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Patton (film)
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Franklin J. Schaffner
|Produced by
|Frank McCarthy
|Screenplay by
|Story by
|Based on
|Music by
|Jerry Goldsmith
|Fred J. Koenekamp
|Edited by
|Hugh Fowler
|Distributed by
|20th Century Fox
Release date
Running time
|170 minutes
|United States
|$12.6 million[1]
|Box office
|$61.8 million (United States)[2]
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on the biography Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Omar Bradley's memoir A Soldier's Story. The film was shot in 65 mm Dimension 150 by cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp and has a music score by Jerry Goldsmith.
Patton won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Scott won Best Actor for his portrayal of General Patton, but declined to accept the award.[3] The opening monologue, delivered by George C. Scott as General Patton with an enormous American flag behind him, remains an iconic and often quoted image in film. The film was successful,[4] and in 2003, Patton was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Patton in 2003.[5]
- 1 Plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Production
- 4 Distribution
- 5 Reaction
- 6 Sequel
- 7 See also
- 8 Notes
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
As the film begins General George S. Patton addresses an unseen audience of American troops to raise their morale for the war effort, focusing in particular on the value placed on winning by American society.
Following the humiliating American defeat at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass in 1943, Patton is placed in charge of the American II Corps in North Africa. Upon his arrival, he enforces discipline amongst his troops, e.g. fining a cook $20 for not wearing his army issue leggings. Patton is then summoned to a meeting with Air Marshal Coningham of the Royal Air Force, where he claims that the American defeat was caused by lack of air cover. Coningham promises Patton that he will see no more German aircraft – but seconds later the compound is strafed by Luftwaffe planes. Patton then defeats a German attack at the Battle of El Guettar; his aide Captain Jenson is killed in the battle, and is replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Codman. Patton is bitterly disappointed to learn that Erwin Rommel, Commander of the German-Italian Panzer Army, was on medical leave due to having diphtheria, but Codman reassures him that: "If you've defeated Rommel's plan, you've defeated Rommel".
After success in the North Africa campaign, Patton and Bernard Montgomery separately come up with plans for the Allied invasion of Sicily. Patton's proposal to land his Seventh Army in the northwest of the island with Montgomery in the southeast (therefore potentially trapping the German and Italian forces in a pincer movement), initially impresses their superior General Alexander, however General Eisenhower rejects it in favor of Montgomery's more cautious plan, which places Patton's army in the southeast, covering Montgomery's left flank. Whilst the landing is successful, the Allied forces become bogged down, causing Patton to defy orders and push his army northwest to Palermo, and then to the port of Messina in the northeast, narrowly beating Montgomery to the prize, although several thousand German and Italian troops are able to flee the island. Patton insists that his feud with Montgomery is due to the latter's determination to be the "war-hero," and to deny the Americans any chance of glory. However, Patton's aggression does not sit well with his subordinates Bradley and Lucian Truscott.
Whilst on a visit to a Field Hospital where many American soldiers lie wounded or dead, Patton notices a shell-shocked soldier crying. Calling him a coward, Patton slaps the soldier and even threatens to shoot him, before demanding his immediate return to the frontline. Because of this, Patton is relieved of command and by order of Eisenhower, forced to apologize to the soldier, to those present in the Field Hospital, and to his entire command, unit by unit.
Because of this, and for being too liberal to the press, Patton is sidelined during the D-Day landings in 1944. Instead, he is placed in command of the phantom First United States Army Group in southeast England as a decoy. German General Alfred Jodl is convinced that Patton will lead the invasion of Europe.
After begging his former subordinate Bradley for a command before the war ends, Patton is placed under him in command of the Third Army and performs brilliantly by rapidly advancing through France, but his tanks are forced to a standstill after they run out of fuel – the supplies being given to Montgomery's bold Operation Market Garden, much to his fury. Later, during the Battle of the Bulge, Patton relieves the town of Bastogne and then smashes through the Siegfried Line and into Germany.
