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Goals of the OA Fund
The University Libraries, in collaboration with the Provost, have established a fund to finance payment of article processing fees for Boston College authors who wish to publish in open access journals. Open access monograph publishing by high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly presses will also be considered on a case-by-case basis. Open access funds demonstrate an institution's concrete support for new and innovative research publishing models. The fund is administered through the University Libraries.
Goals of the program
- Support for Boston College affiliated authors who wish to publish open access
- Support for transition to a more sustainable scholarly publishing model
- Greater equality of access to information
- Greater visibility and accessibility of Boston College scholarship
- Encouragement of authors to retain rights to their work
Fund for OA Publishing Fees
Funding for this program is provided by the Provost.
Author eligibility
All Boston College faculty, researchers and currently enrolled students are eligible to apply for funding.
Journal eligibility
Peer-reviewed articles published in fully open access journals and accessible immediately on publication are eligible.
The Directory of Open Access Journals and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association will be used to vet the journals' quality and open access credentials, as will articles in the academic press about predatory practices.
The journal must have a publicly available standard article fee schedule. A policy of waiving fees in case of economic hardship is desirable.
Journals that require a supplemental payment for open access on an article-by-article basis, often called "hybrid" open access journals, are not eligible.*
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Open access publishing funds are awarded on a first come, first served basis. Funds may be used for open access publishing and processing fees, including open access page charges. Funds may not be used for reprints, color illustration fees, non-OA page charges, permissions fees, web hosting for self-archiving, or other expenses not directly related to open access fees. The fund may be suspended if sufficient funding is not available.
- Authors may not submit open access articles accepted by publishers who institute embargo periods.
- Authors who have external funding which can be used for publishing fees are not eligible. If grant or departmental funds can be used to defray publishing fees, they must be used instead of the Open Access Publishing Funds.
- The funding limit for each author will be $3000 in a 12 month period.
- Authors may receive funding for no more than 3 articles in a 12 month period.
- Authors who receive OA funding must also deposit the article in eScholarship@BC.
- Submitted articles must be invoiced or published after December 1, 2013.
A small steering group manages the funding award process.The steering group includes members of the Libraries' Scholarly Communication Committee and at least one faculty member.
Requests for funding must be submitted online using the Boston College OA Fund application form. Requests should be submitted as soon as the article is accepted for publication. They will be reviewed on a regular basis by the steering group. Every effort will be made to provide a decision within ten business days.
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Reimbursement will be made to the author once the author has been invoiced for the submission fee. Authors must provide a copy of the publisher's invoice to the steering group. Once an author is notified that a request has been approved, the author must provide the original invoice and evidence of payment to Kathryn Simoni, Office of the Provost, Waul House, for reimbursement. Reimbursement cannot be made without submission of the original invoice. Please mark your request for reimbursement with the words "Open Access Fund".
The author must also provide a full bibliographic citation plus a copy of the funded article, either the author's final version or the published version, for deposit in eScholarship@BC.
Questions may be addressed to the steering group at any time.
Average article publishing charges
Lawson, Stuart (2015): Average APC price 2014. figshare.
*Why aren't hybrid journals eligible?
Hybrid journals require a supplemental payment for open access on an article-by-article basis. Authors may pay to have their own article openly available immediately. Many large journal publishing companies have instituted these fees, but have not reduced their traditional subscription fees. They are often accused of being paid twice to publish the same article. In addition, although these articles are available to read, they are not usually published under a license which allows reuse.
See Shieber SM (2009) Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing. PLoS Biol 7(8): e1000165. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000165
More about OA Funds
Compact for Open Access Publishing EquitySignatories who have agreed to establish OA Funds with information about their policies.
Open Access Funds in ActionThis chart shows models available at various institutions.
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Sarah Melton, Head, Digital Scholarship
Jane Morris, Head, Scholarly Communication and Research Services
John O'Connor, eScholarship Repository Librarian
Betsy Post, Head, Digital Library Programs
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U.S. Energy companies work to turn gas into liquid motor fuels
When Roy Lipski went to Houston last month to pitch his business at one of the world's largest meetings of energy executives, he went armed with photos of a little town in Butler County.
He's one in a growing group of businessmen trying to make Pennsylvania the lab for an experiment of global importance. The price difference between oil and gas has been at historic levels for nearly four years, pushing companies to chase a holy grail in the energy industry: A way to make money by turning cheap natural gas into expensive liquid motor fuels.
A few companies have made the technology work in other parts of the world, but it's never been profitable in the United States — despite being hyped every few decades. Lipski's company, Ohio-based Velocys Inc., is the latest to try and turn that corner, using a refinery in Karns City as the trailblazer.
Velocys has been working with the plant's owner, Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P., to install the technology in Karns City, with the hope that it could be the first step to widespread commercialization in the United States
"The market is absolutely huge," said Lipski, chief executive officer at Velocys, a subsidiary of Oxford Catalysts Group PLC in the United Kingdom. "The Calumet facility is kind of a dream project. ... They will pave the way for other people to follow. In that respect, they play a really important role."
Calumet turns crude oil into waxes and white oils, and then into personal care and pharmaceutical products. Velocys is planing to provide Calumet with technology to use gas instead of expensive crude oil. That same process can turn gas into liquid fuels, such as gasoline. It could be a commercial breakthrough that Lipski hopes to sell worldwide.
Entrepreneurs are racing toward the same goal across Pennsylvania and the nation. Last month, one group announced a $200 million project to turn methane into gasoline and propane south of Altoona. Businesses based in Allegheny County and Philadelphia are mulling gas-to-liquids projects, too. Sasol Ltd. could spend $14 billion to build a plant that makes diesel from shale gas delivered to the Gulf Coast.
