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Some complaints are either very straightforward or very complex. Complaints can be about individual workers or other clients, or broad policy issues. Often complaints can be about issues for which there is no policy, and so the outcome can be to produce one.
Sometimes the first issue a client raises will not be the core complaint, or upon further investigation other issues arise. Each complaint is a new journey, and like all good policy and procedures, you will want to improve it as you use it. The following is simply a guide to some of the steps involved in handling complaints well.
Step 1 Identify the complaint
If a client complains about something and you are able to respond to their satisfaction, there is no need to record a formal complaint. Complaints mechanisms should not be invoked to remove responsibility from staff to respond flexibly to client needs. However if the client remains unhappy, you can offer them a complaints process. In resolving disputes it is critical that the complaint is clear, so you will need to:
- Ask the client to explain their concerns to you – be supportive, empathetic, and respond to their feelings as well as their thoughts
- After you have listened to them, repeat back what you think they said to check you understood
- Ask the client what solutions they want. How can their complaint be fixed?
- Document their complaint and proposed solutions, and seek the client's agreement that this is a true record of their concerns
- Advise the client of what you will do next, and when they will get a response
Step 2 Investigate the complaint
You will need to share the issues with those implicated in the complaint and seek their responses. You will need to involve your manager or someone else in the organization responsible for handling complaints (eg Committee member). You may need to investigate organizational policy and whether there is any likelihood of the policy changing. You may need to interview other people involved and document their perspectives and concerns.
Example: The complaint may be 'I'm not happy that you won't let me into the refuge, even though I have nowhere to live. I don't think you want young people here.' Investigating this complaint will be as easy as obtaining copies of organizational intake, eligibility and service access policies. If you don't have these, you will need to refer to 'standard practice' in the organization. One outcome of such a complaint is that you will have to document these procedures so you can explain them more clearly to other potential clients.
Step 3 Resolve the complaint
The nature of the complaint determines how this can occur. If the issue is about organizational policy and procedure, then ultimately the management committee decides. You may wish to engage in some negotiation, between the client and a committee member representing the organization.
Alternatively, the complaint may be about the actions of staff or a committee person. Again, an existing Code of Conduct makes this easier to resolve. If your organisation does not have one, you might seek to bring the complainant and the other person together to resolve the issue. In some circumstances (eg allegations of abuse) this may not be appropriate, and other means of resolution are required.
It is important in this stage of the process to be aware of any power imbalances between the parties, and to ensure all participants have the support they require to feel comfortable through the process. In some situations, a person independent of the organization may be required to facilitate resolution of a complaint. It is extremely important that the person taking action on the complaint is perceived by all parties as fair and impartial.
Step 4 Report, record and take action
Make sure you document the resolution of the complaint, including all actions the organization has agreed to. This is not an opportunity to commit a client to particular action; the complaint is about the organization and the organization needs to respond. The client should not be punished or penalized as a result of making a complaint – most organizations find this challenging.
The record of the complaint should also be referred to the person in the organization responsible for reporting annually on the number of complaints etc. Finally, all these documents should be kept to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of those involved.
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Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2012 has officially kicked off, as retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and media from around the globe have gathered at the Salt Palace Convention center in Salt Lake City, UT.
Bobby Riley Founder of Solider Design
OR is by far the most important Outdoor show in North America, and in some cases, the litmus test for new gear, campaigns and technologies. Innovation is the name of the game on the floor, and some emerging trends we have picked up on so far are include: DWR-coated down insulation INSIDE jackets and sleeping bags (Congrats to Sierra Designs for winning Gear of the Show from Outside Magzine), "anti-outerwear" soft-shell jackets with hardshell attributes like water and wind proofing, "frameless" goggles for enhanced visability, hybrid insulated jackets that have breathable, stretch panels for increased range of motion AND modular boot systems that can be modified to "pack down".
New, upgraded booth at Outdoor Research
OR also welcomed some new brands from the Action Sports sector this year, including Burton, Quiksilver , Von Zipper and Stance…adding an element of edge to the show for sure.
Here are a few of our top picks from the show so far…stay tuned for a full report in the Active Section ASAP! – Jeanine Pesce
Patagonia Bivy Down Jacket in Bandana Blue
The North Face Diez Insulated Pullover
Lifefactory Water Bottles Flip Top Collection
Moving Comfort Urban Gym Sweatshirt
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Hossein Fatemi
|Hossein Fatemi
|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
|In office
October 1952 – 19 August 1953
|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|Prime Minister
|Mohammad Mosaddegh
|Preceded by
|Hossein Navab
|Succeeded by
|Abdol-Hossein Meftah
|Personal details
10 February 1917
Nain, Iran
|10 November 1954
(aged 37)
Tehran, Iran
|Political party
|National Front
|Parivash Sototi (1940-1954)
|Alma mater
|University of Tehran
|Shia Islam
Hossein Fatemi (10 February 1917 - 10 November 1954) was a scholar, journalist, and famous politician of Iran.[1] A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. After the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup d'état toppled the democratically elected government of Mosaddegh, Fatemi was arrested, tortured,[2] and convicted by a military court of "treason against the Shah", and executed by a firing squad.[3][4]
