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Keeping Coal In The Ground Buries Affordable Energy
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For months, legal and energy experts have said the Clean Power Plan is an overreach of regulatory authority, a threat to grid reliability and exorbitantly expensive. The U.S. Supreme Court just stopped the plan cold.
The court has issued a stay in the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce carbon emissions from the nation's power plants 32% by 2030.
Twenty-seven states brought the legal challenge forward. They correctly argued that EPA has no authority under the Clean Air Act to issue such a sweeping mandate to reshape the nation's electric sector.
The court's ruling, and perhaps the eventual rejection of the plan, is an important victory for consumers and the right of states to manage their own energy systems. However, this victory aside, the Clean Power Plan is just one piece of the Obama administration's larger anti-fossil fuel campaign that will raise energy costs.
Call it a "keep it in the ground" policy. This extreme stance was the brainchild of the environmental fringe and existed only on the periphery of political discussion just a few years ago. Now it's the very foundation of the Obama administration's regulatory and energy policies.
The Department of the Interior's Stream Protection Rule and the newly announced moratorium on all new coal leases on federal lands are cases in point.
The Stream Protection Rule is the penultimate example of a solution in search of a problem. Though streams are already well-protected, the new rule makes changes and additions to 475 existing regulations, taking regulatory authority away from the states and consolidating it inside the Department of the Interior.
The goal is clear: cut states out and make it more costly to mine American coal.
The job losses from such an unnecessary rule could be horrific. More than 30,000 coal miners have already lost their jobs since 2011. Should the Stream Protection Rule become law, another 40,000 mining jobs will vanish. The total could be 280,000 jobs lost when indirect employment is included.
It's not just jobs that are threatened by the rule. Some two-thirds of the nation's proven coal reserves – a major source of affordable electricity – would become economically untenable. The cost of complying with the rule would be so great these reserves might as well not exist.
If there's any doubt about the Obama administration's intentions, the new moratorium on coal leases on federal lands puts them to bed. The moratorium has been sold under the guise of reviewing the federal coal leasing process. This is not a review, it's the beginning of the end of all fossil fuel production on federal lands if the political left gets its way.
Just a week ago, Hillary Clinton confirmed as much at a rally. "Yeah, that's a done deal . . .," she said. "That's where the president is moving. No future extraction. I agree with that."
Some 40% of U.S. coal comes from federal lands, nearly all in western states. Though significant coal reserves are already leased, the eventual loss of affordable energy from coal production and the revenue coal generates would be crippling to dozens of states, from West Virginia to Wyoming.
Coal is our nation's most abundant and affordable energy source to produce electric power. Policy initiatives like the Clean Power Plan, the Stream Protection Rule and the moratorium on coal leases are a recipe for disaster. A "keep it in the ground" energy policy is no energy policy at all.
Obama Takes Aim at Old Energy Sources Without New Plan
EPA Coal Regulations Will Hurt Montana


