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Michigan eLibrary
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The Michigan eLibrary, or MeL, is a service of the Library of Michigan. It is supported by the State of Michigan as well as by federal funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
MeL is Michigan's 24/7 digital library and is one of the oldest online libraries on the Internet, beginning in 1992 with the gopher GoMLink.
MeL provides statewide access to nearly 40 subscription based eResources, contains vetted Web sites on topics such as business, jobs, legal, health, government, books and literacy, kids, and teens. Other components of the Michigan eLibrary include: MeLCat, a statewide borrowing system over 430 libraries—public, academic, school and special—that allows users to place their own interlibrary loan requests if they belong to a participating library, Michigana, a portal for discovering primary resources in digital format such as photographs, diaries, maps, and more on Michigan history or Michigan's place in American History, and the Michigan Online Resources for Educators (M.O.R.E.), a portal linking to tens of thousands of curricular based resources such as lesson plans, interactives, videos and more that are aligned to the state and national standards (CCSS).
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January 2017 MeL books for Plankinton articles
February 2017 Mel books used mostly for articles related to Benjamin Franklin
March 2017 Mel books used mostly for Experiment & Observation article
Mel book research usage used for Wikipedia article references
Mel books 'tracking notice' giving all pertinent transferring information
Mel Inter-Library Loan books borrowed from Michigan libraries and Universities
MeL Inter-Library Loaned Books used in November 2016 for articles
Mel "nested" stack of books from libraries throughout Michigan.
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Library of Michigan
The Library of Michigan is a state-run library and historical center located in Lansing, Michigan, created to provide one perpetual state institution to collect and preserve Michigan publications, conduct reference and research, support libraries statewide. Under the Michigan Department of History and Libraries state agency and, as of 2009, under the Michigan Department of Education, the library is Michigan's official state library agency. A notable side-project of the Library of Michigan is the Michigan eLibrary, one of the first online libraries on the Internet. MeL provides full-text articles, Michigan history materials, evaluated web sites to residents of the state of Michigan. In 2003, the Library of Michigan Board of Trustees elected as chair Elaine Didier, dean of Oakland University's Kresge Library and professor at Oakland University. In 1828, a territorial library was created containing laws and government documents for use by the territorial council, William B. Hunt was appointed the territorial librarian.
Nine years the former territorial library became the state library, Governor Stevens T. Mason appointed Oren Marsh as the first state librarian. In 1879, the state library moved to the new State Capitol in Lansing, it was a two-story room on the second and third floor in the west wing. The space is now the Speaker's Library on the second floor and the House Appropriations Committee room on the third floor. A fire in the State Office Building where the library was housed in 1951 destroyed 20,000 books and damaged 30,000 more. Public Act 540 of 1982 created the Library of Michigan and transferred control of the library from the Department of Education to the Legislative Council. Three years the Library of Michigan Foundation, which secures funds to support the library's priority programs and projects, was established. In 1988, the Michigan Library and Historical Center opened, tripling the Library of Michigan's space and merging its full collection of books in one place for the first time since the 1951 fire.
In 2001, the library was moved to the new Department of History and Libraries. After that department's abolition in 2009, the library was moved back to the Department of Education; the Library of Michigan at 5 stories contains over 3.2 million different items that take up over 27 miles of shelves. Opened in 1989, the Library of Michigan building contains one of the ten largest genealogical collections in the United States. Another feature is a Michigan collection containing legal materials. Other features of the library and historical center include the Michigan Historical Museum, the Archives of Michigan, newspapers on microfilm from papers all over the state; the State Law Library moved to the building in the summer of 2007. MichiCard Official website Michigan eLibrary homepage
Experiments and Observations on Electricity
Experiments and Observations on Electricity is a mid-eighteenth century book consisting of letters from Benjamin Franklin. These letters concerned Franklin's discoveries about the behavior of electricity based on experimentation and scientific studies; the book came in pamphlet form for the first three English editions. The last two editions were in a book volume with a book spine. There were eleven European editions of the book: five English editions, three French editions, a German and Latin edition; the publication was well received worldwide. It was considered America's most important scientific book of the eighteenth century; the book came about through the activities of scientists at the Royal Society of London. Franklin sent letters to members of the Society about his experiments on electricity and the observations he had made. Most of these letters went to Peter Collinson; some of these were read at the society's meetings. There was much interest shown, so some of them were sent to a printer to be published in a magazine.
Public interest in Franklin's letters about electricity led the Society to gather together many of the letters to Collinson from Franklin over a two-year period and send them to the printer for publication. This first collection of letters was published in a ninety-page pamphlet in 1751, it was soon followed by other parts that were "Supplemental" to the existing edition and a "New" publication was sold from the total of all the "Parts" produced. Each edition expanded by additional Franklin letters being added, it became a 496-page volume by 1769. The book inspired others to follow in Franklin's footsteps to do further in-depth research on electricity. Franklin was first attracted to the study of electricity when he saw the showman Archibald Spencer do magic demonstrations in Boston and in Philadelphia, he purchased Spencer's equipment and used it for his electricity experiments after these demonstrations were completed. He referred to Spencer as Dr. Spence from Scotland. In 1746, at the age of forty years, Franklin began turning over the affairs of his printing company to his business partner David Hall, went into semi-retirement so he could carry out research on electricity.
Peter Collinson – a wealthy Quaker cloth merchant, a Fellow of the Royal Society and one of the founders of the Society of Antiquaries of London – donated a Leyden jar battery, a glass tube, an account of new German experiments in electricity to the Library Company of Philadelphia. The account described. Franklin first experimented with static electricity in the middle of 1747, referring to it as "these new wonders." In conducting his initial electrical research, Franklin made use of the unique battery and glass tube provided by Collinson. Thomas Penn, son of William Penn, made an electrostatic machine that supplemented Collinson's equipment. To these Franklin added an electrostatic generating machine of his own design, more efficient than the one given to him by Penn, it was convenient because it was constructed with a handle, like that of a common grindstone, turned by the operator. The simple mechanical machine mechanism spun an axle that had mounted on it a glass sphere that rubbed on a cloth pad.
The glass sphere bulb generated'electric fire', transferred through conductors to a Leyden jar capacitor that held the electric charge, used for experimentation. Franklin formed a research core team that consisted of Ebenezer Kinnersley, Thomas Hopkinson, Philip Syng and developed the first scientific research laboratory in America, he recorded this observation. In this process he showed that anyone could repeat and prove these results themselves of the electrical principle if they did the experiment he detailed. Franklin spent much time studying this new field of electricity, from 1747 through 1750 sent many letters to Collinson on his findings; the book consists of a collection of these letters. The book came in pamphlet form for the first three editions; the last two editions were a book volume with hard covers. Franklin's letters explained the observations he made from them, he sent these to Collinson to show that the equipment – put into the hands of the group of men associated with Library Company of Philadelphia – was being put to good use.