Early life and education[edit]
Fatemi was born in Nain, Iran on 10 February 1917,[5] the youngest of five. He was educated in his hometown.[5] In his teens he moved to Isfahan for higher education. He was a caustic critic of the Iranian monarch Rezā Shāh, and his views were candidly reflected in his newspaper editorials. From 1944 to 1948 he studied in France, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. There he also received a doctorate degree in law in 1948.[6]
After graduation, Fatemi returned to Iran and became instrumental in launching the daily titled Bākhtar (West) in Isfahan.[6] From its founding in 1949, Fatemi was an active member of the Iranian National Front, the democratic and nationalist movement of Mosaddegh.[6] Later the daily was moved to Tehran and began to be the mouthpiece of the front.[6]
He served as an assistant to the prime minister and as deputy of Tehran in the Iranian parliament. At the age of 33 he was appointed minister of foreign affairs to the Mosaddegh's cabinet in October 1952—the youngest minister of foreign affairs in Iranian history.[7] He replaced Hossein Navab in the post.[7] According to Mosaddegh's memoir, published after Fatemi's death, Fatemi was the initiator of the policy of oil nationalization in Iran.[8]
Assassination attempt[edit]
On 15 February 1952, Fatemi was the target of an unsuccessful assassination by the Islamist group of Fadayan-e Islam, who also had planned to assassinate Mosaddegh.[9][10] In the shooting attack, Fatemi suffered serious injuries which sidelined him for the next seven or eight months, and left permanent wounds.[11]
Arrest and execution[edit]
In August 1953, Mosaddegh's government was overthrown by a CIA-orchestrated coup d'état. On 14 August, Fatemi was to be arrested along with Mosaddegh and other close associates, but the first U.S.-led coup attempt failed. Fatemi was arrested by a Royalist group of officers and soldiers who were in such a hurry that he was not allowed to put shoes on, but he was released on the morning of 15 August and went directly to Mosaddegh's residence. Fearful of the apparent failure of the coup, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi immediately fled to Baghdad. In the aftermath of the first coup attempt, while Mosaddegh still remained a strong proponent of constitutional monarchy, Fatemi advised Mosaddegh to declare a republic in light of the failed coup attempt.[4] Subsequently, Fatemi, in a fiery editorial in his newspaper Bākhtar and a public speech, denounced the Shah as "a traitor to his country", a "venomous serpent", and a "coward".[4] On 19 August, the offices of Fatemi's newspaper were attacked and burnt down by mobs incited by an Iranian CIA agent.[12] Later that day the second coup attempt succeeded. With Mosaddegh arrested, Fatemi went underground, taking shelter in a Tudeh safe house.[13][14]
He began to write his memoir, but after 204 days of concealment, he was discovered and arrested on 13 March 1954.[15] He was then tortured[2] and convicted by a military court on 10 October for "treason against the Shah" and sentenced to death.[3][16][17]
Fatemi was executed by firing squad at Ghasr barracks at 6am on 10 November 1954 (19 Aban 1333 AP) in Tehran,[15][17] when he was still suffering from fever and the injuries of the unsuccessful attempt of assassination on him by Fadayan-e Islam.[6] Fatemi was buried in Ebn-e Babooyeh cemetery in Shahr-e Ray, near Tehran.[18]
There is an avenue in Tehran named after Fatemi.[6] Mossadegh often quoted Fatemi as the force behind the nationalization of oil from inception to implementation. After the 1953 CIA-MI6 coup, the Shah gave back half of Iran's oil and gas rights, mainly to US-UK oil companies, with a few percent for French and Italian ones, under a new agreement known as the Oil Consortium. Other countries in the Persian Gulf and North Africa followed the example and took national ownership of their oil and gas fields. President Nasser of Egypt was influenced by the earlier example of Fatemi's thesis carried out by Mossadegh when he nationalized the Suez canal.
See also[edit]
Media related to Hossein Fatemi at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ A century of revolution: social movements in Iran by John Foran - p. 109
- ^ a b A sociological analysis of the Iranian Revolution, Volume 1 by Mansoor Moaddel: ""The more militant members of the National Front, such as Hosein Fatemi, were tortured and killed in Prison" [1]"
- ^ a b Alavi, Nasrin (2005). We Are Iran. Soft Skull Press. p. 65. ISBN 1-933368-05-5.
Fatemi was convicted of treason and executed in 1954.
- ^ a b c Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 99. ISBN 0-520-21866-3.
- ^ a b Sharif, Farideh. "Hossein Fatemi". IICHS. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Sahimi, Muhammad (21 November 2009). "Courageous & Principled: Journalists Isa Saharkhiz and Ahmad Zeidabadi". PBS. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ a b "Iran planning envoy shift". Lewiston Morning Tribune (Tehran). UPI. 13 October 1952. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ Mafinezam, Alidad; Mehrabi, Aria (2008). Iran and its place among nations. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 30. ISBN 0-275-99926-2.
- ^ Kazemzadeh, Masoud (October 2003). "The 50th Anniversary of the CIA Coup in Iran". Khaneh 3 (34). Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ Farhad Kazemi, "The Fada'iyan-e Islam: Fanaticism, Politics and Terror," in From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, ed. Said Amir Arjomand, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984), p. 166
- ^ Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. pp. 14, 66. ISBN 0-8156-3018-2.
- ^ Risen, James (16 April 2000). "Secrets of History: The C.I.A. in Iran—A Special Report.". The New York Times. p. 10. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
Without specific orders, a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister. Another Iranian C.I.A. agent led a crowd to sack the offices of pro-Tudeh papers.
- ^ Milani, Abbas (2011). The Shah. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 193. ISBN 1-4039-7193-5.
- ^ Iran between two revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian, p. 280
- ^ a b "Ex-Foreign Chief of Iran Executed". The New York Times. 11 November 1954. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ U.S. & Soviet Policy in the Middle East: 1945-56 John Donovan
- ^ Photograph of Dr Fatemi's grave: [2].


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boat. There are very serious health affects that can result from exposure to mold & mildew. At the same time it
can destroy your facility due to how it attaches itself to various objects. Mold & mildew is basically the same
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mildew smell.