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New York mandates vaccine to contain Brooklyn measles outbreak
Thomas Urbain
Rockland County, located near New York City, has also declared a 30-day public health emergency over a measles outbreak there that has seen 168 people contract the disease, according to the CDC. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
New York's mayor declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn on Tuesday, ordering all residents to be vaccinated to fight a measles outbreak concentrated in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
The order concerns all people living or working in four zip codes of Williamsburg, northwest Brooklyn, where some residents oppose vaccines on religious grounds — although neither Jewish texts nor local Jewish authorities advise against vaccination.
"It was time to take a more muscular approach," mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference as the emergency measures were announced.
READ MORE: Is your child vaccinated against measles? Here's why they might need a booster shot
"This can be turned around quickly," he said. "We can stop this."
Under the new rules, anyone who has not received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or does not have evidence of immunity risks a fine of $1 000.
The city also warned that yeshiva religious schools and day care programs serving the local Orthodox Jewish community would face penalties and possible closure if they keep taking in students who are not vaccinated against measles, which can cause severe diarrhea, pneumonia and vision loss and can potentially be fatal.
Like all but three American states, New York requires a series of vaccinations for school-age children but has until now granted exemptions on both medical and religious grounds.
Since October, however, 285 cases of measles have been confirmed in New York City, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). None proved fatal, but 21 patients required hospitalisation and five were admitted to intensive care.
"I urge everyone, especially those in affected areas, to get their MMR vaccines to protect their children, families and communities," de Blasio said in a statement.
'Safe, effective and life-saving'
"There's no question that vaccines are safe, effective and life-saving."
That message was echoed by Dr Herminia Palacio, deputy mayor of health and human services.
"When you make the decision not to vaccinate your child, please understand you're also making that decision for the people around your child," warned Palacio, who said her services had received reports of so-called "measles parties" held to purposely expose children to the disease.
Although measles was declared officially eliminated from the United States in 2000, a total of 465 cases have been confirmed in 19 states from January 1 to April 4, according to the CDC.
READ MORE: The rise of anti-vaxxer bots: Fake news is going viral — & it's bad for our health
"This is the second-greatest number of cases reported in the US since measles was eliminated in 2000," it said.
The highest figure — 667 — occurred in 2014.
The resurgence of the once-eradicated, highly-contagious disease is linked to a growing anti-vaccine movement in richer nations — which the World Health Organisation has identified as a major global health threat.
Most of the New York cases involved unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated individuals, according to de Blasio's office.
The so-called anti-vax, or anti-vaxxer phenomenon has adherents across Western nations but is particularly high profile in the US, where it has been fuelled by medically baseless claims spread on social media.
Rockland County, located near New York City, has also declared a 30-day public health emergency over a measles outbreak there that has seen 168 people contract the disease, according to the CDC.
Non-vaccinated minors in the county were banned from public places in a bid to prevent the spread of the disease, and hundreds of people have now been vaccinated, according to authorities.
Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, the health commissioner there, said that since October she has been waging an uphill fight to persuade people vaccines are safe and necessary to protect the larger community.
Among her daily battles: having to constantly repeat that the vaccine does not cause other diseases, that it does not lead to autism, and that the practice of using fetal tissue to produce the vaccine ended decades ago.
Media, culture, lifestyle, from New York. Journalist AFP.
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Library Of Heaven's Path - Chapter 87 - AnythingNovel.com Read online any english novel around the world.
Chapter 87: Is He Really The Worst Teacher?
Zhu Hong explained everything that had just happened previously once. He even demonstrated the three movements which Zhang Xuan had imparted them.
Hearing his story and looking at the three movements Zhu Hong demonstrated to them, Lu Xun and Elder Hong Hao stared at one another in disbelief. They doubted if their ears were playing tricks on them, and their complexion looked as awful as one afflicted by constipation.
[You must be jesting with us!
The results of the investigation that just came in earlier contained Yuan Tao's information as well. His parents died when he was young, and he had never learned any battle techniques or cultivation techniques. The only strength he had was his thick skin, granting him powerful defensive abilities. Even so, he scored the last in the entrance examination, thus clearly indicating his level of ability as compared to his peers. How can someone like that defeat an expert like you who was ranked fourth?
Furthermore, after taking a look at those three movements, they had confirmed that they were trash. Could those movements even be considered a battle technique?
Even if the other party were to use it inversely, swapping their left and right, it should mean nothing at all!
Zhu Hong recounted the happenings in the battle detailedly with a pained look.
''Looks like your mingmen was exposed, those three movements were only a distraction to attract your attention. Their main goal was your mingmen!'' Lu Xun came to a realization after the other party recounted the entire incident.
This student of his was too careless.
Mingmen was the location where the strength of a cultivator gathers. It was the core of a cultivator's strength, and one had to guard it properly. For him to allow his mingmen to be seen through so easily, he was truly too negligent.
Finding an opponent's mingmen didn't mean that one can defeat him with hundred percent possibility. After all, battles weren't just simple math, it involved one's reaction speed and ability to adapt to sudden situations. However, when two people of similar cultivation level were to fight with one another, it was still a dangerous scenario if the opponent were to locate one's mingmen.
As expected of the academy's star teacher, Lu Xun swiftly analyzed the crux of the issue.
[Mingmen is a weakness of all cultivators. Usually, one would guard it properly, making it difficult for others to locate it. Furthermore, even if one were to locate an opponent's mingmen, if one doesn't have the sufficient strength to stand up against one's opponent, it is still difficult for one to achieve a victory.
It is as though giving an ordinary human a dagger. Even though the human knows that the other party would die with a single stab through his heart, he is still unable to defeat a boxing expert.
Waving his hand grandly, Lu Xun consoled him.
A cultivator's mingmen didn't stay at the same location. Depending on one's cultivation technique, cultivation realm and battle technique, their mingmen would be in different locations.
At this moment, Zhu Hong's mingmen was by his waist. Once he broke through Fighter 1-dan, his mingmen would move to another point. By then, he would be able to completely neglect those petty tricks of theirs.
It was rumored that those who cultivate an incredible cultivation technique, upon reaching a certain powerful realm, would not have any mingmen or weakness. It was impossible to find even if one were to jab every single spot of their body.
Zhu Hong nodded his head.
''Thank you, Lu laoshi!'' Motivated, Zhu Hong regained his confidence once more.
Upon recalling Elder Shang Chen, Lu Xun couldn't help but look at him doubtfully.
Back then, Elder Hong Hao was a serious contender for the position of the academy's principal. He had amiable relations with many elders and Shang Chen was one of them.
Logically speaking, if he really had something against Zhang Xuan, wouldn't getting the Education Bureau to make a move be much more convenient than seeking for his assistance?
''Actually, it isn't convenient for the Education Bureau to make a move under such circumstances. After all, we can't forcefully pull a student away from his teacher! If we were to do so and he complains up to the Teacher Guild, saying that he has been oppressed, wouldn't the matter just blow big?'' Elder Hong Hao replied.
If a student were to acknowledge a teacher by their own will, even the Education Bureau had no rights to interfere in their choices.
Most importantly, in his eyes, Zhang Xuan was nothing more than a trash who had scored zero for his Teacher Qualification Examination. If so, was there a need to look for the head of the Education Bureau?
Of course, he couldn't say such words out loud. Otherwise, Lu Xun laoshi would find his actions disrespectful.
Actually, given Lu Xun's wits, it was likely that he had already guessed the truth.
If it wasn't for two of his students being poached from his side, he wouldn't be bothered to interfere in these matters, needless to say, propose a Teacher Evaluation against Zhang Xuan!
As the both of them was in the midst of chatting, they suddenly spotted a young man walked over with widened strides.
Before the young man reached the duo, he had already shouted out Lu Xun's name.
''Oh, it's Wang laoshi. What are you doing here?'' Lu Xun smiled.
The one who came was the other star teacher of the academy, Wang Chao!
The spear expert whom Zheng Yang wanted to acknowledge as his teacher!
''Heard of what?'' Lu Xun was puzzled.
Not only was Lu Xun in a state of disbelief, even Elder Hong Hao was taken aback by this sudden news.
Cao Xiong had caused quite a ruckus when he applied for the Enlightenment Will Trial, so quite a few teachers knew about it.
Lu Xun couldn't help but comment.
Elder Shang Chen might just be a head of Education Bureau, but he had a powerful backing. Several elders in the Teacher Guild were his friends, so overthrowing him, not to mention doing it so thoroughly, should be an extremely difficult task!
Elder Hong Hao could also infer that much, and he was curious to know which influential figure it is to be capable of wielding such power.
''According to the rumors, it is that trash of a teacher in our academy... Zhang Xuan!'' Wang Chao pondered for a moment before replying their doubts.
In that instant, as though their tails have been stepped on, Elder Hong Hao and Lu Xun leapt up simultaneously. Their eyes were widened to complete circles and they felt as though the world was going mad.
Zhang Xuan, was he really the worst teacher in the academy?
 This phrase is an idiomatic expression that means making a big deal out of a small issue.


