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- ctive Listening: Web-based Assessment Tool for Communication and Active Listening Skill Development.
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  Authors:
  Cheon, Jongpil
  Grant, Michael
  Source:
  TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning; November 2009, Vol. 53 Issue 6, p24-34, 11p
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  Document Type:
  Article
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  Instructional systems design; Web design; Computer network resources; Listening
  Abstract:
  A study examined the implementation of a web-based assessment tool that included video streaming techniques to help counseling psychology students practice the subtleties of active listening in an authentic counseling situation. Findings revealed students' positive attitudes toward the effectiveness and usability of this online assessment tool. Other findings and implications of the study are discussed.
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  87563894
  DOI:
  10.1007/s11528-009-0340-4
  Accession Number:
  508103216
  Database:
  Science Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson)
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- <dd class="citation-title color-s4"><a rel="nofollow" name="citation">Web-based tools for modelling and analysis of multivariate data: California ozone pollution activity. </a></dd><dd class="citation-image-box"><div id="bookJacket"><div id="qvImages"><h3 class="sub-section-header">Images</h3><div class="thumbnails"><a rel="nofollow" id="tQuikView_21" class="icon-image-link"><img height="50" id="imgQuikView_21" alt="Chart" data-defer-image="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/89ec43a1a9d4b4c90cac24278e6995c9/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202287.jpg" src="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/89ec43a1a9d4b4c90cac24278e6995c9/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202287.jpg" border="0" class="imgview-thumb"></a> <a rel="nofollow" id="tQuikView_22" class="icon-image-link"><img height="50" id="imgQuikView_22" alt="Map" data-defer-image="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/362e4e126fddc0db5a6426e4155b5e82/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202288.jpg" src="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/362e4e126fddc0db5a6426e4155b5e82/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202288.jpg" border="0" class="imgview-thumb"></a> <a rel="nofollow" id="tQuikView_23" class="icon-image-link"><img height="50" id="imgQuikView_23" alt="Chart" data-defer-image="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/a92f731e5db76974dfbdd9f4a4b87bac/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202289.jpg" src="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/a92f731e5db76974dfbdd9f4a4b87bac/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202289.jpg" border="0" class="imgview-thumb"></a> <a rel="nofollow" id="tQuikView_24" class="icon-image-link"><img height="50" id="imgQuikView_24" alt="Diagram" data-defer-image="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/0b88f131b3652b786358ae677d2bb7a2/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202290.jpg" src="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/0b88f131b3652b786358ae677d2bb7a2/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202290.jpg" border="0" class="imgview-thumb"></a> <a rel="nofollow" id="tQuikView_25" class="icon-image-link"><img height="50" id="imgQuikView_25" alt="Graph" data-defer-image="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/f1d7459adfcc8e8deff2e640423f018f/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202291.jpg" src="http://global.ebsco-content.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/imageqv/f1d7459adfcc8e8deff2e640423f018f/5172ea82/small_thumb/imt/20110901/20202291.jpg" border="0" class="imgview-thumb"></a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Go to all 12 images >>" class="all-images">Go to all 12 images >></a></div></div> </div></dd><dt>Authors:</dt><dd><a rel="nofollow" title="Search for Dinov, Ivo D." id="linkDinovIvoD.">Dinov, Ivo D.</a>1<cite> dinov@stat.ucla.edu</cite> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for Christou, Nicolas" id="linkChristouNicolas">Christou, Nicolas</a>2</dd><dt>Source:</dt><dd><a rel="nofollow" title="Search for International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology" id="link">International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology</a>. 2011, Vol. 42 Issue 6, p789-805. 17p. 5 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram, 2 Charts, 3 Graphs, 1 Map. </dd><dt>Document Type:</dt><dd>Article</dd><dt>Subject Terms:</dt><dd>*<a rel="nofollow" title="Search for MULTIVARIATE analysis" id="linkMULTIVARIATEanalysis">MULTIVARIATE analysis</a> *<a rel="nofollow" title="Search for WEB-based instruction" id="linkWEB-basedinstruction">WEB-based instruction</a> *<a rel="nofollow" title="Search for OZONE layer -- Environmental aspects" id="linkOZONElayer--Environmentalaspects">OZONE layer -- Environmental aspects</a> *<a rel="nofollow" title="Search for PUBLIC health" id="linkPUBLIChealth">PUBLIC health</a></dd><dt>Geographic Terms:</dt><dd><a rel="nofollow" title="Search for CALIFORNIA" id="linkCALIFORNIA">CALIFORNIA</a></dd><dt>Author-Supplied Keywords:</dt><dd><a rel="nofollow" title="Search for applets" id="linkapplets">applets</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for case study" id="linkcasestudy">case study</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for data analysis" id="linkdataanalysis">data analysis</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for ozone pollution" id="linkozonepollution">ozone pollution</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for science education" id="linkscienceeducation">science education</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for SOCR" id="linkSOCR">SOCR</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Search for statistics education" id="linkstatisticseducation">statistics education</a></dd><dt>NAICS/Industry Codes:</dt><dd><a rel="nofollow" title="Search for 525120" id="link525120">525120</a> 525120</dd><dt>Abstract:</dt><dd>This article presents a hands-on web-based activity motivated by the relation between human health and ozone pollution in California. This case study is based on multivariate data collected monthly at 20 locations in California between 1980 and 2006. Several strategies and tools for data interrogation and exploratory data analysis, model fitting and statistical inference on these data are presented. All components of this case study (data, tools, activity) are freely available online at: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_MotionCharts_CAOzoneData. Several types of exploratory (motion charts, box-and-whisker plots, spider charts) and quantitative (inference, regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA)) data analyses tools are demonstrated. Two specific human health related questions (temporal and geographic effects of ozone pollution) are discussed as motivational challenges.[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] </dd><dt> </dt><dd><cite>Copyright of International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. 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The first African-American photographer at Life and a top fashion photographer at Vogue, Mr. Parks, who died in 2006, was equally attracted to grit and glamour, said the photographer Adger Cowans, 76, who worked as his assistant in the 1950s and was a lifelong friend. ''He was a storyteller trying to tell a different kind of story,'' Mr. Cowans said. Mr. Parks took most of the photographs here for the Farm Security Administration, where he worked on a fellowship in the 1940s documenting life in Washington and New York City. His Harlem photographs, especially, are so intimate because ''they're almost reflections of what he remembers of his childhood,'' said Anthony Barboza, 68, another photographer and friend. ''He's talking about himself. There is some wonderment in the pictures because Harlem was incredible at that time. Everyone was there.'' JOHN LELAND

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- The Christian Science Monitor
 November 9, 2012 Friday
 What superstorm Sandy taught me about the failures of online learning (+video);
 When hurricane Sandy closed my campus for a few days, my students and I had to conduct our course online. It was wholly inadequate. Online learning cannot - and should not - replace the real-time dialogue of the in-person classroom.
 
