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Mellitta Benning

What Every Business Needs To Know About The Impact of Social Media On Security And Empl... - 0 views

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    Gives information on what business need to know about the impact of socail networking and the concerns that may come with it. How business should implement a policy if allowing this to happen.
Mellitta Benning

Career research questions - - 0 views

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    when choosing a career field you should know as much as possible about the job, people tend to forget things that are really important such as the work enviroment, pay, hours, and education need. This site will help me to look deeper in Accounting so that I am making the right choice.
Magdalena Torres Rodriguez

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Marines Most Resistant To Openly Gay Troops - 0 views

  • But in the end, Lt. Col. Hackett says every good Marine follows orders, and "if that's what the president orders, I can tell you by God we're going to excel above and beyond the other services to make it happen and be damn good at it."
  • OCEANSIDE, Calif. — They are the few, the proud and perhaps the military's biggest opponents of lifting the ban on openly gay troops. Most of those serving in America's armed forces have no strong objections to repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" law, according to a Pentagon survey of 400,000 active duty and reservists that is scheduled for release Tuesday. But the survey found resistance to repealing the ban strongest among the Marines, according to The Washington Post. It's an attitude apparently shared by their top leader, Commandant Gen. James Amos, who has said that the government should not lift the ban in wartime. The Senate is supposed to consider repeal during its lame duck session in December, with many legislators favoring changing the law to allow gays to serve openly. A few staunchly oppose it, however, and both sides are expected to cite the survey in arguing whether to move forward with repeal. The Corps is the youngest, smallest and arguably the most tight-knit of the enlisted forces, with many of its roughly 200,000 members hailing from small towns and rural areas in the South. Marines are unabashed about distinguishing themselves from the rest of the military, with a warrior ethos and a religious zeal for their branch of service that they liken to a brotherhood. "We've never changed our motto. We've never changed our pitch to new recruits. We have hardly changed our formal u
  • changed our formal u niforms in 235 years," said Marine Reserve Lt. Col. Paul Hackett, 48, who has been in the Corps
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    This will help me understand both sides. The mariens are seem to be the most against this policy to be lifted and I want to know why this is.
Magdalena Torres Rodriguez

Marine Corps Commandant James Conway: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Works - ABC News - 0 views

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    The Mrarine Copr Commandant is the person the marines look up to and fallow orders from. Knowing what how he fells will help me understand this better.
Billy Gerchick

Proofreader's Marks - 0 views

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    From Prentice Hall, a brief guide on proofreader's marks. Note that I use abbreviated Six Traits terms to focus on a given quality of your writing (I=Ideas, ORG=Organization, WC=Word Choice, SF=Sentence Fluency, VOI=Voice, and CON=Conventions). A check mark during a passage denotes a positive writing quality and may be followed by a proofreader mark. This lets you know what you're doing well, according to my point-of-view.
James Stewart

Thank Doctor Cleanduct for the Cleaner Air We Breathe - 2 views

I have a sister who is suffering from asthma. So when she visited my house she was so happy because she said she can breathe easily. So I told her it was because I had my HVAC system cleaned regula...

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David Curtis

Beatport - 0 views

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    This is a DJ website where they can sell/ give-away their music or promote themselves. It comes with charts and lets you know of the most popular songs out at the moment. This is a crucial website to follow when following DJ's because this is where they first release tracks for the public to own. This is yet another way to track all the DJ's over the world and keep up with their music which can help me in my research.
David Curtis

Skrillex | Official Website: Blog, Interactive, Chat and more. - skrillex.com - 1 views

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    This is Skrillex's Official website. Who is Skrillex you ask? He is one of the leading forces in the DJ movement spreading across the U.S.. He is involved in making house music and of course dubstep, he has became a rapid success in just about a year. Skrillex is now topping charts and filling hearts with the love for this music. Check him out on this website. This will be my main topic of discussion in my research because he is the leader in this movement. He is America's rockstar right now and most of America doesnt even know it. This can help me research and provide details on his success in the US.
Amela Duric

The Truth About Where Your Donated Clothes End Up - 0 views

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    Most people believe when they donate their clothes, they go straight to people in need, but with this article it exposes the truth. The underlining business that makes millions a year isn't something most people know about.
Magdalena Torres Rodriguez

