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Blue flowers are my favorite. If you would like to add more of this wonderful hue to your garden this year, read on.

► Catmint is a tough herb grown mostly as an ornamental plant here. It is completely unfazed by our hot dry summers. Silvery green foliage is the perfect foil for the blue/blue-lavender flowers that start in late spring. Some great varieties to consider include Nepeta faassenii "Select Blue," (15”x18”), Nepeta "Walker’s Low" (18”x18”), and a new introduction I am excited to see-Nepeta "Walker’s Low Deep Blue" with darker blue flowers. Catmint makes a great evergreen groundcover and pollinator plant.

► Hardy blue plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides), though it's not evergreen, is my favorite groundcover plant. Bright green leaves sport gorgeous cobalt blue blooms. Fall brings burgundy foliage. This jewel can be grown in full sun or partial shade.

► "Heavenly Blue" morning glory vine. Yes, morning glories can be invasive. Yes, I think this one is worth the trouble. Flowers the color of a perfect spring sky cover the rampant vines that grow quite happily in the poorest of conditions.

► Texas blue salvia (Salvia texensis) is just one of the many great perennial salvias that can be grown here. I like the softer blue flowers this one sports, although I have plenty of other varieties that I love equally well.

► Blue Passion Vine (Passiflora caerulea) has stunning, distinctive flowers up to 4 inches across and is a host plant for the Gulf Fritillary butterfly. The caterpillars can defoliate the plant, which then leafs out again. Plant one for yourself and one for the butterflies.

► Think bearded iris are boring? Try the "Over Alaska" variety with white and marine blue flowers, a truly show-stopping combination.

► "Dark Knight" blue mist spirea (Caryopteris clandonensis) is a great small shrub, growing to only 3’x4’. The bush is covered with dark blue flowers in late summer when most of the garden is languishing.

► Vitex is a fast-growing large deciduous shrub or small tree with spikes of blue/purple flowers. It is often referred to as the Texas lilac, a nod to the fragrance.

These are just some of the wonderful plants with blue blooms that will grow well in the Big Country. All are drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. Plant among yellow or orange-blooming plants for an eye-catching contrast or with pastel hues for a serene feel.

Most of these plants will be available at the Big Country Master Gardener’s annual spring plant sale coming April 6. I will have more details as the date draws closer, but you can save the date now.

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Market Overview

The global next generation memory market was valued at USD 3197.75 million in 2019, and is expected to reach a value of USD 12482.98 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 29.7%, during the forecast period of (2020 - 2025). The emerging non-volatile memory technologies, such as MRAM, STT-RAM, FRAM, phase-change memory (PCM), and ReRAM combine the speed of SRAM, the density of DRAM, and the non-volatility of flash memory. Hence, these are the possible additions to the future memory technologies. Moreover, the adoption of next-generation infotainment systems and ADAS would be fusing the DRAM memory technologies that would have much higher performance and low power consumption capabilities.
  • Demand for universal memory devices is driving the market. Most of the new memory technologies are aimed at becoming universal memories to replace one of the members of the hierarchy with better technology. The high-end laptops are using solid-state flash chips, instead of huge mechanical hard disks and using the cloud for backup rather than tape drives. Recently, Intel announced Optane, which uses 3D XPoint technology that is close to universal memory. This is primarily a flash drive with non-volatile memory fast enough to function as RAM.
  • Increasing demand for enterprise storage applications is driving the market. The end-user industries, such as BFSI, are investing heavily in IoT technologies and reaping big financial rewards. For instance, embedded MRAM is considered as a promising technology for applications, such as IoT. Also, the other next-generation memories, such as 3D Xpoint, offer 1,000 times faster transfer speeds than the current SSDs. Hence this will drive the market efficiently.
  • Lack of stability under extreme environmental conditions is restraining the market. It is greatly impacted by extreme environmental conditions in terms of durability and reliability of memory devices. For instance, the more thermal stress a memory device is exposed to, the more of a risk there is of damaging it, which challenges a market to grow.
Scope of the Report

Next generation memory can be defined as a common label applied to a major upgrade of hardware or a software product. The next generation memory market has grown over the last few years because of the increasing demand for faster, efficient, and cost-effective memory solutions. The emerging Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including machine learning, drive innovations across many industries and this is accompanying new memory technologies in various end-users such as BFSI, Consumer Electronics, etc.

Key Market Trends

Information Technology to Significantly Employ Next Generation Storage Technology
  • With the growing size of enterprises, many of the companies in the IT sector have adopted the use of enterprise storage technologies. This adoption has been responsible for driving the demand for next-generation storage to handle the computing power of the organizations.
  • While many client devices use solid-state storage technologies nowadays, hard disk drives (HDDs) are still used by hundreds of millions of people and across virtually all datacenters worldwide. Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology promises to increase capacities of HDDs significantly in the coming years.
  • Though HDD media is still a top seller in the storage industry, the adoption of flash/SSD has been rising fast from the last several years. Owing to the fast data growth, significant media investments are being done highly in this sector. With the adoption of SSD memory storage technologies gradually rising, the need for cost-effective memory technologies is becoming intertwined with it.
  • For instance, Fadu Technology is a startup focused on advancing flash storage technology. By deploying a new architecture for Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers, Fadu Technology ushers in a new era of SSD storage by meeting the demands placed on Enterprise and Hyperscale datacenters in Flash Memory Summit 2019.
  • These latest memory devices also provide a better architecture, compared to the existing used technologies. Technologies, such as MRAM, are expected to have a better architecture that provides efficiency for the data centers, which will drive the market growth in Information technology segment.
North America to Account for a Major Share
  • The North American region has been one of the early adopters of the next-generation technologies and infrastructure. The IT industry significantly drives the economy in the United States. The rapidly changing technologies and high data generation, across the industries, are creating a need for more efficient processing systems. These are some of the factors driving the demand for next-generation memory market in the region.
  • Additionally, the US government has started the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) to deliver better services to the public while increasing return-on-investment to taxpayers, by consolidating many data centers in the country. The consolidation process includes the process for building hyperscale data centers and to shut-off the underperforming ones. Till date, the government has closed over 3,215 data centers in the country.
  • Moreover, the memory manufacturing companies in North America are seeking opportunities for production expansions. For instance, Intel has already started the phases of its new fabrication plant in Arizona for manufacturing next-generation memory and storage solutions. For this project, the company spent USD 1 billion as the first phase of investment out of the total cost USD 7 billion.
  • Additionally, in March 2019, Cyxtera Technologies expanded its data center facilities in Silicon Valley, Phoenix, Atlanta, New York Metro, and Toronto, with the expansions increasing the total capacity in these markets to more than 1.5 million sq. ft., with an overall company footprint of more than 2.9 million sq. ft.
Competitive Landscape

