On Feb 24th 2018, 48 years old Ashish's life turned upside down . He was rushed to the ICU as he struggled to take even a single breath and felt dizzy. Ashish was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease few months ago during a normal check up. His creatinine level were found on the higher side and was suggested to follow a regulated diet. In Dec 2017, his kidney function declined to the point that he was put on weekly dialysis until Jan 2018. Later in Feb 2018 , functioning of both the kidney lowered down the threshold and he was admitted to ICU in Eternal Hospital Jawahar Circle, Jaipur due to lower level of platelet count, blood pressure and breathing issues. March 11th 2018 , his condition became far more serious due a brain hemorrhage . Neurologists took an immediate action to remove blood clots and blood densities that were observed in multiple locations. His wife, 15 yr old daughter ,8 yr old son and entire family need your sincere support and payers . In current circumstances, his daily medical expenses are significantly high(INR 35,000 approx. per day) which include charges for ICU, dialysis procedure, medications and other neurological procedures .It is beyond the financial capacity of his family as they have already exhausted their savings. In this very tough time, we are requesting all of you to stand up for this cause and extend financial support to his family.
Many thank again to all the donor for standing up in the tough time. I know all of you have prayed for his recovery. However, destiny had planned something else for him. His family is deeply saddened to inform all of you that he passed away on March 29th, 2018. May he rest in peace.
I also Apologize for not posting an update on treatment progress due to the same reason. All the funds raised via this crowdfunding platform will be used for the final settlement of bills relating to his medical expenses.
Your support ensured that he received timely treatment. Thank you for the wonderful support. Do pray for his soul to rest in peace.
Many thanks to all the contributors for standing up for the cause.
Your contribution is significant and will help in paying up the provisional medical bills which are generated until last week (as of March 22nd 2018). Hence withdrawing 94000 to clear the hospital bills.
Please let us know in case of any questions. Also, request all of you to share within your groups.


Our little cousins are now home from the hospital! Torin and Parker love to hold them. That's Camryn in the pink and Brooklyn in the green. (I think.) Dave prefers the hands free approach. My first attempt at holding two at once! I'm going to need more practice.
Parker got a little worried here. He thought she was trying to use the Force on him.
I tried to talk Sabrina into letting us take them home, but she said no. I know one girl who can't get enough of these sisters! Well done, Uncle Matt & Aunt Kristen!


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King's three-toed slider or King's slider (Lerista kingi)  is a species of skink found in Western Australia.

References

Lerista
Reptiles described in 2007
Taxa named by Lawrence Alec Smith
Taxa named by Mark Adams (herpetologist)

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Got Parents with Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Growing up with a mother or father with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) can have profound and long-lasting effects on the child, often persisting well into adulthood.
Narcissistic parents can be deeply abusive, but they are often abusive in a subtle manner that is difficult for social workers or other caregivers to detect. Frequently, they engage in emotional and mental abuse that leaves no visible scars but that can create havoc with a child's developing personality. Above all, to the child they can simply appear not to care for them at all; to be completely indifferent to them.
For the parent with NPD, it is difficult to envision the child as a distinct individual in their own right. Rather, they see them only insofar as they reflect on them. They may force them to engage in activities that they don't want to, simply to boost the parent's own sense of self-esteem, or demand frequent displays of admiration and acquiescence. In public, they can put on displays of great affection and care because of their desire to be seen as the "best mum" or "best dad", only to revert to coldness and abusiveness at home.
Children of adults with Narcissistic Personality Disorder quickly learn to prioritise their parent's needs over their own, and will do anything in an attempt to avoid the mental abuse and criticism that inevitably result when their mother or father decides that they are not good enough. They often fear abandonment, and may experience their parent actually threatening to abandon them unless they satisfy, or their parent suggesting to teachers and other responsible adults that it is the child who has a problem. Because their parent seems to be incapable of loving them, they often wonder if it is all their own fault, and engage fruitlessly in efforts to change themselves in order to become more loveable. It can be difficult for them to develop and assert a distinctive personality, as their parent's self-obsession can come to dominate the whole family.
Problems often escalate when children reach adolescence and start to realise that their family is not typical. As adults, they often find themselves in relationships with narcissistic people because this is all they know and they have come to expect the sort of behaviour that they experienced as a child.
Those who have grown up with a narcissistic parent can learn how to have healthy relationships and stand up for themselves, but they are likely to need support and help, and they may need to enable themselves to disengage completely from their abusive parent, which can be immensely challenging, especially if other members of the family do not yet understand the dynamics of the parent/child relationship.
Why Are Borderlines Attracted to Narcissists?


Kestrels have enjoyed another active day!
Martha says " It is really good here. Today we went on the zip wire [which is also called the aerial runway]. I was scared and had to try it 3 times. But I did it! I am so proud of myself! Then we went abseiling and Mr Atkins told us that we had to jump of backwards with no hands. It was scary! Mr Atkins and Mrs Woodhams are having a go at everything. They are legends! Mrs Morgan has the important job of taking photos so she has to stay on the ground to keep the camera safe! The beds are not very comfortable – I can feel the springs, so I am looking forward to my own bed tomorrow!


I would have bet billions that we'd never see this day.
In the first trailer for Billions season 4, sworn enemies Chuck (Paul Giamatti) and Axe (Damian Lewis) seem to fully put their differences aside and become BFFs, instead focusing their vengeance elsewhere.
Elsewhere, Chuck's pops is warning him that he needs to go on the offensive, which is funny considering Chuck always lives on the offensive (R.I.P. Ice Juice).
Billions returns to Showtime on March 17. Watch the teaser trailer above.


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Ram Kumar (1924-2018) was one of the leading abstract artists during post-independent India. His take on modernist art captures the internal conflict that one embodies in a state of indecision. Ram is also one of the few artists who transitioned from figurative to abstract practice. Highly regarded for his sophisticated techniques, his artworks have fetched high value both in the domestic and international art market.
Kumar's journey in art began when he was inducted into Sharda Ukil School of Art, New Delhi. His futuristic western style of art was inspired by Sailoz Mookherjee, who took him under his wing. It was until 1950 when Kumar left India to travel to Paris that his art began to recourse from his conventional style. Here, he found many patrons through his involvement in the pacifist peace movement.
On his return to India, Ram withdrew from his figurative style of art and pursued abstract expressionist technique. This was due to the discontent in post-colonial India, the changes and progress that he had envisioned for the country appeared to him as worthless. No longer pursuing the conventions, Ram generated his disillusion by adapting abstract landscapes through the use of oil or acrylic. Interestingly, a simple man, Kumar's friendship with noted abstract artists like VS Gaitonde, SH Raza, MF Hussain, among others, paved an incredible ingenuity in his works.
Kumar was an artist who never suppressed the deep-seated roots of his motherland. Though his art was of a western-modern approach, his subjects were distinctively Indian. His visit to the holy city of Varanasi in India was also a guiding element towards his panoramic transition. Displaying spiritual tranquillity, his sweeping landscapes or 'metascapes' are replete with natural constitutions. He uses strong vibrant colours that provide a reprieve from reality.
Being a part of a high-value artists' league, his works have been exhibited worldwide. Ram Kumar was a recipient of reputed awards, which comprise Kalidas Samman, Padma Bhusan and Padmashri.