The potential payoffs are big enough that the federal government has spent billions of dollars and decades researching the technology, largely in Department of Energy labs in the Pittsburgh area.
Business are now trying to export natural gas because it is so cheap and plentiful here. Converting gas to liquid fuels instead could cut costs for drivers and reduce the nation's dependence on foreign fuels. It could also benefit the environment by using gas that now gets burned as waste in the country's oil fields.
'Caution ... skepticism'
Energy mavens have been trying to make converting gas to liquid fuels profitable for decades, with only limited success. Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa successfully made synthetic fuels when they couldn't get access to the world's oil markets. Until recently, no one in the free world has been able to make a go of it and beat oil, despite renewed claims every few decades that it might finally be the time.
"My general reaction would be one of caution and healthy skepticism," said John Hanger, who heard several coal-to-liquids proposals when he led the Department of Environmental Protection under former Gov. Ed Rendell. To do this, "it's not enough to have momentary cheap gas. You have to have very cheap gas for a very long time to justify the risk of the capital needed."
The price of gas is the primary driver behind the trend. Shale formations such as the Marcellus have sent gas prices plummeting, while oil is still expensive. Oil cost 3.5 times as much as gas for the same amount of burning power when commodity markets closed on Friday. And while the United States has become one of the world's leading gas producers, it can barely use it in its second largest fuel sector, transportation, which depends on oil for 93 percent of its fuel, according to federal data.
The good news for gas-to-liquids boosters is that the gap between oil and gas prices is likely to last, said Russell Heinen, an energy and chemical consultant at IHS Inc. in Houston. His company and most market forecasters expect oil to be pricier than gas for about 10 years, he said. The technology also could be a breakthrough, with some new ventures claiming they need just four to five years to pay back investors, he added.
Next step not certain
Companies such as Velocys and Marcellus GTL LLC, the company planning to build near Altoona, are marketing small-scale technology. Velocys is trying to pre-build and install in remote places. With flexibility and capital costs as little as 1 percent of the $14 billion Sasol expects to spend on the gulf, it could make the technology affordable to more people in more places, experts said.
"They have what I consider a reasonable chance of success because the costs are so much smaller," said Dan Driscoll, who has spent more than 20 years researching coal and gas-to-liquids technology at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, W.Va. "I think it's incredibly exciting that they're going up in Pennsylvania, and it would be just great for the area to have the first operating facilities in the entire country."
Whether the plants go up isn't certain. Calumet, which has the project that seems farthest along, slowed down what had been a rapid development up until recent months, Lipski said.
Calumet officials are still optimistic the project will happen, but, after the first round of engineering, they decided to delay a final decision until late this year, said Jennifer Straumins, president and chief operating officer at Calumet's Indianapolis headquarters. The company is trying to prioritize other promising projects that have "a lot more certainty to them," she said.
"Once things are up and running and established, it builds up a momentum of its own. And until that point, things move more slowly and people are more cautious," Lipski said, adding that he wasn't concerned by Calumet's delay. "Probably the biggest barrier today is that people just don't know that this is possible."
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Yesterday was the first time my family and I have ever ate at a Sonic Drive-in. We don't have one local to where we live, but there is one upstate near where my father lives. Yesterday we happened to be in the area so we decided to stop at Sonic for lunch. I also wanted to try out their new freshly brewed green iced teas that I have heard about. I love green tea, and I also love iced tea, especially in the warmer weather months. I find it very refreshing.
Sonic Drive-in is an interesting concept. You pull your car into one of the parking spots and place your order via the little two-way intercom. You can even pay directly from the intercom which is a cool feature. Your food is then delivered by a Sonic employee right to your car (there are tables if you prefer not to eat in your car). We had two waitresses. One was on roller skates, the other one was not. I don't know how they can carry the food and beverages while on skates.
I ordered the Sweet Green Tea Ice Tea. They have a diet version but I didn't want to have a sugar substitute. Actually I would have preferred if they had an unsweetened version. I don't drink sweetened ice tea.
The Sweet Green Ice Tea tasted exactly like freshly brewed green tea. I have never had green tea that was cold before so this was a nice change. I usually only drink green tea hot.
Sonic's Chef Claes Petersson did a behind-the-scenes video where he shares with viewers more about Sonic's new sweet and green iced teas and well as how well the flavors work together. He even offers tips on how you can re-create your favorite flavor combination at home. Sonic offers consumers a tasty variety of flavors you could add into your green tea ice tea. I opted to have it "plain" since I am already a fan of green tea.
Mmmm….after watching the video I could go for another tall cold glass of green tea ice tea!
While we were there we couldn't help but pick up some of their delicious desserts after our lunch. I opted for a Coke Float. It was so good! I ordered a small and it was huge! Next time I'll order the mini version. My husband ordered a medium Sonic Blast and it was huge too.
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Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:40 PM
babylonsister (154,355 posts)
Obama's Second Chance
Obama's Second Chance
By Joe Klein Monday, Jan. 21, 2013
We have a new year and, apparently, a new Barack Obama. This year's model doesn't mess around. He is tough, resolute, unbending. He forces the Republicans to raise taxes for the first time in 22 years. He says he won't negotiate with the Republicans over their next manufactured crisis, the debt ceiling. He nominates former Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, despite the objections of noisy neoconservatives and the quietly powerful Israel lobby. He seems ready to make aggressive proposals on immigration and gun control.
