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In today's date a great percentage of business in IT service and solution industry comes from cloud computing. Windows Azure is one of the major platforms in the field of Cloud Computing provided by Microsoft Technologies.This article does not describe the migration or development process to azure, rather it depicts some issues that one can face during development/migration phase on Azure platform.Purpose of this document is to highlight some very basic key points which can be very useful in order to trouble shoot issues in Windows Azure environment.
Key Points to remember
1. Project type for Windows Azure Web Role should be WEB Application
To migrate a web based project azure cloud service should contain a web role. For web roles, web project should be of web application type. Web roles do not support website projects. In case we need to move an existing website to windows azure it has to be modified to a web application before migrating to cloud platform.
2. Unable to load assemblies on runtime.
Very often after deployment on cloud, application may throw an error stating unable to load assembly on runtime. It can be resolved in the following ways
Process 1:-Mark the Copy local property to true for the required assembly.It will place the dll in bin folder hence on runtime application loads the dll from bin folder. But in case if app domain change this process will fail again. To avoid this we need to register the dll in server GAC [Process 2].
Process 2:-Register the DLL in to GAC.
- Add the GACUtil.exe to the web role project and set the Copy Always value for Copy to Output Directory property.
- Create a cmd file containing the following commands
gacutil /nologo /i .\<AssemlyName>.dll
exit /b 0
Set the Copy Always value for Copy to Output Directory property.
- Add the following configuration in ServiceDefinition.csdef file
<Task commandLine="<cmdfilenmae.cmd>" taskType="simple" executionContext="elevated"></Task>
3. Classic ASP application Migration.
Classic ASP application can be moved to azure without upgrading.
Following process can be followed for the same
- Create an empty web role project.
- Add all the exising files along with folder structure from existing asp project under the web role project.
- Create a cmd file with the following commands
start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-ASP
regasm.exe /tlb /codebase IdentityCheck.dll
gacutil.exe /i IdentityCheck.dll
echo %errorlevel%
Add this cmd file to the web role project and Set the Copy Always value for Copy to Output Directory property. Add the following configuration in ServiceDefinition.csdef file
<Task commandLine="<cmdfilenmae.cmd>" taskType="simple" executionContext="elevated"></Task>
Note: In case of simple application we can follow the above procedure for complex application it is advisable to re factor the application in .net framework 3.5/4.0 before migration.
4. Process of dealing with cloud server drives/folder/files requires to use azure Temp Storage
Apart from the "Development Storage" and "SQL Azure", there is something called "local storage" which is provided for every web / worker role. This is just a temporary file storage which can be mostly used for caching on temporary value storage. They can also be set to be cleaned when there is recycle on role. This can be done by adding below line of code in ServiceDefinition.csdef file of cloud project
<LocalStorage name="TempStorage" cleanOnRoleRecycle="true" sizeInMB="3" />
Name is the Folder/Storage name where the files will be saved. Also remember that if there is a VM crash, the files won't be recovered and these files cannot be shared across instances if you running a multiple instances and therefore your code should accommodate considering the fact.
5. Azure service cannot be named with Global word
6. Azure Storage account/Blob name should be in lower case
In case Azure storage account/Blob name contains any character in upper case during storage creation one will face the following issue. In order to resolve this while dealing with Azure storage naming convention should be followed with lower casing.
Note: In case if we try to access an already created storage with Uppercase it will not throw any exception. It will be able to access.
7. In Azure storage table column name should not be same as table name
In azure storage table if we have a column named after the parent table we will encounter the following exception on runtime.
It does not state much detail about the exception thrown, but it has been observed if we rename the column other than the containing table name this issue resolved.
8. Set Configuration Publisher should be called in Global.asax on Application_Start Event
While dealing with the azure storage we need to place the following piece of code under Application_Start event Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudStorageAccount.SetConfigurationSettingPublisher
((configName, configSetter) =>
Otherwise application will throw the following exception
9. Process to deal with local storage emulator
Sometime we may face the following problem while using Development storage.
It may occur due to the following reasons
1) Logged in user does not have admin rights over the SQL Server 2008 Express.
When some other user has installed that, you will be facing difficulties while initializing the azure development storage from your windows login credentials
Resolution:-Logged in windows user name should be added as admin in SQL Server master DB
2) Alias name is not specified for the default sql instance.
- Specify an alias name for the default instance of SQL.
- Navigate to the following path in command prompt
\\Windows Azure SDK\[SDK Version]\bin\devstore
- Run the following command
dsinit /sqlinstance:[instancename]
10. Windows identity returns empty value for Azure application
In windows azure web role solution logged in user information cannot be fetched using HttpContext.Current.User.Identity. As in cloud based projects HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name will be fetched as empty string. In order to achieve the windows authentication functionality ACS needs to be integrated.
11. Use ACS integration with https service endpoint
While deploying to the cloud environment it is advisable to use the https endpoint along with a signed certificate. Otherwise there is a huge possibility of facing cryptographic exception on runtime, based on the machine configuration.
12. During ACS integration IClaimsIndentity cannot be invoked in Application_Start Event
During ACS implementation in case the Name claim process using IdentityModel is invoked within the Application_Start event, it can lead to the following exception. Unable to cast object of type 'System.Security.Principal.GenericIdentity' to type 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Claims.IClaimsIdentity'. In order to handle this all the authentication mechanism should be place under either Session_Start or Application_BeginRequest event.
13. Few important web config settings for ACS integration
Following web config settings are mandatory in order to achieve a successful ACS integration
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" /> --Under System.web
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" /> --Under System.webserver
14. WEB.Config should not be in read only mode while running the application on local environment.
- Issue: If we try to run the cloud solution when the web.config file is in readonly mode we will get the following error.
In SDK 1.3 to simplify the use of ASP.NET, the Windows Azure environment automatically configures the ASP.NET machine key on a per-site basis using the site's web.config file. The automatically-supplied machine key is identical for all instances of a given site, but is different in all other cases (across deployments, etc.).
- Resolution: In the SDK 1.3 release, this error occurs in the Windows Azure compute emulator when the web.config file is marked as read-only. The error does not occur when deploying to Windows Azure in the cloud, because file attributes are reset in any cloud deployment, thus making the web.config file writable will resolve the above exception. Note that the compute emulator does not copy the site's content during execution.


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VOA News
October 06, 2012
Turkish state media say another round of mortar fire from Syria has landed in southern Turkey.
Turkish artillery fired on Syrian targets Wednesday after shelling from Syria struck a border village in Turkey, killing five civilians, sharply escalating tensions between the two neighbors and prompting NATO to convene an emergency meeting.
[Boston Globe]
The Anatolian news agency says Turkish military returned fire Saturday after the mortar round landed in a rural area amid intense clashes on the Syrian side of the border in Idlib province.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Friday that Syria should not test Turkey's ability to strike back against continued cross-border attacks.
A Syrian attack on the Turkish town of Akcakale killed five civilians just days earlier. Following the attack, Turkish forces shelled Syrian targets, and Turkey's parliament authorized military operations outside its borders if necessary.
See what Russia is shipping to Syria;

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Not sure about JTR but you could always use crunch.
Code:man crunch
Hi everyone.
As i'm living outside the europe, exactly at Tunisia, the available wordlists on he net didn't gave any good result to find a wpa psk2 key i'm trying to determine.
Then, i have seen that here in Tunisia, all Modem passwords are 5 to 12 alpha-numeric letter that can be upper/lower case, and sometimes it can contain a special caracter like "-" or "_".
So, i've decided to use John the ripper to build a new heuristic dictionnary containing all probabilities, and for that i user this command to have words with 8 characters:
"./john --incremental=alnum --stdout=8 > dico.txt"
then, i had a big problem.
JTR fucctionned for approximatly 2 hours, and then staurated my had disk and it created a 19Gb dico.txt file , telling me that he stopped on the "t" letter.
so, first of all, how can i precise the length of the words generated between a minimum (5) and a maximum (12) instead of giving only the max size.
Then, is it normal that my outcoming file is as big as this ? I think backtrack can't handle it.
thanks for all
Not sure about JTR but you could always use crunch.
Code:man crunch
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
Do not take a look at the: Forum Rules !
even generating all possible combinations of an 8 characters gets ridiculously large really fast, if you really insist on a brute force style of attack id look into piping crunch through your cracking program instead of eating up all of your disk space, but be warned this can take an unrealistic amount of time.


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A-K Valley PIAA girls basketball playoff preview capsules
Tuesday's games Class AAAA
Fox Chapel (20-5) vs. Hempfield (18-9)
6 p.m. Tuesday at Gateway
Winner plays: North Allegheny (23-2)/State College (18-7) winner on Friday (time, site TBD).
