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From bagpipes to bowling, unusual college degree programs dot the U.S.
While millions of college students pursue careers in business, computer science, education or health care, others study less common subjects. Here are 10 uncommon degrees offered across the nation: Adventure Sports Management Garrett College, McHenry, Md. Nearly 200 students have backpacked, climbed, cycled, kayaked and skied their way to this two-year associate�s degree since 1992 when Garrett College began offering the nation�s first major in adventure sports management. Program director Michael Logsdon, 61, designed the degree to meet the needs of the extreme sports industry. Students combine adventure skills training with courses in business management, science, marketing and leadership. Nearby natural venues for training abound, including Marsh Mountain, Deep Creek Lake, seven rivers with various classifications of rapids, thousands of acres of state and national forestlands, and West Virginia�s Seneca Rocks and New River Gorge climbing areas. Bagpipes Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. When Kurt Wichman, 19, chose a college major, he marched off the conventional career path to follow his longtime passion: bagpipes. �People say to do what you�re good at,� says Wichman, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., who began piping lessons at age 7 and today majors in bagpipes at Carnegie Mellon. Since 1990, when the university became the first in the nation to offer the four-year bachelor of fine arts degree in bagpipe performance, four students have earned the degree. �This is a full music degree,� says director Andrew Carlisle, who in 2010 helped establish a bagpipes master�s program, which has one student in the pipeline. �Instead of using the violin, piano or voice, students can use the Great Highland bagpipe as their principal instrument.� Bowling Industry Management and Technology Vincennes University, Vincennes, Ind. Since 1972, about 750 bowling enthusiasts have studied the business and technical sides of operating a bowling center and graduated with this one-of-a-kind, two-year associate�s degree. �I�ve learned about the pinsetters� components and parts, the lane machines and how the oil goes down,� says student Jenny Carlton, 53, a former dental hygienist. �Next I�ll learn about management procedures, running tournaments and ball drilling.� Carlton and her husband, Jim, in 2009 opened a bowling shop inside Creole Lanes in Vincennes. �The more I got into it, the more I wanted to learn,� she says. �I�d like to see the sport continue and grow.� Chemical Hygiene Officer West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, W.Va. Necessity inspired this one-of-a-kind bachelor�s degree designed by Melissa Charlton-Smith, the college�s chemical hygiene officer. �All labs are required by OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) to have a chemical hygiene officer, yet there was no formal education or program out there to train us,� says Charlton-Smith, 46. �All current officers are self-taught, but we�re getting older and retiring.� The college began offering the four-year degree last fall. Graduates complete courses for a traditional chemistry degree, plus additional coursework and an internship. Two students have declared the major. �I like anything involving chemistry and decided this would be an interesting degree,� says student Paul Mallory, 20, who plans to work in the hazardous-waste industry upon graduation. Citrus Studies Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fla. Orange groves abound on the campus of the nation�s only college where a student can earn a bachelor�s degree in citrus. �The college�s teaching style is very active, engaged, experiential and hands-on,� says Malcolm Manners, 58, chairman of the college�s horticultural science department. �This is a major that very much lends itself to that kind of teaching.� Offered since 1953, the degree prepares graduates for jobs as production managers on large citrus farms and in the fertilizer and agrichemical industries. About six students graduate from the citrus program each year. Stan Perry, 21, who grew up on his family�s 700-acre citrus farm in nearby Lake Placid, plans to continue in the family business after earning his degree next year. �My whole family is into farming, but I didn�t know the science behind it,� Perry says. �Now I�m taking classes in plant nutrition and learning the chemistry behind how a plant takes in fertilizer.� Farrier Science Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, N.M. For students seeking a stable career, horseshoeing is hard to beat. �There�s always a demand for farriers because a machine can�t replace us,� says instructor Eddy Mardis, 55. �There�s a huge equine industry with rodeos, show horses, dressage and even horse Olympics.� About 20 students are enrolled in the farrier science program at Mesalands, one of a handful of U.S. colleges that offer two-year associate�s degrees or certificates in equine services. Two days a week, local residents bring their horses to the Mesalands campus for shoeing. Students also get hands-on training at nearby ranches. �Farriers need to know lameness issues, terminology and computer equipment. They work closely with veterinarians,� Mardis says. Feed Science and Management Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. Grace Bokelman, 21, who grew up on a row-crop farm in Washington, Kan., and also worked at a dairy, found the perfect college path that combines her interests in crops and livestock�a feed science and management degree. Her dream job? �I�d like to work on the formulation of pet food and animal feed,� says Bokelman, who graduated from Kansas State in May with the bachelor�s degree and now is earning a master�s degree in grain science. The university is the only U.S. college that grants degrees in feed science and management, baking science and management, and milling science and management. About 50 students earn degrees each year through the three grain-science programs and land jobs in commercial bakeries, mills and food companies. �All of our programs deal with food and there�s always going to be a need for these degrees,� says Brenda Heptig, 50, the academic programs� support coordinator. Students delve into food-safety issues and the development of gluten-free foods. Gunsmithing Montgomery Community College, Troy, N.C. Students learn to service and repair firearms of all kinds while pursing a two-year associate�s degree in this program, which has been going great guns since 1997. �We just accepted 30 students for the fall semester and our waiting list is around 140,� says Wayne Bernauer, 55, program director. Fewer than 10 colleges in the United States offer gunsmithing degrees. In addition to day and night classes, Montgomery Community College offers weekend classes and has an on-campus outdoor firing range for students. Graduates have landed jobs with major firearm manufacturers and retailers, including Colt, Benelli, Gander Mountain and Remington, and with small gun-shop owners. Some graduates have opened their own gun shops. Puppetry University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Students have been pulling strings at the university since 1965 to earn puppetry degrees, including master�s degrees. �Puppetry is an international art form and we have students from all over the world,� says director Bart Roccoberton, 61. �I�m surrounded by people who are passionate and creative.� Puppeteer grads are in demand, especially to work in film, theater and television. �Nobody can sit down and watch television for an hour without seeing a puppet,� Roccoberton says. �If you see a T-shirt jump out of a clothes dryer, that�s a puppet.� Student Penny Benson, 58, is pursuing a master�s degree in puppetry, though she has a nursing degree and 10 years of experience as an actress. �I�ve always identified with being an artist, and puppetry combines performance and art,� says Benson, who wants to design and build puppets for large theatrical productions and to produce her own smaller-scale touring shows. Race Track Management University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. In 1974, with the horseracing industry galloping away, the university established the nation�s first bachelor�s degree in race track management. About 600 students have completed the degree. �We thought there should be university-level training for people to become educated and move the industry forward,� says Wendy Davis, 52, associate coordinator of the Race Track Industry Program. �Due to the wagering aspect, this is one of the most highly regulated industries in the country.� Students take classes in �Advanced Animal Racing Laws and Enforcement� and �Training and Management of the Weanling� and can specialize in either the business or animal-management side of horse racing. By serving internships at race tracks in Erie, Pa., and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Matt Benson, 30, gained experience in everything from animal training to employee insurance claim forms. Benson graduated from the university in May and aspires to work in upper-management at a racetrack. 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In the last article on LCD monitors that we posted on our site we covered a few models from Samsung's new series that appeared in retail this year. Unfortunately, we omitted the most interesting and popular model then, the SyncMaster 173P, and we also couldn't clear out the case of the SyncMaster 172X that was claimed to feature 12msec response time, but was actually equipped with a slow 25msec PVA matrix.
