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Published: July 2, 2010 at 7:52 AMThese all look very amazing winners! When you were at IOA last time Robert, did they still have the banner up for Theme Park Insider on Mythos? It would be great to show my family if it is still there!
I am also glad Wilderness Lodge won, being the hotel I stayed at four years ago when I visited WDW! Amazing rooms, a beautifully designed and very large lobby, and fun restaurants and atmosphere. It truly is a great resort, plus not the most expensive!
Also like the new picture in the website banner with the WWOHP!
Published: July 2, 2010 at 7:53 AMYes Islands totally deserved it.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 8:10 AMI think I could not disagree more with giving the award to IOA. I mean, I understand how it was broken down, but IOA is really fallen to the wayside with the exception of Harry Potter coming in. Again, I really do not understand the extreme hype to the point of almost obsession with Harry Potter. I am really starting to get worried that this will not meet my expections because of the rave reviews just like the Mummy next door at USO. I am also not a big fan of Harry Potter Banner in the top corner.
As from Bistro, I kinda disagree with that one too, but I could understand how it could win. I just do not think it is as accessable as the others.
I agree with Wilderness lodge which boasts good resturants, good food, good pool, and the most breathtaking lobby of them all!
So 2 out of 4 for me. I think that might be a better record of agreement than in the past!
Anyway, congrats to you Robert for bringing another fantastic year and season of TPI!
Published: July 2, 2010 at 8:17 AMDon't underestimate the power of Potter to drive up ratings. And, yes, the winner of the Best Theme Park gets a photo from it in the masthead until next year's awards. Since Potter was the reason IOA won (let's face it), I selected Wizarding World images for the masthead.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 8:27 AMI suspect Forbidden Journey will win Best Ride for the next handful of years to come, short of any crazy upsets (anyone remember Tower of Terror? ;)). Anthony, I don't think IOA's going to be there forever, so I wouldn't worry too much. Next year will probably be more agreeable for you.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 8:57 AMJust wait until Disney buys out Universal's rights to Marvel. IOA has learned the value of catering to obsessive fans and will launch Twilight Island!
Published: July 2, 2010 at 10:52 AMBistro De Paris/Disney's Wilderness Lodge - until my kids grow up and move out, I can't justify the expense.
My personal favorites so far this year (keep in mind that I will ride I-305 in about two weeks, so this list could change):
Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe - a hidden gem at Epcot!
Disney's Port Orleans (Riverside) - the best moderate resort at WDW, and the only one that caters to a family of 5!
Sum of All Thrills - another hidden gem at Epcot.
Epcot - a precious diamond despite its many flaws.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 11:37 AMJames,
I continue to be stumped why Epcot doesn't get more love in the awards. (Remember, I am the person who just about jumped off a Web server when y'all voted Impressions de France out in the first round of the tournament this year.) Still, the restaurant awards are a nice honor!
Published: July 2, 2010 at 11:58 AMI think EPCOT has attractions that you either love or hate, but its eateries are undisputed as the best food generally for a theme park. It takes alot of work to have a HORRIBLE meal at EPCOT. I also think that EPCOT's attractions are underrated because many are turned off by their educational value. Besides Captain EO/Honey I Shrunk the Audience and Mission Space, every other attraction teaches you something about the world, technology, or science.
I used to really hate Impressions, but now after being to Paris and actually understanding what is going on in the movie with the music and scenery, it is the most subdued and underrated attraction there.
The awards rarely go to my favorites, except for hotels. I am personally suprised that Wilderness Lodge doesn't beat the rest every year. It literally has something for everybody including two fine resturants in Disney style: one family, one adult!
James, I agree with you fully on your pick of Port Orleans. I feel that its the perfect middle resort, but I also have love for the Carribean Beach!
Published: July 2, 2010 at 1:22 PMI'm Happy for Universal that they are getting more love than they usually do. I'm also happy for Disney! I hope Disney can find a great idea to be what we call a "Harry Potter Killer" Never mind, the always get love every year, i just wish EPCOT gets some love too. It is truly one of the greatest parks in the world, but not as good as IOA which to me is the 2nd greatest park in the world. Right behind Disneyland.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 2:50 PMharry potter rocks
Published: July 2, 2010 at 3:07 PMIt bothers me a bit that a ride that has been officially open less than 2 weeks wins best new attraction. I would be surprised if it's clocked more than 50,000 rides to date. To me, there's just not a large enough sample size to award Forbidden Journey best new attraction. TPI should have waited until next year for this attraction to be eligible. Same goes for World of Color, granted at least you could kind of experience the show online, and it is playing for thousands upon thousands of guests every night.
As far as the other awards, I think the restaurants are a bit tricky, especially since the top two are right next to each other. There are TONS of great theme park restaurants, and I would say at least 3-5 that are better just in EPCOT including LeCellier, Coral Reef, and Restaurant Marrakesh.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 3:52 PMGood choices all around. Superior choice of Forbidden Journey in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I don't think there has ever been a ride that so fully takes you into the mindset and feel of being in an ancient Wizard castle surrounded by magic. I am absolutely blown away by all of Hogsmeade. The best part is I can buy a VIP Tour and skip the lines!
Published: July 2, 2010 at 4:06 PMI have been to many of the restaurants in Walt Disney World. It would be hard to pick my top 2 or 3. I don't think I have ever been to the restaurants in France. Of all the restaurants at all the amusement and theme parks that I have been to, I would consider the restaurants at WDW the best. Of all the theme parks, I would consider the Magic Kingdom the best.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 5:20 PMIOA is a great park. I still remember the first time I went to the park (with my grandparents) and my grandpa went on Dueling Dragons with me, it was a blast. I also love the runner up, BG Williamsburg. Great turn out for the awards this year, although, I do wish that Forbidden Journey would have been put over into next year for eligibility, but it sounds like a great ride anyway.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 5:31 PMI am starting to feel most of these readers hating so much on Harry Potter may not have chance to visit Harry Potter soon and could be looking for any sort of reason to be happy about it.
If it is not that, I don't know what it is. The ride is amazing from what EVERYONE has said. By the end of the year, probably near half of America will have been down to experience Harry Potter, and the only complaint about it is the weight issue. An attraction should not accommodate to the heavier standards, the heavier standards should loose weight and accommodate to the attraction, doing much more good than vise versa.
Published: July 2, 2010 at 8:18 PMI thought the Twilight Island comment was both humorous and probably accurate. There will be dueling coasters named Jacob and Edward!..... lol.
Published: July 3, 2010 at 3:10 AMDisneyland, last year's winner, is still easily the best theme park in America. But IOA was bound to win this year, thanks to the excitement over WWOHP. I'm stunned that Disneyland didn't even come in second or third, though.
Published: July 3, 2010 at 1:21 PM^Nick, I've been holding back on my comment about Harry Potter untill now. I beg to differ on your post about all the people of America rushing to see FJ and Potterland. May I state that Zachary and I own all the books and the movies that are available on VHS and DVD, so I guess that makes us fans, sort of.
So to challenge your statement, I went to Internet Movie Database(IMDb.com) and looked up these facts. For All Time Box Office Movies here in the USA, the first Harry Potter movie ranked is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and sad to say it's ranked #25 for all time movies.
It's only when you look up for ouside the USA do you find the fisrt movie ranked in the top ten and that's HP and the Sorcerer's Stone ranked at # 6. And World Wide the first movie ranked is the Sorcerer's Stone at # 7.