Layup lines: Fox Chapel picked up its first state playoff victory since 2009 and secured its first 20-win season with a 48-36 victory over Erie McDowell on Friday. The Foxes made 23 of 26 free throws, including all 14 of their attempts in the second half. One would think these WPIAL teams have met recently but that's not the case. They haven't played since 2009 when Fox Chapel beat the Spartans, 51-29, in Hempfield's holiday tournament. Foxes' 6-foot-3 senior center Erin Mathias averages 16.2 points and 10 rebounds a game and continues to provide matchup issues for opponents. Freshman Gaby Badway and sophomores Kayla Slovenec and Taylor Cohen once again will get tested in the backcourt, but they've showed poise all season. ... WPIAL runner-up Hempfield has gotten used to fast starts — it led Obama Academy, 18-0, on the way to a 54-33 win in its PIAA first-round game — but blew a 15-point second-half lead against Penn-Trafford in the WPIAL title game. Senior guard Monica Burns is one of the top shooters in Quad-A. She averages 20.1 points.
Class AA
Burrell (26-1) vs. Bellwood-Antis (24-3)
6 p.m. Tuesday at Indiana
Winner plays: Tussey Mountain (24-1)/General McLane (23-3) winner on Friday (time, site TBD).
Layup lines: Burrell's only loss came in the WPIAL championship game (55-34 against Seton-La Salle), but the Bucs continue to use the good-but-not-good enough mantra as they battle slow starts to games. The team was sluggish early in the first round against Clarion-Limestone, but rolled in the second half for a 55-27 win. Junior point guard Sydney Bordonaro (16.4 ppg) scored a game-high 18 points and broke the school's career scoring record in the process. She has 1,159 points in just under three full seasons. She is averaging 18 a game in the playoffs and has made 13 3s. Last year, Bordonaro scored 27 in a 65-46 first-round win over Bellwood-Antis. Burrell's senior trio of Jaila Manga, Jessica Cercone and Pitt-Greensburg recruit Kelsey Oddis continue to lead a young group that also consists of rising sophomore Natalie Myers, who has produced 14.2 points and 10 rebounds a game in the playoffs, and junior guard Erika Finn, who started the last game but sprained her ankle. Burrell has attempted just three free throws in its last two games combined. ... District 6 champion Bellwood-Antis averages 70 points, the highest scoring average Burrell will have seen all year. The Blue Devils have topped 75 points 13 times this season, and scored 99 and 92 in blowout wins. Three players average in double figures, junior Ana Hollen (16.0), freshman Karsen Swogger (15.8) and junior Kelly Leamer (10.5). Hollen scored 12 against Burrell last year.
—Bill Beckner Jr.


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Mosby, John S. (1833-1916) to Sam Chapman
Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03293
Author/Creator: Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
Place Written: Washington, D.C.
Type: Autograph letter signed
Date: 9 May 1907
Pagination: 2 p.
Summary of Content: Written on stationery of the Department of Justice. Discusses Grant's endorsement of Lee's pardon after the war, and Johnson's refusal to grant it. He discusses politics during the Reconstruction era. He comments "there was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him." Various politicians and judges mentioned.
Historical Era: Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Full Transcript: Sept: 5th 1907, Dear Sam:The schoolmistress is all wrong: In June 1865 (see War records) Gen. Lee applied for pardon - Grant endorsed - Andy Johnson refused it. [struck: Either]. On Dec: 25th 1868 Johnson issued a proclamation of universal Amnesty & pardon, a Christmas gift. - Grant had just been Elected & he wanted to deprive Grant of that pleasure. Mr. Davis trial began that month but the proclamation of Pardon ended it [See U.S. Statutes at Large & Chases Circuit Court Decisions reported by Bradly Johnson.) Soon after Grant came in he recommended Congress to pass one [inserted: act] relieving every body of the disability of the 14th Amendment - a different thing from a pardon for treason. When I came out for Grant in 1872 I told him that if he wd. get Congress to pass one act relieving our leading public men of political disability - not from voting only from holding office - I thought we could carry Virginia for him. He said he wd. try - In a few days Ben Butler introduced [inserted: & passed] a bill that relieved nearly every body - including Gen. Hunton - [struck: He] Hunton immediately announced himself a candidate for Congress & was elected. I could have had no selfish motive in this as I was never under the disability of the 14th Amendment. I did incur the disability under the [inserted: Va.] anti dueling Con[vention] either to vote or to hold office. In 1877 Wm. F. Gordon of Louisa (uncle of Armistead) introduced a bill to relieve Jim Barbour of the disability of the anti-duelling Con - Matherds of London proposed an amendment to include me. Gov. Smith ("Extra") was a member of the House - He made a bitter [inserted: speech] against including me. the bill passed. In 1875 [2] the Democrats elected Andy Johnson Senator. Judge Caldwell had a glowing eulogy of him in the Index. I wrote a letter to the Index wh. Moore Blackwell signed, inquiring if that was the same Johnson who made a speech [struck: at] to a crowd at the front door of the White House saying that treason must be made odious by hanging traitors - & who offered a reward of $100,000 for Jefferson Davis under the [inserted: charge] of procuring the assassination [sic] of Lincoln. Mr. Gordon can show you in the Statutes at Large (1868) the Amnesty Proclamation & Grant's message on Amnesty in the President's Messages: -, I sent my MS - Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign - to the Macmillan Co. last week. Have not heard from them. - There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for [inserted: my] voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him. I was in Warrenton last week - talked with Judge Keith - he is now in Staunton. I wish you wd ask him the reason why I was not [struck: selected] [inserted: invited] to deliver the address at the unveiling of Stuart's Statue. I am the only Virginian who followed Stuart who named a child after him, & I am the only Virginian who [struck: has] [inserted: ever] published a word in defense of him. The man selected was one of Stuart's couriers. Then write me what Kieth says., Yours Truly, Jno: S. Mosby, [inserted at the top of first page, probably after finishing the letter], I have no objection to your letting Hugh & Mr. Gordon read this. Referring to George Christians Eulogy of Slavery because it was a patriarchal Institution I reminded you that Polygamy & Circumcision were patriarchal institutions. I I [sic] forgot to say that Eunuchs were also a patriarchal institution. Ask Hugh if I am not right., , , , Notes: Written on Justice Department Stationery.
Keywords/Subjects: Civil War;, Military History;, Union Forces;, Confederate General or Leader;, Pardon;, President, Politics;, Reconstruction;, Election;, Government and Civics;, Union General;
Background: Notes: Mosby discusses Jefferson Davis's treason trial in GLC 3921, #30. He answers criticism of his book, Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign in GLC 3921, #22. The disability clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (section 3), ratified in 1868, prevented Confederate civil and military leaders who had previously sworn to support the Federal Constitution from voting and holding office. The disability could be removed with a two-thirds vote from both houses of Congress. The Fourteenth Amendment's restrictions on Confederate leaders did not apply to Mosby because he had never sworn an oath to the federal government.Order Image


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You may be interested in the below news:Techcrunch: Google today updated its Inside Search site, its homepage for all things search, with a handful of educational and interactive features that explain in layman's terms how Google's Search works.
It would have been helpful to actually post a link to the article, but here it is: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/01/google-explains-how-search-works-complete-with-live-spam-slideshow/
You're right. I forgot to add it. Thanks.


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Subject: RE: [htdig] %20 chars in visible htsearch output
From: Geoff Hutchison (email@example.com)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 06:10:35 PDT
At 2:58 PM +0200 5/17/00, Vergonet, Henk wrote:
>I agree we should stick to the specs, so leave the %20 in
>the URL's.
>But, can I configure htdig to change the %20 chars
>in the description part of the link to spaces?
I wouldn't. I have seen people copy and paste that URL, so I would
make sure it's a URL that actually works.
-- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/
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The 2017 NFL Draft is currently less than 120 days away, but who's counting anyway? With the Denver Broncos having played their last 'meaningful' game of the 2016 seasons, now is as good as of a time as ever to start looking ahead to the chaos and promises that unfold every April during the NFL Draft.
For many, the NFL Draft is a long ways off yet, NFL teams are still playing meaningful games and we are miles away from free agency, but those in Draft community, things are really starting to heat up. With the College Football Playoffs and other big bowl games looming and the senior bowl and Combine, the Draft landscape is starting to reveal itself.
While these events will obviously cause many players' draft stock to change leading up to April, the top of the Draft talents are becoming more apparent by the day and teams and fans alike are starting to get acquainted with potential fits for their first round pick.
http://www.scout.com/nfl/broncos/story/1741634-should-denver-pick-te-dav... GM John Elway and the Broncos are no different. With this week's tilt against Oakland looking more like a game played in August than the last regular season game of the season, the minds in Dove Valley are meticulously watching tape, taking notes, and evaluating draft prospects.
During evaluation, the Broncos brain trust will create what is known as a 'big board', which lists the prospects they value in order, based on talent, value of position, and roster need of position.
While some positions will likely be pushed up the board — due to need —such as offensive tackle and tight end, others will be pushed down due to a surplus of talent, such as edge rusher and cornerback, the Broncos' big board will look different than other teams' throughout the league.
In an effort to shape the Draft for our readers, and a fun exercise, Mile High Huddle is diving head first into the offseason with our Denver Bronco Big Board 1.0. First, guys who might not be there but are worth mentioning; the top-10 players on the board.
