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The Prime Minister of Israel has been known to angrily decry anti-Israel incitement among Palestinians, and he is right to do so.
After angrily sharing a secret about the friend who posted about him, he catches himself and laughs, exasperated.
During his appearance, Morsi angrily asked the presiding judge why he was on trial.
Arriving home late and drunk, Don is stunned when Megan angrily throws his dinner against the wall.
After the item appeared, Tim called her to angrily upbraid her for airing dirty laundry.
"You forget whom you are speaking to, sir," Mr. Drake said, angrily.
"You need not cry about it," retorted the countess, angrily.
Whether, with his means, he should have advanced, has been too much and angrily discussed already.
"I don't care a curse what the American papers say," said Peter angrily.
At this juncture, the handle of the door was tried, and the voice of Mr. Wood was heard without, angrily demanding admittance.
late 14c., from anger (n.) + -y (2). Originally "full of trouble, vexatious;" sense of "enraged, irate" also is from late 14c. The Old Norse adjective was ongrfullr "sorrowful," and Middle English had angerful "anxious, eager" (mid-13c.). The phrase angry young man dates to 1941 but was popularized in reference to the play "Look Back in Anger" (produced 1956) though it does not occur in that work.
"There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?" There is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). Richard Lederer calls this "one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history" and traces it to a New York TV quiz show from early 1975.


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Most smokers can't stop because they're addicted to nicotine in cigarettes, so the patches are used by adults to help.
They're usually stuck on the arm and make wearers feel like they've had the nicotine they crave from cigarettes.
Kicking the habit early
But two of the UK's biggest cancer charities say it's not just adults who need the help to give up, so are backing a project in Nottingham to give the patches to young smokers.
At the moment nicotine patches are not given to those under 16.
The project starts work with young smokers at The Zone, a youth centre in an area of Nottingham where lots of young people have been excluded from school.
Many of the 250 young people who go to the centre smoke and want to quit.
If it's successful the project may be introduced to towns and cities across the UK.

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I noticed my eyes getting darker and darker (just turned 30) in the past few months. I went to a doc here in the states about that and he said I had two problems.
1) Darker pigmentation naturally.
2) And hollowness around the eyes.
He injected one vial of Radiesse underneath the eyes. I am now 2 weeks out from the injection and the area looks incredibly better. Not sure that it really was worth the $800 I guess but I will say that it does. Because now I no longer worry so much about how ugly the area is because it does look a lot better. And since he recommended some hydroquinone to fix my pigmentation issue, I think that will really provide some stunning results.
Lastly, he did mention that after the swelling goes away that I might need another half vial. I think I might. I never went in for a follow-up since I haven't had any problems and my doctor is far. But a half vial for $400 might make it look perfect. Overall, radiesse has been great so far and knock on wood that it stays that way.


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New Delhi, June 12: A string of unsolved rape cases and fears of terror strikes in Uttar Pradesh prompted the Centre today to assess the law-and-order and security situations in the heartland state.
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav made a "courtesy call" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 7 Race Course Road while senior state officials met Union home minister Rajnath Singh at North Block.
The meetings came in the backdrop of mounting pressure for action against the state administration following a series of rapes and killings, especially the gang rape and murder of two teenaged Dalit cousins in Badaun.
On Monday, an officer in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly raped a woman at a police station in the presence of his subordinates.
Today, a 19-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in Moradabad, 24 hours after a 45-year-old woman in Bahraich was found dead in similar circumstances.
Gulab Singh, Moradabad DIG, said the girl's legs were touching the ground, prompting the police to suspect foul play.
Bahraich additional SP Sunil Kumar Singh said preliminary investigations suggested that the 45-year-old woman was murdered and then hung from a tree.
Sources said Rajnath had tough questions for director-general of police A.L. Banerjee and principal secretary (home) Deepak Singhal at today's meeting.
Rajnath is also understood to have asked Uttar Pradesh officials to beef up security at the disputed site in Ayodhya, Mathura and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi following intelligence inputs on possible terror strikes.
"In the past six months, at least one of these sites was 'surveyed' by Simi operatives," an intelligence source told The Telegraph. The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) is linked to the Indian Mujahideen, according to security agencies.
Security agency sources suspect that Simi had a hand in the May 1 blast at Chennai Central railway station that killed a young woman on the Kaziranga Express.
The CBI today registered an FIR in the Badaun case, which had provoked outrage across the country and outside, prompting Akhilesh to seek an investigation by the central agency on Saturday.
A team of 20 investigators, headed by a deputy inspector-general, will leave New Delhi tomorrow morning for Badaun.


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Hi All,
Have an old laptop that has been through the wars a bit, its known as a clevo m121w series laptop (32bit only).
It loads up the live cd fine and enters into the text modes fine - the os in terminal is working flawlessly.
when i try to run startx, I get a harddrive read for 5 seconds and a cursor that stops flashing and black screen (seems to halt)
regardles of how long i leave it, no change.
i also tried running ubiquity or sh -c ubiquity from the command-line
the laptop thinks for a 30 seconds and then i get a prompt with no other action if i run the command again it goes straight to a prompt without any thought.
would like to get this installed on the laptop, is their any commands that i can run to complete this or get some indication on what is causing the issue - any commands to find either would be helpful.
have downloaded checked the hash and did 2 burns one fast and one slow - no difference.
the version is BT5r3 Gnome 32bit
Also completed the x wont start commands under basic usage in the wiki - the commands there made no difference either.


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Heart disease in cats is relatively prevalent, occurring in 15 percent of all cats. So why are so many cases going undetected? The answer is complicated, of course, but part of the reason is that in the past, we didn't have a great way of finding heart disease in the average, healthy-looking cat.
Every year (or every six months, for geriatric cats), your veterinarian listens to your cat's chest with a stethoscope as part of your cat's annual (or semi-annual) exam. One of the things she or he is listening for is a heart murmur. A heart murmur is caused by turbulent blood flow in the heart or great vessels of the heart. Anything that causes some obstruction in these structures leads to a "whooshing" sound as blood squeezes through. This is a heart murmur. If your cat has a heart murmur, she is more likely to have heart disease, but it turns out that the presence of a murmur is not all that great of a screening tool. Here's why: a study of 103 average "healthy" cats performed at Virginia Tech found underlying heart disease in 16 of those cats, but only five of those 16 cats had a murmur.
There is a relatively new blood test, however, that may help veterinarians find sneaky heart disease in healthy-looking cats. It's called NT-proBNP, and it is a biomarker of cardiac disease. Its production is markedly increased when the heart's ventricles stretch or undergo stress, so higher levels of BNP could mean the heart is in trouble. Unfortunately, this test is not perfect either, but it is thought that it can catch heart disease in nine out of 10 healthy looking cats.
Regardless of the method of detection, if heart disease is suspected, your cat should have an echocardiogram (or ultrasound of the heart), a diagnostic test that can be covered by your Petplan pet insurance. This test is noninvasive – although your cat's chest fur may be shaved – and provides an actual image of the heart. Heart size, wall thickness and the ability of the heart to contract and move blood can all be assessed in real time, giving your veterinarian an idea of what is happening in the heart.