The next generation memory market is highly fragmented as the market is highly competitive and consists of several major players. The competitive rivalry in this industry is primarily dependent on the sustainable competitive advantage through innovation, levels of market penetration, and power of competitive strategy. Since the market is capital intensive, the barriers to exit are high as well. Some of the key players in the market are Intel Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Fujitsu Ltd, etc. Some of the key recent developments in the market are -
  • Aug 2019 - Samsung announced its 6th generation V-NAND memory with 100 active layers using new circuit design technology. It features 10% lower latencies and consumes 15% lower amount of power when compared to Samsung's previous-generation V-NAND products. This V-NAND also features lower power consumption than its predecessors.
  • July 2019 - Fujitsu Semiconductor announced the release of the 8Mbit ReRAM MB85AS8MT, which is reportedly the world's largest density as a mass-produced This ReRAM product, suitable for wearable devices, was jointly developed with Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co. Ltd. The MB85AS8MT is an EEPROM-compatible non-volatile memory with SPI-interface that operates with a wide range of power supply voltages from 1.6V to 3.6V. One major feature of this memory is an extremely small average current for read operations of 0.15mA at an operating frequency of 5MHz. This enables minimal battery consumption when mounted in battery-operated applications with frequent data-read operations.
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1.1 Study Deliverables
1.2 Study Assumptions
1.3 Scope of the Study

4.1 Market Overview
4.2 Introduction to Market Drivers and Restraints
4.3 Market Drivers
4.3.1 Demand for Universal Memory Devices
4.3.2 Increasing Demand for Enterprise Storage Applications
4.4 Market Restraints
4.4.1 Lack of Stability Under Extreme Environmental Conditions
4.5 Value Chain / Supply Chain Analysis
4.6 Industry Attractiveness - Porter's Five Force Analysis
4.6.1 Threat of New Entrants
4.6.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers/Consumers
4.6.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
4.6.4 Threat of Substitute Products
4.6.5 Intensity of Competitive Rivalry

5.1 By Technology
5.1.1 Non Volatile Magneto-Resistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) 3D Xpoint Nano RAM Other Non Volatile
5.1.2 Volatile Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
5.2 By Application
5.2.1 BFSI
5.2.2 Consumer Electronics
5.2.3 Government
5.2.4 Telecommunications
5.2.5 Information Technology
5.2.6 Other Applications
5.3 Geography
5.3.1 North America
5.3.2 Europe
5.3.3 Asia-Pacific
5.3.4 Latin America
5.3.5 Middle East & Africa

6.1 Company Profiles
6.1.1 Intel Corporation
6.1.2 Toshiba Corporation
6.1.3 Samsung Electronics
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6.1.5 Micron Technology Inc
6.1.6 IBM Corporation
6.1.7 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
6.1.8 Everspin Technologies
6.1.9 Sandisk Corporation
6.1.10 Everspin Technologies
6.1.11 Crossbar Inc.
6.1.12 AsusTek Computer Inc.
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6.1.14 Kingston Technologies
6.1.15 Sony Corporation
6.1.16 Windbond Electronics Corporation
6.1.17 Avalanche Technologies Inc
6.1.18 SK Hynix Inc.
6.1.19 Transcend Information, Inc.
6.1.20 Corsair Memory Inc.

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This pandemic is testing emotions, significantly changing behavior, and generating authentic fear in the fiercest of people! Many of us need to be reminded: We are human! However dark the world appears, we can chose to embrace the changes ahead!

Joyce Myer said:  Attitude is the posture we take toward life. It’s all about the way we decide to look at our circumstances. The attitudes we choose affect how we feel, behave, and ultimately, the overall quality of our lives.

How we decide to face challenges life throws at us, defines the outcome.  According to an academic teacher, Mr. Fisher, positive behaviors include:  Adaptable, Cooperative, Courageous, Determined, Generous, Responsible, and Productive.

Negative behaviors, according to Ivy Exec are:

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  • Remaining powerless and speechless.
  • Putting off investing in yourself.
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How to adopt a positive attitude when challenges arise:

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  • Connect with awesome people. Be with people who make you the best version of yourself!
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  • Motivate yourself in the second person. Interrupt negative self-talk with: You are happy… you are a good person!

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Ayeza Khan, the famous Pakistani actress has denied the rumors circulating about her and her husband, Danish Taimoor being present inside the plane of the national flag carrier that crashed near the Jinnah International Airport of Karachi today.

Ayeza Khan tweeted that the people should stop spreading the fake news as she and her family members are safe inside their houses by the grace of Allah Almighty. She asked all to pray for the ones who lost their lives in the less-fortunate incident.

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Previously today, a PIA plane carrying more than 90 passengers and 8 crew members on board crashed in a residential area of Karachi. Many homes and automobiles got damaged because of the plane crash.

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Jacinta Allan has admitted that the numbers in the Parliamentary Budget Office report into Daniel Andrews’ dodgy deal with Transurban are correct.

In a doorstop this afternoon, Jacinta Allan claimed there was “nothing new in the report” and did not contest any of the numbers.

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Red Deer has reported its first confirmed new COVID-19 case in weeks.

The city now has one active case and 34 recovered cases, according to geospatial mapping on the provincial government’s website on Friday.

There are two confirmed active cases of the virus in Alberta’s central zone – one each in Red Deer and Kneehill County.

The news comes as provincially, more young people have been testing positive for COVID-19 over the past few weeks, said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical health officer.

“We are seeing a particular increase in those between 20 and 29,” she said Friday.

“It is important for younger Albertans to remember that while you may not be at risk for severe outcomes of infection, your actions are critical to protecting those around you who are at higher risk.”

With Stage 2 of Alberta’s economic relaunch strategy beginning Friday, Hinshaw said it’s important people remember the virus is not gone.

“COVID-19 is still circulating in our communities and will do so for many months to come.

“With the the increased opportunity for activities and gatherings, there is increased potential for all of us to be exposed to COVID-19.”

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Of the total 7,346 confirmed cases, 386 are active, 6,811 have recovered and 149 have died.

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The government identified an active case in Clearwater County on Thursday, but there are now no confirmed active cases located in that region.

Lacombe County and Stettler County both have three recovered cases, while Mountain View County and the Town of Olds have four recovered cases each.