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Наш учитель Джапаридзе Вахтанг
Джапаридзе Вахтанг
Вахтанг
Джапаридзе
Trainer, Coach
January 2008 — December 2013
Conducted business trainings for: Procter & Gamble (Kazakhstan), The State Medical Institute of Georgia, Mary Kay (Kazakhstan), Mobitel communication (Kazakhstan), ArCom (Kazakhstan), InterOil (Kazakhstan), Egsat (Kazakhstan), Regional Financial Centre of Almaty (Kazakhstan), Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Logistics (Kazakhstan), Association of Business Trainers of Kazakhstan, Sky Eagle (Kazakhstan), Education Department of Almaty (Kazakhstan), Non-governmental Fund «Kazakhstan Pana», Yumgiskor holding (Kazakhstan), Kcell, Kazpost, Janalik Gold (Kazakhstan), KazakhMys, United Nations, IAB (Kazakhstan), Mangitstau City Hall, Alina Group (Kazakhstan), Kcell (Kazakhstan)
August — November 2007 — Tbilisi, Georgia
«Novo Group» Company, the official dealer for United Colors of Benetton, Mexx, Sisley, La Coste, Mango and Chicco
July 2007 — Kurta, Georgia
PR Coordinator and the Originator
Implementation of the internet network «Caucasus Online» in South Ossetia, joint project of the Parliament of Georgia and the Acting Administration of the South Ossetia
June 2006 — June 2007 — Tbilisi, Georgia
Assistant to the Member of the Parliament of Georgia
Parliament of Georgia
March 2005 — May 2006 — Tbilisi, Georgia
«Factor Electronics», the official sub-dealer for SAMSUNG in Georgia
November 2006 — December 2006 — Tbilisi, Georgia
NLP Training for the D. Uznadze Institute of Psychology
Public Relations Consultant, Marketing Department
«Radio Sakartvelo» (radio stations: Fortuna, Fortuna Plus and Ar Daidardo)
April 2006 — Tbilisi, Georgia
VJ Tele Company Music Box, training in communication with
TV-audience
March 2006 — Tbilisi, Georgia
Special training for medical staff : «Correction of Psychosomatic Diseases»
July 2006 — Batumi, Georgia
Special training in tourism and hospitality for the Education Centre of Batumi: «Effective Communication and Management of Private Property»
Jan — Feb 2006 and Sep — Oct 2005 — Tbilisi, Georgia
Centre for Psychological Rehabilitation of the Georgian Patriarchy
Training in Neuro Linguistic Programming for Psychologists and Psychotherapists-introductory and advanced levels
June 2005 — Tbilisi, Georgia
Seminar at the Association of Psychologists and Psychotherapists:
«Detection and Substitution of Limiting Beliefs»
February 2005 — March 2005 and June 2004 — Tbilisi, Georgia
Counselor, PR Consultant
On-the-job training for the management of radio company «Radio Sakartvelo» (Radio Georgia) including radio stations: Fortuna, Fortuna Plus and Ar Daidardo-«Image Making and Informational Confrontation» and «Effective Communication in Advertising»
Training for the marketing managers of radio company «Sakartvelos Khma» (the Voice of Georgia): «Effective Communication in Advertising»
September 2003 — October 2003 — Tbilisi, Georgia
PR Consultant, Centre of Strategic Communications
Improvement and development of informational network and Public Relations Service of Tbilisi Municipality
2001 — 2004 — Tbilisi, Georgia
Member of the Management Team
Association of Anthropology and Psychotherapy ARBOR VITAE
April — May 2011 — NLPLIFE Training (United Kingdom)
Course: Licensed Practitioner of NLP
(With Dr. Richard Bandler & John La Valle)
October 2008 — November 2009 — Erickson College International (Canada)
Course: Art & Science of Coaching, Team coaching, Trainer's training
January 2006 — Kiev School of Public Relations (Kiev, Ukraine)
Course: Public Relations Skills
February — April 2004 — Moscow Institute of Psychology, Sociology and the Centre for Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) (Moscow, Russia)
Course: Psychotherapy of Personal History
February — April 2003 — Association of Psychologists and Psychotherapists (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Course: Principles of M. H. Erickson's Psychotherapy
April 2003 — Caucasian Anti-Drug Program (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Course: Prevention of Drug Addiction
2001 — 2003 — Association of Anthropology and Psychotherapy ARBOR VITAE (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Courses: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) for Communication and Psychotherapy and Client-Centered Psychotherapy
1995 — 2000 — Psychology Institute of D. Uznadze (Tbilisi, Georgia)


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const common = require('./common')
const Socket = require('../')
const test = require('tape')

test('echo string {objectMode: true}', function (t) {
  t.plan(4)

  const socket = new Socket({
    url: common.SERVER_URL,
    objectMode: true
  })
  socket.on('connect', function () {
    t.pass('connect emitted')
    socket.send('sup!')
    socket.on('data', function (data) {
      t.equal(typeof data, 'string', 'data is a string')
      t.equal(data, 'sup!')

      socket.on('close', function () {
        t.pass('destroyed socket')
      })
      socket.destroy()
    })
  })
})

test('echo Buffer {objectMode: true}', function (t) {
  t.plan(4)

  const socket = new Socket({
    url: common.SERVER_URL,
    objectMode: true
  })
  socket.on('connect', function () {
    t.pass('connect emitted')
    socket.send(Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]))
    socket.on('data', function (data) {
      t.ok(Buffer.isBuffer(data), 'data is Buffer')
      t.deepEqual(data, Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]), 'got correct data')

      socket.on('close', function () {
        t.pass('destroyed socket')
      })
      socket.destroy()
    })
  })
})

test('echo Uint8Array {objectMode: true}', function (t) {
  t.plan(4)

  const socket = new Socket({
    url: common.SERVER_URL,
    objectMode: true
  })
  socket.on('connect', function () {
    t.pass('connect emitted')
    socket.send(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]))
    socket.on('data', function (data) {
      // binary types always get converted to Buffer
      // See: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer/issues/138#issuecomment-278240571
      t.ok(Buffer.isBuffer(data), 'data is Buffer')
      t.deepEqual(data, Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]), 'got correct data')

      socket.on('close', function () {
        t.pass('destroyed socket')
      })
      socket.destroy()
    })
  })
})

test('echo ArrayBuffer {objectMode: true}', function (t) {
  t.plan(4)

  const socket = new Socket({
    url: common.SERVER_URL,
    objectMode: true
  })
  socket.on('connect', function () {
    t.pass('connect emitted')
    socket.send(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]).buffer)
    socket.on('data', function (data) {
      // binary types always get converted to Buffer
      // See: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer/issues/138#issuecomment-278240571
      t.ok(Buffer.isBuffer(data), 'data is Buffer')
      t.deepEqual(data, Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]), 'got correct data')

      socket.on('close', function () {
        t.pass('destroyed socket')
      })
      socket.destroy()
    })
  })
})

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Our mission is to help clients reach their objectives by delivering our specialist and constantly evolving service.
Address: Cell Block Studios College Road, H M Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, PO1 3LJ.
hello@giraffesocialmedia.co.uk
Giraffe Social Media
Giraffe Social Media: You're Hired
As you are probably well aware of, this year we were lucky enough to work with Zeeshaan Shah, a candidate on this series of BBC's The Apprentice. We thought we'd do a little write-up of how that came about and how we got on with the exciting project.
Zee phoned us in early April and mysteriously claimed that he was set to appear on one of the biggest reality TV shows in the country. He informed us that he was looking for a social media marketing agency to manage his personal brand across several social media platforms. His ambition was to capitalise on the exposure that he would experience so that he could use it as a platform to help his current business, One Investments, and also any new ventures that he embarks upon.
After some conversations and strategy development, we began work at the end of April, with only a couple of weeks before the show began. We set to work immediately and started achieving the results we'd hoped for straight away. Here are some highlights from our work for Zee:
3900 New Facebook likes in the first month.
896% Increase in Twitter followers in the first month.
Highest reach for a single Facebook post: 5.8k individuals.
Unfortunately Zee exited the show a few weeks into the process after hearing the infamous words 'You're fired' from Lord Sugar. However, in the few weeks we had, we built a large audience of fans who became invested in Zee's personal brand. Objectives achieved. At the time of his firing, Zee possessed the most interactive and populated social media accounts of any of the candidates on this year's show.
We are over the moon to have worked with Zee and to have helped him achieve the results he wanted. Hopefully we can do more personal brand work for another reality TV star in the future!
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Q: How does BuildSiteMap() Method work? I am working on CustomSiteMapProvider that i have Derived from
StaticSiteMapProvider.
I have override BuildSiteMap() Method to Build Sitemap.It is working
properly,
But Can anyone tell me How it is works internally? I have found that It
is getting called more than one time.
Why is this executing more than one?
How many times does this method get executed?
I have read many artical, But I didnot find any discussion about
internal working of BuildSiteMap() Or why it gets executed more than
once?
Any idea? Any artical Or link will be appreciated...