Early detection is key in feline cardiac disease. Initiating therapy early can mean a reduction in clinical signs such as thromboembolisms and can delay the onset of congestive heart failure.
At your cat's next exam, consider asking your veterinarian about the NT-proBNP test. When to run the test is open to debate, but some experts advise running it every two years in cats over the age of one. It could be a life saver for your cat.
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The agency compensating injured public servants has turned around its financial performance even though the cost of taxpayer funded payouts to bureaucrats reached almost $1 billion in the past four years.
Comcare in its latest annual report published Friday reported a $54.6 million operating surplus for 2013-14, despite the cost of compensating hurt public servants continuing to rise.
The cost of claims increased $4.1 million year-on-year to reach $250.5 million in the past financial year.
The yearly cost of injured bureaucrats has steadily grown from $214.2 million in 2010-11 to $222.6 million in 2011-12 and $246.4 million in 2012-13.
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The number of claims overall has dropped but the complexity and length of injuries needing compensation have increased.
In particular Comcare is dealing with more cases of musculoskeletal damage and psychological injury which can result in lifelong compensation for lost income.
In her letter at the start of the annual report Comcare chief executive Jennifer Taylor said "the impact of claims for serious mental harm has been profound".
Examples of public servants with long-term mental injuries are continually moving through the legal system.
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal on Thursday handed down a decision involving a Centrelink employee who developed such a severe psychological ailment he needed his wife to supervise him in stressful situations to help manage outbursts of anger and anxiety.
The public servant was found to have a 10 per cent degree of "permanent impairment" because of threats made against him in his workplace.
Comcare has been concentrating on prevention on mental injuries partly by attempting to get public servants back to work sooner.
This reduces the risk of psychological problems, such as depression, created by time off work.
Comcare's $54.6 million surplus shows Comcare has significantly improved its financial performance.
Two years ago Comcare reported an operating deficit of $687.3 million and followed up in 2012-13 with a $98.3 million shortfall and reforms of public sector insurance have been in the pipeline.
The performance turnaround is due to the increasing of premiums for a number of Comcare's clients which were made up of government departments and agencies as well as the ACT government.
The scheme's long-term liability for payouts is now more than $2.7 billion, compared to $2.6 billion a year ago.
Comcare has stored $68 of every $100 it owes in future liabilities – compared to $64 last financial year – and is attempting to put away enough money to cover all liabilities into the future.
Complaints to Comcare about a range of issues from delays in payments to a lack of communication increased by a third to reach 690.
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TAMPA — On the coldest night of the calendar year, the gusts never subsided at Corral Memorial Stadium. Neither did the Jesuit Tigers' resilience.
Down a man, the Tigers (14-2-4) scored in the 71st minute on sweeper Michael Conlon's shot in traffic from just outside the goal box, salvaging a 1-1 tie Thursday against Tampa Prep (16-1-2).
Conlon, who turns 17 on Tuesday, watched Andy Mahoney's throw-in ricochet like a pinball off a pack of players before he gained control just enough to flick a shot into the left corner of the net.
"I would say it was luck," Conlon said. "It was by chance. I had no idea it was coming."
Veteran Tigers coach Bob Bauman had a different choice of words.
"That's the character of this team," said Bauman, whose squad found itself down a player when junior Ian Gutierrez picked up his second yellow card midway through the second half. "They didn't let up. Down a man, down a goal, we were relentless."
Resolve was in far greater supply than offense for the Tigers, who were outshot 11-3 and appeared destined for their first loss to the Terrapins since Nov. 18, 2009.
Tampa Prep took the lead seven minutes into the second half when UNC-Wilmington-bound senior Macsen Pritchard took a quick free kick, slithered past a pair of defenders and sent a blast from atop the 18-yard box. It was his fourth goal in five career matches against Jesuit.
Just not quite enough to end the Terrapins' maddening stretch of futility against the Tigers.
"It definitely does (sting)," Pritchard said. "The last time I won this game was my freshman year. We thought we could come up with a win. We feel we're the best in Tampa but we couldn't show it today in the end."


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The members of the Library of Congress team who visited Baghdad in October-November 2003 to advise the Ministry of Culture on the National Library of Baghdad, wish to thank all those who made the mission possible. Their special thanks go to the Minister of Culture Mufid al-Jazaeri for his support of the mission, to Ambassador Mario Bandioli-Osio who guided and advised them and listened to their reports every day the mission was in Baghdad, to Professor John Russell who was among the very first people to visit the National library after the war, and whose opinions the members of the LC team valued highly, and to Kristen Jenkinson-McDermott without whose help and planning the team would not have been able to accomplish their work. The team is also extremely grateful to Wishyar Mohamed, the CPA advisor on libraries, who was always sharing his views with the team and enabling each party to better understand the concerns of the others. Dr. Faiza Adeed was inspiring as a woman with a vision for her country and for a great library for the future of Iraq, and we are grateful for her help and that of Acting Director General Kamil Jawad who explained to us at length the problems of his library. The LC team wishes to express its gratitude to all the staff of the National Library and to that of the House of Manuscripts as well. The team was very impressed by the dedication of the librarians and the staff members of those institutions and of the way they defended and protected their books and manuscripts, and in so doing protected the cultural heritage of Iraq. Dr. Dhamia `Abbas Samarai the director of the House of Manuscripts and her husband the former director Usama al-Naqshabandi must be praised for the important work they did there over many years. Thanks must also go to Wathiq (Tony) Hindu for his efforts at rescuing the flooded documents, and his assistance to the members of the team throughout their stay in Baghdad. The team also wishes to express their thanks to Maria Kouroupas and Bonnie Gardiner of the Cultural Property Office of the Department of State who believed in the Library of Congress' mission to assist the National Library in Baghdad, and provided the moral and financial support for the team to do so. They are also grateful to the Coalition Provisional Authority Representative Office in Washington who took care of their trip to and from Baghdad. Thanks go also to Dr. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, Deanna Marcum, Carolyn Brown, Nancy Davenport, Beverly Gray, Marc Roosa, Diane Van Der Reyden, who supported and encouraged the team every step of the way.
A team of three specialists from the Library of Congress led by Mary-Jane Deeb, Ph.D., Arab World Area Specialist, and including Michael Albin, Chief Anglo-American Acquisitions, and Alan Haley, Senior Conservation Specialist, left for Baghdad on Saturday, October 25th . They arrived in Kuwait first, and spent the night of Sunday, October 26th at the Federal Deployment Center of the CPA located at the Hilton Resort in Mangaf.
On Monday October 27, they flew to Baghdad where they were met by Kristen Jenkinson-McDermott, Program Analyst at the Educational and Cultural Affairs Office of the US Department of State and the CPA Coordinator for the Cultural Property program in Iraq. They met with Professor John Russell, who is the CPA Senior Advisor on libraries and museums, and Ambassador Mario Bandioli-Osio who is the CPA administrator for libraries and museums.
