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Tender Jewish Drama MENASHE Co-Producer Melanie Zoey
August 16, 2017 by Mike McNamara
MENASHE is now in theaters and receiving critical raves across the country. Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
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Attention world travelers! The Center for International Education, Multicultural Center , and the Office of Study Abroad are conducting a photo contest for all students who have had an international experience with Webster University. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to show off your beautiful photographs from your engaging experience abroad!
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The bizarre arc of Natalie Portman's career has taken another turn as the actress has written a screenplay for a raunchy sex comedy said to be in the vein of "Superbad."
Portman and a college chum have written "BYO" ("Bring Your Own") about a pair of women who are desperately wookin pa nub, reported 24 Frames.
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In the film, two friends throw a BYO party, where each women is required to bring along an eligible bachelor--sounds kinda like a key party, only marginally less depressing. Word is the script is rather--ahem--blue. Portman would produce and play one of the leads, while Anne Hathaway has been rumored for the other lead.
"Black Swan," the psychological ballet thriller, is Portman's next film, due out on Dec. 3. Then comes "No Strings Attached," co-starring Ashton Kutcher, on Jan 21, the medieval stoner comedy "Your Highness," on April 8, and "Thor" on May 6. And then there's "Hesher," which is still looking for a release date.
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If you ride the year round then the Dainese G. Tempest has everything you need. Made out of Duratex fabric and featuring Dainese's very own waterproof D-Dry membrane, this jacket is to four-season riders what a bomb-proof vest is to the explosives disarmament brigade, indispensable. Tempest D-dry, another marvelous masterpiece by Italian motor gear manufacturer Dainese.
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Yesterday I was forced to endure an amazingly insipid Ordinary Form funeral Mass for a family member. The one thought that kept recurring to me in the midst of what could best be described as an instant-canonization-trapped-inside-a-bad-lounge-act was, "How can they stand it!?" The aesthetics of the ceremony, and the theology of the homily (well, actually, there were several homilies throughout the proceedings) were garden-variety Protestant.
Today I read a post at Saint Louis Crusade about a Gallup poll showing that most Americans rank public schools as the worst place for a child to get an education. One commenter at the second link lamented that the US used to have the best system of public education in the world until the 1970s, when the "liberals" began to take over and destroyed it, etc.
Suddenly, I thought of the two things together. The Mass, reengineered at the end of the '60s. Public education, reengineered at the same time.
Both could be classified as colossal failures-- except for one thing:
They didn't fail. They succeeded.
That is to say, they succeeded in accomplishing the goals of their engineers. And just as our educational system will not be fixed by tinkering with making the current system slightly less bad, so neither will our liturgy be fixed by tinkering with making it slightly less dreadful.
The party of professional educators and their backers in politics will continue to claim that educational renewal only requires time and a commitment to more of the same.
The party of professional liturgists and their backers in chanceries and rectories will continue to claim that liturgical renewal only requires more time and a commitment to more of the same.
In both areas all and any opinions are allowed, tolerated and encouraged, except adhering to what actually worked in the past, works now when tried, and which shows every promise of working in the future.
A system of education that is designed to form the whole child in harmony with his status as a creature of God-- burdened by sin though he is --with free will and intellect, will produce healthier and holier children.
A Liturgy that is Catholic through-and-through, and which informs and reflects the Catholic Faith, will produce holier Catholics, and those in increasing numbers.
The problem is not identified by asking the question, "When will the powers-that-be realize this?"
The problem is that they do realize this.
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All of the Sandwiches at Oakville Grocery in Napa (and a Farm Tour, Too!)
Oakville Grocery is almost as much a Napa institution as the rolling fields of wine grapes that surround it. A gourmet grocery-store-cum-sandwich-spot, Oakville has long been a destination for wine country picnickers and limo tours in need of sustenance in the middle of a long day of tasting. But a solid following didn't prevent owner Leslie Rudd (whose wine country holdings also include Dean & Deluca, Rudd Oakville Estate Winery, and Edge Hill Napa winery) from wanting to improve Oakville's offerings.
Following an extensive renovation of the original location on St. Helena Highway (there's one in Healdsburg, too), Rudd brought on chef Jason Rose (of Ram's Gate Winery in Sonoma, and the Delfina group in San Francisco) to Oakville (and the other properties, as well), with the aim of revamping the grocery's menu to showcase the area's local bounty. Shelves are full of products from Bay Area artisans; sandwiches, salads, and prepared foods are created using produce from local farms. Oakville is also now offering a line of products (spreads, nuts, and more) that are made in-house under the Oakville label.
Rudd Farms, located about 25 minutes up a winding vineyard road, is slowly beginning to provide much of the grocery's goods directly. We took a trip up to Napa on a balmy November day to sample the sandwiches Rose has crafted for Oakville's menu, and check out the source of the goods at the farm, as well.
"This year, we used all of the tomatoes, braising greens, apples, and figs," Rose told us, jumping down from the cab of a truck to show us around the grounds at Rudd. "In the past, the chefs have never utilized this farm. I told Omar [the head farmer], 'you tell me what you have, and I'll write recipes around it.'"
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In addition to tomatoes, greens, and fruits, Rudd Farm is home to a gorgeous expanse of grape vines, a boisterous group of chickens, Labrador-like in their social natures and glossy coats, and a pair of Mangalitsa pigs. We're told that we've just missed a herd of heirloom turkeys, all of whom were sold for Thanksgiving dinners a couple days before.
Chef Rose was thrilled with the inclusion of farm products in this first season. "This was a major part of why I was so excited to take this job," he tells us as we walk through rows of lettuces and braising greens, sampling leaves and unearthing a massive radish. "After working at small restaurants in the city, with no space and no farms behind it, this was so exciting." In addition to sourcing products for the grocery's menu from the farms, all of Oakville's compost goes back to the farm to feed the animals who in turn provide fertilizer.