A: Don't have any relationship to JustDecompile but this should help you out alot
http://www.telerik.com/products/decompiler.aspx

A: Please read MSDN
It says

The BuildSiteMap method is called by the default implementation of the FindSiteMapNode, GetChildNodes, and GetParentNode methods.
If you override the BuildSiteMap method in a derived class,
ensure that it loads site map data only once and returns on subsequent calls.

So at some point, system calls FindSiteMapNode, GetChildNodes, and GetParentNode methods. And then BuildSiteMap will be called as well.
Here is another MS engineer's post

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Discussion in 'Feedback' started by dysfunction, Jan 24, 2004.
Please could there be a Technation colour scheme.
I do like the green but I use this site a lot at work to keep myself from going totally mad and the bright green is a dead giveaway that I'm not doing anything constructive.
There are plans a foot to create a TechNation theme, but they've been delayed thus far whilst the modified skinning system for vB3 is finalised. Once the vB3 final is released things should be set in motion with regards a TechNation theme.
I dont like the Default Style.
As was said, the green is too conspicuous, and I actually prefer white on black (all my xTerm windows have it so it blends in at work).
They gave you the GAME style though.


This is seriously the best July 4th spread I've seen yet, and I've been looking. Your stuff is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!
which ec planner do you have? I have only used the happy planner but am looking into other options.
I love what I see here and can't wait to give them a try. My problem right now, though, is finding patriotic numbers as I have a ssmall planner that is unnumbered. Any suggestions how I can make my own? Thanks.


Hardly anyone expected Razer to show a wearable at CES 2014, but that's what happened. The company introduced the world to Nabu, its version of smartwatch that also brings fitness band characteristics- so we prefer to call it smart band. The rationale for agaming company is to dedicate itself to something of the sort until it's simple: investing in real-life gamification, even more so if it's an open platform gadget.
It has two screens, one smaller, which sits on the top of the wrist, and a larger one on the inside that displays more information. In case of receiving text messages, the smaller screen displays the notification icon and the larger the message content. This screen is activated by the accelerometer when the arm makes the proper movement, so it gives a greater privacy and is less inconvenient (you can read quickly without totally diverting the focus from a conversation, for example), even for being small: it has 128 x 32 pixels, while the other is square, with sides of 32 pixels. The battery, according to Razer, lasts 7 to 10 days.
The disclosure photo has the inner green, but the one shown by CEO Min-Liang Tan toEngadget is all black and more discreet, without the fitness aspect.
Speaking of which, Nabu has, in addition to the accelerometer, location, altitude and biometric sensors that help monitor the physical activities of those who use it, such as step counter and sleep meter.
But the coolest thing is the social factor of the bracelet. She recognizes gestures, so by shaking hands with someone who also has one, the two can automatically become contacts on LinkedIn. Another possibility for gestures is to shake hands to reject a call that can not be answered on the spot. Nabu can still find its peers in the vicinity, which opens up quite interesting possibilities of augmented reality games for devs.
The price is even more interesting: Android and iOS developers can get them for $ 50 at the end of this quarter. For the mortal remnants, it also arrives at the end of this quarter, but has no set price. However, Razer guarantees it costs less than $ 100, a very seductive price for what it promises.


time.lex lawyers Frederic Debusseré, Jos Dumortier en Ruben Roex successfully represented the Belgian Privacy Commission in its summary proceedings against Facebook before the President of the Brussels Court of First Instance.
In its judgement of 9 November 2015, the Court ordered Facebook Inc., Facebook Ireland Limited and Facebook Belgium SPRL to cease registering which websites internet users from Belgium who do not have a Facebook account visit by means of cookies and social plug-ins. The order enters into force 48 hours after the Privacy Commission will officially serve the judgment to Facebook. If Facebook does not comply with the order, it will have to pay a penalty of 250,000 EUR per day of non-compliance. The order remains in force, even if Facebook appeals the judgement.
Click here to read the judgement (in Dutch) and a summary of it.


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Nilo is een gemeente in het Colombiaanse departement Cundinamarca. De gemeente telt 14.224 inwoners (2005).

Gemeente in Cundinamarca


For those curious, it is not just YouTube videos that will be automatically embedded with a link. There is a list of services that this will work with, including Flikr, Vimeo, Hulu, Twitter and a lot more. The full list is on the WordPress codex.
These parameters are added and separated using an ampersand at the end of the URL. You can pass as many of these customizations to the URL as you wish, and there are several strings to chose from. The full list is on Jetpack's documentation.
Vixy works by giving you access to a new shortcode, [youtube], which you can use to customize each embed. You can choose a custom width and height for videos, turn the audio off, remove controls, get rid of related videos, or chose a custom start and stop time. The full list of parameters is available in Vixy's documentation, but you simply have to add your parameters to the youtube shortcode, and then wrap it in the video ID or URL of your video.
To include your default gallery in your site, you just need to include the [tubepress] shortcode. But you can also use shortcode parameters to completely change your YouTube gallery. This is mostly useful when you have a need for multiple galleries on the same site.
Hey Jocobed, sorry you're having that problem. If you're using an Elegant Themes' theme the best place for us to help you out with that is in our support forum.


Von G Batesole of Crystal Resorts is a SCAMMER!!!
Von G Batesole of Crystal Resorts is a SCAMMER!!! He has been scamming millions out of a lot of investors. Please be aware and let anyone that might get in contact with him to be careful.
Should anyone believe any of this scam report this is what is wrong with the internet..All the postings are without any names of whom were suppossedly scammed. Mr. Batesole and Crystal Resorts has offices in the La Jolla California area has been in business for over 6 years and should anyone wish to contact Mr. Batesole they can e-mail him at vgbceo@yahoo.com. These postings are part of a smear campaign based on a lawsuit Mr.Batesole has with individuals that scammed Mr. Batesole/Crystal Resorts for over $20M in fraudulent bank accounts. One of the parties is a disgruntled former employee. Mr. Batesole's legal counsel Mr. Charles Sandell has begun investigating these fraudulent postings..


So you are supposed to get your prescriptions covered by Medicare Part D. You're not sure what it covers or how much it costs and the information isn't easy to understand. Here's a simple rundown about how it works.
Medicare Part D covers prescriptions because they are not covered through the original basic Medicare plan. There is, however, a premium for this coverage. It is important for you to check premiums through Medicare and other companies to see who has the best premiums for this coverage that will fit your situation. Often, companies charge a lot more for the same coverage. You might pay one amount for coverage with one company and for the exact coverage through another company, you might be stuck paying double or even triple!
Therefore, it is very important to research and ask questions, especially about limits of coverage. Medicare Part D and the new Medicare Advantage Plan both have limits to them, and depending on how much coverage you purchase vs. how much you need, you could end up paying $2,500 or more out of your pocket for prescriptions in addition to the premiums for the prescription coverage. Of course, the plans will cover quite a lot before you get to that point, but it is very important to see how much money they will pay out (total) per year for your prescriptions before you have to start paying out of pocket.
What can happen is that a plan may pay up to $3,000 for your prescriptions for the year (you will choose an amount depending on the plan you choose). After you reach that amount, you have to start paying for your own prescriptions until the plan picks up again. If your prescriptions don't cost that much, you don't have to worry, but if they do, it is important that you determine how much you will have to pay out including premiums.
To get information, contact Medicare at www.Medicare.gov , or for some good calculator information, AARP has a program online that will help you figure the finances out. You can also call 1-800-MEDICARE for assistance so you get the coverage you need.


