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Title: | Digital conversion of Nineteenth century publications - production management in the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 |
Authors: | Coleman, Ross Webb, Colin |
Keywords: | Libraries; Archives; Preservation; Australia; Social history; Information retrieval; Technological change Project management; Digital resources; Digitisation Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 |
Issue Date: | Jun-2000 |
Publisher: | State Library of New South Wales |
Citation: | LASIE: Library Automated Systems Information Exchange, Volume 31, Issue 2; June 2000; 5-20 |
Abstract: | This article will discuss and evaluate the management and production issues of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 - a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research Council. The completion of this digital library project allows the authors to reflect on the technical issues and the interrelationships of the content, project organisation, the production model with its access and preservation goals, and issues of quality control, in relation to the future viability of such projects. -- " It may in truth be said, that in no country, and at no period since the invention of printing, has there appeared a greater necessity for a periodical conducted with spirit and principle, in the popular cause, than there does appear to exist in the colony of New South Wales at this moment. The only journals of character now existing upon any basis that offers to be permanent, boast of their "moderate conservatism"; a term which according to our interpretation means just as much oppression of the many by the few as the spirit of the age will bear.....unless the people are fully represented in the periodical press, as well as in the councils of the country, their rights will in the conflict of factions and interests be greatly endangered" - The Weekly Register of politics, facts and general literature, vol 1 no 1 July 29 1843. -- The period 1840-45 was a seminal period in the development of an Australian colonial culture. This period, following the end of convict transportation and preceding the influx of the gold-rushes, was characterised by exploration and expansion, conflict, commercial growth, political agitation and a surge in local publication reflecting the issues and concerns of the time. Journals, such as the Weekly Register, led and engaged in the political and social debate of the time, and remain today as the voice and contemporary record of the period. The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project, 1840-45 (ACDP) was funded, through an Australian Research Council grant, to both digitise this contemporary record for access and ensure its long term preservation. The project has been a collaborative initiative between the University of Sydney Library, the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), and the National Library of Australia (NLA) Fundamental to the success of this project was the need to establish practical and implementable standards for large-scale digital conversion, in the context of the hybrid (microfilming and imaging) production model adopted using external vendors. The project - following the access and preservation initiatives developed in the US - has been described in a number of earlier articles (these can be found at the project site at http://www.nla.gov.au/acdp/), and we do not intend to revisit these descriptions in detail. This article will address and evaluate the management and production issues of what has been a complex developmental digital library project.. This complexity can best be characterised by the interrelationships of the nature of the content, the project organisation, access and preservation goals, production issues and management, and image quality control. |
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Decitre, Sylvie; Buatier, Martine and James, Rachael
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Li and Li isotopes have been measured in the clay fraction of sediments recovered from the Middle Valley hydrothermal site on the Juan De Fuca Ridge. The Li content of pure detrital clays is 51 ppm while hydrothermal clays and carbonates have lower Li (22±11 ppm). However, there is no clear relationship between the mineralogy of the hydrothermal alteration products and their Li content. The δ7 Li value of the detrital clays is +5.8‰. Hydrothermal clays and carbonates have δ7 Li in the range of -3.9‰ to +7.8‰; these values do not seem to be dependent on the temperature at which they formed. Modelling of the Li and Li isotope systematics indicates that the fluid from which the alteration products form is significantly enriched in Li (higher than 10,000 μmol kg-1) relative to pore fluids recovered from within the sediments (up to 589 μmol kg-1; [Wheat, C.G., M.J. Mottl, 1994. Data report: trace metal composition of pore water from Sites 855 through 858, Middle valley, Juan De Fuca Ridge. In Mottl, M.J., Davis, E.E., Fisher, A.T., Slack, J.F. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Res. 139: 749–755]), and that this Li is derived from sediment. Thus, the alteration products are not in equilibrium with their conjugate pore fluids; rather, the alteration minerals formed at lower water/sediment ratios. This suggests that fluid flow pathways at Middle Valley were more diffuse in the past than they are today
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Copyright Holders: | 2004 Elsevier B.V. |
Keywords: | Juan de Fuca Ridge; ODP Leg 139; Isotopes; Lithium; Hydrothermal alteration; Oceanic sediments |
Academic Unit/Department: | Science > Environment, Earth and Ecosystems |
Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) |
Item ID: | 10487 |
Depositing User: | Rachael James |
Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2008 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2011 10:53 |
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Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
Bargeloads of art and exhibit materials have been going out to the former prison island of Alcatraz recently, all for an imprisonment- and human rights- and freedom of expression-themed exhibit by Chinese activist dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who designed and directed the installation while remaining under detention in Beijing. The barged materials include over a million Lego blocks, assembled in San Francisco.