Next year, there will be a major focus on greens and eggs, and much attention paid to heirloom tomatoes. "We used over 1,000 pounds of tomatoes this season," he said (there were still some over-ripe late growers on the vine at the end of November). Rose would like to bring the bread program in-house at Oakville, and start up a charcuterie program as well, making use of one of those Mangalitsa pigs.
"So many of our customers, so much of the year, are tourists. We have signage around the store to help educate them about the small family farms, the families making cheese," he says. "These are the people I want to support."
Rose also hopes to drive more local traffic to Oakville with this kind of attention to showcasing the area's products.
"It's a huge goal to get that crowd back in the store," Rose says. "But, with a lot of passion and some good dedication, I think we can make something really special here."
Oakville's current sandwich menu plus some Rudd Farm animals! >>
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The Angels 11 $1 Standings Trick
A good friend wanted to celebrate her birthday in style this weekend, so she got the lot of us passes to the Magic Castle on Saturday. I know what you're thinking – cheesy fortune tellers and kid's birthday party tricks. I thought as much myself before I went the first time, but the reality is quite different. Housed in a gorgeous pre-World War I era mansion tucked into the Hollywood Hills, the Magic Castle is the headquarters for the Academy of Magical Arts and a truly decadent private club. A luxurious setting, an elegant meal, cocktail servers who never let your glass go empty if you let them, and the magicians, wow! My favorite part of all of it is the close-up rooms – card tricks, coin tricks, ring magic, rope tricks and the like all performed to perfection mere feet away. The magician might as well be sitting on the other side of the dining room table from you if you are lucky enough to sit in the front row.
There aren't very many new tricks in the world really, just infinitely innovative riffs on classic tricks. But the variations and personal stamps each magician puts on these tricks are where I think the true artistry lies. Take the 11 $1 bill trick, as it was first described to me. I have seen it performed many ways by many different names, on Saturday for example, it was performed by a magician from my home town as the 4 card trick. But I have never seen it performed so well as the 11 $1 bill trick so I will use that variation as my example. The magician performing this trick always invites a member of the audience to assist him. When I saw the trick, the assistant was Mike, a good friend of mine, and the rest of us were sitting in the front row, close enough to reach out a touch the dollars ourselves.
The Magician took a simple wallet out of his pocket and counted out the contents, 11 $1 bills, into Mike's skeptical hand and invited him to look over each bill carefully. He then invited Mike to investigate the wallet to prove that is was empty and Mike did so thoroughly. The magician set the empty wallet on the table in plain view and asked Mike to count the stack of bills back to the magician. 11 $1 bills. Then the magician counted them back into Mike's hand – 11 $1 bills – and asked Mike to count the stack back into his hand again. Only now, suddenly, Mike could only count 10 $1 bills. Surely Mike was mistaken, the Magician said and counted the stack back into Mike's hand. 11 $1 bills. Try it again, he asked. So Mike counted the stack back into the Magician's hand. 9 $1 bills. No, the Magician said there are 11 and counted them back into Mike's hand. 11 $1 bills. Mike counted them back to the magician again. 8 $1 bills.
Ah, said the magician. I know what happened. And he picked the wallet up off the table, opened it up and removed 3 $1 bills! This trick then continued for some time with several variations. The 11 $1 bills grew in number to 15 and shrank and low as 6 until eventually Mike was asked to investigate the offending wallet again, which he did even more thoroughly, and put the empty wallet into his own pocket himself. In the end, Mike could only count 7 $1 dollars back to the magician again and the remaining three were, you guessed it, inside the wallet he had tucked into his own pocket. I am difficult to impress. I look for the misdirection, glance at places the magician is de-emphasizing, and try to see that which I am not supposed to see. Every now and then I see a bent card, the hidden coin or a few of the torn pieces of whatever disappearing, but not this time. I have the vaguest of ideas what the magician might have done, but damned if I could catch him at it. Magic? Of course not. Not in the Harry Potter/Walt Disney/Gandalf the Grey sense, at least. But definitely a gifted artist giving a brilliant demonstration of his craft, and what could be more magical than that?
Anyway, does the 11 $1 bill trick remind you of anything? Yes, exactly. The Angels standings in the AL West. Twenty days ago, the Angels only had to count a mere 1.5 games out of first back to the Rangers. But then they went to New York and Toronto, and entertained a visit from the Rangers themselves, and when the Rangers counted games back to the Angels, the stack grew to 5 games, then 6 games, then 7. But just when the audience expected them to count back 8 games, Mark Trumbo hit that walk off homerun and showed the Rangers that 2 of those games had magically disappeared from the stack.
After pulling several bats and a rookie outfielder seemingly out of thin air, the Angels took on Baltimore and Chicago and were able to count a mere 2 games back to the Rangers again…Boston may have helped with that a little. And then the counting began in earnest in Texas. The Rangers dazzled the Angels by making baseballs disappear over fences and counted 3 games back into the Angels palm. Then the Angels discovered the secret of the disappearing baseball trick themselves, Ervin Santana turned three days rest and grit into a win and the team counted 2 games back to the Rangers. This feat caused me to respond with a trick of my own and magically pull a Droid out of my small, elegant little evening bag to check the score several times on Saturday. However, Jered Weaver was unable to match Santana's impressive prestidigitation, the Angels fielding moved out of the magic shop and into the novelty store, and suddenly the Rangers counted 3 games in the stack again.
