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Discounts, falling gas prices driving Nov. sales higher
3:30 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 25, 2014The U.S. auto industry may post its highest November sales volume since 2001, and one forecaster says light-vehicle transaction prices are on pace to reach the highest level ever for a second consecutive month. Year-end clearance sales and the lowest gasoline prices since 2010 are two big factors behind the forecasts....
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Structural damage or fender bender?
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 24, 2014TrueFrame will inspect any vehicle, at a dealership's request, that has an accident on its history report. TrueFrame issues its own report if the vehicle passes its cosmetic and structural standards. The TrueFrame report is sent to the dealership that requested it and to vehicle history reporting companies such as Carfax Inc., which has agreed to link TrueFrame reports to its vehicle history reports....
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Next phase of multiplatform sales? Hold your horses
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 24, 2014Remarketers, auto dealers and others had hoped to hear at a remarketing conference this month about when the next stage in online multiplatform auction selling would arrive. But when Jay Cadigan, who represents Manheim in conversations with other key players hammering out details of the initiative, was asked about its timeline, he demurred....
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Fisker flexes muscle with coachbuilt 725-hp Mustang
2:55 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 20, 2014Henrik Fisker, the Danish designer behind the Aston Martin DB9, BMW Z8 and the ill-fated Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid, apparently can design an American muscle car, too....
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Popping the subprime bubble myth
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 19, 2014There is no subprime auto loan bubble, darn it. That message came through loud and clear in session after session during the recent Used Car Week conference sponsored in Las Vegas....
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Technology training can help close a sale, AutoTrader.com says
10:39 am U.S. ET | Nov. 18, 2014As automakers incorporate in-vehicle technology features in more models, dealers have to find a way to sufficiently teach customers how to use the new tools, AutoTrader said in a report....
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Manheim stocks used cars for Sonic
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 17, 2014Sonic Automotive is contracting with Manheim to buy and stock used vehicles at a new-car store near Denver as part of an unprecedented pilot program....
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AutoNation's plan to change the retail game
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 17, 2014By the end of 2015, AutoNation customers will be able to finance and buy a car online -- even signing the paperwork electronically from home, says AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson. That's the promise of a $100 million-plus investment to establish the AutoNation brand and transform the company's websites from informational to transactional....
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3rd-party partners? Why AutoNation said no
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 17, 2014Before moving away from third-party lead providers earlier this year, AutoNation Inc. explored whether those companies could help the retailer seamlessly connect its online and brick-and-mortar operations....
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Cox Automotive to buy Xtime for $325M, enters service software business
3:30 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 11, 2014Cox Automotive has agreed to pay $325 million in cash to buy Xtime, a leading provider of service scheduling and workflow software to dealerships, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to be completed in the next few days, said Keith Jezek, software division president at Cox Automotive....
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Benefits of Lithia-DCH deal go beyond numbers, CEO says
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 10, 2014Before Warren Buffett bought Van Tuyl Group in October, the buy/sell sensation of the year was Lithia Motors' surprise acquisition of DCH in June. Lithia paid $340 million in cash and another $22.5 million in stock for the 27-store group. But did Lithia over- or underpay for DCH?...
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Dealertrack is content in background
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 10, 2014Sites such as TrueCar Inc., Edmunds.com, AutoTrader.com and Cars.com, provide millions of leads to dealers. Critics say they do so by building their own brands, too. Mark O'Neil, CEO of Dealertrack Technologies, is trying to provide dealerships an alternative....
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AutoNation's Jackson: Hot sales years ahead Jamie LaReau
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 10, 2014U.S. light-vehicle sales will continue in the high 16 million to low 17 million range for the next "several years," AutoNation Inc. CEO Mike Jackson told the Detroit Economic Club....
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Dealers must tailor technology to their needs
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 10, 2014Sonic Automotive's One Sonic-One Experience pilot in Charlotte, N.C., is the latest effort to make car buying easier....
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Auto vet Joe Herman dies at 72
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 10, 2014Joe Herman had a knack for knowing people from all walks of the automotive industry, said Greg Goodwin, CEO of Kuni Automotive in Vancouver, Wash....
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Rising off-lease volume hits ADESA lanes
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 10, 2014The number of vehicles sold at ADESA's physical auctions rose 4 percent in the third quarter as a much-anticipated rising volume of off-lease vehicles began to be felt in the remarketing world, said the CEO of the auction company's parent....
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Joe Herman's lessons about the business will live on
9:46 am U.S. ET | Nov. 8, 2014Joe Herman, even in the months before his death at age 72 in October, was focused on keeping his auto dealerships at the forefront of technology....
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Mercedes gears up for its 3rd Super Bowl appearance
4:27 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 7, 2014Automakers' plans for the Super Bowl in February are beginning to emerge. Mercedes-Benz has bought time in the big game, according to Donna Boland, a spokeswoman for the company. The news was reported earlier Friday by The New York Times....
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Dealertrack raises financial targets after Q3 revenue surges
8:11 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 5, 2014Dealertrack Technologies, which supplies a wide variety of auto dealership retail software and services, said its third-quarter business surged and it bumped up its revenue and profitability forecast for the year....
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TrueCar boosts outlook as Q3 revenue jumps 51%
6:48 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 5, 2014TrueCar, the online car-shopping platform, raised its outlook for the fourth quarter and full year as it continues to add dealers and draw more customers to its network....
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Looking for a new F&I product? Mull this
12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 5, 2014Consider this a free idea -- the kind that hopefully somebody out there takes and develops and uses to make a lot of money....
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Longer vehicle ownership might mean less loyalty, study says
2:51 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 5, 2014The longer a customer owns a vehicle, the less likely he or she is to buy that same brand again, an Experian Automotive study found....
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ADESA doubles Q3 profits on growing auction volume
2:29 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 5, 2014KAR Auction Services, parent of ADESA, said its third-quarter net income more than doubled to $47 million from $22 million a year earlier, on revenues that increased 10 percent to $589 million....
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VW joining with Fiat Chrysler would be 'brilliant' idea, Krafcik speculates
4:18 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 4, 2014A merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Volkswagen would create a well-balanced global automaker that would be highly profitable, John Krafcik, president of auto-buying website TrueCar, said today....
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AutoNation's October new-vehicle retail sales rise 8%
11:03 am U.S. ET | Nov. 4, 2014AutoNation said its new-vehicle retail sales climbed 8 percent in October from the year-ago month, reaching 24,844 vehicles....
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Is the American job market becoming less fluid, as a new paper by Steven Davis and John Haltiwanger argues, with less job-switching and fewer vacancies opening up at established employers? And to the extent this is an unwelcome trend, which policies might be contributing to it? [The Economist; some possibly contrary data points from Alex Tabarrok]
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The town of Stratford, Connecticut entered an employment agreement with its director of human resources, stating that his employment would be entirely at-will and further providing:
Based upon the annual performance evaluation, and at the [m]ayor's sole discretion and recommendation, the base salary may be increased on July 1 of each fiscal year, subject to the approval of the [council], which by Charter fixes the salaries of all mayoral appointees.