Chinese Lianhuanhua: A Century of Pirated Movies
Before bootleg DVDs, western movies were adapted into Lianhuanhua: linked picture books that could be bought or rented. While many stories were told, and many movies were "pirated" in this way, one of particular interest is Star Wars. [more inside]
Prosperous Suzhou
Prosperous Suzhou (20,353 × 546 pixel JPEG) is a 1757 scroll painting by Xu Yang illustrating the everyday life of the city, including more than 4,600 figures and 400 boats. It combines Western perspective with traditional Chinese style, and is currently on display at the Masterpieces of Chinese Painting exhibition at the London V&A.
Rubber Ducky, you're my very best friend, it's true!
We've read about Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck before (previously), and it made it's way earlier this week to Hong Kong to spread joy :D
Well, unfortunately, the duck was also viciously murdered (warning: may be graphic to younger viewers), and many already blame chinese mainlanders for it. [more inside]
Well, unfortunately, the duck was also viciously murdered (warning: may be graphic to younger viewers), and many already blame chinese mainlanders for it. [more inside]
Yang Yongliang
Mes Aynak
Golden Buddha, Hidden Copper. "Twelve years after the Taliban blew up the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas, a Chinese mining firm -- developing one of the world's largest copper deposits -- threatens to destroy another of Afghanistan's archeological treasures." Campaign to Save Mes Aynak.
The mural in Oregon the Chinese government wants destroyed
A colorful mural adorns Chao Tsung-song / Tibet House in Corvallis, Oregon. Commissioned by Corvallis businessman, David Lin, the 100 foot long mural depicts at one end, a cheerful Taiwanese countryside scene, and at the other, police beating Tibetan protesters and a Tibetan monk in the process of self-immolation. The Chinese government has requested that the mural be destroyed. Mr. Lin and Corvallis city mayor, Julie Manning, say, "no."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Mike McHenry has posted several photo pages of the Chinese firecracker and firework labels he's been collecting since 1968.
Using a Camera Lens to Illustrate
Don Hong-Oai (1929 - 2004), was a master of creating artwork which appeared to be Chinese ink illustrations, but were actually photographs. [gallery] [more inside]
Throwing molten iron for fun and profit
A landscape of the mind
''Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains'' is the greatest surviving masterpiece by Huang Gongwang (黄公望 1269-1354), one of the Four Yuan Masters; considered one of the finest of all Chinese paintings, it served as a model and inspiration for many subsequent literati artists. The scroll suffered fire damage in the early Qing and was divided into two parts. This summer, a special exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan reunited these two portions of Huang's masterwork for the first time in 360 years.
Michelangelo Antonioni's "Chung Kuo"
[Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo] as a documentary film was one which was draped with fascination for both filmmakers as well as an audience, rather than championing anti-whatever sentiments from either side of the world. Not having seen many movies, either features, shorts or documentaries made during the Cultural Revolution era or about that era in question (propaganda included), I think this Antonioni film has more than made its mark as a definitive documentary that anyone curious about the life of the time, would find it a gem to sit through.
The Chinese art of elegant bribery
The Cartoon Guide to Life, the Universe, and Everything
Larry Gonick is a veteran American cartoonist best known for his delightful comic-book guides to science and history, many of which have previews online. Chief among them is his long-running Cartoon History of the Universe (later The Cartoon History of the Modern World), a sprawling multi-volume opus documenting everything from the Big Bang to the Bush administration. Published over the course of three decades, it takes a truly global view -- its time-traveling Professor thoroughly explores not only familiar topics like Rome and World War II but the oft-neglected stories of Asia and Africa, blending caricature and myth with careful scholarship (cited by fun illustrated bibliographies) and tackling even the most obscure events with intelligence and wit. This savvy satire carried over to Gonick's Zinn-by-way-of-Pogo chronicle The Cartoon History of the United States, along with a bevy of Cartoon Guides to other topics, including Genetics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, The Environment, and (yes!) Sex. Gonick has also maintained a few sideprojects, such as a webcomic look at Chinese invention, assorted math comics (previously), the Muse magazine mainstay Kokopelli & Co. (featuring the shenanigans of his "New Muses"), and more. See also these lengthy interview snippets, linked previously. Want more? Amazon links to the complete oeuvre inside! [more inside]
Demolition of Ai Weiwei's studio
Shanghaiist reports that the Chinese authorities have followed through on their promise to tear down Ai Weiwei's studio. (previously). The artist is under house arrest in Beijing. [more inside]
made in china
Traditional patterns exquisitely turned into objects of little worth l car | tv | polo shirts by Li Xiaofeng | Twisted porcelain | The Porcelain War Museum and more by Charles Krafft | Manga Ormolu by Brendan Tang | Ming meets the tin can by Lei Xue. [more inside]
Harmonious Society
Lord of war
For his graduation piece, Central Academy of Fine Arts sculpture student Bi Heng (毕横) made a 9.4 metre tall Transformer-like statue of apotheosised martial hero Guan Yu; the base vehicle Bi cannibalised was another icon of the Chinese battlefield, the Jiefang truck (more pics, video in Chinese)
Release early, often and with rap music.