These are all positive steps. The President has decided that he is, for the moment, in a position of power and, unlike his first-term negotiating style, seems ready to bulldoze his hapless opponents. This has given rise to a fair amount of wailing and teeth-gnashing among Republicans, who've suddenly recognized that they're on the wrong side of demography--but don't seem to realize yet that the public is entirely sick of gimmicks like the debt-ceiling apocalypse. In this, they match the inept Democrats of the 1980s, who were convinced that the election of Ronald Reagan presaged the onset of American fascism. I'll never forget Congressman Dick Gephardt's response to Reagan's "Morning in America" campaign theme: "It's ... midnight and it's getting darker all the time."
It's never midnight in America, but there is too much black humor passing for public policy these days. The darkness was neon in the farcical but sort of serious suggestion, supported by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, among others, that the President mint a $1 trillion platinum coin and place it in the Treasury, thus eliminating the need to raise the debt ceiling. Krugman said this was "silly but benign," as opposed to the Republicans' silly but noxious efforts to hold the nation's economy hostage by raising the prospect of a U.S. default on outstanding loans. The operative word was silly.
And here I must say a few words about the Democrats. Unlike the Republicans, they live in a recognizable version of America. They do not deny climate change, or evolution, or see urban areas as a foreign country; over the past 30 years, they've been far better at fiscal discipline than Republicans have. But there is a smugness and lassitude to the party right now, an absence of creative new policy thinking, a tendency to defend corroded industrial-age welfare and entitlement programs. They even blocked a modest money-saving change in Social Security's cost-of-living index. And this is where the real challenge of Obama's second term will lie.
But more is needed than that. What we really need right now is the exact opposite of the flagrantly witless conversation we've been having. We need a real plan to renovate the creaky welfare, regulatory, revenue and infrastructure components of our government. This does not simply mean a green-eyeshade look at how best to cut entitlements. It means a substantive move to make health care better, as well as less expensive. It means a renewed discussion of citizenship--whether people who get benefits, like food stamps or Pell Grants, from the government owe us some community service in return. It means a revised tax code with lower rates, fewer loopholes and higher taxes on polluters.
Action on any of these issues is unlikely, but the conversation needs to start--and I'm hoping for a return of the early, visionary Obama to get it going in his second Inaugural Address.
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:11 PM
patrice (47,992 posts)
1. I wish I could Rec this a thousand times!
"witless" because the conversation is dominated by whoever wants to throw their weight around, the most-common-denominator from whatever part of the political spectrum, who, no doubt, have a right to a voice of their own and their own position in the course of things, but it IS time to say that corporate personhood has, intentionally or otherwise raised extortion to a new art form, and I don't see anything on the horizon, or elsewhere, to establish a reasonable balance, so that conspiracy theories about BO and for-profit "health" "care" are not equated with the human rights of starving infants in Africa.
One hopes that the Democratic party will meet these challenges, because the issues need something (unlike 3rd-whatevers) that has that kind of demographic potential, i.e. numbers. Labor comes to mind, but one would also have to be a goose not to recognize how acutely Labor is pulled from all political/economic directions, by workers' understandable individual needs to pay the bills, so divining their byzantine internal processes may be too much to bank the hopes of an entire nation on.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:28 PM
limpyhobbler (8,244 posts)
2. This is third-way nonsense telling us we need to cut Social Security.
Sounds like a Republican disguised as a Democrat to me.
They even blocked a modest money-saving change in Social Security's cost-of-living index. And this is where the real challenge of Obama's second term will lie.This jerk thinks we should have applauded while they were trying to cut Social Security. It's sad to see this kind of right-wing propaganda being peddled on supposedly liberal website.
This is about how Obama needs to stand up to the liberals and the left and form alliances with right-wing losers like Tom Corburn.
Joe Klein can go jump in a lake.
Response to limpyhobbler (Reply #2)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 07:51 PM
Myrina (12,296 posts)
3. +100
Thank you.
Response to limpyhobbler (Reply #2)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:14 AM
LukeFL (594 posts)
9. Yup. I completely agree with uou
Just like the way he caved in on the 400k tax increased and ss increased on us, the working class which is in reality? A chunk of our money. :/
Response to LukeFL (Reply #9)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:27 AM
limpyhobbler (8,244 posts)
10. Joe Klein supported George Bush's plan to privatize social security.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:34 PM
Hekate (44,112 posts)
4. KnR Democrats have to step up to the plate as well
This is not "third way" policy at all, but an observation about how things are and how we might move forward and actually progress.
Response to Hekate (Reply #4)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 10:16 PM
limpyhobbler (8,244 posts)
5. So cutting Social Security benefits is "actually progress" ?
and that's just the way things are.
Response to limpyhobbler (Reply #5)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 10:21 PM
Hekate (44,112 posts)
6. Did Klein say to cut the benefits?
But there is a smugness and lassitude to the party right now, an absence of creative new policy thinking, a tendency to defend corroded industrial-age welfare and entitlement programs. They even blocked a modest money-saving change in Social Security's cost-of-living index. And this is where the real challenge of Obama's second term will lie.
Does that say "cut the benefits" or is that just your interpretation of same?
And btw Obama has had 4 years now to cut or gut entitlements and has (apparently bewilderingly) failed to do so. When will he do it?
Response to Hekate (Reply #6)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:05 PM
limpyhobbler (8,244 posts)
7. He said we were so smug because we fought to block Social Security cuts.
He said Democrats are smug because we are defending welfare and entitlements and we even dared to block what he calls "modest" cuts. "Modest" to Joe Klein I'm sure. He's not counting on Social Security because I'm sure he's not planning on a retirement hovering just over the poverty line.