Subsequently, the town council voted to reduce the manager's salary, and the dispute went to litigation. Both a trial court and a Connecticut appeals court agreed with the manager's argument that even though the document prescribed an at-will relationship, by specifying that the base salary "may be increased" it was implicitly promising that it would never be decreased. [Daniel Schwartz; Adams on Contract Drafting]
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Annals of European employment law: "The Irish arm of supermarket giant Tesco has been ordered to pay a convicted drug dealer €11,500 for unfair dismissal." The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) found that the market should have considered sanctions less severe than dismissal given that the employee had cooperated with its process and that a manager admitted there was no evidence of public awareness of the employee's legal troubles, which eventuated in a guilty plea and a suspended jail sentence. [Evening Herald (Ireland)]
"Francesco Schettino, former captain of the Costa Concordia, has sued, claiming wrongful termination from his job after the accident, according to his lawyer." [L.A. Times] "As you may recall, there were a few questions about whether Schettino's conduct was entirely up to snuff on the night of the accident. First, there was the whole running-into-a-rock problem, of course, but he was also criticized for then fleeing the ship before all the passengers were evacuated." [Lowering the Bar]
- Gov. Walker's public sector labor reforms popular with Wisconsin voters, and have saved taxpayers a fortune [Morrissey, Fund, Marquette poll (public favors new law by 50-43 margin] What would FDR say? [Dalmia, The Daily]
- "Why you should stop attending diversity training" [Suzanne Lucas, CBS MarketWatch, following up on our earlier post]
- The gang that couldn't regulate straight: "Court rebuffs Labor Department on sales rep overtime" [Dan Fisher, Forbes] Lack of quorum trips up NLRB on "quickie"/ambush elections scheme [Workplace Prof]
- Not all claimed "gun rights" are authentic, some come at expense of the vital principle of at-will employment [Bainbridge]
- Brace yourself, legal academics at work on a Restatement of Employment Law [Michael Fox]
- "Why Delaware's Proposed Workplace Privacy Act Is All Wrong" [Molly DiBianca]
- USA Today on lawyers' role in growth of Social Security disability rolls [Ira Stoll]
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- Court rebukes EEOC in big sex harassment class action against trucking firm [Memphis Commercial Appeal]
- Union protects some dodgy educators: "Found to Have Misbehaved With Pupils, but Still Teaching" [New York Times]
- Spain changes its labor law [Global Post]
- Employment-law blogs debate employment at will [Jon Hyman]
- James Sherk of Heritage on proposed Employee Rights Act;
- Unlawful under Contracts Clause to alter public employee pensions? Really? [Secunda, Workplace Prof; Barnes v. Arizona State Ret. Sys., Ariz. Super. Ct., No. CV-2011-011638, 2/1/12]
- Coalition challenges Connecticut governor's executive order aimed at unionizing home health aides [Michael Tremoglie, Legal NewsLine]
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According to the Sun-Sentinel, managers at the Deerfield Beach, Fla. real estate law firm of Elizabeth Wellborn fired 14 employees on Friday for wearing orange clothing. According to the report, an executive had been informed that the workers were wearing orange as a protest, but several employees told the newspaper that they knew of no protest and that they customarily wore orange on paydays so that they would appear as a group at a happy hour after work.
If the story checks out as reported — the law firm was recorded as having declined comment — expect to hear rumblings about how it refutes the American legal principle of "employment at will," though it doesn't actually refute that principle any more than the tale of a wastrel heir refutes the principle of inheritance.
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Spanish law makes it difficult and expensive to dismiss conventionally employed workers, but the market has managed to route around that to some extent [J. Servulo Gonzalez, El Pais via Tyler Cowen]:
Temporary contracts were introduced in a labor reform approved in 1984 by the Socialist government of Felipe González, and they have remained in favor ever since – even more so during times of crisis, such as those currently being seen in Spain, where 93 out of every 100 contracts signed of late have been temporary.
Although the Spanish government has attempted to re-regulate temporary employment, as by forbidding renewal of temporary contracts — a step that obviously works to the disadvantage of some of the workers affected — it has also been forced to trim back some of the elaborate tenure protections for private-sector workers, who may now walk away with a maximum of two years' salary as severance, down from three and a half years'.
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My new post at Cato at Liberty is on Italian labor law professors Pietro Ichino and Carlo Dell'Aringa, who live under police protection because of their support for liberalization of the job market; two other professors, Massimo D'Antona and Mario Biagi, have been killed by Red Brigades gunmen. More: Coyote.
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Why does Europe generate so few star high-tech firms? Bad labor law is one reason [Brian Palmer, Slate]
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Hey, that might work here too! It's the subject of my new Cato Institute post, which also mentions today's news of a big jump (to record levels) in federal employment discrimination cases, fueled by the 2008 ADA Amendments Act.
I've got some thoughts at Cato at Liberty on the overreaching way California's Proposition 19 tried to curtail employers' liberty in employment decisions related to pot smoking — which might have contributed to the measure's defeat at the polls on Tuesday. Earlier here. Jacob Sullum points out that much of employers' tendency to treat off-job marijuana use more harshly than off-job alcohol use is itself stimulated by government mandates and exhortation, prominently including drug testing programs (& welcome Instapundit readers). More: Nancy Berner, California Labor & Employment Law Blog ("Merely smelling marijuana on a worker's clothes after lunch would not be sufficient to justify a write-up" had the measure passed.)
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Legal secretary Nancy Topolski acknowledges that she couldn't handle the workload assigned to her by law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, and that she suffered panic attacks as a result that prevented her from doing the work. But, she says, this just means that the law firm violated discrimination laws when it fired her. (Karen Sloan, National Law Journal, Mar. 24).
"The nation's industrial umpire has ruled that a long-term employee who was legitimately sacked for repeated safety breaches must be reinstated and paid compensation because of his poor education and poor job prospects." [The Australian]
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"The Bush administration, as expected, announced new protections on Thursday for health care providers who oppose abortion and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds." (NYT via GruntDoc). I briefly criticized this bad idea in a post last week at Secular Right, and there are hopes that the incoming Obama administration will rescind it. P.S. Longer post now up over there.
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If you're not keeping up with our sister site, you're missing out on stories about how expert evidence standards help plaintiffs too (and more); animal rights more voguish at many law schools than those dull old humans; Ohio Supreme Court commended; implications of recent plunge in carpal tunnel cases; 93% enrollment in Vioxx settlement; attorney faces criminal charges after his clients quit their nursing jobs; extensive coverage of Gov. Spitzer's downfall; more trouble for Florida lawyer accused of bribing defendant's adjuster to obtain settlement target numbers; ballot measure would abolish employment at will in Colorado; judicial seminars by the securities class action bar; and much more.


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Grinnell to GUIDs: Connecting Natural Science Archives and Specimens
On August 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Barbara Mathé
"It is quite probable that the facts of distribution, life history, and economic status may finally prove to be of more far-reaching value, than whatever information is obtainable exclusively from the specimens themselves."
From: "The Methods and Uses of a Research Museum" by Joseph Grinnell (1915), Popular Science Monthly 77: 163–169.
Last week's annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists provided a great opportunity for three CLIR recipients to meet about our proposed panel for the Hidden Collections Symposium in March. Christina Fidler, Museum Archivist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley and Rusty Russell, Collection Manager, Botany, Smithsonian Institution and I were joined by Tim White who was unable to be there in person. Tim is Director of Collections and Operations at the Peabody Museum of Natural History and we all connected via Rusty's mobile phone set to speaker, as we sat on the lawn outside the conference hotel. What brought two archivists and two collection managers together? Besides being CLIR natural science museum recipients, we share an enthusiasm for linking access to archives and scientific specimen and data collections.
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Tagged with: access • clir 2012 • Field Notes • hidden connections • iDigBio • specimens
Great Gull Island Film Preservation Grant Award
On August 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Gregory Raml
Awareness of the CLIR Hidden Collections project has spread throughout the Science Departments. Earlier this year, we received a transfer of film reels from Ornithology that they could no longer access, but were eager to see. The Library applied for and has received a grant of $16,380 from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to preserve the Great Gull Island Film Collection.