The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. You may know them from such projects as How to build a fake Google Street View car, public domain donor stickers, internet famous class, the first rap video to end with a download source code link, or their numerous firefox add-ons (such as China Channel, Tourettes Machine, or Back to the future). FAT members have been hard at work standardizing various open source graffiti-related software packages, including Graffiti Analysis, Laser Tag, Fat Tag Deluxe and EyeWriter [previously] to be GML (Graffiti Markup Language) compliant. Fuck Google. Fuck Twitter. FuckFlickr. Fuck SXSW. Fuck 3D. FAT Lab is Kanye shades for the open source movement.
Ai Weiwei hospitalised
Ai Weiwei, one of the leading Chinese artists of his generation, has undergone emergency brain surgery after being beaten by police. [more inside]
miniature interiors
Carving a snuff bottle for painting. Types of snuff bottle painting: slide show. Step by step process of painting inside. A painting in its cultural setting. Some contemporary images: Tornado on the highway l aurora. With a special 90-degree-angle paintbrush used to paint inside glass or crystal objects, artists can achieve exquisitely unique paintings.Some of the painting tools used: the bamboo pen l writing brush l lily magnolia. [more inside]
The T'ang Dynasty
Moasics: they aren't just for Roman bath houses anymore!
Uh oh, you smashed a dish while you were washing up. But you don't get upset, because you know what to do with the pieces. Being both cultured and crafty, you not only know about the long and illustrious history of mosaic art but also that you can make mosaics from china and ceramic shards as well as pebbles, beads (new or removed from old jewelery), shells, marbles, or even lego or Scrabble tiles. So you take those pieces of your broken plate (and others that klutzy you has broken in the past) and, following some basic instructions, make numbers for your house, a fireplace surround, a birdbath, a flowerpot, a table or two or four, a tray, picture or mirror frames, a wall mural/homage to Hitchcock, or even a floor. By now you're wishing you had a spare basilica or Roman villa so you could really go nuts. And, besides planning on picking up some thrift shop china, you're eyeing that 48-piece reindeer-and-elves Christmas dinnerware set your mother-in-law gave you a few years back and thinking it's really too bad you're so clumsy and likely to break it in the very near future.
pathos and pathology
"Hidden within the basement archives of Yale University's Historical Medical Library lie the original oil painting collection and personal papers of the first American surgeon to practice in China." Extraordinary paintings of compassion in a medical setting. [Warning, these are graphic depictions, some NSFW] Elegant, disturbing and moving portraits of patients by Lam Qua, commissioned by a medical missionary named Peter Parker in the 1830's. [No, not that Peter Parker. Via MeFite tellurian's awesome blog]. [more inside]
The Caves of Dunhuang
"the precious jewels of Jao-chou"
In 2006 in the Fitzwilliam Museum three enormous porcelain vases from seventeenth or eighteenth century China were smashed by a museum visitor who fell down the stairs. This presentation "follows the vases' progress from scattered fragments to their redisplay in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The site includes slideshows, film clips of the conservation process and a timelapse of one of the vases under reconstruction". [more inside]
Chinese ice sculpture festival
Harbin Ice and Snow World 2007 "Welcome to... Beijing after an ice storm? No, this is "The Eighth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World", China's premiere winter event." Previously on MeFi.
Smile, what's the use of crying
Yue Minjun, a Chinese avant-garde artist, known for his depiction of toothy, smiling males. More at Asia's Hottest Modern Painters. Bonus: Goldfish
Recording the grandeur of the Qing [Flash; browser re-sizing; Flash-free topic index] Gorgeous and rich resource introducing multiple facets of Qing history via a study of the spectacular painted scrolls that recorded Kangxi and Qianlong's inspection tours through the south of their Empire.
Wu Tai Shan
scholar's rocks
Known as scholar's rocks or gongshi, viewing stones are rocks of complex shapes that suggest worlds within worlds, microcosms in stone. In Japan they are called Suiseki, from the Japanese characters for water "sui" and stone "seki", placed on a daiza, a carved wood base. They are at once a miniature landscape and a point of imaginative departure…
Xia Xiaowan
all dolled up
Surreal Barbie and Ken jewelry art by Margaux Lange. Previously (but her work and site have evolved since then). While in China, voodoo dolls have been banned and immediately became a jewelry/accessory craze.