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Africa|Soldier Killed in Pre-election Gunfire in Madagascar
Soldier Killed in Pre-election Gunfire in Madagascar
By REUTERS NOV. 19, 2006
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Nov. 18 (Reuters) — A soldier was killed in an exchange of gunfire at a Madagascar military base on Saturday after a general barred from running in a presidential election declared a new government in what appeared to be a failed coup attempt.
On Friday, two weeks before the election was to be held, Gen. Andrianafidisoa issued leaflets announcing an interim government led by a military board, the Defense Ministry said.
"The army is taking power so that the country does not slide into civil war," the leaflet said, according to a version of events given by the ministry and confirmed by the general in an interview.
General Andrianafidisoa, who uses only one name, was barred from running in the Dec. 3 election for not paying a required $11,400 deposit, judicial authorities said.
After the leafleting Friday, the general went to the Ivato military base, on the outskirts of Antananarivo, the capital, seeking support from other soldiers. He was attacked by another faction of the military in the early hours of Saturday.
Paul Andre, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said that there had been an exchange of fire between government forces and the general's troops, and that one government soldier had been killed.
Madagascans have been fearful that the election might lead to a repeat of a disputed result in December 2001 that prompted an eight-month political crisis, which brought the island of 19 million people to a standstill.
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Understanding the Social Wellbeing Impacts of the Nation's Libraries and Museums
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on October 28, 2021 October 29, 2021 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Museums, Reports and White Papers, Research Libraries
AI in Relation to GLAMS Task Force: Report and Recommendations
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on September 17, 2021 September 16, 2021 Categories Artificial Intelligence/Robots, Digital Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Museums, Reports and White Papers, Research Libraries
Virtual/Augmented Reality: Virtual Heritage: A Guide
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on July 29, 2021 July 28, 2021 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Digital Humanities, Emerging Technologies, Museums, Research Libraries
"Emulation Practices for Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums"
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24482
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on May 5, 2021 May 4, 2021 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Digital Curation & Digital Preservation, Museums, Research Libraries
"Emulation Encounters: Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums"
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on September 10, 2020 September 9, 2020 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Digital Curation & Digital Preservation, Museums, Research Libraries
WordPress Plugin for Publishing Location-Based Tours and Stories: "New NEH Grant for PlacePress"
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on September 3, 2020 September 2, 2020 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Digital Humanities, Grants, Museums, Open Source Software, Research Libraries
Paywall: "Reusing Digital Collections from GLAM Institutions"
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0165551520950246
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on September 2, 2020 September 1, 2020 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Digital Curation & Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories, Libraries, Museums, Research Tools
"Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain"
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on February 27, 2020 February 26, 2020 Categories Museums, Open Access, Public Domain
Creative Commons: "Reproductions of Public Domain Works Should Remain in the Public Domain"
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on November 21, 2019 November 20, 2019 Categories Copyright, Creative Commons/Open Licenses, Digitization, Museums, Public Domain, Research Libraries
Paywall Article: "Old Metadata in a New World: Standardizing the Getty Provenance Index for Linked Data"
https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2019.24
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on October 4, 2019 October 3, 2019 Categories Linking, Linked Data, and Semantic Web, Metadata, Museums
WIPO: Report on Copyright Practices and Challenges of Museums
The World Intellectual Property Organization has released the Report on Copyright Practices and Challenges of Museums.
At the request of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), WIPO has carried out a research project with the objective of examining copyright practices and challenges of museums in fulfilling their missions and activities.. . .In this context, the author and the SCCR Secretariat interviewed 37 museums worldwide with different types of collections and activities, as well as other key stakeholders.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on December 7, 2018 December 6, 2018 Categories Copyright, Museums, Reports and White Papers
Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts Images of Public Domain Artworks under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) License
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put images of public domain artworks under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) License.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
This morning, we announced a major update to the Museum's policy governing the use and reuse of images in our collection: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). This updated policy, known as Open Access, enables everyone to utilize more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks in The Met's collection in any media without permission or fee.
See also: "Introducing Open Access at The Met."
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on February 8, 2017 February 7, 2017 Categories Copyright, Creative Commons/Open Licenses, Museums, Open Access
Report of the Summit on Digital Curation in Art Museums
Johns Hopkins University has released the Report of the Summit on Digital Curation in Art Museums.
In October of 2015, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Museum Studies Program convened a group of cultural heritage professionals to discuss digital curation, its integration into the art museum community, and the role the JHU Program in Digital Curation might play in this effort. Attendees included representatives from museums, libraries, archives, foundations, and the JHU Museum Studies Program.
The meeting took place over two days. The first day and a half included a series of short presentations that addressed innovative projects; infrastructure, staffing and workflows; digital curation tools; curatorial considerations; internships, residencies and research opportunities; and local and international collaborations. . . .
Breakout sessions on the last afternoon moved the discussions from conceptual to pragmatic.
See also: Storified Tweets from Summit.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on April 28, 2016 April 27, 2016 Categories Digital Curation & Digital Preservation, Museums
"Translating Theory to Practice: Defining Digital Preservation Planning in Museums"
Emma Palakika James has self-archived "Translating Theory to Practice: Defining Digital Preservation Planning in Museums."
In this thesis, digital preservation in museums is examined, specifically the development, planning, and implementation of digital preservation initiatives. First, a literature review of digital preservation basics, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and digital preservation policy is presented, followed by case studies of three best-practicing museums. Four key themes are discussed, including defining digital preservation, integration of digital preservation technology, collaboration, and policy development. Finally, several conclusions and recommendations are presented, most notably that digital preservation in a museum context must be viewed and implemented from a collections management perspective.
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on March 22, 2016 March 21, 2016 Categories Digital Curation & Digital Preservation, Museums
Omeka Everywhere Development Funded by IMLS
The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences has funded the development of Omeka Everywhere.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, in partnership with Ideum and the University of Connecticut's Digital Media Center, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a National Leadership Grant for Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences to create Omeka Everywhere. Dramatically increasing the possibilities for visitor access to collections, Omeka Everywhere will offer a simple, cost-effective solution for connecting onsite web content and in-gallery multi-sensory experiences, affordable to museums of all sizes and missions, by capitalizing on the strengths of two successful collections-based open-source software projects: Omeka and Open Exhibits.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on September 19, 2014 September 18, 2014 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Museums
"The Public Domain vs. The Museum: The Limits of Copyright and Reproductions of Two-Dimensional Works of Art"
Grischka Petri has self-archived "The Public Domain vs. The Museum: The Limits of Copyright And Reproductions of Two-Dimensional Works of Art."
The problem of museums and public institutions handling reproductions of works in their collections is not only a legal question but also one of museum ethics. Public museums are committed to spreading knowledge and to making their collections accessible. When it comes to images of their holdings, however, they often follow a restrictive policy. Even for works in the public domain they claim copyright for their reproductive photographs. This paper offers an analysis of the different interests at stake, a short survey of important cases, and practical recommendations.
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on September 9, 2014 September 8, 2014 Categories Copyright, Museums
Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age
The Smithsonian has released the Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age by G. Wayne Clough.
