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How terrible. On July 27, a gunman tragically killed six people during a shootout with Hialeah, Fla. police before being gunned down himself. Read on.

A shootout between a man and SWAT team members from Hialeah, Fla., a suburb outside of Miami, that began on July 26 and lasted into the morning hours of July 27 has left seven people dead, including the shooter.

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Tom Howe came in last week and did his website optimization class with us again. We had 18 people come in and run through in three hours how to get rich, search-engine friendly content onto their websites, how to get registered with the different search engines, and how to measure their results. They left with detailed handouts and powerpoint information, and solid steps on how to move forward.

But if you missed this class, don’t worry – we’ve got Tom roped in for another couple months.

June 2010

100 Ways to Promote Your Business – June 16 (6-9pm)

Social Media Marketing – June 23 (6-9pm)

July 2010

Website Search Engine Optimization – July 13 (6-9pm)

Successful Selling – July 20 (6-7:30pm)

August 2010

Social Media Marketing – August 3 (6-9pm)

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Border-centric think tank turns 30

September 6, 2012

U-T San Diego, 9/4/12

It would be hard to imagine northern Mexico today without Colef, as the institution is commonly known. The think tank’s 112 researchers delve into climate change policies in Baja California, land-use planning in Nogales, the effects of open space on youth and urban violence in Ciudad Juárez, labor conditions in Matamoros’ maquiladora factories, Tijuana’s latest expressions of popular culture, Mexico’s legal protections for migrants and other timely topics that often have repercussions in Mexico and the U.S.

“What the Colef did was make the border relevant,” said Tonatiuh Guillén, its president, a 53-year-old Ciudad Juarez native and a specialist in public administration. Colef, he said, has been instrumental in bring attention to issues that were long ignored by the centers of political and academic power. Today, its eight offices make it the only research institution in the United States or Mexico with facilities all along the international border.
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Unknown Millennium Falcon Art #24

Another fine piece of unknown art featuring Han Solo fending off some baddies in front of the Falcon.

Great, dramatic work IMO.

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A keen Star Wars collector since 1977, my collection focus seems to have taken on a turn towards Han Solo's iconic Star Ship. Why the Millennium Falcon? No one else seemed to have one at the time and it was fair to say that i had difficulty resisting the higher end models. My friend, icruise from Rebelscum has a superb blog for his Jabba the Hutt collection, I thought that i'd start this blog to chart my own collection of Millennium Falcon related stuff as it increases. Well, that was the plan but it now seems to be more about cataloguing any Millennium Falcon item in general now so that i can come back to them later.
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  1. Ollie sanders says:

    That is an awesome pic, love the action in it!

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Instructor Info:Lorne Falk
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TA Info:Susie Svendsgaard
Term: 2012F
Meeting Info: Monday
02:30 PM - 05:20 PM Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH) 106

Images dominate our cultural imaginations with such intensity some cultural theorists describe their affect in pathological terms: "the hypertrophy of visual stimulation" (Martin Jay), "a topographical amnesia" (Paul Virilio), "excremental culture" (Arthur and Mary Louise Kroker), "our narcotic modernity" (Avital Ronell). Other critics say the explosion of visual culture is so influential that it represents a paradigm shift-that is, a shift from the domination of language to the domination of images over our lives. This course will examine the theoretical, social and cultural issues and contexts influencing the formation of visual culture, by dissecting specific examples from contemporary photography, film, new media and other visual media that problematize visuality. The implications of new models of spectatorship and visual literacy will also be considered.

Course Objectives:

Students in this course are expected to work with one another to create a lively, serious, ongoing conversation about the interdisciplinarity of contemporary art. Working together in various ways is a key to developing (your) critical, research, verbal and collegial skills. There are two papers and each student will serve as respondent for another student's mid-term and final paper. In teams you will present and lead discussions about assigned readings and individually you will present an artist relevant to the readings. Summaries of these presentations, along with relevant websites and images are to be uploaded to the course website as a bank of shared information and ideas. You are expected to engage issues of form and subject matter, political and historical contexts, social relevance and critical reception of art works, issues, and cultural theories of the contemporary moment relevant to a discourse about art and art history since 1950.

Evaluation Criteria:

Attendance: Attendance of each class is required. If you must miss a class due to illness, please email me in advance. If you miss more than 2 classes, you will be asked to withdraw.

Preparation: Complete the readings and be prepared to discuss them in class. Your level of preparation is evident and will be factored into your final evaluation.

Participation I: Each class will be devoted to group discussion of the assigned texts. Students in teams will take a turn presenting and leading the discussion of each week's assigned readings. Each presentation should be 20-30 minutes in length. It is required that each team meet prior to their presentation to discuss the readings and prepare a handout, which should include a single paragraph summary of each reading followed by specifically cited passages and/or questions that articulate what you consider to be the key points and that link it to the other readings—not more than 1-page per reading.

Participation II: Every student will make a presentation of work by an artist mentioned in or relevant to the readings. You are expected to engage in serious, scholarly, college-level research in your presentation, which should be 15-20 minutes in length. Presentations should include: a concise biographical sketch of the artist, a selection of (10-20) images of work taken from different periods in their career, and a rigorous analysis of a single work of art that engages with one of the subjects, issues, or themes of the class. While a handout is not required, your presentation is to be uploaded to the course website.

Image and Art Historical Research: All presentations, with relevant websites and images are to be uploaded to the course website as a bank of shared information and ideas. Students may draw on this bank for their papers.

Essays: You must submit two essays. Each essay should be typed in Times New Roman (12 point), have a title page that includes the prompt, have proper footnotes (Chicago style), and be paginated (e.g. JDoe – 1). The mid-term paper should be 5 pages long and the final paper 10 pages, not including title page and images. I will distribute paper topics corresponding to the due dates (mid-term and end of term)—your essays must be on either my topics or a topic of your own design that I have approved.

Important: All essays must be emailed to me by their respective deadlines. Also submit a hardcopy to my office (JLC101) if you want handwritten feedback, in addition to an evaluation on each paper.

Important: I will have a folder of presentations, assignments and essays for each of you on my laptop—you don't have to submit a paper portfolio at the end of the class.

Additional Info:

Required Texts

Available from Amherst Books

Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publications, 2009.

Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

All other readings are available as .pdf files on the Moodle course web site.


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It’s been live in the Netherlands since May, and for all you folks in the U.S., it’s been around even longer: Google Shopping. Why then are Google Shopping visits still so hard to separate from the normal organic traffic within Google Analytics?

Google Shopping

What seems to be the problem?

The problem is simple enough: in Google Analytics, Google Shopping traffic is not automatically tracked separately from Google Web Search traffic. This (lack of a) feature makes for some unpleasant consequences:

  • It’s unclear how many of your website’s visits enter the website through Shopping. Clients or managers will not appreciate the importance of optimizing the Google Shopping feeds without any data to back your claims up.
  • There’s no insight to be gained in the difference between search terms in Shopping or Web Search.
  • Minor pollution of regular organic traffic data with the Google Shopping data.

So what can we do?

So far, two possible solutions have been put forward.

  • Use a filter that changes the source of organic traffic from ‘google’ to ‘google shopping’, when the referral URL contains the string ‘'

However, as we will see further down this article, this string isn’t always present in the referral URL of Google Shopping traffic. This means that using this method, part of the Google Shopping traffic can’t be separated from regular organic traffic.

  • Use campaign tracking code to tag the destination URL of each product in the Merchant Centre. This way, traffic from Google Shopping will be reported in the ‘traffic sources > campaigns’ report.

This solution requires a lot of work tagging all products from your Shopping feed. Furthermore, it definitely wouldn’t win a beauty contest; Google Shopping traffic data is added to banner and ppc campaign data, even though the behavior of visitors from these (paid) sources will be inherently different from the behavior of (organic) Shopping traffic. Using this solution, the aggregated data in both the organic traffic and campaign reports will be polluted.

Isn’t there another way?

Here’s a small test to investigate if any other possible solutions exist (format copied from this article).

A user can follow different paths to reach the Google Shopping results. I’ve listed four in the following table. These paths yield the referral URLs as described in the third column. Only two out of these four paths contain the previously mentioned string ‘'

Google Product URLS

Notice anything else?

Exactly: the referral URL contains the parameter ‘tbm=shop’ in all cases. This gives us the option to separate the Shopping traffic!

Just give us the solution already!

Patience, my dear Watson. The solution is an adaptation of the previously mentioned ‘’ filter. This filter checks if a visitor is referred by organic search, and if the parameter ‘tbm=shop’ is present in the referral URL. If both conditions are met, the source is changed to ‘google shopping.' The medium isn’t modified, and so remains ‘organic.'

Google Shopping - Segmented

Now, without further ado, the complete filter:

Google Shopping - Filter

Copy & paste version:

Filter Type:
Custom Filter

Field A -> Extract A:
Campaign Medium

Field B -> Extract B:

Output To -> Constructor:
Campaign Source
google shopping

Field A Required:

Field B Required:

Override Output Field:

Case Sensitive:

Side notes

Google Shopping isn’t the only Google product that has a unique parameter in its referral URL. Google Video, News, and Blogs traffic can be separated from your regular organic traffic as well, if your website receives traffic from these products.

Other Google URL abbreviations

Other Google products, such as Google Maps and Google Books, have a unique subdomain (e.g. and will be added to referral traffic.

Google Images has a unique parameter as well, but since August, traffic from Images is separated from regular organic traffic automatically by Google Analytics.

Google Shopping images

The way I see it, this is a preview of the changes we can expect in due time: the separation of traffic from different Google products within our organic traffic reports. Up until that point, we can use the filter I’ve described in order to discover the gains of our Google Shopping efforts.

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Label » Palestine

Gaza: The Hijacking of The Marianne by “The Pirates of the Mediterranean.”

Piracy:” The practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.” (Oxford English Dictionary.)

The “international community” is, it would seem, remarkably selective over piracy.

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Ramallah – On July 2, 2015, in honor of the first anniversary of the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, Palestinian activists with international supporters blocked a settlers-only road leading to the illegal Adam settlement.

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Israeli forces detain 550 Palestinians in six months

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Israeli forces have detained 550 Palestinians, including women and children, in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2015.

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Finally, a call to impose economic and political sanctions on Israel

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Please sign this petition

We call on the President of the UN Security Council to pass a resolution urging all members to impose economic and political sanctions on Israel until it lifts the siege.

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The System.Web.ClientServices.Providers namespace contains client service providers and other classes that support access in Windows-based applications to the ASP.NET AJAX authentication, roles, and profile services.

The classes in the System.Web.ClientServices.Providers namespace include client application service providers that enable Windows-based applications to use the ASP.NET AJAX authentication, roles, and profile services. You can enable these services and specify client service providers in your application configuration file, and then access the services through existing .NET Framework 2.0 membership, identity, and application settings infrastructures. The client service providers also support occasional connectivity by storing and retrieving user information in a local data cache when the application is offline. For more information, see Client Application Services.

To access the login service, you can use either Windows or Forms authentication by specifying the ClientWindowsAuthenticationMembershipProvider or ClientFormsAuthenticationMembershipProvider in your application configuration. Windows authentication uses the identity supplied when a user logs in to the operating system. Forms authentication requires that you to retrieve login information from the user and pass it to the service. You can do this by specifying an IClientFormsAuthenticationCredentialsProvider implementation with your ClientFormsAuthenticationMembershipProvider configuration. The IClientFormsAuthenticationCredentialsProvider.GetCredentials method returns a ClientFormsAuthenticationCredentials object that contains user login information. You can populate this object, for example, by displaying a login dialog box in the GetCredentials method.

To access the roles and profile services, specify the ClientRoleProvider and ClientSettingsProvider in your application configuration.

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The most extreme form of poverty

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Hunger: A Global Problem

Even in a world of plenty, hunger continues to cripple lives and threaten futures. With over 800 million people across the world suffering the effects of hunger, it is one of the biggest problems that we as a global community face.

When whole communities are starved, people feel ill all the time, they have low energy levels and sometimes are too ill to even work and support their families. Hunger ensures millions of people remain trapped in a cycle of poverty.

At Muslim Hands, we understand hunger can affect people in many different ways and so our work reflects this reality.