There are spores found in mold and mildew. They are what allows them to continue to multiply. There should be a
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WPRI: People lined up outside of the former headquarters of 38 Studios in Providence, where assets from Curt Schilling's failed video company were being auctioned off to the highest bidder. A.B. From cubicles to replica weapons, 38 Studios was selling EVERYTHING from their former headquarters. As part of my civic duty as a part-time blogger, here is the condensed list of some of the stranger items… #10 – Themed Doorway I hired an interpreter to translate this sign for me. It says "38 Studios: We Spend Your Tax Dollars On Signs That Nobody Can Read". #9 – Video Game Models What doesn't fit in this picture? Yes, that would be the Boba Fett mask. Star Wars fans at a video game company? No way. #8 – Replica War Hammer . There was a guy in the office who told Curt Schilling that the bloody sock was a fake. Nobody has seen him since. #7 – Guy Holding War Hammer I know Curt needs the money but there must be a law against auctioning off former employees, especially Huey Lewis. #6 – Kitc...
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Clarke Energy is a multinational specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of gas-fuelled power plants. Our facilities deliver fuel efficiency and help reduce carbon emissions. Applications include combined heat and power (CHP) with natural gas, biogas, landfill gas and coal gas. We are a the largest authorised distributor and service provider for GE's ...
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The "V-Fold Folding Belt Filter Press" is a simple and cost effective way to continuously dewater slurries and sludges. The patented folding belt system makes it "forgiving" of many process upsets that cause problems for other filters.
Gardner Denver Nash
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Nash Engineering, Gardner Denver Nash was created in September 2004, when Gardner Denver acquired nash_elmo Industries from Audax. nash_elmo resulted from the 2002 merger of The Nash Engineering Company, USA, and elmo vacuum technology GmbH, Germany, formerly a Siemens subsidiary. The combining of Nash, the leader in liquid ring vacuum pumps, with elmo, the leader in side ...
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Link: Rafal Milach Explores Beauty and the Mundane of Russia – NYTimes.com
Contradictions lie at the heart of Rafal Milach's "7 Rooms," a project that took Mr. Milach, a Warsaw-based photographer, to Russia in search of insights through the ordinary. Though he wanted to avoid clichés — vodka drinking, prisons, cadet schools, ballets — some pictures reflect their Soviet legacy. And although he traveled widely through three cities – Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk – his project didn't make sense to him until he narrowed his focus to seven individuals.


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Dr. LeBron and Mr. James
When LeBron James transformed himself last season and became the competitor he needed to be and won a championship because of how well he played, he became King James and the sky was the limit.
The demons were excised and LeBron's house was clean, figuratively speaking. And it was clean because he found The Button, the place where every athlete goes when they are in the zone. If you're going to compete at the highest level you better craft yourself the intensity-button and know where it is and when to push it, and that's exactly what LeBron did last post-season.
The Button turns LeBron James into King James and the difference in demeanor is significant. No more smiling, no more laughing, and his eyes look long and hard at those opposing him. He turns into a different human being and he's doing it again.
People now dare to mention King James' greatness in the same breath as MJ's, which is so premature. Yes, Michael had the button too; the only difference was Michael's button was stuck in the "On" position�and he has five more rings.


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Danish photographer Jan Grarup has won UNICEF's international photo competition with an image of a Pakistani child [2] receiving treatment after an October 2005 earthquake.
Said Eva Luise Köhler of UNICEF:
The UNICEF Photo of the Year 2006 is a symbol of survival. The girl's smile is an expression of gratitude to all, who have helped the victims of nature disasters in recent years. It should encourage all of us not to forget children in need, even when they are no longer the focus of media attention.
Said Grarup of his subject, five-year-old Rahila,
Her smile amid all the grief and despair had a great impact on me. This little girl shows just how much resilience children have.
For the competition, 111 photographers from 28 countries submitted a total of 1,034 pictures. Read more about the winning photographer here [3].
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The woman charged with a man's murder in Wayne County had a day in court Tuesday. 31-year old Erica Streets is charged with the murder of her ex-boyfriend and father of her children, Julius Davis. At the preliminary hearing Tuesday, a state trooper testified Davis had been abusive and she feared for her life. When Davis' body was found police said he had been shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave. 51-year old Daniel Kilpatrick of East Lynn has been charged with accessory after the fact for allegedly helping bury the body. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Streets' case is on its way to a grand jury.
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PHOENIX -- The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management have $1.4 billion available to fight fires but expect to spend $1.8 billion to do their jobs.
Both agencies said that could force them to pull funding from other programs such as forest thinning projects, controlled burns and keeping up the campgrounds. It's called "fire borrowing" and they've diverted funds seven times in the past 12 years.
It's happening more often because fire seasons are about two to three months longer than they were 30 years ago. Annual acreage burned has more than doubled to more than 7 million and more people are building homes in the forest. The result is driving up the firefighting costs.
Arizona is moving into the heart of the wildfire season with $4 million of state money to battle the fires. That doesn't sound like a lot to work with, but David Geyer with Arizona State Forestry said they can tap into federal dollars if it reaches that level of disaster.
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Tennessee's coal production is small but generally high quality. All present production is bituminous coal from the Cumberland Plateau and Cumberland Mountains regions. There is a sizable reserve of lignite in West Tennessee, more than a billion tons, but as yet there has been no mining. Because of its potential impact on ground water resources, the Tennessee Geological Survey has been working with the U.S. Geological Survey to assess problems that might arise should surface mining of those reserves ultimately be developed. Coal production accounted for more than 8.5 percent ($115 million) of Tennessee's annual mineral production value.
Tennessee's oil and gas production is small by national standards. Oil production totaled about 290,000 barrels in 2011, down from more than one million barrels in 1982. Gas production was close to zero before 1977, when pipelines first reached the fields, but rose by 1984 to more than five billion cubic feet per year. It declined to slightly less than five billion cubic feet in 2011. Its value ($20 million) was about 80 percent of that of the oil production ($25 million).