At a war-drive in Knutsford, England, General Patton had remarked that the United States and the United Kingdom would dominate the post-war world, viewed as an insult to the Soviet Union. After Germany capitulates, Patton directly insults a Russian general at a post-war dinner; fortunately, the Russian insults Patton back, defusing the situation. Patton then makes an offhand remark comparing the Nazi Party to the political parties in the US. In the end, Patton's outspokenness loses him his command once again, though he is kept on to see to the rebuilding of Germany, with the disconcerting incident of a runaway ox-cart narrowly missing Patton foreshadowing the general's actual death in a car accident in December 1945.
Patton is last seen walking Willie, his bull terrier, and relating in a voice over that a returning hero of ancient Rome was honored with a "triumph," a victory parade in which "a slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory ... is fleeting."
- George C. Scott as Major General (later Lieutenant General, then General) George S. Patton. (Rod Steiger had first turned down the role, later admitting that it was the worst decision of his career.[6])
- Karl Malden as Major General (later Lieutenant General, then General) Omar N. Bradley
- Michael Bates as General (later Field Marshal) Bernard Montgomery
- Edward Binns as Lieutenant General (later General) Walter Bedell Smith
- Lawrence Dobkin as Colonel Gaston Bell
- John Doucette as Major General Lucian Truscott
- James Edwards as Sergeant William George Meeks
- Frank Latimore as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davenport
- Richard Münch as Colonel General Alfred Jodl
- Morgan Paull as Captain Richard N. Jenson
- Siegfried Rauch as Captain (later Major) Oskar Steiger
- Paul Stevens as Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Charles R. Codman
- Michael Strong as Brigadier General Hobart Carver
- Karl Michael Vogler as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Stephen Young as Captain Chester B. Hansen
- Peter Barkworth as Colonel John Welkin
- John Barrie as Air Vice-Marshal (later Air Marshal) Sir Arthur Coningham
- David Bauer as Lieutenant General Harry Buford
- Tim Considine as Private First Class Charles Kuhl
- Albert Dumortier as Moroccan minister (voiced by Paul Frees)
- Gerald Flood as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
- Jack Gwillim as General (later Field Marshal) Sir Harold Alexander
- David Healy as Clergyman
- Bill Hickman as Patton's driver
- Sandy McPeak as War correspondent (credited as Sandy Kevin)
- Carey Loftin as Bradley's driver
- Alan MacNaughtan as British briefing officer
- Lionel Murton as Chaplain James Hugh O'Neill
- Clint Ritchie as Tank captain
- Douglas Wilmer as Major-General Freddie de Guingand
- Patrick J. Zurica as First Lieutenant Alexander Stiller
- Abraxas Aaran as Willy
- Florencio Amarilla as Soldier (uncredited)
- Brandon Brady as Lieutenant Young (uncredited)
- Charles Dennis as Soldier (uncredited)
- Paul Frees as Reporter No. 2 (voice/uncredited)
- Laurence Herder as Russian translator (uncredited)
- Dolores Judson as Knutsford Welcome Club Dignitary (uncredited)
- Hellmut Lange as Major Dorian von Haarenwege (uncredited)
- Edward Meeks as Surgeon (uncredited)
- Lowell Thomas as Himself-Movietone News Narrator (voice/uncredited)
Script preparation[edit]
Attempts to make a film about the life of Patton had been ongoing for over fifteen years, commencing in 1953.[7] Eventually, the Patton family was approached by the producers for help in making the film. The filmmakers desired access to Patton's diaries, as well as input from family members. However, by unfortunate coincidence, the producers contacted the family the day after Beatrice Ayer Patton, the general's widow, was laid to rest. After this encounter, the family refused to provide any assistance to the film's producers.
In the end, screenwriters Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North wrote the script based largely on the biographies Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by General of the Army Omar Bradley.
