dog who took 10 days to load, for example.
The recommended target range for good control of the cortisol production is a result of 1-5 ug/dl for both the pre and post ACTH stimulation test numbers. An ACTH stimulation test is done as soon as it is suspected that the dog is loaded, to confirm if a successful loading has been achieved. An ACTH stim test is done again after a month of giving the weekly maintenance dose and another ACTH stim test is performed after three months of maintenance therapy, to be sure that the weekly maintenance dose of Lysodren is correct for the individual dog. An ACTH stim test should then be performed every 4 to 6 months to monitor the cortisol production and to determine if any dose changes may be needed along the way. Any changes in the dog's eating or drinking habits or behavior should be reported to the Vet immediately and an ACTH stim test will likely be needed to check the dog's cortisol levels and to see if the dose needs adjusting.
Lysodren is better absorbed if given with a meal. The food also acts as a buffer and can help to protect against gastric upset.
Many of our members have found it easier to administer the Lysodren by wrapping the pill in some food that the dog likes and will eat readily. Wrapping the pill in some food also helps to protect the throat and esophagus from irritation.
In order to ensure that the Lysodren goes all the way down to the tummy, it's a good idea to feed the dog 3/4 of the meal, then give the Lysodren wrapped in or hidden in some food and then feed the remainder of the meal to the dog. Also, since a poor appetite can sometimes be a sign that cortisol levels may be too low, if a dog refuses to eat the first 3/4 of the meal it could be an indication that cortisol levels should be checked (with an ACTH test) before giving any more Lysodren, so call the Vet to report any noticeable changes in your dog's appetite.
For dogs who may experience some gastric upset from the medication, a Vet may prescribe a weight-appropriate dose of Pepcid AC to be given to the dog about 15 minutes to half an hour before the meal with which the Lysodren is given.
Lysodren is a powerful drug which works by specifically targeting and eroding away some of the adrenal cortex, thus reducing the amount of cortisol that the adrenal glands can produce. By reducing the cortisol production (which in an untreated Cushings dog is abnormally high) you help to prevent internal organ damage (to the liver, heart, kidneys etc) that excessive cortisol production causes over time.
To help mitigate any possible toxicity to the liver from the Lysodren medication itself, many of us give our dogs Milk Thistle (silymarin) as recommended by our Vets for our dogs. Milk Thistle is sold in most Health Food stores. As with any other supplement you are thinking of giving to your dog, please check with your Vet first. And remember that it's probably best not to start more than one new "thing" at a time, just in case there are any "side effects", even minor ones. If you start a dog on more than one new thing (drug or supplement) you would not know what the cause may be if you've started both at the same time.
The Milk Thistle bottle will have a recommended dosage per day for humans. The guide below has been used by some of our members and their Vets to help calculate how much Milk Thistle is right for their dogs.
Many of us keep a daily journal in which we note information such as what our dogs eat, how much water they drink, what meds and/or supplements they are given and their demeanor and behaviours. Having that kind of information at our fingertips can be very helpful sometimes.
Many of us also request copies of all Lab test results to keep in a file folder at home. Having our own copies of those Lab reports has really come in handy sometimes.
Be sure to ask your Vet what you are supposed to do if you ever need help for your dog overnight, on weekends or when your own Vet is on vacation. You may never need to implement it, but knowing where to get help and having an emergency plan is very important.
Successful treatment of Canine Cushing's requires a good heads-up Vet and a vigilant owner who work together as a team to keep the dog well. Always report any changes or unusual behaviors to your Vet immediately. We are our Vet's "eyes and ears" at home.
The maintenance phase of therapy, according to Dr. Feldman, "involves choosing a regimen and altering that regimen as required". It's not exactly the same for each and every dog, and that's why we need a Vet with expertise and a good understanding of how to adjust the dosage if necessary and when necessary to suit each individual dog and its sensitivity to the drug.
On the "average", the entire weekly dose is usually just about the same dose as you used to give in just one day of the loading. But it can be even less or a bit more, whatever is necessary to keep the cortisol levels in that target range of 1-5 ug/dl (USA values) or 30-110 nmol/L (values in which cortisol is measured in most of the rest of the world).
A dog who loads in only 3 days at 50 mg of Lysodren a day for each kg of the dog's body weight (50 mg/kg/day) probably needs less Lysodren to keep the cortisol levels in the target range (1-5 ug/dl) than a dog who takes 10 days or more to load with the same loading dosage.
The Vet has to consider the individual dog and how quickly the loading went etc and then decide what the weekly maintenance dose should be.
The entire weekly dose may be given to the dog all in one day, or can be divided up into smaller doses during the week.
Some dogs do take the weekly dose all in one day, either all in one large dose or they may be given half of it in the morning with breakfast and the other half at suppertime.
More often, however, dogs don't get the entire weekly dose in one day, they get it in divided doses during each week ... maybe half of the total weekly dose on Monday and the other half on Thursday, or it can be divided even further and given as one third of the total weekly dose on Monday, another third given on Wednesday and the remaining third of the weekly dose on Friday, for example.
As for testing during maintenance therapy, Dr. Feldman suggests doing a followup ACTH stim test after one month of weekly maintenance dosing.
At that point you'll get a good idea if the chosen maintenance dose is working well and keeping the cortisol levels where they should be (between 1-5 ug/dl). The ACTH stim test results will tell the Vet if the dose needs adjusting or not.
If the numbers are nicely in the target range at one month into the maintenance dosing, then it is advised to do another ACTH stim test in about 3 months again to check to see if dosage adjustments are needed or not.
If all is well, you may be able to do ACTH tests only every 4 to 6 months after that.
At any time if the dog develops any symptoms at all (appetite, water consumption, behaviour) that might indicate that the cortisol levels are getting too high or too low again, you'd need to do an ACTH stim test to see where the cortisol levels are and if the dose might need adjusting.


There's a great post on unlocking fans using social media over at VentureBeat's Entrepreneur Corner. The gist of it is below. Full post here.
Identify the right fans: Understanding and knowing who your true fans are. True fans aren't necessarily people who are evangelists of your company. They could be proponents of the broader category of technology that you sell or could even be fans of your competitors.
Listen to your fans: Once you have identified and followed the fans of your company and your industry, listen to them. Establish a process for regularly watching the trending topics of the people who care about your space. In other words, fish your pond, not the ocean. Then, create a data feed from your fans outputs and then use search more effectively on broader terms.
Engage with your fans: Once you know who your fans are and what they're talking about, you can more effectively interact with them. Reply to their tweets, comment on their blogs, or generate original content that addresses an emerging topic your fan base is talking about. All of this will strengthen the connections to your closer community.
Market to your fans: Your true fan list should be one of your most valuable marketing assets. As you establish these contacts, your marketing promotions can become that much more effective and viral. Keep your fans top of mind when you want to solicit product feedback, launch a product, promote an event, create a white paper or host a webinar or online forum.
Give tools to your fans: Give them tools so they can market for you. You can generate promotional items and marketing content that your fan list can get behind, promote to their own network and evangelize on your behalf.


Chocolate sauce rocks, but cinnamon gummy bears were off the charts. Good gift bag for vegans.
Always very happy with selection available for make your own baskets. Love that there is always something new.
I am local. Had a gift delivered to Lafayette recently. Wondering if locals could get a little break on shipping? $15 is a lot more than other on line choices, especially so local.
I do know that I can come pick it up and I have done that, but for a sick friend this time, I couldn't make it work.
ItsOnlyNaturalResponse: Great suggestion Kaye. We are now offering $12 flat rate shipping for Colorado orders. Thanks for the feedback!