1. Myles Garrett, Edge Rusher, Texas A&M Aggies
Myles Garrett is undoubtedly the top prospect in this upcoming draft class. Garrett has incredible tools, including insane speed and power for his size, and a good motor. He still is raw in his pass-rush skills because he has been able to get away with just running past guys in college, but that won't cut it in the NFL.
When he does use proper hand technique or sets up the tackle opposite him, Garrett makes grown men look childish. Denver does not 'need' edge rusher, even with DeMarcus Ware likely moving on this offseason with to Shaquil Barrett and Shane Ray waiting in the wings.
That said, edge rusher is the second most valuable position next to quarterback itself and if an obvious talent is there round one, Denver shouldn't hesitate to take them. Still, if I were Cleveland, I would take Garrett and worry about QB with the next pick. Barring a huge off the field issue, Garrett won't be there for Denver to select.
2. Jon Allen, 3-4 Defensive End, Alabama Crimson Tide
Jon Allen was drawing comparisons to the great J.J. Watt at points during this season. While Allen is not Watt, he is still a great prospect. One of Nick Saban's favorite kids he has ever coached, Allen wins with technique, motor, and athleticism.
He is stout against the run and anchors well, which is something the Broncos defensive line has struggled with this year, and can win on stunts and beat double teams. He is fortunate to be surrounded by other NFL talent, but Allen consistently flashes on tape that shows he is an elite prospect.
He would be an immediate starter in Denver playing along with Derek Wolfe on the interior. Alas, this is another player that I can comfortably say will not be available for the Broncos to pick.
3. Malik McDowell, 3-4 Defensive End, Michigan State Spartans
This is where myself and others start to differentiate in terms of value of a prospect. Malik McDowell is an elite prospect and should be selected in the top-10 of the NFL Draft.
He has the second highest upside of any defensive player in this draft class, and would help fill the void left by the other Malik (Jackson) that left Denver last offseason. McDowell has a huge frame that can still put on more muscle, a ridiculous wingspan, heavy hands, incredible closing burst for a man his size, and the ability to get to the quarterback from the interior, which is one of the hardest skills in the NFL to find.
There are times that McDowell just takes over games at the line of scrimmage and blows up run plays and pass plays in the backfield alike. He does have issues with double teams, leverage, and injuries in his career, but the talent-level is unquestionable. He is currently falling in mocks across the internet, but I don't think he will in April — he is just too talented. If McDowell is there when Denver is on the clock, Elway should sprint to the podium with the pick.
4. Leonard Fournette, Running Back, LSU Tigers
The conundrum of the running back position in the NFL has lead to the firing of many scouts. It is common belief that the running back has become a devalued position in today's NFL, especially in Denver.
For years, Mike Shanahan was able to take late round running back talent and churn out one 1,000-yard rusher after another. While it is true the talent and work of the offensive line is more important to a ground game's success than the running back, elite talent at the position should still be looked at and acquired if the draft falls that way.
Since high school, people knew Fournette was special. He is the closest thing to Adrian Peterson since… Adrian Peterson. Fournette's power running style coupled with a huge frame and electric burst makes him one of the most intriguing running backs to come out of the college ranks in a while.
He does not possess elite lateral agility, but his other traits are so good that they outweigh this blemish. Fournette also has an ankle issue and is sitting out his bowl game, which will lead many to push him down their draft board.
Still, Fournette is elite and in Denver, with this defense and the putrid offense, Fournette would push Denver instantly back into Super Bowl Contenders year one.
5. Reuben Foster, Inside Linebacker, Alabama Crimson Tide
Inside linebacker is another position that seems to be fading in value across rosters in the NFL. With more and more teams playing nickel formation over base, the classic two-down thumper is a dying breed.However, there is still a demand and need for three-down linebackers.
From Luke Kuechly to C.J. Mosley, teams and fans alike fawn over the leadership, tenacity, and tackling that comes with an elite inside linebacker. This year's consensus No. 1 inside linebacker is Alabama's Reuben Foster, and its easy to see why.
This offseason, Foster made it a priority to lose weight and get quicker, and it showed up immediately in game-play this season. Foster is outstanding in run defense, athletic enough to stay on the field in coverage and cover running backs and tight ends alike, and deliver sacks and pressure when asked to blitz.
Foster does have a tendency to be a little slow diagnosing plays, causing him to be on his heels as run plays get to him instead of coming down hill and meeting the ball-carrier at the line of scrimmage. Still, his athleticism has made up for any time he has been slow mentally.
If Foster can get mentally quicker and have the game slow down for him, he has the ability to become the best inside linebacker in the NFL. Denver does have superb inside linebacker Brandon Marshall, but the defense obviously missed Danny Trevathan.
Adding a player like Foster makes the inside of the Broncos defense much more dynamic and athletic and will keep the unit dominant
6. Jamal Adams, Safety, LSU Tigers
Many in the draft community are in agreement that Jamal Adams is the best overall safety in this year's draft class. Adams has not gotten the hype that other safeties have gotten this year, but on tape shows to have the skills that are the most transferable to being successful in the NFL.
Adams has the ability to not only play over the top as a deep rangy centerfield safety but he can also match up in the box or in the slot against running backs and tight ends. Adams can take the ball away and deliver big hits as well.
With many players being obviously a free safety or strong safety in today's game, Adams' versatility and ability to excel in both safety positions is a huge boon to a team's secondary. Adams also displays plus instincts, in both pass coverage and run stopping.
Whether it comes from great film study or natural ability, Adams appears to know where the ball is going before the ball is even snapped. Add to that his solid frame, athleticism, and aggression and you have a dynamic safety.
Denver drafted two safeties last offseason in Justin Simmons and Will Parks, just re-signed Darian Stewart deservedly to a big contract, and still has T.J. Ward on the roster. However, if Jamal Adams is the top player on the board when it comes time to pick, Denver would be wise to pull the trigger.
7. O.J. Howard, Tight End, Alabama Crimson Tide
The last time a tight end was selected in the top 10 of an NFL draft was Eric Ebron by the Detroit Lions in 2014. Since his selection, Ebron has been oft-injured and has yet to live up to his draft stock. To add insult to injury, the next three players selected after Ebron were Taylor Lewan, Odell Beckham, Jr. and Aaron Donald.
Despite this starting to turn into a cautionary tale of not taking a tight end early, Denver absolutely should consider pulling the trigger on O.J. Howard. Howard is a monster of a man at 6-foot-6 and 255 pounds. Howard has always been a physical freak.
When given the chance to be involved in the passing game, Howard shows soft hands, long arms, and a my-ball mentality Denver has lacked in the red zone and over the middle this year. Howard is not 'quick' and does not cut on a dime in his routes, but he has the ability to turn on the jets once the ball is in his hands.
What cannot be overstated is that Howard is likely the best blocking tight end in all of college football. He plays with tenacity, proper leverage, footwork, and hand technique. When watching him block in the run game, he is essentially a sixth offensive lineman.
Whether they are running plays with Howard creating seal blocks in the run game, or getting him out in space to block at the second level, Alabama constantly uses Howard as a tone setter in the run game. In Gary Kubiak's system, having a strong run-blocking tight end that can create mismatch problems in the middle of the field and in the red zone is key to building an effective offense.
OJ Howard would be a welcome addition and would help the run game and whoever is playing quarterback for Denver next season.
8. Garett Bolles, Offensive Tackle/Offensive Guard, Utah Utes
Here is a shocker and a hot take: Denver's offensive line failed to live up to expectations this season. Whether it was Ty Sambrailo getting destroyed by a speed rusher, Russell Okung drawing a poorly timed holding penalty, Michael Schofield getting blown into the backfield on a stretch run, or Max Garcia once again missing a block on a stunt, Denver's offensive line struggled to establish themselves this season.
Unfortunately, this class is being heralded as one of the weaker offensive line drafts in recent memory. While this is true, there is still valuable offensive linemen that would not be reaches in round one. The issue isn't that there are zero round one offensive line talents, but rather when there is normally 5-to-7 in a class and there are just two or three in this class.
If Denver was lucky enough to have one fall to them, they should pull the trigger. Enter the first offensive lineman on the big board, Garett Bolles. Bolles was a relative unknown prior to the season to many in the scouting community.
As a 24-year-old JUCO transfer playing west coast time games for Utah in the PAC 12, Bolles as a talent was not at first obviously apparent. However, as the year went on and Utah continued running the ball as well any team in the country, left tackle No. 72 couldn't be kept as a secret for long.
With a tough back story and a born again Christian, Bolles is an interesting comparison to The Blindside's Michael Oher. However, Bolles is a better prospect. Bolles is tenacious in the run game, often driving his opponent back over ten yards before pushing them into the ground.
Bolles constantly looks to hit guys and establish physicality on the offensive line. He also is a tremendous athlete in space, with obviously apparent fluid feet and movement skills. Bolles also has an adequate frame that suggests he can stick at tackle in the NFL.
However, if moved to guard, Bolles could be an All-Pro caliber player, given how strong he is at the point of attack and how well he is in pull blocks. Bolles will drop some due to his age, but he still will end up being drafted round one.