The review in this document illustrates how many cultural institutions have already found innovative applications for digital technology, but it is more than just a matter of "using." Digital technology will also change the basics of how these institutions work as we move forward. Collections will be shared across institutions through the linked data cloud; the public will participate in the creative activities of cultural institutions through engagement platforms; and informal education will merge with formal education. Cultural change is never easy, and while an institution might be able to avoid it for a while, this time it will be so big that no one will escape in the long run.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on August 28, 2013 August 27, 2013 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Museums, Reports and White Papers, Research Libraries
Johns Hopkins University Offers Digital Curation Certificate Program
Johns Hopkins University has established a Digital Curation Certificate program.
The Johns Hopkins University Certificate in Digital Curation, offered through the online graduate program in Museum Studies, advances the education and training of museum professionals worldwide in this emerging field.
This certificate offers a specialized curriculum that is critically needed in the museum field. It will prepare current and aspiring museum professionals to manage the growing volume and variety of digital data of long-term value that museums are now producing, acquiring, storing and sharing with researchers, educators and the public. It will train students to work with digital collections, exhibitions, and research data that will ensure the longevity of our global cultural heritage of which museums are the stewards.
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on July 10, 2013 July 9, 2013 Categories Digital Curation & Digital Preservation, Museums
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings
OCLC Research has released Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings.
In the first report, the 21-member Social Metadata Working Group reviewed 76 sites relevant to libraries, archives, and museums that supported such social media features as tagging, comments, reviews, images, videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc. The results from a survey of site managers conducted in October-November 2009 were included in the second report. Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums, Part 3: Recommendations and Readings provides recommendations on social metadata features most relevant to libraries, archives, and museums and an annotated reading list of the literature consulted during this research. Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums: Executive Summary provides a high-level overview of all three reports. The group's final recommendation is that it is riskier to do nothing and become irrelevant to our user communities than to start using social media features.
Also available: Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums: Executive Summary."
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on April 23, 2012 April 23, 2012 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Metadata, Museums, Reports and White Papers, Social Media
"'As We May Digitize'—Institutions and Documents Reconfigured"
Mats Dahlström, Joacim Hansson, and Ulrika Kjellman have published "'As We May Digitize'—Institutions and Documents Reconfigured" in the latest issue of LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries.
This article frames digitization as a knowledge organization practice in libraries and museums. The primarily discriminatory practices of museums are compared with the non-discriminatory practices of libraries when managing their respective cultural heritage collections. . . . Two poles along a digitization strategy scale, mass digitization and critical digitization, are distinguished in the article. As memory institutions are redefined in their development of digitized document collections, e.g., by increasingly emphasizing a common trans-national rather than national cultural heritage, mass digitization and critical digitization represent alternative avenues. . . . The article re-contextualizes current digitization discourse: a) historically, by suggesting that digitization brings ancient practices back to life rather than invents entirely new ones from scratch; b) conceptually, by presenting a new label (critical digitization) for a digitization strategy that has hitherto been downplayed in digitization discourse; and c) theoretically, by exploring the relations between the values of different digitization strategies, the reconfiguration of collections as they are digitized, and the redefinition of MLA institutions through those processes.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on April 12, 2012 April 12, 2012 Categories Digital Libraries, Digitization, Libraries, Mass Digitizaton, Museums
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis
OCLC Research has released Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis.
In the first report, Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 1: Site Reviews, the 21-member RLG Partners Social Metadata Working Group reviewed 76 sites relevant to libraries, archives, and museums that supported such social media features as tagging, comments, reviews, images, videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc. In this second report, we analyzed the results from a survey of site managers conducted in October-November 2009. Forty percent of the responses came from outside the United States. The survey focused on the motivations for creating a site, moderation policies, staffing and site management, technologies used, and criteria for assessing success. In our upcoming third report, we provide recommendations on social metadata features most relevant to libraries, archives, and museums as well as the factors contributing to success.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on January 17, 2012 February 2, 2012 Categories Libraries, Museums, Reports and White Papers, Social Media
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 1: Site Reviews
OCLC Research has released Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 1: Site Reviews.
Traditionally, staff at libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) create metadata for the content they manage. However, social metadata—content contributed by users—is evolving as a way to both augment and recontextualize the content and metadata created by LAMs. Many cultural heritage institutions are interested in gaining a better understanding of social metadata and also learning how to best utilize their users' expertise to enrich their descriptive metadata and improve their users' experiences.
In order to facilitate this, a 21-member RLG Partners Social Metadata Working Group reviewed 76 sites relevant to libraries, archives, and museums that supported such social media features as tagging, comments, reviews, images, videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc. In addition, working group members surveyed site managers, analyzed the survey results and discussed the factors that contribute to successful—and not so successful—use of social metadata. They also considered issues related to assessment, content, policies, technology, and vocabularies.
This report includes an environmental scan of 76 social metadata sites and a detailed review of 24 representative sites.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on October 4, 2011 October 4, 2011 Categories Digital Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Museums, Reports and White Papers, Social Media
A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Digital Licensing Agreement Strategy
The Canadian Heritage Information Network has released A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Digital Licensing Agreement Strategy.
This book was written to provide information, from the unique perspective of Canadian museums, on how to develop a digital licensing agreement strategy. This second edition continues along this stream to provide a unique Canadian perspective as museums dive into the global scene of licensing their content. I hope to inform you about legal rights and obligations in licence agreements, creating your licensing agreement strategy, negotiating the best licences to meet your needs, lowering your legal liability when licensing and sharing content, and the variety of licensing arrangements which may be used.
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on May 11, 2011 May 11, 2011 Categories Copyright, License Agreements/Contracts, Museums
IMLS Awards 14 Sparks! Ignition Grants
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded 14 Sparks! Ignition Grants.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today 14 awards totaling $336,281 matched with $360,444 of non-federal funds for Sparks! Ignition Grants. IMLS received 106 applications requesting $2,468,234 in funds.
"I am delighted to announce the first-ever Sparks! Ignition Grants, designed to help libraries and museums solve challenging problems," said Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director. "These awards speak to the great ingenuity and creativity of libraries and museums and we look forward to sharing their lessons learned."
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Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on May 4, 2011 May 4, 2011 Categories Grants, Libraries, Museums
Institute of Museum and Library Services Issues "IMLS FY2011 Appropriations Allocation"
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has issued the "IMLS FY2011 Appropriations Allocation."
Here's the announcement:
In allocating the FY 11 appropriation, we have carefully reviewed our strategic priorities and our activities that have the greatest impact. IMLS supports a diverse portfolio of programs to meet the IMLS mission and bring high-quality library and museum services to the broadest possible public. In making these allocations IMLS balanced interests in supporting "what works" and also investing in "what's new" through innovation and research. In this way IMLS provides the leadership to help libraries and museums evolve their services to meet the public's ever-changing needs for information and lifelong learning. In addition to making careful reductions to IMLS programs, we are also reducing our administrative budget and will be rigorously examining our operations for cost-efficiency measures.
Author Charles W. Bailey, Jr.Posted on April 27, 2011 April 27, 2011 Categories Grants, Libraries, Museums