William Watson, a scientist specializing in the study of electricity, theorized that electricity was attracted to conductors that were pointed. Watson received in 1746 from Dr. John Mitchell a lengthy Franklin letter on theories about thunderstorms and pointed conductors as related to electricity, he read part of the letter to fellow members of the Royal Society of London on November 9, 1749. A week he finished the reading. On December 4 Watson received another similar Franklin letter dated April 29, 1749, from Collinson and read it to the Society on December 21, 1749. Over the next two years Collinson had transmitted to the Society more of Franklin's letters he had received describing electrical experiments done by Franklin and his team of experimenters. Many talked about the tendency of an electrical discharge to be attracted to a pointed conductor, grounded - the basics to his lightning rod invention to protect wooden buildings such as houses and churches. Watson turned over some of these Franklin letters to the local publisher Edward Cave, who had them printed in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1750.
In April 1751 Cave printed in a publication more of the letters Collinson had received and they included corrections added by Franklin. This publication was titled and Observations on El
Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a patron of one library can borrow books, DVDs, etc. and/or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library. The user makes a request with their home library; the lending library sets a due date and overdue fees of the material borrowed. Although books and journal articles are the most requested items, some libraries will lend audio recordings, video recordings, sheet music, microforms of all kinds. In some cases, nominal fees accompany the interlibrary loan services; the term document delivery may be used for a related service, namely the supply of journal articles and other copies on a personalized basis, whether these come from other libraries or direct from the publishers. The end user is responsible for any fees, such as costs for postage or photocopying. Commercial document delivery services will borrow on behalf of any customer willing to pay for their rates. Interlibrary loan, or resource sharing, has two operations: lending. A borrowing library sends an owning library a request to borrow, photocopy, or scan materials, needed by their patron.
The owning library fills the request by sending materials to the borrowing library or supply a reason for why the request cannot be filled. If the item is sent, the borrowing library notifies the patron. Interlibrary loan and resource sharing have a variety of systems and workflows based on the scale of service, regional networks, library systems. Processes are automated by computer systems such as VDX based on ISO ILL standards 10161 and 10160. Two major systems are used heavily: ILLiad developed by Atlas Systems and Worldshare Management System by OCLC. In 2017, OCLC announced a new interlibrary loan management system called Tipasa, built on the OCLC WorldShare technology platform, is the first cloud-based interlibrary loan management system. Loan requests between branch libraries in the same local library system are filled promptly, while loan requests between library systems may take weeks to complete. However, if an item is rare, fragile, or exceptionally valuable, the owning library is under no obligation to release it for interlibrary loan.
Some collections and volumes bound journals and one-of-a-kind manuscripts, are non-circulating, meaning that they may not be borrowed. Books may be delivered by courier service. Photocopies may be scanned and delivered electronically. Urgent requests are placed. Public libraries do not offer urgent service. Interlibrary loan provides users with access to articles from journals that their library does not have in its collection or is subscribed to. In the United States, most libraries follow guidelines established by the Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted works, which established that libraries should pay publishers' fees if more than 5 ILL requests are filled from within the past 5 years from a specific publication; this guideline is referred to in United States Libraries as the "Rule of Five." In addition, many journal or database licenses specify whether a library can or cannot supply journal articles via ILL, with many libraries taking an approach to negotiate for ILL to be allowed in licenses.
When licensed to send articles via Interlibrary Loan, having examined the need to pay copyright fees for articles, article processing has become automated in Interlibrary Loan. In the early 1990s the Research Library Group created and released Ariel, a software that made communicating both photocopies and native digital articles more efficient. In the early 2000s Atlas Systems, creators of the ILLiad software system, created Odyssey, which allowed for direct communication of articles between libraries, direct sending of articles to library patrons. Although Odyssey usage and features increased OCLC realized an important need among its member libraries, created Article Exchange, a cloud-based secure article sharing platform that automatically deletes articles after a specified number of downloads and/or a number of days; as many libraries shifted their journal subscriptions to digital, citation information became much more available with tools such as Google Scholar, Interlibrary Loan of articles has become a large part of Interlibrary Loan services.
In 1886 Joseph C. Rowell, Librarian at the University of California, sought permission to begin Interlibrary Loan. In 1894 Rowell initiated U. C. Berkeley's first program of interlibrary lending, with the California State Library as partner; that year Rowell expanded the invitation for a group of libraries, such as NUCMC. Librarians filled out a standardized form and sent it by postal mail to a library that owned a copy; this procedure is still used by the few libraries that are not members of an electronic interlibrary loan network. In 1994, the Reference and User Services Association of the ALA formed an ALA Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States, which sought to establish resource sharing as a core service and to provide guidelines for libraries; the RUSA section on Resource Sharing has engaged in initiatives to expand resource sharing, including the Rethinking Resource Sharing Init
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to "create strong libraries and museums that connect people with information and ideas." IMLS "works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage and knowledge. Their vision is "a democratic society where communities and individuals thrive with broad public access to knowledge, cultural heritage, lifelong learning." In fiscal year 2015, IMLS had a budget of $228 million. In addition to its other responsibilities, the IMLS annually awards the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest award given for community service by libraries and museums. IMLS is located at 955 L'Enfant Plaza North, SW, Suite 4000, Washington, D. C. 20024-2135. IMLS was established by the Museum and Library Services Act on September 30, 1996, which includes the Library Services and Technology Act and the Museum Services Act.
This act was reauthorized in 2003 and again in 2010. The law combined the Institute of Museum Services, in existence since 1976, the Library Programs Office, part of the Department of Education since 1956. Lawmakers at that time saw "great potential in an Institute, focused on the combined roles that libraries and museums play in our community life."As amended, MLSA authorizes IMLS to promote improvements in library services. MLSA authorizes IMLS to carry out and publish analyses of the impact of museum and library services; the act comes up for reauthorization every 5 years. Adjustment to the act have been made over time. In April 2014, Representative Paul Ryan recommended that the federal government not fund MLSA and "shift the federal agency's responsibilities to the private sector in his 2015 fiscal year budget resolution" such as "funded at the state and local level and augmented by charitable contributions from the private sector". Following a proposal by President George W. Bush, the activities of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science was consolidated under IMLS, along with some of the activities of the National Center for Education Statistics, in order to create a unified body for federal support of library and information policy.