The Angels have 29 games left, 3 of them against Texas, and I can't help but feel they have a few more tricks up their sleeves. Provided the bats continue to obligingly reappear or, better yet, no one makes them disappear in the first place, I predict that the number of games in this particular stack is going to go up and down several more times before someone is eventually able to pull a division title out of the wallet on the table. The feat is hardly impossible, but if the Angels are able to cinch the division win, it will be one stylish trick indeed – even more enjoyable than the 11 $1 bill trick and even more impressive than my own little trick of walking and standing around the Magic Castle for seven hours in three inch heels with nary a blister to show for it. 😉
Weaver Pitches 7 Shutout Innings to lead the Angels to their 6th Victory While the Ink Dries on His Brand, Spanking New Contract
We were not going to go to a game this week. Yes, we had originally planned on going to Tuesday night's game, but then the unexpected trip to Yosemite came up and it just seemed like too many things…Until Jered Weaver's press conference. I think Weaver got a great deal from the Angels. But at the same time, I am as touched as everyone else that he didn't wait to shop around as a free agent, potentially leaving significant dollars on the table to stay with the organization he grew up with.
Listening to the press conference on the radio at lunch on Tuesday and hearing Weaver say, with warmth and tears in his voice, 'I just couldn't see myself anywhere else but here,' 'How much more money do you really need?' and 'Watching all of the Angels alumni return to throw out first pitches for the 50th, I want to be part of that brotherhood.' I was thrilled. I was proud. I was moved. Heck, I even shed a few tears myself. There's just something about tough guys being moved to tears that causes a few of my own to roll down my face in sympathy. And suddenly, I really wanted to go the game on Wednesday and be part of the crowd cheering our admiration and thank yous when Weaver took the mound for his next start. I can't imagine sharing that with my non baseball fan friends. It's not like I know the guy, or much of anything about him outside of baseball. So I know they wouldn't understand needing to go to the game at that point in the slightest. But at the same time, I'm certain you all get it. 🙂
Reason #3,987,542 (give or take, it's a really long list!) my husband is the best ever? When I texted that I after listening to the press conference I wanted to go Wednesday's game after all. Could we go if I could find cheap tickets? He responded almost instantly with a 'Yes, please.' He was listening to the press conference too. So, many, many thanks to the Angels fans who decided to part with club level seats for $10 each. Were it not for the generosity and/or last minute changes in plans of fans such as yourself, I would sit at home a lot more often than I do. 😉
So, long story somewhat truncated, we got to see the Angels mini-sweep the White Sox (I just can't think of a two game series as a full series, sorry!), winning their sixth game in a row. The whole evening was perfect. We even got to the game in time to check out some of the warm ups which with our jobs and So Cal traffic, never happens:
The Angels bats went on a terror and guys found ways to get and base and score in a welcome trend I hope to see continue into the fall:
We saw seven Jered Weaver shutout innings followed by shutout innings from Bobby Cassevash and Fernando Rodney – note, he isn't coming in when it counts. Smart. Very smart:
And I got to see one iteration of my dream Peter Bourjos/Mike Trout outfield live and in person for an entire inning once Trout pinch hit for Vernon Wells in the 8th. Trout promptly knocked the ball into left field for his first big league pinch hit. So many firsts! *sniffles* Our baby's growing up so fast! ;):
From our vantage, we even caught random goofiness in the bullpens…or, invoking the Roger Rabbit Only When it's Funny Clause, chose to infer random goofiness:
And then, there was this. I hate the kiss cam. In fact, I think it's so stupid and pointless that until you all set me straight, I assumed it was a uniquely So Cal thing. We So Cal folk seem to need our beach balls and other lame distractions at perfectly good baseball games *rolls eyes* so it made a disturbing sort of sense. However, this season cheeky humor has arrived at the Big A. Finally, the sound guys have caught up with the times and play sarcastic music and sound effects when the visiting team strikes out, has a meeting on the mound…you know, like other teams do. In keeping with this sense of fun, the camera folks have continued their goofiness with the Kiss Cam's last victims each evening from where they left off with the Indians Bullpen back in April. The visitor's bullpen is a common target, as is the visitor's dugout – an injured Evan Longoria blowing kisses at the camera from his perch on the rail was a high point. But announcers, programmers and sound crew from visiting and home team alike aren't guaranteed a pass either. By now, this is a sufficiently well known prank that the victims usually play along, increasing the humor value considerably. The White Sox bullpen was no exception:
And, of course, all's well that ends well. Light that baby up! Hey, Shakespeare wrote it…except, you know, for that Angels-centric part there…and now you can read it on the Internets, so it absolutely has to be true:
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My Austin, Texas, garden beds, with their young jalapeno and tomato plants, remind me of God.
Satanic bugs like fire ants and worms lurk below the surface, and sometimes they furrow into my yucky compost pile of dirt and table scraps, but God is still there. I see the divine in the resilient rosemary bushes, tall lilies, the young lettuce and the sprouting oak tree.
As Earth Day turns 40, just a few years older than me, green has become chic. Michelle Obama has added rhubarb to the White House garden which is now in its second year and probably the most famous garden in the world. A slew of celebrities from Don Cheadle and Morgan Freeman to Brad Pitt and Rob Reiner are now associated with organizations like Global Green, Solar Neighbors Program and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Closer to home, I don't know anyone who bags their groceries in plastic anymore—at least if they don't want sideways glares. That's one of the reasons I've chosen to live in this city for so long.
In Austin, the San Francisco of the South, even the city hall is green. Whole Foods Market, the corporate face of environmentalism, opened here in 1980. Lance Armstrong's cycling success has been part of what has entrenched the sport in the city's culture, but it is easy to love the outdoors when there are more than 300 days of sun here each year. Even the usually barren patches of grass beside the highways here have the bluebonnets and other wildflowers beloved by Lady Bird Johnson.
It was against this backdrop that I found myself starting to carry cloth bags with me to the supermarket all the time and declining to print out gas receipts because I didn't want to waste any more paper. When I installed a water-saving shower head, I knew I had crossed a line. I had become something I had no frame of reference for: a black urban hippie Texan.
Considering that I grew up poor, Catholic and the youngest child of a manically depressed woman, this was an odd, slow transition. My mother and I moved more than 20 times between homeless shelters and welfare-subsidized apartments from when I was 6 until I was a teenager and left home. Literal and virtual roots were a foreign concept until I bought a house of my own in 2006, and even then, I resisted putting things in the ground. Roots felt scary and abstract.