Japanese Medical Prints
Japanese Medical Prints. Part of the Clendening History of Medicine Library, at the Kansas University Medical Center, and donated by Dr. Matthew Pickard. The digital collections at the Clendening Library also include Florence Nightingale's letters, old school Chinese public health posters, and images from old medical and natural history texts.
Chinese Public Health Posters
Porcelain Artist Charles Krafft
Charles Krafft is a porcelain artist who creates detailed munitions made of fine china, painted servingware commemorating modern atrocities, and "Spone" art, bone china made using human bones as the base material.
Howard French - Asia photos
Howard French - Asia photos Photos from across Asia by Howard French, who works for the New York Times. Includes many photos of the 'Disappearing Shanghai' that is being obliterated by the city's relentless urbanization.
Revolutionary Oil Painting
Your portrait painted like a propaganda poster. Become a socialist hero... in just 4 easy steps. To start, pick a poster from among the selection. Two weeks later, your painting is ready. (via STaAatCK)
Made you look!
Chinese Ice Sculptures from an annual contest; nice use of colored ice & colored lights to add another dimension to the sculptures.
disposable chopstick art
Chopstick Eco-Art Choose from wine racks, hanging lamps, candle holders and more. "We genuinely hope that one day we will no longer be able to make our products as a result of heightened preservation efforts." [via The Presurfer]
Chinese Propaganda Posters
You'll love the chubby babies and thrill to the Heroes and Villains. You'll like the heroines as well. The rest of Stefan Landsberg's Chinese Propaganda Poster site is fairly nifty as well. There are more here, and here. The Taschen volume is always on the table chez nous. (Note :
I posted the site link the day before yesterday on the inside, and someone suggested that it should go on the front page, so here it is).
James Whitlow Delano, photographer
A Tale of Two Chinas, by photographer James Whitlow Delano.
Whole swaths of cities have vanished, to be transformed with developments that have quickly made them look more like Houston, Qatar, or Singapore than the ancient China of our mind's eye. The old hutong, or alleyways, of Beijing that once formed a mosaic of passageways and the siheyuan, or walled courtyard houses, have been largely razed. The old brick rowhouses of Shanghai, are now being leveled and replaced by modern high-rises. Traditional marketplaces, residential neighborhoods, streets where medicine shops or bookstores bunched together, are now either gone or have been rouged up as tourist destinations, part of a new synthetic, virtual version of China's incredible past.
The energy fueling this transformation bespeaks a powerful but often blind, unquestioning faith in an inchoate idea of progress that takes one's breath away, often literally. (Unrestrained growth has left China with the dubious honor of having 9 of the 10 most polluted cities in the world). Delano's new book is "Empire: Impressions from China". More inside.
Modern Chinese Artists
Fantastical paintings from Chinese artist Fang He. I think I like Subway Underpass Bird best for its vague sense of creepiness, though Chinese Pavilion No. 1 appeals to my love of old time sci-fi illustrations. Check out similarly whimsical Zhang Gong's cute phallic creatures (NSFW), or peruse the large collection of artists at Courtyard-Gallery. (Related Chinese art posts here and here.)
Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US.
Tibetan Buddhist art of Sichuan, China
China Avant-Garde
China Avant-Garde is a wonderful site for exploring Chinese post Cultural Revolution art, with excellent accompanying texts. Browse the featured artists and see an Exhibition from a Private Collection. Also, Inside Out: New Chinese Art is a beautiful site focusing on this recent "explosion of diverse work that is simultaneously exhilarating and bewildering", and you will find more great examples at Chinese Contemporary (click on the artist's name for information and all thumbnails for that artist), plus marvelous Chinese avant-garde posters at Rene Wanner's poster pages and Who's Who in Chinese Posters, and at the Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin (view works here).
Wang Qiungsong Photos
Wang Quingsong: Photos.
Chinese Pop Posters
Chinese Pop Posters. More :-
Guangzhou's racing
patrolling despair,
under New York,
Bombay bazaar,
and Chinese rural architecture.
All from the excellent Atlas magazine - more here.