The consolidation took effect in early 2008. When Congress passed the Library Services and Technology Act in 1996, it moved library responsibilities out of the Department of Education and created the IMLS as new agency; the act stipulated that the agency maintain a rotating directorship starting with the former director of the Institute of Museum Services for a four-year term. In the fifth year, the directorship would pass to a representative from the field of library and information science. Diane Frankel Prior to leading the agency through its transition to include federal library as well as museum programs, Frankel served as director of the Institute of Museum Services. Robert S. Martin Preceding his position at IMLS, Martin was a professor and interim director of the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University, he served as Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. He articulated the convergence of new media in lifelong learning at the beginning of the millennium.
Anne-Imelda Radice Previously served as chief of staff for the U. S. Department of Education and as curator in the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, she earned a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in Massachusetts. C.. D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Susan H. Hildreth Began her career as a branch librarian at the Edison Township Library in New Jersey, where she was president of the Public Library Association, she has been the city librarian in Seattle and state librarian of California. In addition, Hildreth was deputy director of San Francisco Public Library. Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew A scientist with a 30-year museum career, Matthew's experience includes curation, collections management, research roles at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Cranbrook Institute of Science, her experience includes fundraising and marketing roles at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, The Nature Conservancy, the Historic Charleston Foundation, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
She was executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. STEM – Libraries and museums are improving learning in science, technology and math, a national priority for US competitiveness. Preservation and Care of Content and Collections – Libraries and museums care for collections that connect us to history, art and the natural world; the national initiative, Connecting to Collections, is an initiative to raise public awareness of the importance of caring for our treasures, to underscore the
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, academic and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies; the Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web, electronic mail and file sharing. Some publications no longer capitalize "internet"; the origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the federal government of the United States in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication with computer networks. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1980s; the funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, the merger of many networks.
The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet, generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional and mobile computers were connected to the network. Although the Internet was used by academia since the 1980s, commercialization incorporated its services and technologies into every aspect of modern life. Most traditional communication media, including telephony, television, paper mail and newspapers are reshaped, redefined, or bypassed by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as email, Internet telephony, Internet television, online music, digital newspapers, video streaming websites. Newspaper and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging, web feeds and online news aggregators; the Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, social networking. Online shopping has grown exponentially both for major retailers and small businesses and entrepreneurs, as it enables firms to extend their "brick and mortar" presence to serve a larger market or sell goods and services online.
Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries. The Internet has no single centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force, a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise. In November 2006, the Internet was included on USA Today's list of New Seven Wonders; when the term Internet is used to refer to the specific global system of interconnected Internet Protocol networks, the word is a proper noun that should be written with an initial capital letter.
In common use and the media, it is erroneously not capitalized, viz. the internet. Some guides specify that the word should be capitalized when used as a noun, but not capitalized when used as an adjective; the Internet is often referred to as the Net, as a short form of network. As early as 1849, the word internetted was used uncapitalized as an adjective, meaning interconnected or interwoven; the designers of early computer networks used internet both as a noun and as a verb in shorthand form of internetwork or internetworking, meaning interconnecting computer networks. The terms Internet and World Wide Web are used interchangeably in everyday speech. However, the World Wide Web or the Web is only one of a large number of Internet services; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other web resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. As another point of comparison, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the language used on the Web for information transfer, yet it is just one of many languages or protocols that can be used for communication on the Internet.
The term Interweb is a portmanteau of Internet and World Wide Web used sarcastically to parody a technically unsavvy user. Research into packet switching, one of the fundamental Internet technologies, started in the early 1960s in the work of Paul Baran and Donald Davies. Packet-switched networks such as the NPL network, ARPANET, the Merit Network, CYCLADES, Telenet were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s; the ARPANET project led to the development of protocols for internetworking, by which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks. ARPANET development began with two network nodes which were interconnected between the Network Measurement Center at the University of California, Los Angeles Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science directed by Leonard Kleinrock, the NLS system at SRI International by Douglas Engelbart in Menlo Park, California, on 29 October 1969; the third site was the Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, followed by the University of
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of about 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River, its capital is Lansing, its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's largest metropolitan economies. Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas; the Lower Peninsula is noted as shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan; the Mackinac Bridge connects the peninsulas. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair; as a result, it is one of the leading U.
S. states for recreational boating. Michigan has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than six miles from a natural water source or more than 85 miles from a Great Lakes shoreline; the area was first occupied by a succession of Native American tribes over thousands of years. Inhabited by Natives, Métis, French explorers in the 17th century, it was claimed as part of New France colony. After France's defeat in the French and Indian War in 1762, the region came under British rule. Britain ceded this territory to the newly independent United States after Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War; the area was part of the larger Northwest Territory until 1800, when western Michigan became part of the Indiana Territory. Michigan Territory was formed in 1805, but some of the northern border with Canada was not agreed upon until after the War of 1812. Michigan was admitted into the Union in 1837 as a free one, it soon became an important center of industry and trade in the Great Lakes region and a popular immigrant destination in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Although Michigan developed a diverse economy, it is known as the center of the U. S. automotive industry, which developed as a major economic force in the early 20th century. It is home to the country's three major automobile companies. While sparsely populated, the Upper Peninsula is important for tourism thanks to its abundance of natural resources, while the Lower Peninsula is a center of manufacturing, agriculture and high-tech industry; when the first European explorers arrived, the most populous tribes were Algonquian peoples, which include the Anishinaabe groups of Ojibwe, Odaawaa/Odawa, the Boodewaadamii/Bodéwadmi. The three nations co-existed peacefully as part of a loose confederation called the Council of Three Fires; the Ojibwe, whose numbers are estimated to have been between 25,000 and 35,000, were the largest. The Ojibwe were established in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern and central Michigan, inhabited Ontario and southern Manitoba, Canada; the Ottawa lived south of the Straits of Mackinac in northern and southern Michigan, but in southern Ontario, northern Ohio and eastern Wisconsin.
The Potawatomi were in southern and western Michigan, in addition to northern and central Indiana, northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario. Other Algonquian tribes in Michigan, in the south and east, were the Mascouten, the Menominee, the Miami, the Sac, the Fox; the Wyandot were an Iroquoian-speaking people in this area. French voyageurs and coureurs des bois settled in Michigan in the 17th century; the first Europeans to reach what became Michigan were those of Étienne Brûlé's expedition in 1622. The first permanent European settlement was founded in 1668 on the site where Père Jacques Marquette established Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as a base for Catholic missions. Missionaries in 1671–75 founded outlying stations at Saint Ignace and Marquette. Jesuit missionaries were well received by the area's Indian populations, with few difficulties or hostilities. In 1679, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle built Fort Miami at present-day St. Joseph. In 1691, the French established a trading post and Fort St. Joseph along the St. Joseph River at the present-day city of Niles.