The APG is planning on hosting a day long workshop by Bill Ottinger on building Historex mounted kits at the MFCA Show May 4, 2018. Bill is renown for his expertise working with Historex kits and the author of Napoleonic Plastic Figure Modeling (Windrow and Greene 1997). Cost for the workshop is $150. The APG will provide the kit. In addition attendees will receive a chance at a raffle of autographed copy of Bill book. Seats are limited so if you are planning on attending please notify Mike Stelzel at USMCMKS@aol.com ASAP to reserve your spot.


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The Dark Desires of the Druids: Desert and Destiny
A Ravenous Romance
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"The location this time, Egypt of the late 1800�s, is one of contrasts. There are luxurious hotels catering to the tourists and crumbling hovels that the native people live in almost next to each other. The characters are, as always, richly charismatic and superbly detailed. The women are strong and intelligent, and as willing to jump into the fray as the men are. The action is fast and exciting, the mystery engaging, and the romance is searingly hot." --5 Cherries from Whipped Cream Reviews
"Isabel Roman has done a wonderful job of writing about ancient Egypt, the Magickers power to control the flow of life, and how love will survive. I especially love the fact that she added a twist to the couple�s lives without their knowing." -- 4.5 Nymphs from Literary Nymphs
The first time they met, Arabelle Bahari tried to kill him. The second time, they made love on a desk in the British Museum. But they needed each other, and Gareth, Lord Moore, despite his arrogant ways and pompous manner, drew her back to him each time they met. He needed her to deceipher the magickal runes on a special box and Arabelle discovered she just needed him.
Gareth, Earl Moore, had closed himself off from the world. He had his work at Parliament and his work securing a place for his kind, magickers, in a world that hated and hunted them. When he met Arabelle Bahari, he felt an attraction he�d never experienced before. And while he didn�t trust her, he did want her.
They came together out of need, helpless to resist the passion between them. But when an old enemy tries to kill Arabelle, will Gareth realize the depth of his emotions? Or will the desert swallow them all?
Isabel Roman is known for her �paranormal novels with an erotic twist.� She is the author of more than 15 novels published in ebook format for Ravenous Romance. She is an indefatigable social networker.


Hudson River Sightseeing's bike rental provides you with all of the ingredients for the ultimate New York City bike adventure, a map, helmet, chain lock, and basket for your convenience. Embrace the free reign and explore the Hudson River Greenway, a beautiful, safe bike path that takes you around the entirety of Manhattan. Ride all the way north to the George Washington Bridge, make a stop downtown in Little Italy to soak in the rich culture, peruse the exotic food options and aromas in Chinatown, be mesmerized by the glamour of Times Square, the history of Hell's Kitchen, and embrace all the notable neighbourhoods in between. This is your opportunity to charter your own route and customize of your sightseeing itinerary. Rent for 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours or the whole day.
What to bring: Please bring a valid government issued ID or credit card. Conditions: Child aged 5-10 years pays the child price. Daypass bike rentals are valid from 09:00 to 18:00 on the same day. The stores timing from April 1st to October 31st is from 09:00 to 19:00 and from November 1st to October 31st the store is closed. Restrictions: No rider under the age of 18 will be permitted to take a bike out without an adult over the age of 18 present.


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The Disk Drill Mac application is a software tool that allows you to recover deleted files on your Mac disk. It also helps if you're having trouble obtaining access to an external USB drive or camera card. If you have used Disk Drill for some time and now want to remove the application, this article might be helpful. Today we are going to share three ways to uninstall Disk Drill on a Mac.
Delete Disk Drill using its settings.
Remove Disk Drill using uninstaller.
Disk Drill is a software tool that creates low-core modules for its proper performance. Frankly, all applications create additional service files on your Mac.
Disk Drill developers advise uninstalling the application using its Preferences window. For this, launch the Disk Drill application → click on Disk Drill in the menu bar and select Preferences from the drop-down menu → select the General tab in the Preferences window → click on Remove Disk Drill → confirm the action by clicking on Confirm Disk Drill removal.
According to the Disk Drill's developers, this is the only correct way to uninstall the app. They promise, that this will remove each and every file deployed previously by the software. Well, lets' check if there are any service files of Disk Drill which remained on our Mac. We used a free application Funter, designed to find any file on a Mac, including hidden service files of applications.
On the screenshot below, you can see that Funter found some service files of Disk Drill after its uninstallation. We used the developer's name CleverFiles to find them.
This means, that the first method does not guarantee complete removal of the app. That's why we recommend following one of the two methods below to completely uninstall apps on Mac.
If for any reason you face an issue trying to uninstall Disk Drill from its Preferences or you also leftovers of the app on your Mac, you can remove the app manually. As we mentioned earlier in this post, Disk Drill creates and stores service files on your disk, which become useless and require manual deletion.
Open the Applications folder → select Disk Drill.app → drag and drop it to the Trash.
Open Finder → in the menu bar click Go → Go to Folder → in the window that appears, type ~/Library and click Go.
Empty the Trash bin to completely delete the Disk Drill application.
Find and select Disk Drill in the Applications tab. All its service files will be selected automatically. Click on Uninstall to remove the app from your Mac.
Review the files you are going to delete and click Remove.
Complete the Disk Drill uninstallation by emptying the Trash.
There are lots of applications with different features which we use on our Macs daily. When it comes time to delete an app on a Mac, you can do it manually, or use a special uninstaller.
If you do not know the right way to completely uninstall an application on your Mac, we recommend that you use App Cleaner & Uninstaller.


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Der Wettkampf der Männer im Degenfechten bei den Olympischen Spielen 2004 in Athen fand am 17. August 2004 im Elliniko Olympic Complex statt.

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Zeitplan
 1. Runde: 17. August 2004, 12:00 Uhr (Ortszeit)
 2. Runde: 17. August 2004, 13:00 Uhr (Ortszeit)
 Achtelfinale: 17. August 2004, 15:00 Uhr (Ortszeit)
 Viertelfinale: 17. August 2004, 16:10 Uhr (Ortszeit)
 Halbfinale: 17. August 2004, 19:25 Uhr (Ortszeit)
 Gefecht um Bronze: 17. August 2004, 20:45 Uhr (Ortszeit)
 Finale: 17. August 2004, 20:45 Uhr (Ortszeit)