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One of the most exciting recent developments in the field of lunar science has been the unambiguous detection of water (either as OH or H2O) or water ice on the Moon through instruments flown on a number of orbiting spacecraft missions. At the same time, continued laboratory-based investigations of returned lunar samples by Apollo missions using high-precision, low-detection, analytical instruments have for the first time, provided the absolute abundance of water (present mostly as structurally bound OH- in mineral phases) in lunar samples. These new results suggest that the Moon is not an anhydrous body, questioning conventional wisdom, and indicating the possibility of a wet lunar interior and the presence of distinct reservoirs of water on the lunar surface. However, not all recent results point to a wet Moon and it appears that the distribution of water on the Moon may be highly heterogeneous. Additionally, a number of sources are likely to have contributed to the water inventory of the Moon ranging from primordial water to meteoritederived water ice through to the water formed during the reaction of solar-wind hydrogen with the lunar soil. Water on the Moon has implications for future astrobiological investigations
as well as for generating resources in situ during future exploration of the Moon and other airless bodies in the Solar System.
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Keywords: | moon; water; apatite; basalt; Chandrayaan; LRO; LCROSS; ion-probe |
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Published: March 15, 2011 at 7:28 PM
Wow... they love Theme Park Insider. How cool is that!?!As for the eventual sale, if NBC does not pick up the ownership from Blackstone, does that mean someone like, uh, let's say, Disney, could sweep in and turn the world on its head once again?
Published: March 15, 2011 at 7:47 PM
I think this is an aggressive business move by Blackstone. NBCUniversal has a new majority owner (Comcast). UOR is more valuable that it's ever been, thanks to Harry Potter. Blackstone's got the SeaWorld and Busch Gardens parks now, with Legoland coming online soon.Why not sell its 50% in Universal Orlando at the top of the market to a new Universal owner, generating some cash that (one hopes) could be used to upgrade the SeaWorld parks? (Okay, I'm an optimist...)
If I were Universal, I'd certainly want to control all of my biggest domestic theme park asset. Harry Potter's going to be bringing cash for some time. Why share that with someone else? If NBCU can come up with the cash to make this deal, I think it has to.
No way I see this coming to the point where third parties get involved. Blackstone wants some cash, and it's going to get it.
Published: March 15, 2011 at 7:50 PM
Yep, and it's probably for the best. Without the competition offered by Universal, I can't even begin to imagine how lackadaisical Disney would become.Published: March 15, 2011 at 8:07 PM
Think about this. Sea world p&e announced it would be restructuring debt. What better way to restructure than to get cash on hand. Its a move universal has to make otherwise it risks losing all right and licensing. You think WB won't use that as a reason to ask for more money for Potter? Its also a smart move for Comcast who has openly said they would like to dump the parks. With the entire control of the Parks it would make it easier to sell.Published: March 16, 2011 at 1:54 AM
hope this doesn't mean the end of the orlando flexticket if they will be no longer connected to seaworldPublished: March 16, 2011 at 2:35 AM
Business Week adds another wrinkle: (Moody's Investors Service said today in a report): "Director Steven Spielberg has a consulting agreement that entitles him to a portion of the parks' revenue ... Spielberg may have the right to sell the consulting agreement to a third-party buyer, Moody's said. Starting in June 2017, Spielberg has the right to terminate the consulting agreement and receive a one-time payment for its value or an ownership interest in the parks, Moody's said."Published: March 16, 2011 at 2:41 AM
And by the way, can we take up a TPI collection to buy Blackstone's share of UO? I got a saw-buck that I'll toss into the hat.Published: March 16, 2011 at 6:20 AM
Okay with Brian and me that's $40. Minus Spielberg's 10% and J.K. Rowling's 15% (off the gross) that's a net of $30 for Blackstone.We are rolling now!
Published: March 16, 2011 at 8:07 AM
I can't figure out why they need Spielberg's involvement. There aren't a lot of his attractions in the park.Unless Blackstone sells its share back to Universal, this property isn't worth as much to the new owners. It will slowly atrophy.
I can't see why Disney would buy it. They would only buy it to close it, but it will be at a high cost.
Published: March 16, 2011 at 8:23 AM
As has already been quoted : competition is key. Without it Disney might not have the incentive to move forward as quickly as it should.Published: March 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM
Does anyone really think Universal "competes" with Disney? I mean in that classic "McDonald's vs. Burger King" consumer choice context?Published: March 16, 2011 at 9:51 AM
If it gets to the third party sale of course Disney will be intrested. Then Disney will get to look at the books. It nice when you know what your competition is doing.Published: March 16, 2011 at 10:11 AM
I may be wrong, but GE and Comcast are publicly traded companies, which means all Disney would need to do would be to buy a single share of stock which would give them the means to "get a look at the books."One would think that Disney knows the parks business well enough to make a fairly educated guess about what Universal's financial standing is ... assuming they even care that much.