Bradley served as a consultant for the film though the extent of his influence and input into the final script is largely unknown. While Bradley knew Patton personally, it was also well-known that the two men were polar opposites in personality, and there is evidence to conclude that Bradley despised Patton, both personally and professionally.[8][9] As the film was made without access to General Patton's diaries, it largely relied upon observations by Bradley and other military contemporaries when they attempted to reconstruct Patton's thoughts and motives.[10] In a review of the film, Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall, who knew both Patton and Bradley, stated, "The Bradley name gets heavy billing on a picture of [a] comrade that, while not caricature, is the likeness of a victorious, glory-seeking buffoon.... Patton in the flesh was an enigma. He so stays in the film.... Napoleon once said that the art of the general is not strategy but knowing how to mold human nature.... Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say."[10] Although reference is made to Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower throughout the film, he is not portrayed on screen. At the time of production, Eisenhower was still alive, but he died in March 1969, before the film was released.
The film opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's speech to the Third Army, set against a huge American flag.[11] Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual words and statements in the scene, as well as throughout the rest of the film, to avoid an R rating; in the opening monologue, the word fornicating replaced fucking when he was criticizing The Saturday Evening Post. Also, Scott's gravelly and scratchy voice is the opposite of Patton's high-pitched, nasal and somewhat squeaky voice, a point noted by historian S.L.A. Marshall.[10] However, Marshall also points out that the film contains "too much cursing and obscenity [by Patton]. Patton was not habitually foul-mouthed. He used dirty words when he thought they were needed to impress."[10]
When Scott learned that the speech would open the film, he refused to do it, as he believed that it would overshadow the rest of his performance. Director Schaffner assured him that it would be shown at the end. The scene was shot in one afternoon at Sevilla Studios in Madrid, with the flag having been painted on the back of the stage wall.[12]
All the medals and decorations shown on Patton's uniform in the monologue are replicas of those actually awarded to Patton. However, the general never wore all of them in public and was in any case not a four-star general at the time he made the famous speeches on which the opening is based. He wore them all on only one occasion, in his backyard in Virginia at the request of his wife, who wanted a picture of him with all his medals. The producers used a copy of this photo to help recreate this "look" for the opening scene.
Most of the film was shot in Spain. One scene, which depicts Patton driving up to an ancient city that is implied to be Carthage, was shot in the ancient Roman city of Volubilis, Morocco. The early scene, where Patton and Muhammed V are reviewing Moroccan troops including the Goumiers, was shot at the Royal Palace in Rabat. One unannounced battle scene was shot the night before, which raised fears in the Royal Palace neighborhood of a coup d'état. One paratrooper was electrocuted in power lines, but none of this battle footage appears in the film. The scene at the dedication of the welcome centre in Knutsford, Cheshire, England, was filmed at the actual site. The scenes set in Africa and Sicily were shot in the south of Spain (Almeria), while the winter scenes in Belgium were shot near Segovia (to which the production crew rushed when they were informed that snow had fallen).[13]
It has been noted that in the scene where Patton arrives to establish his North African command, a supposedly "Arab" woman is selling "pollos y gallinas" (chickens and hens) in Spanish, which is not normally spoken by local people in Tunisia (though it is in the north of Morocco, Spanish Protectorate from 1912 to 1956).