Tennessee is the leading producer of ball clay in the nation. Ball clay is used primarily in the manufacture of dinnerware, floor and wall tile, pottery, and sanitary ware, and accounted for about three percent ($27 million) of Tennessee's annual mineral production value.
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A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin tractus, meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it. They are sometimes called road locomotives to distinguish them from (railway) steam locomotives – that is, steam engines that run on rails.
Traction engines tend to be large, robust and powerful, but heavy, slow, and poorly maneuverable. Nevertheless, they revolutionized agriculture and road haulage at a time when the only alternative prime mover was the draught horse.
They became popular in industrialised countries from around 1850, when the first self-propelled portable steam engines for agricultural use were developed. Production continued well into the early part of the 20th century, when competition from internal combustion engine -powered tractors saw them fall out of favour, although some continued in commercial use in the UK into the 1950s and later. All types of traction engines have now been superseded, in commercial use. However, several thousand examples have been preserved worldwide, many in working order. Steam fairs are held throughout the year in the UK, and in other countries, where visitors can experience working traction engines at close hand.
Traction engines were cumbersome and ill-suited to crossing soft or heavy ground so their agricultural use was usually either "in the belt" – powering farm machinery by means of a continuous leather belt driven by the flywheel – or in pairs, dragging an implement on a cable from one side of a field to another. However, where soil conditions permitted, direct hauling of implements ("off the drawbar") was preferred – in the U.S., this lead to the divergent development of the steam tractor.
The traction engine, in the form recognisable today, developed partly from an experiment in 1859 when Thomas Aveling modified a Clayton & Shuttleworth portable engine, which had to be hauled from job to job by horses, into a self-propelled one. The alteration was made by fitting a long driving chain between the crankshaft and the rear axle. Other influences were existing vehicles which were the first to be referred to as traction engines such as the Boydell engines manufactured by various companies and those developed for road haulage by Bray. The first half of the 1860s was a period of great experimentation but by the end of the decade the standard form of the traction engine had evolved and would change little over the next sixty years.
Development of traction engines, and indeed all forms of steam road transport, was hampered in the UK by a series of government acts that tried to balance various competing interests, those of other types of vehicles as well as those maintaining the roads. Until the quality of roads improved there was little demand for faster vehicles and engines were geared accordingly to cope with their use on both roads and farm tracks.
Right through to the first decades of the twentieth century, manufacturers continued to seek a solution to realise the economic benefits of direct-pull ploughing, and, particularly in North America, this led to the American development of the steam tractor. British companies such as Mann's and Garrett developed potentially-viable direct ploughing engines, however market conditions were against them, and they failed to gain widespead popularity. These market conditions arose in the wake of the First World War when there was a glut of surplus equipment available as a result of British Government policy. Large numbers of Fowler ploughing engines had been constructed in order to increase the land under tillage during the war, and many new light Fordson F tractors had been imported from 1917 onwards.
The last new UK-built traction engines were constructed in the 1930s, although many continued in commercial use for many years, while there remained experienced enginemen available to drive them.
From the 1950s, the 'preservation movement' started to build up as enthusiasts realised that these lumbering beasts were in danger of dying out. Many of the remaining engines were snapped-up by enthusiasts, and restored to working order. Traction engine rallies began, initially as races between engine owners and their charges, later developing into the significant tourist attractions that takes place in many locations each year. It has been estimated that over two thousand traction engines have been preserved.
Although the first traction engines employed a chain drive, it is more typical for large gears to be used to transfer the drive from the crankshaft to the rear axle.
The machines typically have two large powered wheels at the back and two smaller wheels for steering at the front. However, some traction engines used a four-wheel-drive variation, and some experimented with an early form of caterpillar track.
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The most common form in the countryside. They were used for hauling and as a stationary power source. Even when farmers did not own such a machine they would rely upon it from time to time. Many farms would use draught horses throughout the year, but during the harvest, threshing contractors would travel from farm to farm hauling the threshing machine which would be set up in the field and powered from the engine – a good example of the moveable stationary engine.
Favourable soil conditions meant that U.S. traction engines usually pulled their ploughs behind them, thereby eliminating the complexities of providing a cable drum and extra gearing, hence simplifying maintenance. American traction engines were manufactured in a variety of sizes, with the 6 horsepower Russell being the smallest commercially made, and the large engines made by Russell, Case, and Reeves being the largest.
A distinct form of traction engine, characterised by the provision of a large diameter winding drum driven by separate gearing from the steam engine. Onto the drum a long length of wire rope was wound, which was used to haul an implement, such as a plough, across a field.
The winding drum was either mounted horizontally (below the boiler), vertically (to one side), or even concentrically, so that it encircled the boiler. The majority were under-slung (horizontal), however, and necessitated the use of an extra-long boiler to allow enough space for the drum to fit between the front and back wheels. These designs were the largest and longest traction engines to be built.
Mostly the ploughing engines worked in pairs, one on each side of the field, with the rope from each machine fastened to the implement to be hauled. The two drivers communicated by signals using the engine whistles.
A variety of implements were constructed for use with ploughing engines. The most common were the balance plough and the cultivator - ploughing and cultivating being the most physically demanding jobs to do on an arable farm. Other implements could include a mole drainer, used to create an underground drainage channel or pipe, or a dredger bucket for dredging rivers or moats.
The engines were frequently provided with a 'spud tray' on the front axle, to store the 'spuds' which would be fitted to the wheels when travelling across claggy ground.
The man credited with the invention of the ploughing engine, in the mid-nineteenth century, was John Fowler, an English agricultural engineer and inventor.
Ploughing engines were rare in the U.S.; ploughs were usually hauled directly by an agricultural engine or steam tractor.