Remarkably, there are few black congregations or leaders represented in the Windsor Commitments, a set of creation care (read: green) commitments used among dozens of faith organizations, But I know there have to be other black folks out there like me, who find worship in ecology to be just as uplifting as the church. And it was a bag of fresh collard greens from the garden of Alice Walker that convinced me of this.
As a young reporter in San Francisco, I interviewed the earth-loving feminist author in 2004 before her biography was released. At the time, I was a skinny city girl out of place in the green-obsessed Bay Area. I knew only of mac and cheese, Doritos and anything with high-fructose corn syrup from bodegas and public schools. But seeing her happy-looking collards, their spines straight and opening out like forest fans, sparked my inner hippie. She thought it was sad that I had lived in apartments for most of my life "so far away from the earth."
"Black people are a people connected to the land," she declared. Her own ancestors were sharecroppers. Mine were slaves in South Carolina and Alabama. They had been forced to connect with the land for survival.
Years later, circa 2008, when my survival skills were tested, I realized how intimate this connection could be. It was 2008 in Philadelphia and my mother had just had a nervous breakdown. I hadn't lived with her since I was a teenager when, in a manic rage, she choked me and threatened to kill me. But when I heard her voice over the phone—shaking, delusions spinning—I felt helpless to help her, and desperately sad. Out of options, I took a shovel and began digging for two hours. Eventually, I had a garden bed surrounded by a sea of weeds. … And, surprisingly, I felt better.
Environmentalism, I have learned, is simply about personal responsibility. Instead of taking on the responsibility of my mother, who has chosen not to live well in any sense of the word, I have transferred my attention and need for maternal attention to the garden, where I have some control over sentient things that are willing to grow and thrive. I do not meditate regularly, nor does prayer come easily. But planting things is its own worship, a specific creation care that feels right for me.
Now, as I brave the Texas heat to pick weeds and harvest basil, I feel responsible for a bigger universe, a space wider than the one between my mother and me. Going green, it turns out, is about more than the earth's survival. It's about my own. And Austin is perfect for planting roots.
Joshunda Sanders is a writer in Austin, Texas.
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How do such services work? One example, Respond.com, which is funded in part by onetime Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, is a site where customers can name their own prices for items in more than 3,000 categories. The process is simple: A buyer logs on, expresses interest in a product and names the price he or she wants to pay. As customer requests come in, they're distributed through to participating entrepreneurs, who can then decide whether to respond, ignore or counter-offer.
For now, monthly fees for merchants range between $10 and $20. Business owners won't be expected to pay additional fees per lead or commissions on sales. "Even if you don't have your own Web site, this service lets you sell online," says Will Clemens, CEO of Respond.com, who explains that merchants need only an e-mail account to participate.
One variation on this model is myGeek.com, where, according to the company, the cost of responding to a lead is nominal and sellers currently pay no fees. Get in on this while you can though-they may start charging soon.
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- "A highly polished collection of chains and manacles hung on the wall behind Filch's desk. It was common knowledge that he was always begging Dumbledore to let him suspend students by their ankles from the ceiling."
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Argus Filch kept a collection of chains and manacles hung on the walls of his office. Being a fan of corporal punishment, he kept them in the hopes that Albus Dumbledore would allow him to use the chains to hang rule-breaking students from the ceiling, either by their wrists[1] or their ankles.[2] However, Dumbledore always denied the use of this form of punishment and Filch merely resigned himself to keeping the chains well-polished in hope they would be used one day. During the regime of Dolores Umbridge, Filch finally would have been able to use his chains once Educational Decree Number Twenty-Nine was passed: however, Umbridge was driven from the school before that could happen.[3]
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8 (The Deathday Party)
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Now that it's free to use its planned name, Scrolls, the next game from Minecraft developers Mojang, is all systems go. As is this documentary going behind the scenes of the game.
Filmed by 2 Player Productions, the same guys currently working on a big Minecraft documentary, the clip above shows the first of what's planned to be several episodes chatting with the men behind the game.
You won't see much of the game (though you will see some!), but you will see how awesome the wall mural at Mojang's office is. You'll also get some great interviews with the guys about the lawsuit between the studio and Bethesda, which dropped mid-filming.
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Winner of several Academy Awards in 1941, including that for Best Picture, How Green Was My Valley depicts the joys and struggles of the Morgans, a family living in the south Wales coal field at the turn of the century. Braving the dangers of the coal mines with his sons, the family patriarch dreams of a better life for his youngest while "Mam" struggles to keep the family above water. Exploitation, poverty and industrial militancy threaten to dissolve the community and divide the family. The film was directed by John Ford and adapted from the novel written by Anglo-Welsh writer Richard Llewelyn. It is a classic if sentimental depiction of the impact of the industrial revolution on Wales and the hard lives of the Welsh coal miners, their families and communities.
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Nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film in 1992, Hedd Wynn tells the tragic true story of Welsh poet Ellis Evans and Y Gadair Ddu (tr. the Black Chair). A shepherd living in the mountains of north Wales, Evans is a celebrated poet writing under the penname Hedd Wyn (tr. Blessed Peace). His life's ambition is to win the Bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod, the highest honor for Welsh poetry. His plans, however, are interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. Deeply conflicted, Evans finally enlists in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and posts his entry to the competition from the trenches on the very eve of battle. Later at the eisteddod, the chair is awarded to Hedd Wyn but it is immediately draped in a black sheet. Announcing Evans's death in battle, the archdruid laments "Yr wyl yn ei dagrau a'r Bardd yn ei fedd" (the festival in tears and the Bard in his grave). Dramatizing a well known story in Wales, Hedd Wyn is a dramatic and powerful film that raises questions about the Welsh relationship with war, patriotism and imperialism.