So you can see Nick, by those stats, Harry Potter is not so hot here in the United States as you stated. Granted, he's very popular overseas, but not so much here. Zachary and I may go see FJ next year when we go down to Florida but after going to Universal last year, I may not go just for one ride even though we are fans.
Published: July 4, 2010 at 8:43 AMJames, I still stand with my statement that HP is not that popular here as he is worldwide. If your talking money, POTC made over a billion in the USA with just three films and 2.6 billion worldwide with the same three movies.
Star Wars with it's six film series made over 2 billion in the USA but only 4.6 worldwide. And if your just talking money and popular movies, look what James Cameron did with just two films. Over 1.3 billion here and over 4.5 worldwide.
Harry may have a large fan base overseas, but to have his top rated movie ranked 25th here speaks volumns to me at least. I can understand the rush to Universal right now, but I think it will cool down quite a bit in the next few years. Once all the first timers get their taste of Potterland and butterbeer, you'll see the drop off,imho.
Published: July 4, 2010 at 8:48 AMIslands of Adventure and Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey undoubtedly deserve the awards this year. Islands of Adventure is a great park, completely underrated in its theming and attention to detail all over. Harry Potter just helped push it to that next level to really position itself as one of the absolute best theme parks in the world.
Published: July 4, 2010 at 10:28 AMBob, with about 5% of the world's population in the US, we contributed almost 30% of the worldwide gross for Harry Potter movies. Whether the US is as crazy about JK Rowling's brainchild as the rest of the world is irrelevant. The fact remains, we're just wild about Harry!
Published: July 4, 2010 at 11:08 AMBest Restaurant
Best Hotel
I once stayed at the Wilderness Lodge. Though the lobby and restaurants are beautiful, we were very disappointed in our rooms. They were dilapidated and cramped. Paint was peeling off of the walls in the room and hallways. We could hear everything our neighbors were doing. Maybe we were unlucky and ended up with one of the old rooms requiring refurbishing, but we felt pretty ripped off. My personal favorite theme park hotel is the Saratoga Springs Resort. Like Bistro, it is calm, quiet, and accommodating. The rooms are nicely arranged and appointed. The views, particularly at sunset, are gorgeous. We loved the kitchenette and balcony. We were walking distance from Downtown Disney and a short bus ride from most of the parks. I'd like to see more love for Saratoga.
Best New Attraction
No complaints here. Haven't ridden it, but if Universal outdid Spiderman, then it must be amazing.
Best Theme Park
Many complaints here. IOA is a half-day park. Too many of the attractions are dilapidated and malfunctioning, especially considering how young the park is. The locker system is inconvenient. Most of the queues feature very little theming. The loading platform employees are inefficient. It's still a great park, but the greatest? I'm with James on this one. Epcot is my favorite, followed by Universal Orlando. I was happy to see Animal Kingdom as a runner-up. I had a near-perfect day there on my last visit. Great attractions, theming, and service.
Published: July 5, 2010 at 2:41 PMBest Restaurant: I have not been able to go to the Bistro de Paris but it's downstairs partner is phenominal. Le Celier is also amazing.
Hotel: Once again i have not been able to stay here but it looks great. My choice would be Polynisian.
New Attraction: haven't been to IOA this year so can't say i've ridden it but it looks great.
Theme Park: IOA? really? this park won't deserve it even if they add 2 more rides on par with spidy and harry p. IOA is too choppy. Many parts haven't had maintenence for years(or so it seems). If the whole park had the consistantsy of Harry potter world(from what i've heard) it would be a great park. Epcot and Animal Kingdom have themeing throughout the park that makes IOA look like an abandoned themepark. Even DHS is better than IOA because of the great details throughout the whole park. IOA is great, but not great enough.
Published: July 6, 2010 at 9:26 AMhow much does disney pay this rag? How any disney park can rank over Cedar Point is beyond me.
Published: July 6, 2010 at 1:10 PMDisney pays us rather handsomely, 22.214.171.124. With all the extra money they've earned by attracting tourists seeking quality parks with an appropriate mix of thrills, laughs, atmosphere, theming, live entertainment, customer service, comfort, and food, they've been able to create and maintain a seemingly unbiased website with thousands of fans (cast members with aliases, naturally) contributing fictional trip reports, accident watches, park, restaurant, and hotel reviews, weekly votes, ticket discount sources, general theme park tips, and daily news blogs, ALL with the intent of promoting the superiority of Disney above all other organizations.


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KEVIN Garwood was last night cursing his luck after 'one bad shot' blew his chances of Open qualification.
The Parkstone touring professional carded rounds of 72 and 73 for a respectable top-10 finish at West Lancashire yesterday.
But with just three places available from each of the four qualifying courses, it left Garwood four shots short of the mark.
However, it could have been so much better for Garwood, who was on track for a top-three finish with just three holes remaining in the 36-hole qualifier.
"I was five-under-par standing on the 16th tee before my drive found thick rough," explained Garwood, who finished up with an eight on the par-five hole.
Despite a desperate search, his ball was declared lost as a place in the 141st Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, later this month, disappeared.
"I'm absolutely gutted," said the 26-year-old former Dorset amateur star. "I had played well all day until one bad shot cost me my chance. It's a shame because driving is normally one of the strongest parts of my game.
"However, once I sit down and reflect on the day, I'm sure there will be a lot of positives to take away, but at the moment I'm just disappointed with my finish.
"I've proved to myself that I am capable of competing at this level. I just need to be playing more competitive golf," added Garwood, who has struggled to raise enough sponsorship to play regularly on the Europro Tour.
New Zealand's Steven Alker won the West Lancashire qualifier on seven under, while four players on five-under-par were involved in a play-off for the last two spots.
Former US Open champion Michael Campbell was among the big names to miss out, finishing one shot behind Garwood.
Meanwhile, Garwood's fellow East Dorset professionals Lee Thompson and Luke Joy also missed out on their chance of an appearance on the major stage.
Dudsbury's Thompson, who made the cut in the 1999 Open at Carnoustie, carded rounds of 74 and 72 for a two-over-par total at Hillside – eight shots off the qualifying mark in joint 18th place.
"I enjoyed it and the course was fair," said Thompson. "I just putted badly and didn't take my chances when I had them. The only two dropped shots in the afternoon were three-putts and you just can't afford to do that with so few places available."
The 40-year-old touring professional is now focused on the West Region order of merit race. He is currently in the lead, following a second-place at Bowood last week.
Broadstone's Joy was one of the last players on the course at Southport & Ainslie, teeing off his second round Open qualifier after 4pm.
But the former Dorset and England junior international's chances of qualification were as good as over following a six-over-par 78 in the morning.
Joy, who has completed a five-year golfing scholarship in the USA, carded a second-round 76 for a 10-over-par total.
All three players qualified for the final qualifying stage by finishing in the top-12 at the regional event at Ferndown last month.

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keeping the dark mood? no. this is not a dark piece and the only thing that could really make it dark is if you added a bunch of screams here and there and slowed it down. completely. but it would still be a pretty happy dark composition.
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SEAMLESS integration of the car motor sound into the track. The beats throughout are so compact -- the song just hits you like a perfectly executed Street Fighter combo.
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I love listening to music. It helps me unwind, and it is something I really enjoy. However, when I tried to listen to my favorite tunes while I was busy working on my computer, I noticed that the words of the songs I was listening to had a way of worming into my brain, and caused me to make mistakes. Then I realized that I had to search for another kind of music, if I wanted to be able to do both things at the same time.