In 1701, French explorer and army officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or "Fort Pontchartrain on-the-Strait" on the strait, known as the Detroit River, between lakes Saint Clair and Erie. Cadillac had convinced King Louis XIV's chief minister, Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, that a permanent community there would strengthen French control over the upper Great Lakes and discourage British aspirations; the hundred soldiers and workers who accompanied Cadillac built a fort enclosing one arpent and named it Fort Pontchartrain. Cadillac's wife, Marie Thérèse Guyon, soon moved to Detroit, becoming one of the first European women to settle in what was considered the wilderness of Michigan; the town became a major fur-trading and shipping post. The Église de Saint-Anne was founded the same year. While the original building does not survive, the congregation remains active. Cadillac departed to serve as the French governor of Louisiana from 1710 to 1716.
French attempts to consol
Michigan [videos]
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of about 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United …
Père Marquette and the Indians (1869), Wilhelm Lamprecht
Approximate area of Michigan highlighted in Guillaume de L'Isle's 1718 map
Internet [videos]
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local …
Internet users per 100 population members and GDP per capita for selected countries.
The Internet Messenger by Buky Schwartz, located in Holon, Israel
ICANN headquarters in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
This NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity [videos]
Experiments and Observations on Electricity is a mid-eighteenth century book consisting of letters from Benjamin Franklin. These letters concerned Franklin's discoveries about the behavior of electricity based on experimentation and scientific studies. The book came in pamphlet form for the first …
Title page of 1751 original publication
Franklin's electrostatic machine display at Franklin Institute museum.
Typical letter in the book - July 27, 1750. Letter V in the first three English editions is Letter VI in fourth and fifth English editions.
Second edition 1754 of "New Experiments" of Part I and Part II
Library of Michigan [videos]
The Library of Michigan is a state-run library and historical center located in Lansing, Michigan that was created to provide one perpetual state institution to collect and preserve Michigan publications, conduct reference and research, and support libraries statewide. Previously under the Michigan …
The atrium of the Library of Michigan
Michigan in the 20th Century exhibit in the Michigan History Museum
Interlibrary loan [videos]
Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a patron of one library can borrow books, DVDs, music, etc. and/or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by …
A patron picking up books they requested through interlibrary loan.
Joseph C. Rowell
Institute of Museum and Library Services [videos]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to "create strong libraries and museums that …
Image: IMLS logo
Jamie Foxx [videos]
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Foxx at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Foxx promoting Stealth in July 2005.
Foxx's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Foxx in 2005
Stater [videos]
The stater was an ancient coin used in various regions of Greece. The term is also used for similar coins, imitating Greek staters, minted elsewhere in ancient Europe. — History — The stater, as a Greek silver currency, first as …
An early Archaic silver stater from Corinth, 555–515 BC. Obverse: Pegasus flying left, koppa below. Reverse: quadripartite incuse
Silver stater from Delphi, 338/6–334/3 BC. Obverse: head of Demeter left, wearing grain-ear wreath and veil. Reverse: Apollo seated left on omphalos, tripod to left, ΑΜΦΙΚΤΙΟΝΩΝ around.
A Celtic stater made from billon alloy found in Armorica
Image: Monnaie de Bactriane, Eucratide I, 2 faces
Guinea (coin) [videos]
The guinea was a coin of approximately one quarter ounce of gold that was minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814. The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, where much of the gold used to make the coins originated. It was the first English machine-struck gold coin, originally worth …
Five Guinea coin, James II, Great Britain, 1688
James II, with elephant and castle under the bust, 1686
George I: Quarter guinea (1718)
Kanye West [videos]
Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer. His musical career has been marked by dramatic changes in styles, incorporating an eclectic range of influences including soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock …
West in 2009
West performing in Portland in December 2005 as a supporting act for U2 on their Vertigo Tour.
West working in the studio in 2008, accompanied by mentor No I.D. (left).
West performing at the SWU Music & Arts Festival in Brazil, 2011
Nantes [videos]
Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 303,382 in Nantes and a …
The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads.
Section of the Roman city wall
Nantes Cathedral, rebuilt in the Gothic style beginning in the 15th century
Typical 18th-century façades in Nantes
Bern [videos]
Bern or Berne is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their Bundesstadt, or "federal city". With a population …
Construction of the Untertorbrücke (Lower Gate Bridge) in Bern, Tschachtlanchronik, late 15th century
Bern in 1638
The Old City of Bern with the Minster and its platform above the lower Matte quarter and the Aare
View of Bern from the ISS; The Old City is in the lower right-hand side.
Keira Knightley [videos]
Keira Christina Knightley; 26 March 1985) is an English actress. She has worked in both the British and American film industries, and has starred in Broadway and West End theatre productions. She has received an Empire Award and multiple nominations for British Academy, Golden Globe, and …
Knightley at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival
Knightley at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2005
Knightley at the Toronto premiere of A Dangerous Method in 2011
Knightley at the 2008 BAFTA Film Awards
Imperial Treasury, Vienna [videos]
The Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria contains a valuable collection of secular and ecclesiastical treasures covering over a thousand years of European history. The entrance to the treasury is at the Schweizerhof, the …
Imperial Crown, Orb, and Sceptre of Austria, kept in the Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna
Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, kept in the Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna
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Madrid [videos]
Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole. The city has almost 3.3 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.5 million. It is the …
Section of Muslim Walls of Madrid. For a list of all the walls, see: Walls of Madrid
Madrid from the exit of the Puente de Segovia. Painting of 1560. The alcázar can be seen on the left.
View of Madrid from the west, facing the Puerta de la Vega. Drawing by Anton van den Wyngaerde, 1562.
Philip II of Spain installed the court in Madrid on 12 February 1561.
History of Singapore [videos]
The written history of Singapore may date back to the third century. Evidence suggests that a significant trading settlement existed in Singapore during the 14th century. In the late 14th century, Singapore was under the rule of Parameswara until he was expelled by the Majapahit or the Siamese. It …
An artist's impression of Parameswara, who ruled Singapore in the 1390s.
A fragment of the Singapore Stone, inscribed with an Indic script, c. 10th to 13th century.
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
The Plan of the Town of Singapore, or more commonly known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Town Plan.