The City of Lacombe, Town of Sylvan Lake and Ponoka County each have two recovered cases. Red Deer County has 12 recovered cases and Clearwater County has one recovered case.

There are currently 53 Albertans hospitalized due to the virus. Six of those individuals have been admitted into an intensive care unit.

The City of Edmonton has seen a rise in cases, Hinshaw said.

“In the past three weeks, the number of active cases has risen from 58 to 149. While any increase in concerning, there has been no single source identified,” she said.

About two-thirds of these cases are linked to known sources of outbreaks.

“We are watching these cases closely and will communicate to Albertans if there is any cause for alarm,” said Hinshaw.

“I have been asked if the increase earlier this week might partially be the result of recent protests in the city. I can tell you that is not the case, as any transmission would take days to work through the system.”

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Ed Wingenbach named vice president and dean of faculty at Ripon College

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Dr. Ed Wingenbach has been selected as Ripon College’s new vice president and dean of faculty, beginning July 1, 2015. He currently is associate provost for academic affairs and a professor in the political science department at the University of Redlands in California. He also has served as chair of the faculty assembly.

“Ed Wingenbach will be a tremendous addition to the Ripon College community,” said Zach Messitte, president of Ripon College. “He brings with him a richness of experience and excellent credentials as an administrator, scholar and teacher. I look forward to working with him in the months and years ahead on continuing to make Ripon College one of the leading liberal arts and sciences colleges in the nation.”

As vice president and dean of faculty, Wingenbach will serve on the president’s administrative council at Ripon College and will have tenure in the Department of Politics and Government.

“The invitation to join the exceptionally welcoming community of Ripon College is a tremendous honor,” Wingenbach said. “I am eager to begin work with my new colleagues, whose devotion to students, dedication to the liberal arts, and love of Ripon were unmistakable during our visit. Ripon College exemplifies the personalized approach to education that best prepares young adults for success in the 21st century, and I am committed to working with students, faculty and staff to ensure Ripon is recognized widely for the extraordinary education we provide.”

At the University of Redlands, Wingenbach held a number of academic and administrative roles since 2000, including his most recent roles as associate provost for academic affairs and accreditation liaison officer.

As associate provost, Wingenbach led efforts to internationalize the University of Redlands, advance sponsored research success, extend community-based learning across the curriculum, and improve the use of data to increase student success. He has worked closely with faculty and administration to coordinate the assessment of student learning outcomes, manage academic program reviews, and encourage the use of assessment findings. He also led the university’s ongoing work to maintain accreditation.

His research interests include contemporary political theory, democratic theory and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His articles have appeared in some of the top journals of political science. In 2001, Wingenbach’s article “Preference Aggregation, Functional Pathologies and Democracy: A Social Choice Defense of Participatory Democracy” was recognized with the award for “Best Paper Published” in the Journal of Politics. Wingenbach is the author of Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy, published in the Ashgate series “Rethinking Political and International Theory.” In 2006, he received the University of Redlands Award for Outstanding Service.

His previous teaching experience includes posts at San Diego State University and the University of South Carolina, where he received the Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998.

Wingenbach earned his bachelor’s degree in politics and political philosophy and religion from Lake Forest College, where he currently serves on the Alumni Board. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Wingenbach was appointed vice president and dean of faculty by Ripon following a national search that began in fall 2014 and was conducted by a search committee chaired by Dr. Robert Wallace, the Patricia and Philip McCullough 1969 Professor in Biology.

Wingenbach replaces Gerald “Jerry” Seaman, who now is serving as principal (CEO) of Harlaxton College, the University of Evansville’s British campus, located near Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

“I would like to thank Dr. Jody Roy for her excellent work as interim dean during the 2014-15 academic year,” Messitte added. “She has been an instrumental leader for our faculty, and we are so grateful for her tireless dedication to the College.”


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TOMORROW is the big day!!! #Riptidefest 2017! Here’s 10 awesome areas you should explore:

1. The Yuengling 790 The Ticket Sports Bar will have the UM / Clemson game blasting during Riptide!

2. The Shaw Ross LITE FM Wine Garden will be absolutely stunning & full of your favorite wines, sangria, rosé and more!

  • GatoNegro – Adored Everywhere
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3. Welcome all FOODIES to our #BITEME Food Court! Featuring great selections of Thai, Mexican, Sushi, Greek, Seafood, Paella, Wood Fired Pizza, Island Noodles, BBQ, Conch, American favorites, Vegan options and gluten free!

4. Enter the Ford Blue Lounge with a stage full of rotating bands and DJs. Register to win a convertible Mustang and dance to exclusive pop up artist performances.

5. Stop by the One With Life Tequila tent for FREE Festival Face Painting and Henna Tattoos

6. East Coast Public Adjusters have a FREE Flash Tattoo Bar and you can register for your chance to meet and greet the bands!

7. Take a picture in the Fort Lauderdale Underground Village with our giant Ozzy the Octopus!

8. Purchase one of a kind Scales Gear Riptide Merch at our Scales stations

9. Learn how to protect our oceans and pick up trash for prizes at The Celebration of the Sea Pavilion.

10. #1000 Mermaids project will be onsite creating live art – casting mermaid legs to make artificial reefs in our ocean.


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Open@RIT is a Key Research Center of the University and serves as the Open Programs Office for the University. It is part of the Office of the Vice President of Research.

Open@RIT is dedicated to fostering the collaborative engine of Open across the University for Faculty, Staff and Students. Its goals are to discover, and grow, the footprint of RIT’s impact on all things Open including, but not limited to, Open Source Software, Open Data, Open Hardware, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons licensed efforts, what we like to refer to in aggregate as Open Work.

Its charter was approved by the Provost in June of 2020 and it was established under the Office of the Vice-President of Research in August of 2020. We're coming to a number of college-wide meetings this Fall semester.  Want a preview of the talk before we get to yours?  Had to miss the meeting? View the slides.

The roots of Open@RIT are based in our twelve years of FOSS education for undergraduate students which includes...

The goal of Open@RIT is to be able to provide similar support for the Open Work already pursued by RIT Faculty and Staff, and to mentor those interested in getting started in it.

In November of 2019, Jacobs wrote a white paper for the Vice President of Research and the Provost describing the role of an Open Source Programs Office in industry and what a similar effort might do for RIT.

The paper resulted in an invitation by the Administration to hold a series of exploratory meetings with faculty and staff to gauge interest.