The three films in this series offer a glimpse into the life work of AMNH Ornithologist, Helen Hays. Great Gull Island and Tern Watch beautifully showcase the Great Gull Island ornithological research station, located east of the North Fork of Long Island, where Helen and her team have conducted research on nesting Common Terns and endangered Roseate Terns for over forty years. Ducks, filmed by Helen as a student in the early 1960s, provides an important historic record of the behavior and mating habits of Ruddy Ducks in the West Pond at the nearby Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
Tagged with: Ducks • Great Gull Island • Helen Hays • Hurricane Sandy • Jamaica Bay • Linnaean Society • Long Island • Michael Male • NFPF • Ornithology Archives • Terns
In 2010 when the library's first CLIR grant was underway we strategized with the project timeline, plotting a course through the departments. As often happens with projects involving inventory efforts, it became the starting point for a multitude of spin off projects. One of the largest and most inspiring projects has been our current CLIR hidden collections projects grant, of which we are well into our second year. Another happy occurrence has been the ongoing 'department discoveries' and transfers that continue to occur.
Before Alfred Kinsey studied human sexuality he studied gall wasps. During his years of entomological study, 1917 to approximately 1940, Kinsey amassed a significant collection of gall wasp specimens much of which eventually became part of the AMNH collections. Since 1995 the AMNH archive has had in its holdings a modest and seemingly incomplete collection for Kinsey which supports the museum's late 1958 acquisition of his gall wasp collection. The Alfred Kinsey entomological papers, 1917-1941 are described as only having correspondence for people with last names that begin with B; Balduf, Banks, Beutenmuller, Borgmeier. It had always been a bit of a mystery to the current library staff. It's clear that the collection had been separated before 1995, but where the other portion of the collection lived was unknown.
Tagged with: Alfred Kinsey • Bees • clir 2012 • Department of Entomology • Gall Wasps • Herbert Ferlando Schwartz • Kirby-Cleveland Collection • O.A. Stevens
Last month I described how we grew our Excel worksheet to support gathering descriptions for AMNH expeditions and personnel in data fields mapped to EAC-CPF. Today I will explain how this basic worksheet developed, and how it became an invaluable tool for creating EAC-CPF XML as well.
I know… nothing that can be done in a spread sheet is as cool as riding to camp on the back of a camel, but allow me to tell you how we got our records from XLS to XML. Nudge-nudge, in case you aren't aware, the AMNH Library recently launched its collection of digitized images online where I found this fabulous photograph.
Tagged with: clir 2012 • EAC-CPF • Excel • macros • metadata • spread sheet • stylesheet transformation • xml • xslt
In the shadow of men: a look at the life of Mary L. Jobe Akeley
On May 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Sarah Cassone
I'm currently interning at the American Museum of Natural History, working on their CLIR Hidden Collections project. The project has focused on the creation of EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families) records, in an attempt to highlight the individuals associated with AMNH expeditions. One of the goals of the project was to shed light on people in connection with these expeditions that researchers and the public may not be aware. While working on a record for explorer Carl Ethan Akeley, it struck me just how much one particular individual was not given more attention: his wife, Mary L. Jobe Akeley. The archives at AMNH house the Mary L. Jobe Akeley collection (Call nos. A342-A344), gifted by her estate in 1967 and 1977. The information within this substantial collection was used to craft an EAC-CPF record for Jobe herself, but I decided to go one step further to bring to light the accomplishments of this remarkable woman.
There is an antiquated saying: behind every great man there is a great woman. This was never truer (and perhaps misleading) in the case of Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley. In the world of explorers, it is Carl Ethan Akeley's name that is more commonly known. From his work with the Chicago Field Museum to his creation of the Akeley Motion Picture camera to his passion and desire to create the African Hall exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History (now entitled the Akeley Hall of African Mammals), it is Carl Akeley who we mostly remember. Few laypersons are aware of Mary Jobe Akeley and the work she had been performing long before she married, and well after.
Born on January 29, 1878 in Tappan, Ohio, Jobe grew up with aspirations of being an explorer. She was bright, attending college by age 15 and earning two degrees, a Bachelor of Philosophy, and a Master of Arts by 1909. In 1930, she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Mt. Union College. While in school she taught grammar and high school and was a member of numerous faculties, including the Head of the Department of history and Civics at the New York State Normal and Training School at Cortland and member of the Department of History at the Normal College of the City of New York(1). Throughout all of this, Jobe also began embarking on expeditions.
Jobe's main area of interest was the Canadian Rockies. Throughout the span of her life she would participate in ten expeditions to British Columbia. Her first two expeditions were in 1905 and 1907, where she helped botanize for Dr. Charles Shaw of the University of Pittsburgh. She would return in 1909, this time with Professor Herschel C. Parker, assisting in the Canadian Topographical Survey Expedition. Her next two expeditions, in the summers of 1910 and 1912 found Jobe exploring areas around Mt. Assiniboine and the Great Divide. During this time, she not only took numerous notes and photographs while on her expeditions, but she also began lecturing at various institutions about her discoveries (a newspaper article from 1913 indicated she gave over 40 lectures on the topic in 1912 alone) (1).
Tagged with: Camp Mystic • Canadian Rockies • clir 2012 • expeditions • Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley
In 1935, Henry Raven set out with Arthur S. Vernay, Stephen F. Hopwood, and other hunters, academics, and guides on a research trip to Burma. He served as lead scientist, collector, and primary photographer. Following along the northern section of Chindwin River, the group set out to document the indigenous birds, tribes, and customs of the area for further comparison and study back at the AMNH.
Before Raven left on the expedition, he first had to itemize and arrange for all the things he would need for the following three months. Some he would acquire personally, others were supplied by the museum, and even more items would have to be purchased with traveling funds once the team was en route through England, Bombay, and Rangoon.
Tagged with: Burma • clir 2012 • expeditions • Harry C. Raven • Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition of 1935
When walking to the exit in the 81st St. – Museum of Natural History subway station, among the creatures on the walls welcoming visitors to the museum is a fish that may appear to be just another prehistoric creature from some geological age long ago. In truth, it wasn't until the twentieth century that paleontologists learned that this fish, previously thought to be a long extinct dino-era species found only in fossils, was alive and well in the waters off South Africa.
The Coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) is an exceedingly rare and endangered species of fish that is related to land-dwelling vertebrates, and its lack of evolution over hundreds of millions of years make this fish what experts have dubbed a "living fossil"; the fish looks just as it did when it first appeared in the Devonian period fossil record, some 375,000,000 years ago. In 1938, fishermen caught the first living Coelacanth specimen near the mouth of the Chalumna River, right off the southeastern coast of South Africa. It was purportedly noticed in a fish market by a woman named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, who was a curator at the nearby East London Museum. She, in turn, sent sketches and a description of the primeval fish to renowned South African ichthyologist J.L.B. Smith who recognized it as a Coelacanth and named the species Latimeria chalumnae after Ms. Courtenay-Latimer and the river in which it was found. As of 1957 only 12 other living specimens had been found, all near the Comoros Islands, and were taken the Natural History Museum in Paris for study. The original discovery was hailed by scientists worldwide as one of the most important natural history discoveries of the century.