They were popular in the timber trade in the UK, although variations were also designed for general light road haulage and showman's use.
The most popular of these designs was probably the Garrett 4CD, meaning 4 nominal horse power Compound.
Designed for haulage of heavy loads on public highways, it was not uncommon for two or even three to be coupled together to allow heavier loads to be handled.
The characteristic features of these engines are very large rear driving wheels fitted with solid rubber tyres; three-speed gearing (most traction engine types have only two gears); rear suspension; and belly tanks to provide a greater range between the stops needed to replenish water. All these features are to improve the ride and performance of the engine, which used to be used for journeys of hundreds of miles. Most road locomotives are fitted with a winch drum on the back axle. This can be used by removing the driving pins that secure the rear wheels, allowing the drive train to power the winch drum instead of the wheels.
A number of road locomotives are fitted with a crane boom on the front. The boom pivot is mounted on the front axle assembly, and a small winch is mounted on an extension to the smokebox in front of the chimney; the cable passing over a sheave at the top of the boom arm. The winch is powered by bevel gears on a shaft driven directly from the engine, with some form of clutch providing raise/lower control. These road locomotives can be used to load a trailer as well as to haul it to a new location. They are often referred to as 'crane engines'.
A particularly distinctive form of road locomotive was the Showman's engine. These were operated by travelling showmen both to tow fairground equipment and to power it when set up; either directly or by running a generator. These could be highly decorated and formed part of the spectacle of the fair. Some were fitted with a small crane that could be used when assembling the ride.
Some traction engines were designed to be convertible: the same basic machine could be fitted with either standard ('treaded' or tyred) road wheels, or else smooth rolls – the changeover between the two being achieved in less than half a day.
A number of other steam-powered vehicles share design features with the traction engine, usually because the same technology was re-used in a new application.
A portable engine is a type of self-contained steam engine and boiler combination that may be moved from site to site. Although bearing a strong family resemblance, in both appearance and (stationary) operation, the portable engine is not classed as a traction engine as it is not self-propelled. However, it is included in this list because the traction engine is a direct descendant.
These were the earliest steam lorries and came in two basic forms. The earlier over-type designs resembled traction engines by having a cab built around a horizontal boiler with a round smokebox and chimney (eg Foden). And they resembled lorries in having a load-carrying body and being built around a chassis (so they cannot really be called traction engines).
The more modern under-type designs have the engine under the chassis (although the boiler - usually a vertical type boiler - remains in the cab), and generally resemble lorries rather than traction engines.
The earliest examples of either type had steel or wooden wheels, later followed by solid rubber tyres. Various developments fully enclosed cabs and pneumatic tyres were later tried by companies such as the Sentinel Waggon Works in a bid to compete with internal combustion engine-powered lorries. Some wagons built to run on solid tyres were later converted to pneumatic tyres.
John I. Thornycroft & Company was an established marine engineering company that successfully spawned the Steam Carriage and Wagon Company for the production of steam-powered road vehicles. They supplied steam lorries to the British Army, commercial steam wagons and vans, steam cars (for a few years), and buses – London's first powered bus was a Thornycroft double-decker steam bus.
Manufacturers who specialised in the construction of steam lorries include:
Steam lorries were the best road lorries of their day. The Sentinel S4 was easily capable of attaining 60 mph at a time when petrol lorries would be lucky to achieve 35 mph, the Sentinel DG's could reach 40 mph (considerably more than their listed speed) and the Foden lorries were limited only by speed limits placed on them – the makers even offered alternative gearing capable of twice the speed limit although they were still not as fast as the Sentinels.
The lorry was based on an 'unusual' prototype, a long wheelbase undertype, with a small vertical boiler mounted to one side of the cab, and no windscreen.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s successive governments placed tighter restrictions on road steam haulage, including speed, smoke and vapour limits, and a 'wetted tax', where the tax due was proportional to the size of the wetted area of the boiler; this made steam engines less competitive against domestically-produced internal combustion engined units (although imports were subject to taxes of up to 33%).
As a result of the Salter Report on road funding, an 'axle weight tax' was introduced in 1933 in order to charge commercial motor vehicles more for the costs of maintaining the road system, and to do away with the perception that the free use of roads was subsidising the competitors of rail freight. The tax was payable by all road hauliers in proportion to the axle load; it was particularly damaging to steam propulsion, which was heavier than its petrol equivalent.
Initially, imported oil was taxed much more than British-produced coal, but in 1934 Oliver Stanley, the Minister for Transport, reduced taxes on fuel oils while raising the Road Fund charge on road locomotives to £100 pounds a year, provoking protests by engine manufacturers, hauliers, showmen and the coal industry. This was at a time of high unemployment in the mining industry, when the steam haulage business represented a market of 950,000 tons of coal annually. The tax was devastating to the businesses of heavy hauliers and showmen, and precipitated the scrapping of many engines.
Model traction engines, powered by steam, are manufactured by several companies, notably Mamod and Wilesco. Larger scale model engines are popular subjects for model engineers to construct, either as a supplied kit of parts, or machined from raw materials.


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Duke Energy donates $15,000 to Cape Fear Community College for student scholarships
May 13, 2013
Duke Energy donates $15,000 to Cape Fear Community College for student scholarships
Wilmington, NC- Duke Energy recently donated $15,000 to Cape Fear Community College for students enrolled in technical and vocational programs. Â Scholarships will be awarded based on financial need to students enrolled in Electronics Engineering Technology, Electrical/Electronics Technology, Industrial Systems Technology and Computer Engineering Technology.