Published: March 16, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Disney would most likely run into anti trust problems if they would buy the park. They would also have a hard time to make sure negative expiriences with Universal parks dont spillover to the Disney brand. Universal isnt quite like Disney, the staff isnt as smilie face as Disneys (which i pesonally like, but many Disney fans wont), older attractions are not as well maintained (which i personally hate). Bad maintenance is typical for short term cash flow obsessed PE, things can only get better once Blackstone is out.Published: March 16, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Blackstone's investment in Universal Orlando is nearly 11 years old -- very long for P/E investments. So they are exiting to pay back investors. Has nothing to do with Sea World since that was bought by later funds (P/E firms are always raising new funds when they can that have relatively short lives).Speilberg's deal with Universal was done when the first park was new and they thought they needed him to compete with Disney. He has an incredibly rich deal and is laughing all the way to the bank no matter what.
Disney already sees the books through the Marvel license. And you need a lot more than one share to see the books. No way Disney gets involved here -- they have enough exposure to Orlando.
NBC people have long run the parks with Blackstone largely in the background. They've made a bucket of money on the investment (they took a big dividend in 2004) and took a chance by agreeing to do Harry Potter (and adding back money to do so).
And Comcast has only spoken positively about the parks. Expect NBCU to take over or no deal to happen. No third party is coming in without NBCU/Speilberg/WB's approval.
Published: March 16, 2011 at 2:01 PM
Anonymous: Disney already sees the books through the Marvel license. And you need a lot more than one share to see the books.I respond: Yeah but (as I posted) with Disney's knowledge of theme park operations and the information in quarterly numbers the Mouse wouldn't need that much more than one share. Plus that gets Mickey a free annual report.
I wonder if Disney owns any shares of Comcast?
Published: March 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM
If that were true, every company would own one share of everyone else! Unless you own a majority of the company and are running it, you can read the 10-K on the SEC web site like everyone else. It just doesn't work that way. Disney can find out more about Universal at a locals bar than they could be owning one share of stock.


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The overdose deaths were classified as being prescription only, illicit drugs only and a combination of prescription and illicit drugs.
There were a total of 630 overdose deaths last year. In 2010, the agency handled 729 cases. Deaths involving illicit drugs rose to 106 last year, up from 94 in 2012.
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Ball, D., 2003. Public libraries and the consortium purchase of electronic resources. The Electronic Library, 21 (4), pp. 301-309.
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This paper embodies research on the purchasing of electronic resources by public libraries. It sought to identify what works well and what is problematic with respect to the management of commercial products. Views were also sought on future development, and how procurement could best be managed. The main concerns identified were the lack of a national dimension and strategy, and of expertise in individual authorities and consortia, particularly with licences. Purchasers were felt to be reactive, not taking control of the procurement by specifying requirements. E-resources were felt to be very expensive; there was not necessarily any price advantage as a result of consortial negotiations. It was also felt that hard-copy and e-resource procurement and strategy should not be separated. Licence terms and pricing models were felt to be confusing, and the interfaces provided inappropriate.
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Forever H & A Maui, a shop that sells Hawaiian American Girl doll dresses and matching girls' dresses, has opened at The Wharf Cinema Center in Lahaina town.
The store also has accessories for dolls and girls and a variety of made-on-Maui gifts, including candles, sea glass and shell jewelry and tree ornaments.
Owner Romela Agbayani makes dresses in her shop.
For more information see www.thewharfshops.com or call Forever H & A Maui at 661-1760.
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GYM GROWTH. Maui Powerhouse Gym in Kihei will expand its gym by 60 percent with renovations to be completed by early 2014.
Additions include a new front desk, new kids club, dedicated functional fitness areas and new locker and shower rooms, which will have a separate men's and women's saunas.
Plans include adding more cardio equipment, two aerobic studios, one of which will be used as a dedicated spin theater with 30 new spin bikes.
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WOOD AWARDS. Two Maui artists won honorable mention awards in the Hawai'i Forest Industry Association's 2013 juried Hawaii's "Woodshow," Na La'au of Hawai'i.
Tom Calhoun, who owns World Wood Works in Kula, took honorable mention in the open category for "Persephone's Purse," which was crafted from mango, dyed poplar faceted rubies, garnet beads, silk kumihimo weaving, embossed leather and cork.
Shaun Fleming took an honorable mention for her piece "Maui Forest," which was crafted from koa, camphor and European beach veneer. Her furniture making business, Wooden Touches, is based in Haiku.
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NEW BOARD. The Maui Hotel & Lodging Association recently installed is 2013-2014 board of directors at its annual meeting at the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa.
Board members are representatives of hotel properties and allied businesses that are association members.