On Tuesday, October 28, the members of the LC team were given a tour of the "Palace", met with military personnel involved with the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, and were briefed on their mission by Kristen Jenkinson-McDermott, John Russell and Ambassador Bandioli-Osio. That evening they met with Wathiq (Tony) Hindu, an Iraqi contractor for the CPA and the person who had arranged for lodging, car and security for the LC team. Each day after the team members visited sites they returned to the Palace to brief Ambassador Bandiolo-Osio and sometimes members of the military as well as to their activities that day.
The next morning, Wednesday, October 29, the members of the LC team visited the site of the National Library of Iraq, the "Old Library", as the team called it to differentiate it from the site for the "new library" selected to replace the damaged building. The team spent the first couple of hours visiting the ground floor and the two floors of above the entrance the building that had been burnt by two fires on April 10 and 14, 2003.
The team also visited the stacks of the national library. The stacks had been closed and the entrance, a large and heavy metal door, had been welded shut after the two fires and lootings that occurred in April. The door was opened, on October 28, for the first time since the April fires, so that the LC team members could visit and see for themselves what had happened to the collections. The team was thus the first non-Iraqi group to view the collection first hand, and it was able to visit each of the five floors and see for itself what was in the stacks. The team also took photographs of the collections.
The team members then met with the staff. Deeb and Albin sat down with the librarians present and held discussions with them in Arabic, identifying their names, their field of specialization and what academic degrees they held. They also talked with the heads of departments and found out more about what had happened to the national library, and what the librarians thought of having a new library in the former "Officers' Club" located a few blocks away. They met with Acting Library Director General Kamil Jawad and Library Director General designee Faiza Adeeb and got their views on the current plight of the library and their aspirations for the future. Professor Nazir Qasim joined the library discussion. He used to be director general of the National Library in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and taught library science to many of the current staff members of the Library, including to the Director General designee Faiza Adeeb. The LC team also met with Wishyar Mohamed an Iraqi expatriate and library specialist, who is the CPA Advisor for the reconstruction of the national library, and who, throughout the visit, coordinated the activities of the LC team with those of the Iraqi librarians.
Two religious clerics, Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Mu'in al-Musawi and Al-Shaykh Muhammad Jawad al-Tamimi, then joined the group. They were members of the Hawza or Shiite clergy who had taken part of the library and archive collection to their mosque for safekeeping after the first fire and before the second (between April 10 and 14). The discussion with them proceeded while their staff were bringing back some of the books and documents that they had stored in Sadr City in another part of Baghdad. Two architects/engineers, Mazen Hasan Ridha, Director General of the Private Projects Directorate at the Ministry of Housing and Construction, and his assistant Zafir 'Abd al-Jabbar also came to the meeting and expressed the view that the library should not be moved to the Officers' Club, and that the damaged library was architecturally sound and could be repaired.
The following morning, Thursday October 30th , Kristen Jenkinson and John Russell escorted the LC team to the site where the old manuscripts, once housed in "Dar Saddam lil-Makhtutat", had been hidden to protect them from looting. The primary location was bomb shelter No. 12, in the Yarmouk district of Baghdad (although some of the manuscript cases and the microfilms of the manuscripts are stored elsewhere). The team met there with the head of Dar al-Makhtutat or "House of Manuscripts" Dr. Dhamia 'Abbas Samarai, and her retired husband and former director of that institution, Usama al-Naqshabandi who has published several books on the Iraqi manuscript collection. They showed the team metal cases in which 50,000 manuscripts were stored, and the small laboratory where specialists in preservation and conservation were working to repair damaged manuscripts. The LC team observed what was being done, looked at and photographed manuscripts and talked with the curators. They also met with neighbors and others in the area who were looking after the manuscripts.
After lunch, the LC team went to visit the site where water-damaged archival documents and rare books had been stored. These materials had been found at the Board of Tourism Building where they been brought at the beginning of the war for safekeeping. Later that storage area had been flooded and Tony Hindu had been asked by the US military to get the flooded materials out of the water, which he did. Those materials were then placed in a three room apartment in an inhabited building to dry. We surveyed the apartment, photographed the rooms and some of the documents, and talked to the librarians who had been responsible for moving these documents from the library to the board of tourism.
On Friday, October 31st , the team accompanied by Kristen Jenkinson, John Russell, Wishyar Mohamed, Faiza Adeeb and Kamal Jawad visited the Officers' Club, which had been selected by the CPA as a possible site for the new national library. The team was given a thorough tour of the premises by a military engineer, Specialist Paul Drake, the Facility Maintenance Coordinator. Drake not only had made a thorough inventory of all the building's infrastructural problems, he had also prepared a report on what needed to be done, and had developed plans to build stacks if those were to be recommended for a new national library.
The LC team also visited the North Garage of the Officers' Club that had been repaired by Iraqi engineers hired by the CPA, to assess the feasibility of using it as a temporary storage for the collections of the National Library. The team also visited the officers' library located in an adjacent building to the club to decide whether these facilities could be used for storage.
That evening the team stayed in the hotel. Ambassador Bandioli-Osio dropped by unexpectedly to let them know about threats of attacks on US forces the next day, and a possible strike in Baghdad. He mentioned that some planned visits might have to be curtailed or even canceled.
On Saturday, November 1st , the team members decided not to take any risks, and instead of visiting the museum as had been planned or the religious awqaf center in Sadr city, they returned to the Old Library with John Russell who had not visited it with the team the first time around. They were all able thus to confirm what they had seen and what it meant and take more photographs. They also observed the return of the materials taken by the Hawza at the time of the April fires which were boxed in cardboard boxes and returned for storage to the Old Library.
Sunday, November 2nd , was the day when all the visits would come to fruition. In the morning the team was invited to the "House of Fashion" the restored building which is planned to become the new Ministry of Culture. The members of the LC had been asked to address the Library Board Representatives, and others including the engineers of the Housing and Construction Board, as well as the new Minister of Culture Mufid al Jaza'iri, and Ambassador Bandioli-Osio. Each team member had prepared a short speech: two in Arabic and one in English. The Ambassador spoke first, followed by the Minister, then the LC team (Wishyar Mohamed acted as chair, moderator and translator on the panel), and Kamil Jawad the Acting Director General of the Library also made a statement. Ambassador Bandioli-Osio concluded the session about the major recommendations of the panel, and then invited the team to the office of the Minister of Culture. Deeb then briefed the Minister on the team's findings and recommendations.
That evening Ambassador Bandioli-Osio organized a big dinner at the "Hunting Club" in honor of the Library of Congress team, at which he also invited members of CPA, the military and the Italian delegation.
A- National Library
1. A major section of the front of the building of the National Library (the Old Library) was burnt and damaged severely. Walls, ceilings, floors, staircases, windows, doors are charred - the whole infrastructure: including electricity, heating and air-conditioning, plumbing and telephone is non-existent in that part of the building.
2. The section of the National Library that has the stacks and two large rooms that have been cleaned, is usable for temporary work. The furniture, and library equipment however, was looted. The stacks have no electricity, and therefore no heat or humidity control.