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Enslaved People
Enslaved Africans
Personal stories: Enslaved Africans
Stories of Africans
Stories of high status Africans
Stories told by Europeans
Traders, Merchants and Planters
Home › Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery › The People Involved › Enslaved People › Personal stories: Enslaved Africans ›
Gold dust weights from Asante people of Ghana
Cosmetic pot from the Asante people of Ghana
Detail from A View of ye Jason Privateer
Even wealthy people of high status were kidnapped and sold into slavery. There are several accounts of slavery from people of high status. Their fathers were chiefs or important officials in the chief's court. Yet they were still enslaved and sold. A few could use their status and influence to gain their freedom. Most of them could not, and they remained as slaves.
Ottobah Cuguano was from Adjumako, today in modern Ghana in West Africa. Cuguano was from an important family in his area. He was kidnapped and enslaved in about 1770. He was sold to a plantation owner on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean. Within the year, he was rescued from 'this dreadful captivity and horrible slavery'. He was purchased by a new master, Alexander Campbell, and brought to England. He tried to teach himself to read and write, and his owner encouraged this and sent him to school. By 1788 he was free, whether by the gift of his owner or by buying it for himself we do not know. He wrote his autobiography, called Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, which was published in 1787. Below is a short extract:
"I was born in the city of Agimaque, on the coast of Fantyn; my father was a companion to the chief in that part of the country … [With my friends] we went into the woods [to play] … our troubles began, when several great ruffians came upon us suddenly, and said we had committed a fault against their lord, and we must go and answer for it ourselves before him. Some of us attempted to run away, but pistols and cutlasses were soon introduced, threatening, that if we offered to stir we should all lie dead on the spot …
[in the trading fort ] … I saw [my guide] take a gun, a piece of cloth, and some lead for me, and then he told me that he must now leave me there, and went off"
Job Ben Solomon was the son of Solomon, the Governor and High Priest of Boonda, in Senegal, West Africa. He was sold into slavery and spent two years working in Maryland in America. He was then taken to England. He was set free and returned to Senegal in 1734 when his high status was discovered. His story was written by Thomas Bluett of Maryland. This is probably the earliest slave biography (or slave narrative, as they are called) to be written. In the words of Solomon, Bluett wrote of his capture in West Africa:
"In February 1730 my father heard of an English ship at Gambia River and sent me with two Servants to sell two slaves and to buy Papers and some other Necessaries. He told me not to cross the River and venture into the country of the Mandingoes who are Enemies to my people.
I could not agree terms with this English Captain … so I [decided to] … venture further afield. I crossed the River Gambia and sold the two slaves … When I was resting … a gang of Mandingoes …raided the house … They captured the two of us [Job and his interpreter Loumein Yoai] … they took us to the very Captain Pike I had tried to do business with a few days before!"
The story here is of the local chief, called Tomba. It has been taken from an account written by a European. The story has been rewritten as if Tomba himself was telling his story.
"… I was leader of those villagers by the River Nunes [Sierra Leone] who opposed the slave trade and I led their attack on those who supported the slave traders …. The English trader John Leadstine … sent more men in … to capture me, they succeeded but not before I killed two in their party. Leadstine made me his slave and when the others looked dejected I stayed proud and solemn and would not stretch my limbs out to show the slave traders who inspected us. This angered … Leadstine, who whipped me … and would have killed me, had he not feared losing the money he would gain by selling me. I did not flinch, though I am ashamed to say a tear or two escaped my eye which I tried to hide."
Abu Bekr es Siddik was a Muslim born in about 1794, in Timbuktu, in Mali, West Africa. He was from an important family, but this did not protect him in time of war, when he was taken as a slave. He was captured and enslaved at the age of about 14, and sold to European slave traders. He was taken to the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean. This was in 1807 or 1808, just before trading in slaves was banned by the British. His knowledge and intelligence was noticed by a magistrate, Dr Madden, who heard his story and asked his owner, a Mr Anderson, to free him. His owner at first refused, because Abu Bekr (known as Edward Donellan) was so valuable to him, being educated and completely trustworthy. Eventually, Anderson did give him his freedom, and he returned to his home country. Abu Bekr es Siddik wrote a short account of his life during a stay in England. In this account he told of his family and the war that led to his enslavement, and 27 years as a slave in Jamaica.
"My name is Abu Beke es Siddik: my birthplace is Tombouctou. I was educated in the town of Djénné and fully instructed in reading and construing the Korán. My father's name was Kara Músá, the Sheríf [descended from Mohammed], Weteráwí, Tafsír, ie, of the royal family. My mother's name was Nághódr, that is in the Hausa tongue. She was born in the city of Bornu [of the 17th century Kingdom of Bornu, in modern-day Nigeria] [Abu Bekr decided to visit his father's grave in the city of Ghonah. A local war between the Sultan of Bondoukou and the Governor of Kolongzhwí, an official of the Sultan of Ghonah, led to the defeat of the Sultan of Ghonah and the sacking of the town] On that day I was made a slave. They tore off my clothes, bound me with ropes, gave me a heavy load to carry, and led me to the town of Bondoukou [now in Ivory Coast ], and from there to the town of Kumasi, the King of Ashanti's town [now in Ghana]. From thence through Asikuma and Ajumak, in the land of the Fanti, to Daghoh, near the Salt Sea. There they sold me to the Christians, and I was bought by a certain captain of a ship at that town. He sent me to a boat and delivered me to the land of Jamaica. This was the beginning of my slavery until this day. I tasted the bitterness of slavery from them [the Bondoukou, Asante and Fante people] and its oppressiveness."
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Measuring the temperature of two-dimensional materials at the atomic level
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago describe a new technique for precisely measuring the temperature and behavior of new two-dimensional materials that will allow engineers to design smaller and faster microprocessors. Their findings are reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Newly developed two-dimensional materials, such as graphene — which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms — have the potential to replace traditional microprocessing chips based on silicon, which have reached the limit of how small they can get. But engineers have been stymied by the inability to measure how temperature will affect these new materials, collectively known as transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs.
Robert Klie, professor of physics. Photo: Jenny Fontaine
Using scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with spectroscopy, researchers at UIC were able to measure the temperature of several two-dimensional materials at the atomic level, paving the way for much smaller and faster microprocessors. They were also able to use their technique to measure how the two-dimensional materials would expand when heated.
"Microprocessing chips in computers and other electronics get very hot, and we need to be able to measure not only how hot they can get, but how much the material will expand when heated," said Robert Klie, professor of physics at UIC and corresponding author of the paper. "Knowing how a material will expand is important because if a material expands too much, connections with other materials, such as metal wires, can break and the chip is useless."
Traditional ways to measure temperature don't work on tiny flakes of two-dimensional materials that would be used in microprocessors because they are just too small. Optical temperature measurements, which use a reflected laser light to measure temperature, can't be used on TMD chips because they don't have enough surface area to accommodate the laser beam.
"We need to understand how heat builds up and how it is transmitted at the interface between two materials in order to build efficient microprocessors that work," said Klie.
Klie and his colleagues devised a way to take temperature measurements of TMDs at the atomic level using scanning transition electron microscopy, which uses a beam of electrons transmitted through a specimen to form an image.
"Using this technique, we can zero in on and measure the vibration of atoms and electrons, which is essentially the temperature of a single atom in a two-dimensional material," said Klie. Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the random motions of the particles, or atoms that make up a material. As a material gets hotter, the frequency of the atomic vibration gets higher. At absolute zero, the lowest theoretical temperature, all atomic motion stops.
Klie and his colleagues heated microscopic "flakes" of various TMDs inside the chamber of a scanning transmission electron microscope to different temperatures and then aimed the microscope's electron beam at the material. Using a technique called electron energy-loss spectroscopy, they were able to measure the scattering of electrons off the two-dimensional materials caused by the electron beam. The scattering patterns were entered into a computer model that translated them into measurements of the vibrations of the atoms in the material – in other words, the temperature of the material at the atomic level.
"With this new technique, we can measure the temperature of a material with a resolution that is nearly 10 times better than conventional methods," said Klie. "With this new approach, we can design better electronic devices that will be less prone to overheating and consume less power."
The technique can also be used to predict how much materials will expand when heated and contract when cooled, which will help engineers build chips that are less prone to breaking at points where one material touches another, such as when a two-dimensional material chip makes contact with a wire.
"No other method can measure this effect at the spatial resolution we report," said Klie. "This will allow engineers to design devices that can manage temperature changes between two different materials at the nano-scale level."
Xuan Hu, Poya Yasaei, Jacob Jokisaari, Serdar Ogut and Amin Salehi-Khojin of the University of Illinois at Chicago, are co-authors of the paper.
This research was supported by EFRI 2-DARE grant 1542864 from the National Science Foundation.
Sharon Parmet
sparmet@uic.edu
graphene, microprocessors, physics, temperature, two-dimensional materials