John K. Elliott, Director of East Region Government and Community Relations for Duke Energy, presented the check to Dr. Ted D. Spring, President of Cape Fear Community College, and then spoke to a group of students at CFCC's North Campus about their futures and opportunities at Duke Energy. "This grant represents an investment in this region and in the energy future of our state,†Elliott said. "These students are doing all the heavy lifting and putting all the long hours in, juggling family and school. We're glad to help."
"This kind of community support is invaluable to our students, said Dr. Spring. "The financial support scholarship recipients receive helps them concentrate on their programs of study, and worry less about how they will pay for classes. It's also valuable for students to see companies like Duke Energy take a real interest in our community, and in making a quality education more affordable for students.â€
New father and Electrical/Electronics Technology student Pat Buschle received a Progress Energy (now Duke Energy) scholarship in fall 2012. "The scholarship came at good a time – we had just had a baby and I was paying everything out of pocket,†said Buschle. "It really it helped us out a lot."
Duke Energy is the largest electric power holding company in the United States with more than $110 billion in total assets. Its regulated utility operations serve approximately 7.2 million electric customers located in six states in the Southeast and Midwest.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 250 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available at:Â www.duke-energy.com.
The Cape Fear Community College Foundation exists solely to support the students, faculty, academic programs and mission of Cape Fear Community College. The CFCC Foundation secures and manages gifts and grants, including cash contributions, planned or estate gifts, securities, donated services, and equipment and supplies for educational purposes. For more information about CFCC, the CFCC Foundation or establishing scholarships, please contact the Cape Fear Community College Foundation at 910.362.7207.


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September 2000, marked the birth of Healing Wings Rehabilitation Centre, situated in Matutuine,Southern Mozambique. Healing Wings is driven by founders, Acacio and Ruth Valadas Vieira with their unwavering faith, passion and perseverance in everything they do.
With nine years in Mozambique, establishing the primary care therapuetic programme, a strong foundation was laid for the opening of Healing Wings South Africa, Sudwala Mpumulanga in June 2009.
The rehabilitation centre reaches out to men and woman in active addiction who have the inability to stop their addiction on their own. Healing Wings addiction centre helps to change the life's of individuals with drug, alcohol and sex addictions as well as people with eating disorders.
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- The Holy Cross men's golf team concluded the 2013 fall season at the NEIGA Championship held at the Captains Golf Course in Brewster, Mass. on Sunday and Monday, Oct. 27-28. The Crusaders tied for 21st place out of 38 teams at the tournament.
- The Crusaders came in with a team score of 647 strokes (+71), while Central Connecticut State claimed the tournament championship with a team score of 597 (+21).
- Holy Cross was led by senior captain Peter Cahill (Wellesley, Mass.) who finished in a tie for 52nd place with a two-day total of 159 (+15). Senior captain Tim Distefano (Albany, N.Y.) finished in a tie for 92nd place with a two-day total of 163 (+19).
- Freshman Cameron Murray (Traverse City, Mich.) and junior Connor Burfeind (Falmouth, Maine) each recorded scores of 165 (+21) earning a tie for 109th place. Junior Craig Norton (Foxboro, Mass.) finished with a card of 168 (+24) and a tie for 131st place.
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The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), backed by the state Special Branch, has seized computers and pen drives from the homes of four Thane youths who are believed to have joined Sunni insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq.
The men, all in their 20s and residents of Dudh Naka-Govindwadi area of Kalyan (West), left their homes in the end of May on various pretexts including going to work and on pilgrimage — even though one of them left behind a letter in which he harshly criticised his family's "sinning" ways, and said he was going on a "blessed journey".
The Indian Express reported on the four men — Fahad Tanvir Sheikh, Arif Fayyaz Majeed, Shaheen Farooqi Tanki and Aman Naim Tandel — in its edition of July 14. All the men were educated, and not known to have been involved earlier in radical Islamist politics.
"We have seized pen drives and laptops from the houses of these youths late on Monday evening," an ATS officer said. The ISIS has been using social media widely for propaganda, and young men across the world are believed to have been radicalised over the Internet. All four Thane youths spent long hours on the Internet, officers said.
Investigators were checking for any links that the four youths might have had with the ISIS or other radical Islamic groups before they went missing, a source in the ATS said. They were studying their social profiles, peer groups and habits. Their parents, siblings and friends were likely to be questioned as well.
"While there may have been cases of youths crossing India's borders to fight a global war earlier, this is the first time that we have a proper record. We need to build on inputs to now look into how they were reached and indocrinated, and how their travel was funded. They were moved between countries before being sent to Iraq, and they appear to have been in touch with people outside India for over eight months," a senior ATS officer said.
"We have acquired the mobile numbers used by these youths. The call detail records, however, show no calls made to or received from any Middle Eastern country so far," the officer said.
One of the youths, Fahad, had landed a job only two days before he went missing, according to his family. Fahad had studied in an English-medium school, had an engineering diploma, and didn't even know Urdu, his uncle, Iftikhaar Khan, said on Tuesday.
"Fahad concerned himself only with his work. After a diploma in engineering, he had got a job with a private firm in Bandra two days before he disappeared. He is convent-educated and had not even learnt Urdu," Khan said.
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7:05 p.m. game
Bookies Bar & Grille
2208 Cass Ave., Detroit and
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Join alumni and friends for an exciting night of Detroit Tigers baseball. Stop by Bookies Bar & Grille for a pre-game cash bar reception featuring wings, sliders and more. Then take the Bookies free shuttle or walk to the stadium (only two blocks away) and watch the Tigers battle the Toronto Blue Jays. Stick around after the game for a brilliant fireworks display at Comerica Park.
Cost is $34 for alumni association members and their guests, currently enrolled WSU students and children under 13. $39 for others. Children under 3 do not require a reservation or ticket, however, they must share a seat with an adult. Cost includes admission to the pre-game reception, game ticket and fireworks. Seats are located in the bleacher section.