3. What was burnt in the old library was primarily archives. After questioning the librarians repeatedly, it became clear that the archives that were burnt were those that covered what they called "al-`ahd al-jumhuri" or the Republican era, which according to them included the archives from 1977 to the present. Other archives, such as those brought in from the Ministry of Interior two months before the war, and covering the period 1920 to 1977, lay unharmed in rice bags in rooms close to those in which the republican archives had been burnt to ashes.
4. The fact that the republican archives were burnt to ashes led the team to conclude that some kind of highly incendiary device had been used that would not likely have been found in the hands of random looters. Others, such as Jean-Marie Arnoult of the second UNESCO team that visited Iraq in June-July noted that "the fire [in the library] was well organized", and Nabil Takriti, a graduate student at the University of Chicago who visited libraries and other centers in May, remarked on the use of incendiary materials as well.
5. The other clear category of materials burnt were the microfilms. Apparently all microfilms of newspapers, and archival materials were destroyed by the same fires that destroyed the archives.
6. Private collections of books given to the library by well known literary figures such as 'Abd al-Rahman al-Tikriti, 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Hasani, and Hamid al-Sharbati were dusty but unharmed. Each collection (of an estimated 4,000 books) was organized on shelves in separate glassed rooms on the same floor as the rooms containing the ashes of the burnt archives and microfilms.
7. After the two fires in April, the large metal door to the stacks was closed and sealed by the librarians to protect the collections. It was only opened when the LC team arrived. The team observed that the collection of books, newspapers (in hard copy), theses, periodicals, were unharmed. Basically, the collection had not been damaged by the fires because the stacks were in a separate location from the archives, and the stacks could be closed.
8. The stacks however, were in a state of disarray. This seems to have been the case even before the war, as noted in the reports of Jean-Marie Arnoult, Edouard Metenier, Keith Watenbaugh and Hala Fattah, and demonstrates a lack of collection maintenance by the librarians, and the lack of funds for the upkeep of the collections. The books in general were on shelves but some were lying on the floor as well. Throughout, bound materials fared much better than did the archives. The whole library seems to have suffered from lack of funds and neglect for years before the war.
9. On all five stack levels soot that must have come through the vents when the part of the building that housed the archives was burned, was deposited over the surfaces of the books and the shelves, and it appeared to become heavier on the upper floors where there were large chunks of cinder ash on the books.
10. Although the estimates of the number of books and periodicals that were supposed to be in that library vary wildly, it was clear to the team that there could not have been on these five floors more than 1 million items (including bound periodicals and newspapers, as well as theses). More than likely the number of titles was lower because since the library was by law a legal deposit for books published in Iraq, the team found several copies of the same titles on the shelves. It is clear that (at least in the past couple of years) instead of distributing the books as they should have, the librarians had instead just shelved them in the stacks.
11. The library cards in wooden card catalog cabinets seemed to have been scattered about on the floor, but by and large seem to have survived unharmed, and were placed back in the drawers by the librarians. The team found the Iraqi librarians hard at work re-organizing the cards. The catalogs that were completely destroyed appear to have been those that recorded acquisitions.
12. With respect to personnel: the head of human resources told the LC team that there were 160 people working at the National Library before the war. Of these only 70 worked with books, 90 seem to have had other roles including cleaning and guarding the library. Of the 70 librarians only 25 had library science degrees. Some worked as catalogers, others in acquisition, some prepared bibliographies, some focused on microfilming newspapers. All seemed to have worked at the library for over 20 years.
13. The team observed the return of the materials which had been taken by the clerics of the Hawza for safe-keeping between April 11 and 13, ie between the first and the second library fires. The materials being returned were of three kinds: the books taken from the stacks which included the entire section on religions; archival documents which had been collected haphazardly from one of the rooms which housed archives from the 'republican era' (the remaining archives were then incinerated by the second fire of April 14); and library equipment including copiers and computers which was brought back by the Hawza, and stacked in a room on the first floor of the library.
B- House of Manuscripts
1. The department of manuscripts was established in 1962 as part of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. It originally contained 2,526 manuscripts, but expanded throughout the 1970s and 1980s as the government bought manuscripts from collections around the country. In 1988, when the collection had reached 37,083 manuscripts, the state decided to found an autonomous entity, the Saddam House of Manuscripts. Today there are an estimated 50,000 manuscripts of which 7,000 are on loan from other institutions or private collections and there for repair and conservation (information gathered from talk with former director, Usama al-Naqshabandi).
2. The manuscripts are housed in a bomb shelter that was well maintained: it had electricity provided by a generator, which controlled the heat and humidity within the building - very important for manuscripts.
3. Most of the manuscripts have been stored in aluminium trunks with lists of titles inside and outside the boxes, which were closed with locks and keys. Those trunks are strong enough to support the weight of other heavy containers that could be placed on top them for storage. They also offer protection from dust, light and even brief exposure to fire or falling debris.
4. The manuscript center has a well trained professional staff that knows how to preserve and conserve manuscripts. The center appeared to be administered and run efficiently.
5. The center seemed to have benefitted from financial, technical and professional support for several years before the war. In the past two years state support enabled it to accomplish the task of not only collecting, preserving, repairing but also of microfilming 50,000 manuscripts. However, the House of Manuscripts no longer has the money or equipment or even staff to continue doing the preservation work it needs to do.
6. The staff members did everything they could to protect those manuscripts from harm before, during and after the war. They enrolled the support of the whole neighborhood to provide security twenty-four hours a day, and were successful in preventing several attempts at looting the center.
7. The bomb shelter also had shelves with several hundred manuscripts that were on loan and that needed preservation work.
8. Even with the war going on outside, shelves were assembled, a reading room was installed, and a small binding/conservation area was allocated, where 3 staff members were seen repairing paper and sewing textblocks.
9. Some of the collection showed damage from handling and insect infestation, though no insects were in evidence as a sign of an active infestation.
C- The Senior Officers' Club
1. The site designated to become the new National Library of Iraq by the CPA is the Senior Officers' Club currently occupied by 300-400 US troops. It is a beautiful 3 storey building in steel, glass and marble, with an underground floor and garages. It has an extraordinary location overlooking the Tigris on one side, and the city on the other. On the side of the city it faces the oldest theater building in Iraq, as well as a square with the statue of Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutannabi the most famous of Abbasid poets.
2. Accompanied by Specialist Paul Drake of the 3rd Battalion 124th Infantry Regiment 53rd Infantry Brigade of the Florida Army National Guard, the LC team visited the complex. Specialist Drake pointed out to the team the major problems with the building which he had also noted in his report including: a) "poor underground utilities resulting from inadequate design, substandard materials, corruption and neglect." b) problems with raw sewage and wastewater removal not only in the complex but in the area of the city outside the complex c) problems caused by fire and looters to the electrical system in the building, which suffered also from age and neglect - there were, however, two Rolls Royce-Dale power generation plants onsite for back up power, of which one was functional d) the heating and cooling system was not functioning, although hot water service was being restored.
3. The complex has extensive grounds on the side of the city that can be used for building extensions to the Officers' club. At present cars and tanks and military equipment occupy part of the grounds.