I knew from some articles I read a while ago that music can help you be more productive. I even read about the Mozart effect (although some scientists say that its benefits are not as important as some people like to think). I would not go as far as thinking that listening to classical music can make you smarter, but, after I searched through various tracks, tunes, selections and so on, I found one that is just to my liking. Here is the link to YouTube:
First of all, it is just instrumental, so that really helps me a lot when I work on my computer. There is no scrambling, no annoying noise to keep my thoughts from flowing. Second of all, I know that it is a well tried recipe. The guy making the music is a medical school student and he uses it when studying. A lot of people love his music, too, and that must count for something.
I noticed quite an important increase in my productivity once I started listening to this type of music. Classical music always works, but be aware that not all the great composers will put you in a good mood for studying or working. Mozart is, indeed, the king, and Bach is the greatest when it comes to music that can uplift you and keep your mind alert. However, I would not recommend anything that is too dark or depressing. So, no funeral marches for me, thank you very much! You will just end up wanting to cry for no reason (I hope you know I exaggerate a bit, but still, that is not the kind of music to listen to, when you want to keep going).
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The following comments pertain to the elements of the achievement of the Institute alone. For a general explanation of the nature and significance both of heraldic symbols in general and of those peculiar to Notre Dame heraldry in particular, see the article The Heraldic System of the University of Notre Dame.
A. Blazon or technical description:
Azure, on a mullet of eight points Argent, a roundel of the First charged with a sun-in-splendour Or, the whole within a Bordure of Notre Dame, viz. Argent, charged at the corners with three open books of the Last, bound and edged of the First, bearing respectively the words VITA, DULCEDO, and SPES in letters Sable, and between the books three mullet of six points of the First.
B. Non-technical description:
On a shield with a plain blue background, a straight-edged star with eight rays, silver or white in colour, bearing at its centre a blue disc, itself bearing across its whole surface a stylized image of the sun with circling flames, depicted in gold or yellow. Around the whole edge of the shield is set a narrow border of silver or white, on which are placed first, at the corners, three white books with blue covers and edging, and having the texts VITA, DULCEDO, and SPES respectively; and second, set equidistant between the books, three blue straight-sided stars with six rays.
C. Explanation:
The arms of the Medieval Institute allude primarily to the patroness of the University and Institute, and to Christ and the Christian nature of both, but they also include an allusion to its academic nature and fields, and a formal symbol of its status as an Institute headed by a director and dependent directly on the University of Notre Dame as such. The colours, blue, silver or white, and gold or yellow, are the colours of the Blessed Virgin; blue and gold alone are the standard colours of the Virgin and of the University as a whole, while blue and silver are the colours of the Virgin as 'Star of the Sea' (the symbolism of all of the stars in the arms, taken directly from the arms of the University). In the bordure - whose presence and form is standard for Institutes of the University - these colours have another set of meanings, for blue is also the standard colour in the U.S. academic code for degrees in the national Faculty of Philosophy (M. Phil., Ph.D.), and white of degrees in that of Arts and Letters (B.A., M.A., D.A.), and these are the Faculties (in the traditional sense of major divisions of learning) in which the Institute grants degrees. The actual elements of the standard bordure - called the 'Bordure of Notre Dame' - are drawn from the University arms: the six-pointed star of the Virgin, and the book (a symbol of higher learning) bearing the words from the Marian hymn Salve Regina, in which she is described as 'Life, Sweetness, Hope'. To accommodate so many words on the small scale of the bordure, each of the three books is made to bear only one of the three words.
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On a HELM suitable to a non-commercial private corporation in the United States of America, over a LAMBREQUIN of the livery colours Azure doubled party of Or and Argent, and issuant of a TORSE of the academic colours Argent and Azure, a mullet of eight points as in the arms, set between a pair of arms embowed proper, the dexter male and the sinister female, both habited Azure, doubled Argent, together holding an open book of the Last, bound and edged Or, bearing the words VITA DULCEDO SPES in letters Sable.
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The HELM should be of a form symbolic of private corporate bodies, in colours symbolic of non-commercial status, and bearing at the base a circle of white five-pointed stars symbolic of legal residence in the USA. (This is part of a proposed code of symbolism for helms in this country, to be presented for adoption by the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the principal registry body in the country, of which the designer is a member.)
The crest combines the principal device of the arms (bearing all of its symbolic values) with the book from the University arms (bearing the whole text explained above), and the male and female hands-and-arms that are used as the standard supporters or 'flankers' of in the achievements of the Colleges and Schools of the University. These hands generally represent human agency in its sexual and gendered duality, and are here clad in a primitive form of academic gown in the academic colours of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts.
A. Blazon:
On a sun-in-splendour Or a roundel Azure, charged with the letters m:i of the First, ensigned by the BONNET of the Director of an Institute granting degrees in Arts and Philosophy, viz. a doctoral bonnet Sable, its brim edged with a narrow band of gold lace, curled on the upper edge, encircled by a torse in the academic colours Argent and Azure, and charged with a shield of the arms of the University, Proper.
B. Description:
The badge consists of the sun from the centre of the arms, itself bearing at its centre (like the star of the arms) a blue disc, in this case bearing the letters m and i, in gothic script. The sun is shown surmounted by the black bonnet of a director of an Institute.
C. Explanation:
The sun represents the idea of Christ and of the centrality of the Christian tradition to the interests of the Institute, and also the general idea of centrality or middleness so important to the symbolism of the arms, emphasized by the placement of the cipher or initials of the Institute at its own centre. The badge (with or without the bonnet) can be placed (either singly or multiply, as on the motto-scroll) on items owned by the Institute, or worn by Fellows, students, employees, and graduates on ties, lapel pins, and the like, as a symbol of affiliation.
The BONNET is actually a distinct symbol representing the hierarchical status of the Institute in terms of the status of its head, and also indicating the general nature of the Institute as an academic institution. It can be used to mark any of the elements of the achievement in the way shown here, and in a greater or full achievement would normally be placed directly above the shield, resting on its upper edge or corner, either below or in place of the helm with its crest and lambrequin. The Director of the Institute would also use it in place of the crested helm in his official arms, which would be further distinguished with a collar indicative of his professorial rank.
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Investors have pulled more than $US20 billion from emerging market funds over the past year amid growing nervousness over the US Federal Reserve's imminent change to its massive bond-buying activities.
According to funds flow researcher EPFR Global, year-to-date redemptions from EPFR Global-tracked Emerging Markets Equity Funds pushed past the $US20 billion ($22 billion) mark in late November, while developed market funds absorbed nearly $US350 billion.
Emerging markets have been one of the hardest hit asset classes as a result of the US Fed's plans to taper its $US85 billion a month in bond purchases, which has seen capital return to traditional safe havens such as the US.
Commodities fared worst, posting a 10.68 per cent loss this year, compared to minus 5.74 per cent for emerging markets and a 21 per cent gain for equities, according to Deutsche Bank.
The outflows in emerging markets has hurt countries like Indonesia, India and Brazil as the prospect of less Fed stimulus exposed bigger problems to investors around current account deficits and structural weaknesses.
In a note to clients on Wednesday, Citigroup chief economist Willem Buiter said in the absence of political risks or shocks from the US, Europe and China, he expects that "emerging market growth will continue to outpace advanced economy growth in 2014, as in every year since 1999. However, the growth gap in 2014 is likely to be the smallest since 2002 and [Citi] continue[s] to revise emerging market growth forecasts lower on balance".
But Douglas Cairns, investment specialist in Asia and global emerging market equities for Threadneedle, said 2014 should be much better for emerging markets as growth in China stabilises.