Tagged with: clir 2012 • Finding Aid • hidden connections • Ichthyology
One year has passed since we began planning for and creating descriptive records for the AMNH expeditions and the people who participated in them. The project team set out to encode the descriptions of the entities in the EAC-CPF metadata schema. EAC-CPF stands for Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families and was endorsed by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) as a technical standard in 2011. The schema itself was envisioned in 2001 when a group of archivists got together to create a high-level model and draft a strategy for implementation and testing. Now, in 2014, there are few tools for archivists to create and manage EAC-CPF records. We have a plan to dive into these tools, but more on that later… This lack of resources could prohibit a lot of CPF adoption in the archival community in the current landscape. But we can't let that stand in our way. We have a grant-funded mission, and deliverables to produce, and …Excel.
Tagged with: clir 2012 • EAC-CPF • Excel • linked data • linked open data • metadata • spread sheet
Have you ever walked through the halls of the American Museum of Natural History and imagined what it was like for a scientist in the 1920s to gather specimens and interpret important data? As a seasonal intern for the CLIR Hidden Collections project, I'm helping uncover and organize information documented by the museum and its staff for all interested researchers. Recently I've been working with the papers of Henry Cushier Raven, an Associate Curator of Comparative and Human Anatomy at the Museum and the plethora of his scientific reports- one of which had a very unique origin story…
Tagged with: clir 2012 • expeditions • Hall of Ocean Life • Harry C. Raven • Mammalogy Archives • Non-Curatorial Field Notes • William K. Gregory
As part of my internship this fall at the American Museum of Natural History, I was asked to create authority records for the American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) and its two scientists: the mammalogist Herbert Lang and ornithologist James Paul Chapin. I particularly became engrossed with the story of Chapin's experiences. He was a fascinating figure in the history of the Museum, and one of those individuals I have now placed on my "If I could have a dinner party with five people" wish list.
Born a stone's throw from the Museum, Chapin's family moved to Staten Island when he was three. There he cultivated a love of nature, encouraged by his mother. His childhood nickname was Chippy, and his first scientific presentation as a teen was on the observations of a mouse in captivity. Although he had obtained a scholarship to Columbia University, he postponed college for a year after high school and obtained work at the Museum. It was there that he found his home away from home. He would stay with the Museum for 43 years, and even after his retirement maintained a very close association with the institution as Curator Emeritus. In 1935 he wrote that he was "First employed by American Museum at the age of 16…hopes to work hard for the Museum as long as he lives." He ultimately would do just that.
Tagged with: clir 2012 • Congo • Herbert Lang • James Chapin • Lang Chapin Congo Expedition • ornithology
Describing Expeditionary field work at the AMNHThese posts describe recent discoveries and observations by the project team.
In 2012, the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) was awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) Cataloging Hidden Collections. The AMNH Archive Project will produce in-depth descriptions, called finding aids, for major archival collections relating to Museum expeditions. The project will also result in brief histories of these expeditions and biographies of those who participated in them.
Available Finding Aids (PDF)
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- EAC-CPF at the AMNH, Part 1 | Hidden Collections on EAC-CPF at the AMNH, Part 2
- Bob McBride on Hyde and Go Seek – Rediscovering the Hyde Exploring Expedition to Pueblo Bonito
- EAC-CPF at the AMNH, Part 2 | Hidden Collections on EAC-CPF at the AMNH, Part 1
- Iris Lee on AMNH Archives Project 2010
- Rebecca Chace on AMNH Archives Project 2010
TagsAinu AMNH library catalog Anthropology Archives Archbold Archival Arrangement Authority Names CAT Cataloging CLIR 2010 clir 2012 Correspondence Crocker Land Department of Preparation and Installation Department Records EAC-CPF expeditions Fall 2011 Field Notes Finding Aid finding aids Hayden Planetarium Herpetology Archives hidden connections IMLS LARA linked data Mammalogy Archives Manuscript Collection Maps Museum History Non-Curatorial Field Notes Ornithology Archives Paleontology Archives Phase 2 photographs Photo Print Collection Processing Research Library Risk Assessment Slide Collection Spring 2011 Spring 2012 Summer 2011 Summer 2012 T. Don Carter
Links to Related Sites
- Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF)
- Bowdoin College Crocker Land Expedition Blog
- PACSCL Hidden Collections Processing Project
- Smithsonian Institution Field Book Project
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Archives and Special Collections Blog
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PANORAMIC VIEWS WALKING DISTANCE TO HARBOUR Located in the medieval town of Christchurch where the rivers Avon and Stour meet this delightful property offers panoramic views over Stanpit Nature Reserve Christchurch Harbour and Hengistbury Head beyond. Christchurch with its 900 year old Priory nestles between the New Forest and the vibrant town of Bournemouth on the Dorset coast. The area itself is one of the finest parts of the country and is renowned for its weather beaches coastal and woodland walks historical sites of interest and fine food. You will be situated within easy reach of award winning beaches and the towns of Poole Southampton and Salisbury. Take the ferry from Lymington (a pretty yachting town) across the Solent to the Isle of Wight or visit the Channel Islands or even France on a fast ferry from Poole or Weymouth. Enjoy fossil hunting along the Jurassic Coast (recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site) with its stunning scenery or relax on one of the quiet picturesque beaches. Amongst the many attractions the area has to offer are the renowned Exbury and Compton Acre gardens the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu Monkey World Hurst and Corfe castles Weymouth s Deep Sea Adventure and Paultons Park (a family theme park) all of which can be enjoyed on a day s excursion. The accommodation is arranged over 3 floors and offers FOUR bedrooms: on the first floor 1 double with handbasin and balcony with lovely views 2 single bedrooms one with handbasin. On the second floor 1 further double with balcony which is large enough for family dining evening drinks or sun bathing. This bedroom has its own bathroom with WC and spa bath. Shower room: on the first floor with separate WC. Lounge: large room overlooking the pretty garden and nature reserve beyond. Kitchen/diner: on the ground floor fully-equipped with oven hob microwave fridge/freezer and washer/dryer. Dining table seating 6. Outside: the patio doors open onto a raised patio area with steps down to the well-planted enclosed garden bordering Stanpit Marsh. Amenities: off-road parking for 3 cars. Bed linen towels and central heating included. Regret no pets. No smoking inside the property. Location: the nearest beach is 1 mile Mudeford harbour 20 minute walk shops and pubs are within walking distance.
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|Suitable for children over 5
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
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|4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 2 Family bathrooms
|Cots (1)
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AHRQ Publishes Third Edition of Quintiles-Led
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – Friday May 2, 2014 – Quintiles today announced that the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published the third edition of "Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide." Quintiles' Real-World & Late Phase Research division, a leading provider of patient registries, studies and technologies for evaluating patient outcomes, has led this effort to create the patient registries reference since 2005. This publication provides a comprehensive guide to the design, operation, analysis and evaluation of patient registries.
"The handbook is a widely used reference in the United States, Europe and Asia, and previous editions have been cited extensively in the peer-reviewed literature as the standard for designing, conducting and evaluating patient registries," said Nancy A. Dreyer, MPH, Ph.D., senior editor of the handbook and global chief of Scientific Affairs at Quintiles. "Many thanks to all stakeholders who have contributed – including, for the first time, patient representatives – and to AHRQ for supporting the initiative. The third edition represents a significant expansion, from 14 to 25 chapters."
Quintiles' Real-World & Late Phase Research division has led the effort to create and edit the registries user's guide since 2005. Dr. Dreyer served as a senior editor for the project. In addition, Dr. Dreyer and Dr. Priscilla Velentgas, senior director of Epidemiology at Quintiles, are also senior editors of a second AHRQ User's Guide, titled "Developing a Protocol for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research."