Use of footage[edit]
A sizeable amount of battle scene footage was left out of the final cut of Patton, but a use was soon found for it. Outtakes from Patton were used to provide battle scenes in the made-for-TV film Fireball Forward, which was first broadcast in 1972. The film was produced by Patton producer Frank McCarthy and Edmund North wrote the screenplay. One of the cast members of Patton, Morgan Paull, appeared in this production.[14]
The critically acclaimed score for Patton was composed and conducted by the prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith. Goldsmith used a number of innovative methods to tie the music to the film, such as having an echoplex loop recorded sounds of "call to war" triplets played on the trumpet to musically represent General Patton's belief in reincarnation. The main theme also consisted of a symphonic march accompanied by a pipe organ to represent the militaristic yet deeply religious nature of the protagonist.[15] The music to Patton subsequently earned Goldsmith an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score and was one of the American Film Institute's 250 nominees for the top twenty-five American film scores.[16] The original soundtrack has been released three times on disc and once on LP: through Twentieth-Century Fox Records in 1970, Tsunami Records in 1992, Film Score Monthly in 1999, and a two-disc extended version through Intrada Records in 2010.[15][17]
2010 Intrada Records Album[edit]
Disc One[edit]
|Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
|"Patton Salute (Solo Bugle)"
|"Main Title"
|"The Battleground"
|"The Cemetery"
|"The First Battle"
|"The Funeral"
|"The Hospital"
|"The Prayer"
|"No Assignment"
|"Patton March"
|"German Advance"
|"An Eloquent Man"
|"The Payoff"
|"A Change Of Weather"
|"Pensive Patton"
|"End Title"
|"Echoplex Session"
Disc Two[edit]
|Original 1970 Score Album
|"Patton Speech (spoken by George C. Scott)"
|"Main Title"
|"The Battleground"
|"The First Battle"
|"The Funeral"
|"Winter March"
|"Patton March"
|"No Assignment"
|"German Advance"
|"The Hospital"
|"The Payoff"
|"End Title & Speech (spoken by George C. Scott)"
|"End Title (sans dialogue)"
First telecast[edit]
Patton was first telecast by ABC-TV as a three hours-plus color film special in the fall of 1972, only two years after its theatrical release. That was highly unusual at the time, especially for a roadshow theatrical release, which had played in theatres for many months. Most theatrical films at that time had to wait at least five years for their first telecast. Another unusual element of the telecast was that almost none of Patton's profanity-laced dialogue was cut (only two sentences, one of which contained no profanity, were cut from the famous opening speech in front of the giant US flag).
Home media[edit]
Patton was first released on DVD in 1999, featuring a partial audio commentary by a Patton historian, and again in 2006, with a commentary by screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola and extra bonus features.
The film made its Region A (locked) Blu-ray debut in 2008 to much criticism, for its excessive use of digital noise reduction on the picture quality. In 2012, a remaster was released with much improved picture quality.[18] In June 2013, Fox UK released the film on Region B Blu-ray but reverted to the 2008 transfer.
Critical response[edit]
Roger Ebert said of George C. Scott, "It is one of those sublime performances in which the personalities of the actor and the character are fulfilled in one another."[19] Online film critic James Berardinelli has called Patton his favorite film of all time[20] and "to this day one of Hollywood's most compelling biographical war pictures."[21]
According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book The Final Days, it was also Richard Nixon's favorite film. He screened it several times at the White House and during a cruise on the Presidential yacht. Before the 1972 Nixon visit to China, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai watched this film in preparation for his meeting with Nixon.
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 95% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 44 reviews, with an average score of 8.4/10. Rotten Tomatoes summarizes the critical consensus as, "George C. Scott's sympathetic, unflinching portrayal of the titular general in this sprawling epic is as definitive as any performance in the history of American biopics."[22]
In 1971, Scott's performance won him an Academy Award for Best Actor at the 43rd Academy Awards. He famously refused to accept it, citing a dislike of the voting process and the concept of acting competitions.[23] He was the first actor to do so.
The film won six additional Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound (Douglas Williams, Don Bassman), and Best Art Direction (Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thévenet).[24] The Best Picture Oscar is on display at the George C. Marshall Museum at the Virginia Military Institute, courtesy of Frank McCarthy.
It was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects and Best Music, Original Score.[25]
In 2006, the Writers Guild of America selected Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund North's adapted screenplay as the 94th best screenplay of all time.
American Film Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - #89
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
- General George S. Patton - #29 Hero
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores - Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers - Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - Nominated
- AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Epic film
A made-for-television sequel, The Last Days of Patton, was produced in 1986. Scott reprised his title role. The film was based on Patton's final weeks after being mortally injured in a car accident, with flashbacks of Patton's life.
See also[edit]
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p256
- ^ "Patton, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ^ TotalFilm. "Review of Patton". Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved 2006-04-24.