How dare we defy what the serious people are telling us needs to happen with our vital social programs? After all they're the adults. We're just bottom-feeding leeches who don't understand how government really works.
When will he do it?good question.
Response to limpyhobbler (Reply #7)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:01 AM
Kingwithnothrone (51 posts)
8. Klein is a tool
Well said.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:41 AM
TwilightGardener (46,416 posts)
11. Meh, Klein lost me at Coburn. Nothing good ever comes out of that man's mouth.
Ever. And he's blaming Obama for not staying friends with one of the Senate's chief obstructors?
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 08:43 AM
davidpdx (22,000 posts)
12. This sounds like some of the stuff I read on Facebook after the election
The person who was a long time friend (20 years) said that Obama needed to use his second term to redeem himself (or something like that). After weeks of some nasty fights I kicked her off my friends list.


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Not farming isn't farming. That is one way to look at Friday's decision by the Eighth Circuit in Morehouse that Conservation Reserve Program payments to non-farmers are not self-employment income. Overturning a Tax Court decision, a split three-judge panel rejected the IRS assessment of self-employment tax on landowners who enrolled in the CRP when they were not engaged in the trade or business of farming. The appeals panel said the CRP payments to hold erodable land out of production are instead rental payments with respect to non-farmers; real estate rental income is not subject to self-employment tax.
Roger McEowen, who worked on the case from the taxpayer's side, has a detailed analysis of the case and its history. He summarizes the state of CRP law:
Now, the Eighth Circuit's reversal of the Tax Court means that non-farmers do not have to pay self-employment tax on CRP payments. That's the case at least within the Eighth Circuit. Active Farmers still have to pay on CRP payments unless the 2008 Farm Bill provision applies to them. But, non-farmers and non-materially participating farm landlords are given relief within the Eighth Circuit. For CRP rents paid after 2007, the question is whether the recipient is a materially-participating farmer.
The "2008 Farm Bill provision" holds that CRP payments are not self-employment income for recipients receiving Social Security payments.
In Iowa, taxpayers might want to think twice before taking their CRP payments out of self-employment income. Iowa has a special exclusion of capital gain income for taxpayers who have held land for ten years and who have also "materially participated" in a business with the land for ten years. The Iowa Department or Revenue in a recently-released decision said that it would consider a taxpayer to be "materially participating" in CRP ground if self-employment tax were paid. Given how much appreciation there has been on farm ground in recent years, paying a little self-employment tax might be worth it to avoid Iowa tax on a big farm sale gain.
Cite: Morehouse, CA-8, No. 13-3110.
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Making crashes more likely, for your safety. The Chicago Tribune reports that Chicago shortened yellow light times to increase red-light camera revenues. As Brian Gongol notes, this demolishes the argument that the cameras are for safety, rather than revenue: "It's quite simple: If you want to cut down on red-light running and consequent crashes, you lengthen yellow lights and increase the gap between the red in one direction and the onset of green in the other."
Our local politicians never seemed very concerned about dangerous intersections until they found a way to make money off of them. Nor did they experiment with non-revenue safety options, like longer yellow cycles and a delay between the red one way and the green light the other, before turning on the revenue cameras.
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It is almost October 15th. October 15 is the extended due date of your federal individual tax return. If, like me, you still have not filed it and you are planning, unlike me, to paper file, use certified mail and save the return card when it comes back – especially if you owe money.
I e-file, myself, but if you are filing to claim a refund on a 2010 extended return, paper filing may be your only option — and then you absolutely should go certified mail, return receipt requested.
If you are an American abroad, Phil Hodgen explains how to obtain an Income Tax Return Extension Until December 15, 2014
TaxGrrrl, Trying To Reach IRS? Hold On Until Tuesday. Columbus Day, plus they shut down their computers for the weekend.
Tony Nitti, A Tale Of Two Activities: How To Beat The Hobby Loss Rules
Jack Townsend, Bitcoins Update
Jason Dinesen, Glossary: Filing Status
TaxProf, The IRS Scandal, Day 522
William McBride, EPI Perpetuates Myth of Low Corporate Taxes. (Tax Policy Blog). A lesson on the dangers of ignoring the ascendance of pass-through entities.
Daniel Shaviro, Frontiers of quasi-tax fraud. "Because (a) partnership tax rules are so complex that only a handful of people really understand them – perhaps a thousand across the entire country? – and (b) people at the IRS generally don't understand them, and (c) the audit rate for partnership tax returns is below 1%, compliance with partnership tax rules that are meant to block abusive tax planning that contradicts the actual tenor of the rules has pretty much completely collapsed."
Renu Zaretsky, Cheap Talk, Scoring, and Promises, No, it's not another night at the singles bar; today's TaxVox headline roundup covers developments in the medical device tax repeal effort, loophole closers, and talk (just talk) of tax reform.
Sebastian Johnson, State Rundown 10/10: Lottery Bust, Music Credits on the Table (Tax Justice Blog). New York considers expanding corporate welfare to record companies, of all things.
Unlike the politicians, they at least give you what you pay for. A summary of tax cases involving prostitutes in the wake of the Cartagena Hooker scandal from Robert Wood.
News from the Profession. Which Accounting Firm Fired an Employee for His Dispute with Comcast? A: PwC (Caleb Newquist, Going Concern). And they fired me when I didn't even have cable.