Whether it is distributing food aid to victims of war and famine or providing communities with the tools they need to feed themselves over the long-term, we take a practical and dynamic approach to the complicated issues related to hunger.

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The negative impact of hunger

1 in 8 people in the world are chronically hungry

Poor people in developing countries spend 60-80% of their income on food

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A Day in the Life of Rahma Muhammad: The Struggle for Survival in Somalia’s IDP Camps

30 year old Rahma Muhammad lives in an internally displaced people (IDP) camp in Mogadishu, eastern Somalia. She arrived at the camp after fleeing war and drought in the south, and like many of the women here, Rahma is without her husband.

Rahma has three chickens and sells sweets for a living, but with six children to provide for, every day is a struggle.

Life in the camp is hard. Conditions are cramped, rubbish is strewn everywhere and there are no healthcare facilities. Although this camp has a well and latrines, in other IDP camps children play next to open sewage and access to safe water is almost non-existent.

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Pead interested in Bearcats

Isaiah Pead , a 5-foot-11, 188 pound running back/safety from Columbus (OH) Eastmoor Academy, is giving Cincinnati a good, hard look.

The Bearcats are just one of 12 current scholarship offers for the talented athlete from Columbus. Among the top offers are: Cincinnati, Indiana, Louisville, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia.

Pead's hometown team, the Ohio State Buckeyes haven't offered yet, but they've been in contact and might offer sometime over the summer. Until then, Pead is going to focus on gathering as much information as possible.

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Bug 84471 - project find and find replace are not supported yet
project find and find replace are not supported yet
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77099
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project
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Assigned To: Thomas Preisler
CND1-FCS projectsystem
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Reported: 2006-09-07 22:03 UTC by julieg
Modified: 2007-09-06 17:59 UTC (History)
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Description julieg 2006-09-07 22:03:56 UTC
Project find and find replace should work for CND1 FCS.
Comment 1 Thomas Preisler 2006-10-17 18:14:59 UTC
this is really a defect.....
Comment 2 Thomas Preisler 2006-10-19 18:37:44 UTC

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Brown University has partnered with six Ivy Plus institutions to launch an initiative aimed at improving study abroad opportunities for students. The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) will develop comprehensive program centers of study around the world. The first center will launch in Havana in the 2014-15 academic year.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University, in partnership with six other Ivy Plus institutions, has launched a new initiative to develop comprehensive program centers of study around the world. Partner institutions of the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) include Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University and The University of Pennsylvania.

CASA aims to improve the study-abroad experience by creating engaged, high-quality programming and an on-site infrastructure in key locations throughout the world. The program will allow the partnering institutes to address the challenges of new program development with the resources of a single university, while guaranteeing a critical mass of high-caliber students. The new effort will allow the institutions to improve study abroad programming over time through long-term planning and investment. The first CASA program will launch in Havana during the 2014-2015 academic year.

“Brown is thrilled to have established a collaborative relationship with distinguished institutions through the CASA initiative and looks forward to the success of its first program in Cuba,” said Sonia Feigenbaum, associate provost for global engagement at Brown. “This is indeed the beginning of a long relationship between our institutions, and CASA is poised to expose myriad students from diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and interests to a wealth of course offerings that will contribute to their becoming interculturally engaged and informed citizens of the world.”

“We at Dartmouth are delighted to be part of this exciting new initiative in international education,” said Lynn Higgins, the Frank J. Guarini Associate Dean for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs at Dartmouth College. "The courses and activities available in Havana represent a significant enrichment of our curriculum, while offering tremendous opportunities for both students and faculty to become more deeply informed about a crucial region. We look forward to working with our Consortium partners and with the faculty and staff at the University of Havana and at the Casa de las Americas.”

The CASA program is unique in that, once established, it will be one of the first study-abroad consortia with multiple study centers around the world. Each center, equipped with on-site staffing, technology, and academic resource support, will be defined by a carefully chosen set of characteristics to create learning opportunities for participating students that capitalize on the academic strengths of consortium members and international partner institutions. Wherever possible, students will work alongside local students, with the aim of fully engaging with the local environment.

Eventually, CASA administrators hope to have centers established across continents, offering studies across multiple disciplines. The program will offer students a range of experiences, including in-class learning, internships, community engagement, undergraduate research, and faculty exchanges. Consortium centers will operate year-round, providing students with opportunities for semester, academic-year, and summer study abroad.

In the 2014-15 academic year, CASA will launch its first program in Havana, establishing it as the largest U.S. academic presence in Cuba. Working with both the University of Havana, Cuba’s leading institute of higher learning, and Casa de Las Américas, the Cuban government’s premier research institute on Caribbean and Latin American studies, Cuban culture and the arts, CASA has developed a program of credit-bearing lectures and courses that will provide students an opportunity to examine the key political, social, economic, and cultural issues affecting Cuba and its Caribbean and Latin American neighbors. Students will also be encouraged to carry out research projects around topics of interest.

Students will interact with some of the country’s leading experts from key research centers, including Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Instituto de Estudios de la Economía Cubana, and the Centro de Investigación de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello.

The CASA-Havana center will be housed in the former Galería de Arte Haydée Santamaría, a landmark space belonging to Casa de Las Americas that was built in the 20th century and is located in Havana’s Vedado district. The CASA-Havana center will include classroom and seminar space, a small library and computer lab, staff offices, and ample space for special events and exhibitions.


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Seminars to help Interior B.C. businesses prepare for return to PST
Economy Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:00 PM

Updated Jan. 21, 2013 - to correct event date

VICTORIA - Businesses in interior communities that want to learn about returning to PST are invited to take part in seminars being held in partnership with local chambers of commerce. These seminars will cover the general principles of the PST and the new eTaxBC online business registration service.

Seminars are scheduled for Kamloops on Monday, Jan. 21, Revelstoke on Tuesday, Jan. 22, Enderby on Wednesday, Jan. 23 and Penticton on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.

More seminars will be held in over 50 B.C. communities. An interactive map with locations and other details can be viewed at: Please check with your local chamber of commerce for further details.

Government is partnering with chambers of commerce across B.C. to ensure businesses have the support they need to make a smooth transition back to the PST on April 1, 2013.