Utah ran for over eight yards per carry this season behind Bolles, and he would be a welcome shot in the arm to an anemic Denver rushing attack.
9. Cam Robinson, Offensive Tackle/Offensive Guard, Alabama Crimson Tide
Cam Robinson is the other offensive lineman that has a round-one grade based on his film. While Robinson does not display the same anger in blocking as Bolles, he does play with a nasty demeanor and tremendous athletic ability.
When he puts it all together, he is technically as good as any tackle in football. He does a good job in space and is athletic enough to pull and reach as needed. He is dominant in the run game when his hand technique and footwork are coordinated.
He also displays a strong base and ability to anchor against bull rushers, while having enough athletic ability and wingspan with a strong punch to disrupt speed rushers. However, Cam Robinson consistently makes mental mistakes in pass blocking and run blocking that can result in negative plays that completely stall an offense.
In the NFL where every down is important, being mentally consistent is as important as having the physical ability. He does have a tendency to reach on blocks as well, which can get him off balance and hamper his technique. If these were the only issues, Robinson would be a surefire top-5 pick.
http://www.scout.com/nfl/broncos/story/1740172-should-denver-draft-mccaf... However, Robinson has had his issues off the field. This offseason, Robinson was arrested when pulled over and found to be in possession of marijuana and possession of a stolen gun. Furthermore, having the gun with illegal narcotics is a bonus charge on top of the other two.
But the case was dropped and Robinson did not serve any sort of suspension for the incident. Robinson is also reportedly a nightmare off the field in terms of personality and many expect him to bomb in the interview process.
Still, in the right environment and given time to mature and age, Robinson could end up being the best prospect from this class. If he passes the background checks, Denver should absolutely consider selecting him.
10. Marshon Lattimore, Cornerback, Ohio State Buckeyes
Denver currently is home to the best secondary in the NFL, the No Fly Zone. This is due in large part to the three No. 1 corners on the roster. While all three of these players are going to be in Denver next season, it doesn't hurt to look ahead at the position.
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Aqib Talib is getting older, has a history of injuries prior to his time in Denver and had a chronic back injury this season, and is one off-the-field mishap away from being suspended for a good chunk of games. Bradley Roby has shown to be an elite man-to-man cover corner as well, but has had issues with consistency this season, suffering mental lapses and technique issues that have hurt the Broncos defense on a number of occasions.
Furthermore, Roby is about to become very expensive. This year's cornerback class is being called by many the strongest part of the incoming draft class, and Marshon Lattimore has higher upside than any of the rest.
Lattimore is just a redshirt sophomore in his first year starting, but he immediately made his presence felt. Struggling to overcome hamstring injuries in the past, Lattimore committed himself to better conditioning so he could stay on the field. The results have been outstanding.
Lattimore is a long, lanky cornerback with tremendous ball skills. Ohio State often uses him right up at the line of scrimmage to jam receivers, and then leaves him on an island after that. He is one of the few corners in college that cannot only do this, but do it well.
He has tremendously smooth hips in coverage, and can mirror receivers similarly to the best cover corners in the NFL. Lattimore not only is great in coverage, but also not a plus one at all in run defense.
Lattimore is currently one of only two corners in college football who has not missed a tackle. Not only is he solid in run defense, he appears to enjoy hitting, helping establish physicality in the secondary. Denver may not 'need' a corner, but Lattimore might be good enough to ignore that.
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While out promoting his upcoming boxing drama "The Fighter", Christian Bale, Batman himself, dropped some news concerning the Bat franchise. The biggest news is that Bale believes this will be the last time he suits up as the Caped Crusader. At least, that's what he's hearing from Nolan.
Bale tells MTV:
If Chris [Nolan] maintains, then this will be the last one, and we have to up it.
Not really a surprise, since I'm already shocked that Nolan is on the verge of doing three of these movies. When it comes to these very creative people, I always find it surprising they'd spend so much of their valuable prime filmmaking years on a single character/franchise.
In any case, Bale goes on:
Chris will let me know what I need to know when I need to know it, It's our fourth movie together, and I probably know a little bit more than maybe some people out there, but I think most people will be surprised by how little I do know.
It just hasn't been necessary yet. I know he'll give me plenty of time to prepare whatever I need to for it and I'll discover it. He's a pretty damn good filmmaker I trust that he's going to come up with something wonderful.
Doesn't sound a whole lot like Christian Bale is very plugged into the whole Batman rumor mill, does it? Then again, maybe he's just bullshitting all of us. Of course, we can just take what he's saying at face value: he's already done four movies with Nolan, and by this point he has complete faith in the mind. Makes sense.
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Land of the falling snow
White goods ... snow covers pretty Hirafu village and the distant
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Theme: Food & Wine Ski Spa & Resorts
Finally, said the kid, looking out the window, we have a sun in the land of the rising sun. It was the first clear sky in several days and it was fleeting. On the late December day when we arrived at the Japanese resort of Niseko, we asked when the weather was forecast to clear. "At the end of February," was a laconic Aussie's reply.
The seven days that followed brought snow, snow and more snow. Great blankets of white spread lavishly across Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. Dense white flakes buried cars in a few hours and snowploughs worked around the clock to keep roads open and dig alleys around houses and lodges so the interiors still saw daylight.
On the mountain each day we buried ourselves in light and dry snow, thankful that the ski hire company on the internet had recommended powder skis - big, fat boards that give stability in the deep stuff but chatter and shudder on a normal hard piste.
We were in an ethereal powder heaven, the kind of place we had dreamed about - mostly on days when we had been lodge-bound in places such as Thredbo and Mount Buller.
In Niseko normal winter precipitation is reliably good - more than four metres a season - but December saw the biggest snowfall for 25 years.
Here was true powder snow. The light, fluffy stuff they call champagne and through which you float almost effortlessly, feeling little more than a feather's tickle somewhere around knee level.
The brief moments of sunshine opened up magnificent views from the slopes of Mount An'nupuri across the crater-pitted white plains to neighbouring, conical Mount Yotei. Near the peak of the mountain, as skiers and boarders frolicked down virgin powder slopes, we got a brief perspective of the size of this great volcanic pile, despite its relatively low 1309 metres.
This is the place that makes people so happy that grown men and women giggle as they navigate their way downhill through groves of birch. It is also where, after little more than 10 hours on a plane, they are in the northern hemisphere, at some of the best snowfields in the world, with just two hours' time difference from home.
That's the beauty of Japan. You don't go through the jetlag associated with a trip to Europe, Canada or the US, you're in a world-class resort - and you can throw in a unique cultural experience that is totally positive. The low rise above sea level eliminates altitude sickness, which can ruin a long and expensive trip to the snow.
A notable thing about visiting Japan is the enormous respect people have for each other. For the visitor this is translated into service. Nothing appears to be too much trouble.
Niseko, about 100 kilometres from Sapporo, is divided into three distinct areas: Grand Hirafu, Higashiyama and An'nupuri. A fourth, Hanazono, is being developed as part of Grand Hirafu and funded largely by Australian dollars.
There is no doubt that Australian property agents who have set up offices here, such as Niseko Real Estate and Hokkaido Tracks, are making their mark in this town. Whereas traditionally you would never see a sign advertising a property for sale, today the streets are punctuated with billboards with "SOLD" slapped across them. As with any substantial change, the Australian influence has its detractors, who feel Niseko's growth is for the worse.
All areas are inter-skiable by riding lifts to the top of the peak and traversing a fairly short distance to the next resort. There are regular shuttle buses between the areas, which makes it easier for beginner skiers and boarders to get a feel for the enormous variety at Niseko. An'nupuri is a particularly beautiful and cruisy place to be, mainly for its wide, tree-lined runs. Higashiyama has steeper, narrower pistes, enjoyable at any time but worth a visit for the amazing Niseko Nigashiyama Prince Hotel and its garish foyer at the bottom. Grand Hirafu is the most crowded area, as most of the accommodation is in the village at its base, but venture across to Hanazono for the best off-piste skiing and boarding and the adventure park at the bottom, where you can have a go at snowmobiling or take a gentler ride through the forests on horseback.
While there are plenty of restaurants and cafes dotted about the slopes, the Hazano Rest House at Hanazono's base has kani rahmen (noodles in miso soup with crab), which has to be one of the best mountain lunches anywhere.
Nature has a big place in Hokkaido, with road signs advertising the presence of bears and foxes.
I first visited this area and stayed in An'nupuri in the late 1980s. While the facilities have always been good, there have been a lot of changes in 18 years. On that first visit we saw just one other Western couple in a week; now Australians, Americans and Britons are thick on the ground among the locals.
The lift ticket system, Skidata, is unique to this part of the world and works really well. A key card pass for which you pay a 1000 yen deposit (about $12) goes into a left-side jacket pocket. The pass is scanned each time you pass through turnstiles before a lift - a bit like entering a supermarket - and the deposit is refunded by a machine that claims back the pass at the end of your stay.