The third edition of the registries user's guide was created in collaboration with more than 240 individuals, representing industry, academia, government and patients. In total, there were 100 chapter contributors, 76 invited peer reviewers, plus public comment, and 109 case example contributors, with some individuals participating in multiple ways. The 11 new chapters address challenges related to design, operations, ethics, analysis, and legal and technical concerns, with topics including:
The latest edition also features 34 new case examples – for a total of 64 – including 16 international examples, eight device registries, four public-private partnerships, six rare disease registries, nine quality improvement registries and five pregnancy registries.
To obtain a complimentary copy of the user's guide, please visit http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/registries-guide-3.cfm.
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Michael Hoffman
Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
- Ph.D., 1992 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
- M.S.E.E., 1987 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
- B.S.E.E., 1985 Rice University Houston, TX
- U.S. Patent: US 6,981,010 B1 System and Method for Generating Pseudo-Noise Se- quences, S. Balkir, W. Leon, M. Hoffman, and L. Perez. Issued Dec. 27, 2005.
- U.S. Patent: US 6,892,343 B2 System and Method for Joint Source-Channel Cod- ing with Symbol Decoding and Error Correction, K. Sayood, M. Hoffman and B. D. Pettijohn. Issued May 10, 2005.
- ELEC 121 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering
- ELEC 410/810 - Multivariate Random Processes
- ELEC 462/862 - Communication Systems
- ELEC 463/863 - Digital Signal Processing
- ELEC 464/864 - Digital Communication Systems
- ELEC 465/865 - Introduction to Data Compression
- ELEC 494 - Electrical Engineering Senior Design I
- ELEC 495 - Electrical Engineering Senior Design II
- ELEC 498/898 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering IV
- ELEC 911 - Communication Theory
- ELEC 915 - Adaptive Signal Processing
- ELEC 946 - Optimal Filtering, Estimation and Prediction
Employment History:
- Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Aug. 2008 - present •
- Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Aug. 1999 - 2008
- Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Jan. 1993 - Aug. 1999
- Research Assistant and Instructor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, June 1988 - Dec. 1992.
- Systems Engineer, TRW Inc., Space Communications Division, June 1985-Aug. 1988. Conducted studies into both phased array antenna systems and adaptive multiple beam antenna systems and worked as a unit engineer on closed government projects
Course Development:
- Elec 121-122 Introduction to Electrical Engineering - Redesign sequence to provide broader basis for introductory course and emphasise key technical material for the major - fall 2009 (ongoing).
- Elec 494-495 Senior Design Laboratory - Redesign sequence to assure compliance with ABET 2000 requirements - spring 2001.
- Elec 498/898 Biomedical Signal and Image Processing - New Course in spring of 2006. Laboratory project based course that focuses on Biomedical applications of signal and image processing – with fundamental signal and image processing ideas presented as needed. Projects topics have included multi-band compressive hearing aids, tomographic simulation and image reconstruction, DNA microarray processing, and fetal ECG extraction. • Elec 915 Adaptive Signal Processing - New Course in spring of 2003. Simulation based advanced graduate course that explores key issues in adaptive signal processing including: algorithms and convergence; time, frequency, and transform domain tech- niques; and simulation applications to real world problems such as noise cancelling, modelling, equalization, and echo-cancellation.
- Elec 463/863 - Digital Signal Processing. Added significant Matlab-based com- puter exercises to existing course, including: filter design, use and evaluation; discrete- time simulation studies; and student selected projects.
Graduate Advising and Teaching:
PhD Students
- Nathan Schemm, "A Single-Chip Ultra-Wideband Based Wireless Sensor Network Node", Ph.D., Dec. 2010, co-advisor S. Balkir, grant funded.
- Zhiqiang Lin, "CMOS Image Sensor with Focal Plane SPIHT Image Compression," Ph.D., January 2008.
- Dongsheng Bi "State Machine Interpretation of Arithmetic Codes for Joint Source and Channel Coding," Ph.D., August 2006, co-advisor K. Sayood, grant funded.
- Boon Leng Cheong "Adaptive Array Processing Using the Turbulent Eddy Profiler," Ph.D., May, 2005, co-advisor R. Palmer, grant funded.
- Zhao Li, "Robust speech coding using microphone arrays," Ph.D., Feb. 1998, grant funded.
- C. Aaron Hall, "The FBLMS Adaptive Filter Applied as an Acoustic Echo Canceller on a Texas Instruments TMSC64X DSP," May 2009 full-time industrial MS.
- Dirk Neumann, "Dual Input UWB Interference Canceling Front End in CMOS," M.S., August, 2007, co-advised with S. Balkir, grant funded.
- Jing Xu, "Simulation of Coherent Radar Imaging Using ContinuousWave Noise Radar," M.S., December, 2006.
- Daniel White, "A Low-Power Class-D CMOS Amplifier," M.S., December 2006. • Venkata Syam Sundar Tellabati, "Antenna Array Calibration Techniques for Atmo- spheric Imaging Radars," M.S., August 2005, co-advised with R. Palmer, grant funded.
- Lifeng Xu, "Iterative Joint Source Channel Coding Using Arithmetic Codes," M.S., December, 2004, co-advised with K. Sayood.
- David McCreight, "The Effecct of FM Discrimination Induced Phase Wraps on 4 DQPSK Signal Detection," M.S., December 2003, full-time industrial MS. 4
- Hui Tong, "Application of Adaptive Arrays to Atmospheric Remote Sensing," M.S. August 2003, co-advised with R. Palmer, grant funded.
- Boon Leng Cheong, "Joint Beamforming and MBE Vocoding of Noisy Speech Using a Microphone Array," M.S. May 2002, grant funded.
- EiMon Phyu, "High Quality Speech Coding," M.S., August 2001, co-advised with K. Sayood.
- Jason S. Smith "Real-time DSP test platform for multiple microphone systems," M.S., May 2001, grant funded.
- Cenk Demiroglu, "A new technique for joint source channel coding using arithmetic codes," M.S., December 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood, grant funded.
- Gulay Ozkan, "Robust joint source channel coding of images using variable length codes,", M.S., December 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood.
- Ramazan Kerek, "Implementation and evaluation of recursively indexed vector quan- tization on multiple use environmental datasets," M.S., August 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood, grant funded.
- Qianying Bao, "Multiple description image coding for noisy channels by vector quan- tization," M.S., May 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood, grant funded.
- Billy D. Pettijohn, "Joint source/channel coding using arithmetic codes," M.S., April 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood, grant funded.
- XiaoFeng Lu, "Calibration and evaluation of adaptive microphone arrays," M.S., April 1998, grant funded.
- Chad Pinkelman, "Real-time implementation of adaptive spatial filters," M.S., May 1997, grant funded.
- Department of Energy, "All Solid-State Wireless Sensor Network for Nuclear Prolifer- ation Detection," $417,191. Support dates 9/06 - 8/10, PI's S. Balkir, M. Hoffman.
- Army Research Office, "Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure and Dynamics Re- vealed Through Adaptive Imaging Techniques," $294,176. Support dates 4/01 - 3/05, PI - R. Palmer, co-PI M. Hoffman.
- Other funded projects include funding from the Whitaker Foundation and National Science Foundation as sole PI, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research as co-PI.
Selected Publications
Selected Peer Reviewed Journal Publications in print:
underline indicates student author, subscript 1 indicates M.S. under my supervison, subscript 2 indicates Ph.D. under my supervision
- N. Schemm2, S. Balkir, M.W. Hoffman, A 4μW CMOS Front End for Particle Detec- tion Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol. 57, No.2, pp. 100-104, Feb., 2010.