In our today's article we will try to make up for our previous omissions and introduce to you two new monitors from Samsung, the 173T and 174T models.
Samsung SyncMaster 173P
The Samsung SyncMaster 173P is among the prettiest and most uncommon monitors I have ever tested. It is designed according to Samsung's traditional scheme for its top-end models, with connectors placed in the base and two swivels that allow rotating the panel any way you like. The 173P has one advantage over the 172 series monitors which were the first to use this design because it also allows turning the screen into the portrait mode.
The device is compact, thin, elegant, but rather heavy as the front panel and the sole of the base are made of aluminum. They made the face side of the monitor dull and rough, but polished the angles to luster. The back of the device and the pole of the base are made of white and light-gray plastic. As I have mentioned above, the base allows turning the screen into the portrait mode or even upside down. You can also adjust the screen height from zero to about 10cm above the desk surface, change its tilt from vertical to horizontal position, rotate the monitor around the vertical axis and hang it on the wall with the help of the two mounting brackets and screws that you receive with the device. Cutting it short, the SyncMaster 173P has all the functionality you may want.
The monitor features an analog and a digital input as well as an external power adapter (it's no wonder we have an external power adapter here, considering the dimensions).
The second and the most considerable thing that distinguishes this monitor from the host of competitors is the lack of control buttons. There's only one sensor Power On button (it is really a sensor one – you just touch it to turn the monitor on or off) next to a dull-blue power-on LED.
Thus, the user has only one way to control the monitor – using special software. On the one hand, there is nothing new about this, as CRT monitors with duplicated controls appeared several years ago, but on the other hand, they had to be attached to a USB port, while their control program, usually integrated into Windows' Display Properties dialog, in fact copied the screen menu, without adding any new functions.

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Upstate Army Tryouts will be held Sunday Jan. 9th at PBC Greenville, South Carolina
It will Start at 12 so be there by 11, to get signed in and all that good stuff. The team will be looking to fill spots in all divisions:
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The cost will be $14 for entry and air and $55 per case of paint.
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I'd blame the gripper but to be honest, it was nothing but the sad result of pizza making under the influence.
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Payleven's chip-and-PIN readers land in Apple's retail stores
Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe.
Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe.
Germany-based card payments startup Payleven is going to make its chip-and-PIN service available to individuals, the company said on Wednesday.
Swedish mobile payments startup iZettle has expanded its territory to Spain, and is now available in seven European markets.
Dutch payment services company Adyen has developed a service it hopes will allow sales staff at major European retailers to accept card payments via a mobile phone, perhaps allowing them to do without dedicated cashiers.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
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More than 3,600 people are known dead in the Philippines from Typhoon Haiyan. The government is struggling to get relief to people who need it. Residents of one city are lining up to use a working telephone. (Nov. 15) AP
Some choices proved to be terrible ones as entire families were washed away.
PALO, Philippines – As Typhoon Haiyan began pummeling this seaside town with winds of 147 mph, a group of families holed up together in one house talked about what to do.
Houses were being battered throughout the neighborhood, and some homes would no longer be there when the storm ended.
But at the outset of the typhoon, the families huddled in the home of Nelo Onida worried that the kids would get cold. They agreed Nelo's Mitsubishi Strada would probably be a warmer and safer spot for the children.
FOUR STORIES: Fear and the fight for survival
Jessica Jane Craig, 24, handed her 1-year-old daughter, Mikhaella, to her husband, who climbed into the front of the four-door pickup with their 6-year-old son, Eugene.
Craig's sister, Shirley Casin Esquebel, gave her 1-year-old baby girl, Andrea Kim Lim, to a 19-year-old friend of Jessica's.Two other children, an 8-year-old girl and her 13-year-old brother, joined them.
"The driver said the children would be cold in the typhoon, so they should sit in the car," said Craig of Noel Tamayo Baguion, who worked as a driver for Onida.
"My boss, the car owner, said they would be safer there from the strong winds," said Baguion, 43, who told his three sons, 3, 5 and 9, to squeeze into the Strada, too.
The decision proved a terrible one.
"As soon as the water rushed in, that's when we knew it was dangerous," said Baguion.
The typhoon, called a hurricane in the United States, drove the ocean over the city in a way no one had ever seen before, even though Filipinos are used to getting hit by typhoons several times a year.
The surging sea rose at least 12 feet high outside the Onida home. Water swirled quickly up along the sides of the car. Baguion rushed out to try to get the occupants out of the car. But they did not seem to sense the danger, he said.
"The children were laughing and signaling thumbs-up," Baguion said, even as he banged on the windows to try to get them out
In what seemed like just moments, the water rose above the car roof. Baguion jumped from the top of the truck to the roof of the Onida house. He watched the car get swept away. Then he saw his own house float off.
In one hour, the sea water subsided. Baguion went looking for the truck and found it about 100 yards away.
"I smashed a window with a construction block and found one boy still moving," he said.
It was his oldest son, Vincent, 9. His sons James and Christian lay among the drowned, as did everyone else.
Vincent recalled what happened, saying the water came inside the passenger compartment slowly.
"I held my nose and mouth right up to the roof of the car. I was drinking in some water as I breathed," he said.
Vincent still looks for his brothers when he wakes up in the morning, said his mom, Arlene Baguion, 40.
"I can't eat or sleep," she said.
Jessica's Craig's husband and two children lay bloated and discolored Wednesday under metal sheets, placed over them until they could be buried.
"We did not expect there would be sea, too," Craig said. "Just rain and wind."
Craig and her sister, Shirley, 21, tried to bury their loved ones Tuesday. But drenching rain forced them to abandon the attempt.
Craig said it was Noel Baguion who told her to put her children in the car. Baguion says he was following the advice of his employer, Nelo Onida.
Nelo's younger brother agreed.
"I think it was Nelo's decision, as he was the boss of the driver," said younger brother Noel Onida.
Nelo Onida left Palo on Wednesday for the safety of Cebu city, on an adjacent island. The Onidas lost their father in the typhoon. Salvador Onida, 83, drowned elsewhere. All those who stayed in the Onida house survived.
Others in the neighborhood also made do-or-die decisions.
Eugene Abria, 16, watched the storm surge up to the second story of his house.
"Families in one-story houses were washed away, but some people climbed up to our terrace and survived," he said.
Lucio Manacpo, 58, who lives near the Onidas, said people expected just the wind, "not a tsunami."
He said neighbors including the Craigs lived in weak, shanty-style shacks, so it's no wonder they thought a truck would be better.
"The parents thought the car was the safest place for the kids," he said.
Craig appeared numb when talking about the tragedy. Her sister barely uttered a word.
In the main remaining hospital in nearby Tacloban, Thelma Barrera, head of a team of nine psychological care experts sent by the Department of Health in Manila, was trying to help the local staff handle the bereaved.
"We are giving support so they can go through the traumatic experience and recover faster," she said. "Their stress reactions may be normal now, such as, 'Can't sleep,' but in a month there may be a more abnormal reaction."
"It's very important you let them vent out, share their emotions, it's like defusing an emotional bomb," said Barrera.
Even looting offers some mental rewards, she said.
"It's not morally right, but it's survival. The heads of families, though still have an element of guilt, also feel better as they are providing for their families."
The Tacloban hospital was damaged as well and without power. In the dark main corridor, heavily pregnant Jene Rose expected to deliver her baby boy Wednesday night.
She and her husband survived their house's destruction with just bruises.
"We have little food, just some rice, which is a big problem as I am eating for two, but it's a miracle that we are safe," said Rose, 24.