When children get a new video game, they deem it awesome. But when they can't win it the way they want, they deem it awful. Our mind is frequently as fickle as a child, if not more.
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The mind deludes recovering alcoholics into paying any price to get a bottle to drink. After the drink, it makes them break the bottle in frustration at their folly in relapsing.
Echoing our experience and offering a graphic example, the Bhagavad-gita (06.34) indicates that the mind moves faster than a wild wind. Within moments, it can go from spiritual to sensual, from heroic to villainous, from faithful to perfidious. And it can take us down that path of degradation too, if we go along with it.
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When we study the Gita seriously, the resulting intellectual conviction powers us to push on towards Krishna despite the mind's fickleness. With steady bhakti practice, we attract divine grace that helps us relish Krishna's all-attractiveness, thereby decreasing the mind's fickleness. And we become absorbed in him – increasingly, naturally, joyfully absorbed.


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Q: Is there a way to have a branch policy that based on partial success or success of specific stage on devops? I am learning azure devop's PR build and PR release. I setup the needed triggers and my branch policy is like this, so will pass if the PR release is successful.

Say in the PR release, we have several stages (testing stage, tear down testing environment stage and approve stage).
Think about this scenario:
The testing stage contains some automated tests and some tests failed. Then this stage will be marked as failure.  Our QA looked into it and believes the failed tests are very minor and shouldn't stop the pr from merged and deployed.  So they want to approve this PR.
However, as this stage failed and even if other stages are successful, the status of this release will not be "Succeeded". As a result, the PR can't continue. I simulated this by skipping a stage and you can see that if one stage is not successful, the PR will show "Check failed".

Is there a way to check a specific stage's status other than whole release's status?

A: I don't believe you can get down to that level, there's nothing in the portal or the API to suggest that you can do this. As a workaround, you could do this:

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*change your build validation gate from Required to Optional - this will trigger the build, but not block on partial success.

*add a script step to the "Should Deploy" stage that uses the PR Status API to post a status back to the PR.

*add a status check policy to the branch to look for the status you posted in the previous step.