Sean Connery [videos]
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. — Connery was the first actor …
Connery attending the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival
Sean Connery plaque near the site of his birthplace in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
An Edinburgh "Co-op milk cart" photographed in 1981
Connery during filming for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971
Barry Bonds [videos]
Barry Lamar Bonds is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. He received seven NL MVP awards, eight Gold Glove awards, 12 Silver Slugger awards, and 14 …
Bonds in 2006
Bonds on the field
Bonds at the plate with the Giants
Bonds in August 2006 with the Giants
History of Spain [videos]
The history of Spain dates back to the Middle Ages. In 1516, Habsburg Spain unified a number of disparate predecessor kingdoms; its modern form of a constitutional monarchy was introduced in 1813, and the current democratic constitution dates to 1978. — After the completion of the Reconquista, the …
A painting of bison dating from the Upper Paleolithic era in the Altamira caves
Numancia, a painting by Alejo Vera. The Numantians kill themselves rather than surrender to Rome.
Visigothic King Roderic haranguing his troops before the Battle of Guadalete
A battle of the Reconquista from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Ancient Egypt [videos]
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC with the …
The pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt.
A typical Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles. (Predynastic Period)
Early tomb painting from Nekhen, c. 3500 BC, Naqada, possibly Gerzeh, culture
Khafre Enthroned
Napoléon (coin) [videos]
The Napoléon is the colloquial term for a former French gold coin. The coins were minted in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 40, 50, and 100 francs. This article focuses on the 20 franc coins issued during the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte, which are 21 mm in diameter, weigh 6.45 grams …
Reverse of the same coin 1803 Paris (AN. 11 indicates the 11th year after the French Revolution or the latter part of 1803). A coin not often seen, 58,262 were minted, this example exhibits Extra Fine details for a 206-year-old coin. The "A" denotes the Paris mint and the rooster denotes the mint master Charles-Pierre de l'Espine (1797–1821). Napoleon ordered coins struck in year 11 to be dated with Roman numerals fearing that Arabic numeral eleven would look like a two in Roman numerals and thus remind the public of the horrors of the Reign of Terror which occurred in the year 2.
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Henry IV of France [videos]
Henry IV, also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of …
Henry III of France on his deathbed designating Henry IV of Navarre as his successor (1589)
Jeton with portrait of King Henri IV, made in Nuremberg (Germany) by Hans Laufer
Entrance of Henry IV in Paris, 22 March 1594, with 1,500 cuirassiers
Henry IV and Marie de Médicis
Al Pacino [videos]
Alfredo James Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker. Pacino has had a career spanning more than five decades, during which time he has received numerous accolades and honors both competitive and honorary, among them an Academy Award, two Tony …
Pacino at the Venice Film Festival in September 2004
Pacino in the play The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1971)
Al Pacino at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
Al Pacino at the Rome Film Festival in 2008
Battle of Poltava [videos]
The Battle of Poltava was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia, also known as "the Great," over the Swedish forces under Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, in one of the battles of the Great Northern War. — It is widely believed by historians to have been the beginning of the …
The Battle of Poltava by Denis Martens the Younger (1726)
Orthodox church on the battlefield.
The Poltava Monument in Stockholm, Sweden.
The inscription on the monument in Stockholm: "To the fallen sons of the Fatherland" (Latin: "Filiis pro patria occisis").
Matthew McConaughey [videos]
Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused, before going on to appear in the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, A Time to Kill …
McConaughey in 2015
McConaughey in 2008, participating in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon
McConaughey at the premiere of Dallas Buyers Club at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
McConaughey at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Coin [videos]
A coin is a small, flat, round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade. They are most often issued by a …
An oxhide ingot from Crete. Late Bronze Age metal ingots were given standard shapes, such as the shape of an "ox-hide", suggesting that they represented standardized values.
Coin of Alyattes of Lydia. Circa 620/10-564/53 BCE.
The earliest inscribed coinage: electrum coin of Phanes from Ephesus, 625-600 BC. Obverse: Stag grazing right, ΦΑΝΕΩΣ (retrograde). Reverse: Two incuse punches, each with raised intersecting lines.
The first type of Siglos (Type I: "King with bow and arrows", upper body of the king only), from the time of Darius I. Circa 520-505 BC
Bologna [videos]
Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, at the heart of a metropolitan area of about one million people. — Of …
Clockwise from top: panorama of Bologna and the surrounding hills, San Petronio Basilica, University of Bologna, Fountain of Neptune, Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Unipol Tower and the Two Towers
The iconic Due Torri.
Porta Maggiore, one of the twelve medieval city gates of Bologna.
Depiction of a 14th-century fight between the Guelf and Ghibelline factions in Bologna, from the Croniche of Giovanni Sercambi of Lucca.
Charlie Chaplin [videos]
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, "The Tramp", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of …
Seven-year-old Chaplin (middle centre, leaning slightly) at the Central London District School for paupers, 1897
A teenage Chaplin in the play Sherlock Holmes, in which he appeared between 1903 and 1906
Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
Chaplin (left) in his first film appearance, Making a Living, with Henry Lehrman who directed the picture (1914)
Athens [videos]
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence starting …
Athena, patron goddess of Athens; (Varvakeion Athena, National Archaeological Museum)
Tondo of the Aison Cup, showing the victory of Theseus over the Minotaur in the presence of Athena. Theseus was responsible, according to the myth, for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens.
The earliest coinage of Athens, circa 545-525/15 BC
The Roman Agora and the Gate of Athena in Plaka district.
Interest bearing note [videos]
Interest bearing notes refers to a grouping of Civil War era paper money-related emissions of the US Treasury. The grouping includes the one- and two-year notes authorized by the Act of March 3, 1863, which bore interest at five percent per annum, were a legal tender at face value, and were issued …
$50 three-year interest bearing note (1865), 7.3% interest paid semi-annually (with all coupons still attached).
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Battle of Poitiers [videos]
The Battle of Poitiers was a major English victory in the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War. It was fought on 19 September 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France. Edward, the Black Prince, led an army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of …
The Battle of Poitiers (1356) Eugène Delacroix
Battle of Poitiers (miniature of Froissart)
Jean II, the Good, being captured.
Lucian Freud [videos]
Lucian Michael Freud, OM was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His …
Portrait of Kitty, 1948–49, an early portrait of his wife Kitty Garman
Girl with a white dog, 1951–1952, Tate Gallery. Portrait of Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman
Cameron Diaz [videos]
Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress, writer, and former model. She has frequently appeared in comedies throughout her career, while also earning critical recognition in dramatic films. Her accolades include four Golden Globe Award nominations, three Screen Actors …
Diaz in 2016
Diaz receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in June 2009.
Congressional Gold Medal [videos]
A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States Congress. The Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are the highest civilian awards in the United States. It is awarded to persons "who have performed an achievement that has an impact on American history …
The Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion, and Military Intelligence Service in 2010
A gold medal awarded in May 2015 in recognition of U.S. fighter aces
Battle of Tours [videos]
The Battle of Tours – also called the Battle of Poitiers and, by Arab sources, the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs – marked the victory of the Frankish and Burgundian forces under Charles Martel over the …
Charles de Steuben's Bataille de Poitiers en octobre 732 romantically depicts a triumphant Charles Martel (mounted) facing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi (right) at the Battle of Tours.