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Obere Hälfte

Untere Hälfte

Weblinks
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The Harvest (Movie Review)
Director: John McNaughton | Release Date: 2015
By Andy on October 22nd, 2015
The chameleon tones of John McNaughton's films are the stuff of cult-moviemaking in progress. From his first feature debut, the incredible Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, to his comedic efforts, Mad Dog and Glory and Speaking of Sex, to the Holy Grail of late night movie rentals you hope your parents never watched with you. That's right, Wild Things. At best McNaughton's tones and diverse genre record draw comparisons to Paul Verhoeven. Though without the breadth of a career as prolific, McNaughton remained a consistent presence in television even directing Haeckle's Tale for the short-lived Masters of Horror series.
Now back with his first feature in eleven years McNaughton is tackling something altogether more restrained and demure compared to most of his body of work. In The Harvest Katherine and Richard (Samantha Morton and Michael Shannon) are a married doctor and nurse whose son Andy (Charlie Tahan) is suffering from a debilitating illness keeping him on constant bed rest. With the arrival of new neighbor Maryann (Natasha Calls) Andy's thirst for outside human connection begins to grow despite the severe, increasingly violent objections of his mother.
There are times watching The Harvest when you could easily be fooled into thinking you're watching an episode of an early aughts WB/ABC Family show. There's a flat, clinical precision in the cinematography and editing that is at the service of conveying the absolute basic information required for the viewer to understand the bodies in space. An overtly cheery soundtrack highlights moments of levity between Maryann and Andy with the subtly of a sonic sledgehammer.
And while this drastically austere visual production may be to the film's determent it does allow Shannon and Morton's performances to soar to some surprising and bawdy levels. Despite a character written to be part Joan Crawford via Mommy Dearest and part Victor Frankenstein Morton's monstrous edge teeters just far enough into the outrageous without losing so much control her ultimate intentions seem implausible. Shannon's quite cool exterior holds back a seething dissatisfaction for the goings-on, recalling his excellent work in Take Shelter in more ways than one. He is that stalwart rock around which the rest of the film's high melodrama and domestic horror swirls.
To say there is more to the plot than the afterschool special laid out above is a bit moot but to spoil such things arguably spoils the pleasures of watching a film with such realist aesthetics and sincerity completely throw caution to the wind in its second act. Similar to a large portion of the dominating possession films, The Harvest is a film about maintaining the hetero-normative family. But unlike these possession films The Harvest has more in common with classical melodramas that dive into the potential terrors of repressed emotion, familial obligation, and the battles between parents and children.
The Harvest is a film covered in such a thick layer of irony that the performances from the leads cause its bland components to scatter into the air like so much dust from a rug. The rich mise-en-scne of Douglas Sirk may be absent but McNaughton maintains that spirit. Much like it's name implies, The Harvest deserves to age into its ripe campiness until its unabashed lurid pulp sans gore can be appreciated.
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Why Mitt Romney's Mormonism Might Matter
Ever since Mitt Romney ran to be the Republication nominee for U.S. President back in 2007 and 2008, people have been talking about whether his Mormon faith matters. Mormonism is a particular worry for Evangelical Christians, many of whom don't believe that Mormonism is a Christian faith. It forced Romney to address his faith while on the campaign trail, including in this speech at the George H.W. Bush Library in Texas.
The issue of whether a presidential candidate's faith matters has lingered for decades. When John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, became president, it was seen as a breakthrough for the mostly Protestant U.S. Now, the vice president is Catholic and both Rick Santorum, a Catholic, and Newt Gingrich, a convert to Catholicism, are in the running for the Republican nomination. Santorum even received support from evangelical leaders this week.
Romney's faith has been danced around during this campaign, but was briefly the subject of debate when a prominent Evangelical minister and supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry questioned Romney's Christian credentials during late 2011.
While Romney was battling his own questions of faith in 2007 and 2008, current President Barack Obama faced relentless scrutiny from conservative pundits such as Sean Hannity, criticized then-candidate Obama's longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who made controversial comments about race and the U.S.
People began to wonder, and still do, if President Obama's close friendship with Rev. Wright says something about his character.
Back to Romney.
Five U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican endorsed Romney this week, potentially putting aside some Catholic questions about a Mormon in the White House. Catholics, in practice, do not recognize a Mormon baptism.
"We the undersigned former U.S. Ambassadors to the Holy See — Thomas Melady, Ray Flynn, James Nicholson, Francis Rooney and Mary Ann Glendon — are united in our wholehearted support for the candidacy of Mitt Romney for the Presidency of the United States because of his commitment to and support of the values that we feel are critical in a national leader," they wrote in a collective statement.
Continuing, they wrote: "Although our political affiliations are diverse, we recognize the importance of family and traditional values in American life. We also share the conviction that Governor Romney has the experience, vision and commitment to the common good that our country needs at this crucial moment in history."
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus Christ returned after his resurrection, this time to America. He preached, according to the Book of Mormon, to Native Americans long before missionaries came preaching Christianity. Those Native Americans were Nephites, who many Mormon scholars believe were descendants of people who had left Jerusalem.
This is the Book of Mormon's account of Jesus' appearance to them:
"Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world" (3 Nephi 11:14).
Most Christians across the world believe Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead. Mormons believe that Jesus did come again already… to America.
And that, to me, is what's interesting about Romney as a candidate.
A Mormon's account of North American history is fundamentally different from that of most Christians, virtually every other faith and anyone else. In Mormon history, North America was the site of an appearance of Jesus Christ, which is no small thing. It differs from historians' and archeologists' own research.
Jesus came here to create his church and it was restored by, as Mormons see it, prophet Joseph Smith. America is an exceptional place because of this unique historical event, according to Mormons.
Of course, many people will point out that many Catholics in North America and beyond believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared in Mexico, Lourdes and Fatima. There are also several other unconfirmed sightings. That's always worthy of discussion.
Romney isn't running for Historian in Chief. He's running to be President of the United States. The land's history is taught to children in classrooms across the country. Does it matter that Romney, as a Mormon, believes in a history that includes the assertion that Jesus Christ lived here and continued his teachings? That, without question, is different from the mainstream. Does he need to disavow it? No. Should he explain why these historical events are true if he believes them. Possibly.
Can a man be President of the United States if he views its history and origins vastly different than the average American? Again, it's worthy of discussion.