 BYLINE: By Nicolaus Mills
 
 SECTION: Commentary
 
 LENGTH: 769 words
 
 As a college English teacher whose school was closed for a week by superstorm Sandy, I learned an important hurricane lesson, one that I suspected all along: Online teaching is no substitute for the real thing in person. It rules out the most essential ingredient of the classroom and lecture hall - real-time collaboration between teacher and student.
 When Sandy struck, my students and I did not sit around twiddling our thumbs. We began a series of email exchanges. I read papers, marked them, and emailed them back within 24 hours. By the standards of any online course, my students and I were having high levels of contact. There was plenty of "feedback" and no slacking off on the reading workload.
 By online standards my students and I were successfully carrying on a course, but we were in fact engaged in pantomime. Our reading and writing assignments fulfilled formal requirements but missed out on the kind of personal exchange that is fundamental to learning.
 In my emails back to my students, I was able to point out where their interpretations of a novel lacked textual evidence. I was even able to show them where their writing was murky. But what was impossible for me to do - short of sending an endless stream of e-mails - was find out through a meaningful conversation what my students were thinking when they misread a passage or got klutzy in their writing.
 Any teacher can praise or criticize a student. That's easy. But the key to good teaching is figuring out with students why they approached an assignment the way they did. Genuine growth in students comes not from them trying to fulfill their teacher's demands, let alone please their teacher, but from them coming to the conclusion that there is a better way to read a book or write a paper than they first tried.
 That better way has to be negotiated, however. It has to incorporate students' own opinions, and it has to begin with the place students are at when they enter a course.
 A class meeting or one-on-one conference lets a teacher deal with all of these issues. The teacher and student get to see one another's faces, get to know whether a lesson is pleasurable or tedious, get to figure out how far to push an issue.
 Email falls short in all these departments, and online courses with their mechanistic reliance on chat rooms, standardized assignments, and PowerPoint makes matters even worse in their fast-food approach to learning.
 At a time when colleges and universities are competing to see which can win the rankings wars and which can fund as many foreign campuses as possible, it is clear why online earning has such appeal. At its heart is a winner-take-all psychology. Get the best lecturer money can buy, hire a group of anonymous, poorly paid assistants (who cares if they even have Ph.D.s) to mark online papers, and you have a moneymaker that eliminates the need for low teacher-student ratios as well as dorms and deans.
 Harvard and MIT, which are offering edX, and Stanford, Princeton, Penn, Michigan, and Berkeley, which are offering Coursera (all for free), are giving online learning respectability, even as they cater to the students on their own campuses. But for these elite schools, online learning is just another way to push their brand and thus make more money. Even when they offer large lecture courses to hundreds of their own students, they offer them through a professor who is physically present and can take questions.
 The real danger from the online fad is that politicians and voters will come to think online courses are good enough for the mass of students in their state (especially those in community colleges) and treat them as a silver bullet rather than a cost-efficient supplement to conventional teaching. As a result, the growing divide between America's top schools and those charged with the higher education of most of the rest of the country will widen even further.
- New Musical Express
 December 8, 2012
 The Rolling Stones added to Hurricane Sandy relief concert line-up in New York
 
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 HIGHLIGHT: Band join The Who and Paul McCartney Enhanced Coverage LinkingPaul McCartney -Search using:Biographies Plus News News, Most Recent 60 Dayson bill
 
 The Rolling Stones have been added to the line-up for the Hurricane Sandy relief concert in New York.
 Billboard reports that the band will join the bill at Madison Square Garden on December 12, with other names confirmed for the fundraiser gig set to include Paul McCartney, Enhanced Coverage LinkingPaul McCartney, -Search using:Biographies Plus News News, Most Recent 60 DaysThe Who and Eric Clapton.
 
 Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Kanye West and Coldplay singer Chris Martin Enhanced Coverage LinkingColdplay singer Chris Martin -Search using:Biographies Plus News News, Most Recent 60 Dayswill also play at the show, which will help fund relief for victims of the hurricane in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The Stones confirmed the news via their Twitter account, simply writing: The Rolling Stones to perform at 12-12-12 at Madison Square Garden, to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy #12121 .
 The band are set to play at the Barclays Center in New York on December 8 and will then go on to perform two dates at The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on December 13 and 15. They also completed a two-date stint at London's O2 Arena last month (November 25 and 29).
 Yesterday (December 7), it was confirmed that The Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 7, 2013. The film, which premiered in cinemas across the UK on October 18 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC2 to coincide with the band's shows in London, is directed by Brett Morgen and documents their career from their early road trips and gigs in the 1960s, via the release of 1972's seminal 'Exile On Main Street' right up to present day. It features stacks of unseen footage of the band, including commentaries from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
 October 30, 2012 Tuesday
 WEB Edition
 Social media covered the storm as never before
 
 BYLINE: By John Timpane; INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
 
 SECTION: WEB; P-com Breaking News; Pg. WEB
 
 LENGTH: 481 words
 
 The night of Hurricane Sandy brought heartening stories of the power of social media to connect and inform.
 In social media terms, Sandy is without a doubt the most-covered storm, in depth, breadth, and detail, in history. On Aug. 30, 2005, when Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Facebook was a toddler of a year and a half, YouTube a babe of six months, and Twitter nonexistent.
 