text: I would like to have it go on record that there was no point at which 5mof had their act together. Please do not disseminate such heinous misinformation. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sorry, but I can't spend the time finagling and de-finagling a > webcasting solution every week. My bag's already full of stuff as it is when > I bike to class, and I already spend 15 minutes getting tables set up and 30 > minutes doing a recap for people who missed previous classes. > > If you'd like to get this done or rally the support of others to get this > done, I and many others in the community would certainly be grateful. But as > it stands, I'm already doing quite a lot and don't feel like doing anymore. > Saying someone "should" do something is not how a do-ocracy works. > > Jeffrey > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Dan Holliman <dan.holliman at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> there must be some way of broadcasting the class, or at least saving it >> for later... >> sort of like how 5mof used to, when they had their act together. >> >> I'd like to help with this, but currently I only have 1 extra laptop, and >> I don't have a video camera. >> >> I don't know how the 5mof folks used to stream reliably. >> >> actually they DONT stream it reliably these days. >> >> We are all nerds, we should be able to figure it out. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Noisebridge-discuss mailing list > Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss >


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A few days afterwards Jaffery went off to sail a small boat with another lunatic in the Hebrides.
Not a better seaboat could be found between the mainland and the Hebrides.
Then how came it that the father and son were lost in the yacht off the Hebrides?
The whole of the Tour to the Hebrides is incorporated with the Life.
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The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore this landmark "concept" show that inaugurated the modern era of musical theatre. In search of happiness Robert breezes through encounters with April (the stewardess), Kathy (the girl who's going to marry someone else), Marta (the "peculiar" one). In vignette after hilarious vignette, we also meet "those good and crazy people," his married friends. On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state weighing the pros and cons of married life. In the end, he realizes "alone is not alive."
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Brooklyn based SVA grad Ran Hwang makes these huge, flowing sculptures with nothing but beads and pins! The uplifting, spiritual elements involved here work really well with the light, dispersed beads. You can almost see the birds' wings flapping, and everything seems sort of frozen in time at some climactic, freeing moment. Obviously the Zen influence is deliberate. From the artist's website: "The process of building large installations are time consuming and repetitive and it requires manual effort which provides a form of self-meditation. I hammer thousands of pins into a wall like a monk who, facing the wall, practices Zen." I guess patience does pay off. (via)
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Related to my interest in finding physical books, as you might guess, is finding electronic ones. And in this area there are several things to consider: organizational practices, user understandings, and usability.
Organizational Practices
How do we think of electronic books? Where are they located in our systems? Do we put them in the catalog so that there is one interface that easily searches all monographs? Do we leave them out and the catalog only represents the physical collection? Do we put them in the eresources area? Do users know it's eresources or do they assume eresources are all journals? We, of course, have to make decisions based on the limitations of resources available to us, so how do we include usability and user expectations in the process? How do we think about marketing and communication in light of these decisions?
For example, in another ebook issue, as we embrace extremely logical Demand Driven Acquisitions approaches to book buying, something that only really makes sense in an electronic medium, what happens to users' perceptions of books? One department I worked with in the past was genuinely upset about DDA without knowing DDA was the root of their concern. They told me that our collections had gotten worse and they didn't know why. They shared that in the past they were able to look up books in the catalog and then stroll over to the library to pick them up. But once we started using DDA they only found ebook records. They didn't know what DDA was, and I hadn't known enough about their research processes to know how they would interpret DDA in the corse of their scholarly work. From their point of view, the library all of a sudden had hundreds of ebooks (that we would have never purchased in print due to limited resources). We had many more books to wade through and they had the impression we had fewer paper ones. The collection felt worse to them even though they actually had access to far more information. And that was not on the department. That was on the library. (Specifically, that's on the communication process, which is hugely systemic. It's part knowing what research looks like in different disciplines, knowing specific faculty members' approaches, the mass communication to campus, the individualized liaison approach, etc. We solved this with several individual meetings as well as a departmental meeting with the liaison–yours truly.)
User Understanding
Which leads, cleanly, into what our users understand. The following all color your understanding of the role of ebooks, why the library has them, and how you go about finding them:
- Disciplinary differences in reading
- Disciplinary differences in the need to know the most current research
- The varying platforms ebooks are published in (from the reader friendly Kindle/Nook/iBook formats to the more research focused EBL/ebrary variety)
- Author/publisher processes for determining if something is offered electronically and on what platform
- The owning vs. leasing arrangements that are necessitated in an e-enviornment (rather than the clear cut owning in a physical one)
- The increase of knowledge production that is not matched by an increase in materials budgets (which is related to the DDA discussion)
- The costs of keeping books on the shelf that might never have circulated (and the speculative nature of building a physical collection)
- The varying user expectations that we're attempting to balance, from print only to electronic only preferences
- That ebooks are in fact books, but they are also electronic resources, and different libraries in different communities might have different approaches for how to make them findable
- That serendipity is a beloved experience by many library users (and librarians!) so though ebooks don't fit on the shelves with our physical ones, libraries are still working on enabling this type of serendipity
I think a good place to start when thinking about usability is what is it that we know users want to do that we can examine. Another nice place to start is what do users want to do that we don't know about–but that's really more something to tease out in conversations rather than a usability study.
With ebooks, I break it down by campus users (since our community beyond the userID will have to come to campus to be able to use these resources). So I think in terns of (a) researcher/faculty member and (b) assignment/student.
A researcher (hopefully!) starts out understanding the difference between a book and an article. They have a sense of what they can expect in a book, and therefore know that a book is what they're looking for. So a usability study could include questions about how they would find a book on a given topic, how they would find all the books the library provides on a given subject, and can they find a specific book that exists only in an eformat. Researchers, at least in 2013, have the experience of using physical analogs for the electronic options available to them today, which contextualizes their thinking for the electronic media they come across in the research process. It also creates a structure in which they expect ebooks and e-articles to act like the physical media they shaped their understanding of research around.