Stimulus benefits
"China expects to see 7 per cent annual growth for 2014 and we believe it will be somewhere between 7 per cent and 7.5 per cent growth next year. There is an expectation the numbers will probably stabilise around those levels in the years ahead. This should in turn be better for the emerging markets," he said.
While Indonesia, India and Brazil remain vulnerable, there are countries that used the benefits of global stimulus and low borrowing costs to build and grow their economies.
"There are four countries which are seen as alternative manufacturing hubs for China. The Philippines, Thailand, Mexico and Turkey. We are overweight all of these countries," said Mr Cairns.
"Thailand has huge car manufacturing plants and export capabilities. It also has good government incentives to attract investments. Philippines are doing the same sort of thing.
"We are also overweight Russia, but not because we like the Russia economy but because they have companies that are 25 per cent cheaper than comparative global peers.
"We like the consumer discretionary and technology sectors within emerging markets."
Once the Fed starts to taper its stimulus, which many experts believe will happen in the first quarter of 2014, further volatility could hit emerging markets, like that seen in June.
"The initiation of tapering by the Fed and some macroeconomic vulnerabilities in a few systemically important emerging markets could create a bit of a jolt. But, once again, it is unlikely that 2014 will bring an emerging market crisis like those of yesteryear," said Mr Buiter.
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At the invitation of the Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Mozambique, Mr Fernando Subana Junior, Minister van Schalkwyk led a delegation to meet his counterpart, in a run-up to the Official State visit to the country by President Jacob Zuma scheduled for later in this year. The Minister's delegation was welcomed by the Minister of Tourism in Mozambique. The Minister also paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister, Mr Aires Ali, where issues of mutual interests between the countries were discussed. The Governments of South Africa and Mozambique has a history of a structural bilateral relationship and Minister van Schalkwyk commended Mozambique for constructively working with South Africa.
During its time in the country, the Minister's delegation visited the Sports Complex of Zimpeto which consists of the All Africa Games Athletes Village and the National Stadium. They also visited the National Tourism Institute (INATUR) as well as the Joaquim Chissano International Convention Center. The two delegations later met to discuss various issues, including a review on the tourism aspects of the Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) projects, harmonisation of the level of services and grading packages within the region, the hosting of the All Africa Games and Festival of Africa by Mozambique in September 2011 and lastly, the issue of investment packages available in Mozambique.
During the discussions, Minister van Schalkwyk highlighted the importance to increase air connectivity between South Africa and Mozambique to unlock the potential for tourism in the region. The Minister also reiterated the importance of cooperation on regional marketing to drive tourism growth in both countries and the significance of good infrastructure which inadvertently links to various product offerings in the region. There will be a strategic concentration of efforts on emerging markets, but without sacrificing our bread and butter traditional markets. Furthermore, we will follow a balanced approach between international, regional and domestic tourism – drawing on the strengths of each market while employing tactics to drive innovation and unearth new markets.
It was agreed between the two delegations that they will continue to foster and strengthen cooperation between the two countries by providing technical support to each other and to facilitate engagement to enhance harmonisation in respect of various tourism related aspects on a regular basis.
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Patrol Car Backed Into.
Erik W. Codacovi is accused of backing into a Warren County Sheriff's patrol car in the parking lot of the Lake Luzerne Cumberland Farms. His BAC, taken after the accident Tuesday night is reported as having been .08 and the Sheriff's Department says the 44 year old's license is already suspended as a result of a DWI conviction in April.
Codacovi was charged with the felony of Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in the first degree, the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated, the misdemeanor of Operating a Motor Vehicle with Suspended Registration and the traffic infractions of Unsafe Backing and Consumption of an Alcoholic Beverage in a Motor Vehicle.
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From: Thomas Moore <>
Subject: Conard/Conrad - Montgomery County, PA
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:18:24 -0400
I received this from a cousin who is not a subscriber to this list. I
hope someone may be able to help.
>There are several Cornelius Conrad/Conards. All descend from Madtis
Conders, the
>second son of Thones Kunders, and the name goes back to a Cornelius
Tyson, an ancestor.
>The Norristown one was born 13 Jun 1783, son of Samuel and Hannah
>Conard/Conrad. He wed Hannah Shoemaker, 10 Mar 1809 at Horsham MM,
>Montgomery Co. He was a miller in Upper Dublin twp. Cornelius is said
to have
>lived 84 years and probably died in Norristown. Hannah, wife, died
about 1843 &
>they had eleven children, :
> William, 11 Mar 1810---NEED
> Charles, 10 Sep 1811--NEED
> Phebe W., 25 Sep 1813-1 Jun 1900, unmd, bur Upper Dublin
> Samuel, 17 Sep 1815-NEED wife named Willamina, m c1842
> James, 18 Jan 1816, Horsham, NEED, wife named Margaret
> Jesse, 22 Mar 1820, Horsham, NEED
> Isaac, 27 Feb 1822, Horsham m Rachel Styer, have family; took CONRAD
as spelling
> Hannah, 17 Jan 1825, Horsham-7 Jan 1894, unmd, bur Upper Dublin
> Elizabeth, 6 May 1827, Upper Dublin, may have m Eli Dresher
> Cornelius III, 3 Sep 1829--had six sons, all used CONARD, partial
> Violetta, 11 Jan 1836, Upper Dublin, prob. d. young as is not in '50
>Cornelius Conard II married again, about 1845, to an Elizabeth, b c1797
and is
>believed to have had no issue by this marriage.
>Census records show the Cornelius family as Cornelius Conard, 1810
Upper Dublin
>twp, 1820, Cornelius Conard, Horsham twp. Do not have 1830 but in 1840
>Dublin and 1850, same, p 56
>The son Charles, my most of interest, married out of unity by 1838. It
is from this Charles that I >hope to connect the small CUNERD family and
I am hoping that this Charles can be found as >marrying an Elizabeth
----about 1837, him dying soon. She is found in the 1850 census of
>Upper Merion twp., Montgomery Co., with a 13 year old son, Charles
Conard and
>another family, her name being then Elizabeth CARNAHAN.
>On Film #25981, Part 3, Horsham Monthly Meeting Records Charles S.
>was reported as married out of unity 1 Aug 1838, an offering was
accepted on
>22 Aug 1838 (what this means I am not sure, but I found no further
record of him).
First, what did they mean when they said "an offering was accepted" ?
Second, does anyone have any other information on these Conard/Conrads,
especially Charles?
Thank you very much for any help you may be able to provide.
Take care.
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Issue No. 47
July 15, 2003
Paula Kaufman, University Librarian
A week after it announced its intention to step up the pace on acquisitions, Reed Elsevier put its money where its mouth is. Its global legal information unit LexisNexis announced it will acquire the public records business of Dolan Media. Dolan gathers and re-sells credit-related public records, which is exactly the sort of "industry tracking" information that is integrated into legal and credit analysis tasks—attractive workflow services with high "share of day" usage that will enhance LN's existing public records business. Reed Elsevier announced that it has a war chest it intends to use. It says it will use the over $800 million it generates in free cash flow each year to make further acquisitions. It claims that companies in any of its four main sectors—medical, legal, education, and business-to-business—are potential targets. Outsell Vice President and Lead Analyst Chuck Richard believes that the business-to-business trade journal space is least likely for new acquisitions, because of the sector's cyclical ad-based revenue. In our opinion, Reed Elsevier's explicit signals are an attempt to attract owners and strategic sellers who have been sitting on the fence because of low market valuations. Outsell's e-briefs, June 27, 2003
Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), says his organization plans to file at least several hundred lawsuits within the next 10 weeks against individual computer users who share substantial amounts of copyrighted music online. The RIAA, which represents the five major music labels, will start gathering evidence against file-swappers by using software to scan the public directories of peer-to-peer networks such as KaZaA and Grokster. Sherman says, "A lot of people think they can get away with what they are doing because peer-to-peer file sharing allows them to hide behind made-up screen names. They are not anonymous. The law is very clear. What they are doing is stealing." (New York Times 26 Jun 2003) NewsScan Daily, 26 June 2003
The Recording Industry Association of America last week forced Loyola University Chicago to hand over the names of students whom the association suspected of offering music over the university network in violation of copyright law. The association obtained the data through a subpoena, indicating that the group is fulfilling its pledge to clamp down on peer-to-peer music piracy by threatening to sue thousands of people.