4. The complex also includes buildings with one and two room apartments for the officers, as well as a large officers' library. The LC team visited the library and found hundreds of books scattered on the floors of the library apparently by workers hired to do repairs to the building. The space, however was adequate for storing books. There was electricity and light, and it was above ground so that no water seepage from underground sources could affect the books.
5. The team also visited the North and South Garages in the main building of the Officers' Club. The North Garage which had been suggested as a temporary storage area for the National Library's collections had several problems. There was apparent humidity on the ceilings, it was slightly below ground level meaning that rain or sewage water could seep into the garage. There was also some kind of drain throughout the garage that seemed to indicate that water had entered the garage on a regular basis before the war.
6. The team also was shown three room-size freezers off the kitchen area, which were not in working order. Drake said he had an estimate of $5,000 per freezer to get them back in working order.
D- Water Damaged Materials Stored at the Board of Tourism
1. There were 1,200 Ottoman archival documents, 4,000 rare and 'forbidden' books, 2,000 documents from the British colonial era, and about 30-40,000 documents from the "royal era" ie between 1920 and 1958 that were moved to the Board of Tourism for safekeeping, two months before the fires of April 10 and 14 which destroyed part of the national the library. The estimates were those of the librarian who was actually in charge of moving these materials.
2. It appears that sometime in July 2003, those documents were discovered under a foot of water, due to some break in the city water lines. Despite the fact that Deeb when contacted had sent directives about how to treat paper products that have been flooded, workers were contracted in Baghdad to move the materials out of the water. They were then housed on the ground and first floors of an apartment building. Unfortunately there were few shelves, and the documents were piled on the floor and against the walls. Some were thrown outside the building in big heaps. Despite the fact that the documents were removed from the water two months earlier they were still wet, especially where the paper was not near the exposed edges of the piles of archives.
3. The smell of mold was overwhelming even before entering the rooms holding those archives. Alan Haley identified 4 different colors of mold, and virtually every surface observed showed evidence of mold outbreaks that were active, or had been until very recently. During the hot summer months of Baghdad, the conditions were apparently ideal for mold growth. Hence a substantial portion of the documents appeared to be already too damaged from mold and distortion to be recovered.
4. A majority of the documents had been housed in multicolored boxes that had been distorted or had broken into pieces during the flooding. Dyes from the covering material of the boxes had bled onto adjacent materials. Documents, in many cases, appeared to have become separated from their folders or bindings, and bound items had lost their covers; textblocks were seen in several pieces.
5. The haste with which the rescue took place appears to have caused damage from handling to the paper. Stacking the documents in wet piles resulted in sagging edges and broken or torn items due to uneven pressure and disparate sizes supporting each other. The piles reached six to more feet in height.
6. There was insufficient air circulation to allow effective drying, and the sheer volume of wet paper prevented drying of all but the outer layers of the documents.
A- National Library
1. The present building of the National Library is unsuitable to function as a library. It has been damaged too extensively to be useful. Even if repaired the present building would be inappropriate to represent the Iraqi cultural heritage regionally and internationally. Its location is unattractive, its facilities limited, and it is rather undistinguished architecturally. Baghdad's illustrious history requires that the symbols of culture like a National Library be located in beautiful surroundings and in architecturally outstanding buildings.
2. The Senior Officers' Club that was designated as the location for a new library is perfectly suitable for a great national library. Its sensational location on the Tigris, in a historical part of the city on al-Mutannabi square, across from the oldest theater in Iraq , would highlight the importance that the new Iraqi government accords its culture and history. The Club is also architecturally one of the most modern buildings in Iraq, and it would symbolize to the world Iraq's desire to move intellectually into the 21st century. This building when renovated could become one of the most beautiful libraries in the Middle East.
3. The building of the Officers' Club, however, was not built to hold the entire collections of the National Library, nor does it have the space to accommodate the future expansion of that collection. Therefore, the Library of Congress team recommended that a new building be built in the area behind the club, for stacks for the new library. The new stacks would be a steel framed construction of four floors, and cover an area of 9,000-10,000 square meters. It would be linked by two pedestrian bridges to the main building. The out line for the construction of such a building can be found in the report of Specialist Drake, and entitled "Iraqi National Interpretive Library". It is imperative that those stacks be built. If not there can be no national library in that location.
4. It is also imperative that the Director of the Library be appointed. The Director needs to be professionally highly qualified, preferably with a doctorate in Library Science, and to have management experience, and a vision for the future of the library. The team talked with Dr. Faiza Adeeb and found her qualifications impressive and her approach to running a library efficiently most encouraging. She realizes that Iraq's premier library should be technologically advanced and that its staff should be ready to rebuild and expand its collections rapidly. She also envisions Iraq's national library as a lighthouse that will attract scholars and researchers from all over the world.
5. The team was impressed by the good work done by the librarians to protect their collections. It is important that they continue to be actively involved in the restoration of this very valuable collection which is part of Iraq's history and cultural legacy. Training for these librarians in different fields will become necessary in the future, and the Library Congress will do all it can to assist in that area.
6. The team also recommended that the archives be separated from the library. There should be three different and autonomous entities under the Ministry of Culture: a National Library, National Archives, and a House of Manuscripts. Each requires different specializations from its staff, different types of buildings and different administrations. The Library needs its own building and trained staff, and will develop links with libraries around the world as it grows and expands. The House of Manuscripts is doing very well and will need to be housed in a historical building and develop its preservation and marketing divisions to take into account the international demand for copies of microfilms of their manuscripts. The National Archives will have to be established perhaps even in the old library building. Archivists will have to be trained and the process of organizing these archival records will take many years. Librarians are not the people to do this work.
7. The building of the Officers' Club has beautiful spaces which can be used as reading rooms, conference rooms, offices, media centers, atriums, children library. However, before those spaces can be used in that way the place needs extensive work. The report of Specialist Drake surveys the building's problems including those having to do with the electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling systems, and estimates that it would cost almost $1 million to fix these problems. It would cost probably another $500,000 to wire up the building to turn it into a functioning IT library. A qualified architect/engineering firm should redesign the building. Much of the construction work can be done by Iraqi contractors.
8. Specialist Drake estimated that a new building for the stacks as described above would cost around $3 million. The team recommended therefore, that $5 million be set aside to renovate the Officers' Club and build new stacks, a process which could start immediately, and would take only six months to complete once the plans are made.
Preservation of Library Materials
1. On the main floor of the Library, in the front section near the garages, there is space that would be could be used for a new conservation facility measuring approximately 7x15meters. Plumbing is already in place in that part of the building, and the southern wall can be vented to accomodate a fume hood. Floor to ceiling windows on the front allow beautiful natural light, and can be blocked with curtains to prevent light when treating sensitive materials. There is also space for a small reformatting operation, either microfilming or digitization, or both.
2. At the same time the stacks are being built the team recommended that the staff of the library begin the process of professionally cleaning the books which were in the stacks and were covered with dust and soot. The cleaning can take place at the old library in order not to transfer soot and debris to the new facility. There is sufficient staff, and space for the staff to work with adequate light to establish a cleaning operation to prepare the books for the move to the new library.