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Qatar launches new routes including Seychelles
Hitting the airways in PPE - cabin staff on board a Qatar plane.
Qatar Airways is connecting with more destinations this month from its hub at Hamad International Airport in Doha.
The resumption of services to the Seychelles, Amman and Hanoi, as well as several African destinations, will see the airline's global network triple in size by mid-October.
Amman, Jordan, is now seeing daily flights from Qatar Airways, Clark in the Philippines is receiving ten weekly flights, Madrid increases to ten flights a week from October 1, Manila will have 17 weekly flights from October 2, Hanoi will receive four weekly flights starting on October 3 and from October 15 Copenhagen will see an increase to ten weekly flights, Manchester to 17 flights, and the Seychelles and Stockholm will each welcome three flights a week.
"We are proud to be the leading global airline connecting passengers with the world," said Qatar's group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker. "Our focus throughout the rebuild of our network is not only on restarting destinations but also operating as many frequencies as possible to provide our passengers with the flexibility to travel when they want."
The airline believes that by continuing to fly throughout the pandemic it has gained the trust of passengers as a carrier that can be relied on.
"We have taken more international passengers home than any other airline during this pandemic," said Al Baker.
However, Qatar has not been left unscathed by the global pandemic. Earlier this summer the carrier estimated it needed to cut 20% of its workforce to adapt to reduced demand and last month it instigated another round of pilot layoffs.
To accommodate the 'new normal' for passengers, the airline has extended its booking policies to allow unlimited date changes. Passengers can also change their destination as often as they need if it is within 5,000 miles of the original destination. No fare differences will be charged before December 31, 2020. All tickets booked for travel up to December 31, 2020, will be valid for two years from the date of issuance. Check online for more information.
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Weekend Box Office Report: 'After Earth' and 'Now You See Me' Can't Catch 'Fast and Furious 6′
Jacob Hall
Jacob Hall Published: June 2, 2013
How rare is it for a Will Smith sci-fi blockbuster to not open at number one at the box office? Also, how horrible must it feel for a Will Smith sci-fi blockbuster to not only get beaten by the second week of a long running franchise about fast cars, but by a magician thriller headlined by Jesse Eisenberg?
Film Weekend Per Screen
1 Fast and Furious 6 $34,538,000 (-64.5) $9,370 $170,377,000
2 Now You See Me $28,050,000 $9,590 $28,050,000
3 After Earth $27,00,000 $7,939 $27,000,000
4 Epic $16,400,000 (-51.1) $4,212 $65,161,000
5 Star Trek Into Darkness $16,400,000 (-56.0)
$4,575 $181,156,000
6 The Hangover Part 3 $15,930,000 (-61.8) $4,468 $88,086,000
7 Iron Man 3 $8,006,000 (-58.6) $2,765 $384,751,000
8 The Great Gatsby $6,265,000 (-53.7) $2,378 $128,256,000
9 The Croods $615,000 (-49.6) $1,215 $180,538,000
10 Frances Ha $552,000 (+0.4) $4,150 $1,578,000
For the past fifteen years, Will Smith has been guaranteed box office gold, but that $27 million opening for 'After Earth' is more evidence of a seismic shift for the world's biggest movie stars (see also: Tom Cruise and 'Oblivion'). Five years ago, 'After Earth' would've opened huge just because it starred Smith. But now? Oof. This was an expensive film, so you know the studio isn't happy. This was also something of a vanity project for the entire Smith clan, so you know Hollywood's most famous family will be nursing some bruised egos in the coming months. Also in trouble is director M. Night Shyamalan. 'After Earth' is his latest in a string of bombs and weak openings, so we may see the once-great filmmaker behind 'The Sixth Sense' vanish into director jail for the foreseeable future.
$27 million may be bad news for 'After Earth,' but $28 million is great news for 'Now You See Me,' a movie that's had a big question mark hovering over it for the better part of a year. A thriller about magicians starring a bunch of likable (if not necessarily bankable) actors? Up against a Will Smith movie?! No one saw this one coming out on top. Since it cost about half of what 'After Earth' cost, 'Now You See Me' should be able to make a profit in the coming weeks, especially if word of mouth is good.
While 'After Earth' struggled and 'Now You See Me' surprised, 'Fast and Furious 6' took the top spot for the second week in row, gobbling up another $34 million for a $170 million total. If it maintains this speed, the film will surpass 'Fast Five' in about two weeks to become the highest grossing film in the franchise. No wonder Universal fast tracked 'Fast and Furious 7.'
In fourth place, 'Epic' took in another $16 million for a $65 million total. That's not bad for a non-Pixar, non-DreamWorks animated film, especially since this is the kind of movie that didn't cost too much and will have a long shelf life on DVD. Right below it, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' is poised to break $200 million very soon, but it looks unlikely to match the gross of its predecessor. Still, breaking $200 million is enough save face, but it'll mean a cheaper 'Star Trek 3.'
And that brings us to sixth place and 'The Hangover Part 3,' which took in $15 million for a grand total of $88 million. For most comedies, that would be a terrific gross. However, this is a franchise that shattered records with its first two entries. Although 'The Hangover Part 3' will have what appears to be a respectable final gross, it'll actually be massive disappointment.
In seventh and eighth place, 'Iron Man 3' and 'The Great Gatsby' kept on trucking, with the former up to $384 million and the latter at $128 million. They both exceeded expectations with their opening weekends, so now it's all about adding frosting to the cake, so to speak.
And finally, 'Francis Ha' broke into the top ten, taking the token indie spot that has belonged to 'Mud' for the past few weeks. We'll see if it has the same longevity.
Next week sees the release of 'The Internship' and 'The Purge.' With competition like that, can 'Fast and Furious 6' hold the top spot for a third week?
Source: Weekend Box Office Report: 'After Earth' and 'Now You See Me' Can't Catch 'Fast and Furious 6′
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Share your projects and Chipmunk enhancements.
With Objective-Chipmunk, [[ChipmunkSpace alloc] init] will return a ChipmunkHastySpace if the hasty space class is linked in your executable. The NEON solver really has no downsides like the threaded one does. If you want to disable that functionality, you either need to edit the [ChipmunkSpace -init] method or remove ChipmunkHastySpace.m from the library target. Either case is going to require a recompile of Chipmunk Pro. It's also possible to do it with linker flags probably... but that sounds more complicated than it's worth.
Using the regular C API, you have to explicitly create a cpSpace or a cpHastySpace.
Thanks. I have downloaded the ChipmunkPro-Trial6.1.1 4, but cannot see the ChipmunkHastySpace.m. Have I downloaded the wrong thing?
Oh. The trial does not come with the source code. The Chipmunk Indie package doesn't have the NEON optimizations, but does have the Objective-Chipmunk binding. You could compare the performance of those two.
// Use a fast space instead if the class is available.
// However if you don't specify -ObjC as a linker flag the dynamic substitution won't work.
I recompiled the whole thing and moved the libChipmunkPro-Iphone.a into the iphone demo project, cleaned and recompiled. Running on an Ipad, I expected to see a deterioration in the smoothness or the demos or something, but regardless of the settings, Time Scale or Time Step or even changing some of the values in the demos such as the tick value in the grabberDemo.m, I don't see any difference in the visual performance between, what I think I have in NEON mode and non-NEON mode. Am I missing something?
There is a benchmark target in the Chipmunk Pro project. That's where the numbers on the Chipmunk Pro site came from. The Chipmunk Showcase app on the other hand isn't really meant to be a benchmark, although it is supposed to saturate the CPU as much as possible on most devices. Did you also change the showcase source to use a regular Chipmunk space? It explicitly creates a ChipmunkHastySpace to enable multiple threads. Check ShowcaseDemo.m in the init method.
At least on my iPad 2, there is a *huge* difference in performance on the Pyramid Topple/Pyramid Stack demos if you force NEON/threading off. The framerate drops to the point where the UI become unresponsive and you can barely interact with it.
// // On iOS and OS X, 0 threads will automatically select the number of threads to use.
// Call the private initWithSpace: method and pass it a regular space.
On an iPad 2, it's the difference between 12 and 60fps on the Pyramid demos. Not to say that it makes the physics alone 4x faster, but it frees up a lot time for rendering and the user interface code to run.
Thanks for all your help so far. I have made the changes you suggested, and was really hoping for a dramatic visual demonstration of NEON against non-NEON. Both modes appear visually the same even on all of the demos. The performance display I get matches your statistics, 14 FPS on the non-NEON and 60 FPS on the NEON. Any ideas on how I would demonstrate that visually other than the performance numbers.
14 FPS to 60 FPS should have a pretty good visual effect. It should look pretty choppy at 14 fps compared to 60 fps.
One thing to consider is that you could add a lot more physics objects because of the NEON optimization, but chipmunk won't randomly add objects to make up for that difference.