- J. Xu1, M. W. Hoffman, B. L. Cheong, and R. D. Palmer "Simulation of Coherent Radar Imaging Using Continuous Wave Noise Radar, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 26, Iss. 9, pp. 1956-1967, Sept., 2009, DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1194.1
- Q. Hu, Z. Liang, and M. W. Hoffman "Detecting Source Regions of Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Tropical Atmosphere by Applying Beamforming to Interpolated Data Grids, Journal of the Atmospheric Science, Vol. 26, Iss. 2, pp. 270-280, Feb. 2009, DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1121.1.
- Z. Lin2, M. W. Hoffman, N. Schemm2, W. D. Leon-Salas, and Sina Balkir "A CMOS Image Sensor for Multi-level Focal Plane Image Decomposition," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, Vol. 55, Iss.. 9, pp. 2561-2572, Oct. 2008, doi:10.1109/TCSI.2008.920094
- B. L. Cheong2, T.-Y. Yu, R. D. Palmer, K.-F. Yang, M. W. Hoffman, S. J. Frasier, and F. J. Lopez-Dekker, "Effects ofWind Field Inhomogeneities on Doppler Beam Swinging Revealed by an Imaging Radar," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 25, pp 1414-1422, August, 2008.
- D. K. Neumann1, M. W. Hoffman and S. Balkir "Dual-Antenna RF CMOS Front- End for Interferer Removal in Ultra-Wideband Systems," Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 27, Number 3, pp. 381-390, DOI: 10.1007/s00034-008-9029-8, June, 2008.
- D. Leon, S. Balkir, K. Sayood, N. Schemm2, and M. W. Hoffman, "A CMOS imager with focal plane compression using predictive coding," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 2555-2572, Nov. 2007.
- B. L. Cheong2, M. W. Hoffman, R. D. Palmer, S. J. Frasier, and F. J. L´opez-Dekker, "Phased Array Design for Biological Clutter Rejection: Simulation and Experimental Validation," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 23, Issue 4, pp. 585-598, April 2006.
- B. L. Cheong2, M. W. Hoffman, R. D. Palmer, S. J. Frasier, and F. L. Dekker, "Pulse Pair Beamforming and the Effects of Reflectivity Field Variations on Imaging Radars," Radio Science, 39, RS3014, doi:10.1029/2002RS002843, 2004.
- B.D. Pettijohn1, M.W. Hoffman, and K. Sayood. "Joint source/channel coding using arithmetic codes," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 826-836, May 2001.
- M.W. Hoffman, Z. Li2, and D. Khataniar2, "GSC-based spatial voice activity detection for enhanced speech coding in the presence of competing speech", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 175-179, February, 2001.
- M.W. Hoffman and K.M. Buckley. "Robust time-domain processing of broadband acoustic data". IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol.3, pp. 193- 203, May. 1995.
- M.W. Hoffman, T. Trine, K.M. Buckley, and D.J. Van Tasell. "Robust microphone array processing for hearing aids: Realistic speech enhancement predictions". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.96, pp. 759-770, Aug. 1994.
Books and Book Chapters:
- D. Bi2, M.W. Hoffman, and K. Sayood "Joint Source Channel Coding Using Arithmetic Codes," 77 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00222ED1V01Y200911COM004), Morgan-Claypool Inc., 2009.
- M.W. Hoffman, "Lossless bi-level image compression," in Lossless Compression Handbook , edited by K. Sayood, Academic Press, Inc., 2003.
- M.W. Hoffman, "JPEG-LS standard for lossless and near-lossless image compression," in Lossless Compression Handbook, edited by K. Sayood, Academic Press, Inc., 2003.
- M.W. Hoffman and K. Sayood, "Still image compression," in Multimedia Communications: Directions and Innovations, edited by J.D. Gibson, Academic Press, Inc., August, 2000.


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"Great public health"
The facinating thing about this book is that we didn't learn about this in school and that our parents and grandparents didn't talk about it. John Barry weaves a story about the social, medical, political and human side of this great epidemic. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and learned a great deal - much of it still relevant to our present situation and our approaches to infectious disease.
"Excellent Listen"
Very informative and the narrative flows.
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"33% great 66% OK"
This book was at its best when treating the 1918 influenza itself and not the history of medicine or the micro-biographies of several of the researchers. I learned a lot and enjoyed it, but I also had to put up with a large amount of not very interesting material. Overall, I would still recommend this book to anyone. The interesting parts are too interesting to miss, and the book overcomes all its weaknesses. The narration was quite good.
This book is an extremely interesting review of medicine in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The author does an excellent job of reviewing the state of medicine, the men (there were apparently only men in medicine back then) involved, and how the so-called "Spanish flu" ravaged the world while World War I raged in the background. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in learning how pandemics can emerge and affect people worldwide.
"Excellent Read"
John Barry's treatment of the epidemic couched in the context of the historical setting is great. The development of the characters, the wealth of research, the US (and some world) medical science history and the political environment all combined to make the actions and choices during this pandemic take on a significance they would otherwise lack.
I particularly enjoyed the analysis and thought process employed to evaluate individuals' and governments' choices and actions along with their impact on the lives of millions world wide and the possible implications for current and future generations. It begs the questions of the reader "what would I have done in that situation?"; "What should I be doing now?"
The balance between the education and the story worked well for me. It would be great to have other subjects in history treated in the same fashion. For me, it is always better to view the events of history with more education and context in which to frame them.
"Should have been better focused."
I'm a physician and I have always been interested in reading about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As one of the other reviewers stated, only a portion of this book is actually about the outbreak. This author should have spent more time focusing on the pandemic and less time reviewing the entire history of medicine. Also, it annoyed me how the author attempted to sensationalize this subject by his endless use of graphic similies. So this book gets 3/5 stars because it is just "average."
"One scary read!"
This is a great and frightening book. Before reading it I hardly knew anything about the 1918 flu pandemic, let alone that it took 50 to 100 million lives! The numbers just boggle the mind and the descriptions of the suffering and chaos chill the blood.
The Audiobook was well read and clear. My only complaint was that there was almost too much information at times. The first six hours dove into the history of medicine in general and the Johns Hopkins University in particular (which is fine if you have the spare time to listen to it). My advice, if you want to get into the real 'meat' of the influenza subject, is to bypass the first download section, and start listening from the beginning of the second.
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"Shut Up Already"
This is a genuinely verbose book. Before it was published an editor with a pocket full of blue pencils should have "X'ed" out mounds of superfluous writing. As it is, the reader/listener will (presumably) not be interested in the private lives of researchers of the day, nor those of their assistants, nor detailed biographies of big city medical examiners, nor who the era's most famous doctors were and how their life experiences pointed them towards research in this thing or that, nor the struggle to change the direction of American research hospitals at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet, it's all there are: acres and acres of off- focus trivia. Further distracting is the author's philosophizing over subjects like what scientific research requires in the character of a person. When Barry stays on his subject it's obvious that he knows his stuff. His descriptions of the actions of influenza virus in the body are wonderful. Were his book edited to a third the size it would be worth the time.
"Epic indeed"
Highly recommend to those with an interest in the history of the U.S. medical system and specifically the influence of WW I and the great epidemic. The story is the effect of the epidemic on American society, not the epidemic itself. Those who are preparing for the next influenza epidemic would be well served to listen. Biographies of the key players are woven into and around all the events. Long book, not for the faint of heart, abridgement might be useful for those who do not need explanation of medical terms.