- ^ Rabin, Nathan (May 24, 2006). "Patton". AV Club. Archived from the original on February 2, 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ Cornwell, Rupert (2002-07-10). "Rod Steiger, 'brooding and volatile' Hollywood tough guy for more than 50 years, dies aged 77". The Independent. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ^ Travers, Steven (2014). The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey. Taylor Trade Publishing. OCLC 857277430.
- ^ D'Este, Carlo (1995). Patton: A Genius For War. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 466–467. ISBN 0-06-016455-7.
- ^ D'Este, Carlo (2002). Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. New York: Henry Holt & Co. pp. 403–404.
- ^ a b c d Marshall, S.L.A. (March 21, 1970). "Great Georgie Redone". The Charleston Gazette. 4: 4.
- ^ ≠°Travers, Steven. The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey."
- ^ Mitchell, George J. (1975). "The Photography of Patton". After the Battle (7): 38–43.
- ^ http://www.in70mm.com/news/2003/patton/index.htm
- ^ "Fireball Forward - Rotten Tomatoes". Flixster, Inc. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- ^ a b Clemmensen, Christian. Patton soundtrack review at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
- ^ AFI's 100 Years Of Film Scores Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. from the American Film Institute. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
- ^ "Patton". Intrada Records. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- ^ Maxwell, Barrie (November 8, 2012). "Patton (Remastered)". The Digital Bits.
- ^ Roger Ebert (March 17, 2002). "Patton (1970)". rogerebert.com. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ^ "#1: Patton". reelviews.net.
- ^ James Berardinelli. "Patton". reelviews.net. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ^ "Patton". RottenTomatoes.com. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
- ^ Entertainment Weekly
- ^ "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "NY Times: Patton". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
Further reading[edit]
- In 2005, Patton's wife's "Button Box" manuscript was finally released by his family, with the posthumous release of Ruth Ellen Patton Totten's book, The Button Box: A Daughter's Loving Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton.Taylor, John M.; Taylor, Priscilla S. (July 23, 2005). "Gen. Patton's wife, a New York citizen". The Washington Times.
- Suid, Lawrence H. (2002). Guts & Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 260–278. ISBN 9780813190181. Suid's book contains an extended discussion of the production of Patton and of public and critical response to the film; the discussion occupies most of the chapter, "13. John Wayne, The Green Berets, and Other Heroes".
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What if we said Muhammad Muzammal Khan Wazeeri stands taller than Mohammad Irfan in the world of sport?
Or that a light oval ball is more potent as a friendship band than the white leather ball?
Far removed from the flashbulbs and frenzy of cricket diplomacy, a different ball game is proving to be a silent game-changer with a sporting enthusiast replicating the Khelo Rugby model of Calcutta in Pakistans Bahawalnagar to try and give the kids there a shot at a better life.
Even as seven-footer Pakistani pacer Mohammad Irfan towers over Indian batsmen at the Eden on Thursday, standing taller in the field of India-Pakistan sporting ties will be Muhammad Muzammal Khan Wazeeri, a silent crusader transporting life lessons via rugby from the slums of Calcutta to the dusty lanes of Bahawalnagar in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Wazeeri, a lecturer in physical education at the Government Degree College in Fort Abbas, Bahawalnagar, is adopting the Khelo Rugby model from Calcutta, which teaches the game to underprivileged kids and imparts not just sportsmanship but essential life skills, from personal hygiene to the perils of drug use.
Khelo Rugby is run by Calcutta-based rugby club Jungle Crows, which was started by former British diplomat Paul Walsh in 2004. I have known Paul Walsh and Zaffar Khan, the founding members of Khelo Rugby, for long and have been keeping track of their activities through Facebook and newspapers. I wanted to bring about a similar kind of change among my people, Wazeeri told Metro over email.
Wazeeri started playing rugby in 2002 while studying at Punjab University, Lahore, and went on to set up Desert Camels Rugby Club in Bahawalnagar in 2005.