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Business and energy minister Michael Fallon announced the creation of the Offshore Wind Investment Organisation (OWIO) in a speech at industry body RenewableUK's offshore wind conference in Manchester today.
OWIO will be a joint venture between the industry and government and will be led by an as yet unnamed "senior industry figure". Fallon said the body would complement the work of the government's business, industry and skills (BIS) and energy and climate change (Decc) departments and would be focused on the offshore wind supply chain.
"The real value will be in the long-term partnership between industry and government," he said.
During his speech to the RenewableUK offshore conference, Fallon also stressed the importance of continuing to reduce the cost of offshore wind to compete with other technologies.
"We need the best cost approach to meet our climate targets," said Fallon.
He defended the decision not to set a binding 2030 target, saying it is too far in advance without the proper context of a fifth carbon budget.
"We want to maintain some flexibility for the UK in determining its energy mix."
Fallon also announced three innovation projects the government will support as part of its offshore wind components technologies scheme.
Power Cable Services will receive £540,000 (EUR 634,000) to help its high-voltage subsea cable technology project. Aquasium Technology and its partners, Burntisland Fabrications and TWI, have been awarded a grant of £769,600 to develop cost-effective fabrication techniques. And Wind Technologies is getting £728,355 to design and manufacture a new 5MW turbine drive mechanism.


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Polls suggest that a narrow but distinct majority of Californians will vote to approve Prop 30. That's not surprising. The temporary tax measure to provide money for the budget (which includes schools), is a ransom note as it's tied to trigger cuts in the state budget. If Prop 30 fails, education takes a $6 billion hit.
Most people pay ransom -- particularly when there could be real pain, as in this case.
But that shouldn't be the end of the debate about Prop 30. Because, in ransom cases, you have to ask: if I pay the ransom now, will this be over? Or am I going to have my loved ones -- or cherished programs, in this context -- taken hostage again?
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When it comes to the California budget, the answer to that question is: yes.
If Prop 30 passes, it's highly likely that similar ballot-initiatives-as-ransom-notes will show up on future ballots. Indeed, the ballot initiative tied to trigger cut seems likely to have a long, fruitful life if Prop 30 shows the genre to be a success.
That's for two reasons. The political reason is that victory inspires imitation. The other is a policy and budget reason.
California's broken budget system remains essentially unchanged by Prop 30, and that broken system is always adding to the state's budget problems, ratcheting up certain kinds of spending and ratcheting down revenues. The bottom line: California's leaders will soon need more revenues because of the budget ratchet. Prop 30 will be the precedent for getting more revenues.
If Prop 30 wins, it's likely that future ransom notes will take education funding hostage, just as Prop 30 has. Schools can expect to be in the crosshairs anytime the governor and the majority party need more revenues.
So if you're voting for Prop 30 to protect the schools (from today's trigger cuts), you should know this. By voting to protect the schools, you're all but guaranteeing that, in the future, schools will be threatened, via trigger cuts.
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Obama Justice Dept. Moves to Keep Moth Spray Secret
For one prominent Bay Area attorney, the bloom is already off the Obama rose.
Stephan Volker is the lead attorney in a case that pits a group of plaintiffs, including the North Coast Rivers Alliance, an Air Force major and his son, a Santa Cruz city councilmember, the mayors of Richmond and Albany, and others, against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The action for declaratory relief, filed Nov. 25, seeks to overturn the EPA's approval of the pesticide CheckMate for use against the Light Brown Apple Moth—LBAM for short.
Volker, a Richmond resident with his law office in Oakland, said he had hoped the administration of President Barack Obama would open up a new era of openness at the EPA—a federal agency that had frequently sided with corporate interests during the George W. Bush years.
When it comes to disclosing the ingredients in the controversial pesticide, "This new administration is just like the old one," he said. "When you peel off the cover, it's the same book underneath."
On Feb. 2, the U.S. Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the EPA, filed a motion with U.S. District Judge Saundra Armstrong asking her to seal that part of the government's response that details the ingredients in two compounds used in a spraying program that aims to break the moth reproductive cycle by rendering the males sexually confused.
If granted, the court would bar disclosure of the ingredients as "claimed trade secret and confidential information," according to the motion filed by San Francisco federal attorney Rochelle Russell and John Cruden, acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
Questions about the alleged dangers of both the pest and CheckMate versions OLR-F and LBAM-F, the state's pesticides of choice, have dogged the spraying from its inception.
Further clouding the already murky waters of fact and science is a question of political calculus raised by the $144,600 donation from Stewart and Lynda Resnick to Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.
The Resnicks co-chair Roll International, a Los Angeles holding company with subsidiaries that include Paramount Agribusiness, Fiji Water and Suterra Inc., the Oregon company that manufactures the pesticides.
Several of Volker's clients contend they have been injured by the pesticide, which combines a synthetic version of the female insect's sexual attractant (pheromone) in a cocktail of supposedly "inert" ingredients designed to confuse the males.
Volker's lawsuit charges that the inert ingredients are actually harmful to humans and wildlife, especially given the way the compound has been sprayed. Two clients, an infant and a 9-year-old girl, sustained serious medical injuries as a result of the spraying, he contends.
In addition, the suit alleges, hundreds of seabirds were killed when one of the ingredients in the spray stripped their feather of the water repellent that allows the birds to float.
In their filing with the San Francisco court, the federal attorneys said that even if Judge Armstrong allows the plaintiffs to see the ingredients, they will seek a protective order to bar broader disclosure to the public.
Volker said the motion to seal the ingredients is pointless, since the state Department of Food and Agriculture revealed the ingredients in one of the sprays, CheckMate LBAM-F, in an Oct. 20, 2007, press release.
In the November lawsuit, the plaintiffs sought to bar further use of the pesticides in part because, during the 2007 spraying campaign, the spray was spread by winds outside the targeted zones and onto waterways and populated areas.