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El canal de los faraones (también llamado el Canal de Necao, Antiguo Canal de Suez o Río de Trajano) fue una vía de transporte marítima de la antigüedad que los antiguos egipcios utilizaron para unir el mar Mediterráneo con el Rojo; por tanto, este canal fue el predecesor del moderno canal de Suez dadas su funcionalidad y utilidad que eran idénticas al permitir la comunicación directa entre los dos mares. Consecuentemente, el canal era considerado como la segunda vía de comunicación más importante del Antiguo Egipto después del mismo río Nilo.

Las evidencias más antiguas que se tienen indican que el canal pudo haber sido construido entre los años 1878 a. C. y 1839 a. C. por el faraón en turno. Desde la antigüedad se tuvieron dos líneas marítimas, una hacia Biblos y otra al país de Punt, y ambas podían unirse: los barcos llegados del Mediterráneo subían por el brazo Tanítico hasta Bubastis y se desviaban hacia el oeste por el uadi Tumilat, que era navegable en épocas de grandes crecidas por naves de poco calado, hasta la ciudad de Pi-Atum. Desde allí un canal permitía alcanzar los Lagos Amargos, desde donde la vía seguía en dirección sur hasta alcanzar el golfo de Suez.

El canal cayó en desuso después de haber sido destruido deliberadamente en el año 767 d. C. durante el período de dominio musulmán; poco más de un milenio después surgió un reemplazo cuando el Canal de Suez fue terminado por una compañía francesa bajo el mando de Ferdinand de Lesseps, siendo este un canal una función idéntica al del Canal de los Faraones.

Historia
Las primeras referencias a un canal entre el Nilo y el mar Rojo están datadas al final del Imperio Antiguo, y de ellas se desprende que no era navegable, ya que se desmontaban los barcos traídos de Biblos para llevarlos a los Lagos Amargos y volver a montarlos allí. Desde los lagos al mar la ruta seguía el curso natural del agua. El canal fue trazado sobre los ya existentes 'uadis', que es el nombre árabe para cauces secos de ríos y pequeños valles que transportan agua solo durante las temporadas de lluvias; el Canal de los Faraones hacía uso de estos uadis que componían gran parte de su trayecto.

Se cree que el Canal de los Faraones fue construido (al menos parcialmente) entre el año 1878 a. C. y 1839 a. C. por el faraón Sesostris III quien se especula trató de construir un pasaje uniendo al río Nilo con el mar Rojo pero que fracasó dadas las diferencias de altura entre los mares Rojo y Meditérraneo, tal como es atestiguado por escritores de la antigüedad como Estrabón, Plinio el Viejo y Aristóteles; este último menciona en su obra Meteorológicos el siguiente pasaje:

En el Imperio Medio la parte sur de esta ruta estaba bloqueada y se usaba el uadi Hammamat, hasta que durante la dinastía XII se restauró el canal de Tumilat, que se usó como vía comercial durante los reinados de Hatshepsut y Tutmosis III.

Las fortificaciones del Camino de Horus entre los lagos y el Delta protegían el canal desde tiempos del faraón Senusert, y las ciudades de Ramsés, Pi-Ramsés y Pi-Atum, tenían la misma finalidad. A pesar de su valor estratégico y económico, el canal fue abandonado en muchas ocasiones, quedando sepultado bajo la arena después de los ramésidas hasta la llegada de los persas.

Canal de Ramsés
En el año 1250 a. C. el faraón Ramsés II decidió ampliar el canal de modo que los barcos mercantes alcanzasen fácilmente el Nilo, y por tanto su capital, Pi-Ramsés. Para ello hizo un canal de cerca de cien kilómetros por el Uadi Tumilat, llevando gran cantidad de obreros, que hasta entonces trabajaban en otras obras de Nubia o el Delta, y contratando cuadrillas de extranjeros.

La vía de agua conducía desde Bubastis en el brazo Pelusiaco, hacia la ciudad almacén de Pi-Atum, y desembocaba veinte kilómetros al este de la ciudad, emplazada cerca del lago Timsah. Ahí Ramsés II interrumpió los trabajos, parece ser que por un error en las mediciones que dieron como resultado una diferencia de altitud insuperable entre el mar Mediterráneo y el Rojo. Esas mismas mediciones erróneas impidieron que ya en el año 1799 se descarte la construcción del canal de Suez planificada por Napoleón Bonaparte.

Canal de Necao
Unos 650 años después, el faraón Necao II prosiguió con la construcción, uniendo el lago Timsah con los lagos Amargos. No continuó hasta el mar porque un oráculo le advirtió que el canal serviría como punto de acceso para una invasión. Heródoto informó de que 120.000 hombres perdieron la vida en este proyecto.

Darío I
Fue el rey persa quien terminó la construcción cien años después, hacia el 500 a. C. Limpió el canal, y lo amplió hasta Suez. El resultado fue una vía de unos 45 m de anchura, lo que permitía que dos naves pudieran cruzarse sin problemas, con un camino de sirga para remolcarlas con cuerdas desde tierra. Mandó erigir tres estelas de granito rojo (con inscripciones en egipcio, arameo, persa antiguo, elamita y babilonio) en Pi-Atum, Kabret y Suez. Los primeros barcos que lo recorrieron fueron veinticuatro trirremes persas que lo hicieron en presencia de Darío, sacando de Egipto el botín de guerra: Yo, gran rey de Persia he tomado Egipto. La reapertura del canal convirtió Egipto en uno de los centros de la economía persa en sustitución de Mesopotamia, ya que la ruta marítima unía el Indo, Persia, Arabia, el mar Rojo, y los puertos de Fenicia y Jonia: esta vía sustituyó a las caravanas que llegaban de Oriente a Babilonia.

Época post-faraónica
Tras el fin del período persa, el canal seguiría siendo objeto de intenso uso tanto por los griegos como por los romanos que dominaron Egipto.

En el año 334 a. C. fue que Alejandro Magno comenzó con su conquista del Imperio Aqueménida lo cual concluyó exitosamente en el año 323 a. C. y tras esto Egipto pasó a ser gobernado por uno de los generales de Alejandro, cuyó nombre era Ptolomeo I Sóter quien se instaló como faraón y fundó la dinastía ptolemaica; su hijo, Ptolomeo II, reiniciaría las obras de construcción del canal pero la diferencia de alturas de nuevo interrumpió las obras. Sin embargo, los ingenieros de Ptolomeo II encontraron la manera de superar este problema por primera vez desarrollando esclusas en el año 273 o 274 a. C. (no se conoce con certeza el año).

Después de la muerte de Cleopatra se dio el fin de la dinastía ptolemaica y del Egipto independiente y el Imperio Romano se anexó Egipto, transformándolo en una provincia y continuarían utilizando y dando mantenimiento al canal.

Diodoro escribió en el siglo I a. C. que el canal seguía operativo, pero tras la conquista romana volvió a quedar cegado hasta que Trajano, dentro de su política de mejora de las vías públicas, dio la orden de limpiarlo y de ampliarlo, momento en que recibió el nombre de Río de Trajano, Canal de Trajano o Augustus amnis, por lo que la zona recibió el nombre de Augustamnica.