Trying to transform your business today can be a daunting journey. Healthy businesses that are trying to grow and capitalize on their expanding list of capabilities as well as those who are stuck and can't seem to get past their current position both face these hurdles.
Regardless of your market offerings or whether you are a printer, a mailer, or a sign company – you probably have market opportunities that you have not explored yet. And while your business results may be satisfactory, you may have hit that growth ceiling of complexity. Sometimes it just feels stagnant and no matter what you try, nothing changes. What's in your way? What's holding you back?
People – do you have the right players in the right positions or are you limited due to marginal employee performance levels. Remember, you get what you tolerate. Great companies find ways to attract the people that they need to achieve their goals.
Plan – are you trying to be all things to all people or do you have a plan to leverage your unique abilities that can make an impact on a client's business. Telling your people to "try harder and do better" probably isn't enough. And finally, is your company easy to do business with through the lens of both your employees and your clients.
Perseverance – this isn't a "seat of the pants" adventure nor is it a one-day excursion! This is about execution, review, modify and re-execute. The lack of discipline in follow through and project completion are two areas that can hamper the effectiveness of any initiative.
Working on your business is not a luxury, but a must-have. If you're struggling to find the time to do this, it's probably time to assess how you're spending your day and which non-critical issues can you either delegate or discard. I'm looking forward to a healthy discussion on this topic at Print '18 and hope to see you there. Good luck, let me know how you're doing, and have fun.


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Moonlight at Granada coast Cabria beach Spain. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean, although it is usually identified as a completely separate body of water. The name Mediterranean is derived from the Latin mediterraneus, meaning "inland" or "in the middle of the land" (from medius, "middle" and terra, "land"). It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km� (965,000 sq mi), but its connection to the Atlantic (the Strait of Gibraltar) is only 14 km (8.7 mi) wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea or the European Mediterranean Sea to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere.[3][4] The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1,500 m (4,900 ft) and the deepest recorded p...
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NEW PRICES! IMPORTANT! Watermark is only here you will not see it in your print. Professional photographer. Specialties: nature photography, aerial, architectural, historical and artistic heritage. Publications in various media including NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC travel and NASA. Blog http://guidomontanes.wordpress.com/ Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GuidoMontanesPhotography Twiter https://twitter.com/Guidomontashop Books: "Sierra Nevada" 2007, "Granada" 2010, "La Alpujarra" 2010, "The Alhambra" 2011. http://guidomontanes.wordpress.com/librosbooks/ web:...

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KOOKOO, the plug & play contact center software from Ozonetel-a rapidly expanding Contact Center as a Service provider (CCaaS)- announced its latest integration with Freshdesk Mint. Freshdesk Mint was released by Freshworks, formerly Freshdesk, in September 2017. The integration will be launched at Freshdesk's annual conference Refresh18 on October 10-11, New York.
What does this integration mean for Freshdesk users?
Rajiv Ramanan, Head - Freshworks Marketplace and Technical Partnerships, spoke about the integration, "Ozonetel has had a long relationship with Fresh works. Their CTI integration with Freshdesk has helped many of our clients get the contact center tools they needed within their Freshdesk window. We are confident that this new integration will deliver the same dependable results."
"With a good telehony integration, businesses can deliver far more intelligent, personalized customer experience," says Prashanth Kancherla, VP-International Business, Ozonetel Communications, "Our integration gives current users, and those planning their upgrade to Freshdesk Mint- advanced contact center features from within their Freshdesk window."
How does this improve customer experience?
"Customers hate having to repeat themselves to customer support centers. In fact, although this was the biggest customer complaint in the March 2018 CCW report, yet 54.9% contact centers still do not allow customers to move between channels without repeating information," explains Prashanth. "Our integration tackles this issue by giving agents easy access to all caller details and previous history. Agents can individualize their scripts, deliver a better experience and resolve problems faster."
Talking about the advanced contact center features, he adds, "Our integration allows us to create intelligent IVR systems for our clients. This may include self-service options or better call routing options. We also provide a number of reporting features that let management keep a track of agent performance, abandoned calls, missed calls and queue performance."
Ozonetel Communications was founded in 2007. It is the only contact center to own the complete stack -- both the CPaaS platform and the contact center product. Ozonetel's clients range from startups to large enterprises with points of presence across both PSTN and VOIP countries like the US, Singapore, UK, UAE, and India. Ozonetel can deliver Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) across 160+ and currently has offices in India, the United States, and Singapore.


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Home Technology Tech news Fortnite adds new currency and could win Kratos skin
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Fortnite adds new currency and could win Kratos skin
By kenyan
Fortnite must receive Kratos, character of God of War, coming soon. The ad appears to have been published ahead of time by the user "Hypex", on Twitter, known for leaking game information. In a related note, Epic Games also revealed details about the Bars, a new currency present in its Battle Royale.
What is known about Kratos is that only one image was published on Twitter, with the look of the character seen in the 2018 version of God of War, which came out on PS4. It is not known whether it will be playable on other platforms outside the PlayStation line or when it will be released.
However, a teaser was published by the official PlayStation account, mentioning a hunter who is known "to kill and face gods in a brutal way, with all his anger". Everything indicates that it is the Spartan warrior.
Bars, on the other hand, are a new currency that the player receives when completing Huntings within the Fortnite. The Huntings are a key part of the fifth season, which brings together hunters from all walks of life.
According to Epic's announcement, the Huntings are obtained by friendly, computer-controlled characters on the current season map. From there it will be necessary to hunt or protect a character, for example, to receive his rewards.
Bars will not be sold for real money and can only be obtained within matches, completing objectives or looting chests and breaking scenarios. It is still unclear what the bar redemption will look like for items, but Epic is expected to provide more details in the future.
With information: Epic Games, The Verge.
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Admin / Technology
Dashboard should not be limited to a single 'government-designed lens', says ABI
Kim Kaveh
The government should allow the industry to develop multiple commercial pensions dashboards, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
It comes amid concerns that the project is falling behind schedule to meet its 2019 deadline, while there is still no sign of the Department for Work and Pensions' feasibility study which was due in spring....
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Around two-thirds (77%) of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds have received a claim relating to historic transfers over the past 12 months, according to Eversheds.
Schemes need more certainty over the data they will have to provide for dashboards, as the minister is expected to take a heavier stance in 2021, experts say.
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Patrick Kelliher and Vanessa Jaeger look at the key cyber risks faced by pension schemes, who is responsible for managing these risks, and how these risks may be managed.