The board members are: Nane Aluli, The Mauian Hotel; Tom Donovan, Grand Wailea; Tom Bell, Royal Lahaina Resort; Nancy Chaplick, Oceanic Time Warner Cable; Charles Head, Fairmont Kea Lani; Allan Farwell, Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa; Dawn Kane, Maui Condo and Home LLC; Gregg Lundberg, The Westin Maui Resort & Spa; Gregg Nelson, Napili Kai Beach Resort; Lisa Paulson, Maui Hotel & Lodging Association; Yuki Lei Sugimura, Connec LLC; Sharon Suzuki, Maui Electric Co.; George Szigeti, Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association; Maynard Torchiana, Destination Resorts Hawaii; Mike White, Ka'anapali Beach Hotel; Tetsuji Yamazaki, Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa.
The Maui Hotel & Lodging Association is a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 to advocate for the visitor industry.
The organization also provides educational opportunities and scholarships and gives back to the community via the annual Visitor Industry Charity Walk, Excellence in Education golf tournament and Kupuna Dinner. For more information, call 244-8625.
* Tides of Commerce is a business feature that will run from time to time with information on new businesses and awards and recognitions of Maui County businesses.


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Born | 8 June 1724 Austhorpe, Leeds, England |
Died | 28 October 1792 (aged 68) Austhorpe, Leeds, England |
Occupation | Civil engineer |
Awards | Copley Medal (1759) |
John Smeaton, FRS, (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. Smeaton was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
He was associated with the Lunar Society.
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Smeaton was born in Austhorpe, Leeds, England. After studying at Leeds Grammar School he joined his father's law firm, but left to become a mathematical instrument maker (working with Henry Hindley), developing, among other instruments, a pyrometer to study material expansion and a whirling speculum or horizontal top (a maritime navigation aid).
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753, and in 1759 won the Copley Medal for his research into the mechanics of waterwheels and windmills. His 1759 paper "An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on Circular Motion"[1] addressed the relationship between pressure and velocity for objects moving in air (Smeaton noted that the table doing so was actually contributed by "my friend Mr Rouse" "an ingenious gentleman of Harborough, Leicestershire" and calculated on the basis of Rouse's experiments), and his concepts were subsequently developed to devise the 'Smeaton Coefficient'.[2] Smeaton's water wheel experiments were conducted on a small scale model with which he tested various configurations over a period of seven years.[3] The resulting increasing efficiency in water power contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
Over the period 1759–1782 he performed a series of further experiments and measurements on waterwheels that led him to support and champion the vis viva theory of German Gottfried Leibniz, an early formulation of conservation of energy. This led him into conflict with members of the academic establishment who rejected Leibniz's theory, believing it inconsistent with Sir Isaac Newton's conservation of momentum.
Civil engineering[edit]
Recommended by the Royal Society, Smeaton designed the third Eddystone Lighthouse (1755–59). He pioneered the use of 'hydraulic lime' (a form of mortar that will set under water) and developed a technique involving dovetailed blocks of granite in the building of the lighthouse. His lighthouse remained in use until 1877 when the rock underlying the structure's foundations had begun to erode; it was dismantled and partially rebuilt at Plymouth Hoe where it is known as Smeaton's Tower. He is important in the history, rediscovery of, and development of modern cement, because he identified the compositional requirements needed to obtain "hydraulicity" in lime; work which led ultimately to the invention of Portland cement. Portland cement led to the re-emergence of concrete as a modern building material, largely due to Smeaton's influence.
Deciding that he wanted to focus on the lucrative field of civil engineering, he commenced an extensive series of commissions, including:
- the Calder and Hebble Navigation (1758–70)
- Coldstream Bridge over the River Tweed (1762–67)
- Improvements to the River Lee Navigation (1765–70)
- Smeaton's Pier in St Ives, Cornwall (1767-70)
- Perth Bridge over the River Tay in Perth (1766–71)
- Ripon Canal (1766–1773)
- Smeaton's Viaduct, which carries the A616 road (part of the original Great North Road) over the River Trent between Newark and South Muskham in Nottinghamshire (1768–70)[4][5]
- the Forth and Clyde Canal from Grangemouth to Glasgow (1768–77)
- Langley on Tyne smelt mill, with Nicholas Walton, acting as receivers to the Greenwich Hospital, London (1768)[6]
- Banff harbour (1770–75)
- Aberdeen bridge (1775–80)
- Peterhead harbour (1775)
- Nent Force Level (1776–77)
- Harbour works at Ramsgate (retention basin 1776–83; jetty 1788–1792)
- Hexham bridge (1777–90)
- the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (1782–89)
- St Austell's Charlestown harbour in Cornwall (1792)
Because of his expertise in engineering, Smeaton was called to testify in court for a case related to the silting-up of the harbour at Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk in 1782: he is considered to be the first expert witness to appear in an English court. He also acted as a consultant on the disastrous 63-year-long New Harbour at Rye, designed to combat the silting of the port of Winchelsea. The project is now known informally as "Smeaton's Harbour", but despite the name his involvement was limited and occurred more than 30 years after work on the harbour commenced.[7]
Mechanical engineer[edit]
Employing his skills as a mechanical engineer, he devised a water engine for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1761 and a watermill at Alston, Cumbria in 1767 (he is credited by some with inventing the cast iron axle shaft for waterwheels). In 1782 he built the Chimney Mill at Spital Tongues in Newcastle upon Tyne, the first 5-sailed smock mill in Britain. He also improved Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine, erecting one at Chacewater mine, Wheal Busy, in Cornwall in 1775.