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As technologies to digitize primary source content mature and become better understood, more widely accessible, and more efficient, the volume of available digital content increases and issues of integration and aggregation become more important. Today's digitization project managers must give high priority to factors such as reusability, persistence, interoperability, verification, and documentation when planning their projects. Digitization project funding agencies, like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), must give substantial weight to these same factors when assessing programs and evaluating project proposals. A Digital Library Forum convened by the IMLS and working in collaboration with participants from the NSF's National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library program has released a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections to serve as a resource for practitioners and funding agencies. This Framework pays particular attention to digitization collection practices that facilitate integration and aggregation of digital information resources developed by museums, libraries, and similar institutions. To protect against obsolescence and to better accommodate the wide range of digitization projects funded by the IMLS, NSF, and other granting organizations, the Framework is not wedded to any particular set of standards or best practices. Rather it articulates principles fundamental to planning, implementation, and evaluation of digitization projects and links to specific resources and exemplary models that support and illustrate good application of these principles. This paper describes the context and development of the Framework, briefly presents the major principles articulated in the Framework, and concludes with remarks regarding the immediate impacts of the work accomplished by the IMLS Digital Library Forum and a call for the continued development and maintenance of the Framework.
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Principles for Good Digital Collections
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Principles for Good Metadata
Principles for Good Digitization Projects
In the spring of 2001 the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) convened an eight-member Digital Library Forum to discuss topics and issues relating to the implementation and management of networked digital libraries. Of particular interest were digital library technologies and protocols that would facilitate and encourage interoperability between and among digitization projects funded by IMLS and other federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF). This interest was stimulated in part by various executive branch and legislative branch actions, including a December 1999 Presidential Memorandum directing the NSF, Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, and IMLS to work together "to create a Digital Library of Education to house this country's cultural and educational resources" (Clinton, 1999). Members of the IMLS Digital Library Forum were drawn from a broad range of libraries, museums, and allied organizations. All were experienced with digital library technologies and implementations. Most were current or prior IMLS grantees. The IMLS Digital Library Forum was chaired by Priscilla Caplan of the Florida Center for Library Automation.
To work with the IMLS Digital Library Forum, especially on issues relating to integration and interoperability with NSF digital library initiatives, the NSF convened a parallel group, drawing members from those involved in one of the largest of the NSF's current digital library programs, the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL). These two groups met together for the first time 1 June 2001 at the IMLS offices in Washington, D.C. Discussions during this initial day-long meeting were far-ranging and touched on issues relating to the creation of digital collections, the implementation of digital library services, and interoperability between digitization projects. Prior works, including Pathways to Progress (Manduca, McMartin, and Mogk, 2001), a white paper prepared for the NSDL program, and the final report of the Web Based Education Commission (2000), provided context and a starting point for our discussions.
An early and not too surprising consensus emerging from our in-person discussions and follow-up e-mail exchanges was that the issue of digital library interoperability is complex and multi-faceted. Though there was clearly strong interest in interoperability and the establishment of robust and effective links between digital collections, we recognized that engendering such functionality across the full spectrum of funded and planned digitization projects would require more than a simplistic, one-dimensional, prescriptive guideline wedded to a single set of existing best practices. We saw a need to articulate basic principles and identify exemplary resources and models in a way that would accommodate the unique needs and goals of the wide range of digitization projects funded by NSF, IMLS, and others. We concluded that a high-level framework of guidance for digitization project planning and evaluation was required. At a second meeting held during the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Roanoke, Virginia, the general outline and scope of this framework document was developed. A sub-group with members from both the IMLS Forum and the NSDL team then worked during the summer to fill out this outline and draft the complete document. Individuals who participated in drafting the full framework document are listed in the acknowledgements at the end of this article.
The "Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections" was published on the IMLS Web site in the fall of 2001 (Caplan et al., 2001a), along with a summary report describing Forum findings and recommendations in regard to the NSDL and its implications for IMLS digitization projects and programs (Caplan et al., 2001b). The Framework has been endorsed by the Digital Library Federation and The Chiefs of State Library Agencies, and has been favorably reviewed in the online publication Current Cites (Tennant, 2002). Comments about and responses to the Framework were solicited from the digital library community through 1 May 2002. This paper, presented during the Web-Wise 2002 conference in March, describes the thinking that went into the creation and organization of the Framework, summarizes briefly the essential principles articulated in the Framework, and concludes with a few observations about what remains to be done and about the immediate impacts of the Framework and other work accomplished to date by the IMLS Digital Library Forum.
Central to the design and purpose of the Framework is the observation that the nature of what makes a good and successful library or museum digitization project has changed over the course of the last decade. As available technologies have improved, digitization project objectives, as well as expectations for those projects, have evolved. Ten years ago, proof of concept alone was a sufficient objective. If a project could demonstrate a new and innovative way to digitize full content, primary source material, it was considered a success, almost regardless of what was then done with that digitized content. While we focused on getting the underlying digitization technologies right, considerations of scale, sustainability, and usability, though of interest, were of secondary significance.
Within a few years, however, as the fundamental technologies of digitization became more mature and better understood, issues of sustainability and utility to a specific and well defined target community of end users increased in importance. Digitization projects were no longer considered successful unless they succeeded in effectively delivering digitized content to a targeted community of users. This shift in focus has facilitated the initial, partial integration of digitized information resources with more traditional collections and has led to the development of many excellent stand-alone digital information resources.
We are now entering a third stage of development with regard to the construction of digital collections. Digital collections are no longer seen simply as self-contained, single-purpose entities. Practitioners now recognize the potential of digital collections to function as components and building blocks that can be reused by many different groups and upon which many kinds of advanced digital library services may be built. Seen in this light, digital collections as components of an institution's holdings have become more fully analogous to typical traditional collections. For instance, traditional academic library print collections have long been viewed as shared resources, available to and used by many individuals beyond those originally considered when the collection was initiated. In implementing a collection policy for a traditional print collection, a good academic library collection manager considers not only proximate core end users but also the wider and more diverse audience of both current and potential future end users, both near and far. Managers and implementers of digital collections are now expected to take much the same approach to digital collection development. This means that planners of digitization projects today must consider issues of reusability, persistence, interoperability, verification, and documentation. The resulting implications for project planning and evaluation are emphasized in the Framework.
The design and scope of the Framework also was informed by a judgment that there exists an important distinction between digital collections and digital libraries. Digitization projects, for which the Framework is intended as a resource, deal with the creation of digital content, i.e., with digital collections, whether "born" digital or transformed from print or other analog format. A digital collection, as defined and addressed in the Framework, consists of an organized assembly of digital information objects, metadata describing those objects, and metadata describing the overall collection. Though exact working definitions of what a digital library is still vary, a consensus among most practicing librarians is that digital libraries encompass more than just raw digital content (Borgman, 1999). In this view digital libraries are seen as systems that incorporate not only digital content, but also many value-added services, ranging from search and discovery utilities, to browse and interpretative interfaces, to specialized preservation and dissemination protocols. These value-added services facilitate management of the digital content and make it more usable by and accessible to end users. In this view digital collections are the building blocks of digital libraries much as collections of printed books, journals, and similar materials are the building blocks on which traditional library services are built. The charter of the IMLS Digital Library Forum was to focus especially on projects designed to generate digital content and on ways to improve planning, implementation, and evaluation of such projects. This in turn implies a focus on digital collections rather than digital libraries per se. The Framework reflects this limited scope and intentionally does not address digital library services. Rather the Framework addresses considerations of what is needed to make digital collections useful as building blocks of digital libraries. It individually addresses the following three primary constructs of digitization projects:
For each of these constructs the Framework articulates relevant fundamental principles that should be considered in planning or evaluating a digitization project. To elaborate on each principle, pointers to online resources and examples are provided. Not all principles will apply equally to all kinds of digitization projects, but the principles are stated in general terms and are defined independent of any particular standard or best practice, though many such are cited as illustrative of a how a particular principle may be applied in practice. The Framework also articulates principles and links to resources that deal with digitization projects generally.
This approach contrasts to more prescriptive digitization project guidelines, such as those often promulgated by a specific funding agency or for inclusion in a particular initiative. For instance, the Joint Information Systems Committee has issued prescriptive guidelines (Beagrie et al., 2001) for projects that wish to integrate as part of the UK's Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). Though thorough and well written, these guidelines are prescriptive and closely tied to a particular selection of standards and best practices. They make sense for a relatively homogeneous, top-down digital library development program.
Our review, however, indicated that guidance for interoperability with large-scale, emerging national and international digital library programs like the NSDL will require a framework with greater scope and flexibility. NSDL is being designed to accommodate and embrace digital collections built to a wide range of standards and best practices, including, it's reasonable to anticipate, some yet to be written. For compatibility with NSDL it's generally more important simply that recognized, high-quality standards and best practices are used in constructing a collection than it is that one particular standard or best practice is chosen in preference to another. In that sense the NSDL approach is bottom up rather than top down. For this reason our Framework was written less as a prescription and more as a summary of first principles for digital collection creation. As expressed in the Digital Library Federation's endorsement of the Framework:
Where other such guidelines promote specific standards and good practices - mechanisms whose utility is likely to diminish with time and changing technology - the IMLS Framework provides a set of high-level principles by which specific standards and good practices may be judged (Digital Library Federation, 2001).
What follows in the next four sections is a recap of the primary, high-level principles articulated in the Framework.
Just as a library collection is more than a random assemblage of books and journals and a museum collection is more than a random assemblage of artifacts or specimens, a digital collection of information resources is more than a random assemblage of digital objects. Collections imply selection and organization. Collections typically also require descriptive, structural, and/or administrative context, typically in the form of metadata, usually at both the collection level and the item (object) level. The Framework principles for good digital collections derive from this understanding of the nature of collections. They specify what is most often necessary to create a good digital collection, but are not prescriptive about how such specifications must or should be satisfied.
Good Digital Collections
A good digital collection is created according to an explicit collection development policy that has been agreed upon and documented before digitization begins.
Collections should be described so that a user can discover important characteristics of the collection, including scope, format, restrictions on access, ownership, and any information significant for determining the collection's authenticity, integrity and interpretation.
A collection should be sustainable over time. In particular, digital collections built with special funding should have a plan for their continued usability beyond the funded period.
A good collection is broadly available and avoids unnecessary impediments to use. Collections should be accessible to persons with disabilities, and usable effectively in conjunction with adaptive technologies.
A good collection respects intellectual property rights. Collection managers should maintain a consistent record of rightsholders and permissions granted for all applicable materials.
A good collection provides some measurement of use. Counts should be aggregated by period and maintained over time so that comparison can be made.
A good collection fits into the larger context of significant related national and international digital library initiatives. For example, collections of content useful for education in science, math and/or engineering should be usable in the NSDL.
In the context of the Framework, digital objects are defined as the items that make up digital collections. Multi-part digital objects take on characteristics of collections, and so should follow principles for both, as applicable. The following principles are intended to apply both to digital information objects that are "born" digital (i.e., initially published in digital form) and digital objects that are surrogates for or representations of physical objects or texts. The principles also are generally applicable both to objects intended for routine dissemination (e.g., use or access copies) and to objects maintained for archival purposes (e.g., master or preservation copies).
Good Digital Objects
A good digital object will be produced in a way that ensures it supports collection priorities.
A good object is persistent. That is, it will be the intention of some known individual or institution that the good object will persist; that it will remain accessible over time despite changing technologies.
A good object is digitized in a format that supports intended current and likely future use or that support the development of access copies that support those uses. Consequently, a good object is exchangeable across platforms, broadly accessible, and will either be digitized according to a recognized standard or best practice or deviate from standards and practices only for well documented reasons.
A good object will be named with a persistent, unique identifier that conforms to a well-documented scheme. It will not be named with reference to its absolute filename or address (e.g. as with URLs and other Internet addresses) as filenames and addresses have a tendency to change. Rather, the filename's location will be resolvable with reference to its identifier.
A good object can be authenticated in at least two senses. First, a user should be able to determine the object's origins, structure, and developmental history (version, etc.). Second, a user should be able to determine that the object is what it purports to be.
A good object will have and be associated with metadata. All good objects will have descriptive and administrative metadata. Some will have metadata that supplies information about their external relationships to other objects (e.g. the structural metadata that determines how page images from a digitally reformatted book relate to one another in some sequence).
Metadata, most generically defined simply as data about data, is an essential ingredient needed to support almost all current approaches to digital collection interoperability and aggregation. Metadata may be subclassed as descriptive, administrative, or structural. For some digitization projects full attention to all three subclasses of metadata will be required to insure a successful project. In other situations one subclass (e.g., descriptive metadata) may be demonstrably more important than the other two. The metadata principles articulated in the Framework apply to all types of metadata and emphasize in particular the need for the digitization project manager to balance metadata benefits against the cost of generating the metadata. They also emphasize the importance of standards-based taxonomies and metadata schemas and the need for early planning of metadata strategies. Metadata is not an afterthought for a digitization project, but rather something that should be considered from the outset of project planning.
Good Metadata
Good metadata should be appropriate to the materials in the collection, users of the collection, and intended, current and likely use of the digital object.
Good metadata supports interoperability.
Good metadata uses standard controlled vocabularies to reflect the what, where, when and who of the content.
Good metadata includes a clear statement on the conditions and terms of use for the digital object.
Good metadata records are objects themselves and therefore should have the qualities of good objects, including archivability, persistence, unique identification, etc. Good metadata should be authoritative and verifiable.
Good metadata supports the long-term management of objects in collections.
Though often defined and developed in the context of a broader digital library program, efforts to initiate and construct collections of digital information resources are most frequently funded and managed as discrete digitization projects. Because most digitization projects are for finite terms, even though most digital collections created by digitization projects are intended to exist indefinitely, it is essential that digitization project design includes plans for collection maintenance and potentially ongoing digitization after the term of the startup grant and project has expired. This implies an institutional commitment at least on a par with the commitment made when new collections of traditional materials are created. Because the process of constructing collections of digital content is still novel for most institutions, digitization projects also require ongoing assessment and evaluation. The fundamental considerations to insure good and successful digitization projects are commonsensical, but are overlooked often enough to warrant inclusion and discussion in the Framework.
Good Digitization Projects
A good project has a substantial design component.
A good project has an evaluation plan.
A good project produces a project report.
In its report looking at what is needed to support inclusion of IMLS-funded digital content in online national library initiatives like the NSDL program, the IMLS Digital Library Forum recommended that topically appropriate digitization projects funded by IMLS be encouraged to take six specific steps to help insure that content developed can be included in the NSDL (Caplan et al., 2001b). These suggestions for digitization project design features focus on development of collection and item-level metadata and support of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). They also call for project managers to address issues relating to interoperability, reusability, and persistence when planning digitization projects. These recommendations has raised consciousness regarding these issues among 2002 IMLS applicants and have resulted in a decision by IMLS to fund in 2002 a limited number of projects designed to add value (e.g., standard metadata and OAI-PMH metadata provider services) to digital collections already created under prior IMLS digitization grants.
The IMLS Digital Library Forum also articulated two general recommendations for the IMLS digitization program as a whole. The second of these recommended the creation of a registry of IMLS digitization projects (current and selected past) containing both collection level metadata about each digitized collection and a repository of item-level metadata describing the contents of each collection. This recommendation has resulted in the inclusion (as part of the IMLS National Leadership Grant program call for 2002) of a "Request for Proposals to Develop a Registry and Metadata Repository for Digital Collections."
The other general recommendation of the forum was for IMLS to adopt, promulgate, and maintain a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Collections. In accord with this recommendation the IMLS has already disseminated and requested comments regarding the Framework draft as described and discussed above. The IMLS Digital Library Forum is very much aware that the first draft of the Framework as published last November on the IMLS Web site is just that, a first draft. Though the principles and links contained in this document represent considerable breadth and depth, the Framework can't be considered a complete and finished document. To be truly useful, the Framework must be maintained over time as a dynamic document. New links and potentially even new principles will need to be added and old ones discarded as technologies, protocols, and best practices change and evolve.
The means to maintain and update the Framework over time remain to be decided. However, the response and comments so far received since its initial publication last fall suggest that an effort to maintain and continue development of this resource for both project planners and project funding organizations will be well worth the effort. It is hoped that IMLS, possibly in conjunction with other organizations, will put in place the necessary structures to support the long-term continuation of the Framework.
Timothy W. Cole has a BS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and a MS in Library and Information Science, both earned from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a member of the faculty of the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1989, serving first as Assistant Engineering Librarian and later as Systems Librarian for Digital Projects. He currently holds the post of Mathematics Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration and is Principal Investigator for the Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He was a member of the IMLS Digital Library Forum.
E-mail: t-cole3@uiuc.edu
This paper was presented 22 March 2002 at Web-Wise 2002, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Individuals who contributed to the draft of the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections as published by IMLS on 6 November 2001:
Liz Bishoff, Colorado Digitization Alliance
Priscilla Caplan (chair), Florida Center for Library Automation
Tim Cole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Anne Craig, Illinois State Library
Daniel Greenstein, Digital Library Federation
Doug Holland, Missouri Botanical Garden
Ellen Kabat-Lensch, Eastern Iowa Community College
Tom Moritz, American Museum of Natural History
John Saylor, Cornell University
Neil Beagrie et al., 2001. "Working with the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER): Standards and Guidelines to Build a National Resource" (February), at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/development/guidance/DNERStandards.html, accessed 2 April 2002.
Christine L. Borgman, 1999. "What Are Digital Libraries? Competing Visions," Information Processing and Management, volume 35, pp. 227-243.
Priscilla Caplan et al., 2001a. "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections" (6 November), at http://www.imls.gov/pubs/forumframework.htm, accessed 2 April 2002.
Priscilla Caplan et al., 2001b. "Report of the IMLS Digital Library Forum on the National Science Digital Library Program" (October), http://www.imls.gov/pubs/natscidiglibrary.htm, accessed 2 April 2002.
William Jefferson Clinton, 1999. "Memorandum on the Use of Information Technology" (17 December), In: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999, volume 2, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives Records Administration, p. 2316, and at http://www.gpo.gov/nara/pubpaps/srchpaps.html (from the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access, DOCID:pap_text-672), accessed 2 April 2002.
Digital Library Federation, 2001. "DLF Endorsement for Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections," at http://www.diglib.org/standards/imlsframe.htm, accessed 2 April 2002.
Cathryn A. Manduca, Flora P. McMartin, and David W. Mogk (editors), 2001. "Pathways to Progress: Vision and Plans for Developing the NSDL" (20 March), at http://www.smete.org/nsdl/meetings/grantees0901/whitepaper.pdf, accessed 2 April 2002.
Roy Tennant, 2002. Current Cites, volume 13, number 2 (February), at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2002/cc02.13.2.html, accessed 2 April 2002.
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Editorial history
Paper received 7 April 2002; accepted 18 April 2002.
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Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections by Timothy W. Cole
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As the title says plans have finally been lodged for the much anticipated Motorsport facility at Ringwood Raceway just north of Raymond Terrace near Newcastle.
If you do a bit of hunting around the website you will find a CGI video of a hot lap of the track and the track design.
Make sure you sign up to the announcments and updates.
This is going to be the best thing to happen to NSW motoring enthusiasts in a very long time.
Awesome, hope it comes to fruition.
Let's hope they allow drifting.
would love to see em allow drifting !
There is a contact us section on the site... might be worth asking.
environmental impact reasons? (as recently as 12 months ago). I remember signing petitions, writing a letter of support and everything, but to no avail.
I really hope this new application succeeds, we really need a new racetrack in NSW and very much so in Newcastle.
FYI the current owner is not the owner who lodged the application that was refused by the council and subsequently the land and environment court.
I actually took the time to read the ruling by the L and E court and although the environmental considerations were a factor the greater issues related to traffic off the pacific HWY and the affect things like drag racing would have on the neighbours.
This particular proposal is for a club level motorsport facility to minimise the affect of all of the issues raised previously.
You won't be seeing a round of the V8 supercars here but for guys like us it will be heaven.
Thanks. Cool! Fingers crossed this one gets approval.
Another track would be great. Would certainly ease the pressure on EC and Wakefield and the variety would be great.
You'd think they'd need the big boys like supercars to rake in enough dosh? Sounds unreal signed up for the email updates!
You might think, but most race circuits actually make money every day of the year, and in some cases lose money running V8SC rounds.
Why would they loose money when ten of thousands of spectators turn up and pay to get in on top of hiring the track fees and entry fees for competitors?
Where as club days they only get money from track hire?
Doesn't make sense unless I'm missing something?
V8's don't pay you to use their track, you pay the v8s to come and play in your backyard, just like the F1's but on a slightly smaller scale.
Not really, would just give Cochrane more ammo for Street Circuits, which none of us can use and takes away any money that Government might put into local circuits that the club level guys like us can use!
It would be great if the tracks said you can't play here, but not all of them have the balls to say that to the "greatest show on wheels"
Why would they with the.income they receive say no.
I am tracking the DA electronically so I will post updates here.
he is worth 1.1 billion now. hes holds enough sway (and $$$$$) to actually make it work. if its true he is interested.
Council have put the DA on exhibition.
What this basically means is that the council have received everything they need for the lodgment to be satisfactory and now the public get the first opportunity to have there official say direct to council. This exhibition will last about a month before all of the public submissions are reviewed by council and a date is set for the council meeting for determination.
If anybody is serious about making a submission pm me and I will forward you the details.
That's excellent news about Ringwood. My 2 work colleauges & I are all members of the MG Car Club Newcastle & have been to the hillclimb a few times. We've always talked about how they should make an EC style circuit up here.
underground32, if you could PM me details about the submission all three of us will put in one. We definitely want to see this go forward!
Cheers & bring on the Ringwood Raceway!
Everybody on this site should put forward a professional submission. Any volunteers to draft one that members could use as a base model?