El mantenimiento no fue constante y a finales del  estaba cegado de nuevo.

Tras la conquista árabe, el canal se limpió en el año 641 por orden del Califa Omar, y estuvo en funcionamiento hasta que Al-Mansur ordenó su cierre por motivos militares: uno de los mismos motivos que tuvo Necao para no completarlo. En esta ocasión, las ciudades de Meca y Medina en la península árabe se encontraban en rebelión y el canal fue bloqueado para evitar que toda la península árabe pudiera comerciar con Egipto y el Meditérraneo, con el propósito de bloquear a los rebeldes; pero el canal no fue reabierto nunca después de que la rebelión fuese aplastada.

Sokollu Mehmet Bajá, político y militar otomano y gran visir de 1565 a 1579, consideró la idea de reabrir el canal para permitir el tránsito del Meditérraneo al océano Índico a través de territorio otomano y así destruir el monopolio comercial del imperio portugués: en ese entonces, la única manera de cruzar desde Europa al Índico habría sido rodeando África, los portuguéses habían descubierto este método y poseían la mayor parte de las colonias y puertos en África y por tanto eran los mayores importadores de productos asiáticos y los mayores exportadores de productos europeos en Asia. Sin embargo, la idea fue abandonada dado que resultó muy cara y la marina otomana históricamente siempre fue más débil que las europeas por lo que no hubieran sido capaces de defender el canal que sin duda sería atacado por portugueses buscando proteger su monopolio o por otra potencia europea buscando controlar esa nueva ruta.

En 1798, Napoleón Bonaparte lidero una invasión de Egipto con el propósito de conquistar esta provincia del Imperio Otomano y así bloquear las líneas de comunicación entre la India Británica y el Reino Unido (que consideraba a la India como su posesión más redituable y preciada). Un enorme número de científicos viajaron con el ejército francés como agregados y observadores para llevar a cabo estudios detallados de Egipto; se realizaron importantes descubrimientos y dieron pie a la fundación del campo de la egiptología, un importante ejemplo sería la Piedra de Rosetta que permitió descifrar los jeroglíficos egipcios por primera vez.
Un miembro del cuerpo científico fue el ingeniero Jacques-Marie Le Père, quien descubrió los restos del Canal de los Faraones. Napoleón consideró brevemente la idea de reconstruirlo pero decidió que tendría un costo prohibitivo y requeriría mucho tiempo para su fuerza expedicionaria, la cual se encontraba esencialmente atrapada en Egipto puesto que la marina británica estaba en control total del Meditérraneo; Napoleón decidió concentrarse en su conquista militar de Egipto.

Véase también
 Canal de Suez

Obras citadas

Referencias

Lectura complementaria

Técnica del Antiguo Egipto
Geografía del Antiguo Egipto
Canales de Egipto
Egipto en el siglo VI a. C.
Delta del Nilo
Sesostris III
Darío I

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I hear the rumbling of a lou-lou monster!
Sento il brontolio di un mostro lou-lou.
Maybe I want to go through the cherry trees and hear the rumbling sound.
Magari mi piacerebbe camminare tra i ciliegi e sentire quel rimbombo.
Blood rushing to my head, making this rumbling sound.
And all the other stuff, the flying, the rumbling... All just special effects put on by a very gifted showman.
Tutto il resto... i voli, il rimbombo... tutti effetti speciali creati da uno showman di grande talento.
Then the rumbling started and never stopped.
Poi quei versi sono iniziati e mai più fermati.
And the administration is already rumbling there's insufficient funding for my proposal.
E l'amministrazione sta già parlottando di fondi insufficienti per il mio progetto.
So, my stomach's rumbling like thunder.
Dunque... il mio stomaco brontola.
Others, such as Iran, with its moribund revolution, have never ceased rumbling.
Altri, come l'Iran, con la sua moribonda rivoluzione, non hanno mai cessato di rimbombare.
Let's not sit here with our tummies rumbling.
Bene, facciamo di non stare qui seduti con le nostre pance che rumoreggiano.
Of course, the rumbling sound we heard.
Ma certo, quel suono rombante che abbiamo sentito.
Moriarty was dragging me to the edge of the rumbling abyss.
Moriarty mi stava trascinando verso il bordo dell'abisso.
No more rumbling on my turf.
Niente più risse nel mio territorio.
The sound of gas rumbling through your intestines.
Il rumore del gas che si muove nelle viscere.
We don't leave our post just because our stomach starts rumbling.
Non si lascia il proprio posto solo perché lo stomaco inizia a brontolare.
I'm hungry, Connie, my stomach is rumbling.
Sono affamato, Connie, il mio stomaco sta brontolando.
Poor old lady's stomach is rumbling.
Sento lo stomaco della vecchia brontolare.
OK, now you should hear a rumbling noise.
Ecco, adesso dovresti sentire un ronzio.
Just this kind of rumbling, like just before an earthquake.
Solo una specie di rombo sordo, come prima di un terremoto.
"Un suono roboante," "poi tre colpi secchi."
I figured you and the other jets would be rumbling with the sharks.
Credevo che tu e gli altri Jets aveste organizzato una rissa contro gli Sharks.
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Q: API Logging and MYSQL Load I made an api and am logging all the requests to it.
When someone hits the api, there is an insert and an update (in order to record the api response code)
During testing the api log is around 200k records, this might go to a few million records very quickly.
Does this kind of logging, ie insert and update, put alot of pressure on the server?
My concern is that mysql will get overloaded due to logging so not sure if I should trim the logs every 7 days or something.

A: A few million records won't hurt the database storage-wise. I've got MySQL tables with hundreds of millions of rows and they work fine when indexed. I would consult the MySQL manual for Data Manipulation Statements and Optimization to see if what you're doing is going to stretch performance limits.
MySQL's indexing guide if you'd like to know more.
If you're worried about overloading your DB, you could write a cron job to backup your database each day and then just truncate/load after hitting a certain row count or time of day or whatever. You would then have a backup of all the records that you need.
Hope this helps.

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The older one of these is the 1656 Viking Line Ferry, first released in 1982. It was sold on Viking Line ferries traveling between Finland and Sweden, and that is where I got mine from as well – judging from the selection of ship names available, it must have been in the first half of the 1980s. Somewhat eerily, the name I had chosen was Viking Sally – meaning I probably got it from a trip to Mariehamn aboard that ship. Viking Sally would later be sold to Estonia and renamed M/S Estonia, and sank in 1994 in one of the worst modern maritime disasters, claiming 852 lives. May they rest in peace.
The LEGO Viking Sally is intact, found wrapped in a plastic bag inside its original box, although there is quite a bit of yellowing on some of the bricks from the time it was out in the open in the 1980s. Note that while there was extensive use of stickers, even those dreaded stickers across multiple pieces (STAMPs), the side windows on the long bars were printed. There were two alternate chimney designs to represent various Viking Line ships. By the way: Viking Rosella, which could also be built from this set (by simply swapping the sticker), is still operated by Viking Line on the Mariehamn route.
This was not the only such promotional set sold on ferries running between Finland and Sweden, but I believe it is the only one I ever got. Although LEGO is still sold onboard Finland-Sweden ferries today, I haven't seen such promotional sets in years. I do miss them, I think they were a fantastic idea especially as souvenirs for kids, who could either use the set to pass the time while traveling or build and display the set after returning home and have something to remember the cruise by (and show their friends).
I also had one other promotional LEGO set – coming from a Britannia Airways (now TUI/Thomson) flight from/to London, England. The 1599 Airliner, first released in 1988, was part of the LEGO Basic theme (which later morphed into LEGO Creator) meaning that bricks and instructions for several basic designs were included, all in microscale. There are step-by-step instructions for the airliner, a car, a helicopter, a smaller plane and further ideas for a ship, an air traffic control tower and some figures.
It is one of the last LEGO sets I acquired, before entering the dark ages. It may even be the last one. Its condition is very good compared to the rest of my old collection, without any discoloration and with (probably) all parts still inside the box, suggesting it was only assembled once and then stuffed away. My trip to London aboard Britannia was in the summer of 1989. The next year I hauled all my LEGO into storage.
I just purchased one of these! Its mixed into a bulk lot. Owner claimed some of the sets were european so it all makes sense now. Thanks for the post!