Contact Liberty Mutual for a free auto or home insurance quote and receive a $5 voucher redeemable at Comerica Park for food or retail purchases.
Call Liberty Mutual representative Greg Priestap at (248) 489-4291, extension 55108, and mention "Tigers Promotion." You must receive a quote from Greg before July 9 in order to receive your food/retail voucher. No purchase necessary. Limit two vouchers per household.
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Swing for the Students Golf Outing
11:30 a.m. Monday, July 26
Detroit Golf Club
17911 Hamilton Rd., Detroit
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The university's regional engagement events link alumni to what's going on at Wayne State, allowing them to experience our rich and diverse learning community. Join alumni and friends at regional events across the country to get an exclusive update on university accomplishments and programs.
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6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22
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5200 Polo Fields Dr.
Ann Arbor
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Tailgate With the Alumni Association
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Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thursday, Nov. 25
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Go Shopping at the Wayne State Farmers Market
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays
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5201 Cass Ave., WSU
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Members of the university, Midtown and broader Detroit community are invited to visit the Wayne State Wednesday Farmers Market on Wednesdays from June 9 to Oct. 27. The market features fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs; cider and fresh-cut flowers; honey; baked goods and desserts and hot prepared foods. The market is located in front of Prentis Hall on Cass Avenue, just north of Warren Avenue and across the street from the Detroit Public Library. Free 15-minute parking is available on Cass Avenue. The farmers market accepts cash, Bridge Card, WSU One Card, and Michigan's Project Fresh and Senior Project Fresh Coupons. The Wayne State Wednesday Farmers Market is a project of SEED Wayne.
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ISAAC Round Table on African American Education
6 p.m. Friday, July 16
Marriott Hotel
Renaissance Center, Detroit
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The Institute for the Study of the African-American Child (ISAAC) will host a weekend of events that aims to find innovative solutions to closing the academic achievement gap affecting African-American children beginning Friday, July 16.
The weekend kicks off at 6 p.m. with a VIP reception at the Marriott Hotel in the Renaissance Center. Saturday's events include a keynote address by Dr. Geneva Gay, an author and professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Washington, Seattle. The address will be followed by a round table discussion at the Student Center Building, 5221 Gullen Mall.
Registration begins at 7 a.m. Saturday, July 16, at the Student Center. A soul food jazz buffet featuring the Brandon Parker Trio will follow the round table discussion at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center.
Cost for the VIP reception is $75, $100 for the round table discussion and an additional $35 for the buffet. Hotel accommodations are available at the Marriott Hotel in the Renaissance Center for $129 a night plus tax, or at the Inn on Ferry Street on Wayne State's campus for $109 a night.
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Detroit Windsor International Film Festival
June 24-27
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Discover great film makers of today and tomorrow at the third annual Detroit Windsor International Film Festival. This year's films promise to be the highest quality and most entertaining the festival has provided to date. The growing prominence of Michigan in the film industry has led to an increase in the number and quality of submissions, and this year, for the first time, DWIFF is partnering with the WSU MovingMedia Student Film Festival to feature submissions from student filmmakers from Wayne State and other regional colleges and universities. Wayne County Executive, Robert A. Ficano and Wayne State University are sponsoring the event.
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How do you get your pizza off of the peel and onto the stone??
Use a wooden peel. Keeps things drier and so less sticky. I also weigh in on the side of cornmeal. Start with lots to ensure the ball bearing effect, then slowly cut down the amount as you get comfortable with the action. Also, the faster you work building the pizza the less time for the dough to settle in and stick to the peel.


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Alternative build ideas
There is a product called InsulCaste from the HeatStop people. Its purpose is to insulate but I can't vouch for its efficiency.
It was suggested to me that I first apply a thin, watery coat of HeatStop over the exterior of my firebricks in order to fill in the low areas of mortar (I have many)
Then, interesting I thought, to do away with the insulating blanket and use a 2 inch coating of the Insul Caste, following up with a stucco and a sealant coating.
This is appealing to me because I could do away with the exterior wall and roof completely, and also do away with the ceramic blanket.
Any thoughts?
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You pay your money and take your choice. ;)
You can surely take a chance with that advice....I'll take advice from someone who has been there and made a successful oven.
Resist those shortcuts, and build it the way hundreds have done. Don't be taking a risk. All the details in the pompeii plans are there for a reason. A good reason.
How much will it take to go back and redo things if that advice doesn't work? Are you willing to do it twice?
I'm being a devil's advocate because likely that advice is from someone who has no idea why these ovens have been build this way for a thousand years....
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I would be leery of a castable insulation merely for the fact that it's R-Value inherently cannot possibly be as high as a ceramic blanket. I would think anything castable would be very similar to vermicrete, which can be made quite easily and inexpensively.
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I have used the Insulcast for a door. It works well, but it is not in the same league as perlcrete at 6-1. It is designed as a product to insulate kilns, for example, not ovens.
Re: Alternative build ideas
A 4 inch layer of pearlcreate or vermicrete (12:1) is going to do the same thing, be cheaper, possibly insulate better and you can put the stucco directly on to this as well.
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Yesterday I visited my friend's glass studio. He has a gas fired kiln that was at temp above 2000f, the top was only covered with 2 inches of ceramic cast, I placed my hand on it and it was as warm as my bath water. I decided that I will use the ceramic cast over my 42 inch Pompeii that is almost finished, covered with 3 ceramic blankets and 3 coats of stucco. I have my floor on 2 inches of ceramic boards. I'll let you know how it goes once I fire it up. Pompeii in Japan.
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Welcome to the official website for the ISO 22000 family.
This site was launched on January 1st 2011, and will be subject to continuous development, as the site is based on updated and valuable information from experts within the ISO 22000 family.