Other miracles were celebrated elsewhere in this ravaged city.
Inside Tacloban's Redemptorist church, where 600 people stayed amid its pews, Lourdes Hamelda, 26, delivered a baby girl the night of the same day Haiyan destroyed the house her husband rented.
"It's a miracle, an act of God," said Hamelda, although she hopes to change the girl's name from "Yolanda", the Philippine name for Haiyan, under which hospital staff had registered her.
Life goes on even as many corpses still lie at the roadside and officials struggle to distribute enough body bags to contain them.
In the street, people are walking or on motor bikes, some carrying roosters prized for fighting. Children play in flood water.
Manacpo was hopeful for his devastated town of Palo.
"We will recover, but it will take time, with the help of 'The One' up there," he said. "I am an optimist."
Noel Baguion started rigging up a shelter to a coconut tree Wednesday so he, his wife and Vincent could move out of his boss's smashed and leaking house.
"It's nobody's mistake," he said of using the pickup as a shelter. "I will never drive it again. I will drive another car."


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There has been a lot of talk recently about Google's newest big development, the G Drive. If you haven't heard, the G Drive is a giant, Google driven file storage system that will essentially allow anyone to access a giant hard drive through the web. Rather than worry about transporting your files from your laptop or desktop, you would simply be able to store just about anything you want (with few size limits) on the G drive.
There has been a lot of speculation about this topic, and reporting has been subject to a lot of rumor and hearsay, but Mashable reported today that the idea is getting freakishly close to reality (Hat tip: Lone Wolf Librarian).
If the G drive does become a reality, it could potentially be a transformative development for computing in general, and libraries in particular. Read More »
As I was getting ready to leave for ALA Midwinter 2009 in Denver, I found myself packing an almost absurd amount of electronics. For those who don't know, I'm mostly responsible for the podcasts that show up from time to time on LITABlog. For the last few years I've been capturing the audio for programs like Top Tech Trends, and manipulating it so that it can be delivered to the fine people out on the Intertubes.
I realized as I was packing that I never posted about the tech involved, and who doesn't like a great tech-roundup post? So here we go: How I podcasted from ALA Midwinter 2009. Read More »
Unlike Tom, I actually attended the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. I spent most of the weekend on the exhibition floor, chatting with librarians and vendors from around the country. Attendees were, as always, curious and happy to chat, discuss products and talk about their libraries.
Still, in talking with other vendors on the floor, a common theme emerged--librarians are always interested in the newest products and technology, but in 2009, most of them simply don't have the funding for updates. Read More »
An amazing thing happened to me last Saturday--I attended a few events at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver from the comfort of my own home here in western Missouri. How is that possible, you ask? The last time I checked, there is a small landform called The Great Plains between my home and Denver. Several of the Midwinter events were offered simultaneously on ALA Island and other venues in Second Life. The meeting that really got me revved up about the possibilities for "combo conference events" (that is, events that occur simultaneously in two or more venues or "realities") was the meeting of the ALA VCL MIG (Virtual Communities and Libraries, Member Initiative Group) late Saturday afternoon. Full disclosure: I'm one of the "Designated Organizers" of the VCL MIG.
Here's what happened: Read More »
We're all off to the Mile High City for Midwinter 2009! If you have any questions about ALA TechSource or any of our publications, or if you just want to chat, we'll be at the ALA Publishing booth all weekend.
Look out for some coverage this weekend!
In his first two days in office, President Obama has definitely given a lot of us the impression that he intends to be President 2.0. Obama's campaign famously used online social networking to tremendous effect, he has since been giving weekly addresses via YouTube and now the new White House Web Page includes a blog.
Now that the President has taken office and new policies are being enacted, what changes will we see in national policy towards libraries generally, and technology specifically? Read More »
With our January issue of Library Technology Reports focusing on funding your technology in a tough economy, I figured it would make sense to broaden my perspective on the issue by talking some some additional experts. Over the past couple of months, I had the pleasure of conducting an online interview with Alan Inouye, Director of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy, which serves the associations voice in IT Policy discussions. Read More »
Michael has posted four video submissions to ALA's candidates for President over at Tame the Web, including one from our own Tom Peters.
There are lots of photos on flickr of the fascinating listening pods at the DOK Library Concept Center in Delft, The Netherlands, but I keep coming back to this one. It's as if the photographer, University of Washington MLIS student Jen Waller, just got up and turned back to snap a shot before walking away. This is only one of a whole set of photos taken by Jen at DOK during her visit in September.
Hot on the heels of the launch of the D.C. Public Library's iPhone application, WorldCat Mobile is now giving users access to over 10,000 libraries in the palm of their hands. Read More »
For anyone who needs help finding there way around the upcoming conference, Jason has posted this map over at LITA.
While munching on a sandwich, I asked Jon Phipps some questions about the Metadata Registry, while Diane Hillmann, Karen Coyle, and Nannette Naught (colored pencils in hand) pored over RDA's Entity Relationship (ER) diagram on 3 x 4 foot sheets. During my first week of the new year, I spent a couple days observing discussions on RDA as a data model.
ALA Publishing is working with Metadata Management Associates and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Metadata Registry project in the development of the software for RDA. The Metadata Registry has already developed key modules of software that ALA will need and has more in the works. With element lists and vocabularies for the new standard likely to change, the Metadata Registry can create a central, stable space for maintenance. The software can also generate schemas, which will be available for free download from the RDA website. Read More »
One of the most consistent technology problems that modern librarians face is inadequate bandwidth. As more and more users utilize more bandwidth-intensive services on the Internet, connectivity speed goes down for everyone on the network.
Those of us who tried to watch the inauguration today on the Internet saw firsthand that the problem doesn't only apply to libraries or cash-strapped organizations. As the New York Times promptly reported, news sites like CNN and MSNBC were jammed with users attempting to watch their streaming video coverage. Despite the fact that these networks had been planning their online coverage far in advance, timeouts, slow connections and interrupted streams were all too common for those watching online.
With news of library closings and service reductions coming from all corners of the nation, it seems like in the face of spending cuts, library services are sometimes seen as expendable. Anyone who has ever worked at a public library and probably almost everyone who has ever used a public library knows that this is not the case. Unfortunately, public budget decisions are often made by politicians, and we all know how in touch they are with public sentiment, and how much if affects their decisions.
We are already seeing libraries around the country being forced to close or cut back services. The strong reaction this has elicited from many patrons (I'm going to be optimistic and avoid the term "former patrons"), particularly in Philadelphia.
Public libraries are crucial to their communities, especially when it comes to technology, according to January's issue of Library Technology Reports.
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This is not a political blog, but when politics and technology collide, we'll be there. CNET reported yesterday that the Democrats attempted to place net-neutrality legislation deep within the $825 billion bill. Supporters of net neutrality have been extremely vocal about their desire for President-elect Obama and the new Congress to push for Net Neutrality legislation, and it looks like Congress may be starting to comply.
While the excitement surrounding the incoming administration and the urgency of our current economic problems will probably push this issue to the side (at least for now), I have no doubt that the blogosphere will be keeping a close eye on any new developments. Read More »
As I was conducting the interview with mobile web expert Ellyssa Kroski that I posted earlier this week, the D.C. Public Library was in the process of making a little mobile web news of their own. The library became pioneers by launching their own iPhone application. TechSource joins the rest of the Library Tech Blogosphere in congratulating DCPL on this exciting accomplishment!