First Week of Medical School, and Our Uninvited Guest.
Medical school is starting up, and I have my game face on. I've moved into my new apartment with the tots (1.5 and 3yrs), and mapped out every second of every day. Wake at 6 am, take the dog out, shower, pack lunches, wake kids, dress them, and head out the door by 7 am. I soon discovered this was a little ambitious. My kids are used to getting up at 8, 9, 10am. No problem, I have to learn to be flexible, and moldable, like I said I was in my medical school essays. I tweak the schedule to start at 530am, and the kids adjust. I have interviewed multiple babysitters for evening and weekend help and found an amazing woman who is the mother of a 3rd year medical student at my school, so I know she can't be crazy. I have her come nightly the week before orientation starts so the kids can get adjusted. They love her, I love her, she loves us. Having this help reassures me that I CAN do this. Then life happens, and my first day of orientation she falls and injures her back. I'm relieved she is OK, but she will be out for 6 weeks. No problem. I am this flexible, moldable metal right? I'm flexible damn it! AND I prepared. I have multiple back up sitters with one who can step in immediately. Then my internet doesn't work, no problem, I can complete my last minute assignment using my phone, it just takes twice as long. The treadmill at my apartments don't work. That's OK, I can walk around the block. The washing machines are out. No worries, flexible, moldable, calm, cool me has enough clothes for the week. I will just wash them at my parents house on the weekend. I'm trying to be this person who has it all together, and for the most part, I am playing the part. I replay "Just keep swimming" from Finding Nemo in my head as I try not to let the little things unravel me. I like order, I like control, I like plans, but I know these things will continue to happen and if I want to be successful I have to let them go.
But no amount planning could have prepared me for what was going to happen the weekend after orientation. A category 4 Hurricane (quite uninvitedly) hit our coast and caused devastation 200 miles south. Our first 2 days of classes were cancelled, then the whole week was cancelled, then after Harvey died down to a tropical storm, classes were resumed as our administrators assumed we were out of the waters. My kids 'daycare was still closed, so I slightly panicked as I tried to find childcare for the week. There was no need to panic, I have lots of back ups. I'm still learning to stay cool.
But the admin spoke too soon. The city that I have called home was drowned overnight in what is being called catastrophic, historic flooding. All of a sudden my plans didn't matter. I watched on Facebook live feeds as friends of mine were rescued from their houses that had become an island surrounded by water. I watched a local news crew drive through the streets near my house, near my kids' old daycare, in a boat. I watched the roads I take regularly become rivers. Addresses of people who needed rescue kept popping up on my Next-door and Facebook feed. Businesses were lost. Homes were lost. Lives were lost.
I also saw a tremendous outpouring as locals responded to a call for help. People brought their boats to help with the rescue efforts. Impromptu shelters have popped up all over town. Donations are being brought. Neighbors are offering their homes to those who have lost. My neighbor across the street went out in a row boat, rescuing elderly a few blocks away who were trapped in flooded homes. Those of us who were safe helped coordinate boats to pick up those who were stranded. The Cajun Navy from Louisiana even showed up immediately. Many friends of mine, including my kids' dad, are on day 3 of 4, or 5 working in the hospitals, or as first responders. My old coworkers are evacuating the hospital where I learned to be a nurse. They are strong, and resilient. They are flexible and moldable. I could use a few lessons from them.
It's still raining here, it's not over. Evacuations and rescues are still taking place. For now, I am safe at my mom's house, an hour away from Houston. The tots are enjoying their time with grandma and grandpa. My sister is stuck in her apartment, but stocked up on chips and water for a week. Our home in Houston didn't take in water, and my apartment in Galveston is fine. I have no idea what is going to happen next. I don't know when the rain will stop, when my classes will start, who will watch my kids, if they are going to try to shove 8 weeks of Gross Anatomy and Radiology down our throats in 7 weeks, or if they are going to take away our Christmas break to make up for it. It doesn't matter. It only matters that my city and surrounding areas stay safe, and soon we will come together to rebuild and restrengthen. I'll be getting a sledge hammer to help with rebuilding, and I'm sure I'll still be singing "Just keep swimming" when I start knocking down walls. It seems like an appropriate song.


Take out the steak from the fridge 20 minutes prior to grilling. Allow cooling at room temperature in a covered container.
While preheating the grill to high, combine the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl.
Coat both sides of the steak with the mixture. Grill the meat for 4-5 minutes. When one side is slightly charred, flip the steak and grill for another 3-4 minutes to make a medium-rare steak.
Transfer to a cutting board and let stand for 5 minutes to cool.
Slice into slivers and serve with any low carb veggies or salad of your choice.
Brushing your steaks with mustard-based marinade will make your meat perfectly soft and juicy from the inside, while the grill will give you the crispiness you love! If you have some extra time, you can let the steaks sit in this marinade for 15-20 minutes before grilling. This will allow the flavors to penetrate deep into the meat. Add some lemon juice for even better fresh taste and enjoy!