In 1789 Smeaton applied an idea by Denis Papin, by using a force pump to maintain the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell.[8][9] This bell, built for the Hexham bridge project, was not intended for underwater work, but in 1790 the design was updated to enable it to be used underwater on the breakwater at Ramsgate Harbour.[9] Smeaton is also credited with explaining the fundamental differences and benefits of overshot versus undershot water wheels.
Smeaton experimented with the Newcomen steam engine and made marked improvements around the time James Watt was building his first engines (ca. late 1770s).[10]
Highly regarded by other engineers, he contributed to the Lunar Society and founded the Society of Civil Engineers in 1771. He coined the term civil engineers to distinguish them from military engineers graduating from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. The Society was a forerunner of the Institution of Civil Engineers, established in 1818, and was renamed the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1830.
His pupils included canal engineer William Jessop and architect and engineer Benjamin Latrobe.
He died after suffering a stroke while walking in the garden of his family home at Austhorpe, and was buried in the parish church at Whitkirk, West Yorkshire.
John Smeaton Academy, a secondary school in the suburbs of Leeds adjacent to the Pendas Fields estate near Austhorpe, is named after Smeaton. He is also commemorated at the University of Plymouth, where the Mathematics and Technology Department is housed in a building named after him. A viaduct in the final stage of the Leeds Inner Ring Road, opened in 2008, was named after him.
He is mentioned in the song "I Predict a Riot" (as a symbol of a more dignified and peaceful epoch in Leeds history; and in reference to a Junior School House at Leeds Grammar School, which lead singer Ricky Wilson attended) by the indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, who are natives of Leeds.
Smeaton coefficient[edit]
The lift equation used by the Wright brothers was due to John Smeaton. It has the form:[11]
- is the lift
- is the Smeaton coefficient- 0.005 (the drag in pounds weight of a 1-square-foot (0.093 m2) plate at 1 mph) was the value as determined by Smeaton,[12] later corrected to 0.0033 by the Wright brothers
- is the lift coefficient (the lift relative to the drag of a plate of the same area)
- is the area in square feet
The Wright brothers determined with wind tunnels that the Smeaton coefficient was incorrect and should have been 0.0033.[13] In modern analysis, the Lift coefficient is normalised by the dynamic pressure instead of the Smeaton coefficient.
See also[edit]
- ^ Smeaton, Mr J (1759). "An Experimental Enquiry concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to Turn Mills, and Other Machines, Depending on a Circular Motion." (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: 100–174. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ "Centennial of flight: Smeaton's Coefficient". centennialofflight.net. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- ^ Rosen, William (2012). The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention. University of Chicago Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0226726342.
- ^ "Biff Vernon: "Smeaton's viaduct"". Biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- ^ "Geograph Photo". Geograph.org.uk. 10 March 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- ^ "The Greenwich Hospital Smelt Mill at Langley, Northumberland 1768-1780" by F. J. Monkhouse, Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy vol. 49, 1940. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
- ^ Rye Museum website
- ^ Davis, RH (1955). Deep Diving and Submarine Operations (6th ed.). Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey: Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd. p. 693.
- ^ a b Acott, C. (1999). "A brief history of diving and decompression illness.". South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal 29 (2). ISSN 0813-1988. OCLC 16986801. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
- ^ John Smeaton- Engineering Timeline
- ^ "Lift equation of the early 1900s". Wright.nasa.gov. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- ^ probably, strictly speaking, Rouse
- ^ Dodson, MG (2005). "An Historical and Applied Aerodynamic Study of the Wright Brothers' Wind Tunnel Test Program and Application to Successful Manned Flight". US Naval Academy Technical Report. USNA-334. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
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