 Most tweets, posts, and videos sought to help people, both those in storm's way and those wanting to know more. Where were the nearest shelters? What roads were closed? Why was Sandy now a "post-tropical cyclone"?
 The world watched, via YouTube, as the ocean breached sea walls and inundated Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, and other towns. The world followed, via Twitter, as the intensive-care wards of NYU Hospital's Langone Medical Center, without power, were evacuated down nine flights of steps.
 YouTube was an especially poignant source, providing immediate, breathless, you-are-there videos of a spectacular power-plant explosion in Manhattan, the collapse of a building facade in Chelsea, a fire in Queens.
 A two-minute video on YouTube showed a stretch of Atlantic City's Boardwalk reduced to a shambles voiced over by a man named only "Jitney Guy": "Now the Boardwalk's in front of my house. I used to have it behind my house; now it's in front of my house on the street."
 Strangers got e-mail, tweets, and Facebook posts from strangers all over the world. L.A. actor Silvana Gargione tweeted a stranger for news of Lawrenceville, N.J., where her parents live. Later, that same stranger answered his cellphone: It was a woman in Oaxaca, Mexico, who'd gotten his phone number from relatives in Mexico City and called him to find out about her relatives in Lawrenceville. (Told there were no deaths there, she cried, "Thank God!")
 Some people, like Ben Siegel, used social media to learn whether school (or the gym) was open. Facebook user Lea Pearson said she used it "to share experiences with people in other parts [of] the country and my experiences on the northeast coast of Massachusetts. I felt like we were creating community and that felt great."
 Lynn Rapoport Thames said, "After power went out, Twitter was my main source of news. On Facebook all day. It's like hanging out with people you know while you are in your house."
 On Tuesday morning, social media again were informing people: President Obama to tour storm damage in New Jersey with Gov. Christie; deadlines extended for absentee ballots in Pennsylvania; much of SEPTA running, but with lags in Regional Rail.
 TV news outfits such as 6ABC ran Twitter posts from viewers such as Paul Parham, who sent images of storm damage in Trenton.
 The neighborly urge was succinctly tweeted by @nbcnightlynews: "#Sandy's aftermath: How to help."
 Contact John Timpane at 215-854-4406 or jt@phillynews.com, or follow on Twitter @jtimpane.
- Marketing
 November 7, 2012
 TECH
 
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 The role of photo-sharing app Instagram in documenting Superstorm Sandy has greatly accelerated its already impressive growth, with important ramifications for brands, writes Gordon MacMillan.
 What is currently the biggest thing in social media, to which you should really be paying attention? It is always a tough question to answer, even more so this week, in the wake of the US election campaign, in which social media and digital played such a central role.
 Was it a decisive factor, though, and was this 'the Twitter election' at which we looked in depth in last week's issue of Marketing?
 
 We could debate that one for a long time, for the life of the next Presidency even, but one thing is not debatable. Every now and again, a game-changing event comes along that makes you sit up and take notice.
 Last year it was the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden, Enhanced Coverage LinkingOsama bin Laden, -Search using:Biographies Plus News News, Most Recent 60 Daysand how those events unfolded on Twitter.
 This past week, it has been Superstorm Sandy, and how photo-sharing app Instagram's big citizen-journalism moment emerged not from the dusty streets of Arab cities, but the storm-lashed sidewalks of New York City.
 Instagram was big before Sandy blew across the Caribbean and swept up toward the Eastern seaboard of the US. The app already had 100m members, having grown hugely since Facebook snapped it up for dollars 1bn (pounds 620m) in the spring - a figure that no longer seems so jaw-dropping.
 Since Mark Zuckerberg pounced on it, Instagram has added more than 70m users, with its growth powered in part by its arrival on Android. Once it had launched its Android app in April, its user numbers quickly jumped by 10m, to 40m.
 Many people who hadn't spent much time taking photos before began trying it out. It seems no exaggeration to say that something akin to rocket fuel has propelled that growth further as Instagram's users document the Superstorm.
 The death of bin Laden Enhanced Coverage Linkingbin Laden -Search using:Biographies Plus News News, Most Recent 60 Dayswas described as Twitter's 'CNN moment'; the arrival of Superstorm Sandy has been Instagram's equivalent. It has become the lens through which many of us have viewed the devastation The numbers are impressive; in the first few days of the Superstorm alone, about 500,000 images were shared.
 Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom said that there were as many as 10 pictures being posted per second. We are already familiar with the Twitter language that has evolved to tell us how big an event is in terms of social media. During the Presidential election, records were broken for the number of tweets per minute, or TPMs; now it seems likely we will be talking of Instagrams per second or minute.
 Before we get entirely carried away, however, it must be said that none of this would be possible without a lot of assistance from Twitter or Facebook. They are the platforms through which many of us have been viewing these images.
 The elevation of Instagram this past week speaks to the lofty ambitions that Systrom has for this social network. He said recently that he doesn't want it to be a place simply for people to share images of their purchases, but one where serious news and meaningful glimpses into the lives of others are shared. Nor does he want it just to be about 'pretty filters and pretty photos', but rather 'more exploration and communication'.
 That suggests growth potential, scope for experimentation, and opportunities for brands. Some have already used it with great success There have been campaigns from bmibaby, shoe brand Aldo, Ford and Sony, among others.
 Brands, then, should be looking ever-closer at Instagram, as it swells in size and significance and becomes a more essential part of the social-media landscape.
 Gordon MacMillan is social-media editor at the Brand Republic Group and editor of The Wall blog @thewalluk. Follow him on Twitter: @gordonmacmillan.
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- The New York Times
 November 3, 2012 Saturday
 The International Herald Tribune
 New Yorkers Huddling Together in Social Storm
 
 BYLINE: By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS
 
 SECTION: Section ; Column 0; Foreign Desk; CURRENTS; Pg.
 
 LENGTH: 868 words
 
 NEW YORK -- The superstorm was approaching. The air was tense. The grocer's line was long -- but not so long that people didn't want to taste the salami before committing to a fifth of a pound. It was, after all, $29 a pound.
 Welcome to disaster shopping in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, where a hurricane may be near but there is always time to decide whether you want that swathed in cheese paper or in plastic wrap.
 