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Bourrée in E Minor
Bach's famous Bourrée from his first lute suite, better known to guitarists as 'Bourrée in E minor', is an intermediate-level piece often transcribed for classical guitar. It's a typical example of Baroque-Period counterpoint with interdependent melodic lines in bass and treble parts. A bourrée is a kind of dance and music composed for them is in simple binary form, i.e., two repeated sections, often (as in this case) with the second section being considerably longer than the first and more varied in tonality. In this bourrée, which is very typical of the form, the first section starts in the key of E minor and modulates to the relative major key of G major at the end of the first section. The second section starts in the key of G major and makes its way back to E minor at the end, via some some other related keys that make a brief and musically interesting appearance.
Download Bach's Bourrée in E minor as a PDF file for offline viewing and printing.
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1494841 Data transmission; master and slave systems NCR CORP 14 April 1975 [24 April 1974] 15158/75 Heading H4P [Also in Division G4] A data handling system includes a central unit, a plurality of addressable terminals each of which may be active or inactive, and a communications adapter coupled to the central unit and arranged to tramsit messages to the terminals, the adapter including a counter arranged to address the terminals and recirculating storage means arranged to store bits provided by the central unit and representing the activity states of the terminals, the arrangement being such that a message is sent to an addressed terminal only if it is active. The system includes a central processor coupled to groups of terminals via respective adapters, each terminal including an input keyboard, a digit display, and a microprocessor arranged to operate ON or OFF-LINE from the central processor. Each terminal may include other devices, e.g. magnetic credit card readers, coin dispensers &c. Each adapter may be connected to up to 16 terminals each of which receives all messages transmitted and, on receiving a message addressed to it, responds with a message. All messages have a similar format including 8 sync bits, 4 address bits identifying a terminal, further address bits identifying a unit within a terminal, data bits, 2 function bits indicating the mode, and check bits including a cyclic redundancy check bit and a 1-bit module two count of the message number. The system is described in some detail in block diagram form and includes features to compare received address bits with stored address bits, and received check bits with generated check bits. Communication is in two modes, viz "polling" where the terminals are addressed in sequence and "exchange" where a selected terminal is addressed. During polling a counter produces the addresses of successive terminals, an activity bit at the output of a recirculating shift register being examined for each address. If the bit indicates an active terminal a message is sent and a timer is set. On receipt of a message a terminal responds. If the adapter recognizes a response before the timer times out and the message is correct all is well. If however the message is incorrect the adapter interrupts the central processor which normally instructs the adapter to repoll the terminal. A similar procedure occurs if no response is received before the timer times out. If after three attempts no valid response is received the control unit regards the terminal as inactive, resets the activity bits accordingly, and resets the address counter to restart the polling sequence. Data transmitted both from the adapter and the terminals is retained following transmission for possible re-transmission in the event that the first transmission is not received correctly. If for any address the activity bit indicates an inactive terminal, no message is sent and the address counter is incremented to address the next terminal. The procedure for an exchange message is generally similar except that the terminal addresses are derived directly from the central unit and the activity bits are not considered. Operation at the adapter and terminals are controlled by sequence counters stepping through sequences of states in response to clock signals and the status of the system. The clock signals are also used to control message transmission and reception, messages being transmitted serially in Manchester code.
FR2658690B1 (en) * 1990-02-21 1992-04-30 Alcatel Business Systems Arrangement for connecting digital terminals has a single port having a higher throughput.