Marine chief: 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal could be deadly 'distraction' - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

  • Why the Marines are different On Tuesday, he offered some thoughts on why the Marines seem more averse than the Army, Air Force, or Navy to having openly gay troops in their ranks. He said it involved recruitment and the reputation of the Marines as a tough fighting force. While he disputed the notion that it’s “a macho thing," he added: “We recruit on a warrior ethos…. We live hard, we train hard. We do tough things,” he said. “We recruit men and women for that kind of ethos." “It’s never, ‘We’re going to give you a college education,’ ” he added. “We never say that.” Recruits who sign up for the Marines come in with “expectations,” Amos argued. “I can’t explain what the expectations are. I can’t explain what they think might happen.” For his part, Gates has argued that he would prefer an orderly repeal passed by Congress to an abrupt reversal by the courts – a scenario Gates called a "nightmare" that could cause mass confusion in the military. Amos said Tuesday: “I don’t know how dangerous a court ruling would be." But should the law be overturned, either by court ruling or by Congress, Amos said he respected civilian control of the government and would obey the decision. He recounted an answer he gave some young Marine lieutenants earlier in the day when they asked him what would happen if the ban was lifted. “Don’t make it too hard,” he told them. The answer, he added, is “actually easy. I’m going to get in step and do it smartly.” In such a case, it’s not a matter of “let’s reconsider it,” Amos said. “It’s a matter of ‘Yes, sir.’ ”
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    All though this policy was already lifted it is still not excepted by all. Marine seem to have their reasons. Finding out why they think will happen will be good for mr research paper.
Billy Gerchick

Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags - 1 views

  • the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links
  • The question ontology asks is: What kinds of things exist or can exist in the world, and what manner of relations can those things have to each other?
  • The periodic table of the elements is my vote for "Best. Classification. Evar.
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  • Dewey, 200: Religion 210 Natural theology 220 Bible 230 Christian theology 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 250 Christian orders & local church 260 Christian social theology 270 Christian church history 280 Christian sects & denominations 290 Other religions
  • Dewey, 200: Religion 210 Natural theology 220 Bible 230 Christian theology 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 250 Christian orders & local church 260 Christian social theology 270 Christian church history 280 Christian sects & denominations 290 Other religions
  • It is organized into non-overlapping categories that get more detailed at lower and lower levels -- any concept is supposed to fit in one category and in no other categories
  • The essence of a book isn't the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is "book." Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts confuses the container for the thing contained.
  • hierarchy is a good way to manage physical objects
  • there is no shelf
  • Look what's happened here. Yahoo, faced with the possibility that they could organize things with no physical constraints, added the shelf back
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system .
  • if you've got enough links, you don't need the hierarchy anymore. There is no shelf. There is no file system. The links alone are enough. [ Just Links (There Is No Filesystem) ]
  • Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure. Browse says the people making the ontology, the people doing the categorization, have the responsibility to organize the world in advance.
  • Search says that, at the moment that you are looking for it, we will do our best to service it based on this link structure, because we believe we can build a world where we don't need the hierarchy to coexist with the link structure.
  • You can also turn that list around. You can say "Here are some characteristics where ontological classification doesn't work well": Domain Large corpus No formal categories Unstable entities Unrestricted entities No clear edges Participants Uncoordinated users Amateur users Naive catalogers No Authority
  • where the people doing the categorizing believe, even if only unconciously, that naming the world changes it.
  • "Oh my god, that means you won't be introducing the movies people to the cinema people!" To which the obvious answer is "Good. The movie people don't want to hang out with the cinema people."
  • The problem is, because the cataloguers assume their classification should have force on the world, they underestimate the difficulty of understanding what users are thinking, and they overestimate the amount to which users will agree, either with one another or with the catalogers, about the best way to categorize. They also underestimate the loss from erasing difference of expression, and they overestimate loss from the lack of a thesaurus.
  • We pretend that 'country' refers to a physical area the same way 'city' does, but it's not true, as we know from places like the former Yugoslavia.
  • A: "This is a book about Dresden." B: "This is a book about Dresden, and it goes in the category 'East Germany'."
  • They're able to take my books in while ignoring my categories, because all my books have ISBN numbers, International Standard Book Numbers.
  • Now imagine a world where everything can have a unique identifier. This should be easy, since that's the world we currently live in -- the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to.
  • Now imagine a world where everything can have a unique identifier. This should be easy, since that's the world we currently live in -- the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to. Sometimes the pointers are direct, as when a URL points to the contents of a Web page. Sometimes they are indirect, as when you use an Amazon link to point to a book. Sometimes there are layers of indirection, as when you use a URI, a uniform resource identifier, to name something whose location is indeterminate. But the basic scheme gives us ways to create a globally unique identifier for anything. And once you can do that, anyone can label those pointers, can tag those URLs, in ways that make them more valuable, and all without requiring top-down organization schemes. And this -- an explosion in free-form labeling of links, followed by all sorts of ways of grabbing value from those labels -- is what I think is happening now.
  • Tags are simply labels for URLs, selected to help the user in later retrieval of those URLs. Tags have the additional effect of grouping related URLs together. There is no fixed set of categories or officially approved choices. You can use words, acronyms, numbers, whatever makes sense to you, without regard for anyone else's needs, interests, or requirements.
  • Tags are important mainly for what they leave out. By forgoing formal classification, tags enable a huge amount of user-produced organizational value, at vanishingly small cost.
  • gopher and the Web
  • And if you can find any way to create value from combining myriad amateur classifications over time, they will come to be more valuable than professional categorization schemes, particularly with regards to robustness and cost of creation.
  • because you can derive 'this is who this link is was tagged by' and 'this is when it was tagged, you can start to do inclusion and exclusion around people and time, not just tags. You can start to do grouping. You can start to do decay. "Roll up tags from just this group of users, I'd like to see what they are talking about" or "Give me all tags with this signature, but anything that's more than a week old or a year old."
  • With tagging, when there is signal loss, it comes from people not having any commonality in talking about things. The loss is from the multiplicity of points of view, rather than from compression around a single point of view.
  • Tagging, by contrast, gets better with scale. With a multiplicity of points of view the question isn't "Is everyone tagging any given link 'correctly'", but rather "Is anyone tagging it the way I do?
  • The Web has an editor, it's everybody.
  • the decision about which tags to use comes after the links have been tagged, not before.
  • This allows for partial, incomplete, or probabilistic merges that are better fits to uncertain environments -- such as the real world -- than rigid classification schemes.
  • You merge from the URLs, and then try and derive something about the categorization from there. This allows for partial, incomplete, or probabilistic merges that are better fits to uncertain environments -- such as the real world -- than rigid classification schemes.
  • Merges are Probabilistic, not Binary - Merges create partial overlap between tags, rather than defining tags as synonyms. Instead of saying that any given tag "is" or "is not" the same as another tag, del.icio.us is able to recommend related tags by saying "A lot of people who tagged this 'Mac' also tagged it 'OSX'." We move from a binary choice between saying two tags are the same or different to the Venn diagram option of "kind of is/somewhat is/sort of is/overlaps to this degree". That is a really profound change.
  • You can see there's a tag "to_read". A professional cataloguer would look at this tag in horror -- "This is context-dependent and temporary." Well, so was the category "East Germany." Once you expand your time scale to include the actual life of the categorization scheme itself, you recognize that the distinction between temporary and permanent is awfully vague. There isn't in fact a binary condition of a tag that can or cannot survive any kind of long-term examination.
  • It comes down ultimately to a question of philosophy. Does the world make sense or do we make sense of the world?
  • If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of value in aggregate, but you do it without an ontological goal. You do it without a goal of explicitly getting to or even closely matching some theoretically perfect view of the world.
  • "A lot of users tagging things foobar are also tagging them frobnitz. I'll tell the user foobar and frobnitz are related." It's up to the user to decide whether or not that recommendation is useful -- del.icio.us has no idea what the tags mean. The tag overlap is in the system, but the tag semantics are in the users. This is not a way to inject linguistic meaning into the machine.
  • Some of those categories are starting to look a little bit dated
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    Informative piece on tagging as a method of categorizing information
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    Fascinating article on tagging.
Mellitta Benning

Research on Social Network Sites - 0 views

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    THIS IS A GREAT SITE FOR TERTIARY RESEARCH, THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY HAS LOTS OF GOOD SOURCES TO LOOK INTO.
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