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Amy Speace Invited To NERFA And Folk Alliance Conferences
Grassy Hill Entertainment singer-songwriter Amy Speace has been invited to showcase the upcoming 2008 Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference (NERFA) as well as February's International Folk Alliance Conference.
Amy will be performing her NERFA showcase on Friday November 14, 2008 (11:05 - 11:20 PM) in the Dutchess Room at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, NY. Amy also showcased last year's NERFA conference on November 9, 2007 at Kutsher's Resort and Conference Center in Monticello, New York.
Amy was also invited to an official Performance Alley Showcase, during the International Folk Alliance Conference being held on February 18-22, 2009 in Memphis, Tennessee. Further details will be announced on Amy site ( www.amyspeace.com ) as they become available.
"Let's get the comparisons out of the way. Yes, there is a vocal resemblance to Rosanne Cash, but as a songwriter Amy Speace is non-pareil. Delving into the heartbreak and melancholy of country music with a folk/rock sensibility and a class and reserve reflective of the best of Alison Krauss, Amy Speace has created an album full of classic tunes that cannot be ignored or denied. Rating: 5 Stars (Out of 5)" Wildy's World
Amy Speace's The Real Thing - musicdish
Amy Speace has already won a loyal grass-roots fan base, thanks in large part to live performances that merge warmth, humor and emotional immediacy, and to a tireless touring schedule that's already taken her across the United States. She's also won considerable critical acclaim, with The Village Voice observing that Speace is "taking her Americana away from twangy contemplation toward tangy confrontation" and noting that she's "not another of those breathy would-be child poets, but a real singing writer of songs." Time Out New York stated, "Amy Speace plays sweet, twangy folk music with a clear voice and an innocent vulnerability," while The Nashville Scene noted that she "balances wry humor with open-hearted honesty." And renowned Nashville critic Robert K. Oermann, writing in Music Row, dubbed her a "new star."
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Kenny Martin Has Released A Stellar Rock/Pop CD 'As We Walk'
The multi-talented international adult contemporary singer & songwriter Kenny Martin has released his brand new CD entitled "As We Walk," which features his chart-topping single "This Train Station." The album features thirteen upbeat rock songs including the title track and "Benevolent Persuasion" that are hard hitting radio masterpieces of melodic adventures.
"As We Walk" was recorded and produced in the entertainment mecca that is Las Vegas where Kenny has continued to earn praise for his previously released stellar CD "Tomorrow's Memory." Throughout the recording process fans around the world have awaited Kenny's return and he has earned significant interest on a national level with hopes of continuing his success with the release of this red hot new album of songs. As of today, the song "This Train Station" stands at #34 on the FMQB AC Top 40 Radio Charts and it is expected to keep climbing up.
Kenny Martin's new CD "As We Walk," is currently available through iTunes, CD Baby, Rhapsody, Payplay.fm, and Napster. http://www.kennymartinmusic.com
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Kenny Martin carries a message of hope, dignity and love with humor and compassion. His music is a fusion of rock and jazz influences filtered through a variety of keyboards, kick-ass rhythm section and a smoking saxaphone. His vocal style and harmonies are reminiscent of rock greats, while taking you to new heights in contemporary music.
International recording artist KENNY MARTIN has released a stellar rock/pop CD Tomorrows Memory on As We Walk Records. The CD is characterized by fine songwriting and melodies, rocking guitar, deft keyboards, tender ballads and pop sensibilities. Radio and listeners will be enthralled by such choice cuts as Crazy, Time and the title track. For all Kenny Martin info and CD ordering, please go to http://www.kennymartinmusic.com
Born in Michigan in 1967, Kenny Martin instantly had an affinity for music and began to play the piano at age four. At that time Ken was inspired by The Beatles, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Todd Rundgren. At the age of seven Ken became more serious about music and was inspired by Chick Corea. Gino Vanelli and George Duke. Ken's first gig came at the age of eighteen at the Montauk Yacht Club. He then attended Ithaca College where he studied music and broadcasting. By this time Steely Dan became a big influence and he became more of a writer and singer. Ken played in numerous bands and ended up in Montreal where he recorded many albums including his critically-acclaimed CD As We Walk. After playing and recording in Montreal and Toronto, Ken has returned to New York City and ready to hit the big-time with Tomorrow's Memory.
Peter Kasindorf
by As We Walk Rating: 10
I love to listen to this album while I'm driving. Recently, I noticed myself humming and singing the soothing melodies and catchy lyrics while sitting at my desk at work. This CD was a natural for me and makes me feel great. Thanks Ken!
As We Walk
by G. Richardson Cook Rating: 10
I love this album. Not simply because I know the artist but because it speaks in lyrical truths about the human spirit. The album begins with a rocking, jazz influenced greeting "Welcome" setting the tone for a novella of moving songs that follow. One of my favorites is "Didn't We" which takes us on a journey into our past and the memorable good things we acomplished there. Listening to this song made me happy to be a part of the human race and set a path to the future where we can do good things over and over again. Treat yourself to a remarkable experience in the human condition; hope, sanity and a way to go forward in truth. Listen to this album.
by Lynne Hyde Rating: 10
I thought this CD was truly exceptional, in fact the song As we Walk -brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it for it's melodic and deep feeling. It delivers a message that's important. I highly recomend this Cd to be listened to. The band is great and I especially enjoyed the female back up voices that are on the last few songs.This artist deserves to go somewhere!
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NYC Rocker Tim Young releases free "Kerouac" MP3
"Listening to 'Keroauc' by Tim Young Band feels like a cross-country adventure that harkens back to the esteemed Beat writer Jack Kerouac, of whom the song refers to. In the song's video, Young is seen playing guitar all over the city of New York on street corners and sidewalks. Young appears to be having a blast - and rightly so. 'Kerouac' is a highly enjoyable song that will conjure up thoughts of hitting the road with only a notebook in hand, just like Jack did so many years ago."
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Rocker Tim Young (www.timrocksweb.com), veteran to the New York music scene, has been performing in Manhattan for years. Together with drummer Sand Edwards he's been able to solidify a great fan base. Young began releasing CDs in 2002 with NO STRANGER, a collection of nine original instrumentals. For his second release RED, his debut as a solo singer/songwriter, he recorded sixteen original songs that explore the emotional landscape of an artist dealing with the way of life in twenty-first-century NYC. Tim Young's third CD THE COST features twelve new songs and a brand new version of his own tune "Renegade" from RED. THE COST takes some similar themes but develops them in a more complex way. Tim likes to call this record rock 'n roll. He takes guitar, bass and drums and puts them together in a classy classic kind of way to create music that envelopes not only rock, but also country and folk influences woven into the fabric of rock 'n roll.
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MusicDishTV: Marcome - "Yeku from Seven Seas"
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Voices and keyboards by Marcomé. Percussions by Michel Dupire: key chimes, paddle drum, ankle beads, conga, nuts, shakers. Videoclip from Yeku from Marcome's first album Seven Seas produced and directed by Denis Paquet and Daniel Villeneuve. www.Marcome.com
"With a brilliant opening harmony reminiscent of classic ABBA, 'Yeku from Seven Seas' quickly transforms into an all-powerful source of meditation: Marcome succeeds in healing listeners with glorious vocals and profound keyboard skills." - MusicDishTV
MusicDishTV is more than an online video channel; it is the place to find out what's happening in the music world and hear brilliant new talent before they hit the radio airwaves. Artists & bands can submit their videos at http://tv.musicdish.net
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Electro-Ambient artist Ryan Farish releases free "Open Sky" MP3
Top Billboard Charting Composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Farish recently announced the Independent release of his sixth full-length album "Wonderfall." The album, features 16 new original compositions by the Dove award-winning composer, and is being released on Farish's own label, RYTONE Entertainment.
In addition to being on sale through all major online retailers, the second single from the album "Open Sky" is now being made available as a free mp3 download for a limited time.
Download the MP3 from Ryan Farish of "Open Sky"
"'Open Sky' is at once uplifting and powerful, yet also peaceful and serene. Breakbeats will have you nodding your head, while the background choir vocals will send you to another atmosphere. This is Ryan Farish at his best." Eric Hartline, MusicDish
The first single from Ryan Farish's 'Wonderfall', "Holding Hands", first premiered on the smash Midas/EMI compilation release, 'The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz.' The compilation, featured Farish's song alongside Jazz superstars Chick Corea and Dave Koz, and reached #1 on Billboard's Top Jazz Album Chart.
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Rockwood Products & SPEC RECORDS Present "Truckers Tracks Vol 1" (Saddle Up And Ride)
Trucker Tracks Volume 1 CD Combines the Grit of Southern Rock and the Power of Outlaw Country Delivered to all Truckers far and wide.
Spec Records announces its release of the new trucker's compilation. Saddle up and Ride", it contains 13 fresh new songs honoring the American Trucker and feature hard working artists and musician who wrote and performed songs that truly relate to being a trucker on the road and the story is told in each song.
"This is an absolutely wonderful collection for truckers, families of truckers, country music lovers and Southern Rockers," raved Michael Smith of Swampland Reviews, "it is a collection of some of Nashville's best artists and songs paying tribute to some of the hardest working men and women in America."
Artists on the compilation include Johnny Neel, formerly of the Allman Brothers, Joe Durham, Greg Crowe, Bob Rea, Mike Cullison and Rodger Mason . The collection is a solid assortment of Outlaw country, Southern rock and has a blues edge. The compilation has widespread appeal to truckers, country music fans and rock fans alike. The CD is dedicated to "all the men and women who move the heavy loads down the highway and the families that they leave behind…"
The closing track "Folded Flag" featuring Johnny Neel former Allman Brothers is a tribute to the service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.....
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Best Of The Batch: Gevende - "nem"
Artist: Gevende
Track: nem
Album: EV
"Nem" begins with a flurry of instruments hitting from all cylinders but shortly dissolves into a sea of ambience. Just when you are getting used to the tranquility, the song picks up where it left off and ends with a bang. A gorgeous piece of instrumentation from start to finish. Since they were formed in the year 2000, 'Gevende' have focused on perfecting their unique 'psychedelic folk' sound.
Gevende's "Nem" - musicdish
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Guitarfixation.com Launches As A New Resource For Musicians
New site features gear reviews, factory tours, and interviews with industry experts
Intended as a one-stop shop for all things guitar, www.guitarfixation.com officially launched this month. Soon to be the first and only stop for new and seasoned guitar players alike, the site features gear reviews, factory tours, shop spotlights and interviews with industry-leading guitar makers.
The site's publisher, Paul Zoskey, says the idea for the Guitarfixation.com was a result of frustration with the existing resources for musicians, "I had long been looking for a single guitar related resource for the latest news/reviews and info, a Gizmodo for Guitars if you will. The problem was I was never able to find it; so I decided why not make the site I've always been looking for myself?"
The contributors for guitarfixation.com come from a cross-section of the music industry, including: San Francisco-based audio engineer and musician Phil Manley (Trans Am, the Fucking Champs, Golden, Oneida and Jonas Reinhardt); vintage guitar dealer for Jay Rosen Music and owner of Classic Bar Music Erin McDermott (Guitar Magazine, Top Ten); San Diego-based musician and owner of Louder Records Tim Soete (The Event, the Fucking Champs); and from Oakland musician Dan Brubaker (Long Thaw, Generalissimo). The site's editor is Nikkole Stone of Toronto band First Person Shooter, and Zoskey, himself an avid guitarist based in San Francisco, is most known for his work at Dolby.
Current featured articles on the site include a tour of Rudy's Music Stop in NYC, a venerated Mecca for musicians of all stripes, as well as an in-depth interview with Santa Cruz Guitars founder and champion, Richard Hoover. Hoover gave guitarfixation.com unprecedented access to his work-bench style factory and speaks candidly about the challenges facing boutique-type companies like Santa Cruz as well as the thrills associated with creating some of the finest crafted acoustic guitars on the market.
An extensive array of stompbox and guitar reviews are already on the site, with more being added daily. Upcoming features include an interview and shop tour with Dot on Shaft guitars founder/CEO Mike Carparelli, and complete coverage and reviews from the LA Amp Show.
For all things guitar visit http://www.guitarfixation.com
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Brian is super sick. Took him into the doctor today, then shuffled on over to the hospital for a chest x-ray and lab work, and then back to the doctor's office for injections of antibiotics. He has THE FLU (not to be confused with, "Boss, I can't come into today because I… cough cough… am sick. I think I have the flu."), a double ear infection, his white count is elevated so maybe something else too, I don't know, and the doctor is worried about pneumonia. Brian looks so bad- his eyes are red and puffy and they are constantly leaking tears. His nose is also constantly running, so Brian has dried snot in various places around his face. His clothes and my clothes from this past weekend were frequently wet. Eww, gross, I know. He is lethargic and just wants to be rocked. He isn't eating well but he is drinking his juice and Gatorade, so no worries. I spent all day (and most of the weekend) but for 20 minutes and while I was driving, with Brian in my arms. I should have Kevin take a picture of the poor little guy. He looks like the poster boy for some charity. It's really pathetic. My left arm is killing me from holding him for so long. Brian weight 38 pounds, which is officially the size of a 4 year old. I think doctors need new charts.
On the bright side, he has some reserves for now that he's not eating as much. Poor Sammy is so scrawny I get worried if she skips breakfast.