 At a hardware store not far from the delicatessen, the line was considerably shorter. The population pouring into this effervescent area is dominated by creatives and freelancers who rent -- and thus confront disasters with cured meats more than plywood.
 A few hours earlier last Sunday, my wife and I had been at brunch with two other couples. As the meal ended, one of the couples saw an e-mail saying their neighborhood was being evacuated in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. These friends are Argentine and possess a withering skepticism of official dictates, shaped by their country's decades of political turmoil. They wanted to know whether they should actually listen.
 They needed to listen.
 And so for the next 51 hours, Mariquel and Gaston moved in. We became, for a time, part of a growing American demographic: the huddle household, with three or more adults pooling their resources and warding off fate in the oldest of ways: together.
 Unknowable numbers of people did the same across the region, and their doing so was only part of what made this truly a social storm. Social because what worked best in the storm was weatherproof human bonds; and social, in the new sense, because in crisis the ad hoc, uncoordinated free-for-all of social media once again proved itself the fullest version of history's first draft.
 Back at home, our foursome geared up for Sandy. Because, for good or ill, we live on our devices, our digital planning became as vital as food planning. Chargers emerged from the closets, and every device was tethered to a wall. We had to be at 100 percent when the power left. It was like having a land line, which none of us do, for you had to stand near the wall to use your phone.
 It would be nice to watch movies if we ended up trapped. So we worked out a system. It followed the same logic as our food preparation: Stock up on perishables and nonperishables, and use the perishables first. We downloaded movies to our laptops, dispersing them across machines so that we could drain one laptop's battery, then another's. But while electricity remained, these nonperishables, like our cans, were off-limits. Instead, we watched something streamed over the Internet, while it still existed.
 We lived in the huddled way that people have throughout history but that has grown unfashionable in modern life. We cooked and cleaned together. Secured the roof together. Played poker together, gambling with pasta. We mused about the weddings of the kids we have yet to have. As the hours passed, we all had the feeling that something had been lost in the journey to a modernity that decimates this kind of communal living, except where people have no choice.
 When the storm came, it was as unduly kind to us as it was cruel to others. Its winds lashed at the house's exterior and tore down trees nearby. But our preparations were mostly for naught.
 The next day, friends from around the neighborhood checked in on one another by text message. We invited several over for lunch. We turned our glut of nonperishables into a soup of ramen noodles, peanut butter, canned corn and beans.
 Afterward, we wanted to know what had befallen our fellow citizens on the other side of the East River in southern Manhattan. It looked grim on television. We walked for miles -- to the Manhattan Bridge, over it and into a chaotic, eerily quiet, functioning anarchy.
- New Musical Express
 November 19, 2012
 The Gaslight Anthem unveil Hurricane Sandy relief support video - watch
 
 LENGTH: 250 words
 
 HIGHLIGHT: The clip for 'National Anthem' features images of the East Coast following October's destructive superstorm
 
 The Gaslight Anthem have paid tribute to their homestate of New Jersey in the video for their track 'National Anthem'.
 
 The video - which you can watch above - shows images of the devastation which befell the East Coast of the United States, including New York, because of Hurricane Sandy last month.
 The video is accompanied by a message from the band, which reads: Stay strong, Jersey. Love, The Gaslight Anthem.
 The band are currently helping to raise money for two Hurricane Sandy relief funds by selling posters and t-shirts. The band writes that 100% of the proceeds will be split equally between Rebuild Recover and Architecture For Humanity's 'Rebuild Seaside Pier' effort. For more information, visit: thegaslightanthem.com.
 The Gaslight Anthem recently announced a UK tour for March 2013. They will play nine dates on the stretch, kicking off on March 21 at the O2 Academy Bristol, before heading up to Leeds, Glasgow and Manchester and finishing up at London's Troxy.
 The band will put out their own version of Bon Iver's track 'Skinny Love' on special 10-inch red vinyl later this week.
 The limited edition three-track all-acoustic single will comprise the songs 'Hold You Up' and 'Misery', as well as 'Skinny Love', and will be put out on November 24 as a special Black Friday release.
 To check the availability of The Gaslight Anthem tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
 Blog: Why The Gaslight Anthem Are The Saviours Of American Rock'n'Roll
- USA TODAY
 November 2, 2012 Friday
 FINAL EDITION
 Now, it's a severe scam warning
 
 BYLINE: Christine Dugas, @christinedugas, USA TODAY
 
 SECTION: MONEY; Pg. 1B
 
 LENGTH: 360 words
 
 Investment scams and charity fraud crop up after every disaster. But Hurricane Sandy is the first U.S. catastrophe in the social-media age.
 "We are in uncharted territory," says Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago securities attorney. "And social media has expanded the tentacles of scamsters exponentially."
 
 A decade ago, fraudsters had to rely on phone calls for their high-pressure sales pitches. Then they could use e-mail. Now social media adds an entirely new weapon to their arsenal.
 When a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy occurs, there is an outpouring of generosity from Americans who want to help. And they become easily vulnerable to fraud.
 The latest outgrowth of social media is crowdsourced funding, or crowdfunding, which is a way to pool small donations on the Internet from large amounts of investors -- or people who want to support causes. It was approved by the JOBS Act, which was passed this year. Crowdfunding can't be used until next year for investments. But it can be used now for charities -- and, therefore, by scam artists.
 Experts say this is one area to be approached with extra care. The North American Securities Administrators Association calls crowdfunding and Internet offers a top emerging investor threat. "You can't look in the eyes of the person that is on the other end of the computer," says Heath Abshure, NASAA president and Arkansas Securities commissioner.
 You also may receive a Twitter or Facebook post from someone who claims to be a storm victim and asks you to send them money.
 "But because of the nature of social media, there is really no way to ensure that the person making the posting is in the United States, much less a storm victim," Abshure says.
 If you receive a cold call, text or tweet, the best advice is to do your research. Charities are generally regulated by consumer protection laws and administered by the state attorney general. "In Arkansas, charities looking to raise money in the state have to be registered," Abshure says.
 To help avoid online scams, Apple and Red Cross have joined to offer a safe system for donating. Consumers can sign into their iTunes account and click on "Donate
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The state police, the Valley Forge National Park police, and an estimated 200 agencies in Pennsylvania use the service. About a dozen departments in Montgomery County - including Lower Merion Township's - are signed up, as are Middletown Township's and a handful of other departments in Bucks County, and Oxford's, in Chester County. A few districts in Philadelphia also have joined the network. Even Google is getting into the Nixle act. It announced recently that when users search for locations where there are active alerts, notifications will appear. A premium paid service for anonymous tips, voice notifications, and private internal messaging is available, Gatta said. But the free notification service is attractive for a department that must watch it's budget, Paparo said. "Twitter has some limitations plus you have to deal with people who respond back with inappropriate stuff." said Paparo. 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- The Philadelphia Inquirer
 April 12, 2013 Friday
 CITY-D Edition
 Upper Darby police add e-alerts system
 
 BYLINE: By Mari A. Schaefer; Inquirer Staff Writer
 
 SECTION: PHILADELPHIA; P-com News Local; Pg. B02
 
 LENGTH: 561 words
 
 Its website has a new look, its Twitter and Facebook Enhanced Coverage LinkingFacebook -Search using:Company Profile News, Most Recent 60 DaysCompany Dossieraccounts are getting ever-higher profiles, and now the Upper Darby Township Police Department has signed on to Nixle, an instant-alert system that has gained popularity around the country.
 