An officer for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia delivered the subpoena to the university last Monday, according to Jack Corliss, a technology administrator at Loyola. The document, part of which was obtained by The Chronicle, cites the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and directs Loyola administrators to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of people assigned to a specific Internet address. Mr. Corliss says the university complied with the subpoena after notifying two students assigned to the Internet address on Wednesday that the recording-industry group had sought their identities and contact information. The students, who are enrolled in the university's summer session, have not discussed the subpoena with university administrators, says Mr. Corliss. Loyola is not the only college to receive such a subpoena since the recording-industry association announced last month that it would start amassing evidence to prepare lawsuits against people who upload large amounts of music, said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the group. But he declined to reveal how many colleges have received similar subpoenas. The subpoena to Loyola suggests growing confidence by the recording industry in demanding that Internet service providers identify individuals who are sharing music online. Tracy B. Mitrano, director of the program in computer policy and law at Cornell University, said she has studied the question of whether colleges could refuse to comply with recording industry subpoenas, citing academic freedom or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and determined that they can not. "I don't see how we have much of a choice," she said. http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/07/2003071402t.htm
Developers of P2P programs say the RIAA's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and suing users of file-sharing programs has yet to scare people. Grokster reported file-trading activity among users has increased by 10 percent in the past few days. Morpheus has seen similar growth. BNA Internet Law News (ILN) 7/7/03
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently launched a "Let the Music Play" campaign urging the more than 60 million U.S. citizens who use file-sharing software to demand changes in copyright law to get artists paid and make file-sharing legal. The EFF Let the Music Play campaign counters the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) announcement that it will file thousands of lawsuits against individuals who use file-sharing software like Kazaa, Grokster, and Morpheus. http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030630_eff_pr.php
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced that Washingtonpost.com will join The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in using CCC's Rightslink to allow users to instantly obtain permission for content re-use and reprints. In music, the public appears to be eager for a legal method for downloading and copying, and thus has jumped on the iTunes bandwagon. There has been no equivalent set of circumstances in online publishing: no headline-grabbing enforcement stories, and no pent-up customer demand for a way to come clean and be legal. In this context, the Washingtonpost.com story is a "visible" event because of the Post's national and international stature. In Outsell's opinion, three trends will converge and move this issue to the
front burner:
- CCC, RSiCopyright, and others will ride the current wave of enterprise-wide content services offered by the likes of Factiva, LexisNexis, and Yahoo!;
- New content purchase features embedded in Microsoft's Office suite of
software; and
- Content-level executives' need to reduce their firm's exposure to risk of
illegal copy and re-use behavior that would open them up to potential
These factors will combine to allow the business-to-business content industry to adapt to something like the music industry's "by the drink" user behavior, but without all the fuss. Outsell's e-briefs, June 27, 2003
New legislation could be a shot in the arm for the diverse forces that have been challenging the scientific publishing establishment with limited success in recent years. The Public Library of Science, whose free PLoS Biology online journal is directly targeting authors and readers of key for-profit scientific publications, has enlisted the cooperation of Minnesota Representative (D) Martin Olav Sabo in its efforts. Sabo will introduce legislation that would place the results of federally funded research in the public domain, so that private or association publishers would not be able to obtain copyright protection for such research. Sabo claims that $45 billion in tax dollars is spent on research that is only available in high-priced academic journals, which many universities and research libraries have been forced to cut back on due to budget concerns. The push for alternative publishing by PLoS and other organizations has failed to gain much traction in recent years, but this legislation has the potential to further level the playing field. Outsell's e-briefs, June 27, 2003
MORE ON PLoS PROPOSED LEGISLATION
A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public. The group's objective is an open system of scientific publishing that would bypass the current system, which centers on journals that charge, through their subscriptions, for access to results. The measure places results of research financed primarily by the government into the public domain so access cannot be prohibited by copyright, said Dr. Michael B. Eisen, a co-founder of the library, and a biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The bill also calls on federal agencies to improve access to their research results. Representative Martin Olav Sabo, Democrat of Minnesota, is to introduce the measure, called the Public Access to Science Act. A spokesman said that Mr. Sabo was concerned about patients' access to the latest medical research and that he would seek co-sponsors for the bill. American taxpayers invest about $45 billion a year in scientific and medical research, and the results should be readily available to them, Mr. Sabo said. The Public Library of Science, with the help of a $9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will begin publishing an online, peer-reviewed journal on biology in October, followed by a medical science journal early next year. Access to the journals is to be free, and the operating expenses are to be financed by $1,500 fees charged to researchers whose papers appear. Most research grants are large enough to include payments for publishing results, proponents say. Traditional journals like Nature and Science publish papers at no charge to researchers but recoup costs and sometimes make profits with advertising and paid subscriptions, on paper and online.