Additional tools and services available to help businesses prepare for the re-implementation of the PST include:

  • One-on-one consultations with a government tax specialist.
  • Online webinars covering the general principles of the PST and eTaxBC.
  • PST bulletins and notices.

  • Returning to the PST - An Overview for Business
  • PST in B.C. Online Registration
  • Businesses with questions about the PST can call our toll-free help line - 1 877 388-4440 or email questions to:
  • A courtesy copy of the draft consolidation of the PST statute that would take effect April 1, 2013, subject to approval of the legislature.

Quick Facts:

Businesses that sell or lease taxable goods, or sell software or taxable services in B.C., are now able to register to collect the tax.

Businesses can register three ways:

Online - go to:

In person - go to the nearest Service BC Centre. See locations at: - or visit our office at 1802 Douglas St. in Victoria.

By mail or fax - complete the Application for Registration for Provincial Sales Tax (FIN 418) found at: (Go to Forms and Publications.)

  • A new PST number will be assigned once the business registration application is processed.

Learn More:

Learn more about the services available to businesses to support the transition to PST:

Find a seminar near you using the PST Outreach Map:

More information on the return to PST and links to publications, tools and services can be found at:

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AHA: In-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes need work

Policy and practice changes by healthcare institutions, providers and others could greatly improve medical care and survival for people who have a sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, according to an American Heart Association consensus statement.

Each year, more than 200,000 adults and 6,000 children have in-hospital cardiac arrests, and survival has remained essentially unchanged for decades, statement authors said. According to the association, only 24.2% of in-hospital cardiac arrest patients survive to hospital discharge.

Much more could be done to improve in-hospital cardiac arrest care by providers, institutions and the healthcare system, authors said in the statement, which was published March 11 on the website of the journal Circulation.

A big obstacle to better care for in-hospital cardiac arrest is the inability to gather reliable data, said Laurie Morrison, MD, MSc, the statements lead author. “We must be able to count how many in-hospital cardiac arrests occur and report comparable outcomes across institutions — and apply the science to every-day care more quickly,” Morrison, of St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto, said in a news release.

The statements key recommendations include:

• Establishing competency of all hospital staff in recognizing a cardiac arrest, performing chest compressions and using an automated external defibrillator.

• Ensuring that best practices are used in all stages of care for cardiac arrest.

• Requiring that all in-hospital cardiac arrests be reported, with survival data, using consistent definitions across hospitals. Definitions are not standardized, the authors said.

• Mandating that hospitals report rates per 1,000 admissions of do-not-attempt-to-resuscitate orders among patients before an arrest occurs. Variation in reporting and implementing these orders can dramatically skew data about patient outcomes, the authors said.

• Modifying billing codes to allow collection of more specific and accurate data for in-hospital cardiac arrest. The authors also suggest separate guidelines for in-hospital versus out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

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November 17, 2012

Undergraduate Admissions Saturday Visit

10:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. End Time
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Moot Hall 110

Come see why Buffalo State is a smart educational investment.  During each Saturday visit, visitors receive an overview of the college, participate in a brief question and answer session with a member of the Admissions staff, and take a guided campus tour with one of our Student Ambassadors. Space is limited. Reservations are required and can be made by contacting (716) 878-4017 or

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North Central College - Naperville, IL

New award-winning website brings together student writing, photography, video and audio news coverage

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Kevin Jackman ’14, majoring in broadcast communication and interactive media studies

The talents of North Central College students again garnered national recognition with a first-place award for a new student-run website, The College Media Association held a convention and awards ceremony March 15 in New York City and North Central’s Chronicle staff competed among schools of all sizes in the online award category. In its first time competing there, The Chronicle came away with a David L. Adams Apple Award for Best Homepage for, which incorporates news stories, arts reviews, video and audio, Instagram images and a Twitter feed. The new site packages the multimedia content in a way that makes it very user-friendly.

“This is a big honor and I want to acknowledge the amazing work of the student staff in making this award a reality,” says Kay O’Donnell, assistant professor of journalism. “They’ve developed a rhythm and strategy to cover events that go far beyond the print edition.”

Among the students behind the award-winning effort is WONC-FM station manager Kevin Jackman ’14, who is majoring in broadcast communication and interactive media studies. He previously worked on the WONC website and O’Donnell approached him for his help with recruiting students and finding resources to expand multimedia content for The Chronicle.

“The goal was to go beyond posting Chronicle print stories and add instant news coverage, social media, video and audio,” Jackman says. “We have students posting live news from events and we’ve been able to add elements like video restaurant reviews and WONC sports interviews.”

Plans for the new site began last spring when O’Donnell met with students to gather input and choose a name. She designed a template of the site last summer using WordPress. The students began populating the site with content during fall term and honed their efforts during winter term—enough so to win national recognition. The site has received upwards of 15,000 views over six months.

The College Media Association is a national organization that supports professionals and students who create student-produced media on college and university campuses. “The awards in the online category were given without consideration to size, resources or staff,” adds O’Donnell. Second and third places went to Baylor University and Appalachian State University, respectively.

Since receiving the recognition, the staff was contacted via Facebook about scholarship opportunities from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation.


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La Petite Mort

The French have a unique term for orgasms. They call it, “La Petite Mort”.

Flickr: credit to SalaBoli

I learned about sex through porn.

I didn’t get the sex talk when I was younger, which isn’t all that atypical, especially as many parents struggle with how to broach the topic with their teens. So, I suppose it was a mixed blessings of sorts that I graduated from high school, totally unawares that people my age had sex. (So college was a huge eye opener!)

Naturally, I became insatiably fascinated. With my steady consummation of porn since fourteen and evolving expertise with masturbation, I sought out all the sex stories I could find. So when my friends told me that they hadn’t experienced an orgasm, I wanted to dive in and help them understand the awesomeness of self-stimulation. And when another said that sex wasn’t that big of a deal and I wanted to discuss the possibility of tantric sex with her.

But in a world where experience is king, I often felt my lack of actual sexual experience [with another person] invalidated my opinions. Who am I to talk about sex when I’m not even getting laid? Anything I said, seemed to fall on deaf ears; I wasn’t considered an expert on sex. Which, I think, is a fundamental problem when trying to discuss sexuality. Sexuality isn’t just for men and women who are already having sex, but it’s also very much for people who are still virgins: either through chance or circumstance.