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released this report (PDF), "Adults and Social Network Websites". It won't be a big surprise to us in the library world to learn that adult use of online social networking is skyrocketing, but still far behind that of children and young adults. Key Quote:
The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey.
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Years ago I read somewhere that the stretch of Interstate 70 that runs across Missouri from Kansas City to St. Louis is the most heavily billboarded section of interstate in the U.S. There are thousands of them. Most are hawking predictable things: hotels, fast food, Lake of the Ozark resorts, souvenir shops with the inevitable walnut bowls, and fireworks emporia, each one just happening to be the world's largest.
There's a smattering of unusual billboards, too, such the one featuring the visage of the Dalai Lama, reverse vasectomies, custom-made brassieres (I wonder if that includes Kramer's manssieres), and dentures in one day. I've been watching that one last for 20 years, just in case any of my kith, kin, or even I ever need a quick set of chops.
I live in a rural area a couple of miles south of I-70. One of my routes into the village of Grain Valley takes me on a stretch of old 40 Highway, which has become a frontage road for the interstate. Imagine my surprise one day when I looked up and spotted a new billboard for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Years ago I wrote about OLPC for ALA TechSource. I took it as a sign from above eye level that I should provide an update. Read More »
We are extremely excited about the January Issue of Library Technology Reports, "Funding and Budgeting for Library Technology in Today's Economy" by Larra Clark and Denise Davis. With the current economic crisis, librarians are concerned about having the funds to keep up with the rapidly evolving technology needed to serve the needs of twenty-first century patrons. ALA TechSource is responding with an issue that offers not only a detailed look at the library funding landscape, but also expert-authored, practical guidelines for stretching your budget as far as it can go.
Photo courtesy of Tim Pierce
Today the National Endowment for the Arts released a new report, "Reading on the Rise," that suggests that the decades long slide in the number of adult Americans who read literature (novels, short stories, poetry, and plays) has recently reversed itself and is beginning to rise. For the first time in the 25 years NEA has been studying our reading habits, our love for literature appears to have been rekindled.
Last year, Web 2.0 trailblazer Ellyssa Kroski broke new ground with her issue of Library Technology Reports, "On The Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies". The report was a comprehensive exploration of how libraries can use mobile technology effectively as the technology becomes more and more mainstream.
In addition to being an LIS educator, speaker and consultant, Ellyssa is also the author of Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals, which has been extremely well-received throughout the LIS community. She also provides news and commentary about emerging technology and library issues on her iLibrarian blog.
I had a chance to catch up with Ellyssa recently via e-mail. Read More »
You may have caught some of the strong discussion that followed Kate Sheehan's post on Drupal from earlier this week. Karen Schneider also discussed the post here.
It's interesting to note that despite the fact that there wasn't much about Drupal in most people's 2009 predictions, there has been a lot of discussion about drupal in the blogosphere as 2008 turned into 2009.
A very cool animated video that takes you through some of the key developments in Internet history. (Hat tip to the Lone Wolf Librarian)
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.
Jenny Levine posted this over at Shifted yesterday. Definitely one of the best and most far-flung social networking metaphors that I've heard.
It seems like 2008 was a hectic year for everyone, librarians included. After going through the most media-saturated election in history and a late-year financial collapse, I think we were all ready for 2009 to get here.
We begin the new year in tough times--there's no question about that. The economic challenges we face are a genuine threat to our ability to do, or in some cases keep our jobs. Funding is falling short across the board. Libraries are closing or cutting back hours. Librarians are struggling to fund adequate technology for their patrons while demand for services going up.
But with all that's happening, its encouraging and heartening to know that people in our profession are pushing forward, as determined as ever to blaze new trails despite whatever temporary obstacles may be present. Read More »
I came across this post earlier today at one of my favorite blogs, the effing librarian. HotStuff 2.0 is yet another awesome pathway in and out of the blogosphere, but this one is designed specifically for librarians, information enthusiasts and blibliobloggers.
Users interested in finding active or popular blogs on specific topics can use the search feature, which will list the most recent blog posts (by blogs registered on the site) using that word. Bloggers and people interested in usage statistics can use HotStuff as one measurment for a given site's popularity. Read More »
In October 2008, I had the privilege and pleasure of presenting at the Bridging Worlds 2008 conference, which took place at the Intercontinental Hotel Singapore, across the street from the National Library. A few of us took time one afternoon to tour around the library, where we wandered around the Central Lending Library and the Lee Kong Chiang Reference Library. Both were impressive and fairly crowded for a Friday afternoon. Read More »
Library Stuff posted this article from The Morning News in Northwest Arkansas.
The Fayetteville Public Library received $250,000 in 2008 in corporate and foundation contributions from the Fayetteville Public Library Foundation, said Cathy Rew, director of administrative services at the library. In 2009 the library will receive $142,000 in corporate and foundation money. Read More »
The Internet has leveled the publishing playing field, according to common wisdom. No need to maneuver your way past print's gatekeepers, just learn a little HTML and you're off! No wait, that's not quite it...not everyone wanted to devote time and energy to learning HTML. The level playing field had a few bumps. Blogs were supposed to solve that problem, so that if you felt compelled to share your thoughts with the world, you get yourself a blog.
Content Management Systems may have provided that level playing field for organizations. A CMS distributes the work of website updates and maintenance to many employees. A library with a great PR person or fantastic writer on staff can let them loose on the library website without worrying about technical skills or issues. But is the playing field truly level, or does the CMS present just another bump in that field? Read More »
I'm sitting at Panera bread in Mishawaka, Indiana this morning, playing catch up and getting some writing done before another day of holiday festivities. Sipping my tea in my most favorite "third place," I can't help but reflect on 2008 and ponder what 2009 will bring for us in the library world. I get very excited at the power and promise of what we're doing: innovative services, new buildings, the harnessing of new technologies to extend our services in surprising ways, and much, much more. With that in mind, I offer a few simple hopes for this shiny new year. Many libraries are doing these things already while others are testing the waters. Wherever your institution is going, these are things I hope for. Read More »
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Claims processing begins for insurers
By Catherine E. Shoichet and Tom Zucco
Published February 6, 2007
LADY LAKE — The state's two largest homeowners insurance companies said Tuesday that they expected to process close to 1,100 claims from homeowners whose residences were damaged from the tornadoes and high winds that swept through Central Florida.
The predawn storms left 20 people dead and about 1,500 structures damaged, state officials said.
Tim Loftin, senior vice president of claims for Citizens Property Insurance Corp., said in a statement Tuesday that the company hopes to have "100 percent of the claims inspected by this weekend and 80 percent of them settled."
By noon Tuesday, Citizens had processed more than 225 claims and was expecting about 275 more. The company has yet to place a dollar figure on damage.
State Farm estimated that it will process about 600 claims totaling about $23-million. As of noon Tuesday, the company had processed 445 homeowner claims, including 109 for homes that were judged uninhabitable.
State Farm also has processed 216 claims for auto damage.
United Services Automobile Association, which has about 1,000 members in the affected area, had processed 108 homeowner and nine auto claims as of Tuesday.
A spokesman for Allstate Floridian, the state's third-largest insurer, said damage for its policyholders was minimal.
Storm survivors also will have another source to turn to for assistance, Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday.
Crist expanded the state's hurricane fund to include aid for victims of all disasters, including Friday's deadly tornadoes.
Standing with state and local officials beside the tornado-ravaged Lady Lake Church of God, Crist announced $165,000 in corporate donations to the new Florida Disaster Recovery Fund. He praised the work of first responders and government agencies after the storm.