 "Social media is a big thing," said Upper Darby Capt. Anthony Paparo, adding that it's a high-tech version of an old concept: community policing. The department also has set up an e-mail address for crime tips.
 Nixle is an electronic community bulletin board that can target alerts and advisories all the way to the block level, Paparo said.
 For example, late Thursday afternoon the department sent out an alert - with photo - that a warrant was issued for a man who had threatened to kill a woman and burn her house down. The man was "known to get around on a bicycle, carrying a duffel bag or backpack. Use caution; he may be armed and has threatened to kill the victim," the alert said.
 The service does not track users, and the department cannot use it for intelligence-gathering, Paparo said.
 "We are the most widely used notification service for public safety in the country," said Jim Gatta, Nixle spokesman. During Hurricane Sandy, when power knocked out access to technology to millions, towns were using Nixle to get information to residents, he said.
 Nationwide, 6,700 agencies - including police, fire, and other first responders - use Nixle to send text and e-mail notifications to subscribers. The messages will also appear on Facebook Enhanced Coverage LinkingFacebook -Search using:Company Profile News, Most Recent 60 DaysCompany Dossierand Twitter.
 The service is familiar to New Jersey residents, where about 400 police and fire departments use it to give quick updates via computer, phones, Facebook, Enhanced Coverage LinkingFacebook, -Search using:Company Profile News, Most Recent 60 DaysCompany Dossierand Twitter on everything from weather and crime alerts to missing children and road closures.
 The state police, police at Valley Forge National Historical Park, and an estimated 200 agencies in Pennsylvania use the service. About a dozen departments in Montgomery County - including Lower Merion Township - are signed up, as are Middletown Township and a handful of other departments in Bucks County, and Oxford in Chester County.
 A few districts in Philadelphia have joined the network. Even Google is getting into the Nixle act. It announced recently that users can search for locations of active alerts, and notifications will appear.
 A premium paid service for anonymous tips, voice notifications, and private internal messaging is available, Gatta said.
 But the free notification service is attractive for a department that must watch its budget, Paparo said.
 "Twitter has some limitations," Paparo said, "plus you have to deal with people who respond back with inappropriate stuff."
 In addition to the warrant notice issued Thursday, Paparo has sent out advisories to residents not to let anyone in their homes or to show bills to solicitors representing utility or home-repair companies.
 Another note went out to give residents information on the National Prescription-Drug Take-Back Day.
 To sign up for the notification service, users can text their zip code to 888777 or visit Nixle.com.
 Upper Darby residents can contact their township police at 610-734-7686 for more information. For Twitter reports, follow @UDPolice. To report crime tips in Upper Darby, e-mail passcrimetips@udpd.org.
 Contact Mari A. Schaefer
 at 610-313-8111 or mschaefer@phillynews.com,
 or follow on Twitter @MariSchaefer.
- Wall Street Journal Abstracts
 November 13, 2012 Tuesday
 SANDY PUTS FOCUS ON WIRELESS BACKUP
 
 BYLINE: SPENCER E ANTE
 
 SECTION: B; Pg. 6
 
 LENGTH: 43 words
 
 ABSTRACT
 FCC will once again consider adequacy of backup power supplies for wireless carriers after widespread outages following Hurricane Sandy in world increasingly reliant on wireless devices; industry blocked new rules following Hurricane Katrina; photo (M)
- The International Herald Tribune
 November 2, 2012 Friday
 Separating fact from fiction in the swirl of storm coverage on Twitter
 
 BYLINE: JENNA WORTHAM
 
 SECTION: FINANCE; Pg. 21
 
 LENGTH: 786 words
 
 DATELINE: NEW YORK
 
 ABSTRACT
 Deliberate falsehoods made the rounds during Hurricane Sandy, but Twitter compares itself to a self-cleaning oven, saying users are its best police officers.
 
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 During Hurricane Sandy's peak, Twitter was abuzz with activity, as tens of thousands of people turned to the microblogging service for alerts, updates and real-time reports and photographs of the storm.
 Trouble is, not all of it was true.
 Deliberate falsehoods, including images showing the Statue of Liberty engulfed in ominous clouds and sharks swimming through waterlogged suburban neighborhoods, quickly spread through the service, as did word that power would be shut off for the entire city of New York and that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded.
 
 Twitter says that it cannot possibly regulate the millions of messages on its service, and that a bit of misinformation and mischief is to be expected. But in recent years, the service has become an indispensable funnel of information in critical times for many people, especially for those who lose access to power or cable TV. For them, it can be a lifeline.
 Twitter has also become an invaluable tool for local government, news and relief organizations, which can monitor updates and dispatches from smartphone-wielding citizens.
 ''The limits of Twitter come into play during a situation like a hurricane,'' said John Palfrey, co-author of ''Born Digital,'' an examination of Internet technology's effects on society. ''There's great power in it, but also great power for deception.''
 While people are learning to accept information posted to the social Web with a large grain of salt, they may not be able to distinguish between useful updates and fake ones during a crisis or disaster, which can become dangerous. Bad information might set off an irrational decision that could lead people to panic, or worse, put them in harm's way.
 A search is on for promising technological solutions, but for the time being, it is up to users to police the service.
 ''Generally speaking, we don't mediate or moderate and monitor the site and content on the site in an event, whether the debates or a natural disaster,'' said Rachael Horwitz, a Twitter spokeswoman, referring to the U.S. presidential debates. ''Fact-checking Twitter is not scalable and not something we want to get involved with.''
 Twitter does take steps to validate some of the information coursing through its service. It verifies the accounts of some prominent people by placing blue checkmarks next to their names. It also suggests lists of reliable Twitter accounts and people to follow during big events, be they government officials or news reporters.
 Ms. Horwitz compared Twitter to a self-cleaning oven, saying the company was pleased with how quickly vigilant at-home fact-checkers were able to establish which photographs and reports were not true.
 Jack Stuef, a writer at BuzzFeed, exposed a Twitter user going by the moniker ''ComfortablySmug,'' who was deliberately spreading rumors and false reports late Monday night - one said the Coney Island Hospital was on fire - as the frenzy online was reaching its peak. Many of the rumors were unwittingly repeated and spread by others. Twitter said it had no plans to suspend the account.
 A Web site, IsTwitterWrong, run by Tom Phillips, an international editor at MSN, collected and analyzed popular images floating around during the hurricane and tried to determine which were real and which were not.
 Twitter should not be expected to moderate all messages on its site, Mr. Palfrey said, especially during a fast-paced, critical situation like a tremendous storm.
 Twitter said it did not yet have official figures for the volume of messages during the height of the storm. Topsy, a third-party service that analyzes Twitter activity clustered around a specific topic, showed as many as 550,000 posts related to the storm.
 Mr. Palfrey suggested that during a major event, Twitter could pick out certain posts containing valuable nuggets of information and promote them on its site and mobile application.
 Relying on users to police the streams of information could be an effective solution, said Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of Internet law at Harvard.
 ''Don't forget that the whole idea of a retweet was invented by users before Twitter was blessed with that functionality,'' he said. ''The digital realm could resolve this and not break the law of physics by doing so.''
 He suggested an annotation, like ''xTweet,'' to signal something as false, or even a bit of metadata that would flag a message as inaccurate, even after a posting is passed around by others.
 ''We could harness the viral power of Twitter to keep up with its breathless self,'' he said.
- The New York Times
 November 19, 2012 Monday
 Late Edition - Final
 After Hurricane Sandy, People Flock to Radio for Information
 