Unless you’re an asexual, your sexual preferences make up a huge part of who you are. This isn’t about labels or limiting beliefs about who we’re attracted to – but if each of us is a sexual being, then our relationship with our sexuality is paramount. Which is why I’ve been singing the praises of masturbation since forever. I always marvel at women who wait until marriage to have sex yet have never even touched themselves. If you’re afraid to get down there, how can you expect someone else to?

But it’s not just about having sex with yourself, it’s about personal empowerment when you can finally take your sexuality into your own hands. Not having to rely on another person to give you pleasure is the ultimate form of freedom. I believe strongly in establishing who you are so that you’ll never need [or want] another person to complete you.

Masturbation is key on the path to one’s sexual liberation and personal empowerment – but where does one find quality material? I believe in the power of porn, and once you find the good stuff, you can’t go back! Porn is an excellent and safe avenue for exploring your sexuality in the privacy of your own personal space. But finding quality porn can be difficult, if you don’t know where to look (or if you don’t know what you’re looking for). But I’ve saved you the trouble. Bear in mind though, I have unique preferences that other people might not have, and these links reflect that.

Check it out:

1. I Feel Myself : Focuses primarily on women/women relationships (though there are some male/female ones) and masturbation. That’s a referral link: so if two of you sign up, I get a free month at the site!

2. Beautiful Agony : A site where you just see the faces of both men and women while they’re orgasming.

3. Crash Pad Series : A site that’s been nominated as feminist porn! Here’s a quote from the front page:

Here you’ll find real dyke porn, lesbians, femme on femme, boi, stud, genderqueer and trans-masculine performers, transwomen, transmen, queer men and women engaging in authentic queer sexuality, whether it is with safer sex, strap-on sex, cocksucking, kink and bdsm,, gender play and fluidity, and always authentic orgasms.

They do provide free samples, although ultimately you’ll have to pay for complete access.

Porn gets a bad rap, but once you find the quality stuff, you’ll realize how amazing and female-friendly a lot of it is.

What is your relationship like to your own sexuality? How old were you when you got “The Talk”? If you did, at all.

10 thoughts on “La Petite Mort

  1. *sneaky dirty laugh* oooh, parisian, I wasn’t expecting this from you….

    Seriously though, since you bring it up, I like this post because, like your other stuff, its very honest but what I really like the most is the topic. As for myself, I never got the talk. Sex/sexuality was just pervasive in the type of mature movies and television we watched as children–we put two-and-two together, at least I did; furthermore, kids at my middle school were already having sex where I’m from and you’d hear them talk about it. Sadly, that’s what they thought it meant to be grown up and/or have a boyfriend/girlfriend; they thought it made them mature.

    I’ve read romance and erotica since I was 10 (which was also the first time that I “gave” it to myself). Sex was something my mama had great fun pretending to hide from us, like the time we watched Jason’s Lyric (making us cover our eyes, cover our ears, or stand outside the room until the ‘nasty’ scene was over *rolls eyes*). As if we didn’t know what was going on. If you really wanna get personal, there was a pornographic film in the house–I don’t want to know where it came from–and we just sat and watched it. We took turns going to the bathroom because it made us want to go, but we otherwise didn’t vent our emotions over it.

    As for my relationship with my sexuality, I have a very complicated one. I masturbate, I watch pornography, and I prefer and write romantica (sometimes erotica). I identify as queer, polysexual–a self-chosen term for its meaning, if nothing else (“poly” meaning ‘many’, as opposed to “pan” which means ‘all’ and ‘bi’ which usually only refers to male and female). Even though my search for body-positivity is ongoing, I’m fairly comfortable in sex with myself but just haven’t found anybody I want to get that close to or trust to engage with. So I kind of identify with you in that I don’t have expert experience with other people and consider myself a virgin in that way. Because of my unusual self-label (polysexual), I often feel left out of conversations happening in the queer community and neglected. My friends trust me to write good sex in my stories, and I did so in high school and was known for it, but I’m pretty sure that’s where their faith ends -_-

    Anyway, thanks for posting. I don’t feel comfortable talking about this on my own blog since my mother’s ex-husband is stalking me there. You might be interested in a documentary, SILENCE: In Search of Black Female Sexuality, which talks about Black women’s sexuality and one speaker even says that Black women need to at least learn how to masturbate for exactly the reason that you say masturbation is important.

    • Hah! :D I wasn’t sure how people would respond, although there are a lot of sexuality blogs around. Or so I’ve been discovering!

      Jason’s Lyric sounds familiar. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen it before. I don’t remember really watching a lot of sex laden material growing up. But then again, I watched a lot of cartoons for a really long time while watching anime. People were having sex in middle school?! Wow. Where are you from? I definitely didn’t think anyone was having sex when I was that young. But when I look back at my cousin when she was that age, I think a lot of her classmates were sexually active. It’s so strange to think about because they don’t even really teach sex ed until high school in a lot of places. If they’re teaching it at all.

      I’ve never written romantica before, but I’ve tried my hand at erotica. It was interesting! I think I’ve heard of polysexual before, the term sounds familiar, but I’ve definitely heard of pansexual. i used to identify that way for awhile because I am really attracted to genderqueer. I’m sorry you feel neglected in the community. That really sucks. I would think they’d be open to it since it just means you have a broader focus. But the LGBT community has just as many hang-ups, if not more, than other groups. I hear a lot of bisexuals lament both the gay and straight communities, not feeling as if they belong.

      Getting someone to trust your opinion on sex when you’re not having any is difficult I think. Some of the sexuality blogs I’ve found are run by women who have been having sex for a really long time. So more people are going to believe in their expert status. Part of my hope – for as long as I’m not sexually active – to try and engage other virgins in a discussion about sex and sexuality. And if we ever do decide to have sex, it probably won’t be the crappy first time that a lot of teenagers experience. Which I think would be nice!

      Oh, you’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it. :D I think I’ve heard of that! I wanted to write this post earlier and tried to find some info on black female sexuality but there wasn’t a lot that I found that pertained to what I describe in this post. :/ But I’ll definitely need to check out the documentary if I can find it anywhere!