"This is not Louisiana, and the response has been dramatic and it's been fantastic," Crist said.
He said relief efforts will go on for as long as necessary.
"This is going to continue for a long time," Crist said. "We've got to be vigilant. We've got to follow up and follow through."
Just a short drive away, government workers and volunteers were starting the first steps of that process.
With chain saws buzzing and hammers clanking in the background, Lady Lake residents filed into the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Recovery Center on Griffin View Drive.
FEMA set up the large white tent — one of five in the state — Tuesday morning after Lady Lake officials asked for a larger presence from the agency.
"When they come in here, they're actually shaken. They can't remember anything," said Marie Brand, a volunteer for the state Department of Elder Affairs, who walked door to door Tuesday telling residents about the new center.
"We're helping them fill out the forms."
By late Tuesday 1,157 residents of Lake, Seminole, Sumter and Volusia counties had applied to FEMA for disaster assistance, spokesman Duane Bradford said.
One of them was Sharon Styx, 58. Cleanup crews already were ripping out rugs and cutting down trees around her home.
"It just looks like locusts came in and took everything out," she said.
The tornadoes caused $15.2-million worth of damage in Lake County, destroying 129 homes and damaging about 150 others.
Crews there already have hauled away 25,000 cubic yards of debris, said Chris Patton, a spokesman with the Lake County Emergency Operations Center.
In Sumter County, officials estimated that 164 homes were destroyed and that more than 1,200 were damaged.
Mickey Torcivia, 86, also stopped by the FEMA center in Lady Lake to seek support. A tree crashed through her roof Friday morning, destroying her uninsured mobile home in the Sunshine Mobile Home Park. She said she wasn't sure how much the government would help.
FEMA officials said it can take as long as 10 days to receive assistance after registering.
"Ask me on Thursday," Torcivia said. "I have enough money for two more nights, and that's it."
Catherine E. Shoichet can be reached at (352) 860-7309 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Tom Zucco can be reached at (727) 893-8247 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE CURRICULAR GUIDE Arch Tech, Residential Design Certificate of Achievement Curriculum Code: 0831 (Effective Fall 2002 - Summer 2007) This certificate program consists of practical hands-on courses that concentrate on single-family and multi-family residential design. This program provides students with the necessary technical knowledge for the design and preparation of residential working drawings, including: residential design theory, construction materials and techniques, residential interiors, presentation drawing techniques, and computer graphics. PREREQUISITES Students should see Course Descriptions or Course Offerings for course prerequisite information. See the Assessment and Placement Testing section for skills assessment and advising information. INFORMATION Contact the Construction and Maintenance Technologies Department, Gannon Vocational Technical Center, Room 1380, telephone number (517) 483-1336. REQUIREMENTS TOTAL: 23 CREDITS CODE TITLE CREDIT HOURS ARCH 100 Intro to Architecture Drawing (See Note 1) 3 ARCH 101 Residential Detailing 4 ARCH 102 Residential Drawing 4 ARCH 121 Visual Communication I 3 ARCH 128 Residential Design 2 ARCH 278 Building Science 4 BLDT 281 MI Residential/Building Codes 3 LIMITED CHOICE REQUIREMENTS TOTAL: 18-19 CREDITS Complete the indicated number of credits from each CHOICE listed below. CHOICE 1: Computer Graphics 8 Credits ARCH 221 Architectural DataCAD I 4 ARCH 222 Architectural DataCAD II 4 ARCH 231 Architectural AutoCAD I 4 ARCH 232 Architectural AutoCAD II 4 CHOICE 2: Materials, Structures, and Systems 3-4 Credits ARCH 271 Structural Theory 4 ARCH 273 Environmental Systems 4 ARCH 276 Alternative Structures 3 ARCH 283 Materials of Construction 4 CHOICE 3: Interior Design 4 Credits INTR 151 Computer-Aided Kitchen Design 4 INTR 190 Interior/Materials/Equipment 4 CHOICE 4: Architectural Related (See Note 1) 3 Credits MINIMUM TOTAL 41 NOTES: 1. If students have more than a year of high school drafting or equivalent work experience, see an advisor in the Construction and Maintenance Technologies Department to see if ARCH 100 can be waived. 2. Choice 4 allows for completion of courses which relate to specific career preparation for the field of residential design and have not been applied in any of the above categories. Students should consult with a program advisor for specific course options. SUGGESTED COURSE SEQUENCE Students should see course descriptions to find out when departments plan to offer courses. Students who for any reason are unable to follow the course sequence suggested below (for example, those who are part-time, have transferred in courses from another school, or have prerequisites to fulfill) should contact an academic advisor or counselor for help with adjustments. I II III ARCH 100 ARCH 101 ARCH 102 ARCH 121 ARCH 128 Lim. Ch. 1 BLDT 281 ARCH 278 Lim. Ch. 3 Lim. Ch. 2 Lim. Ch. 1 Lim. Ch. 4


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Many owners of Macintosh computers claim that Apple OS X is more comfortable and secure than Windows operating system, which is why they prefer Macs over personal computers running software from Microsoft. But with all the limitations of Macintosh systems, the vast majority of them still cannot live without a Windows PC at home, a study by NPD Group has found.
According to NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study, approximately 12% of all U.S. computer owning households own an Apple computer, up from 9% in 2008. While Apple ownership is growing, those households are decidedly in favor of mixed system environments. Of those 12%, nearly 85% also own a Windows-based PC, which means that the vast majority of Macintosh systems are acquired in order to try something new and their users may not be too loyal to Apple.
Multiple computer ownership is a common thread in Apple computer households, with 66% of households owning three or more computers, compared to just 29% of Windows PC households. Apple owning households are decidedly more mobile as well, with 72% of them owning a notebook, whereas only 50% of households that have a Windows PC own a notebook. While the information seems to be in Apple's favour, a logical explanation may be rather trivial: owners of multiple Windows PCs also own Macintosh computers and since owners of multiple computers have higher income, they also purchase more electronics in general.
"While Apple owners tend to own more computers and more electronics devices, there is also a high correlation among Apple owners and more affluent consumer households. 36% of Apple computer owners reported household incomes greater than $100 thousand, compared to 21% of all consumers. With a higher household income, though, it's not a surprise that those consumers are making more electronics purchases," said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis.
Not only do Apple computer owners own more computers (and more mobile computers) than the norm they also tend to own more types of electronics, and more of them, than typical computer owning households, according to NPD. For example, while 36% of total computer owning households have an iPod, 63% of Apple households have one. And while almost 50% of Apple owners own some type of navigation system, only about 30% of all computer households own one.
"The average Apple household owns 48 CE devices whereas the average computer household owns about 24. Apple household owners' actions and purchases can be used by the industry as leading indicators for hot new products and adoption," said Mr. Baker.


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by Anton Shilov
Samsung Electronics, a leading maker of hard disk drives, this week unveiled its new hard drives that feature 500GB platters as well as 7200RPM spindle speed. According to Samsung, 1TB HDDs powered by 500GB platters aimed at desktops and servers offer 30% higher performance compared to previously available 1TB models.
"Our customers require not only additional capacity but also high performance for their server and desktop storage systems, while promoting a green environment. The massive capacity-per-platter and high-performance features of the new Spinpoint F3 make it an attractive solution for driving the growth of high-density storage," said Choel-Hee Lee, vice president of marketing at storage systems division at Samsung Electronics.