Welcome to the Coquitlam Prostate Cancer Support Group.
As a member of the prostate Cancer Canada Network and affiliated with the Prostate Cancer Foundation British Columbia we work as a team to help men diagnosed and those living with the disease.
as well as any others who have prostate problems and require information about the options and possible results from treatments.
Whether you have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you are undergoing treatment or you are an ongoing survivor, it is important to stay on top of the development of treatment for your condition. Our role is top provide men and their partners with information and a meeting place to share their feelings and to discuss this knowledge.
The Prostate Cancer Support Group Coquitlam meets on the first Tuesday of each month.
Our meetings generally feature a guest speaker who addresses some of the problems we face when presented with prostate cancer.
Your donation to the Prostate Cancer Support Group Coquitlam will make a real difference to support prostate cancer research, prevention and treatment.
Donations will be made through the Prostate Cancer Foundation BC.


DRC's Collaborative Forum extends the possibilities of collaboration to the DRC community and beyond. This is a place where collaboration isn't just talked about and encouraged; it happens.
Maybe a scholar has a killer theoretical project and wants to take it to the web.
Maybe a developer/designer wants a new challenge.
Maybe a teacher wants to know how to use Twitter as a class discussion forum.
Maybe you want to know the best hosting service for a wordpress site.
Maybe you want to know what information you should have on your professional website.
On this forum, you can reach out to a large network to seek insights and expertise for a particular project or for more general knowledge. Not sure how to do something or where to go to find out? Ask. Here, we hope scholars, teachers, and students can join forces. Digital rhetoricians of all sorts interested in developing studies, projects, and texts can work together. We hope this venue will also help us welcome new members to the community and promote innovation in the field.
Create a project dream-team. Pair up with a researcher who has a similar agenda but works hundreds of miles away. So many possibilities.
When you're ready, post a discussion that announces your idea, project, or question and details the type of collaboration you are seeking. Or, browse discussions and get involved. Help us build a collaborative network.
You can access the forum either directly on the web or by clicking on the link to Forum in the top navigation of this site.
To post a discussion, first you need to become a member of our Google Group. But it's easy. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email Lindsey Harding.


Over the past two years, over 40 oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, genomic scientists and computational biologists from all of the cancer focused medical research institutes, hospitals and universities in Western Australia have come together to form the Western Australian cancer single consortium. Together we aim to apply single cell profiling and pipelined bioinformatic analyses across a broad range of tumours to tackle four cancer themes: i) Tumour – stroma interactions, ii) Heterogeneity and resistance to therapy, iii) Relationships between primary, metastasis and circulating tumour cells, and iv) Biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, response and resistance. For hundreds of tumour samples we will generate thousands of single cell profiles. To date, using 10x genomics chromium 3' libraries we have generated pilot scale single cell profiles of over 200,000 cells (from human oral squamous cell carcinomas, ovarian cancers, mesotheliomas, NSCLC, pre-B ALL, MDS, and preclinical therapeutic mouse models of pancreatic cancer, mesothelioma and breast cancer). I will present an overview of the project and some of our preliminary analyses.
Alistair Forrest is the inaugural Cancer Research Trust Senior Fellow and head of the systems biology and genomics lab at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Western Australia. He is an expert in transcriptomics and led the international FANTOM5 consortium in Japan to global maps of human promoters, enhancers, microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs using Cap Analysis of Gene Expression and RNA-seq. Recently he led successful bids to the Cancer Research Trust and the Australian Cancer Research Foundation to establish the Western Australian cancer single cell consortium and the ACRF Centre for Advanced Cancer genomics. He researches broadly in the areas of genomics, transcriptomics and systems biology and is interested in describing the biological components encoded in our genomes and how they work together in systems.


Alabama defensive line coach Bo Davis has resigned, coach Nick Saban announced Friday morning.
"Bo Davis has submitted his letter of resignation," Saban said in a statement without identifying the reason behind Davis' resignation. "We appreciate all the contributions he made to the program and wish him and his family the very best in the future."
Davis, who has a longstanding relationship with Saban, had been back at Alabama since 2014 after three years as the defensive line coach at Texas from 2011-13.
Davis was LSU's strength and conditioning coach under Saban, an assistant defensive line and assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Miami Dolphins under Saban in 2006 and the Tide's defensive line coach from 2007-10 before leaving for Texas and later returning to Alabama.
"Bo does a really good job," Saban said of Davis in December. "He's a really good coach. He's got a good relationship with his players. He does a good job motivating the guys. And each one of those guys has played better each year they've been here, each year he's worked with them."
Meet Bo Davis the man responsible for the best defensive line in the country.


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Are you registered for one of the upcoming "IPM Workshops for Retail Nurseries and Garden Centers"? If not, time is running out!
Registration is now open to all for the January 24, IPM Training for Retail Nurseries and Garden Centers in Oakland, CA. A few spaces are still available!
Register now to secure your spot to learn about invasive pests, Asian citrus psyllid and huanglongbing disease, household pests, and IPM and pesticides.
The final day to register for the Oakland workshop is January 17.
View the agenda, register, and see parking and directions at http://ucanr.edu/sites/retailipm2016oakland/.
Can't make it Oakland? Come to the Sacramento training on January 31! Priority registration for retailers is open now but will end on Tuesday, January 17. After that, registration will be open to the general public. If you do not work in the retail industry and want to get first dibs for open spaces, sign up on our Wait List.
View information about the Sacramento workshop at http://ucanr.edu/sites/retailipm2017sac/.
You will be happy you attended one of these workshops. Register today!
I would like to attend one of these IPM workshops but in the Los Angeles area or some other Southern California region.
Good luck and hope the workshops are successful.
Thank you for your interested in the workshop. We offered a retail IPM training in Ontario, CA in January 2016 and currently have no dates for future retail workshops in southern CA. When something is scheduled, we will post the information on this blog, so stay tuned!
for another workshop in this area.


Since 1909, the International Paris Air show has significantly developed and is now measured as the largest aerospace event in the world. This event is a global gathering point for the entire industry with more than 2,303 exhibitor companies from 48 countries, 296 official delegations from 91 countries and 149,947 trade visitors.
M3 Touch is attending Le Bourget to meet with leaders in the aerospace industry, present their expertise and innovations to the world, and form business partnerships.
M3 Touch will present the capabilities of NetSpot, a comprehensive hardware and software management platform for portable devices, that ensures proper maintenance of your aircraft and the safety of passengers and crew at all times.
The Gouvernement du Quebec stand HALL 3 #C72 M3 Touch representative will be available to discuss your needs and answer your questions.
The Sogitec stand HALL 2A #C252 NetSpot hardware and software on display as part of the comprehensive Sogitec solution.