3. The team recommended a four station operation in the front ground floor space of the old library, where the same cleaning procedures could be performed by four teams:
a) As books are brought down from the stacks, they can be left at a "landing table" where any large pieces of debris can be brushed off. At that table any physical damage the item has suffered, which would render cleaning it unwise at that time, can be documented, and the item can be separated and housed in a stable enclosure, and its cleaning can be performed later when qualified staff can respond to the task in a more cautious manner.
b) Nilfisk vacuums should be used in the second step of the operation, to clean covers and textblock edges as well as any other parts of the books that show evidence of soot deposits.
c) The staff is to be provided with large pieces of polyester screen or metal screen, in order to cover items during vacuuming if the items show weak edges that could be lost in suction.
d) Because soot has an oily quality that does not allow it to be completely or easily vacuumed, a third step in the process should consist of gently wiping with soot sponges, which do not use water; it is usually assumed that water will present a new risk: that of driving soot into the swollen paper fibers.
e) The books may then be moved to the last stage of the line operation, to be packed, either flat or with the spine down, in aluminum trunks which would be used to transfer the books to the new library site. The trunks wouldl also provide protective housing for the books as they await shelf space.
B- House of Manuscripts
1. For the reading and display of older, rare bindings, the team recommended that the reading room acquire a cradle or bolsters to support their beautiful illuminated manuscripts. Safe handling guidelines for all staff and readers should be followed to minimize wear and stress on binding structures and decorative covers. A plan to create individual enclosures for the collection, beginning with the most valuable or fragile items in the collection, should be implemented.
2. The women working to conserve the collection are to be commended for their fine efforts and developing skills. They would benefit from more specialized training, as well as the availability of archival quality conservation materials that would be more harmonious with the originals. The Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress will offer to provide training for one or two staff members in rare book conservation. An alternative approach to providing instruction for professional skill enhancement for House of Manuscripts staff might be through a visiting Fulbright scholar or similar sponsored visit. Through communication with the Library of Congress preservation specialists, they can provide advice to the House of Manuscripts staff regarding treatments and selection of materials.
C- Water Damaged Materials
1. The over 40,000 documents damaged by water show extensive and active mold growth. Mold will definitely weaken the substrata, and in the event it continues to grow unchecked, will completely digest the surface it occupies. It is recommended that this portion of the collection be transferred as soon as possible to freezer storage wich will halt mold growth and stabilize the materials indefinitely. This in turn will allow future intervention in the form of conservation treatment, rehousing and/or reformatting. The three room-size freezers in the Officers' Club that were examined by the LC team if repaired and linked to an electric generator to ensure continuous functioning, could be used to store the damaged collection now disintegrating in the apartment building.
3. Transferring these documents will require special protective gear for all personnel involved in the operation. Packing the items will also require appropriate materials to minimize any further damage to the collection. Each item (box or volume) should be separated from adjoining materials by a sheet of freezer paper before being placed in the aluminum boxes recommended for the transfer, and the items should remain in these boxes throughout the period they are in frozen storage.
The total mass of materials is estimated to require between 1700 and 2000 cubic feet of storage, plus the space taken by the aluminum trunks themselves.
The enormous significance of libraries in all cultures of the world cannot be underestimated. Iraq has a long and illustrious history recorded in books in every language. School children in every corner of the world read about the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia which shaped and inspired the civilizations of the rest of mankind It is, therefore, of critical importance that this history and civilization be preserved in a library that does justice to and honors this glorious past while reflecting simultaneously Iraq's desire to move forward and become one of the great nations of the future. It is important for the Iraqi Ministry of Culture to take a bold step into the future and choose to have beautiful new National Library on the historical shores of the Tigris to inspire the youth of Iraq who will use it to create great literary and scientific works in the tradition of their forefathers.
Materials Required to Perform Cleaning of Books in Preparation for Move to New Facility
4 Nilfisk* vacuums
20 pcs. Wire mesh (window screen material)
4 large brushes for dirt removal
1 case Nitrile gloves, lg.; 1 case Nitrile gloves, med.
3 cases Soot sponges*
1 case rolled cotton
1 case cotton gloves, lg.
Protective outer smocks (either disposable or 2/staff member if they are washable type)
1 case dust masks or respirator masks
UVEX protective glasses
Large polyethene bags (for damaged books)
4 rolls (5' width) of newsprint or other disposable paper
Metal Edge* or Gaylord* document boxes (quantity and size to be determined)
1 box silicon release paper
12 large tables (cafeteria style or equivalent dimension)
Several rolls of masking tape
4 trash containers
Pencils (not pens)
Aluminum trunks for transfer of clean books to future library site
Aluminum trunks (number calculated to accommodate above estimated cubic feet of paper-based materials; any unused trunks may be reassigned for use in transfer of National Library stack collection, described below)
2 cases of freezer wrap or deli paper
Required for all staff handling materials with mold
2 boxes of disposable Nitrile or latex gloves, large.
Protective eye wear, one pair/staff member (UVEX Safety Glasses, for example)
Disposable aprons
Dust masks or respirator masks
Pencils (not pens) for notations made during the packing/moving operation
Notepaper suitable for identification of content, partial inventory or to document condition and/or other helpful findings
Pictures of Damaged Libraries in Iraq.
The photographs presented here document damage to libraries in Iraq during and after the war in April 2003. Most of them are provided by Nabil al-Tikriti, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. They were taken during his trip to Baghdad on 25-31 May 2003. They accompany his report: Iraq Manuscript Collections, Archives, & Libraries: Situation Report, dated 8 June 2003. The remaining photographs were taken by McGuire Gibson, Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. He was a member of the UNESCO team which visited Baghdad in May 2003.
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Published on the MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries website Published online: December 2, 2003. Most recently revised: December 5, 2003
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Miley Cyrus' parents are getting a divorce. Billy Ray Cyrus is ending his marriage to Tish, his wife of more than 19 years. The country singer first filed for divorce more than two years ago but withdrew the petition in March 2011 after the pair reconciled.
Billy Ray filed his papers in Nashville while Tish filed her own divorce petition in LA.
"This is a personal matter and we are working to find a resolution that is in the best interest of our family," Tish said in a statement. "We ask that you respect our privacy at this time."
It seems things may be a bit rocky between Billy Ray and his daughter Miley as well. Earlier today, the "We Can't Stop" singer tweeted, "@billyraycyrus since your text and email obviously aren't working would you like to talk like this?"
Tish and Billy Ray married in 1993 and have three children together — Braison, Noah and Miley. Tish has two kids from a previous marriage, Trace and Brandi, who Billy Ray adopted. He also has a son from a previous relationship, Christopher.


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I was flipping through the channels last night on TV, and I saw so many young girls and women behaving horribly. Calling themselves "divas." The word diva used to mean a highly regarded singer. But nowadays, it means a spoiled brat. It breaks my heart that these girls will one day be grown women with a totally warped sense of what is important.
I am not an expert. But I am a daughter, a woman, a wife and mother. My own mother's words come back to me as I raise my three boys. Mom would always say, "I don't care if you're happy or if you like me. My job is to raise good, solid citizens." And that she did. All four of us turned out pretty great. (Me being her favorite of course!)