Trail guides are available in English and highly detailed. As terrain is fairly evenly divided between easy (30 per cent), intermediate (38) and advanced (32), no one in your party can claim to be bored. You could learn to ski or board here or find increasingly challenging runs (keeping in mind avalanche danger) on the steep tree runs. Anyone looking for a good knee-trembler can try the 5.7-kilometre run from top to bottom.
Holiday eating never feels more earned than when you have had a good day on the snow. In the main Niseko village of Hirafu, the food is high quality and varied. The night we went to Gentem Cafe, a mongolian yurt filled with diners sitting cross-legged on the floor at low, round tables, we were surprised but not disappointed to find Indonesian and Thai food. There's all the usual Japanese fare including sushi, sukiyaki, shabu-shabu and tempura. There is also Nepalese, Vietnamese, Chinese, French and Italian.
Yakatori (barbecued fish and meat on skewers) is a great favourite and Bang Bang and Senchou1 do it really well. We committed ourselves to eating Japanese or Asian throughout the trip, but if you need to bail out JoJo's does a decent burger or bowl of pasta.
Gyu+ is one of the coolest bars with a Coca-Cola fridge door as its entrance, a wall of LPs and an eclectic array of furniture and knick-knacks. The drinks are generous, too. Barunba, with reggae music and a great Hawaiian atmosphere, is another popular bar.
Accommodation varies, although onsen (hot mineral water baths) are common to almost all. Hirafu village is a compact and pretty place with everything you need, including the skiing, at an easy walking distance or a short ride on the free shuttle bus. You can stay at an on-snow hotel, in a self-contained unit or, with names like Carrot, Hurry Slowly, Popcorn and You & Yuki, a good pension (or B&B).
We stayed at Korukoni as part of a package holiday because it was one of the few available over a busy new year period, but were far from disappointed. Rooms are basic but good service from the managers, Australian James Gallagher and his wife, Kaiko, made up for everything. Our tiny attic room was cosy and warm and on that occasion when we saw the sun out the window there was a big view of Mount Yotei.
Destination Niseko
The most economical way to ski at Niseko is with a package costing from about $2000, for the flight, transfer from the airport at Sapporo, accommodation, usually with breakfast, and lift passes.
This (northern) season Japan Airlines is trialling a direct charter flight from Sydney to Sapporo. A flight departs on March 6, returning on March 14. Travel.com.au has a special for the charter including the air fare, a seven-day ski pass, eight nights' B&B accommodation, and transfers from $2569 a person, twin share. See http://www.travel.com.au/ski or phone 9290 1060. Ski and snowboarding equipment can be hired at the resort. Australian-owned Rhythm & Beats opened in Hirafu this season and has top-quality gear for good prices. Rental clothing is fairly limited, but Niseko 343 has a good selection.
Take plenty of cash. Credit cards are rarely used.
It's cold, especially early in winter. Take your thermals.
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'Glee' Cast, 'Black or White' – Song Review
If there's anyone who understands the meaning behind Michael Jackson's 'Black or White,' it's Gleeks — so we know they'll be especially excited to get a first listen at the 'Glee' cast version of the early '90s smash.
'Black or White' is not just about skin color, it's about equality and accepting others for who they are, which is what the show prides itself on. 'Glee' has been a flag carrier for the rights of people of all shapes, sizes and walks of life, and they bring tough subjects to the surface week after week to get high school-aged kids talking about issues that matter.
Above all else, 'Glee' can do one hell of a cover rendition — even if the original artist is the legendary Michael Jackson. Truth be told, at first listen we could hardly tell whether we were listening to the 1991 version or the 'Glee' cover… Until Lea Michele started singing, of course. Much like the 'Bad' number due to air in the same MJ episode, 'Black or White' is a group effort and showcases many of the New Directions' talents, while 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' is more Blaine's chance to shine.
This colorful spin is a kickback to old school jams, incorporating digital sound additions and even a rap breakdown mid-tune. The 'Glee' rendition even features all of the growly-voice goodness of any decent MJ song, and we're thanking our lucky stars that our favorite FOX characters won't make the legend — or his fans — stir when they lay it down on prime time television.
Well done, 'Glee.'
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Matt Damon covers the August 2013 issue of Esquire magazine. The actor is captured in candid black and white shots while discussing his best friend Ben Affleck and their rise to fame in "Good Will Hunting."
"The summer after freshman year in college, [Ben Affleck and I] got a job together. I was eighteen. There was a theater in Harvard Square called the Janus. They had only one screen, and Ben and I got a job there," Damon said. We were ticket takers and served popcorn — we basically did everything. But the kicker was that the movie we showed that summer was a movie Ben and I got relatively close on — 'Dead Poets Society.'"
But it wasn't long before both Damon and Affleck found their big break when they wrote and starred in "Good Will Hunting."
"Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships. That's how it works. It really is all about relationships. If you enjoy working with someone, you'll find a way to work with him or her again. It's human nature."
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On 5/20/06, David Bottrill <david at bottrill dot org> wrote:
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hrm.. I just did a new install on FreeBSD, and I'm seeing exactly the
same thing...
Only differences that I can think of, since my last successful
install, is a different version of Perl and probably a different
rrdtool version. Different FreeBSD version, but since you're seeing
the same on Linux we can rule that out.
I emailed the ifgraph author, since there doesn't seem to be any sort
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This is Sarah Albert. I am here with Valerie Feinman at the Hilton--oh, Valerie Feinman: Marriott. Sarah Albert: At the Marriott--should I start over? Valerie Feinman: Nah, its fine, just leave it. Sarah Albert: --In Anaheim, California. She has agreed to be interviewed. This interview is part of the Capturing Our Stories Oral History Program of Retired/Retiring Librarians. It is one of Loriene Roy's American Library Association Presidential Initiatives. This recording will be the property ALA and may be published and used for scholarly research. Today is June thirty Valerie Feinman: Twenty-ninth Sarah Albert: Twenty-ninth, 2008.
So, Valerie, why don't we start with your most recent job and then a little about that and then we can talk about your history in the library profession. Valerie Feinman: Okay. My most recent formal job was that of instruction librarian at Adelphi University in Garden City, Long Island. I began that about 1983. When the incumbent left, we could not find anyone else and my dean decided I was a big ham and, therefore, could be an instruction librarian. I had a lot of fun during those years. A lot of fun.
The students didn't have their own computers, we had to teach them how to use the university computers. We didnt have that many databases, and no one was familiar with doing anything, so that if one of the instructions was to press F9, to transfer to a different database, the students had to have it explained that this meant not to touch F and then 9. Instruction was a lot of fun. I got involved in ALA, ACRL instruction section, and LIRT, the Library Instruction Round Table section. I wrote articles for them, I attended LOEX [the Library Orientation Exchange
, founded 1971, at Eastern Michigan University]. I got involved in committees, and know a lot of people because my dean introduced me to a lot of people. By the way, my dean was
Rochelle Sager, and one of her best friends was Mary Reichel, so right from the beginning I had a mentor in Mary Reichel. So, instruction was fun.
Sarah Albert: Okay, what were some other committees you served on in ALA? Valerie Feinman: Oh, well Sarah Albert: Or Valerie Feinman: How about Emerging Technologies committee of LITA in the 70s? Okay? Again, Emerging Technologies in IS; but it wasnt called that it was called something else--whatever. But mostly, I have been on LIRT. In several different positions. Most recently, as Elder Statesman to say "been there, done that, choose something different" every time the planning committee gets off track. And I am on the planning committee for the next retreat or pre-conference of LIRT which will be held in Boston-- that's fun. Sarah Albert: Thanks.
Valerie Feinman: Before that, I was at Adelphi; but in a rather different position. I came to Adelphi on May Day, in 1970, which I remember well because one of the faculty members planted a tree; and the librarians all went out because we were faculty to watch the tree being planted. I was brought in as a serials librarian, which they had never had before, because I supposedly had a good serials background. And the serials department was partly in reference, and then it was in technical processes, and then it was a separate department called academic technologies--which I became the head of--and that included non-print serials and microfilms and microforms. So, I did that for several years: from 1970 to 1982-1983, when they wanted me to move into the instruction section.
Before 1970, I had applied for that job at Adelphi; but the person that they had hired was a male. This would have been the second male librarian in the library or maybe the third--and, unfortunately, no one had told him that he shouldn't leave his bottles in the reference desk. So, he was fired after a couple of months when they realized that he was very drunk in the evenings--and giving very bad advice to the students. And they phoned me up and offered me the job.
Before that, I was at Columbia. Columbia is a very interesting library. They hired me to work on a project called "PIC:" Parkinson's Information Center. Back in those days, the MEDLINE database--which was called MEDLARS--had "Parkinson's" as a word; but it did not have "dopamine" as a search concept. And I was part of a research group that was desperately looking through medical articles that might mention the word Parkinsons to find any kind of reference to the drug which then became dopamine. And this was, of course, going to go online with the National Library of Medicine. It was a fun and scary kind of job to have.