The Samsung Spinpoint F3 in 3.5" form-factor incorporates 500GB platters, 7200RPM rotational speed, Serial ATA-300 interface, native command queuing features and a 16MB/32MB buffer memory. The Spinpoint F3 is currently available in 500GB capacities worldwide. The 1TB drive is scheduled for initial shipment in August. Earlier this year Samsung unveiled HDDs with 500GB platters with 5400RPM spindle-speed.
According to Samsung, increased areal density per platter provides up to a 30% higher performance than a three-platter 1 TB in the same 3.5" form factor. A reduction in mechanical parts also contributes to enhanced reliability in terms of anti-shock and data failure.
"Market forecasts estimate 500GB per platter and higher densities will experience over 15 percent annual growth in the next five years, with expectations that high density storage will become main stream for 3.5" storage beyond 2010," said Mark Geenen, president of Trendfocus.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (240 votes).
In short: Great raceIn full: This my second year, bettered last years time by 3 minutes. Great weather , great atmosphereDate of review: March 17, 2009
In short: A great event in a little known part of the country between the Wye and the Severn. Great organisation at this very friendly event and so much better than rrunning on roads.Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Tougher than it looksIn full: First time I have run this race and I was very impressed with the whole day. Found it tougher going than I expected and was slightly caught out by the warm weather. The race maybe through the forest but there wasn't a great deal of shade.Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Great raceIn full: Me again - hit return, not tab was going to say....Second time I have done this one and it will hopefully become a permanent fixture in my diary. A bit crowded for the first couple of miles but as I knew what was coming up I wasn't concerned. There are a couple of steep little inclines that I chose to walk up as this was not a race for me but a great training run. Wouldn't have described it a PB course but one of the people I gave a lift to knocked some 7 minutes of hers!!Maybe we should try to keep this one one quiet in case disgruntled Bath runners find out about it but I fear that it is too late for that Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: what a great race.Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Once again - a fantastic raceIn full: Have run this twice, 2008's weather couldn't have been more different, and both occaisions were a pleasure - helping to prove what a special event it is!I ran with a muscle strain, not something I normally do- but didn't want to miss this!!!Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Tough start, fast finishIn full: We parked in a car park a couple of miles from the start and had to get the shuttle bus to the start, this service was fine with no hiccups, the start seemed well organised with minimal queueing for toilets. Once the race starts it's quite a crammed start with not much room on the narrow forest trails, this started to space out after a mile or two though, the first nine miles of the race were quite a climb with a particularly tough winding hill on the 5th mile. There was then a tough steep but short hill on 9 mile which once at the top, it was all pretty much down hill from there to the finish. There was a very sharp downhill just before the 12 mile marker which was tough but overall a very fast finish to the race.We received a medal and the finish, and some free Ribena and sweets, a good atmosphere on a nice day in the forest made this a very pleasurable run.Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Excellent organisation before and during raceIn full: What's not to like about a well organised race on a sunny day in beautiful scenery? Very impressed with pre-race information on major road closure. Well marked course well marshalled. Only 1 criticism.... no WATER at the end. Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Awesome run, out of it today though!Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: My first trail half marathon , but a great experience and well organisedIn full: fantastic day and a well organised event, scenery was supurb, not an easy course with some good climbs and decents, not a pb course but a definate for my calender next year as it is very challengingDate of review: March 16, 2009
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (1519 votes).
In short: Proof needed for faster zonesIn full: I enjoyed this race and loved every minute but I was in the front of the Green Zone H as not being over ambitious I put a 2:25 time down on my entry. I ran a 1:55 but found myself having to struggle through lots of white and even orange numbers. Surely people in the orange zone and the front white zones should have to have some proof of a time. I know this is not a great PB race but at least make it possible for people to attempt a PB by being put in with people looking for a similar time and are capable of it. Date of review: September 22, 2011
In full: Always my favourite run of the year - started in the orange zone this year which was a little devoid of atmosphere and a bit more serious(compared to the pink and white zones of my previous experiences). That said, it was nice not to be held up by countless fancy dress outfits and people overestimating their abilities this time! The crowds are amazing. If you could bottle that feeling you get when you come over the Tyne Bridge and have the Red Arrows fly over you....you'd never need work again. Date of review: September 22, 2011
In short: Good but could be betterIn full: This is my first experience of the Greant North run and to be honest i was expecting better. The atmosphere did not quite compare to a number of other big races that i had done and also the quality of post race mementos were dissapointing given the price. However no issues with getting stuck behind runners etc as i was in the section just behind the elite club runners. In addtion the race was very well organised.Date of review: September 22, 2011
In short: Fantastic once againDate of review: September 22, 2011
In short: A fantastic experience but if you're looking for a good time don't leave too much for the last 2/3 miles as it's too congested to put in a real kick.Date of review: September 22, 2011
Date of review: September 22, 2011
In short: Tremendous day all roundIn full: 1st Half Marathon absolutely loved it only negative was that slower runners and walkers don't always take the organisers advise and move to the left of the road so you can get slowed down at times, would have been good to see some reminders or stewards enforcing this.Date of review: September 22, 2011
In short: Sort out overweight and fancy dressIn full: I can't understand why overweight and fancy dress runners get to go to the front in this 'fun run'. There should be some kind of system in place where they vet you before you race and if you turn up in fancy dress (not light costumes that won't hamper your run) you head to the pink zone. This race is amazing and the time of year it takes place is just about spot on. Hopefully next year I am able to get a start place past all the false placed runners and go even better.Date of review: September 22, 2011
In short: Great atmosphereDate of review: September 22, 2011
In short: The most amazing experience for my first half-marathonIn full: I chose this event for my 1st Half marathon and trained from zero fitness in April and was able to run comfortably up to 11 miles, saving the half-marathon achievement until the day. Early morning nerves replaced with excitement as soon as I got the bridge over-looking the start and the two hour wait flew by although could do with some toilets along the outside of the pens as once you're in there's no going back!! Met some friends from RW and others before the start and the warm-up and red arrows fly past was excellent. I started on the left at the start but soon moved over to the right for more space after the Tyne Bridge, everything about the run was well organised, drinks station positions and marshalls and the crowd were exceptional. The rain at 6 miles was refreshing but the monsoon a little later made things a little harder. I won't dwell on someone being worked on by paramedics but my split time was ok for around 2hrs 2mins at 11 miles but unfortunatley my left calf stiffened up on the final climb and by the time I tuned the corner for the final mile it was a case of keeping going spurred on the magnificant crowd and other runners and finished in 2:08:56. Organisation at the end was good and meeting my wife in time for the red arrows fly-past topped off one of the best experiences of my life. I will definitely be back again but now I know that I really need to train to run the distance and introduce hill training although for a first experience completing the distance only on the day adds to the achievement and with over £700 raised for my charity I am a happy runnerDate of review: September 22, 2011
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Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993).
Coinage Context
Source of silver: The Act of May 12, 1933 authorized the government to accept silver bullion at the value of 50 cents per ounce in payment of war debts and to convert this bullion into silver dollars and subsidiary coins. This was followed by President Roosevelt's edict of December 21, 1933, which man-dated that the mints buy silver to coin into dollars.
Then came the Silver Purchase Act of June 18, 1934, which required that the Department of the Treasury acquire silver from all sources presenting same until the market price of silver was raised to $1.2929 (a figure which was considered to be the standard value of silver for many years), or until the Treasury holdings of silver equaled one third of the value of the Treasury holdings of gold. The silver thus acquired was used to coin Peace silver dollars in 1934 and 1935.