While the state contends the spray is harmless, the plaintiffs cite research they say proves that one ingredient in particular among those listed by the state causes severe lung damage.


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The valve is manufactured in sizes NG 4 (HPV 4) and NG 10 (HPV 10) and can be supplied with or without integrated pilot control hydraulic supply.
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Temposonics Technology - Magnetostriction
Temposonics Technology is the manner in which MTS applies the principles of magnetostriction to create a reliable position measurement system for use in industrial environments. Inside the sensor a torsional strain pulse is induced in a specially designed magnetostrictive waveguide by the momentary interaction of two magnetic fields. One field comes from a moving magnet, which passes along the outside of the transducer tube, and the other field is generated from a current pulse which is applied to the waveguide. The interaction between these two magnetic fields produces a strain pulse which travels at sonic speed along the sensor waveguide, until the pulse is detected at the head of the transducer. The position of the moving magnet is precisely determined by measuring the elapsed time between the application of the current pulse and the arrival of the strain pulse. As a result, MTS is able to create a reliable position measurement system that is capable of providing an accurate and repeatable measurement.


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11 July 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Myriad Genetics has sued California-based Ambry Genetics and Houston-based Gene by Gene for infringing its patent rights on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that if mutated could lead to higher chances of breast and ovarian cancer amongst individuals
Singapore: Myriad Genetics has sued two of its main competitors, Ambry Genetics and Gene by Gene claiming that their version of the breast cancer genetic test has infringed patents owned by Myriad. The Utah-based company has said that the tests offered by these companies infringed some of the patent claims of Myriad that the Supreme Court did not invalidate in its ruling on June 13 this year.
The lawsuit that was filed in the US District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division against Houston-based Gene by Gene comes only a day after Myriad filed a similar suit against Ambry Genetics from Southern California. While Ambry started offering the BRCA1 and BRCA2 test shortly after the Supreme Court's decision in the case, Gene by Gene made the test available for $995 through its DNA Traits division on the same day that the SC handed down its decision.
Myriad alleges that Gene by Gene is infringing nine US patents even though the company has refused to comment till it gets a notification regarding the suit. Although the company had argued while releasing the test that DNA Traits 'had been processing BRCA1/2 genes for individuals living outside the US since 2012.'
Meanwhile, Ambry that offers the test for $1,000 has defended its test. "We have had an overwhelming response from our clients seeking an alternative laboratory to perform BRCA testing, and Ambry is fully committed to support our clients and patients moving forward," Mr Charles Dunlop, Chief Executive, Ambry Genetics said in a statement.
Myriad is seeking a jury trial, a temporary and preliminary injuction against the companies for continued infringement of patents. Further, the company is also seeking 'enhanced damages', which could be tripled if the court found that the infringement was willful.
The US Supreme Court has last month invalidated Myriad's patent claims on isolated BRCA sequences, while maintaining that synthetic DNA, or cDNA could be patented considering that it does not occur naturally.


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(Pocket-lint) - Sony has gone launch mad over in Vegas with new devices and machines for pretty much every consumer market going.
The latest announcement is of four new 16.2-megapixel Cyber-shot cameras - the DSC-TX10, DSC-HX7V, DSC-WX10 and DSC-WX7 - the world's first compact digital still cameras to include 3D Still Image mode, that can take 3D images using just the one lens.
The WX10 also includes a high speed linear focus feature, helping to provide more accurate focusing, so it's almost like having a compact DSLR camera.
3D images are possible using the 3D Sweep Panorama mode or the 3D Still Image mode. With the latter, the camera takes two consecutive shots in different focus positions to gauge the depths, creating left-eye and right-eye images to produce a 3D effect.
The Cyber-shots also have video recording capabilities up to 50i in 1080 AVCHD.
If you're the sporty-type, the TX10 may be the Cyber-shot for you as it's water-proof, shock-proof, dust-proof and freeze-proof, as well as being able to handle an accidental drop from up to around 1.5m.
The SDGC compatible Cyber-shot range will be available in March 2011, prices TBC.
CES 2011 is now in full-swing, be sure to check out our dedicated CES homepage for all of the news as it breaks, as well as detailed analysis.


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The Assiniboine Park Conservancy is continuing its exciting partnership with Pembina Trails School Division (PTSD). Since 2011, we have worked together toward "Fostering Student Engagement" through customized programming.
Students in Grades 1 to 6 are selected by PTSD to visit Assiniboine Park Zoo and Conservatory and participate in a series of weekly programs throughout the fall and winter to learn about conservation, nature and biodiversity.
The goal is to assist students who are experiencing difficulties engaging in typical classroom learning and may show signs of inattention and frustration, by providing opportunities for exploration and nurturing curiosity. As the program evolved, Assiniboine Park incorporated an intergenerational component that promotes positive interactions between generations. The one-to-one support provided by Assiniboine Park's education team and PTSD behaviour and learning support teachers ensures that students are well-supported and feel emotionally safe while participating in the learning activities.
Assiniboine Park Conservancy is committed to developing partnerships with local organizations and schools that want to participate in educational adventures that broaden students' physical connection to the natural world around them. "Fostering Student Engagement" is a wonderful example of how we can provide students with positive learning experiences. This program is a model for developing other partner support programs with Winnipeg's school divisions.
Assiniboine Park's award-winning intergenerational program is designed to encourage meaningful connections between children or youth and older adults. The bringing together of different generations makes this program a tool to both break down age-based stereotypes and build a culture of shared values and common actions.
As each L.I.F.E. program is based around a central theme, in the fall of 2015 the Assiniboine Park Conservancy launched a pilot program aimed at highlighting Manitoba's indigenous cultures. Student participants from Niji Mahkwa School's grade 5/6 class were joined by Indigenous Elders from the Aboriginal Seniors Resource Centre to take part in six experiential learning workshops. Here participants had the opportunity to experience, explore, and express aspects of Manitoba's Indigenous cultures. This includes a drumming circle, traditional storytelling, and indigenous foods. This program also served to further connect Indigenous members of our community with the Assiniboine Park Conservancy.