Scott Brick's narration is unique. For this book I thought it well suited.
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"A fascinating medical who-dun-it"
I bought this book to help me do research, and have read it through twice. The first time, I read it for the story. The second time, I read it for the details that I needed to note for my project. I have enjoyed it both times.
It is a brilliant retelling of a true modern-day pandemic and the scientists who tried to corral it. If you liked THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, you will find this an exceedingly satisfying use of a credit.I love that Barry incorporates so many details of everyday life.
A great example of this is his exploration of the limited options available to women back then and how, because of the desperate need for nursing care, the flu actually opened up a new--and respected--path for women who wanted and/or needed to work. Prior to this, a women's choices were limited pretty much to domestic work, marriage, or prostitution. Barry explains how the flu pandemic changed all that.In addition to little details such as women's roles, Barry takes us on a compelling trip through the history of medicine. Here is just one sample of the type of thing you'll learn here: that up to the turn of the last century, many highly respected, so-called med schools would cheerfully award diplomas to students who had never even had a single hands-on interaction with a patient, or even a cadaver. I'm not in the medical field, but I do like history. This is one of the best in the genre.
I am just so impressed when a writer can turn history into something lively and compelling. That is exactly what happened here. Mr. Barry took a thousand strands of storyline and wound them together in a captivating tale that made me want to know more.
I am one of the few people left on the planet who does not love, love, love Scott Brick. I would have loved it had Arthur Morey narrated this book. Mr. Brick's narration, while suitable, is the only reason I gave this book four stars, instead of five.
I first heard Scott Brick years ago when he was hired to voice Nelson DeMille's John Corey series. I found him serviceable in that role, and God knows, he is everywhere. Recently, I heard him read a Harlan Coben book, SIX YEARS, which I could barely get through because of his excessive emoting.
So I have to admit, I came into this book with a little bit of an, ahem, attitude. I have to say that I think Mr. Brick did a solid job with THE GREAT INFLUENZA. There were opportunities to mess it up. He didn't. He mostly stayed in a professional, newsman-style, non-fiction mode.
Where were you when the outbreak began?
My great-grandfather died in 1918 from the flu. He was the love of my great-grandmother's life and it had a huge impact on her. Add to this the fact of The Great War/The War to End All Wars/The First World War. The world was truly changing back then on a daily basis, and the flu was just one of the many causes. This is a great visit back into a unique time in American and world history.


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Trish, who bears a great resemblance to Dante's deceased mother, Eva, is a creation of Mundus. As a result of her demonic nature, she possesses several supernatural abilities, such as superhuman strength and lightning-based powers.
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As a puppet of Mundus, Trish was originally cruel and uncaring, but after Dante saved her, she began to develop emotions towards him, and eventually sacrificed herself to save him from Mundus's attack. After being revived, Trish joined Dante at his shop, and showed excitement at being his partner.
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Powers and Abilities Edit
Though the player is never required to fight directly against Trish/Gloria, she is shown to have a combat style that relies heavily upon melee attacks. She has some degree of superhuman strength as she is able to lift a motorcycle and throw it at Dante. She also has superhuman speed, agility and endurance similar to Dante. In the anime series, she is able to hitch a ride on one of Lady's rockets and amplifiy its power at the same time while fighting Abigail. Like most demons, she has a considerable healing factor as she was seen healing from a bullet graze in a few seconds.
In the original Devil May Cry, she first fights Dante with a combination of hand-to-hand combat and the element of electricity. She also seems to be able to use this electricity to teleport from location to location. After the first game, she intersperses this style of fighting with usage of the Sparda and Luce & Ombra. Because she has already given the Sparda to Sanctus by the beginning of Devil May Cry 4, she only carries Luce & Ombra during this game.
Her style of combat is unclear, as she is never shown fighting. However, in her disguise as Gloria, she wields two small blades, each of which folds in on itself. She appears to keep them tucked in the back of her thigh-high boots when they are not in use. Trish seems to favor a melee style here as well.
The appearance of her character in Devil May Cry 2 is not story-driven, but rather an unlockable playable character for both Dante and Lucia's discs. In this game, it looks as if Trish has taken Dante's moveset from the said game, having access to all of his attacks, including the original Stinger and Round Trip attacks. However, she can now utilize a Devil Trigger, which changes her avatar to have sunglasses and gives her the ability to fly (Air Raid). She is capable of firing extremely powerful energy blasts that home in on the target (Majin Form). Trish wields the twin pistols Luce & Ombra and the Sword of Sparda.
In the anime series, she retains her power over lightning, though it is now colored blue. She is also shown to be a very skilled fighter, able to easily overwhelm a renowed Devil Hunter like Lady on two occasions.
In Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and its updated re-release, Trish features the ability to place magic "mines" on both the ground and air, the groundbound ones launching a lightning bullet when in close proximity and the airborne ones stunning her enemies. She once again takes up Sparda and uses it extensively and in conjunction with her lightning powers.
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Devil May Cry Edit
Trish comes to the Devil May Cry shop one night to meet Dante. There she attempts to electrocute him, but with his demon powers he easily overpowers her. Trish is defeated, but tells Dante that she needs his help. She takes him to Mallet Island, where Mundus is planning to open the gate to the Underworld to cross over to the Human World.
It is eventually revealed that Trish was actually created by Mundus as a lure to kill Dante in the island. After betraying Dante during a fight with Nightmare and trying to kill him, Dante still saves her life from falling rocks. Trish is deeply moved by this, although she still returns to her master. Later, the demon king then tries to kill Dante by using a very powerful beam from his third eye. However, Trish returns Dante's favor and sacrifices herself instead, pushing Dante out of the beam's path and allowing herself to be struck instead.
Before following Mundus into the Underworld, and believing Trish to be dead, Dante utters the famous line, "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with light!". He then leaves her with the Sparda and the Perfect Amulet. Later, cornered by a heavily mutated Mundus, Dante hears his mother's voice, and Trish bursts through the wall to aid him. She lends him her power and Mundus is defeated. With Mundus destroyed, Dante and Trish embrace, and she begins to cry. Dante tells Trish that she has become human, because "Devils never cry". She and Dante are shown working together as partners out of the renamed "Devil Never Cry" office.
Devil May Cry 4 Edit
By this time, Trish is seemingly living with Dante and working alongside him as a Devil Hunter. When Lady informs them about the actions of the Order of the Sword, Trish takes the Sparda to Sanctus while posing as "Gloria", and is made an Executive of the Holy Knights. She uses this placement to spy on the Holy Knights, but because of her looks and rapid promotion, she enjoyed a somewhat negative reception by the other members of the Order. She discards her disguise once Dante and Nero reach the Order's headquarters, and after the Savior is activated, she goes to evacuate the island's townspeople while Dante attacks the giant statue.
After Sanctus and the Savior are defeated, Trish returns to the Devil May Cry shop with Dante. When Lady brings in another case, all three of them go off to face it together.
Devil May Cry 2 Edit
Trish does not appear as a part of Devil May Cry 2's storyline, presumably carrying out official demon eradication elsewhere. She can, however, be unlocked by beating the game on Hard Mode as Dante. Trish can be used in the entire game, equipped with Sparda, Luce & Ombra and Nightmare-γ as her weapons. She also retains her ability to shoot lightning.