      • lol, lol. I grew up in Atlanta and lived there until I went to college and now I’m back in the area.

        I went to a university that propagated mantras of diversity and social justice and there was a ‘LGB’ presence and an oppressed ‘T’ presence. At first I identified myself as bi then I realized that I was really ‘all over the rainbow’ with my attractions. Yes, my existence stranded in the rainbow is a very sad, I do feel quite neglected, but I think its because of, as you say, the hang-ups that pervade the queer community. Everybody’s out for themselves and their group.

        On another note, some people believe that sex is love. I disagree and I believe that sex is a way to express love (and lust, which some people also mistake for love). In the same way, some people think that the only kind of sex you can have is with another person. Contrarily, you can have sex with yourself, its called masturbation, though some people mock it.

        When some women look down on those who haven’t had a lot of sex with others, its just yet another way of making themselves look like experts by comparison and disregard the sexual experiences of those they consider beneath their level. Its called one-up-manship, they’ve got the one up, like its a hierarchy. Experiencing your sexuality and sex for yourself with yourself is just different though part of having sex with others. Some people just have sex with others, think that’s how supposed to be, and have little experience with themselves; they see it as a stepping stone to having sex with other people instead of it being central to their own sexuality, wholeness, and wellbeing.

        I think we just have a different relationship to sex through our sexual experiences and sexuality. I agree that we are a very Other-focused group and I feel much the same way about engaging other members of this group. And I totally think that my first time won’t be crappy and I’m much better to myself for not having rushed into sex (although sometimes I get a little anxious, if you know what I mean).

        Hope you can get a hold of the documentary! (And I love anime actually, since you mentioned it although so much of it is problematic…) ~MsQ

  2. Oh and I’ve actually heard of Beautiful Agony and I love the name of this post (despite my criticisms of the romanticization of French/France) and I’ve come across the term many times in my readings. Its meaning is very poignant.

    I think it really is difficult to find quality pornographic work so thanks for providing the links. People do tend to frown on the industry for a lot of reasons, rightfully so, but not all of it is bad….Just most of it.

    I also very much agree that sex and sexuality isn’t just about your experience with others and that’s where a lot of people end up not knowing what to do with themselves without someone else.

    I, too, have my unique preferences, which I will not mention here, lol.

    last one, promise.

    • Oh, thanks! I almost always have a difficult time coming up with blog titles. So I end up going through maybe 2-3+ until I find one that fits. Actually, part of the reason why my blog is called parisian is because I traveled to Paris for my French degree. So I was happy to finally have a french post title. :D But I think I can understand your feelings on the over romanticization of France/French anything. I didn’t really hear about it until I saw the movie Bride of Chucky. And when I googled it, it was all over the internet!

      No problem! I’m glad you liked them. Quality porn is really difficult to find, online and off. There aren’t a lot of female friendly sex shops, so most stores have the trashy stuff. Ugh.

      We have a very Other focused culture, where a lot of our self-esteem and self-worth is often determined by other people. It’s a difficult habit to break, but I’m trying to work on sustaining myself versus relying on a potential sexual partner to give me meaning.

      I love your comments! No worries! :]

      • Its true, a lot of the industry isn’t very female-friendly nor is it inexpensive -_-.

        For me, its not that I’m uninterested or don’t want to be into relationships with people ‘on my level’ and ‘up to my standards’, but I am very focused, like you said and I personally agree, on sustaining myself rather than relying on a sexual partner, or otherwise, to give me meaning.

        (p.s. I thought your name might have have something to do with French/France. As much as I criticize, there is something be had what is dubbed ;’the language of love’)

  3. I’ve gotta check out those three site. I’ve yet to find porn that I find of interest or enjoyable–so much so that I’ve considered making it myself. LOL (seriously).

    I didn’t get the sex talk. I was sexually active until my teenage years. I wasn’t having intercourse, but I was sexually active. What I learned about sex came from elementary and middle school peers (yes middle school kids have sex, and babies too), movies, videos, music, and the freaky-deaky channel.

    Masturbation is all good, but I prefer to share the experience with someone else. I do feel it’s important to have a strong sexual identity with self before engaging with others. I agree that “not having to rely on another person to give you pleasure is the ultimate form of freedom…establishing who you are so that you’ll never need [or want] another person to complete you.” But honestly, if your looking for completion through sex, something is wrong. I don’t know if masturbation is a pre- or co-requisite for sexual liberation or empowerment, but black women do need to reclaim their sexuality first on an individual level.

    • Definitely. The sites are really awesome and they’re really fantastic quality! I love them. :]

      I think that masturbation is a pre-requisite for personal development because it’s your body. I don’t really believe in the notion that you have to love yourself before others can love you, but I do think it’s important to be familiar with your body because not everyone experiences interpersonal romantic love, but your body is kinda yours forever. So if you want to be empowered in a sense, then you need to start with yourself instead of trying to ignore that part of yourself.

  4. This post is hilarious. I respect that you wrote about it. I will have to say I disagree about masturbation though. I don’t get that feeling of being one with yourself and all that jazz. To me, it’s purely physical. I don’t think that it’s about fear of one’s body, but I crave the emotional connection that comes from another human that I’m connected with. I’m already connected with myself, therefore I don’t need to touch myself to take me to a higher level. I could, but it doesn’t feel organic – it feels artificial. I do agree that women should be able to go deep inside themselves to find that place of true pleasure without NEEDING someone else to get them there though.Must respect :-)

    • Haha, thanks! I’m glad you liked it. I definitely enjoyed writing about it for sure.

      I do understand why/how other people can feel more connected to another person. As a virgin, i haven’t really had that opportunity sexually, and has someone with no dating history, I haven’t really experienced that emotionally. So, for me, masturbation is pretty close to self-love as I can get, and it helps me get to know myself without the need of another person. I don’t know if it better “prepares” me for sex with another person, but I don’t see why I should wait just because sex is discussed as something that can only be done with someone else. :o

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The scavengers

Major nineteenth-century cities such as Paris or London depended on complex ecosystems in which the showiest sometimes obscured underlying layers. Consider a city in which by 1900 it was said that as many as 300,000 cigars (perhaps the number included cigarettes) were consumed daily.