Fifty faculty and staff from 37 units across campus RSVP’d to the first meeting (pre-COVID) and twenty participated (post-COVID) in the creation of a “wish list” document suggesting what Open@RIT might do. Much of Open@RIT’s charter, approved by the Provost in June of 2020, was influenced by that “wish list.”

Open@RIT firmly believes in the FOSS maxim of “release early, release often.”  Our website will reflect that as well, so come back regularly, especially during our first year.

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Stephen Jacobs is a professor with the School of Interactive Games and Media and an interdisciplinary scholar who works in several different areas that often overlap including Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture. Digital Humanities, Game Design and History and Interactive Narrative. He also holds the position of Visiting Scholar at The Strong National Museum of Play.  His Open Work has been funded by The Ford Foundation, UNICEF Innovation, Red Hat Inc, Northern Telecom and AT&T. Professor Jacobs received the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring for 2019-2020.

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Code for America
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Deb Nicholson

Interim Director
The Open Source Initiative

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Silona Bonewald

Executive Director
IEEE Standards Association

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Mike Nolan

Federation of Humanitarian Technologists
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Minor, Free & Open Source Software & Free Culture RIT 2016

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Mel Chua

ABD, Purdue, School of Engineering Education

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Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu

HCI Researcher (PhD candidate), University of Michigan School of Information
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Head of Open Source
Spotify, Inc
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Nithya Ruff

Board Director & Head of Open Source
Comcast, Inc

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Justin W. Flory

FOSS Technical Advisor
UNICEF Innovation
B.S. Networking & Systems Administration, Minor, Free & Open Source Software & Free Culture, RIT 202

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Justin Sherrill

Developer, DragonFly BSD
Information Technology Masters, 2002.

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Wilfried Hounyo

Software Engineer
Zendesk, INc
BS in Computer Science, RIT 2019

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Kyle Suero

Application Security Engineer
Clear, Inc.
BS, Computing Security, RIT, 2019

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Jenn Kotler

UX Designer
Space Telescope Science Institute
BS Medical Illustration, RIT 2014

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Tom Callaway

Principal Open Source Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

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Ruth Suehle

TiDirector, Software Engineering, Global,Red Hat

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Chris Aniszczyk

Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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Virtual Election Night Hackathon. Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

This will be our 10th anniversary event.  Details coming soon.

National Civic Day of Hacking Virtual Hackathon. Saturday, September 12th, Noon-6
We’ll be partnering with the City of Rochester and the City Library to do some local asset mapping for Rochester.  No previous experience required. The event is primarily asynchronous and a full six hour commitment is not required. To learn more about the effort, click the link below!
Information about, and sign up form for the Rochester virtual cohort

Lightning Talk for the State of the Source Summit September 9th @ 3:10 p.m.
We’ll be presenting a lightning talk on Open@RIT as part of this event. Catch just our presentation, or enjoy the full two-day event for free. (Though the OSI would appreciate it if you take the opportunity to contribute on the registration page if you are able.)

Knowledge Base: Open@RIT will provide a curated set of resource links for Faculty, Staff and Students.  This very alpha prototype illustrates our thinking as to the type of information we’ll be looking to share.  There will be a link here in the future for the community ro recommend additions to this resource.

Current Open@RIT Projects

The initial research effort to be completed under Open@RIT was Conceptual Mismatches, a qualitative study of PyPI  that was funded as part of the Ford Foundation’s Critical Digital Infrastructure Research program, also supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The work was presented as part of a research panel held by the Ford and Sloan foundations on August 20th, 2020.

Open@RIT also supports “World Around You” is an on-going applied research effort led by Professor Chris Kurz of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. DIrector Jacobs is Co-Pi.  The initial development and on-going work around this Open Source, Web-based platform for Deaf Literacy has been supported by the Sign on For Literacy and Begin with Books grand challenges of the All Children Reading partnership.

University-Wide Directory of Open Work and Research on Open

One of our goals is to build a listing/directory/database of Open Work and Research on Open being done by RIT Faculty and Staff. Once we get one up and running, you’ll find a link here to register your projects with the goal of helping you find resources and network with other folks on campus to network and collaborate with.

Professional Development Programming

This was one of the most requested items from the focus group meetings that were held earlier this year.  We’ll be working on developing some of this over the fall semester and hope to begin offering some initial programming in Spring Semester.


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Over the six months of development work, added to decades of experience in the leadership team helping IT security teams understand and address their vulnerabilities, has allowed the Rootshell team to develop a secure platform that optimises the remediation process. Such an impressive feat from our development team in such a short space of time, deserves a short video to honour it.

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It’s exciting to have the platform officially live, beginning our beta-testing programme. We look forward to sharing our clients’ feedback in due course, and we thank those clients who have worked with us during the alpha testing to ensure Prism is engineered for IT security teams, by IT security teams, said Sales Director, Andy Forbes.

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Saturday, December 14, 2019 | Frights For Tykes

One year my mom gave my dad a Stereogram book for Christmas. A Stereogram, by the way, is: “a diagram or picture representing objects with an impression of solidity or relief”. Or, in other words, an image that hides another image if you look at it long enough. Just like in a NIGHTMARE IN 3-D (GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET #4), written by R.L. Stine, and published ALADDIN in 1996.

IN the story, Wes Parker buys a Stereogram poster, intent on finding the hidden image. His neighbors/bullies have purchased the same Stereogram, however and whoever finds the hidden picture wins a prize. Wes intends to win the prize and gloat but, unfortunately for him, the Stereogram poster hides more than the opportunity to get back at his bullies. The Stereogram hides a monster- a man eating prying mantis. What’s Wes to do?

NIGHTMARE IN 3-D is weird and slightly gross story that manages to play with horror and surrealistic scenarios in a kid friendly way. Wes’ character is extremely empathetic and his (and his best friends) dedication to the extermination of the mantis keeps you turning the page. NIGHTMARE IN 3-D is mostly forgotten, much like the entire GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET series, but it deserves to be rediscovered, especially since the young adult FEAR STREET series is heading to the big screen. There’s an absurdist quality to NIGHTMARE IN 3-D that keeps it equally odd and entertaining.

NIGHTMARE IN 3-D can be purchased on ABE BOOKS for $3.42 plus free shipping (in the United States).

Books make great Christmas gifts. Why not treat yourself or your kid to an obscure R.L. Stine oddity?