However, after I had been there six weeks, the grant gave out. I was furious: they had known that when they hired me. So, I walked into the Columbia offices and said, "You can't fire me just because the grant" you know--blah-blah-blah-blah. And they gave me a position as cataloger of business periodicals--which was terrible. I didn't know a thing about business. And I'd only been there a few months when Adelphi called and asked me to come work for them. I was very happy to be rid of the long commute into Columbia. So, that's my business life in New York. Before that, I was in Syracuse.
Sarah Albert: Okay. Do you want to talk about how you got started in libraries
Valerie Feinman: Oh, sure
Sarah Albert: As a teenager--or
Valerie Feinman: Yes. Absolutely. That's really the best place.
Sarah Albert: Okay.
Valerie Feinman: Okay, when I was eleven or twelve and doing debates in junior high, my godmother and my father got together. She was the reference head in the Hamilton Public Library--head of the reference department at the public library in Hamilton--decreed that I should think about a career as a librarian. This was 1950, approximately, and the day I turned fourteen, which was in 1951, I began working in the Hamilton Public Library. My godmother, Isabelle Skelly, said, "If you want to have a career in Hamilton, in Canada--anywhere--you might as well become a librarian."
Something that most of you watching this don't understand---or won't--is that women in Canada had very few options open to them in the '50s. If they became a teacher, they had to retire when they were pregnant. They could become a nurse, if they didn't get married. They could try to go on to graduate school; but they were not allowed into architecture schools, medical schools, law schools, etc. I had a good friend who wanted to become a lawyer. Her father was a chief justice and he got her into law school. No one would hire her and she worked in her father's office. And that was the truth of life in 1950, '55, '59--when I graduated from college.
So, I started at the public library. What does a page do? Well, I started in the summertime, so they gave me all the dirty work: unloading boxes of gift books that came in from all sorts of funny places, and arranging them alphabetically by author--when possible; however, many, many books were in sets of 20, 30, 40 volumes on flimsy paper that were meant to grace the shelves of someones library but they were not meant for a public library. And one of the things I was allowed to do, besides arranging books, was to look at these sets of books, and if there was anything I like there where there were two or more copies, I could have it. I have a big collection of flimsy-paper classic books dating back from that. I still have them.
Okay, during the winters of the year, I would work in one of the departments--always the Fine Arts Department, or Arts and Sciences. This had the 500s, 600s, 700s of Library of Congress [DDC]. I would shelve books, and I would sit at the information desk when the librarian was off-duty or on a break or that sort of thing. After I was 15 or 16 they just left me at that desk all the time--and went off and did their work, because I was just used to doing it, and people were used to me. I worked three nights a week when I was in high school. I worked one or two nights a week and all day Saturday when I was in college. So, I was there a lot. I worked in every department except the children's department.
And one of the things I remember best, was copying the citations that the reference librarians would make for local content. There was no Canadian Index in the '50s, and the kinds of indexes they were getting in the States were very poor for Canadian content. So we would keep files on people that were important in Canada, people that were important in Hamilton, the government in Ontario and in Toronto, and the local celebrities, and what was going on. So we had all sorts of card files telling which folder to go to get this information. There was like a biography section, and there was a current events section, the Hamilton history section.
And I used "library hand" and wrote all these cards--hundreds of them--over the years. And when I went back to the new library 30 years later, the history section still had all those cards. Why would they replace them? Because the Canadian Index did not go that far back. Even when they made an index, it wasn't retroactive to the '40s and '50s--which was sort of fun.
Okay, after I left college I went to Toronto, and worked in North York which is the northern half of the city of Toronto. Now-- And I worked in the library system there, which was a very interesting system: It was about six miles from north to south, and about 25 miles from east to west. The population had grown from 80,000 to 800,000 in less than ten years. So the library had built a main library, three branches, and had four bookmobiles as they tried to figure out where the population was moving next. And to service the new schools that were just mushrooming at that time.
Okay, the first thing I did was work for the cataloging department. They knew that I was experienced enough to spend all day Monday filing all the new cards or to check filing done by others. Mostly I was the checker. I also looked up subject headings--looked up using Library of Congress or whatever--and did a whole lot of alias files for people with pseudonyms, which was an awful lot of fun. We had a whole printing department in the library that printed the cards for the branches on different colored cards, so that was taken care of. I didn't have to type anything--I was just doing all kinds of good things. Except it became very boring; so, I decided that I'd like to work with the bookmobiles.
Bookmobiles was fun. You usually worked four days a week, from 9 to 6 on one day--two days--and 9 to 9 or 10 on the other days, because you had to go out on the buses. We had two buses, and two cabs, plus a trailer. I was mostly on that one. We were paid $3 extra every month so that we could have pants and be decorous climbing into the cab--and to pay for the dry-cleaning of said pants. [Laughing] Strange.
So that was a lot of fun, although you had to do a lot of juggling in your head to make sure you got the right books for this school, and for that community, and you always carried books by the box-load in and out of the bookmobiles. The most exciting thing, was the night we were coming back across this long, 8-lane highway in a snow-storm. And the trailer decided that it wanted to go down in the ditch. And it did. And it disconnected. And the cab only went partway down. And we got out of the cab and called the police and the tow-trucks, etc., and they came and pulled the cab back onto the highway so that we were able to go back to the library; but the van took two or three days to dig out because it was covered with snow and deeply down. So that was sort of a different kind of thing to happen to a very young person.
After that I also worked in a branch library for--I guess--seven or eight months, replacing someone who had the degree--as I did--but was going to attend library school. I was the children's librarian in the branch for that. And this was the year Kennedy died and I remember what was going on in Canada at that time.
Okay, at the end of the year, the children's librarian came back--what was Valerie going to do? Well, it seems that even though there were more than a thousand people applying for every library student position at the University of Toronto, where they had only 100 openings--they would--see the New York Public Library couldn't wait for that--so it would send people down to Syracuse, to the summer school, and after three summers you would have your library degree. So, I went down to Syracuse. They facilitated the whole thing. [I] started taking a reference course and a cataloging course at Syracuse.
Well, the reference librarian called me in about three weeks into the six-week program, and said, "What are you doing in this course? You know all of this, except for the difference between Canadian and American sources." And when she found out a bit about my background, she said, "Great. We will give you free tuition, and make you the Physics librarian, as a para-professional"
Sarah Albert: And that was related to what you had studied--?
Valerie Feinman: Oh, yes. As an undergraduate, I had studied chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics, etc. I was majoring in general sciences--this is a side story--because, again, there were no jobs for Canadian women in sciences. Once, while I was at college, my Dean called me in and said, "You are not doing very well in your chemistry courses. I think that you should not want to be a chemist." And I looked him up and down, and said, "Have you been in the science library lately?" He said, "No." He was a geologist--he didn't need the library very much. I said, "Well, the books are all out of order. There's nothing published in the last three years that is a book. The journals are impossible to find. You don't have the latest journals. And there is not a science librarian. I want to become that science librarian." He said, "My blessings--continue in your courses. We'd love to have you as a science librarian."
So, when I got to Syracuse, I actually became a Physics librarian. And that library had something like 22 faculty members, 125 graduate students, and a lot of undergraduate students. It was a huge department. There was one lady, in the Dean's office, and there was me. No student females, no faculty females. So, all 125 students trouped into the library the first week of school to see what was there [laughs] and it was a very strange kind of life. On the other hand, I'd always been in honors classes where mostly the people were male. In college most of the people were male. There were very few science females. So I was used to being out-numbered by a lot of men. Eventually, one of those physics students and I were married.
At the end of my first year, as physics librarian, I was suckered in by the head of the Upstate Medical Library, also in Syracuse, to do some extra work for him. He wanted some quasi-medical books looked up in the catalogs. He said, eventually, "Why don't you come and work for me. Ill give you lots of money--three times what Syracuse was giving me--and that way you could afford to pay your tuition, and you'll do a project that I want you to do." So, come September, one year after Physics, I went to work as a faculty member--because I was a paraprofessional--in the medical library. Well, that was fun. The project was to produce the first New York State Union List of Serials. These were big things in the '60s. I think we were the sixth in the country to do a state union list. And I went to visit all the state universities--to state president librarians conferences to be introduced. I did the first index. Got my name in the Library of Congress while I was still in library school. That doesn't very often happen.
Okay, after that project was finished, I went on a did a couple of other union lists; and then they decided to send me down to the National Library of Medicine to train on MEDLARS, which is now MEDLINE. After my three-day training, I came back and started teaching the medical faculty how to use MEDLARS to do their searches. This computer use predates all the other periodical indexes you've ever heard of. It was special, it was fun. The medical libraries had lots of money from the State, from the medical societies, from NLM, there were grants all over the place, computers everywhere: Let's get this business going. It was exciting and fun to be doing this in the '60s.