The aim of the site is to provide information on ISO 22000 issues for the different users of the ISO 22000 family.
Market survey 2013
ISO has strong focus on ensuring that developed standards are market driven. The SC 17 Secretariat is constantly working to improve our connections to the market and the users of the ISO 22000 standards.
The Secretariat has therefore decided to conduct a survey with questions about market relevance and value.
The more responses we get and the more stakeholder categories represented in the answers - the more valuable is the inputs to us. It is therefore important to stress that this survey is open to all with an interest in ISO 22000 standards, and that you are very welcome to forward the survey-link out extensively to all you think might be relevant. You are also welcome to invite experts in your network to forward the link out into their own networks.
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The global food industry is under pressure from a great number of private standards for food safety which suppliers in the food industry are required to consider and become certified by in order to be able to sell their products. Increasing costs of certification combined with inflexible requirements in private standards entail increasing costs without contributing to increased food safety. As an alternative to this development, a well founded and respected standard as ISO 22000 is needed.
The combination of ISO 22000 and ISO TS 22002-1 is recognised by most large operators on the global food market, GFSI included. In some countries, food authorities also accept ISO 22000 for third party certification of food business operators. With increased focus on global standards, food business operators will be able to compete internationally on equal terms.
In future, both national and international authorities as well as customers will focus on integration of food safety management throughout the food chain, farm-to-table, with a risk-oriented approach.
ISO 22000 can be used by organisations across food chains. It creates an ideal frame for establishing principles, procedures and guidelines which match the food chain while improving cost-effective management in industry. Furthermore, it provides practical tools needed for managing food safety as a single coherent system.
Up to the end of December 2010, at least 18 630 ISO 22000:2005 certificates had been issued in 138 countries and economies. This total represents an increase of 4 749 (+34%) over 2009 when the total was 13 881 in 129 countries and economies.
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Time to find that final young flan! Up past Chocolina you'll find an adult black flan looking sadly over the ridge. Jump off to his right onto the single branch there, and use the Moogle Hunt ability at the end of the path. You'll find the last flan, as well as the Celestine fragment! Time to take on the miniflan gang!
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Healthy young adults carrying a gene variant that is a major risk factor for the disease seem to have extra activity in brain regions related to memory, even when their brains are at rest.
The gene APOE codes for a protein thought to help create, maintain and repair neuronal connections. One variant, epsilon 4, is considered the biggest risk factor for getting Alzheimer's, increasing your risk by up to 4 times if you have one copy and up to 12 if you have two. It is not known exactly how epsilon 4 ups the risk, but in people who carry it and have developed Alzheimer's, the hippocampus, which is involved in memory functions, is usually smaller.
To figure out if epsilon 4 influences brain function earlier on in life, Clare Mackay of the University of Oxford and colleagues at Imperial College London scanned the brains of 18 healthy adults with epsilon 4 and 18 controls who did not have the variant. In the scanner, the volunteers spent time performing memory tests and also doing nothing.
Brain differences
During the memory task, the epsilon 4 carriers had more activity in the hippocampus compared with controls, even though there was no difference in their performance on the tests, suggesting that their hippocampuses expend more energy to achieve the same result.
For the scans when the volunteers did nothing, the researchers focused on the default mode network, a series of connected sites throughout the brain that are active even when the volunteer is resting. Parts of the DMN found in the hippocampus were more active in the at-risk adults than in controls. "The fact that we got differences in the hippocampus is very exciting," says Mackay.
One way to interpret this is that epsilon 4 causes brain regions responsible for memory to get overworked early in life, prompting them to "burn out" with age and leading to Alzheimer's. However, it's impossible to tell whether the extra activity contributes to Alzheimer's symptoms later on or is just a sign of inefficient brain circuitry in the hippocampus.
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Neurologist Michael Griecius of Stanford University, who studies the DMN in people with Alzheimer's, agrees but says the work is a "real tour de force" because it shows differences so early on. "These subjects are several decades away from the point at which we would expect to pick up on the subtlest signs of cognitive difficulty," he says.
Mackay says the next step is to look for early differences in brain function between those who have the gene variant and go on to suffer from Alzheimer's, and those who have it and don't. Such differences might be used to target interventions at certain people before the disease develops.
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The James Smith Noel Collection was the largest private collection of antiquarian books in the United States prior to its arrival at LSU–Shreveport in 1994. The collection encompasses approximately 125 different subject areas in such diverse fields as religion, travel literature, philosophy, science, cartography, natural history, moral instruction, curiosities, costumery, and the history of humor. The collection is open year-round (except for holidays) from 8:00 until 4:30 (Monday through Friday) and by special arrangement. The Noel Collection offers readers many programs and opportunities not often provided by major research collections and is the sponsor of many conferences and similar research events. Please visit some of the links below to learn more about the Noel Collection, its programs, and its offerings.
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With generous support from The James Smith Noel Foundation, The Noel Collection is embarking on a major cataloguing project. In addition to its treasury of old and rare books, printed materials, maps, illustrations, and artifacts, the Collection includes a vast trove of later nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century materials that, to date, have remain unexplored. That unknown frontier of holdings will now be catalogued thanks to the efforts of two highly-trained and expertise-rich young information management specialists who have been recruited by The Noel Foundation. Joining the Noel team will be Amy Blackburn, a recent graduate of the Library Science program at Texas Woman's University, and Aimee Plaisance, who recently completed the Library Science program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Noel Foundation Board members anticipate that the cataloguing project will reveal an array of new srengths and emphasis areas on which the Collection will build new programs and that will inspire new research. Welcome to Amy Blackburn and to Aimee Plaisance, who are bringing into view the undiscovered deep resources of Louisiana's greatest research collection.
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