Steven Ray Antcliff, age 66 of Roscommon, died Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in his home in the comfort of his family.
Steve was born April 27, 1952 in Grayling, Michigan, to Roa Antcliff and Patricia Negake.
Steve will be greatly missed by family and friends. He is survived by his children: Steven Antcliff and Katy Antcliff; and siblings: Cheryl Ballou, Holly Ladouceur, Helen Antcliff, Brian Schoenborn, and Dana Antcliff.
He is preceded in death by his parents; and his brother, Joseph.
Steve's family has chosen to remember him privately at this time. Donations in his memory may be made to his family for future designation.


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Игорь Викторович Александров (23 октября 1952, Республика Тува — 2 декабря 2018) — советский и российский юрист, специалист по выявлению и расследованию экономических и налоговых преступлений; выпускник Красноярского государственного университета (1975); доктор юридических наук (2003) и профессор КГУ (2004); профессор и заведующий кафедрой (2012—2018) криминалистики на юридическом факультете МГУ; заслуженный юрист РФ (2003). Почётный житель города  Красноярск (2005).

Биография
Игорь Александров родился 23 октября 1952 года в Тувинской автономной области СССР; в 1975 году он окончил юридический факультет Красноярского государственного университета (сегодня — Сибирский федеральный университет). Затем, в период с 1975 по 1982 год, он являлся следователем районной прокуратуры Красноярского края: позднее стал старшим следователем и следователем по особо важным делам той же прокуратуры. Кроме того он являлся заведующим криминалистической лабораторией, относившейся к юридическому факультету Красноярского университета.

В 1985 году Александров завершил обучение в очной аспирантуре Свердловского юридического института (сегодня — Уральский государственный юридический университет) и досрочно защитил кандидатскую диссертацию на тему «Криминалистическая характеристика и особенности расследования мошеннических посягательств на личную собственность граждан». С том же году на начал преподавать в Красноярском университете: до 2008 года он занимал позиции старшего преподавателя, доцента и профессора на кафедре криминалистики; кроме того, он был заместителем декана и деканом всего юридического факультета, а также — проректором по гуманитарному образованию и правовым вопросам Красноярского университета.

В 2003 году Александров успешно защитил докторскую диссертацию на тему «Теоретические и практические проблемы расследования налоговых преступлений» — стал доктором юридических наук. В том же году он стал заслуженным юристом России, а в следующем году — был избран профессором. Переехал в Москву; в период 2008 по 2012 год Александров состоял профессором на кафедре криминалистики юридического факультета МГУ имени М. В. Ломоносова и являлся заместителя декана по учебной работе. В 2012 году занял пост заведующего кафедрой криминалистики; читал лекции по криминалистике и специальный курс по расследованию экономических и налоговых преступлений; кроме того, он являлся руководителем магистерской программы кафедры. Член ученого совета юрфака МГУ.