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NCBA Holds National Anthem Contest
Oh, say, can you sing? Are you 18 or younger and related to National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), American National Cattlewomen (ANCW) or Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB)? If so, you could win terrific prizes at the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4-7. NCBA is hosting its first annual National Anthem Singing Contest to determine the singer of the Star Spangled Banner at the 2014 Opening General Session Tuesday, Feb. 4, and at the Grand Ole Opry House during the Cowboy's Night at the Opry II.
The winner of the contest will receive round-trip airfare for two to Nashville, a hotel room for three nights at the Gaylord, free registration for two to the convention and western wear from Roper and Stetson! The deadline for entry is Nov. 1, and the top four finalists will be selected by Nov. 15. Online voting will take place to determine the winner until Dec. 13, with the winner announced on Dec. 20.
"The 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show is the place to be in February. The singing of the Star Spangled Banner is an important part of the event as we kick off the convention, not to mention the once in a lifetime opportunity to sing at the Grand Ole Opry" said NCBA President Scott George. "I encourage all talented youth who are 18 or younger and related to a member of NCBA, ANCW or CBB to submit an entry for this contest."
If you know a stage-worthy singer, or if you are interested in entering the contest, visit www.beefusa.org for more information.
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"On the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the battle of Marathon, defense analyst James Lacey has not only offered a fresh appraisal of the battle, but in a larger sense demonstrated how the Athenian victory established a precedent of Western military advantage for subsequent millennia. With a fresh eye to tactics, strategy, and military organization, grounded with direct experience with troops on the battlefield, the result is not only new understanding of how the Athenians managed to win, but also a greater appreciation of the beginning of a long tradition of Western military dynamism that we take for granted today."—Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture and The Western Way of War
"With a soldier's eye, Jim Lacey recreates the Battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity. This compelling and provocative read makes a potent contribution to an enduring debate."—Barry Strauss, author of The Battle of Salamis and Professor of History, Cornell University
"A lively and readable account of the battle of Marathon and its significance. Jim Lacey's experience as a professional soldier gives it an added dimension, especially his ability to see the military situation from both sides."—Donald Kagan, author of The Peloponnesian War


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Harry, A History - Now Updated with J.K. Rowling Interview, New Chapter & Photos: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
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- A new enhanced e-book edition, featuring an extended transcript from Melissa Anelli's exclusive interview with J. K. Rowling and a new, updated chapter! Melissa Anelli wears a ring that was a gift to her from J.K. Rowling, given as a measure of appreciation for the work she does on The Leaky Cauldron, where her job entails being a fan, reporter, guardian, and spokesperson for the Harry Potter series.For ten years, millions of fans have lived inside literary history, the only fans to know what it was like when Harry Potter was unfinished. When anticipation for a book was just as likely to cause a charity drive as a pistol shootout. When millions of rabid fans looked to friends, families, neighbors, forums, discussion groups, fan fiction and podcasts to get their fix between novels. When the death of a character was a hotter bet than who'd win the World Series. When one series of books had the power to change the way books are read.This has been a time when a book was more popular than movies, television, and video games. The series has spawned a generation of critical thinkers and new readers. The New York Times changed the way it reported book sales just to avoid a continual overpowering of its bestseller list.These events must be given their proper context, and this moment must be preserved. The series will remain important to literature and pop culture, but the experience will change. Harry's fate will be as commonly known as the identity of Luke Skywalker's father, and readers who never had to wait for a Harry Potter book will have no idea what transpired when the series had hundreds of millions of people waiting desperately for the next volume.We are the first wave of Harry Potter fans, the ones that are living in the time that shapes how Harry Potter will be remembered for all time. But when this era is over, fans will need some way to remember this strange, wonderful, dizzying experience. Future fans, too, will want to know what they missed. Harry Potter will exist as a seven-book series, but without the indivisible story of the cultural, literary and emotional impact the series has made, the story is incomplete. How can a fan understand Harry Potter without hearing about the midnight book parties, the scams, the theories, the burglaries, the bets, the bannings, and most importantly, the worldwide camaraderie spurred on by mutual love of a boy wizard? How can they know how Harry Potter changed and touched the lives of so many without hearing it first hand?Harry, A History tells this story. It tells the personal story of Melissa Anelli's journey through the very heart of Harry Potter fandom. And wraps this phenomenon up into one narrative, factual volume - one book that tells what happened when Harry Potter met the world.
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One of the G series' main attractions was its flip-and-twist LCD. That's gone in the G7, replaced by a bright but fixed 2.5-inch LCD. The rest of the top and back of the camera body bristles with controls, leaving just enough space for a decent handhold. Those with large hands, however, may find it difficult to firmly grip the G7 without accidentally covering one button or another. (Take a tour of the body.)
Canon packs its newest features into the G7, including the same 10-megapixel CCD that's in the SD900, its Digic III processor with face-detection focus and a 15fps XGA movie mode, and an f/2.8-to-4.8, 35mm-to-210mm-equivalent (6X) optically stabilized lens. Unfortunately, whoever at Canon decided to jettison raw-format support deserves a whack upside the head. Aside from that, it offers all of the exposure, focus, and shooting controls any enthusiast would want. They include a spot meter, user-selectable focus zones, two custom settings modes, continuous- or shot-only IS settings, manual ISO settings up to 1,600 plus a High mode which reaches up to 3,200, voice annotation, and a hot shoe.
Not everything functions the same as in other Canon models, and that can be a bit disorienting. For instance, the addition of face detection has complicated the focus-zone selection, since you configure both options from the same screen. And it's a little frustrating to have to use the up/down/left/right controls to slowly navigate your way to the desired focus zone, rather than using the scrollwheel to just zip over to it. Once I got used to the interface, though, it stopped interrupting my shooting rhythm as frequently. (I need more time to evaluate the face-detection performance.)