 BYLINE: By BEN SISARIO
 
 SECTION: Section B; Column 0; Business/Financial Desk; MEDIA DECODER; Pg. 3
 
 LENGTH: 453 words
 
 During the arrival and immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last month, those with power looked to television, the Web and social media for information. But large numbers of people, particularly those in the hardest-hit areas, also turned to the radio.
 
 Arbitron, the radio ratings service, will report on Monday that from 7 p.m. to midnight on Oct. 29, when the storm made landfall in New Jersey, an average of just more than a million people in the broader New York region were listening to the radio during any 15-minute period. That is up 70 percent from the same period the week before. (Besides the five boroughs of New York City, the metropolitan market includes five counties in New York, nine in New Jersey and part of one in Connecticut.)
 The audience skyrocketed in coastal areas. Stamford and Norwalk, Conn., had a 367 percent increase during that period; in New Jersey, that figure was up 247 percent in Monmouth County, and up 195 percent in Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. These numbers increased even though some stations, like WNYC and WINS, lost their AM frequencies yet continued to broadcast on FM.
 In many areas, power was out for days, limiting access to televisions and computers. Joe Puglise, the manager of Clear Channel Communications Enhanced Coverage LinkingClear Channel Communications -Search using:Company Profile News, Most Recent 60 DaysCompany Dossier' radio stations in New York, said that at his home in Monmouth County, which got power back last week, he tuned in on a transistor radio, and that his stations received similar reports from listeners across the region.
 At WHTZ-FM, also known as Z100, Clear Channel's popular Top 40 station, D.J.'s whose news reports are usually confined to Lady Gaga sightings took calls from listeners and spent long stretches disseminating information from the authorities. At Clear Channel's building in TriBeCa, the studios had generator power but offices upstairs were dark.
 "We haven't had a situation like this in terms of response from listeners since 9/11," Mr. Puglise said.
 In some areas, the storm continued to dominate the airwaves well into last week, as Sean Ross, a radio analyst in New Jersey, noted in an online column for Billboard magazine about WJLK-FM, a Top 40 station on the Jersey Shore. On that station, the storm was a topic for news coverage, listener testimonials, even car dealer and supermarket ads.
 The news reports on commercial music stations contrasts with the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Ross said, when many stations simply turned their signals over to affiliated news stations. It also underscores radio's local roots and accessibility in a time of media deluge.
 "Radio," Mr. Ross said, "still has an authority that not every tweet has."
 This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
 
 URL: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/after-hurricane-sandy-people-flock-to-radio-for-information/
- Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia)
 April 14, 2013 Sunday
 First Edition
 Making a difference, with a little help from her friends
 
 BYLINE: Kate Uebergang
 
 SECTION: EXTRA; Pg. 14
 
 LENGTH: 1952 words
 
 One Australian's humanitarian projects are drawing celebrity support abroad, writes Kate Uebergang.
 Alison Thompson seems almost too good to be true. A "full-time volunteer", the Australian has lived and worked for months at a time in disaster zones, simultaneously making humanitarian documentaries and devising her own charitable projects - sometimes with the help of celebrity friends such as actors Sean Penn and Maria Bello.
 Despite living in the US for the past 20 years, Thompson's Australian accent still slips through as she talks without drawing breath about the months she's just spent on the storm-ravaged Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, which was devastated by hurricane Sandy last October.
 "I lived in the disaster zone, in an RV. Turning up, it was like Armageddon. When you see those images of Hiroshima - well, not quite as bad as that - but everything was destroyed and people were just walking around in shock," she says.
 
 She stumbles on a word. "I'm sorry, I'm a bit tired and my brain is not working," she says. Thompson has just flown in to Manhattan from her home in Miami and despite her fatigue, she has booked a whirlwind 36 hours in the city.
 There's the interview with Fairfax Media, then she was off to a photo-shoot for a book on domestic violence and, finally, a meeting with British entrepreneur-billionaire Richard Branson about another project.
 This is not an unusual day for a woman largely unknown in her home country, save for an Order of Australia award for humanitarian work in 2010 and a brush with tabloid notoriety last year when she befriended disgraced actor Matthew Newton.
 Asked what she does for a living, she says simply: "I'm a full-time volunteer." But it's clear this response only partly reflects what she's all about. For the past decade, Thompson has lived for months at a time in disaster zones, including post-tsunami Sri Lanka and earthquake-devastated Haiti. (She supports herself with motivational speaking gigs and donations from family and friends.)
 Her passion for volunteering started when she set up one of the first civilian first-aid stations at Ground Zero in New York following the September 11 terror attacks.
 She's also managed to make two documentaries while working in disaster zones, which serve as calls-to-arms for volunteerism.
 She has powerful friends in the US, and was selected as one of the "faces" for a new advertisement for the top-selling painkiller Advil's "relief in action" campaign, featuring everyday people who have made impressive achievements. (She will use her fee to fund a tree-planting project she's running in Haiti.)
- October 31, 2012 Wednesday
 Late Edition - Final
 Storm Sends News Media Scrambling
 
 BYLINE: By JENNA WORTHAM; David Carr contributed reporting.
 
 SECTION: Section B; Column 0; Business/Financial Desk; BITS; Pg. 4
 
 LENGTH: 257 words
 
 The power failures that swept through the East Coast, including large swaths of Manhattan, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, darkened millions of homes, as well as several major Web sites, including the hive of sites in the Gawker Media network, including Jezebel and Gizmodo. The Huffington Post and social media news site Buzzfeed also went dark.
 