Someone working on an assignment will not necessarily understand that a book is different than an article, or if they do grasp that, it's often unlikely (with undergraduate students) that they can articulate what makes a chapter in a book different from an article. Already, for these users, format can be a confusing aspect of the search. Why would you specifically be looking for a book (or article)? What does it matter if it's print or electronic? What's the difference between (whatever you call your) catalog and (whatever you call your) discovery service? Why would you chose one over the other? If I were doing a usability study with students today, I'm certain I would either focus on the core tasks we know are being requested in classes or on specific new services I wanted to be sure our students would know. ebooks may or may not be part of that. But if I wanted to focus on ebooks, I'd probably start with an informational interview teasing out some of the questions above, and then seeing if they could identify known items (as in, the bibliography a professor gives them) and if they know what to do when they come across a record for an electronic book. That's a low bar, but extremely useful to understand.
So back to the matter at hand: contrasted with the epistemological structures that enable (or disable) finding physical books, finding ebooks is partially rooted in the organization of material by the library, but is also rooted in a user's understanding of ebooks vs. books as well as the usability of the interfaces we provide. Also worthy of exploration, but a big bigger and more unwieldy of a topic. Whereas the limits and benefits of a linear classification system might be able to be explored primarily with epistemological texts (and supplemented by user studies), clearly ebook require a lot more research with individuals, and the research would need to be duplicated at different libraries as systems are often custom designed for each community.
And all that is found within this post might be moot depending on the next research agenda post… which should be up in about a week.


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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: [WRY] Re: 1881 Census
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:23:08 +0000
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"A.A. Watkinson" <> wrote.....
> I have just acquired the above Census CD's, and am puzzled that I cannot
> find members of a certain family who are listed in both the 1871 Census and
> the 1891 Census. It is very highly unlikely that they had gone abroad on
> that date. I cannot find them anywhere in the UK. One name is Gulielma so
> should stick out like a sore thumb, but No, it isn't there. Is this unusual,
> or are there many families who were not recorded (for that is the only
> reason I can think of the account for the missing entry)?>
THE 1881 census CDs, marvellous and bargain resource that they are,
are riddled with errors of transcription. As someone else observed,
the resulting data is about 4th hand. You have to search in a lateral
way, trying every possible variant and corruption of the surname you
can think of. Even then it may have got so corrupted it may be pure
luck if you ever find it! Here is something you could try, though
it's a real long shot.....
1) Insert any 1881 disc into the CD-Drive but do NOT open up the
Family History Resource File Viewer (as you would to search in the
normal way).
2) Instead, click on your CD-Drive icon and look at the directories
that appear. You will see a folder called Bi1881. Open this up and
you will see another folder called STANDARD.
3) Open this folder and you will see a very large file (17.6MB)
called 1881bc. This is a Microsoft Access database file and loads
into the Access program (if you have it). It contains a table of
many, many thousands of unique surnames and variants - ALL the
surnames, in fact, found on the discs.
4) Trawl through the table, looking for possibilities that your
surname might have got corrupted to.
It's very long-winded and time-consuming, but who knows - you might
just get lucky! I don't think the existence of this surnames database
within the 1881 discs is very widely known.
Might just be worth a try.
Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies)
SoG Executive & Director of Projects, FFHS
Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith
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Damien's boys basketball team has mastered the art of reaching the semifinals, but history's not on its side beyond that.
For the fourth time in five years, second-seeded Damien (23-6) is a game away from playing for its first championship in school history, heading to Orange County tonight to take on third-seeded Corona del Mar (21-9) in the Division 3AA semifinals at 7.
Glendora's legendary coach Mike LeDuc could never get over the semifinal hump when he was coach at Damien in the 1980s, advancing to the semifinals in 1980 and '85. So current Spartans coach Matt Dunn is obviously hoping the school's sixth trip is the one that finally punches the ticket.
"First, it's exciting to have the opportunity to play in the semifinals, that's a major thing to have that opportunity again, I don't care how many times you go, it's always special," Dunn said. "We would love to take the next step, but it takes some luck, too. At this point, everyone is good."
Both teams steamrolled into the semis.
Corona del Mar crushed Rancho Alamitos (84-41), Hoover (55-32) and San Marcos (83-62), while Damien took care of Los Amigos (74-28), Wilson (60-45) and Temescal Canyon (62-32).
The Sea Kings boast two dynamite scorers, 6-foot-3 senior guard Max Stone, averaging 18 points, and 6-foot-3 wing Blake Grable, averaging 14 points a game.
But Damien counters with a formidable tandem, too, with super sophomore point guard Jeremy Hemsley, averaging 18.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists and senior shooter Jared Dizon, averaging 14 points.
"The thing that stands out about them (the Sea Kings) is they do a lot of different things well," Dunn said. "They bring it offensively and defensively, so ultimately it comes down to your experiences all year and how you do that night. I'm kind of excited to find out what's going to happen."
And he knows he can count on Hemsley and Dizon to not only produce, but produce for others.
"They're the reason other guys score," Dunn said. "They set screens and get guys open shots. And fortunately for us, the rest of the guys have bought into their roles and have defended well in the playoffs.
"But Corona del Mar is by far the biggest challenge for us in the postseason. We'll see what happens."
No. 2 Redondo Union (20-8) at No. 10 Glendora (19-10), 7 p.m.
The Tartans are back in familiar territory, making their 22nd quarterfinal appearance and hoping to reach their 16th semifinal and first since 2009.
And while this team shouldn't be compared to the great LeDuc teams of the past, it could go down as one of the school's greatest 3-point shooting teams.