The UK pensions sector is in dire need of a technology revolution – and there are plenty of forces at play to push and pull the industry into the 21st century.
After a year that took everyone by surprise, experts tell Professional Pensions what could be on the horizon for technology in 2021.


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From Beckham to the Belligerent Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Media Matters, Random Thoughts / By mike
Evidence suggests that nobody is the least bit interested in my opinions as indicated by this summary of some failed attempts to avoid the Editor of my favourite newspaper's axe.
School Tax Raid
In accordance with Labour's thinking that Somewhere, somehow, someone is better off than I am and that should not be allowed, Independently Preparatory School educated Jeremy Corbyn is planning to raid private schools. Meanwhile freedom loving states like the Peoples Republic of China and certain Middle East States have enthusiastically embraced imported UK model Independent Schools! In terms of social mobility the real downside of Mr Corbyn's cash cow raid is that private education will simply become the preserve of the super rich 1%, representing a drop from some 7%. It might be more helpful to the cause of social mobility if the Labour Party were to adopt a different mantra – for example Somewhere, somehow, someone is WORSE off than I am and that should not be allowed. A useful start point for that new thinking might be to improve the State education sector. 13 September 2019
Belligerent Broadcasting Corporation
The Belligerent Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) submission to MPs firmly blames Reality TV for the loss of courtesy, manners and empathy in public discourse. I see no mention of the impact of the aggressive hectoring of media interviewers – I wonder why! 5th August 2019
Young Soldiers
In the context of the recruitment of young soldiers and the operational limitations on their deployment, Charles Holden (DT 24 Aug) made this crucially accurate observation: "Many people under 18 have been failed by the educational system and the Army invariably rectifies this in a disciplined. Leading to worthwhile opportunities.". On 1 September 1972, under ROSLA (Raising Of School Leaving Age) the school leaving age in England and Wales was raised from 15 to 16 years. No doubt this change was introduced with the best of intentions but in a practical sense it condemned a raft of youngsters to yet another unwanted year in school or 'failures' as described by Charles. Up until that time the Army recruited 15 year old young men (yes – men only back then) for a two year training period in Junior Leader, Junior Soldier and Artificer Regiments; in such units those recruits, via sensitive discipline, not only completed their education for promotion for a full Army career and the basic elements of a Trade but also developed all-round societal skills such as playing a musical instrument or joining a PT Display Team that performed in village fetes etc. 25th August.
The above was partially published but the full offering to the paper included this:
ROSLA presented a challenge in that some Regiments decided that all the components of the existing curriculum were of equal value and opted to run it on in a compressed timescale resulting in a less enjoyable experience for those young men. However, before and after 1972 these 'Boys' Regiments provided the vast majority of the Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Messes; indeed many, quite rightly, were commissioned.
Then along came Options For Change in the early 1990s which allowed the Government to save money via savage, and insensitively applied, Defence cuts. As part of the 'deception plan' to make such cuts acceptable to the general public, the Government and the Chiefs of Staff combined to talk of 'no loss of bayonets'. In order to implement that illusion the Army implemented a massive restructuring that fundamentally impacted on logistics (no acceptance there that an Army marches on its stomach!), medical support and the training organisation. So it is that the Junior Regiment organisation has now become a shadow of its former self. This is more than a pity in that not only in Army recruitment terms but also in denying a raft of young people the opportunity to benefit from a system that overcame their disinclination to enjoy school.
Axiomatic Advice
A 75% majority of the population apparently believes Political Correctness (PC) has gone too far. To us oldies this is an encouraging statistic since the percentage clearly includes many of the young. Is common-sense winning through at last? The Army recently touched on this matter when it decreed that describing the sewing kit issued to soldiers as a 'Housewife' is nowadays an unacceptable appellation; as far as I know the search is on for a PC version and the Army might wish to consider the alternative of SKARRS (Sewing Kit All Races Religions and Sexes). In a broader context it is dispiriting to be told by staff of the Underground that in wet weather I need to be careful of slipping on the pavement when outside while in hot weather I need to drink water. The most irritating mantra however, is SW Trains offering of: "See it, say it, sort it". With so many activities in our lives given over to automation the young are correct in registering their misgivings of the Nanny State since the end-game is that will no longer be able to think for ourselves. 25th August
Swashbuckling Brits
In her interesting article on the swashbuckling Brits, Julie Burchill touched on France's subjugation of her 'poor Empire'. In addition to the article's focus on the murder of up to 300 pro-independence demonstrators by French police, Ms Burchill might usefully have mentioned France's ruthless behaviour to Syria during her twenty three year mandate. Her theory that President de Gaulle blocked the UK's application to join the Common Market on the grounds that "a bunch of swashbuckling mavericks" would not help the cause of European unity offered, to me at least, a new perspective. Hitherto it had been my understanding that de Gaulle blocked our entry until both the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) had been bedded down as a lasting protection for those two French industries (something Edward Heath failed to achieve for the UK's more efficient industries). Today it is being suggested that President Macron's trade relations threat to Brazil is more about blocking the EU Trade deal because it is not to his liking – plus ça change! 26th August
Juxtaposing in my mind the warnings that Tattooists' needles leave shards within the bodies of their victims with the full page photograph of the multi-decorated David Beckham, this question occurs: How much metal is circulating around his body? Although I am a fan of Mr Beckham I am inclined to think there must be easier routes to developing a magnetic personality. 2nd September
BBC Question Time
Ian Dale (DT 10 Sep) tells us that interruptions, insults and the prevailing bear pit atmosphere have made BBC 1's Question Time unwatchable. Although a great admirer of Mr Dale, he really s a bit slow – many of us gave up on the programme for those exact reasons a long time ago. Of more interest was his statistical revelations of the overt bias in favour of the Remainers. 10th September
In accordance with Labour's thinking that Somewhere, somehow, someone is better off than I am and that should not be allowed ,Independently Preparatory School educated Jeremy Corbyn is planning to raid private schools. Meanwhile freedom loving states like the Peoples Republic of China and certain Middle East States have enthusiastically embraced imported UK model Independent Schools! In terms of social mobility the real downside of Mr Corbyn's cash cow raid is that private education will simply become the preserve of the super rich 1%, representing a drop from some 8%. It might be more helpful to the cause of social mobility if the Labour Party were to adopt a different mantra – for example Somewhere, somehow, someone is WORSE off than I am and that should not be allowed. A useful start point for that new thinking might be to improve the State education sector. 13th September
Major's Irony
Mr Arthur identifies the 'irony' of Sir John Major's contribution to the Supreme Court. Taking into account Sir John's other contributions to democracy such as withdrawing the Whip and calling those MPs who disagreed with him 'Bastards', some might feel 'hypocrisy' to be a more appropriate term. 20th September
Letter to Pam Ayres
As a self-confessed Philistine, the only poetry that appeals to me is that which rhymes and tells a story which generally limits me to John Betjeman, Eskimo Nell and, of course, Pam Ayres. After listening to her being interviewed on the Radio I decided to drop Pam a line:
Hearing you on Radio 4 Extra reminded me how much I enjoy your poetry – it rhymes and tells a story – plus the related ability to tell a tale (not too unctuous I hope). On that programme you mentioned Diana Dors which struck a chord with me. So, as a matter of no interest to you whatsoever allow me to say why that is the case. During my entire school 'career' (a wholly inappropriate claim) I only ever wrote one poem and this is it: "Marilyn Monroe has something to show/But Diana Dors has many flaws". Although you would rate it as doggerel rather than poetry, the English Master was ecstatic but eventually blocked publication for fear of litigation. Finding myself on the Old Boys Committee some 40 years later I took the opportunity of submitting the the said poem to its magazine and this is what was published: "Marilyn Monroe has something to show/But Diana Dors has many FLOORS". A wasted joke that has still not garnered the accolades it deserves (mmm not sure about that) and who knows had it been published in 1960 it might have prompted an interest in poetry. Perhaps the spell checker has trumped common-sense – Satnav certainly has!