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have you seen the new Stationery Collection from Lily Bee Design? I'm so in love with the simple patterns and colors in this collection and here's a fun layout that I recently created for the Lily Bee blog post today. I kept the layout design simple and choose to focus on the colors instead and also playing around with the front and back designs of the pattern paper.
and as mentioned before - addicted to this butterfly punch!! also adding in some yummy twine, in which, I'm still amazed at myself - I can't believe that I have a twine for each of the colors...yikes!!! (the brads are a given thanks to AC)...lol!supplies used include: cardstock: american crafts; pattern paper: lily bee design - stationery collection; brads: american crafts; twine: the twinery; punch: fiskars 2011-w release (butterfly); alpha stickers: sassafras.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
A Volunteer learns a few lessons
What struck me was the huge number of images that the society holds and that are searchable through this database. I think that presently the society has around 10,000 images digitised and catalogued in this collection that is only available in the society rooms.
This set me to thinking what I might be able to find if I visited local historical societies in the areas where my ancestors lived. I tend to visit genealogy societies when I am on the road but I should include historical societies.
So what did I learn at my society last week?
* That the society has an impressive photo collection
* Skills with a new software application
* That there are photo collections not available on the web via Flickr
* That I should remember to visit historical societies when I undertake a genealogy jaunt.
Have you checked out the photo collections in relevant historical societies?
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- marycolbert said...
Hi, I am a genealogist who volunteers at the local historical society. I stopped by one day and asked what they had. They had a lot, but no catalog, so I'm helping to catalog the collection. In addition to photos, they have a truant officer's book, scrapbooks, funeral director's books, church membership list and more. It's fascinating. I always recommend people go to the historical society. I'd also be interested in knowing how they digitally store over 10,000 photos.
- May 26, 2013 at 9:10 PM
- GeniAus said...
Mary, The originals are in fireproof safes. The digital images are stored in hi-res on site (storage is cheap). The software used to catalogue them is called Perfect Pictures. For a society that is strapped for cash (and which isn't)I would be using something like Picasa or Flickr. I need to ask the question about off-site backup when I go in this week.
- May 26, 2013 at 9:34 PM
- Linda said...
Just curious - I thought the standard for NSW historical societies cataloguing was Mosaic - much as Victoria in DB Text/InMagic. With all photos in Victoria best managed within the larger InMagic catalogue.
So - does your historical society have three-dimensional items managed in Mosaic (or no such items at all), and if it does have Mosaic, is it managing the photos with another program? Do you know if this is the common response in NSW?
- May 27, 2013 at 1:54 AM
- Louis Kessler said...
Excellent post, Jill. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone else promote Historical Societies as a source for genealogists.
But I can vouch, as a former president of our regional Historical Society, that archives are the central function of an HS, and an HS does whatever it can to make those resources available.
Of course, many HSs are non-profit and limited by funds, meaning you don't have big searchable databases on their website. But if you visit in person, call, or email, you can often get an archivist more than willing to help you.
Visiting a genealogy society is still a good idea. But you are less likely to get access to the scope and size of archives and research material like you would at the local historical society.
- May 27, 2013 at 11:20 AM
- Linda said...
Perhaps I should have also added - it would be good to ask your society about the five things they would most like genealogists to do before/when visiting their collection. We had a bit of a talk about it here once, resulting in this:
- May 27, 2013 at 1:16 PM
- Australian Family Tree Connections said...
Hallo Louis and Jill
Australian Family Tree Connections magazine has always recommended that family historians and genealogists visit Historical Societies (as well as family history and genealogy organisations).
Michele Stephens
Australian Family Tree Connections
- May 28, 2013 at 10:18 AM
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- May 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM
- Australian Family Tree Connections said...
I should also have added that we have always offered members of Family History, Genealogy and Historical Societies a discount off the cost of annual subscriptions as our way of encouraging people to join Societies. We are often contacted by people new to tracing their family history and always recommend they join their nearest Society for at least a year to be shown how to do it in the most efficient and cost-effective way. On those occasions we also take the time to provide contact details of the Societies.
NOTE: this is NOT advertising. It is presumed that everyone who reads this blog is NOT a genealogy beginner.
- June 2, 2013 at 6:04 PM
- Infolass said...
In Victoria some local history groups are uploading content to Victorian Collections at http://victoriancollections.net.au/
In the past local history groups also partnered with public libraries and contributed to Picture Victoria which can still also be accessed via Trove
- June 2, 2013 at 8:18 PM
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- June 2, 2013 at 8:19 PM
- Linda said...
Plus, in addition to those pointed out by Liz, also in Victoria, many societies have listed some of their holdings in the Victorian Local History Database - although unfortunately not with matching images, but it IS a good starting point.
- June 2, 2013 at 9:20 PM
- GeniAus said...
Linda, I didn't notice a comment where you "advertised your blog" on my original post.
Thanks for your contributions and the info about Mosaic and the situation in Victoria.
- June 2, 2013 at 9:43 PM
- Linda said...
Thank You!
This conversation is rather important, and needs to be had from time to time. Historical Societies have a slightly different focus from Genealogical Groups, whose reason for being there is primarily to help each other research families.
Historical Societies are often more than willing to help family historians, but those enquiring need to realise the focus of the society is on research into the area. In one where I work, the members who are helping them are giving up scarce time that would be used for that work - so family historians need to remember they need to compensate for that time - either with an exchange of information, or a payment to help with resources. One recent one who asked "have I made your day?" was a little surprised when I explained that he had not, and had he not been there, I would have been able to catalogue twenty more photographs.
I don't think he expected that, or realised we had other purposes that did not include listening to him talk about his family!
It does not take that much more for researchers to provide written notes to leave behind when they visit. Which also means the family is better recorded locally
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