Numismatic Information
Commentary: Bags of 1934 dollars were paid out through Eastern banks from the 1930s onward. Little documentation of 1,000-coin bags exists, and I do not know if any original mint-sealed bags survive today.
Circulated grades: Circulated coins in VF-20 to AU-58 grades are somewhat scarce, possibly the second scarcest (after the 1928) in the series, and are mostly in higher grades.
Mint State grades: Uncirculated coins are plentiful in numismatic channels. You will have no trouble finding a 1934 to suit your requirements, whether it be MS-60 or MS-65, although the latter can be pricey. Even so, the 1934 seems to be somewhat unappreciated on the market.
Most are well struck and have nice lustre, although Wayne Miller filed this dissenting opinion in his 1982 book: "Like most other Philadelphia Mint Peace dollars from 1926 to 1935 the strike is often weak. In addition many pieces lack mint lustre."
Sometimes it can be difficult to distinguish a high-grade AU from a low-grade Mint State coin. The best place to look is on Miss Liberty's cheek, rotating the coin under a pinpoint light source to detect friction.
Some pieces, if not dipped, have a brownish or yellowish cast to the surface, perhaps from sulfur in the cloth bags in which these were once stored.
Circulation strikes:
1. Breen-5733. Hub combination III-B2. VAM-1.
Just the one issue. All 1934-5 dollars from all three mints are from new master dies and hubs (III-B2): motto letters thinner, straight tail to R in TRVST.
Dies prepared: Obverse: Unknown; Reverse: Unknown.
Circulation strike mintage: 954,057
Estimated quantity melted: Unknown.
Characteristics' of striking: Usually well struck and with lustrous, satiny surfaces.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: No bags are known to have survived to the present to me.
The 1934 is readily available in Mint State but is somewhat unappreciated on the market.
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The Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, 1934, told of new rules involving silver:
"Silver Acquired under Presidential Orders "Under the Executive Proclamation of December 21, 1933, citing the silver resolution adopted by the World Economic and Monetary Conference in London on July 20,1933, the United States mints and assay offices were authorized to receive, during the four subsequent years, silver produced after that date from domestic mines, at a price equivalent to one-half the monetary value thereof (one ounce of silver will make $1.29+ of standard silver dollar coins). This was equivalent to 64.6+ cents per ounce, which compares with the open market price at that time of about 43 cents. Such silver received to June 30, 1934, totaled 8,558,160.96 fine ounces.
"Receipts of silver acquired as payments on war debts, under the act of May 12, 1933, were completed early in the fiscal year under review, with a total of 22,734,824 ounces so received, at 50 cents per fine ounce.
"A Silver Purchase act was approved June 19, 1934, under which the silver monetary stock was directed to be increased, and so maintained that its monetary value would be equal to one-third the monetary value of the gold monetary stock, giving the proportions three-fourths gold and one-fourth silver, on a monetary value basis. This act also directed issue of silver certificates against silver bullion, authorized the coinage of standard silver dollars, and authorized the nationalization of silver, which was proclaimed by the president August 9, 1934.
"A silver unit has been established in the Mint Bureau for examining periodic reports of silver producers and affidavits evidencing eligibility of silver to be accorded the benefits prescribed by Executive orders."
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Day 3 Run 22 kilometers from Llafranc to the medieval city of Pals. Enjoy a treatment at Mas Spa. Overnight at Mas Camangau in Begur.
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Day 7 Run 20 kilometers from Port de la Selva to Sant Pere de Rodes Monastery to Portbou at the French border. Take the train back to Barcelona.
GETTING THERE Fly to Barcelona. Tours begin and end in Girona. From Barcelona, take the Renfe regional train service to Girona (7.50 euros per person each way). www.renfe.com
WHEN TO GO Costa Brava is an ideal year-round trail-running destination, though you might want to avoid the tourism high season and go in spring or fall when temperatures are cool, sunshine is prevalent and beaches are uncrowded. Winter (December to February) is generally mild and rarely cold.
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On Monday, I had the great pleasure of attending the Obama Administration's launch of the International Strategy for Cyberspace, where Secretary Clinton delivered keynote remarks. This strategy document, the first of its kind, promotes a principled framework for our government's cyberspace engagement internationally. The State Department has been leading on this kind of engagement for decades -- ever since telecom networks began to carry significant security, economic, and human rights implications beyond our borders. Telecom and the Internet have merged to become one hugely significant global communications network and the State Department recognizes these issues as foreign policy priorities -- indeed, as the Secretary said yesterday, as a foreign policy imperative. My office, which was formed earlier this year, is tasked with more efficiently and effectively coordinating U.S. cyber policies internationally to achieve our country's chief cyber goal -- that is, an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure cyberspace.
How will we achieve this? This Strategy provides a great foundation. We will start by leveraging the existing efforts of State Department experts on cyber crime, Internet governance, Internet freedom, international cyber stability, and other issues in one coordinated effort. We will also work directly with our posts overseas to improve awareness and increase reporting on cyber issues. Just last week, we sent guidance to our embassies around the world asking them to deliver the strategy to foreign governments. In addition, we will work closely with our colleagues across the executive branch to more effectively merge our domestic priorities and our international opportunities in order to drive policy forward. And, of course, we will be heavily engaging with our colleagues in the private sector, academia, civil society, and other sectors to help reinforce and provide feedback on our efforts. All of this will help us engage both bi-laterally and multi-laterally with countries around the globe, finding partners to join us in realizing a vision of the future of cyberspace that empowers and endures and where norms of responsible behavior guide states' actions. Building this global consensus can only be achieved, as the Secretary said, "through patient, persistent, and creative diplomacy."
Without a doubt, this will be a big task. We are at an inflection point for international cyber policy and the implications for our work are huge -- we could have the continued evolution of the open and global network we all rely on today or the slow de-evolution of this same network into an unreliable, overly censored, and untrustworthy system of national, or regional networks that don't communicate with each other. Our international partners don't want that. We don't want that. This will take a whole-of-government effort and a global plan. The International Strategy for Cyberspace gives us a terrific platform to bolster these efforts and the State Department is prepared to lead.
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It is great the State Department is leaning forward by developing a Cyberspace Strategy. The military is quickly forming its Space and Cyber capacity. This strategy will enable the military to form a more tailored course of action to meet the objectives of the strategy.
Interestingly enough, I personally have a problem delineating how "sovereignty" plays into securing cyberspace. I suppose we are referring to the freedom of the government to use cyberspace as well as its allies. The problem I think lies in defining specific objectives to protecting private systems in the United States from both foreign and domestic cyber threats. In those cases, the border is based on affiliation within the net. Those affiliations go internationally. Therefore, National borders are somewhat irrelevant.


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AllisynPosted Friday, August 19, 2011, at 8:26 PM
There isn't much along the lines of animals that Al doesn't love. She spent several weeks here .... and found more fun than many would have. She isn't one to stay indoors, and she roamed this land like a wild child, and I'm dang proud of her for that.
Here, she is loving my Springer Spaniel, Scout (Mike, see?)
Scout LOVES...Loves I'm tellin' ya, to hunt Gophers...and he recruited Al to help him. There is a NEVER ending supply of them up here.
Yep, that is her, digging while Scout supervises.
And now it's his turn to dig
She even found Sally the Salimander
Al's Mom come to pick her up the first time
Al had to give Jillian the tour around the place. This is a wonderful place for a child to get to spend a summer. A playground of never ending fun.