Gloria Edit
In Devil May Cry 4, Trish poses as Gloria, the only female Executive of the Holy Knights, in order to spy on the Order. She was able to quickly ascend the ranks by bringing the Sparda along withher, and giving it to Sanctus. Because of her looks and this suspiciously quick promotion, many members of the Order spread negative rumors about her; however, they also recognize her acrobatic and combat skills. Gloria's true identity as Trish is revealed after Nero fights Dante in Mission 10, and she later helps Dante by evacuating the town while he fights the Savior.
Other AppearancesEdit
Outside of Devil May Cry, she has made several appearances and cameos like Dante.
- Trish appeared exclusively in the PlayStation 2 version of Viewtiful Joe alongside Dante, and as a playable character in the PlayStation Portable game, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble.
- She also appears in the anime series, Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, and in the Devil May Cry Volume 2 novel. In the anime series (which takes place between Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 4[1]), she has gone solo, but reappears at intervals to work with Dante, who gave her an open invitation to come back at any time.
- She appeared as a card in SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS.
- Along with Dante, she is a playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, where she also has her Gloria form as a alternative color scheme, and its updated version, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. In Ultimate, her Gloria color scheme becomes a full-fledged DLC outfit.
- Trish appeared in the Japan-only social game Onimusha Soul along with Dante, Lady and Kyrie.
Trivia Edit
- Trish's name is a reference to Lady Beatrice of the Divine Comedy, who was based on Dante Alighieri's muse and unrequited love, Beatrice Portinari.
- The Gloria ("Glory be to God on high" in Latin) is the second part of the Catholic Ordinary of the Mass. It is traditionally sung in Latin.
- While Trish possesses the power of Devil Trigger, it does not change her shape. Hideki Kamiya, the DMC series creator, suggested that the Devil Trigger form seen in Devil May Cry 2 may not be her true Devil form.
- The relationship between Trish and Dante is often interpreted by fans to be romantic in nature, however; Kamiya denies this is the case.
- Trish is voiced by Sarah Lafleur in Devil May Cry, Danielle Burgio in Devil May Cry 4, and in the anime series she is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka and in the English dub by Luci Christian.
- If the player make a fresh save file of Devil May Cry on the PlayStatin 2 memory card, and click on the memory card options; the save file is of a chibi version of Trish. If the player attempt to delete the save file Trish puts her hand on her forehead and shakes her head in disappointment. If they copy the file she'll pump one arm in the air in excitement and if they actually copy the data to another memory card, Trish will start dancing while it's copying to the new memory card.


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Growth strengthened for the Rural Main Street economy over the past month, according to the April survey of bank chief executive officers in a 10-state area.
The Rural Mainstreet Index of 10 states with substantial rural economies, which ranges between 0 and 100 with 50 representing growth neutral, climbed to 58.3 from March's solid 56.9.
The farmland price index dipped to a still strong 66.9 from March's 67.2. This is the 41st consecutive month that the farmland-price index has been above growth neutral. The farm equipment-sales index declined to 57.3 from 60.5 in March.
"Crop farmers and businesses linked to crop farming and energy continue to experience very positive economic conditions with improving balance sheets," said Ernie Goss, the Jack A. MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics at Creighton University.
However, there are some negative outcomes from the agriculture expansion. Rapidly increasing farmland prices are causing concerns for bankers.
David Callies, CEO of Miner County Bank in Howard, S.D., said, "Increased agriculture land prices and rent cost are hurting our smaller operators as well as younger, beginning farmers."
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"Despite very strong growth in farmland prices, bankers are indicating little change in investors' appetite for farmland. Likewise, farmland price growth over the past year in excess of 20 percent for parts of the region did not alter the share of land purchases for cash," Goss said.
In the banking sector, the loan-volume index moved above growth neutral for the month. The index soared to 66 from 51.5 in March. The checking-deposit index declined to 63 from March's much stronger 70.5 while the index for certificates of deposit and other savings instruments sank to 40.4 from last month's 42.4.
"Banking data validate the region's healthy farm income and an expanding Rural Main Street economy," Goss said.
Jim Ashworth, vice chairman of CNB Bank and Trust in Carlinville, Ill., reported very positive economic activity for both rural and urban bank locations with farmers in rural areas increasing their purchases of land and equipment.
March's hiring index slipped to 57.5 from March's 59.4.
"The rate of new hiring over the past several months is now back to pre-recession levels," Goss said.
The confidence index, which reflects expectations for the economy six months out, strengthened to 56.3 from 52.3 in March.
"Despite recent pullbacks in commodity prices and questions about the global economy, Rural Main Street bankers are more upbeat about the economy," Goss said.
For a third straight month the homes-sales index took a large positive jump. The April home-sales index advanced to a record 70.8 from March's 69.2. The April retail-sales index slipped slightly to 51.4 from 51.6 in March.
Each month, community bank presidents and CEOs in nonurban, agriculturally and energy-dependent portions of a 10-state area are surveyed regarding current economic conditions in their communities and their projected economic outlooks six months down the road. Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming are included.
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The Rural Main Street Index is a unique index covering 10 regional states, focusing on approximately 200 rural communities with an average population of 1,300. It gives the most current real-time analysis of the rural economy. Goss and Bill McQuillan, president of CNB Community Bank of Greeley, Neb., created the monthly economic survey in 2005.
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Colorado: For a seventh straight month, Colorado's Rural Mainstreet Index remained above 50. The April RMI slipped a bit to a still strong 73.1 from March's 75.2. The farmland and ranchland price index expanded to 83 from March's 71.2. Colorado's hiring index for April expanded to 68.8 from March's 67.8.
Iowa: The April RMI for Iowa dipped to 62.3 from March's 65.2. The farmland-price index expanded 70 from March's 66.7. Iowa's new-hiring index for April weakened slightly to 60.2 from 61.3 in March.
William Hess, CEO of Iowa Savings Bank in Carroll, said, "Recent rain has improved attitude and outlook, and forecast is more rain, so perhaps a return to normal conditions and yields which will impact the ag picture."
Kansas: The Kansas RMI for rocketed to 61.8 from 52.8 in March. The farmland-price index sank to a still very healthy 65.5 from 69.1 in March. The state's new-hiring index decreased to 56.6 from 57.8 in March. Minnesota: The April RMI for Minnesota slid to 66.7 from 66.8 in March. Minnesota's farmland-price index sank to 67.1 from March's 72.1. The new-hiring index advanced to 61.5 from 59.8 in March.
Missouri: The April RMI for Missouri soared to 71.7 from March's 56.3. The farmland-price index for April fell to 70.8 from 74.1 in March. Missouri's new-hiring sank to 60.7 from 61.1 in March.
Nebraska: After moving below growth neutral for January, Nebraska's Rural Main Street index broke above growth neutral for three straight months. The April RMI expanded to 57.3 from March's 54.9. The farmland-price index for April was unchanged from March's 65.4. Nebraska's new-hiring index dipped to 57.1 from 58 in March
"Recent later winter, early spring rains and snow has helped our moisture situation and improved the farmers outlook. Crop ground and pastures will benefit," said Jeffrey Gerhart, chairman of the Bank of Newman Grove.
South Dakota: The April RMI for South Dakota fell to 57.2 from 58.8 in March. The farmland price index grew to 67.4 from March's 62.4. South Dakota's new-hiring index for April slipped to 55.4 from 58.4 in March.
"Moisture this week has improved the spring outlook," Callies said.
Wyoming: The April RMI for Wyoming advanced to 55.1 from 52.8 in March. The April farmland and ranchland price index decreased to 58.0 from 61.8 in March. Wyoming's new-hiring index climbed above growth neutral with an April reading of 53.2 down from March's 53.9.
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