Александров был награжден почетными знаками от Следственного комитета России «За содействие» и «За отличие»; кроме того он имел медаль МВД России и являлся лауреатом премии «Научная школа». Состоял заместителем председателя диссертационного совета МГУ по защите как докторских, так и кандидатских диссертаций; входил в состав редакционно-издательских советов, ответственных за издание научных сборников, рекомендованных ВАК РФ. Скончался 2 декабря 2018 года.

Работы
Игорь Александров специализировался на тактике и методике расследования экономических, служебных и должностных преступлений; он также занимался проблемами коррупции и вопросами использования криминалистических знаний в правоприменении. Автор и соавтор более двух сотен научных и учебно-методических работ, включая девять монографий: в частности он был автором, соавтором и ответственным редактором учебников по криминалистике. Александров «исследовал уголовно-правовую характеристику, криминалистическую характеристику налоговых преступлений, её структуру и содержание, способы совершения налоговых преступлений, субъекта налогового преступления, личность преступника… поставил вопрос о создании целостной криминалистической концепции взглядов на налоговую преступность»:
 «Уклонение от уплаты налогов: Основы криминалистической характеристики» (2011)
 «Налоговое расследование: основы криминалистической методики» (2012)
 «Электронные носители информации в криминалистике» (соавт., 2017)
 «Криминалистика» (соавт., 2014)
 «Криминалистика: тактика и методика» (2016)
 «Расследование налоговых преступлений» (2017)
 «Расследование налоговых преступлений» (2002)
 «Криминалистическая методика» (2014)
 «Криминалистическая техника» (соавт., 2015)
 «Криминалистика: тактика и методика. Задачник» (2015)

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Литература

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Юристы России
Юристы СССР
Юристы XX века
Юристы XXI века
Профессора МГУ
Выпускники Красноярского государственного университета