[I] finished my degree in '67. Got married in '69. No--'66 and '67. And we were in Syracuse until '69. So I did a whole lot of different projects at the Medical Center that were absolutely fun and way ahead of anything else. So, I guess one of the funnest things there was after I showed faculty--professor--how to use MEDLARS, and was searching on an operation that we was going to do in a couple of days, we actually found him a brand new article, and the next morning at nine o'clock, I got a phone call. He was in the operating room--would I please bring the article to him because he had forgotten one section of it. And we got it back at the end of the day with a little bit of blood on it. [We] wiped it off and put it back on the shelf. I mean, that--every medical librarian has a story like that--similar to this; but I lived this as a librarian in the '60s, who was very very young and raw, actually. [Laughs] So, it was fun. Do you want to take a break? [Recording restarts]
So, when I was working at the medical library, my husband then finished his PhD and we moved down to New York City. And that's when I began at Columbia at PIC [Parkinson's Information Center], and went on eventually to Adelphi and to a whole different set of career parts.
When I retired from Adelphi, four or five years ago, I was appointed a Nassau scholar, which means you are a retired faculty member that they are going to give another job to. And the job they wanted me to do was to become the volunteer librarian for the Nassau County Planning Commission. The Planning Commission is very important in Long Island where there are 5.5 million people and practically no empty land--and you have to get all kinds of permits to tear something down, or put something up, or play around with it. And the files were dreadful, because the Republican government that had just lost power, had disbanded the library about 15 years earlier. So people had collected what they thought was important in boxes and closets, under the desks, etc., etc. And when I arrived, they had just moved all of this crap down to this bomb shelter in the basement of the planning building. And they bought me shelves, and they bought me tables. We started organizing it. It was awful. First of all, I had to learn something about what the library was going to be, because they couldn't explain it to me very well. Each division--whether it was the railroads, or the money, this--had their own bit; but they didn't talk to each other very much.
So I went around and talked to everybody. I went to a local conference on county planning, and at that conference a couple of people patted me on the head and said, "Well, it's nice that you are here; but we don't expect you to understand much." I looked at the group of five I was standing in and said, "I did my MBA in '88, when did you do yours?" Well, of the five men, only two had an MBA. And from then on, no one ever belittled me. I knew what I had to learn and I learned it.
Why did I do an MBA? Because I was doing reference desk work [and] the students were talking languages I had no idea about. They, of course didn't know physics or calculus, and I didn't know business; so I did an MBA to learn what was going on. And also, it became extremely valuable because I was the only person in the library that ever had a marketing course, or a management course. All of which I think is very important for librarians.
So, the Planning Commission got organized because I was really lucky: I had library school students take an internship with me. There were two library schools nearby: one at Queens College, one at C.W. Post. And students would come over and work for a semester--do an independent project--I would spend a lot of time talking to them about different libraries and where as we do this in this library, you do it that way in the public library, and that way in the university library. I certainly had the experience to teach them a lot. I quizzed them. I made them read things. And they loved it--so I got a new student every semester. That was good.
And then, after I got it all organized, and everything was in place--sort of--and people could find what they wanted, I was there one day a week, they came down five days a week, open the door, signed in, and found what they wanted. The County decided to move the building. So they played dominoes around five or six different buildings. And this year--for the past year--three-quarters of the library has been in a trailer, and the rest of it has been in a big trailer where there is a meeting room for the Commission to meet--and the most important volumes are sitting here. What a mess. So, I don't spend much time over there right now. Were moving into a new building this fall. But that's that kind of story--and that's kind of fun. And what's fun about that is that everything is on the computer. They have the GPS, they have the GPO files, they have this--and they have their own documents on file. I'm busy entering all the books in the library in the same file--or my students are.
But that takes me way, way back. What did we do in the '70s and the '60s and the '50s when we didn't have computers to the work for us? Interesting. When I was working in the public library and working at the public service desk at night, I did something that was called "library hand:" a very round, cursive, readable script. We couldn't use typewriters out in the public areas, because they were damn noisy in the '50s. So we wrote all those cards in library hand. So, that was fun.
In the '70s--'60s--in the medical school? We had MEDLARS. And we also were developing, for medical libraries, including National Library of Medicine, UCLA, Syracuse, and Washington at St. Louis--the four libraries were working together, cataloging medical books. We phoned each other every day. We used a thing like DARPA, and parceled out the new books we received, and we did the original cataloging for them. And it all went into NLM. So, that was sort of fun. I was only peripheral to that; but that is what we were doing.
In the '70s, I was working with the PIC database, which was an online database, again, from the National Library of Medicine. But when I came to work at Syracuse--excuse me, at Adelphi in Long Island--there was nothing on computers. We used Ulrich's for our serials, not a computer thing like MEDLINE. Okay. It was a struggle sometimes to do all kinds of paperwork we need to do for serials. The books were a little better off, because the books had the Library of Congress publications coming out every year or so. What serials had was Uhlrich's, which came out once a year, I think? It's now available online; but we had Uhlrich's and we had some prints, and the serials librarian had to keep track of a lot of journals, in terms of what the department needed, what was new in their field, and what was no longer being used but they wanted to keep it and what was available on microfilm and microfiche. And we did a major glutting of the collection at one point, and turned between 15 and 30 years of backfiles into microfiche. Now, for the New York Times that's just fine, because that's a very good copy and there is lots of them around; for Godey's Lady's Book, it wasn't available--although I noticed at this conference [ALA Annual 2008] that someone now has Godey's Lady's Book with all the illustrations online. I managed to eventually dump a whole lot of copies of the Century and some other journals, that had been popular in the 1880s and 1890s, because they were in pretty bad condition, and--theoretically--there was microfilm available--theoretically. When I saw the microfilm I cried because it didn't have all the ads and all the pictures. And the ads are what students loved, because in a marketing and business course, they wanted to look at an ad from the 1880s and compare it to one from the 1930s compared to one from the 1980s--so that was an interesting kind of thing. And all the business being done right now, in terms of bringing these sources back in digital form, is just fantastic--except you wonder, since the microfilm sort of all fell apart, is: Will that happened to the digital form? Again, those papers were filmed, discarded, and what's going to happen? I don't know.
So, there have been a lot of changes. By 1982 or 83, I dont remember, I was in ALA in Philadelphia, and saw the young man from Innovative Systems--the triple I--and they had a serials system, which I knew was fantastic because I had had quite a few years of serial experience by now. And I questioned him, and they had done this, they had done that, they had just taken care of--every kind of extra issues. [I] went back to my Dean, and said we have to have this system. It is--it is--you know the pearl, the platinum, it's whatever you want--[and] we got it. We were one of the ten beta testers, or something. It was just--in a crazy way, we got it. And from then on, we just went forward, because we had the best serials system in the world, and they did a circulation system to go with it, of course, immediately. So, we transferred from the clunky system we had been using for circ, to this one; and had some fun with it. So, again, by '85 or so, we were up and running with the systems.
And we got EBSCO Host, which had--whatever it was--23 journals in those days. [Laughs] I went to an EBSCO Host lunch yesterday, and they have thousands I think now. And they have interfaces now that are unbelievable. And if you compare a Google search and an EBSCO search, it's like night and day. So the instruction librarians have to spend an awful lot of time persuading students not to use Google; but to use those very expensive databases that the libraries are now buying.
Ah, well--let's see how it changes in the next few years. Google is now coming to conferences--I don't know what they [laughs] they think they are offering something. They are not yet. They may get there; but they are not there yet.
Sarah Albert: Speaking of Instruction Librarians, what other advice would you offer instruction librarians? Like you said they need to be sure to really teach the EBSCO databases--what other kinds of--.
Valerie Feinman: Okay, the first thing the Instruction Librarian should do is find out what the ACRL IS section is doing. They've got online materials that you can use for free. ALA has lots of online materials that you could use. And the IS section also has a daily citation database thing, where people ask questions. Now, when it was the BI list, back in the '80s, it was run out of Binghamton University, it was just instruction people asking each other "How do you do this?," or "Do you have a roommate for ALA?," or "Are you going to be in town so you can show me how to do this thing?" Now, it is very sophisticated, and there's 15 to 20 questions every day, with lots of answers, lots of bibliographies, lots of articles. Whatever you want to know about, the ILI list is just terrific--so you've got to get into that information literacy list. Again, you do not have to pay for it. You just get into it.
Then, try to attend conferences, when they are near by. Try to attend ACRL chapter meetings, if they are near by--they do have them in many major cities, not every city; but--we have one in New York City that meets every November. I have been a member of it since '78, when it was created. I was a charter member. And I go to those meetings, and we get people from Connecticut, New Jersey, upstate New York, and Pennsylvania, all coming in for those meetings. And so, get to those things.
Then, the other thing you need to do as an Instruction person, is learn about LIRT--the Library Instruction Round Table. This is a thing you pay $5 or $10 extra for as part of your ALA membership--and if you ask about it, sometimes you get to pay the $5 or $10 and not your ALA membership (you can't go to conferences on that; but they will let you in for the discussions). What's good about LIRT is that it covers public libraries, Indian libraries, jail libraries--every kind of library that does any sort of library instruction. Yes, most of the people are university librarians because they are the ones who can afford to go to conferences; but there are a nice number of others. And we are making more and more virtual members because we know it is difficult to get money for conferences. And a virtual member has to go to one out of four years--or something like that, it's not too bad.