Glendora has taken a school-record 742 3-pointers (averaging 26 a game) and has made 244, leaving the Tartans seven shy of the school record of 251 3-pointers set in 1996, a team that boasted Casey Jacobsen and Josh Giles.
That's an incredible stat considering the history of great shooters at Glendora, but the Tartans let it fly, and when the shots are falling, they have a chance to beat anyone.
In Glendora's 55-49 second-round victory over Dominguez, A.J. Bigornia scored 30 points on six 3-pointers.
"We have to make shots, everybody knows that," LeDuc said. "Ideally, we would love to have great balance, get points inside, outside and points off boards. But one of our greatest strengths is making jump shots."
Glendora's tough games in the Baseline League prepared the Tartans well for the playoffs, but the Bay League champion Sea Hawks are a tall order.
Redondo Union brings a 13-game winning streak after disposing of Godinez 56-29 in the second round, and features two players averaging double figures in scoring. Junior point guard Ian Fox is averaging 15.2 points per game and senior guard Derek Biale is scoring at a 12.9 clip.
"They're really a fine team," LeDuc said of Redondo. "Their schedule has been very difficult and the only teams they lost to were very good teams."
One thing Glendora always has done well, however, is win at home. The Tartans have an all-time 30-2 home playoff record.
"All those records don't mean anything if you don't get stops and make shots," LeDuc said.
No. 5 La Verne Lutheran (24-6) at No. 1 Bishop Montgomery (29-0),
7 p.m.
The Trojans, back in business after stunning Windward in the quarterfinals 73-68, are led by four players scoring in double figures - Joseph Rushing (15 points), Jay Miller (13.1) and McKay Anderson and Skyler Williams, averaging 11 each.
But tonight's test is brutal as they take on undefeated Bishop Montgomery, which is ranked third in the state by MaxPreps and No. 16 in the nation.


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Methods for estimating peak discharges of rural, unregulated streams in Virginia
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Essar Centre (map it)
269 Queen St E
Sault Ste Marie, ON P6A 1Y9
Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds website
Year Opened: 2006
Capacity: 5,000
There are no tickets available at this time.
At basically the meeting place of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior, lies the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The pride and joy of the Sault is its OHL team, the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.
Being a Northern Ontario team, the Greyhounds have some challenges that other teams don't have. Often hockey parents are not overly enthused with sending their 16 year old sons so far away from home. Possibly the most famous example of this occurred when the parents of Eric Lindros would not send him to the Greyhounds, and eventually he was traded to the Oshawa Generals. Parents now use opportunities in the NCAA to put pressure on OHL teams to send their sons to the teams of their choosing. The Greyhounds have continued to use the same response, as well they should: The Greyhounds were good enough for the greatest player ever - The Great One. The 1977 edition of the Greyhounds featured a skinny kid from Brantford, Ontario who would star for the team, and later go on to be the greatest player ever to pick up a hockey stick, Wayne Gretzky.
The Greyhounds are one of those cornerstone franchises that seem to have been in the league forever. Founded in the OHA in 1972, the Hounds would be a model of how a team could be successful in a Northern Ontario city. They have made 4 appearances in the Memorial Cup, and those trips are represented on their uniforms with the 4 stars. The ultimate prize came for the Hounds in 1993 when they defeated the Peterborough Petes to become Memorial Cup Champions.
Since 2006 the Hounds have called the Essar Centre home. Owned by the City of Sault Ste. Marie, and selling the naming rights to Essar Steel Algoma, the Essar Centre is one of the truly excellent facilities in the OHL. The Essar Centre replaced the Sault Memorial Gardens, and is close to the original spot, with the Memorial Tower still there to this day.
The Hounds are currently owned by a local ownership group led by Dr. George Shunock and Dr. Lou Lukenda, but the Greyhounds name dates back to around the First World War. The Soo hockey team was unnamed, and rather than offer the chance to name the team to the public, Coach George MacNamera requested that the team be named Greyhounds because "a Greyhound is much faster than a wolf." Clearly this was a shot at what would be the Greyhounds chief rival, the Sudbury Wolves.
The FANFARE scale is our metric device for rating each stadium experience. It covers the following:
Each area is rated from 0 to 5 stars with 5 being the best. The overall composite score is the "FANFARE Score".
You will find the concession stands in the four corners of the building. The concessions are what you would expect to find at an OHL rink with a couple of exceptions. Soda products are Pepsi products and Coors Light is the beer that is available. The basics are available at all concession stands including hot dogs, popcorn, pretzels, pizza, fries and onion rings. Some options that are a little different include donuts and stuffed pretzels. Give the Southwest poppers a try. They are pretty good. The prices are average and won't kill the pocketbook.
Being a newer arena, the fear of losing the history of the Sault Gardens is a real concern. The Greyhounds management has done a great job of balancing that new, clean, revenue-generating image of the new building, with some history and unique factors from the old days. Outside, the Memorial Tower, the last piece left over from the Sault Memorial Gardens, is a tip of the cap to Soo hockey history, and gives the Essar Centre a unique feature that other buildings do not have. The exterior of the Essar Centre is very appealing with lots of brick and glass.
Inside the building, the Greyhounds have done a wonderful job with the decor. It is simple, but strong. The arena is bright and inviting, the first departure from an older, darker arena.