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Glenn Tolle grew up with a healthy interest in the macabre. His dad worked, and still works, as a grave digger, and much of his childhood was spent running around cemeteries and reading creepy books. All this combined with early viewings of the classic Universal monster movies led him to writing about the genre. He writes not only for RUE but also for under the pen name Glenn Strange. When not writing about horror Glenn talks about and interviews people within the horror and film community for the YouTube channel Psychic Celluloid Signals and creates original horror stories for publication.


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An Intro to Rug Hooking for Beginners

Ready to dive into the world of rug hooking but aren't sure where to start? This simple beginner's guide is just what you need to learn how to hook rugs. Donna Hrkman will show you how to gather supplies, make those first loops, and avoid common beginner mistakes. Plus, don't miss the collection of video tutorials from Gene Shepherd, which will guide you through other basics like cutting wool for rug hooking and choosing a hook.

The following is excerpted from Rug Hooker's Companion by Donna Hrkman

Setting up

First, collect your tools. You will need a frame, a hook, a pair of scissors, a pattern drawn on backing material, and stripped wool. Scroll down to see visuals of these materials, and click this link to see a video from Gene Shephard about choosing the right hook.

Make sure you have a comfy seat and good lighting. Squinting and straining over your frame will take a toll on your eyes and your back.

Stretch your pattern material on the frame, centering it over the open area. Make sure it’s as snug and as even as possible, lining up the weave of the backing material with the sides of the frame. Some rug hookers leave some slack in the fabric, but to get the most even, consistent loops pulled, a taut and square surface is best.

The first loops

Take your first strip of wool in the hand you don’t write with and hold it under the surface of the backing. Hold the strip between your thumb and index finger like you’re pinching it. Holding your hook in the hand you write with, gently push the hook into a hole in the backing just inside the drawn line of the pattern. Feed the end of the wool strip to the end of the hook, catch it, and pull it through the hole so the tail of the strip pops up through the surface, leaving about a quarter inch of the end sticking up.

Push the hook down through the hole next to the tail you’ve just pulled up, feed the strip to the hook with your fingers underneath the backing, and catch it with the hook, pulling up a loop that forms about one quarter inch above the surface. Release the loop off the hook, put the hook into the next hole and repeat, pulling up another loop next to the first one, keeping the loops the same height.

Skip the next hole and pull a loop into the one after that. If you hook every single hole, the wool will be too tightly crammed into the  surface, which is called “packing.” The surface of the rug will be drawn up by the tension of the loops and will not lie flat. Hooking too tightly also wastes wool because you use more than you need. Wool needs air to expand and contract naturally, so remember to space your loops evenly. You will develop a pattern of hooking—hole-hole-skip, hole-hole-skip. With practice, the wool will tell you where it needs to go.

At the end of your strip, pull the last bit of the tail to the surface. You should have a line of wool loops that runs evenly across the surface. From the side, the row should look like ribbon candy (see images below).

To continue, take your next strip of wool, hold it under the surface next to the tail you just pulled up, and put the hook into the same hole you just pulled the tail through. Pull up the end of the new strip flat against the tail of the first strip, release it, then push the hook into the hole next to the two tails that are sticking up together and pull up a loop level to those in the first strip. Release the strip, reach and pull a loop in the hole next to it, release, skip a hole, and pull up a loop in the next hole. Continue to create hooked lines to form an outline of the area you’re filling up, pulling up tails as you go. The loops should stand like a row of soldiers, shoulder to shoulder. They should not be zigzagging like a zipper or rolling up and down like a roller coaster. You can adjust the height of the loops by gently tugging the loops with the hook to even them out.

Keep going!

To start a second row next to the first row, leave a row of backing open and push your hook through the backing into a hole one row over. If you’re carrying over from a previous row, you’ll continue hooking right to left and left to right, back and forth, with an empty row between the lines of hooked wool strips. The backing will be able to expand and contract, to “breathe.”

Your tails will be sticking up slightly higher than the surface of the rug loops. Some hookers leave the tails standing without trimming them as they work across the surface; I trim them as I go, or in brief intervals of hooking. To trim a tail, tug it gently up, trim it across evenly, and release it. Don’t cut at an angle. The slight tension and release will let the tail pull itself back just under the surface of the loops beside it, hiding it from view. The tails of your strips should not be higher than your loops.

Some basic tips and general rug hooking instructions

Hook the outline of each area first and then fill it in. Hook just inside of the line, as hooking on the line or outside of it will distort the image. This is important on rugs with a geometric pattern or in rugs with fine detail. .

When hooking circles, start with a series of loops in the center and hook concentric rows outward. Make sure to keep the rows evenly spaced because the backing can draw up and form a dome if a circle is hooked too tightly. Want a demonstration? Watch this video for a tutorial from Gene.

Beginners often struggle with twisted strips as they learn how to manipulate them under the surface. After all, you’re doing this blind and relying on the feel of the strip. The twisting can happen sometimes because the strips are thin or the texture of the wool is loose and your fingers can’t feed it smoothly without having it twist. Usually this twisting goes away as you develop a sensitivity to how the strips feel in your fingers.

Sometimes a strip pulls apart and breaks. If this happens, pull the last end up to the surface, trim it off evenly, discard the broken strip, and start a new strip in the same hole as the broken one and continue hooking.

You’ll be amazed how quickly you develop a feel for the wool strips and the process of pulling loops. You’ll get into a rhythm of pulling up the loops and working across the surface of your rug and then you’ll relax and enjoy the whole art of rug hooking.

Remember, practice really does make perfect when it comes to rug hooking. Draw some straight lines, some circles, some curvy and wavy lines and practice hooking them until you feel comfortable with the consistency of your loops and rows. And don’t be too strict with yourself as you’re learning how to start rug hooking. Give yourself time, have fun, and create something beautiful!

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Stewart takes positives from Coventry shootout defeat

4 September 2019

Walsall Assistant Coach Marcus Stewart was in a positive mood despite the penalty shootout defeat to Coventry City in the Trophy.

The Saddlers played out a goalless draw against the League One side at St Andrews Trillion Trophy Stadium on Tuesday evening before losing 5-4 in the subsequent penalty shootout.

Stewart felt Walsall probably should have won the game in the 90 minutes but was impressed with the defensive display.

“Considering it was a make shift back four, especially the two centre-halves with Gary Liddle playing there for the first time with Zak Jules, Cameron Pring and Shay Facey coming in, I thought they did great and kept a good possession team in Coventry quiet,” said Stewart.

“We probably should have won, we made their goalkeeper make far more saves than ours did but they’re a new group who are still getting to know each other.