Hugo Alrøe, a scientist at the Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming and administrator of the open-access Organic Eprints Archive, also maintains a web page listing the policies of various scientific publishers on allowing authors to self-archive their articles. He knows that the RoMEO Project is already collecting this information and has a large head start. The difference seems to be that the Project RoMEO listings are based on published policies and copyright transfer agreements while his own are based on specific replies to a letter of inquiry. Open Access News 7/6/03 http://orgprints.org/info/inquiry_replies.htm
The June 25 issue of the Environment News Service reports on the open-access literature provided by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the US Department of Energy (DOE). This takes the form of an open-access repository for gray literature, one for preprints, one for journal articles, and a new cross-archive search engine for the many DOE and OSTI collections. Open Access News 7/6/03 http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-25-09.asp#anchor8
BioMed Central launched Open Access Now, a twice-a-month newsletter on open-access publishing. Open Access Now is edited by Jonathan B. Weitzman and will feature interviews with important players in the open-access movement and news. The inaugural issue interviews Gerry Rubin of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a moving force behind the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. A print edition of the newsletter will be distributed with The Scientist. Open Access News 7/14/03 http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/
The International Council for Science (ICSU) has released its Agenda for Action: Science in the Information Society. This is a set of documents outlining a vision for science in the age of the internet. The ICSU will encourage national governments from around the world to endorse the agenda at the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society. Quoting the press release: "Universal access to scientific knowledge, decision making and governance, policy issues for scientific information and improving education and training are the four key themes, which were chosen by the scientific community in developing its agenda for action. The science perspectives in relation to each of these themes is summarized in a series of four published brochures, which are available in English, French and Spanish. For each theme, the key principles, the challenges, the actions required, as well as examples of best practice, are highlighted....A very strong message to governments is the need to strengthen the public domain for scientific data and information and ensure equitable access to this. As Professor Jane Lubchenco – ICSU President - states: 'Scientific knowledge carries enormous potential for helping the world address the UN Millennium Development Goals, and the use of Information and Communication Technologies opens up unprecedented opportunities to accelerate this process.'" Open Access News 7/14/03
In the past, Gemstar CEO Henry Yuen was convinced that the ebook would soon become the preferred format for readers. But in yet another sign that ebooks were headed back to the drawing board, Gemstar said recently that it was pulling out of the ebook business; it will no longer sell eBook devices, but will continue to sell content until July 16, 2003, at which point the company will "cease to sell all books and periodical issues—either directly to customers or through Powells.com." For "at least the next three years," Gemstar said that users would be able to continue to use their eBook devices and content under the same arrangements as they do today. Still, that, the company noted rather ominously, is subject to change. Gemstar, the California-based developer of technologies such as VCR Plus+, entered the ebook market with a flourish in early 2000 by acquiring two ebook pioneers, SoftBook Press and NuvoMedia, known for its Rocket device. Library Journal Academic News Wire: June 24, 2003
Avi Rushinek and Sara Rushinek tackle this question in the May 13-19, 2003 issue of Ubiquity. Excerpt: "Evaluating the quality of a journal publisher is many times a controversial issue. This is especially the case as it pertains to the promotion and tenure decisions of faculty members. For that reason, many academic articles have been written about this subject. Yet, these articles may not address some issues when applied to environments outside the academic community. One such example is from the perspective of a forensic expert witness testimony. In such an environment, the traditional academic approach may not be the best and only approach. It may be too theoretical or too esoteric. It may take too much time to conduct these academic studies, leading to out-of-date results. What can be done to supplement the traditional academic methods of comparing the quality of different journal publishers, authors and articles, especially for lay people who do not know the domain, cannot invest a lot of time in studying it, and need to get objective, immediate and up-to-date answers? Our response is using the Internet search engines to compare articles." Open Access News 6/29/03 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_rushinek_2.html
(All Content Copyright © 1998-2003 EContentmag.com - All Rights Reserved) A variety of serious problems plague university libraries and the MIT Press believes they just solved (at least) one of them. With diminished library budgets, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep out of print books on the shelves for use by students and faculty. Print-on-demand programs have historically been incapable of sufficiently maintaining stock, primarily because it is not economically feasible to print and store books when demand falls below a certain threshold. If books are available, the quality is often poor or the cost of printing individual copies or small batches is prohibitive. Enter the MIT Press Classics series. The MIT Press has partnered with Edwards Brothers, a short-run printer out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Hewlett-Packard Company, and R.R. Donnelly printers in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Their process is fairly streamlined: The MIT Press provides Edwards Brothers with PDF files of the books, R.R. Donnelly quality-checks the books, merges the metadata, and delivers the final text to the printer. Within 48 hours of receiving an order from the MIT Press, Edwards Brothers prints and ships the finished product without ever involving the warehouse. At present, the books have a simple black cover design, but books published in the future will retain their own designs. http://www.ecmag.net/?ArticleID=4585
If you missed the June 18 story on libraries and the Patriot Act on the NewsHour with Jim Leherer, take a look: "Libraries & Liberties". Commons-Blog July 3, 2003 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june03/library_6-18.html
In the July 3 Nature, George Szpiro tells the tale of Thomas Hales and his attempt to prove Kepler's sphere-packing conjecture. Hales' proof uses an exhaustive computer exploration of 5,000 packing arrangements and 100,000 inequalities. After four years of review at Annals of Mathematics, the referees ran out of energy and gave up. They believe the proof is correct but have been unable to finish the job of making sure. The editor will publish Hales' paper next year, but with a note explaining that the proof has not yet been completely verified. Open Access News 7/4/03 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v424/n6944/full/424012a_fs.html
Few people like the idea of the government watching them, but they feel pretty good about watching the government. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab deployed the Government Information Awareness (GIA) site on Friday, which collects and collates information about government programs, plans and politicians from the general public and other sources. Right now, the database contains information on more than 3,000 public figures. The site was inspired by the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program. MIT graduate student Ryan McKinley, who developed the system, said the goal is to "develop a technology which empowers citizens to form their own intelligence agency; to gather, sort and act on information they gather about the government." Corante - Tech News: July 7, 2003 http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59495,00.html
Despite what several speakers described as one of the toughest market environments they have ever faced, nearly 600 university press people gathered in St. Louis June 22–25 for their annual convention. The meeting, whose theme was "We're All in This Together," came against a background of both public and private anxiety about the presses' position, at a time of diminished sales, rising returns and much disagreement as to whether publishing books with a stronger trade flavor is the best way to mend their fortunes or whether it simply leads to higher returns. North Carolina Press director Kate Torrey suggested the conference theme be renamed "Sleepless in St. Louis." The public anxiety was expressed by University of Illinois Press director Willis Regier, who wrote in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education that the presses are suffering from higher financial demands from their parent institutions, the decline of foundation funding, the takeover of professional journals publishing by international conglomerates whose prices strain academic library budgets and the fact that scholarly book production was growing much faster than the market. Private concerns were expressed in a closed-door directors meeting before the convention began, at which Phil Pochoda and Doug Armato, directors at Michigan and Minnesota, respectively, were reported to have declared the present situation an "unprecedented financial crisis" for many presses. They urged franker exchanges among directors, and with the AAUP itself, about the extent of their various fiscal plights. A public case must be more strongly made, the two urged, for the role in the culture played by the presses, and a more coherent plan collegially conceived for dealing with the crisis. Publishers Weekly, 7/7/03 http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA309330&display=breakingNews
The Carlyle Group, which acquired Baker & Taylor in 1992 from W.R. Grace, has sold the distribution company to the private investment group Willis Stein & Partners for $255 million. After completion of the deal, which is expected by the end of the month, Richard Willis will become CEO of B&T, succeeding Gary Rautenstrauch, who will remain with the company through the transition. B&T is estimated to have revenue of about $1.2 billion and has been profitable for several years. In 1999, Carlyle had sought to take B&T public, but withdrew the public offering when the IPO market weakened after the collapse of the Internet bubble. Richard Willis told PW his firm was attracted to B&T because it is a business that can grow "if you take care of your customers." Willis said he was also impressed by B&T's ability to adapt its operations to the changes that have taken place in the book market. The incoming CEO said his group is prepared to invest fresh funds to help B&T grow organically and through acquisitions. And after the owners get to know the business better, Willis said, they will look for acquisitions in the company's core areas, and he pointed to B&T's purchase of Yankee Book Peddler as the type of business he would like to pursue. Willis Stein previously owned Troll Communications, which it sold in 2000.
Publishers Weekly, 7/7/03 http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA309331&display=breakingNews
The appropriations bill recently adopted by the House (H.R. 2660) contained the following paragraph in the section on the National Library of Medicine: "Restrictions on access to research data.—The Committee is concerned by reports that there has been a significant change in the availability of research data internationally and a dramatic rise in medical research data subscription costs. NLM is encouraged to examine how the consolidation of for-profit biomedical research publishers, with their increased subscription charges, has restricted access to vital research information to not-for-profit libraries. The Committee would like a report by March 1, 2004, about potential remedies to ensure that taxpayer-funded research remains in the public domain and steps that can be taken to alleviate this restrictive trend in information technology. Open Access News 7/11/03 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp108&maxdocs=100&report=hr188.108&sel=TOC_288266&
A group of activists for an information commons and open access have sent a public letter to Dr. Kamil Idris, Director General of WIPO, asking WIPO to convene a meeting on "open and collaborative projects to create public goods." The appendix to the letter lists seven areas where innovation can occur without intellectual property protection or even where IP protection hampers innovation. The sixth area on the list is "Open Academic and Scientific Journals." Here's the full text of the letter, minus signatures and appendix:
Dear Dr. Idris: In recent years there has been an explosion of open and collaborative projects to create public goods. These projects are extremely important, and they raise profound questions regarding appropriate intellectual property policies. They also provide evidence that one can achieve a high level of innovation in some areas of the modern economy without intellectual property protection, and indeed excessive, unbalanced, or poorly designed intellectual property protections may be counter-productive. We ask that the World Intellectual Property Organization convene a meeting in calendar year 2004 to examine these new open collaborative development models, and to discuss their relevance for public policy.