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In 1890, Saint-Juirs, author of La Seine à Travers Paris (from which the illustration above is taken) warned readers that in La Place Maubert and its surroundings, “all the vices were represented” in the dives (bouges) frequented by “the worst specimens of the human species.” And yet, in these shady quarters, there were also honest people making a living. These were practitioners of les petits métiers or small trades. One group made a living from discarded cigars and cigarette butts.

In this shady milieu the honest people are represented by the scavengers of cigar butts, who have an industry that is respectable, even if not lucrative. Badly dressed in grimy, ragged clothes, the scavengers go into the rich areas, on the boulevards when café terraces are filled with guests; they watch intently around the theatres. Their eyes on the ground, they chase after bits of tobacco. The most well-off have a hook to grab the cigars thrown away by the smoker; the poorer ones pick up the remains with their hands. All of them have large pockets or bags to gobble up their harvest. The prodigality of the rich feeds their small earnings. In fact the streets give to those who exploit them more tobacco than that produced from ten fine plantations. Cigarette butts, cigar ends, either common or high-priced, the orphans abandoned on the sidewalks and carefully collected each day give a harvest of appreciable value. There are often pieces of good fortune, for the most expensive cigars, the havanas worth three francs, were rare finds.

In today’s currency three francs would be around €7. “All this debris is washed, then cut and formed into a special tobacco, superior in quality to caporal tobacco. The gatherers dry it by putting it in the sun on the banks of the river; then they retrace their steps to  Place Maubert,  where they run their market.”

4309fc1b3e66ab505919ad69e5372084-2 In the photo above, taken about 1900, photographer Louis Vert has captured some men processing their tobacco finds on one of the embankments. The results would eventually end up as pipe tobacco or in roll-your-own cigarettes.

According to Gustave Macé, a former chef de la police de Sûreté, cigarette-butt and cigar-end scavengers were organized into groups with their own territories. Each had a leader whose many tasks included keeping track of potentially good picking sites such as well-to-do weddings, important funerals, and church festivals.

In this 1900 photo by Jacques Boyer, a lone worker is unpacking and sorting his finds. As with any product sold on the open market, prices varied according to supply and demand as well as quality. A cigar barely smoked fetched a better price than a short butt. The former could simply have the ash cut off and be sold as a small cigar, whereas those smoked down to a short stub had to be cut up and the tobacco mixed with other scavenged bits.

The top of the food—or tobacco—chain was occupied by those described as “moneybags” (richards) who specialized in cigars bought from waiters in cafés who kept an eye out for those precious barely smoked ones that could be resold immediately.

If you look closely at this caricature of a night of excess, you will spot the treasure trove of cigar and cigarette butts that scavengers sought.

One wonders what the tobacco tasted like and who bought it. Saint-Juirs claimed it to be superior to caporal, which was a strong dark tobacco. The reclaimed street tobacco was probably not renowned for either sweet aroma or gentle taste. However, it served its intended market of the  poverty-stricken elderly (vieillards indigents) or poor workmen. For those of us of a certain age, the smell of street tobacco might bring back memories of the would-be-poets and budding philosophers of our university days who proclaimed their pretensions with the strong aroma of Gauloise cigarettes.

In his 1867 book Les petites industries, Edmond Texier explained the origins of some of the little ways of making a living that were “not listed in the dictionary.” Nobody grew up with the dream of living off cigar and cigarette butts. Rather, such an occupation was “the conquest of the imagination by stomach cramps.” The need to eat threw one into such careers.

As Jean-Michel Le Corfec reminds us in Les petits métiers de Paris, those who were excluded from the mainstream of society either had to depend on public charity or find some kind of work to be able to eat. Living off discarded cigars and cigarette butts was one way.

As for the smokers, the photographic archives yielded this photo, taken during the Commune of 1871. The woman looks as if she is enjoying a well-earned smoke and there will be little left for the scavengers.

The rich photographic and artistic history of Paris has captured some of the little trades that made up the functioning city. In a later blog I will describe some other petits métiers of Paris. They were essential parts of a complex city and a now-vanished way of life.

Text and translations by Norman Ball

Photographic images courtesy of Paris en Images, except for the first image, which is from Saint-Juirs,  La Seine à Travers Paris, Illustrée de 230 Dessins et de 17 Compositions en Couleurs par G. Fraipont. Paris: Librairie Artistique, 1890.

Additional information from Jean-Michel Le Corfec, Les Petits Métiers de Paris. Bordeaux: Éditions Sud Ouest, 2008.

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7 Responses to The scavengers

  1. Teresa E says:

    I never knew such a metier existed. Here in New York City, I don’t see many partially smoked cigarettes on the sidewalk. Sort of speaks to the (deservedly) high cost of tobacco products these days.

    • Just today, on the streets of Toronto, we saw a man combing through recycling boxes in search of liquor bottles that can be returned for a refund. In some ways, this is a 21st-century “petit metier.” Probably there are others, if we just keep our eyes open.

      Norman and Philippa

  2. Fascinating! Thank you for this post which now has me wondering if other cities at the time encouraged similar enterprises. And I’m very much looking forward to your next post on another little métier.

    • We wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that similar metiers existed elsewhere…but Paris was a particularly fertile territory for those who lived off scraps, like all wealthy cities.

      Norman and Philippa

  3. Fascinating post. I always find it interesting how in history or less wealthy countries people found ways of making a living out of so little. Another example is the mudlarks of the Thames who would search in the muddy shores of the river during low tide.

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A Message to Data Analysts, Our Future Overlords

[Editor’s Note] This entry is written as part of the Analytics Blogarama hosted by SmartData Collective. The subject prompt was: “The Emerging Role of the Analyst.”

As the post-apocalyptic civilization of 2017 (yes, it’s not too far off) sifts through banks of computer data searching for remnants of our contemporary culture, I hope they happen upon this post. I want them to note my foresight and prescience at having accurately predicted the new ruling class of the Next World Order.

As of this writing, very few of my colleagues join me in my supposition that data analysts – those seemingly quiet, thoughtful employees who “mostly kept to themselves” – are a mere six years away from all-out world takeover. My wife and I, no doubt, will not have survived the Great Quantitative Wars, but in return for paying homage to you “before it was cool,” I ask consideration for any household pets that may have survived us. If they survived, they’re probably hungry by now. There’s food in the bottom corner cabinet in the kitchen.