 “I thought we kept our shape really well and counter attacked quite well and looked the better team in terms of chances. It’s a great place to come, it’s Birmingham and Coventry’s playing here now and it’s a great occasion for our lads and there’s one or two that have come into the team and done great so at the moment while we’re not getting results, everything’s up for grabs.”

Another positive for Walsall was the return of Danny Guthrie to the starting XI. The midfielder returned from injury with a late substitute appearance against Grimsby Town on Saturday.

He managed to get an hour under his belt against the Sky Blues and Stewart feels he adds a lot to the Saddlers team but stressed the need for precaution with players coming back from injury.

 “Guthrie’s been injured for a few weeks so for him to get 60 minutes under his belt was great,” he commented.

“He adds value to the team being a senior lad and what he brings on the pitch with the ball at his feet.

“You can see his range of passing is brilliant so that will add value to our game.

“We have to be careful with them, especially as there’s another game on Saturday. Saturday to Saturday isn’t too bad but when it’s Tuesday to Saturday, you’ve got to be really careful, especially if you’re travelling like we are down to Colchester.”

Saddlers fans also got a glimpse of new striker Rory Gaffney, who came on after 67 minutes and Stewart believes he’ll bring a lot of positives to the team.

“Rory’s a great character in the dressing room, he’s a great trainer and brings that experience and know-how which in terms of when we need to score a goal and create something so he will definitely bring that,” Stewart said.

Walsall now turn their attentions to Saturday’s trip to Colchester United in Sky Bet League Two.

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Trash to Treasure Crafts - how to make a cardboard stand

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Trash to Treasure Crafts  -  how to make a cardboard stand
The various junk Treasure crafts items explained here are easy to make and require materials that are easily accessible to the house itself.Converting garbage into crafts is a creative way to effectively recycle.Since crafts are made of garbage, the cost is negligible and it is not difficult to collect the required materials.
The art of crafting can teach us more than just entertaining us.Hand-made is the medium of children's expression.It would be great if the crafts kids do included rubbish as raw materials.
It will help to clean the house, the surroundings, and eventually the environment.We think that many of the rubbish in the garbage can be converted into decorative and beautiful works of art.Here is the information about this innovative craft idea.
Many of the items we throw rubbish can actually be used to make crafts.Let's take a look at something that can be prepared from the trash.The CD clock is easy to prepare and requires an old CD that can be converted to a working clock.
An old CD should be drawn with markers to create the design of the clock.The number of the clock should be written on the side, and the actual clock can be used as a guide for this task.The part of the old clock should be used to create the project.
These clock works should be connected to the back of the CD with the help of a large washing machine common to the hardware store.The old jars in the house can be used to make lanterns of various themes.Popular themes like Christmas can be used to make lanterns like this.
Seasonal themes and Christmas crafts are also popular when creating these crafts.Burnt bulbs can be used to make brightly colored ornamental plants.Design and decoration work can be done with acrylic painting, color design and fabric.
Hot glue guns can be used to connect these fabrics.The patterns commonly used in this design include reindeer, Santa Claus, Angel designs, etc.3 to 4 old forks are required to make a Fork Wind Bell.
These forks should be straightened out by banging on their tip.To connect them with wires, holes should be drilled on the handles of these forks.These forks should then be attached to another structure;It can be wire construction or any other decorative decoration.
The Assembly of the fork is like a wonderful Wind Bell, creating wonderful music.It's easy to make a bird feeder with pine nuts.Pine nuts in the yard should be collected and wrapped in yarn or hemp thread.
It helps to hang cones easily.
The next step in this process is to prepare a mixture of butter and peanut butter.Before rolling the cone into the bird seed, it should be applied to the pine cone.The cone should be placed in the refrigerator after the correct rolling.
About an hour later, the cone was ready to hang.The required materials, if required, include old aluminum cans or bottles, scissors, steel wool, marking and awl.The aluminum bottle should be cut properly with the help of scissors and then smooth.
Marking is used for the design of drawing flowers on smooth aluminum.Steel wool should be used to cut the shape of the flower and finish the rough edges of the design.The Awl can be used to curl petals if needed and punch holes in the design.
The stem of the flower is made of metal rods.People can create many of these flowers and send out a whole bouquet of flowers from them.Especially for kids, making crafts has always been an interesting thing.
All kinds of arts and crafts can be made environmental protection.It's friendly if it makes garbage.Therefore, "garbage to cherish crafts" is an interesting way to educate children about the importance of protecting nature while doing something interesting
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67 Comments on "What defunding the police could look like"

  1. Is God Real? Check This Out! | June 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM | Reply

    This should be about the removal of the abuse of authority, not the removal of authority.

    • It’s about healing communities.
      They want people they can trust when they are in trouble.

      It makes sense.

    • I have an uncle who worked as an internal affairs investigator for a PD in LA county. He said cities pay out millions each year for alleged police brutality allegations. The reason? It’s cheaper. He said 95% of cases would have been thrown out of court if the city had the funds to properly defend these cases. The criminals of the community know this and take advantage.
      Mr. Floyd died at the hand of a bad cop and should have not died. Police need to take accountability of their own bad apples. The inner city communities need to stop race on race murders, drug dealings, gang activity and violent crimes so police don’t need to come into these communities.

    • Yep👍

    • David Gainey | June 9, 2020 at 10:51 PM | Reply

      Lol even the loony leftist can’t figure this out.

      At first, defunding the police sounds kind of good…but, it quickly sounds like a bad idea.
      I AGREE…lets hold the police to ACTING RIGHT. It should be apart of their training anyway.

  2. Chopan Alvarado | June 9, 2020 at 7:56 PM | Reply

    Good program wow never heard of it first time great job that exactly what we need asap n other services also

  3. It could look like Baghdad, beautiful I’ve heard, so much peace👍

  4. Kevin Montrond | June 9, 2020 at 8:00 PM | Reply

    When a child breaks his toys do you:
    1) Give him more toys.
    2) Take away his other toys.
    Do we reward criminal behavior now?

    • Cnn sits back and smiles of all there hard race baiting work. Oh wait they did get attacked in Atlanta. And the troll mayor shamed the rioters for just that incident. But really cnn is no one’s friend and should be dismantled like all the news.

    • O'Brien's Family Dog | June 9, 2020 at 9:27 PM | Reply

      @Don dabby you saw race baiting?

      The cops are crooked. The protesters are not black dummy.

    • @Will Smith You are being logical. Some people don’t understand logic.

    • @Thats Rough is that all you have? Lol.