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Q: Unix - server gets polluted - find out were new files get stored My server has no available space left on disk. Yesterday, I deleted 200 GB Data, today it is full again. Some Process must write some files. How do I find out where possibly new huge files are stored?

A: Check df to check partition usage.
Use du to find sizes of folders.
I tend to do this:
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This gives you a list with the size of folders in MB in the /mount/point folder.
Also if you have X you can use baobab or similar utilies to explore disk usage.
PS: check the log files. For example if you have Tomcat installed it tends to generate crazy amount of log if not configured properly.

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The glories of WHRB's orgies are no secret at www.therestisnoise.com and vilainefille.blogs.com, both curated by former WHRB DJs. I wouldn't be a music critic if it weren't for WHRB. Other station veterans include the late Dale Harris, NY Times critic John Rockwell, and opera maven John Francis. I'll grant John D's criticism that some of the station's DJs aren't always up to snuff, but, hey, it's college kids, what do you expect. I once spent 25 minutes talking about Britten's "Paul Bunyan," and that was before an official recording existed. I'm sure some listeners wished I'd just read the names.
My headline comes, of course, from the Modern Jazz Quartets' 1974 album. Pianist John Lewis was a co-founder of the MJQ but his other work is less well known. His 1988 disc of Bach Preludes and Fugues recorded with Howard Collins on guitar and Marc Johnson on bass supplies my header image. That album was recorded at the Church of the Ascension on Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in New York, which brings this path full circle. More jazz when Bach meets Coltrane here.
The chance that rules on this blog determined that as I wrote it BBC Radio 3 was presenting Bach as their composer of the week while over in New York WQXR was also showcasing Bach.
A/B comparisons between the two stations emphatically confirmed Tim's point that "the undergrads are far better than the pros at WQXR 105.9 FM by letting the music speak for itself".


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Access to affordable and nutritious food is one of the cornerstones of good health. Without this, individuals—and communities—are at a higher risk of serious chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes and heart disease. To improve the health of New Yorkers, we must recognize that each neighborhood has a distinct food environment.
These Foodscape reports provide a community-level snapshot of that environment, including data on healthy and unhealthy food consumption, food access, and nutrition-related diseases. Additionally, the reports detail a sampling of the many resources available to residents within their neighborhoods to support them in eating healthier. The New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College has compiled this information from various sources, presenting it in a user-friendly format to help NYC communities better understand their local foodscape.
The data are presented by United Hospital Fund (UHF) neighborhoods, which are defined by the United Hospital Fund and consist of multiple adjacent zip codes. UHF neighborhoods are commonly used in research, including the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Community Health Survey.
The reports also specify the City Council Districts that are part of each UHF, and districts often span several UHF neighborhoods. Council members and residents can then view the distinct neighborhoods within their districts, to compare and contrast both the needs and assets within each area. Recognizing that UHF neighborhoods are an imperfect way to capture council districts holistically, the hope is that future updates to the reports will use data more specific to each district.


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SRS contract deemed appropriate
Rob Pavey
The U.S. Energy Department's decision to award a $4 billion Savannah River Site management contract to a new firm was justified, even though the existing operator's bid was $48 million less, according to a newly released evaluation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions was awarded the five-year contract in January over a competing proposal from Savannah River Alliance, composed of incumbents of Washington Savannah River Co., which has managed the site since 1989.
Savannah River Alliance appealed the award to its competitor on grounds that its rival's price was higher and that conflicts of interest existed within its management.
The GAO ruled April 25 that the Energy Department was justified in its decision -- and earlier this month released its 25-page ruling after removing names of specific personnel discussed during the appeal.
Auditors found the two proposals were "substantially equivalent" under all categories except management personnel, which accounted for 25 percent of the selection criteria.
In that section, the GAO wrote, "while the two offerors proposed chief executives and laboratory directors who had substantially equivalent experience, the rest of SRNS's key personnel had more extensive experience."
The SRNS team also performed well during oral presentations, the report said, while "SRA did not function as an integrated team and overall was less interactive than the SRNS team."
Of nine selection criteria in addition to contract price, the rivals received identical ratings in eight of them.
In the deciding category, SRNS received an "excellent" in "key personnel," while SRA received a rating of "good."
SRA's "evaluated price" was more than $424 million, while SRNS's evaluated price was just over $473 million, the report said.
The $48 million difference, which would be spread over 10 years with the assumption that the five-year contract would be renewed for a second five years, adds up to about $4.8 million a year more, the GAO wrote.
The higher cost was justified because of "advantages in leadership, innovation, efficiency and productivity improvements," the GAO concluded in denying SRA's appeal.
"Agency's selection of higher-priced, higher-rated proposal for award is reasonable, where the key discriminator between proposals was under the key personnel factor, which was one of the most heavily weighted factors in the evaluation," the GAO wrote.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, which will assume its management role Aug. 1, will be responsible for about 7,000 employees and has pledged to make an orderly transition.
Reach Rob Pavey at 868-1222, ext. 119 or rob.pavey@augustachronicle.com.
- Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, whose bid was ultimately chosen, is a new partnership that includes Fluor Federal Services, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. (Northrop Grumman), Honeywell International, Lockheed Martin Services and Nuclear Fuel Services Inc.


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