The other thing is, you can get a committee posting almost right away. We are not as hard-and-fast as the IS is, or the ACRL. Another other thing is, they have a newsletter. And they make bibliographies of articles, and you can write an article for them and get it published in the newsletter--long, long before you can do a research article for the ACRL journal. So if you want to get your feet wet with a little bit of publishing, again, LIRT is a place to be.
So, and then, talk to other Instruction Librarians. On Long Island, we have many colleges, and I've tried to get us all together to talk to one another and the methods are so different at the different colleges, because the deans are different and the provosts are different--and therefore, the libraries are different. So, you should at least talk to your neighbors, they might be doing something you wish you could do; they might be so far behind you that they want to talk to you; and at least you should talk to other people. In the '70s there was usually one instruction person at every university library. Now, almost all the reference librarians call themselves instruction people. So the numbers have grown; but there is usually one who is the boss, is the leader, is the one who has to keep the others informed. So find out who that person is. If you are in a very large library, it shouldn't be difficult. If you are in a small library, it should be easy as pie. And if you are an out-going and extroverted person, you can always put yourself right at the front. Be a ham like me and get yourself involved.
Sarah Albert: It sounds like a lot of that advice could applied to library school students also.
Valerie Feinman: Everywhere.
Sarah Albert: Do you have additional advice for students?
Valerie Feinman: When I was in library school, our faculty didn't talk to us about conferences. We didn't even know about state conferences. No one came back and reported to us about ALA. It was a desert. And I was actually very shocked by this, because I was still in library school when I was going to the medical library conferences, as a medical librarian because my boss dragged me everywhere for the grants. Okay? So I knew about conferences. I knew about papers. I knew what was going on. And I was appalled that the library school students didn't. Now, in today's age with so many blogs and so many websites--and everyone knowing everything--you just have to get on the we and find out what it is for your kind of library, or anything you are interested in. Use all the databases that you can find that are useful. And collect contact people in the field--whether it is a public library field, whether it is an archives field--groups like ACRL have 25 different committees dealing with women's studies to arts, to archives.
And then there's another group in ALA called RUSA--Reference Users Services--this has BRASS, which is a business reference thing. It has several other sections, and it's very well centered for the reference librarian that has to do certain kinds of work. It has a history and genealogy and archive section, it has BRASS, it has CODES--which is cataloging. Find out, from ALA, what the groups are; pinpoint two or three that you are interested in; and start finding out more about them, because its easy now. The web is there: use it. And talk to other people in the school.
And talk to even faculty--because now that we have something called ALISE--which is the--who knows what its called [Association for Library and Information Science Education]it's the library school group that coordinates a pre-conference at ALA every year. It keeps the library school managements talking to one another. So, the library schools--now--have a better way of keeping in touch; and keeping each other informed. Make sure you know about it. A-L-I-S-E is that group.
What else can I say? Talk to people. Talk to people. Please. Don't be shy. There's--I spent today--this has nothing to do really with what we were talking about. I sat down at a table today for lunch with a cataloger. I had never met her before--there was an empty place at a table--and I sat down. A little while later, another lady came along, and she sat over there, and we said, "Come on, come on, join us!" It turned out that she was a cataloger too--for the Library of Congress--and the two catalogers got into a discussion about personalities. And they decided they were both introverted and--I'm definitely not introverted--we started talking "Librarians: what are they? What aren't they?" We went the gamut from how non-conservative are most librarians--how liberal, how far to the left, how standing by the library rules and rights--all the way back to jokes that catalogers tell on one another. It was just hilarious, it just went on and on. And none of us wanted to stop. And this is typical activity. Never sit in a corner: just join a group and start talking. I think that is the best way to learn about where you want to be? Is that--?
Sarah Albert: Yeah, that was good.
Valerie Feinman: Stop. I want a drink. [Recording restarts]
Sarah Albert: Valerie, what else would you like to share with us?
Valerie Feinman: Okay, at this particular conference--having spent Friday at the seminar with Arro Smith and learning all about Loriene Roy's project--my brain just went into click-click fast mode, and I started thinking. So that as I went around the exhibits, I plucked off certain people to talk to. For example, I ran into the--a person from the Canadian Library Archives, where they are half librarians and half archivists; but it is the Canadian National Library. And we started talking about "library hand" and hand-written cards, and old records and old indexes. And when I left, I got a promise from him to write something up and join the group get everyone else he could think of interested in it; and to get in touch with a man who had been at the Friday seminar, his name is Alvin Thompson, or something, who is the out-going Canadian Library Association president. So I connected those two people, gave the website to the second one, and said, "We want you in on this." I said, "One of the things I think Arro's going to be interested in, would be slightly different handling of documents in Canada and the U.S." Just as there is different handling in the States versus the Federal.
Okay, then this morning I went to ALISE and spoke to them and said, "I want library schools involved in this." Library schools--and I talked to several separate library schools plus the ALISE group--I said, "Library schools have students. Students are up-to-date and know what they want to find out about. They can use camcorders. They need projects. They want to be interns. They want money. We can help them." I said, "Every library school in this country should a focus point for librarians in their area, to do the recordings of the elderly, the retiring, no matter what kind of librarian. They should go after their own graduates, and get comments from them. They should go after their own faculty and get comments from them. They should go after their aunts and uncles and god-mothers and whatever that were librarians, and get comments from them." This is important. And the ALISE people said, "Wow! I agree. That's the way we have to get started." And so I came back to [Arro], and said, "We have to do this." And he said, "Well, I was going to go there next." [Laughs] I said, "Okay, well I started it."
I also went to the BCALA, the black caucus of --yes. I said--I explained the whole project. I said, "I want to know who you recommend that I talk to. If I walk in, someones going to think that Im using you or abusing you--or whatever." I said, "This is an ALA project. You are part of ALA, and I'm sorry to say it, but black people can approach black people more easily than I can." And--I want those stories. Well, that got a big welcome, too. And yes, that one is going to go forward.
Sarah Albert: Wonderful. Valerie Feinman: I met a student doing a posterboard session. Posterboard session was on "people's reactions to libraries and librarians just following the flood." I said to her, "I want a copy of paper. I'm going to put [Arro] on to you, because this is a reaction to librarians." I said, "There maybe some library stories we can pick out of it, too." And we need to know that. This is a digital history that you are doing right now. Join the project. And so, everyone I've been bumping into, I've been talking to. And that's because I'm this kind of older person that--yep. And the other thing, and [Arro's] going to do this, I'm sure--we recommend a taping booth at every conference, with lots of publicity, so that people can sign up ahead of time and come in and tell their story. And it should be manned by library school students who get internship, get their way paid, whatever--we pay your way to the conference, you work for us as--. It can be worked out, let's just do it. Your library school may pay for it because its an independent project. I don't know? It can work out. And we can get more library school students to the conferences to do these things--especially someone local.
So, my--I think I said my brain went into high-gear. And it did. So I've just been going around in circles. I also want to do this a state library conferences. One of the ALISE people was from the Buffalo Library School, and she said, "Are you going to go to NYLA?"--the New York Library Association conference which is this fall. I said, "I was thinking about it." She said, "Well, you better. Come and talk about this." Every state has an association that has meetings. They can be satellite stations, too, if they put their minds to it. Again, using library school students as the facilitators. It just really can get going if we work on it.
Last, but not least: I had to talk to John Chrastka about something. You know who he is, I think? [ALA Director of Membership Development] Okay. And I told him about the project, and I said, "You need to do more publicity on this. George Eberhart needs to do more publicity on this in that--ALA whatever it's called--that newsletter that comes out every Wednesday--
Sarah Albert: ALA Direct?
Valerie Feinman: ALA Direct. Ive known George for 20 years. It's good. Okay, there will be more there. And anything Loriene wants to give him, he will publish--anytime. That's a message direct to you. Okay, so I talked to John Chrastka about this, and he said--oh, I told him also, that I had had a retirement"--what are you going to do after you retire?" --roundtable luncheon at a prior ACRL conference, and that I wanted to set one up for Seattle--which he thought was a good idea. But he said, "That's interesting, because I've been trying to get a users group--excuse me, an interest group--in ALA--to keep people about to retire interested in the profession, and able to help however they can help, as mentors or whatever." He said, "You and I need to talk about this." I said, "I just want to run a roundtable." He said, "Well, it takes a lot of work now days, you cant just say you want to run it the way you used to; and you need a hundred petitions." I said, "Echt!" He said, "I can do the petitions!" [Laughs] He said, "You and I, were going to do it." And we are going to do it.
So, if we can get ALA to have this interest group that will interface with Arro Smith's group, which will interface all over ALA, we're--this is going to become a real legacy, as Loriene imagined it. And I think it is just about time. One of the little catalogers at lunch time said today, "Too many of us are retiring, too many of us are getting Alzheimer's. We've got to get those stories now." And I agree. End of story.
Sarah Albert: Well, Valerie, thank you so much for sharing you professional history, and your advice, and your enthusiasm about the Capturing Our Stories project.
Valerie Feinman: It is perfect for someone like me.
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