I understand why you felt you had to finally assert dominance over the world, and I sympathize. The madness simply had to be stopped.

It’s hard to believe that people wouldn’t see the signs leading up to this eventuality. After amassing many years of university education and several hundred thousand dollars worth of student loans, we rewarded you by putting you to work for managers that didn’t have the faintest idea what the hell you were talking about.

  • “What do you mean, there’s no significant relationship? Make one!!”
  • “Random, schmandom…who gives a damn?”
  • “What the hell is a mean? I just asked you for the average!”

And God help you if you worked for an MBA. The beneficiaries of one intro stats course fifteen years before, they would proceed to tell you exactly how you must have miscalculated your c-value…and it’s not like you could tell them that there is no such thing as a c-value. You were very patient as you explained that, no, we can’t just throw in more bar and pie charts to pretty it up. But alas, there was that one accidental moment when you corrected your boss’s interpretation that the data showed his decisions were 95% certain to be accurate, and they kicked you over to the IT department and called you a “Business Analyst,” and you were never heard from again.

By the time the financial sector melted down in 2008, you clearly all had enough. You watched in horror as the market minted AAA-rated junk CDOs, and insisted that it had quantitative models that proved absolutely no risk. How could there be no risk?! A first-year quant student from University of Phoenix could have told you that there was risk! Yet off we went, because our banks had to make more money than all the other banks. The risk analysts were moved into closet offices.

We figured out too late that those people who we assumed to be quantitatively-driven traders were actually hormone-addled narcissists. Oops.

So, now you’re ruling the world, and I can’t really say that’s unjust. We kind of had it coming. Our mistake was that we didn’t respect analysis enough to learn about it. We had a statistics class once, and then said, “That’s hard. I’m just going to hire someone to do this.”

That’s a pretty arrogant stance. We assumed that we could be leaders while still maintaining our own ignorance. You can’t be a leader while turning whole subject matter areas unquestioningly over to others because we simply can’t be bothered to make an effort at understanding. While campaigning for the presidency in 2000, George W. Bush was asked several times about his lack of military experience, and he replied that he would “listen to his generals and take their advice.” Having witnessed how that plan turned out, we collectively made the same mistakes in the area of data analysis.

What we should have done was embrace the emerging role of analysts in business by educating ourselves to a level of basic competence, and placing some trust in the relatively objective perspectives they afforded us. The last ten years have put more useful data at business’s disposal than the preceding hundred years, and its to our benefit that you, our new leaders, became more prominent in business as a result. Your work gives us a picture of our enterprise that circumvents our internal biases and predilections. Respect for analysis and objectivity would have spared us both The Great Depression and The Great Recession, and God knows how many unnecessary bankruptcies and bad decisions. But, it also would have denied us the opportunity to remain ignorant and make uninformed gut decisions. So we said, screw it.

So, as you’re reading this, oh Great Overlords, you have consolidated your power as the new ruling class of earth. Praise be to you. The good news is that social programs will now be fully funded, the military fully provisioned, the national debt fully paid down, and lawyers abolished. The bad news, of course, is that salons, barber shops, and upscale style boutiques will have fallen into dilapidation from lack of use, and college parties will now be very measured, thoughtful affairs. I’m truly sorry we didn’t respect your value until it was too late for us, and I wish you well. And seriously, please, look in on the pets. The short, stumpy little fuzzy one likes cheese.

If you’re new to this blog, it has lots of information on what motivates our behavior and interactions. It may therefore provide some insight into the downfall of our civilization and the rise of the Analyst Ruling Class. Here are some articles that might be of interest:

Social Validation and the Drive for Success

The Six Weapons of Influence: Reciprocity

The Six Weapons of Influence: Commitment and Consistency

The Six Weapons of Influence: Social Proof

The Six Weapons of Influence: Liking

The Six Weapons of Influence: Authority

The Six Weapons of Influence: Scarcity

The Halo Effect

Why We Want What We Can’t Have, and Can’t Have What We Want

Motivation in the Workplace: Surprising New Science

How Pressure and Stress Are Affecting Your Performance

  1. October 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    My word, Scott! Now I’m really glad we organized this blogging event – because I see how different this looks from your point of view. Thanks for the eye-opener.

  2. October 6, 2011 at 5:10 PM

    I always enjoy what you have to say. Excellent thoughts once again!

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python-libnmap 0.5.0

Python NMAP library enabling you to start async nmap tasks, parse and compare/diff scan results

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libnmap is a python library enabling python developpers to manipulate nmap process and data.

libnmap is what you were looking for if you need to implement the following:

  • automate or schedule nmap scans on a regular basis
  • manipulate nmap scans results to do reporting
  • compare and diff nmap scans to generate graphs
  • batch process scan reports

The above uses cases will be easy to implement with the help of the libnmap modules.

libnmap modules

The lib currently offers the following modules:

  • process: enables you to launch nmap scans
  • parse: enables you to parse nmap reports or scan results (only XML so far) from a file, a string,…
  • report: enables you to manipulate a parsed scan result and de/serialize scan results in a json format
  • diff: enables you to see what changed between two scans
  • common: contains basic nmap objects like NmapHost and NmapService. It is to note that each object can be “diff()ed” with another similar object.
  • plugins: enables you to support datastores for your scan results directly in the “NmapReport” object. from report module:
  • mongodb: insert/get/getAll/delete
  • sqlalchemy: insert/get/getAll/delete
  • aws s3: insert/get/getAll/delete
  • csv: todo (easy to implement)
  • elastic search: todo

All the documentation is available on read the docs. This documentation contains small code samples that you directly reuse.

libnmap has by default no dependencies.

The only additional python modules you’ll have to install depends if you wish to use libnmap to store reports on an exotic data store via libnmap’s independents plugins.

Below the list of optional dependencies:

You can install libnmap via pip:

pip install libnmap

or via git:

$ git clone
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Some codes samples are available in the examples directory or in the documentation.

Mike @bmx0r Boutillier for S3 and SQL-Alechemy plugins and for the constructive critics. Thanks!

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