So I'm addressing this to all the young girls out there. I encourage – no, beg you – to be a good, solid citizen. This world does not need any more entitled, self-centered brats. Think of it as an instruction manual from your future mother-in-law.
1 Learn how to cook. It is a gift you will give your friends, husband, family and yourself.
2 Write thank-you notes. Write them to everyone, for anything and everything nice that they do for you. It is a lost art that not only shows gratitude, but class and respect. A text or Facebook message doesn't count.
3 Be soft and kind. Learn how to get what you want without manipulating, nagging or throwing a tantrum. You will one day be the queen of your house. Your man will need a warm place to fall when he can't hold it all together. Be that place.
4 Learn how to vote, go on a job interview and work hard. If anything, this life is about hard work. It's not cute for a grown woman to cry and complain. Nothing comes free. Acting entitled and waiting for someone else to take care of you will make you look whiny, lazy and ignorant.
5 Take care of yourself. The obvious things, such as diet, exercise, go to the doctor and dentist. Take time to be beautiful, whatever that means to you. Your appearance is important, but not the only thing special and fabulous about you. Feeling good on the outside will give you tons of confidence on the inside.
6 There is a difference between sexy and trashy. Learn what that is. One is gorgeous and the other is desperate, pathetic and embarrassing.
7 Learn what it means to really love your spouse. Hug, kiss and hold hands. Wake up every morning and try to make his life better, not worse.
Learn these things, young girls, because one day, when you are a smart, beautiful, classy and capable grown-up, you just might be married to one of my three sons. In return, my husband and I promise to teach them:
1 To work hard. Really, really hard. Good grades are important. But character and hard work are what make a boy a man.
2 When I send them out into the world, they will know how to cook, do laundry, empty the dishwasher, write thank-you notes and ask for directions. I will also show them how to grocery shop and iron and where to drop off the dry cleaning.
3 To be grateful. Because when they are thankful for what they have, they spend less time complaining about what they don't have.
4 Their dad will teach them manly things. They will know how to wash the car, take the trash out, fix the toilet, pilot a boat and shoot guns. They will know how to open doors, buy flowers, write love notes and go on dates. They will show you respect, especially in front of your parents.
5 Their dad will show them how to fight fair and use kind words. He will also teach them to defend themselves, the kid being picked on, you, their family and our country.
6 How to show affection. They will know how to hold your hand, hug you, tell you you're gorgeous, take you out on dates and buy you a present every once in a while for no reason.
So please, do your future mother-in-law a favor, grow up and be a wonderful human being, to everyone who knows you. And I promise to raise some awesome men for you to choose from. Deal?
And who knows, I might just send you a thank-you note.
Courtney Bowman was born and raised in Orange County, where she lives with her husband and three boys.
Follow her adventures in motherhood and listen to her podcast at stopyapping.com.


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An offensive against Islamist militants in Sinai was launched last week after 16 border guards were killed.
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From the Executive Committee of the AAUP
As the U-M Board of Regents changes its internal organization and structure in parallel with the selection process for a new president, we are hearing a great deal of commentary about efficiency. That term is not new at the university, but it becomes ever more pervasive in direct proportion to the differential growth in numbers of non-faculty professional administrators and administrative staff relative to faculty. With this growth, academic institutions conform ever more to the models of corporate business.
At the Wolverine Tower on South State Street, visitors to the U-M Office of Human Resources and Affirmative Action find its conference room walls papered with handwritten exhortations about institutional mission and about the importance of responsiveness to the customer. Recently, one of the professional administrators was asked who exactly he meant by customer. He replied that all of us are customers and that in particular the citizens of the State are customers. That claim prompted variation on a sound bite that scored many minds during the past U.S. presidential election: Since this is a public university, you would think the citizens own the store.
At the core of this rhetoric is a serious question about the mission and purpose of the U.S. university, and specifically the great American public universities. Corporations and corporate business practices are great things for America, and have been the engines for prosperity and opportunity. It is hard not to agree with Coolidge that the business of America is business and therefore why should we not shape the American university in the mold of bare-knuckled capitalism, with a healthy bottom line. Maybe efficiency means more degrees granted per dollar, more net tuition revenue per course or maybe just doing the same work with less expense and less personnel, but it is a good thing whatever.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been promoting standards for sound academic practice for nearly a century, and disseminates accumulated philosophy and wisdom through its handbook Policy Documents and Reports, now in its ninth edition. The index to over 300 pages of text does not include an entry for efficiency. Proof that professors are out of touch with modern thinking and modern needs, you might say.
Not so. The American university has many duties to citizens, but there is one that stands first because without it, the sponsoring society itself faces jeopardy. Our universities must ensure that there is forever a cadre of educated citizens who can reason for themselves, understand issues, draw conclusions from facts and evidence, and communicate their reasoning to others. Those graduates are the insurance against demagogues who would trick or frighten the public out of its freedoms and choices. The highest duty of the university is to protect American democracy.
The university cannot fulfill this duty if it is molded into a top-down corporate model. Corporations do not protect democracy, nor do they sow the seeds of future liberty. Perhaps that is none of their business. At the AAUP we understand that the university community benefits when the governing board engages with elected representative groups on issues of institutional importance. There is nothing more emblematic of a universitys image of commitment to noble goals and celebration of democratic spirit than the process whereby it selects its president. The selection process can be a communal renewal and opportunity for introspection. We ensure democracy by practicing it in reality.
One should not forget that the American business model, for all its attractions, faces the perennial test of the business cycle, whereby prosperity alternates with austerity. Survival of capitalism through the hardest times has required robust democracy and elected leadership by educated self-thinkers. Because the defenses of democracy must never be weakened, especially not during the hard times, the business model favoring top-down administrative command and control is not the appropriate way to cultivate the minds and voices who may be most needed at such times. Free thinking and free expression should not be limited just to times when nothing is wrong.
We read with great concern the exchange of communications between 16 U-M deans and Regent L. B. Deitch, as published in the Sunday, February 3 edition of the Ann Arbor News. Without inserting ourselves into any contretemps between those administrators and the governing board, we need to point out that there is indeed fundamental reason to question or disapprove of this presidential selection process independent of the individual who is ultimately chosen.
In our Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities we advise that the selection of a university president should follow upon a cooperative search by the governing board and the faculty, taking into consideration the opinions of others who are appropriately interested. Further, The president should have the confidence of the board and the faculty. The faculty in this regard applies to those representatives who have been freely elected by the faculty community at large into roles of governance. At the U-M, under Regental Bylaws this body includes the Faculty Senate Assembly and its elected executive committee, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA).
In presidential searches preceding the term of former president Duderstadt, the Regents invited SACUA and Senate Assembly to construct a faculty advisory committee, and they invited similar advice from the alumni and student representative organizations. Subsequently, including in the present search, the Regents have handpicked the advisory committee members. Doing so has eliminated the element of institution-wide ownership in the ultimate candidate, and it has narrowed the process into an administrative exercise. We think it is not coincidental that recent presidents have served shorter terms and frankly have seemed to us more detached from long-term core institutional issues.