Open Access News 7/7/03
A "tedious and unimportant" dissertation is suddenly receiving serious attention. Sean Gorman, a graduate student at George Mason University, has mapped every business and industrial sector in the U.S. with an overlay of the fiber-optic network that connects them. All of the information used by Gorman is publicly available, though not collated in the same manner. Conversations with government officials and CEOs suggest that Gorman's work should be classified—something he's resistant to. "Classify my dissertation? Crap. Does this mean I have to redo my PhD? They're worried about national security. I'm worried about getting my degree." Former cyberterrorism chief Richard Clarke suggests, "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade—and then they both should burn it." Corante - Tech News: July 8, 2003
Internet2 has announced the availability of Shibboleth 1.0, which is standards-based and open source software incorporating active privacy management of Web resources that are shared subject to access controls. Much of the work of requirements-definition for Shibboleth, which will now be used by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) to allow access to customized or restricted content and services, was done five years ago by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). CNI executive director Clifford Lynch says that one of the first applications of Shibboleth will be managing access to content licensed by research libraries on behalf of campus communities, which of course hold user privacy as a core value. For the Internet2 site, see http://www.internet2.edu (PR Newswire 1 Jul 2003) ShelfLife 7/10/03 http://www.prnewswire.com/
Once it became clear that the reading public was not about to dispense with bound books in favor of handheld electronic devices, e-books were declared dead. But Microsoft has not given up on the format. This summer the company will offer free downloads of 60 titles in its Reader software, which can be read on desk- or laptop computers. The offer includes Bill Bryson's current bestseller A Short History of Nearly Everything and novels by Margaret Atwood, Elmore Leonard, Amy Tan and John Updike. You can order Microsoft Reader e-books from amazon.com. Guardian Unlimited 7/12/03 http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,996346,00.html
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With the Buckeyes just days away from the start of Big Ten play head coach Urban Meyer spoke with reporters Wednesday evening at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
Ohio State survived the nonconference without any marks in the loss column, as did the 4-0 Hoosiers, but Meyer said that things change slightly as the Buckeyes begin league play.
"It changes big time," the coach said of his team's mentality. "Obviously we try to win every game we play but we are here for a reason and that's to win championships in November."
Here are the other major takeaways from Meyer's press conference:
- Despite a three-game touchdown drought, Meyer said that Braxton Miller is "ahead of schedule" in the process of fully transitioning into a wide receiver. The biggest hurdle has been perimeter blocking, which is a mandate for an Ohio State wide receiver, as Miller continues to "learn the game" from the new position, Meyer said. Overall the coaching staff needs to do better at getting him the ball in a situation to be successful.
- Miller is just one of a handful of skill players that Meyer said need to get more touches going forward, a group that also includes Dontre Wilson, Ezekiel Elliott and Curtis Samuel, who Meyer called dynamic. The skills of Wilson, Miller and Samuel are unique, Meyer said, and require a good bit of rotating personnel to ensure the right guys are on the field at the right time There has been some awkwardness with those rotations, Meyer said, but he felt the best flow so far this season in that regard was against Western Michigan.
- Reports Tuesday indicated that receiver Jalin Marshall was changing his number from 17 to 7 going forward. "That's between him and his position coach," Meyer said. "I guess he's wanted it for a while." The head coach added that Marshall has had to earn that right and has been doing everything right on and off the field since he opened the season with a one-game suspension.
- On the defensive side of the ball, Meyer was surprised to learn that Joey Bosa had just 0.5 sacks on the year, but said the staff has been happy with his performance. "There's a lot of people occupying him right now," Meyer said.
- In preparation for Indiana the Buckeyes are getting ready to see both the 3-4 front that the Hoosiers used in their first game of the season and the 3-4 look that they've used since.


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As leaves begin to change color, it's the perfect time to glide through treetops on a zipline. Part thrill ride, part eco-adventure, ziplines have taken off in the past decade, says Michael R. Smith, creator of ZiplineNirvana.com, a social media website for zipline lovers. Tours generally run from $80 to $180 for a three-hour experience. Smith says a good tour provides a sense of place, exploration and entertainment. He shares some of his favorites with Larry Bleiberg for USA TODAY.
Hocking Hills Canopy Tours
This course about an hour southeast of Columbus is one of the busiest in the country, attracting guests from across the region. The canopy tour includes 10 ziplines, passing over a cave, forest and river. The new Super Zip course lets you zoom along at speeds of up to 50 mph in a prone "superhero flying" position, Smith says. 740-385-9477; hockinghillscanopytours.com
Kapalua Adventures
This Maui installation is one of the country's largest and most spectacular zipline tours, Smith says. Some segments stretch more than 2,000 feet. "This one has breathtaking panoramic views, and because the runs are so long, you have time to look out at the landscape and the ocean," he says. "It's a real thrill ride." 808-665-3753; kapaluaadventures.com
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Guests literally fling themselves off a canyon edge on this central Colorado tour. "When you step off those cliffs, it's a pretty awesome feeling," Smith says. "Your feet are still running while you're in the air." And the landing is just as spectacular. "You come into this ball-bearing-type gravel, and you put your feet down and come to a Fred Flintstone-type stop." 877-947-5463; captainzipline.com
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Sonoma Canopy Tours
This new tour features the towering redwoods of Northern California, about 90 minutes north of San Francisco. "It's really hard to grasp the enormous size of these trees," Smith says — until you're zipping through a forest of them. One segment has riders landing on a tree platform high above a creek and then climbing a spiral staircase leading to a sky bridge. 888-494-7868; sonomacanopytours.com
Berkshire East Canopy Tours
New England's longest zipline "is breathtaking during the fall color change," Smith says. The attraction, about 70 miles east of Albany, N.Y., offers three options, ranging from a family-friendly introductory area to the heart-pounding Valley Jumping Tour course with the final run stretching a half-mile. 413-339-6617; berkshirezip.com
Cypress Valley Canopy Tours
One of the country's first zipline tours remains one of the best, Smith says. This family-run operation in the Texas Hill Country, about an hour northwest of Austin, takes visitors through giant old-growth cypress with views of streams and limestone walls. Afterward, cool off with a dip in a spring-fed pond. 512-264-8880; cypressvalleycanopytours.com
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Visitors fly over creeks, canyons and dense forest canopies on this course about 130 miles north of Boise. Smith says the tour offers a variety of experiences and environments over its 4,400-foot length. "Some of the ziplines are sheltered, and you feel encapsulated; others are out in the open and way above the trees," Smith says. 208-325-1000; tamarackzipline.com
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This tour swoops through hardwood forests and old-growth hemlocks above a canyon adjacent to the New River Gorge, which is famous for its whitewater rafting. Smith suggests visiting in spring, when the wild rhododendrons are in bloom and the water is roaring. "It's one of the most beautiful places I've been," Smith says. 877-811-5321; newrivergorgecanopytour.com
This new course centers on a 150-foot-wide waterfall previously closed to the public. Set amid pines, mountain laurel and bald cypress trees, the tour offers eight ziplines, three sky bridges and three spiral staircases, including one suspended from a cable. "It explores this cool waterfall and a hidden ecosystem," Smith says. 910-488-8787; zipquest.com
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There is a ton of announcements from Adobe today as we kick off both Photoshop World and IBC. The two bigs ones for me are the announcement of P2/MXF support in Premiere Pro and Audition 3.