    • Dass Rayciss! We blacks ain’t no crimbinals. We jus’ be takin’ what we be likin’.

  5. sterling campbell | June 9, 2020 at 8:42 PM | Reply

    When 911 emergency services goes away, I guess we will all dial .45mag

  6. Where is David Dorm? Oh I guess he doesn’t matter since he wasn’t killed by a white..

    • Stacy Gagnon | June 9, 2020 at 10:16 PM | Reply

      He’s already been put to rest.
      Rest in Peace David Dorn 👮🙏🇺🇸

    • David Dorn was killed by a criminal. Someone we’d actually expect to do something like murder. While George Floyd was killed by a POLICE OFFICER. You know someone who vowed to “protect and serve”. That’s why his death got so much attention. And this leads people who don’t even care about his death to think that screaming his name will give them the ability to discredit an entire movement for positive change.

    • Pretty fly for a WiFi | June 9, 2020 at 10:32 PM | Reply

      @Stacy Gagnon funny his killer just robbed a store at gunpoint 6 months ago and what let loose…then robbed a woman with a knife ..let go again..and now your hero killed a black cop.

    • Dorn!! Dork!!

    • Kelly McShane | June 9, 2020 at 10:47 PM | Reply

      @Lil Gimp What about the victims of George Floyd? When the settlement is given will Floyd’s victims be paid?

  7. When someone calls 911 to report a break in at 2am, they will send out a Social Worker!🤣

  8. Criticising police from the safety of a news room.

    • So reporting on what the PEOPLE want and are saying is criticizing from a news room… what a twisted world you live in

  9. No, I’m starting a new effort,,,,, ” defund welfare “.

    • Mike Chatelain | June 9, 2020 at 10:19 PM | Reply

      More investors needed for welfare and disability fraud.
      Generational section 8 needs to stop. Having baby daddy pay child support through court system needed.
      Drug testing and treatment in order to get all of these benefits.
      The only way to uplift people out of poverty is for them to learn they have to be responsible for themself.

    • Mike Chatelain | June 9, 2020 at 10:21 PM | Reply

      More investigator’s

    • @Sugar Xyler the foot model Right , that end up destroying cities

    • Joes B4 Hose | June 9, 2020 at 10:36 PM | Reply

      @Jogger Lives Don’t Matter Hunter loves sitting around and melting rocks.

    • Sparky McSpark | June 9, 2020 at 10:52 PM | Reply

      @SoLowDolo I don’t care what color they are. Defend welfare.

  10. Again, CNN with lack of informative reporting.

  11. Let’s take extreme ideas and make them mainstream. Good job cnn

    • What’s extreme about taking money from bloated police budgets and giving it to schools and social programs? Is it so important for your local PD to have dozens of pairs of nightvision goggles but kids are using textbooks from 20 years ago?

  12. Democrats are dividing the US and people are too stupid to see it.

    • Even the Generals are speaking out about how divisive Trump is and you still blame the democrats?

      Do you still think that covid is a “Democratic Hoax” like Trump said?

    • Not everybody. Yes the nation has been stupefied, but not everybody.

    • They see it. They see it all and when November comes so does Hell. They will all get Trumped in the end.

    • David Gainey | June 9, 2020 at 10:52 PM | Reply

      No they see it just like that lie of the two police fired in Atlanta they didn’t tell the whole story

  13. Brandon Stephens | June 9, 2020 at 9:40 PM | Reply

    Defund them yes✌🙏✋✊, absolutely get rid of them,no, because who’s going to help you when your robbed ?? Think??(D)

  14. Chuck Longino | June 9, 2020 at 9:46 PM | Reply

  15. The first thing to go? Honey you don’t have well trained professional officers now. You mean the first thing to go will be your legal fund.

  16. one crying in the wilderness | June 9, 2020 at 9:55 PM | Reply

    let them do it, the best lession’s in life are often learned the hard way.

  17. everyone should be purchasing a firearm if they haven’t already. “no mo police” means you either protect yourself or become a victim

  18. Sharon Minter | June 9, 2020 at 10:03 PM | Reply

    Whenever you’re mouth is moving, it’s a lie!!!!

  19. Desperado5501 | June 9, 2020 at 10:07 PM | Reply

    911…. WHATS UR CALL ??

  20. Dangerous, and irresponsible. De-Fund CNN!

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Running on empty

Barbara Ehrenreich set out to write a "Nickel and Dimed" for the white-collar worker -- but everything fell apart when she couldn't nab a corporate job.

Ira Boudway
September 7, 2005 10:38PM (UTC)

Four years ago, with the widely acclaimed "Nickel and Dimed," Barbara Ehrenreich demonstrated that while working for minimum wage is no way to make a decent living in America, writing about it can be. Between the hardcover and paperback editions, her account of stints working at a breakfast diner, a Wal-Mart and a housecleaning service spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now Ehrenreich has produced a sequel: "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream."

This time, instead of bottom-of-the-barrel service work, Ehrenreich has volunteered for a stretch of white-collar unemployment. Her catalogue of labor-market misery, as she explains in the introduction, seemed incomplete without a section devoted to the people who have followed all the rules and still lost -- people, such as one letter writer she cites, "who didn't have babies in high school, who made good grades, who work hard and don't kiss a lot of ass and instead of getting promoted or paid fairly must regress to working for $7/hr." So after setting some ground rules -- she can't use her reputation and connections, and she must go anywhere and take any job no matter how dull or morally dubious -- Ehrenreich reverts to her maiden name, Alexander, cooks up a résumé full of legitimate skills and phony experience, and goes hunting for a public relations job.

In what passes for the book's action, Barbara Alexander conducts fruitless Web searches and endures perky and unhinged career coaches -- one of whom uses a plastic Elvis doll to illustrate his points. She attends an "executive boot camp" where a middle-aged man instructs the campers to blame themselves for everything, she gets a style makeover from the obligatory gay consultant, and she encounters evangelical testimonials where she had expected to find networking sessions. Although she originally planned to spend half a year searching and another half working wherever she landed, Ehrenreich never finds a job.

The self-as-case-study method worked well enough for "Nickel and Dimed" -- yielding a visceral account of the humiliations and deprivations of low-wage work that no amount of secondhand reporting might have matched -- but in "Bait and Switch" it feels like a stunt. In "Nickel and Dimed," Ehrenreich's experiences in retail work could easily be viewed as representative; here her plight is almost entirely contingent on the artificiality of her situation. Slipping into corporate America after spending more than a decade as one if its foremost critics is not the same straightforward project as landing a job at a Denny's, a fact that Ehrenreich fails to acknowledge in anything but a cursory way. (Not to mention that she breaks her own rule and, "in a rare moment of moral lucidity," decides not to follow up on a promising contact at a military contractor because of its alleged involvement with the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.)