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Someone Is Praying For You – All The Time!
I hope you have a person or 2 praying for you. In today's busy world, people are limited in availability, memory, and understanding of your life. So, committed intercession is valued and precious – a wonderful gift! But it is limited . . . because people are limited.
There is another person – very dependable, not limited, available continually – who is praying for you night and day: Jesus.
Where Are You on the Spectrum of Global Ministry?
There are 2 focuses you can have on this globe: eternal and temporary. Everyone must address daily temporary issues (food, clothes, bills, plans, chores, etc.). Yet, eternal issues are critical. People exist somewhere on the spectrum – endless combinations – between these ideas. God cares about both focuses. The life of Christ proves it. But He "super cares" about eternal.
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A white feather has often been associated with disgrace, cowardice, or shame. The tradition of giving a white feather is questionable – especially when given unjustly. Yet, even when deserved, it's hard to bear disgrace in life. To be misunderstood. To wonder what went wrong. To be judged. Justly accused. Or falsely accused.
When you start a fun adventure, a new program, a fresh plan, a resolved commitment – it's easy to be excited. Passion gives energy to do hard stuff. You even handle losses better. Fresh starts are power launches. But – how do you finish well?
When "new" becomes the norm, some discipline starts slipping off. Daily drudgery sets in. Then – when life gets downright hard, painful, or disappointing, you realize you need to grit your teeth with resolve if you are going to finish well. Early days of clarity and passion start to fade.
At a successful power launch, you stand your ground. You rise up from set-back. But over time, you have become tired. Battle weary. You need a rest.