 The sites appeared to go off around 7 p.m., not long after Hurricane Sandy made its first contact with land. The sites seemed to share a common Internet service provider, Datagram. It is housed in the financial district in Lower Manhattan, which lost power on Monday evening. Although Datagram uses backup electricity generators in the event of a storm, its offices were flooded, knocking those machines out as well.
 Buzzfeed alerted its readers to the outages on its blog and said it was able to get portions of the site back online with the help of Akamai, a site that hosts its content at various servers distributed around the globe. The company also encouraged readers to follow the site's Tumblr and Twitter feeds Enhanced Coverage LinkingTwitter feeds -Search using:Company Profile News, Most Recent 60 Daysfor updates.
 Gawker went dark Monday night after its servers were knocked out by flooding. The company has been updating its readers using Twitter and is encouraging people to follow the site on Tumblr for news and updates.
 On a message posted to Twitter, the company promised it was "continuing to work on our servers and will be back online as soon as is possible. We miss you already. Stay dry."
 This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
 
 URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/hurricane-sandy-sweeps-gawker-and-other-news-sites-offline/
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"Today" anchor Matt Lauer will host a telethon Friday night to run across NBC and a clutch of Peacock cablers. Viacom announced a donation of $1 million to relief efforts, and it has set up a $1 million matching program with the American Red Cross for donations from employees. The hourlong "<a rel="nofollow" name="ORIGHIT_6"></a><a rel="nofollow" name="HIT_6"></a>Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together" telecast will run on NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA Network from 8-9 p.m. EST, broadcast from NBC's Gotham studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. HBO will also lend its airways to the event, which will air live across the East Coast and tape-delayed on the West. Additional networks could join the broadcast of the telethon prior to airtime. 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Programming across daytime, primetime and latenight lineups including "Good Morning America," "Dancing With the Stars" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" will participate in the initiative, encouraging viewers to donate to <a rel="nofollow" name="ORIGHIT_11"></a><a rel="nofollow" name="HIT_11"></a>Sandy relief efforts and the Red Cross.Disney also said it would match employee donations to <a rel="nofollow" name="ORIGHIT_12"></a><a rel="nofollow" name="HIT_12"></a>Sandy-related relief orgs.On Wednesday, <a rel="nofollow" target="_parent" href="search/XMLCrossLinkSearch.do?bct=A&risb=21_T17277309197&returnToId=20_T17277438792&csi=140595&A=0.8986069994239892&sourceCSI=3652&indexTerm=%23CC00025NP%23&searchTerm=News%20Corp.%20&indexType=C" class="RemoteLink">News Corp. </a><a><img src="images/arrow_blue.gif"></a>Enhanced Coverage Linking<a><img width="13" id="crosslinkclose" src="images/IconCloseX.gif"></a>News Corp.  -Search using:<a><img width="13" src="images/IconInfo.gif"></a><a rel="nofollow" link="RemoteLink" target="_parent" href="search/XMLCrossLinkSearch.do?bct=A&risb=21_T17277309197&returnToId=20_T17277438792&csi=140595&A=0.8986069994239892&sourceCSI=3652&indexTerm=%23CC00025NP%23&searchTerm=News%20Corp.%20&indexType=C">Company Profile</a><a><img width="13" src="images/IconInfo.gif"></a><a rel="nofollow" link="RemoteLink" target="_parent" href="search/XMLCrossLinkSearch.do?bct=A&risb=21_T17277309197&returnToId=20_T17277438792&csi=140595&A=0.8986069994239892&sourceCSI=162599&indexTerm=%23CC00025NP%23&searchTerm=News%20Corp.%20&indexType=C">News, Most Recent 60 Days</a><a rel="nofollow" link="RemoteLink" target="_parent" href="search/XMLCrossLinkSearch.do?bct=A&risb=21_T17277309197&returnToId=20_T17277438792&csi=140595&A=0.8986069994239892&sourceCSI=000000&indexTerm=%23CC00025NP%23&searchTerm=News%20Corp.%20&indexType=C">Company Dossier</a>made a $1 million donation, with $500,000 going to the Mayor's Fund and the rest to support relief efforts in New Jersey. Fox will be boosting its broadcasts throughout the weekend with Red Cross PSAs and lower thirds during programs like "Kitchen Nightmares," "Fringe," NFL and NBA games and Sunday's animation programming block.Meanwhile, while the <a rel="nofollow" name="ORIGHIT_13"></a><a rel="nofollow" name="HIT_13"></a>hurricane put some presidential campaign activities on pause, the disaster played in to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's endorsement of President Obama for reelection on Thursday, which he announced in an oped on the platform he founded, Bloomberg News. The mayor cited climate change asa possible cause for the extreme weather, and that Obama would be most likely to take additional steps to address it. 
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- Digital Literacy
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- Blog created to raise money
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- Before and After Hurricane Sandy citizens flock to radio for information
- After Hurricane Sandy Puts Focus on wireless backup
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 New breed of relief workers;
 Social media-minded volunteers avoid working with major charities
 
 BYLINE: BY SHEILA ANNE FEENEY. amNewYork
 
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 LENGTH: 511 words
 
 Some volunteerism for superstorm Sandy recovery efforts have an off-the-grid nature - people who are unconnected to churches or established charities, but want to help check on shut-ins, shovel sand, run errands, and donate food and other goods.
 