The seating bowl at the Essar Centre is a simple one level bowl, with the concourse behind, similar to the Sleeman Centre in Guelph or the RBC Centre in Sarnia. On one side of the arena, the Greyhounds display their 12 banners commemorating division and league championships including their 3 J.Ross Robertson Cup banners as OHL Champions. On the end to the left the Greyhounds display the banners of their 5 retired numbers. These include John Vanbiesbrouck, Adam Foote, Craig Hartsburg, Ron Francis, and the aforementioned Wayne Gretzky. In the centre of these banners is the 1993 Memorial Cup Championship banner as the best team in the entire Canadian Hockey League. All of the banners are new, and although they don't have that historical feel to them, they are all crisp and clean and easy to read.
On the opposite end of the arena, there is some absolutely stunning local art. Above the seating bowl, where the Canadian and American flags hang, is a combination wooden and stained glass mural which displays some of the history of the Sault, and the city's relations with Aboriginal Canadians. This is definitely unique to any arena, and really beautiful.
The game production is not complicated, but it is effective. The Hounds skate out of a giant inflated dog, as do many other teams. The music is a combination of classic organ and modern/classic arena music. The Hounds mascot, Dash, entertains the crowd and captures the attention of the children. The sound system is clear, and the PA announcer is good. During the intermission, the local minor hockey teams play, but at this game, all 26 kids hit the ice at the same time. Definitely an entertaining spectacle.
The Essar Centre is located basically a block from the waterfront, and across Bay Street from the Station Mall. There are a number of options for food or drink before or after the game. It is important to remember that it is very cold in the Sault during the winter months and you don't want to stray too far from your car during an evening game.
Some options in the immediate area include the Bay Front Bistro, and the Breakaway Bar and Grill. There are a ton of hotels that surround the arena as well, which may be your best bet for a place to stay. If you are coming from the other side of town, a stop at North 82 Steakhouse would be a great choice for a place to eat. If you are crossing the bridge into Michigan, then the Antlers Restaurant is a unique place to visit, and a taxidermist's dream come true.
The Greyhounds are routinely in the top 5 in attendance in the OHL. It would be fair to say that they are at the top of the second tier in attendance, behind London, Ottawa, Kitchener, and Windsor, all with much bigger buildings. The Hounds routinely average over 4,000 fans per game, and are one of the cornerstone franchises of the league. The fans in the Sault are not overly loud or boisterous, but they are definitely intense! The focus is always on the game.
The Essar Centre is located between Queen and Bay Streets, not far from the waterfront, and the bridge to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It's not hard to get to, but it is not exceedingly close to the Trans-Canada Highway. There is a decent sized parking lot on site, which is free, but fills up quickly. Many local patrons park at the Station Mall for game night, which also avoids parking charges. Inside, the concourses are decent size, and the bathroom facilities are good as well.
Tickets for the Hounds will range between $11 and $17, depending on your age. Combine this with decent concession prices and free parking, and you have a fantastic night's entertainment in the frigid north.
An extra mark for former Greyhounds coach Muzz MacPherson and his place in hockey history. It was Coach MacPherson that convinced a young Wayne Gretzky that two nines were better than one when Wayne could not get his traditional number 9. It was with the Greyhounds, that Gretzky's now iconic number 99 was born.
An extra mark for the Dog-Fight rivalry that the Greyhounds have with the neighbouring Sudbury Wolves. If you have to choose one night to go see the Greyhounds, then look for a date that the Wolves are in town.
An extra mark for the fantastic local art that hangs in the Essar Centre.
If you happen to be in Sault Ste. Marie during the winter months, a trip to see the Greyhounds is an absolute must. A mixture of local flair, history, and a bright new arena are the recipe for this successful hockey franchise. If you have any doubts, remember that the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds were good enough for the Great One ... and they're good enough for you!
Artwork in the seating bowl
As a matter of fact, the wooden and stained glass mural in the seating bowl was brought over from the old Sault Memorial Gardens. IMO a great nod to the city's hockey history as well as those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
by NickKotarski | Nov 27, 2013 10:46 PM
My favorite OHL arena hands down
I have been to the Essar Centre probably 11 or 12 times since it opened and,even though the arena is now only eight years old,it manages to capture the history of the team and the old Sault Memorial Gardens well..The arena makes it worth the 11 hour drive to Northern Ontario for me
by PenFan3332 | Feb 26, 2014 12:32 AM
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2008's Most Awkward Celebrity Moments
This year was filled with celeb moments that made the public squirm. If you thought you had an awkward 2008, think back a moment….
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The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Paramount Bancorp, Inc., a registered bank holding company, Paramount Bank, a state chartered member bank, both of Farmington Hills, Michigan, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation.
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The DHXT is designed to operate in water depths up to 10,000 feet and at pressures up to 15,000 psi. The streamlined design reduces standard industry horizontal tree footprint by 12% (to 4.5M x 4.4M) and weight by 10% (to 43.7 tonnes), delivering significant installation, maintenance and cost benefits for operators.
The D-Series package includes the integral VetcoGray ModPod, a subsea control module that is powered by SemStar5, representing a new generation of ultra-reliable, open architecture subsea control and instrumentation systems.
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As with the new VetcoGray SVXT S-series subsea tree (for shallow-waters) that GE launched at Offshore Europe 2009, the new VetcoGray DHXT is a flexible solution, and design-engineered as the result of continuous consultation and input from both major and independent oil companies. This approach delivers improved functionality and flexibility by incorporating common project requirements to meet a wide range of customer standards.
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The VetcoGray SemStar5 is being developed and manufactured at GE Oil & Gas facilities in Nailsea, U.K. along with VetcoGray ModPod subsea control modules, and will be shipped to the project site in Norway for installation offshore shortly. The VetcoGray SemStar5 was awarded a Spotlight on New Technology Award at last years Offshore Technology Conference.
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