Me, Jessica, Wendy and Jillian
We had private lakes .... so of course swimming has to be swum!
Al named this filly Marshmallow. She is a 3yr old filly, and Al is about to do some trotting over poles, bareback
Wayne showing Wendy and Laura the "Squeeze Chute" Not normally the way we demonstrate, but we're not normal
Temple Grandin would understand
The following pics are taken by my phone...so are in kind of random order.
One of Al's first rides out. It's cold early in June...but so gorgeous it takes your breath away.
Cold enough to wrap up in a blanket
Practicing handling a horse and a rope
Beautiful as a postcard
She is telling me she's hungry...not gonna move til I feed her!
We went to a little "Finn" community. Just like old times, this General store took you back in time.
At the lake in McCall. Definitely worth the visit.
She's a stubborn little girl...arguing with the Bears.
Hugging Penneys Goodbye
Love her!
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The Ashley Inn is about 4 minutes away. And it's about as nice as they come. It's gorgeous
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Sun, Aug 21, 2011, at 3:15 PM
I would love to do that...... But I would want to do a sleep over and not sure about sleeping in a tent up there haha ! I'm afraid of bears.
-- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, Aug 20, 2011, at 8:57 PM
Bonnie, I'm still in Cascade....been here most of the summer.... after Oregon. I will eventually make my way home. Yep, I've been meaning to blog all summer.... but once we come in the house...I can't force myself to sit and do it, so I'm trying to catch up.
I've also been doing lots of photography for others, so those pics I don't share ...unless i have permissions, .... so they take up my time too...
Do they MH Bloggers want to come and have our talked about meeting here in Cascade????
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Sat, Aug 20, 2011, at 7:40 PM
I hope that you are back Jessie. Missed your lovely pics on the blog site.
-- Posted by KH Gal on Sat, Aug 20, 2011, at 4:47 PM
I was going to say "why isn't Al in the kennel" Then I scrolled a little farther down and yup there she is. lol ! There's a big difference when you use your camera phone but hey I guess they serve the purpose. With out them where would we be?
Great story Great pictures as always !
-- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, Aug 20, 2011, at 2:07 PM
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Skip to comments.Pics of John Kerry on Tour in Jordan and Iraq
Posted on 01/06/2005 6:36:01 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
U.S. Senator John Kerry , D-Mass., discusses the state of the troops morale at Camp al- Tahreer (Liberty) in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, January 5, 2005. Picture taken on January 5, 2005. REUTERS/US Army/Pfc. Charles Maib
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Jordanian King Abdullah II (R) greets former US presidential candidate John Kerry in Amman, at the start of a tour of the Middle East that is expected to take the US senator to Iraq .(AFP/Jordan-HO)
What a doofus.
Still the same gigolo. What an elitist snob.
It's a mite late for this trip, ain't it?
Did Kerry bring combat fatigues and his trusty 8mm camera???
This small group of soldiers are probably the only ones he could find who voted for him.
Sorry, John. Your 15 minutes are up.
He's probably over there telling them about how he was in Vietnam.
" So you say that we are short of left handed screw drivers and buckets of steam? I will get right in that when I get back to the senate!"
As for this:
discusses the state of the troops morale
why am I getting the feeling that we just might hear a speech from the floor of the Senate from Senator Kerry (the man who doesn't care enough to be there today to defend the votes he may have gotten in Ohio) about Iraq, just like the speech he made about Vietnam?
After all, he's with his "band of brothers."
Notice they don't call him SENATOR Kerry. Gee, I'm watching C-SPan, and I didn't see him there at this job. Is he still collecting a salary? Does anyone in his district CARE?
He would have been there earlier but he spent Christmas in Cambodia.......again.
The troops don't seem to be interested at all. Bet they wish they were allowed to bring their guns and ammo with them to the mtg!
They look bored.
Poor soldiers. I wonder if they drew straws to see who would have to meet with Ketchup-Man. (Losers, of course.)
Kerry thinks these kinds of photo-ops will help him in '08. He doesn't have a clue that '04 was the closest he will ever get. '08 is Hillary's. Even if Hillary doesn't run, Kerry won't get the nomination again.
I wonder if he's hearing what he wants to hear? Judging by the look on his mug, highly unlikely :-D
No, we're usually told to be at a certain location at a certain time as there will be someone "important" there
When was the last time he was in a war zone?
Did he ask if they really needed the $80 billion he voted against?
This guy just EXUDES smarm...that soldier is gonna need a good post MOPP4 Cleansing!
It's almost like I can hear J. F'n K. saying "I have 3 Purple Hearts, y'know...bow down before my wife's bank account!"
Serviceman: "Dork"
Serviceman: "Dork"
Kerry: "Hey, give me $250 and I can get you a better haicut"
Soldier: "Please..... like that stupid looking quaff you have up there? I'll stick with my $5 buzz and still be able to tag you wife if she's looking for a true hero..." On second thought, I'd rather puke!"
What happened to that Elmer Fudd hunting jacket he wore for the last 2 months prior to the election?
He is such a poser.
To be perfectly clear, I'm not the kind of guy that wears a barn jacket to public affairs. My valet and I both hated that barn jacket- as any person of taste would.
Now that I've reassured you all on that point I'll respond to any criticisms of the Bush administration that the media have given you to ask me."
He has no shame. Still a traitor.
This one?
Kerry: "Dude, which way to the beach? I'm dying to get in some windsurfing!"
I eas wondering the same thing. He no longer has to try and look like Joe average guy so now it's back to the leather. How come no pictures of him saluting or doing the prayer and bowing thing?
"what an embarrsement"
He has no shame. How can he show his face after all the crap he said about the military.
No, what Kerry is doing is trying to look like he has nothing to do with the fun and games going on in congress today re. accepting the electoral votes from Ohio. Oh, and he is probably speaking with soldiers who will complain about the MSM not reporting the truth and will tell him that they believe in the mission 100%. Then Kerry will return to the US of A and speak on the floor of the Senate about how the troops don't believe in the mission and it is worse over there than the MSM is reporting.
Unbelievable, but true to form.
P.S. When is he meeting with the leader of the terrorists, uhhh, I mean "insurgents" or does that happen in Paris?
No, he's going to re-enact it in his living room when he gets back.
How long a vaction will he have to take to recover from the "stress" of the trip?
"If I'd only remembered to bring my fedora and bull-whip, I'd look like Indiana Jones."
He doesn't belong there. He is overstepping his bounds.
Thanks for the pix. Does anyone have the pic of Kerry at Wendy's restaurant with his finger jabbing the young marine's chest? The marine was disgusted that Kerry tried to use him and his buddy for a photo-op. That picture showed the real JFKerry.
Kerry's mouth is set in a moue of distaste as he stares at the ribbons on the young marine's chest, honorably earned ribbons. Kerry's bony finger with its Mandarin-length fingernail jabs the marine's chest while Kerry's other hand is curled into a fist.
This particular picture was only seen on the internet, I believe. It was not shown on tv or in BM newspapers.
Every pic of Kerry with troops from now on should have the Wendy's pic next to it. Think it should be like the AnneCoulter Rule. b.
No, I wished I had saved that one.
And remember well the one your talking about.
That pic spoke 1000 words.
Pics of John Kerry on Tour in Jordan and Iraq
Heres another:
I remember that pic well. Looked like the Marine was getting ready to draw his fist back at wimpy Kerry. Kerry just had a smirk on his face.
"By the way, did you know I served in Vietnam."
Boy, don't the service personnel in that pic looked thrilled.
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