 Law enforcement officials have strongly urged that donations go to established charities, warning of scam artists, but some have ignored that advice.
 Cheryl Gangemi, 43, of Middle Village, is among them. A mother and office manager who began organizing relief efforts to help families, she said the response of traditional charities and government officials "was just too slow."
 Social networking through the Internet now permits people a more direct connection to help one another, bypassing long-established channels.
 Technology and social media "changes the game," said Noam Shpancer, a psychology professor at Ohio's Otterbein University, who studies behavior in disasters. "You can connect with an immediacy and vividness like never before."
 Indie charity efforts also have arisen in part from "increasing suspicion in the culture that traditional institutions are not as effective and not as benign as we believed them to be," he said.
 Nelson Gomez, 44, of Brooklyn's Midwood section, was spurred in part by that belief.
 "You hear about these people in donation organizations who make millions - some of them make more money than people on Wall Street," said Gomez, a compliance officer who teamed up with friend Gary Weingarten, 38, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, to perform Sandy services their way.
 The two men devoted themselves to helping a retired Staten Island couple, Stella, 70, and Tom Coleman, 72.
 The Colemans had paid flood insurance premiums for 25 years, but had missed a pre-storm payment because they were rattled by Tom's cancer diagnosis and treatment. That oversight lowered the amount they would get from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to rebuild.
 To help, Weingarten turned his 38th birthday celebration at a lower Manhattan bar into a "Tom and Stella" fundraiser, and Gomez collected money for the couple at a salsa event.
 Ultimately, the men said, they presented the Colemans with a $2,100 check.
 The effort "changed my outlook on people," Stella Coleman said. "I always thought you had to worry about looting and mugging with strangers. I never knew there were so many people doing so many good things."
 Some criticism of organizations, including the American Red Cross, is unfounded or based on problems long resolved, Red Cross regional communications director Sam Kille said. The Red Cross has raised $158 million earmarked specifically for Sandy and "91 cents of every dollar goes to aid," he said.
 In addition, 90 percent of Red Cross workers are volunteers, he noted.
 Jen Shang, a philanthropic psychologist and assistant professor at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, said many good-hearted folks are motivated by an empathic urge to become immediately involved.
 "They want to give their time and talent - not just their money" to help alleviate suffering, Shang said.
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- Seperating face from fiction in the swirl of storm coverage on twitter
- Social Media is almost like being a star to drum volunteers for Hurricane Sandy 2012
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- The first African-American photographer at Life and a top fashion photographer at Vogue, Mr. Parks, who died in 2006, was equally attracted to grit and glamour, said the photographer Adger Cowans, 76, who worked as his assistant in the 1950s and was a lifelong friend. ''He was a storyteller trying to tell a different kind of story,'' Mr. Cowans said. Mr. Parks took most of the photographs here for the Farm Security Administration, where he worked on a fellowship in the 1940s documenting life in Washington and New York City. His Harlem photographs, especially, are so intimate because ''they're almost reflections of what he remembers of his childhood,'' said Anthony Barboza, 68, another photographer and friend. ''He's talking about himself. There is some wonderment in the pictures because Harlem was incredible at that time. Everyone was there.'' JOHN LELAND
- She was certainly no stranger to the Web. Following Hurricane Sandy, a Daily News analysis found Alba set up four charities - all linked to a Yahoo account in her name - that directed good Samaritans to send donations to a PayPal account or to her home address on Beach Ave. in the Bronx.
 One so-called charity, dubbed the "NYC Hurricane Relief Fund," asked for money and supplies to help get hard-hit families "back on their feet again." It claimed the charity was working through a real estate agent to secure temporary housing for families, and assisting them "with a security deposit and 1st month rent payment."
 "We do not take a dollar for ourselves," the website assured potential donors. "We donate our time and dedication in helping these families pick up the pieces before Christmas."
 A second charity, "NYC Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund," claimed to be a registered 501c3 and advertised a handmade Christmas card drive.
 Another outfit, "Operation Hurricane Sandy Relief for Teachers and Students," promised do-gooders that "100%" of monetary donations would go "towards buying school supplies and books" for stranded teachers and students. The charity had its own Facebook page.
 And a fourth, "Adopt a Teacher or Student Family," brazenly promised to send people
- Her feminism, lifestyle and Communist political beliefs have become inseparable from her art.
 "Frida has to be read on one hand as an artist and on the other as a figure who put strong emphasis on an archetypal feminine problem," Franco said.
 Some critics warn that Kahlo's colourful lifestyle and cult status are obscuring her work's artistic value.
 "I think the ongoing Fridamania would be something she herself would critique, as she critiqued the social mores of the early 20th century, such as the expectation that she would want to have a child," said Margaret Lindauer of Virginia Commonwealth University, author of a book on Kahlo's art and popularity.
- Alba posted a picture of a guardian angel at the bottom of this site and wrote: "We can help them by being that shoulder many will need."
 The websites have since been deleted, but cached versions remain online. It is unclear how many donations Alba received, if any, but she wrote on her school charity's Facebook page that she was "up early and getting ready to sort boxes and get things ready fro (sic) delivery."
 Donna Fellows, who runs a charity Alba promoted on the school charity's site, posted on her Facebook that she was duped into giving Alba money for yet another Newtown victim she claimed she was related to - 6-year-old Jesse Lewis.
 "She is running more than one site," posted Fellows, who could not be reached. "She wasn't only collecting for Noah. I sent a donation because she said Jesse Lewis was her nephew."
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- eb-based tool for expert elicitation of the variogram.
  Authors:
  Truong, Phuong N.¹ phuong.truong@wur.nl
  Heuvelink, Gerard B.M.¹ gerard.heuvelink@wur.nl
  Gosling, John Paul² j.p.gosling@leeds.ac.uk
  Source:
  Computers & Geosciences. Feb2013, Vol. 51, p390-399. 10p.
  Document Type:
  Article
  Subject Terms:
  *WEB-based instruction
  *VARIOGRAMS
  *GEOLOGY -- Statistical methods
  *ESTIMATION theory
  *INFORMATION theory
  *GNU General Public License (Free software license)
  *MULTIVARIATE analysis
  *DATABASES
  Abstract:
  Abstract: The variogram is the keystone of geostatistics. Estimation of the variogram is deficient and difficult when there are no or too few observations available due to budget constraints or physical and temporal obstacles. In such cases, expert knowledge can be an important source of information. Expert knowledge can also fulfil the increasing demand for an a priori variogram in Bayesian geostatistics and spatial sampling optimization. Formal expert elicitation provides a sound scientific basis to reliably and consistently extract knowledge from experts. In this study, we aimed at applying existing statistical expert elicitation techniques to extract the variogram of a regionalized variable that is assumed to have either a multivariate normal or lognormal spatial probability distribution from expert knowledge. To achieve this, we developed an elicitation protocol and implemented it as a web-based tool to facilitate the elicitation of beliefs from multiple experts. Our protocol has two main rounds: elicitation of the marginal probability distribution and elicitation of the variogram. The web-based tool has three main components: a web interface for expert elicitation and feedback; a component for statistical computation and mathematical pooling of multiple experts’ knowledge; and a database management component. Results from a test case study show that the protocol is adequate and that the online elicitation tool functions satisfactorily. The web-based tool is free to use and supports scientists to conveniently elicit the variogram of spatial random variables from experts. The source code is available from the journal FTP site under the GNU General Public License.[Copyright &y& Elsevier]
  
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  Author Affiliations:
  ¹Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  ²Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
  ISSN:
  00983004
  DOI:
  10.1016/j.cageo.2012.08.010
  Accession Number:
  84651140
  Database:
  Academic Search Complete
- How a web-based too was build and the componets used to build it
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