But why try to put herself in the story at all? Most of her best material comes from encounters with other jobseekers and from the considerable literature on the subject. It's a fair guess that if Ehrenreich had known she wouldn't find a job, she wouldn't have written the book this way, but as it is, the reader is left to wonder who is driving the ship: Ehrenreich the reporter or Alexander the applicant. This question is particularly pressing when, for instance, Ehrenreich decides to go back to the executive boot camp counselor and convince him that he needs her P.R. services, that his marketing video and public speaking need her refining. After he makes a few lame excuses for himself, Ehrenreich makes a confession:

"I want to save him. I also -- where is this coming from? -- want to push him down deeper into the enveloping muck. 'Listen to yourself,' I say, leaning forward, 'how your voice falls when you say that. What I'm picking up on here is depression.'"

Is Ehrenreich thinking that this will help her land a job, or that it will make a good scene in her book? A couple of pages later, when the pitiable man turns her down and, rather perceptively, tells her that she seems angry, Ehrenreich is somehow surprised:

"I am taken aback. I don't feel any anger toward Patrick -- pity, of course, and a certain contempt for his entire profession. If I'm guilty of anything here, it is an excess of that vaunted corporate quality -- focus."

It was her laser focus, no doubt, that made her want to drown the guy in the "enveloping muck." On the next page, Ehrenreich further confuses the matter by admitting that she knew before entering his office that there was no job to be had. By this point, it's anybody's guess why we, and Patrick, are being dragged through this.

Still, it's a shame that the premise of "Bait and Switch" is rickety and the action dull when the analysis is mostly on target. The simple explanation for Ehrenreich's failure to find work is that her corporate persona is a poor candidate for a mid-level P.R. position, but her claim that the political influence of big business and an increasingly cutthroat corporate culture have eroded the stability and comfort of the middle class is no less valid for that.

Nor, for that matter, is the thorough demolition of the pseudoscientific logic behind self-help literature she performs along the way. Here is her treatment of Bruce Doyle's "Before You Think Another Thought":

"How do you make your dreams come true? Simply by beaming them out from your mind. 'Scientifically,' Doyle asserts -- and it hard to think of a setting in which that adverb has been more flagrantly abused -- 'one might say that focusing your attention on the energy field of consciousness, which contains the waves of all possibilities, creates the particles (events and materializations) that you experience as your reality.'"

While it's an obvious point that the particles of Doyle's reality materialized out of his ass, Ehrenreich shows why this type of effluent is particularly noxious:

"It's not the world that needs changing, is the message, it's you. No need, then, to band together to work for a saner economy or a more human-friendly corporate environment or to band together at all."

The meat of her argument, however (as Ehrenreich demonstrated recently in the New York Times), could have been packed into a short essay without losing much. The entire book for that matter -- trimmed of its considerable fat -- would fit nicely into the pages of a magazine.

Ehrenreich concludes "Bait and Switch" -- almost exactly as she did "Nickel and Dimed" -- with an exhortation to the kind of collective action that self-help books tend to undermine. America's 8 million unemployed, she suggests, represent a vast, untapped political resource. Since they have extra time on their hands, they could organize into a powerful lobby for universal healthcare, expanded unemployment benefits and secure retirement plans. (Customers who buy this heartwarming tale might also enjoy "Stone Soup" and another Howard Dean presidential run.) Eight million is a formidable number to be sure, and Ehrenreich wants the right things, but her gauge on her audience is seriously damaged.

For a reporter intent on experiencing what it means to be down and out, Ehrenreich has a curious knack for rhetoric sure to alienate working stiffs. She suffers a bad case of NPR syndrome -- a disease characterized by a tin ear for humor and by glib, sanctimonious posturing. In a passage symptomatic of the illness, Ehrenreich relates how, when an "older African-American woman and a light-skinned young man" invite her to sit with them on a couch in the hall outside a stagnant job fair, she ventures a wisecrack and everyone breaks out laughing: "I laugh too, and for some reason we can't stop laughing, pressed thigh-to-thigh there on the invisible outer border of corporate America." Wherever those two jobseekers are now, it's hard to imagine they are indulging in fond memories of being pressed thigh-to-thigh with that nice white lady.

As a confirmed atheist, Ehrenreich tends to be at her snooty worst in the presence of piety. "Bait and Switch" includes a chapter filled with cheap shots and armchair theological commentary on her experiences at evangelical job-search ministries. A gathering she attends at a church in Washington, D.C., she notes, begins with a prayer of gratitude to God "for being a great provider." "An odd reason for gratitude," Ehrenreich quips, "given the circumstances." Later, when a taxi driver in Atlanta divulges that he hopes to become a Pentecostal preacher, she professes her unbelief:

"'It's too hard to be a Christian,' I explain. 'Jesus said that as soon as you get any money, you have to sell all you have and give it to the poor.' 'Where does it say that?' he asks, genuinely curious."

These gratuitous swipes at believers are a cliché every bit as unhelpful as "the power of positive thinking." Here again the shame is that, buried as it is in disdain and aggression, her point is fair: Too often the influence between corporate and Christian culture flows in the wrong direction.

"But then what to make of the growing Christianization of business?" she asks. "Will it lead to a kinder, gentler, more reflective business culture? Or is it religion that will have to change, becoming more like the grimly utilitarian McLean Bible Church -- a realm drained of all transcendence and beauty?"

Couched as an alarm from a concerned believer or as a notice from a dispassionate observer, this question might stir thought among those in a place to do something about it. But coming as a taunt from a self-righteous disbeliever, it, like the rest of "Bait and Switch," will serve mainly to reassure Ehrenreich's fellow travelers.

If you count yourself among them, "Bait and Switch" will feel like a warm bath. If, however, it comes as news to you that "career coach" is not a real job; that self-help books tend to benefit their authors more than anyone else; that the only "networking" deserving of the word is done by fishermen; that corporate culture in general is diseased; and that the free market is not, in fact, an infallible force of justice, then "Bait and Switch" will strike you as so outrageous you'll probably just skip it. As for the rest of us, we might have expected more substance from Ehrenreich.

Ira Boudway

Ira Boudway is a freelance writer in Brooklyn and frequent contributor to Salon.

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