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Ideas and Insights > The Problematic Nature of Racial and Ethnic Categories in Higher Education
The Problematic Nature of Racial and Ethnic Categories in Higher Education
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By Walter Allen, Chantal Jones, and Channel McLewis
Background and Formation of Racial and Ethnic Categories
Racial and ethnic categorizations in society (and at higher education institutions) are not neutral, but rather they are informed by historical, social, political, and economic contexts. Such classification of individuals and groups dates to the founding of the United States, with racial classifications tracing back to preconceptions of biological and cultural differences that today are understood as tools to uphold majority control and power. Omi and Winant (2015) define race as a social construction used to create, organize, and validate a social order. Race and ethnicity operate as tools to distinguish between who is "the norm" and who is "the other" and outside the norm—a perspective also known as racial formation. Further, these authors contend that "race is a master category—a fundamental concept that has profoundly shaped, and continues to shape, the history, polity, economic structure, and culture of the United States" (Omi and Winant 2015, 106). In other words, how racial and ethnic categories are defined holds immense significance, helping to validate social hierarchies, distribute power, and uphold discrimination. For these and other reasons, scholars of race have long acknowledged that racial and ethnic categories are largely arbitrary and dependent on those with the power to create them.
How racial and ethnic categories are defined holds immense significance, helping to validate social hierarchies, distribute power, and uphold discrimination.
In the United States, the most salient of these classification systems is the U.S. Census—it is both a federal bureau and a constitutionally mandated process. Data derived from the Census is significant; it is used in federal and state policymaking, political redistricting, and disaster response, to name a few examples. Also significant (but less discussed) are the descriptive classifications themselves, including the racial and ethnic categories. For higher education, these categories are paramount given the mandate of postsecondary institutions to use them to report data to the federal government. Yet taking these categories at face value obscures their own discriminatory history.
Race scholar Gloria Ladson-Billings (1998) notes that "although racial categories in the U.S. Census have fluctuated over time, two categories have remained stable—Black and White." The categories, she continues, "create for us a sense of polar opposites that posits a cultural ranking designed to tell us who is White or, perhaps more pointedly, who is not White" (8). The first Census classifications in 1790 illustrate this divide: free white men (both over and under 16 years of age), free white women, all other free persons, and [Black] slaves (Charles 2014).
Even today, the characteristics to prescribe who suitably "fits" within each racial category are mutable. For example, at different moments in time, the Census has categorized Mexican Americans as racially "white" or ethnically "Hispanic." In her seminal text, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum (2017) provides an important discussion of the changing language for common racial classifications. Tatum explores examples of Black rather than African American, Latinx rather than Hispanic, and regional variation in the use of terms American Indian and Native people rather than Native American, or Asian/Pacific Islanders rather than Asian Pacific Americans. Ultimately, Tatum advises to follow the examples of how people describe themselves.
Racial and Ethnic Categories in Higher Education
Just as in society, racial and ethnic categorization is common practice in higher education; it is most frequently used by administrators and higher education policymakers to guide decisions. In higher education, racial and ethnic categorization includes not only the categorization of students as "minority" but also the categorization of institutions as "minority serving." Yet rarely are these racial and ethnic categories critiqued for being misrepresentative of the diverse characteristics and experiences of students (and others) sorted into the different boxes.
There is significant aggregation, for example, in how groups are classified as "underrepresented minority" or URM—labels that are often used to confer benefits such as financial aid and student support services (Park 2018). As an illustration, the University of California system includes in its URM definition African American, Hispanic/Latino(a), or American Indian students (University of California, n.d.). These categories do not take into account the historical and sociocultural diversity among Asian American and Pacific Islander students (especially so in California), including those populations that are disproportionately underrepresented in higher education, such as Hmong, Vietnamese, and Filipino/a students.
Extending the example to faculty classification, the City University of New York (CUNY) defines URM faculty as Asian, Black/African American, and Hispanic/Latino(a), and separately defines underrepresented groups as Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino(a), Italian Americans, and women (CUNY 2012). While we are not criticizing institutions for creating (additional) categories, it is important to articulate their history and meaning to institutional stakeholders and to revisit such categories on a regular basis in a way that includes the named populations in such decision-making.
Turning to educational research, the common practice of aggregating racial and ethnic data often results in misrepresentative categories. Groupings such as Black, Hispanic, and Asian—categories used throughout this very report—ultimately obscure who is within these large categories. Generally, research design, data analysis, and interpretation of findings rely on overarching categories that reduce rich diversity to simple categories or units of analysis. However, as many scholars note, the aggregation of students, particularly students of color, can distort observed results and lead to incorrect conclusions (Allen et al. 2008). Such aggregation of students can lead to the adoption of policies that further marginalize and penalize disadvantaged groups. For instance, rural, low-income whites or those who attended underperforming schools can be denied necessary academic support services by policies that ignore within-group diversity. Equally as problematic are policy blind spots that often omit Native Hawaiian students because of the tendency to dismiss some populations as insignificant due to small sample sizes (Chang, Nguyen, and Chandler 2015). This practice leads to statistically erasing populations, as they literally do not appear in the data.
As a result, many scholars call for greater disaggregation of racial and ethnic categories, especially at the institutional level, leading to greater nuance and thoughtful, granular narratives about student outcomes, experiences, and backgrounds (Chang, et al. 2015; Harper 2012; Teranishi 2007). As an example, when Asian American students are disaggregated, the myth of this group as a "model minority"[1] collapses since significant differences (e.g., in educational achievement and socioeconomic status) among subgroups are revealed (Teranishi 2007). The accompanying figure illustrates how relying on aggregate data ignores educational-attainment disparities within the pan-Asian group.
Finally, when it comes to higher education law and policy, many narratives around affirmative action or race-conscious policies use and misuse racial categories and their meaning, especially when advancing a political agenda. Opponents of these policies frame race-conscious decision-making as "racial preferential treatment" in a supposed color-blind society and "reverse discrimination" against white Americans (Crenshaw 2006). These opponents uphold that admissions should be based on color-blind merit (Bonilla-Silva 2017). Yet, many of these narratives rely on racial stereotypes—again, based on racial classifications—to discount the achievements of Black, indigenous, and Latinx students (Crenshaw 2006) and to misrepresent Asian Americans as the model minority in order to justify dismissal of race conscious policies (Chang 2011; Moses et al. 2019). A recent court case charging Harvard University (MA) with racial discrimination against Asian American students highlights how racial classifications can be misused, obscuring how race-conscious policies have benefited Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders (Harmon 2018).
The use and often-misunderstood use of racial and ethnic classifications have serious implications for higher education institutions. Increased racial and ethnic diversity requires that higher education reflect our dynamic society, and yet perspectives rooted in a white majority often result in inadequate attention to the needs of increasingly diverse students. As higher education expands, diversifies, and seeks to serve a broader, more complex constituency, we must understand "that educational institutions operate in contradictory ways, with their potential to oppress and marginalize coexisting with their potential to emancipate and empower" (Solórzano and Yosso 2002, 26).
At the same time, the history of racial and ethnic categorization in society, and in higher education, demands systematic examination of how these categories are created and deployed. It is necessary to acknowledge the historical and contemporary relationship between racial categories and racial hierarchies as we seek to disrupt notions that race does not matter in higher education. Substantial evidence in research, theoretical framing, practice, and policies make it clear that American higher education is not color-blind, nor is larger society.
It is our observation that conversations on race and racism in higher education are necessary and valuable. We must bring greater energy and nuance to challenge outdated ideas, such as the notion of racial and ethnic categories as absolute. Among the scholarly resources to help college administrators better understand the influence and implications of such categories and their perceived meaning is Beverly Daniel Tatum's second edition of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (2017). Another important source is Julie J. Park's 2018 book, Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data. The work of Schoem et al. (2001) on intergroup dialogue demonstrates the important process of face-to-face relationship building "in which different groups come together to discuss issues of community and conflict" (15). Additionally, the documentary Race: The Power of an Illusion critically examines what race is and offers useful tools for questioning beliefs and assumptions (Adelman 2003).
To close, we must not lose sight of the paradox that race is an ephemeral, elusive, imaginary construct. At the same time, race has real, profound, and lived consequences for students who are sorted across the different boxes. We are right to challenge the purpose and consequences of racial and ethnic categories, including their applicability to the students we serve. Going a step further, the field should seek to better understand how these categories intersect with other identities, such as class, gender, sexuality, country of origin, religion, and the differently abled (Crenshaw 1989). To achieve the goals of inclusive diversity and academic excellence, higher education institutions must of necessity compile the most reliable, comprehensive, informative data possible. When used critically and judiciously, data categorized by race and ethnicity can provide valuable information to help guide efforts to address persistent inequities in higher education.
Adelman, Larry. 2003. Race: The Power of an Illusion. San Francisco: California Newsreel.
Allen, Walter R., Susan A. Suh, Gloria González, and Joshua Yang. 2008. "Qui Bono? Explaining—or Defending—Winners and Losers in the Competition for Educational Achievement." In White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology, edited by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 217–238. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2017. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Chang, Mitchell J. 2011. "Battle Hymn of the Model Minority Myth." Amerasia Journal 37 (2): 137–143.
Chang, Mitchell J., Mike Hoa Nguyen, and Kapua L. Chandler. 2015. "Can Data Disaggregation Resolve Blind Spots in Policy Making? Examining a Case for Native Hawaiians." APPI Nexus: Policy, Practice, and Community 13 (1–2): 295–320.
Charles, Christopher. 2014. "The Representations of Race in the Decennial Censuses of the United States from 1970–2010." Working paper, last modified July 25, 2015. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2529562.
Crandall, Jennifer. 2017. "Pan-Asian Student Classifications in Higher Education: What the Data Do and Don't Tell Us." Higher Education Today (blog), American Council on Education. December 13, 2017. https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/12/13/pan-asian-student-classifications-higher-education-data-dont-tell-us/.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1989. "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics." The University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1): 139–167.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 2006. "Framing Affirmative Action." Michigan Law Review First Impressions 105 (1): 123–133.
CUNY (The City University of New York). 2012. Building on a Strong Foundation: A Strategy of Enhancing CUNY's Leadership in the Areas of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion. New York: CUNY. https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/ohrm/diversity/DiversityActionPlan/DiversityActionPlan_Revised.pdf.
Harmon, Noel. 2018. "The Reality of Asians and Higher Education Access." Inside Higher Ed, November 26, 2018. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2018/11/26/harvard-case-has-given-false-impression-access-issues-faced- asians.
Harper, Shaun R. 2012. "Race Without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize Racist Institutional Norms." The Review of Higher Education 36 (1): 9–29
Ladson-Billings, Gloria. 1998. "Just What Is Critical Race Theory and What's It Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?" International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 11 (1): 7–24.
Moses, Michele S., Daryl J. Maeda, and Christina H. Paguyo. 2019. "Racial Politics, Resentment, and Affirmative Action: Asian Americans as 'Model' College Applicants." The Journal of Higher Education 90 (1): 1-26.
Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. 2015. Racial Formation in the United States. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge. Park, Julie J. 2018. Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Schoem, David, Sylvia Hurtado, Todd Sevig, Mark Chesler, and Stephen H. Sumida. 2001. "Intergroup Dialogue: Democracy at Work in Theory and Practice." In Intergroup Dialogue: Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community, and Workplace, edited by David Schoem and Sylvia Hurtado, 1–21. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Solórzano, Daniel G., and Tara J. Yosso. 2002. "Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an Analytical Framework for Education Research." Qualitative Inquiry 8 (1): 23–44.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. 2017. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. Revised and updated. New York: Basic Books.
Teranishi, Robert T. 2007. "Race, Ethnicity, and Higher Education Policy: The Use of Critical Quantitative Research." New Directions for Institutional Research 2007 (133): 37–49.
University of California. n.d. "CA's Freshman Diversity Pipeline to UC." https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/cahs-pipeline.
[1] For a discussion of the model minority myth see https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/12/13/pan-asian-student-classifications-higher-education-data-dont-tell-us/.
Walter Allen, Distinguished Professor of Education and of Sociology and Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Chantal Jones, Doctoral Candidate in Higher Education and Organizational Change, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Channel McLewis, Doctoral Candidate in Higher Education and Organizational Change, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Race and Ethnicity of the U.S. Population
Hispanic Origin and Asian Origin Subgroups
We Need to Talk About Race in Higher Education Video
Asian American Students in Higher Ed…It's Complicated


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