We knew we needed to get an MXF story going and as I've said before, sometimes adding the feature later than your competition gives you the best solution because you've heard from the customers about what they want. Such is the case with our P2 and MXF support.
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I'm looking forward to playing around with this fully, but so far the response from testers has been tremendous. There's no transcoding or rewrapping. More details will be coming, but this is great news for all DVCProHD customers.
Audition 3.0 takes all of the innovations from Soundbooth and wraps them up as well as expands upon traditional strengths of Audition such as the Spectral Editing capabilities. I haven't played with this yet, but certainly look forward to all the increased capabilities. Having a fade editor in Audition (finally!) will be worth it for me alone.
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Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the worlds most populous and intriguing nation. In Lost on Planet China, Troost escorts readers on a rollicking journey through the new beating heart of the modern world, from the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the Gobi Desert and the hinterlands of Tibet.
Lost on Planet China finds Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favorites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange); and hiking (with 80,000 other people) up Tai Shan, Chinas most revered mountain. But in addition to his trademark gonzo adventures, the book also delivers a telling look at a vast and complex country on the brink of transformation that will soon shape the way we all work, live, and think. As Troost shows, while we may be familiar with Yao Ming or dim sum or the cheap, plastic products that line the shelves of every store, the real China remains a worldindeed, a planet--unto itself.
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It appears from these statements that there is nearly a universal consensus of practice in charging a seigniorage.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a seigniorage tax?
The scarcity of wheat and flour was an ever-present theme; the oppression of autocracy and seigniorage, another.
It is on this principle that paper money circulates; the whole charge for paper money may be considered a seigniorage.
If this full supply of money at a given moment is 100,000 pieces or dollars, a seigniorage charge of ten per cent.
seigniorage is the right the ruler or state has to charge for coinage, or it is the charge made for coinage.
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Good-bye to statue Hans Petri
'Petri's Eggs', as the environment art work by Hans Petri (1919-1996) is affectionately dubbed on Woudestein campus, is beyond rescue. Part of the new campus developments is a wider entrance road on Burgemeester Oudlaan. This means the statue cannot remain in its present location.
Having examined the technical construction of The Eggs, the department of Art Affairs has regretfully had to conclude that the art work would not survive being relocated. For the present, Hans Petri's widow has granted her oral permission, as she is of the opinion that environment art was never intended to last forever.
The Eggs serve as a figurehead for Erasmus University Rotterdam. Ever since they were installed in 1969, they have contributed to the university's image. As a visual icon, they have been used frequently by the press and in brochures. 'The statue group is a bold work of art which adds poetry to its environment, without contrasting with it overly. Its art historical importance lies in the fact that it fits in with the tradition of environment design that arose in the Netherlands in the seventies' (S. Smets, Kunst op campus Woudestein 2010-2013, MMK).
EUR and its alumni and staff are attached to the statue group. For this reason, serious thought was given to the idea of making a replica of the art work, as a much appreciated part of the new campus. Because of the specific composition of the art work in its present surroundings, the artist's widow has understandably rejected this idea.
EUR shall preserve the work for future generations by means of an AutoCAD file and a commissioned photograph. In February, Petri's Eggs will disappear for good. That same month, an exhibition on Petri's work will be on in the Erasmus Gallery. Erasmus Cultuur will organize a photography contest for students in January, the best pictures of which will be shown in the exhibition.


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Final Tasks at the End of the World
By Molly Estabrook (University of Vermont '15)
This week we were at our Wereldsend base camp where we finished up research projects, took exams, and packed up camp before heading off to the coast. This week we also went on a fabulous night game drive in Palmwag Concession where we saw lots of springbok and Hartmann's Mountain Zebra. After we finished up our projects we spent the next day going on an absolutely incredible last fun game drive. It was truly amazing. The six of us piled into our truck and travelled on game routes in Torra Conservancy where we saw lots of wildlife and reviewed plants and trees in preparation for our natural history exam. As we were driving we travelled along the Huab Riverbed where we saw a troop of over fifteen Chacma baboons, seven male Kudu, and one male Oryx all in the same location! Shortly after that we began seeing signs of elephants and sure enough we turned a corner and saw several elephants all snacking on Acacia trees on the banks of the river bed. After taking lots of photos we moved down the river a bit to our lunch spot. Our lunch time quickly got interrupted by five elephants traveling toward us. So we all hopped back into the truck where we watched as the five elephants, one of which was a young of year, stopped and had their lunch at our previous lunch spot location. It was amazing seeing the elephants up close. Throughout the drive back to camp we saw more baboons and a Steenbok marking its territory. After the game drive we headed back to Wereldsend where we ate dinner and chatted by the fire and headed to bed with lions roaring and hyenas "whooping" in the background. It was an incredible last day of game drives.
Additionally, at the campfire we chatted about how great the day was and we were asked to reflect again on the question we were asked 11 weeks ago about what wilderness means to us and how our experience in Namibia has contributed to this meaning. When I first wrote about what wilderness means to me 11 weeks ago I would never have imagined how much this semester in Namibia and the people who we have met along the way would have positively impacted how I view wilderness today. Our time here in Namibia has taught me so much more about wilderness and how real it is. This experience has given me a new perspective and I feel more passionate about wilderness than I did 11 weeks ago – and I didn't think that would have been possible.
Namibia and the people with whom we have worked have taught me several things. I have learned to be patient and flexible when it comes to unexpected weather conditions, such as the river that flooded our Omatendeka Conservancy Omuramba campsite, and to enjoy and embrace whatever comes my way. Namibia has also gotten me past my fear of snakes and other insects, and now I am fascinated with them. However, I am still not a huge fan of scorpions or zebra snakes. Conducting the wildlife monitoring game routes has made me fall more in love with wildlife and has made me want to continue studying wildlife conservation.
The RRCS leaders, gameguards, and other local community members have taught me so much more about how wildlife impacts the lives of people here. I have learned about how real human wildlife-conflict is and how it affects people and conservation management at the same time. Every person that I have met throughout the past three months has impacted my experience here and I have learned a great deal of knowledge from every individual that I will carry on with me. Namibia's history and the local people we have encountered have taught me that forgiveness is extremely important. They have showed us that there is nothing to gain from holding on to the past, that humans are not perfect, and that it's important to move on and learn from our mistakes instead of dwelling in the past.
Namibia has also provided the absolute best sunsets and sunrises I have ever seen before. Furthermore, there is absolutely no feeling like falling asleep to lions roaring in the distance along with hyenas and jackals under the incredible night sky full of stars and an almost full moon. I also learned helpful life skills throughout the semester such as to always be prepared to change a truck tire, and that when driving through sand, letting a little air out of the tires does the trick.
This experience has been incredible in every way and we are all very grateful for having this amazing opportunity. The four of us cannot believe that we have only a week left here. A huge thank you to our Round River leaders Bekah, Vehi, and the community members with whom we have worked for making this an amazing once in a lifetime experience we will cherish for years to come.
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