In early October 2001, both SACUA and the U-M chapter of AAUP sent communications to the U-M Regents urging the board to return to its former practice of democratic inclusiveness. Neither group ever received a response, but subsequent actions demonstrate that the advice was not heeded. The result is a process that can be perceived as a closed one, despite any amount of protest to the contrary and regardless of who is selected. Our concern is about a failure of duty in the highest sense.


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Lions vs Raiders Final: 28-27 - Recap
The Lions got a 4-TD performance from Matthew Stafford as Detroit handed Oakland a 28-27 defeat on Sunday at O.co Coliseum.
Bettors who backed the Lions were disappointed, as they failed to cover the closing number of 2.5. Over-Under bettors saw the total score go OVER the closing total of 47.5.
Kevin Smith rushed for 43 yards, while Stefan Logan added 5 yards in the win. Calvin Johnson and Nate Burleson added 214 and 81 receiving yards respectively.
Michael Bush rushed for 77 yards for Oakland, while Marcel Reece added 26 yards. Carson Palmer threw for 367 yards for the Raiders, while receivers Darrius Heyward-Bey and Michael Bush had 155 and 62 yards respectively.
Oakland outgained Detroit 477-432 yards in the game, while the battle of first downs was won 26-25 by the Raiders.
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The meeting between Patrick Norguet and Kristalia has generated some surprising projects that will be shown by the Company for the first time in April 2011, at the furniture fair of Milan. The first of them is DEGREE, a multifunctional table that looks like a wine cork with a graduate's hood on top. Its base is made of real cork and the top is in plastic made with rotational. DEGREE is a versatile piece of furniture and a funny pop sculpture at the same time. Close to the world of fashion as well as the one of industrial and interior design, Patrick Norguet combines a deep knowledge of materials and technologies with the search for insight views and emotional elements that make every one of his projects a unique, never forgetting the relationship between the object and the surrounding space. His designs have won major awards ("Now! Design for Living" 2005, Elle Deco International Design Awards) and are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Miami and of the Art Museum of Philadelphia.
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From: David Ward <>
Subject: List of people report - HELP
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:42:55 +0200
In June I'm due to go to London and South West England to spend amongst
other things time in various genealogy archives.
In connection with this I have made a custom tag - Censearch - which I have
put alongside everyone who was living during the censuses of
1841/51/61/71/81/91 and 1901.
The crude sentence reads: [P] and [PO] have not yet been found of the
census [D] thought to be living [L].
From this I'm trying very unsuccessfully to make a list of people
report,whereby the year is primary ie 1861 or 1891 etc which then gives me
all the people with this tag attached for that year.
Is this possible ? am I using the right type of report? I have tried
different combinations but nothing seems to come out the way I want it
Can someone please let me know what I should be doing here.
I'm using 5.11.
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Two major events are happening to the area football events on Tuesday.
Let's start with the on the field stuff as Mountain Pointe senior inside linebacker Jordan Leal gets an MRI on his knee.
Leal was removed from Friday's game against Desert Vista in the first half. He is a captain and considered the heart and the soul of the defense.
He hasn't committed anywhere yet, but has an offer from Yale.
The other news is off the field and more a feel good situation.
Desert Vista is taking a cue from its volleyball team and holding a Pink Out game this week against Mesa Westwood to help jump-start Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is October.
The team will be presented with pink jerseys by the Arizona Cardinals in an assembly Tuesday at the school as four women connected with the school and/or program who have battled breast cancer will be recognized as well.
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Police and family have concerns for the safety of 19 year-old Nicholas David Stafford Matthews of Remuera.
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Note to Self
November 30, 2011 by Tara Edelschick
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About Tara Edelschick
Right now, Tara is on sabbatical in Costa Rica. She is sleeping more, and exercising and flossing every day for the first time in her life. She is enjoying her husband, her boys, and Nafisa (the daughter she never had) more than she ever has. And she is learning to rest in the arms of the one who doesn't rank you based on how many things you can cross off your list at the end of the day. Follow her on Twitter@TaraWonders.
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Facing insane demands from idiots, the Canadian magazine Maclean's responds:
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Installation Recommendations
Optional Upgrades
Low Slope Optional Upgrades
Additional Recommendations
Exposure Guidelines
Standard Slopes: 4:12 to 7:12
Minimum Code Requirements
One layer of rated ASTM D226-97a TypeII or D4869-02 Type IV asphalt saturated #30 felt is required as a minimum underlayment on all tile roof applications. Fontana VulcaSeal #30 is ICBO ES ER-5434 certified and UL approved. Other underlayments may be used as approved by local building officials. The underlayment shall completely cover the entire wood deck while lapping over hips, ridges and through valleys with a 2" head lap (horizontal) and 6" side lap (vertical).
Fontana's Optional Upgrades
Begin at the low point of the roof; install one layer of VulcaSeal coated membrane ASTM D2626-97b or D4601 to cover the entire wood deck at right angles with a minimum of a 4" head lap (horizontal) and a 6" side lap (vertical). Secure membrane with plastic cap nails at head lap 18" on center, and 24" throughout the field.
Over 7:12 pitches, nail the head lap 12" on center and 18" throughout the field. Fasteners shall be of sufficient length to hold underlayment securely with a minimum No.12 guage, 3/8" diameter head (9.5mm) corrosion-resistant nail that is in compliance with code requirements. Adequate additional fastening should be considered in high wind areas. Hammer tacker staples should never be used under tile.
Fontana's Low Slope Optional Upgrades
Starting at a lower edge of the roof, cover the entire wood deck with VulcaSeal's coated underlayment ASTM D4601 or D2626-97b, not a saturated membrane.
On all slope installations, reference TRI's Installation Manual Appendix A, MC-05.
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Flat profiled roof tiles with a continuous projecting anchor lug, should be installed with a coated underlayment ASTM D4601 or D2626-97b on any pitch. VulcaSeal products should only be installed in fair weather when the membrane, air, and roof temperatures are at 40ºF (5ºC) or higher. These application procedures are presented only as a guideline and are not intended to cover all situations encountered during installation. If special design conditions occur, contractors must comply with local governing code requirements. City and County ordinances could supersede manufacturer's recommendation and may require a more stringent installation procedure.
The attic space ventilation calculation must be 1/300 ratio of the space being ventilated. A balanced ventilation system may be necessary to acquire the minimum NFVA (net free vent area) with fifty percent of the exhaust ventilators located in the upper portion of the roof, while the balance of intake ventilators should be located at the eave or at least 3" above the eave line. Where ceilings are applied directly to the underside of the rafters (cathedral type), cross ventilation for each rafter must be provided.
The Net Free Ventilated Area shall not be less than 1/150 of the area ventilated when there's no vapor barrier in place.
Exposure Guidelines
VulcaSeal underlayments are not to be left permanently exposed to sunlight. Fontana's roofing membranes have been developed as a secondary moisture-barrier and are designed to be covered with the final roofing product as soon as possible to prevent the first stage of degradation. The Chart (at right) describes Fontana's Recommended Maximum Exposure periods. Permeability/absorption rates are available upon request.
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Here are the big ones: The Cricket's predictions for the major categories in the 85th annual Academy Awards.
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