A few months back, he got in touch with Khelo Rugby. Muzammal Wazeeri, who is a regular visitor to our Khelo Rugby Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/Khelorugby), contacted us and said he wanted to replicate the Khelo Rugby model in Pakistan, said Abhishek Singh, the 25-year-old manager and coach of the Khelo Rugby programme.
Today, an eight-member team is working for the Khelo Rugby chapter in Bahawalnagar under the guidance of Wazeeri. Khelo Rugby has helped in popularising the sport here as children get to play the Touch or Tag form, breaking away from the reservations that parents might hold against the game being a rough and extreme contact sport, he said.
And just like in Calcutta where Khelo Rugby has spread to 12 underprivileged areas, including Dhapa, Hyde Road, Nawab Ali Park and Howrah the game is already making a difference beyond the border.
Our region is very backward. When children see that the rugby-playing kids are going on tours to big cities, getting opportunities regarding sports and also admission in good schools on the basis of rugby, they are tempted to join in. In fact, apart from cricket, there is no other organised sport here. And with rugby, they get to show their aggression positively on the ground, which also attracts many to this game, said Wazeeri.
Some of these kids can grow up to be like Abhishek, an example of the wonders of rugby. He joined Jungle Crows in 2004, while he was in Class X. I played for the club as a college student and by 2008, an Australian company offered me a job, on the condition that I continue playing rugby for Jungle Crows! Further on, rugby helped me secure a scholarship to study business management in the US, he said. And the best part? When the kids look up to me! he grinned.
Abhishek and Paul Walsh will be visiting Bahawalnagar next month to oversee the Khelo Rugby programme there and train the kids in Tag rugby.
Khelo Rugby in Pakistan is really, really exciting for us. For a small organisation that started in Calcutta, it is great that we are now also active in Chennai, Jharkhand and even Pakistan! Wazeeri has been a good friend for a long time and this has really all come about at his own initiative. Its also a validation of what we are doing, said Paul.
But while sponsors trip over themselves to pour millions into cricket, programmes like Khelo Rugby scrape the bottom of the barrel to play on. We have so many Khelo Rugby communities raring to go and we are keen to take the sport to thousands of more children in need across boundaries, said Paul.
For now only Abhishek and Paul are Pakistan-bound but if funds are raised and the roadblocks are cleared, children from Pakistan can be brought down to India to train with the Khelo Rugby kids here.
It will be a learning experience for both sides and maybe help bridge the gap between the countries, said Abhishek.
Is Khelo Rugby the best sporting endeavour in town? Tell firstname.lastname@example.com


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Issue No. 45
June 9, 2003
Paula Kaufman, University Librarian
A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project predicts that, despite strong growth in recent years in the broadband market, many users satisfied with current access will not upgrade to broadband. An estimated 31 million U.S. households have high-speed access, up 50% from a year ago, and a number of companies are trying various approaches to encourage consumers to continue moving up to broadband at a similar rate. The new study, however, indicates that a large percentage of dial-up users are content to continue with their existing service. Pew analyst John B. Horrigan said the good news is that 13 percent of current dial-up users are ready to upgrade, but, he said, the bad news is that "the pool of dial-up users most primed to
migrate to broadband ... is shrinking." NewsFactor Network, 19 May 2003, Edupage, May 19, 2003 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21537.html
Disney home video unit Buena Vista Home Entertainment will launch a pilot movie rental" program in August that uses self-destruction technology. The technology cannot be hacked by programmers who would want to view the disc longer, because the mechanism that closes the viewing window is chemical and has nothing to do with computer technology. The disc can be copied within 48 hours, since it works like
any other DVD during that window. BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 5/20/03
Three members of the House - Robert Wexler, D-Fla., Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Tom Feeney, R-Fla. - are creating a new caucus that aims to combat piracy and promote stronger intellectual property laws. Planning for the Congressional Caucus on Intellectual Property Promotion and Piracy Prevention is still in its early stages representatives say with a formal letter going out to colleagues late last week. Still unclear: its exact agenda. Hilary Rosen of the RIAA commends the move: "It's initiatives like this, along with those of other congressional leaders, which help showcase the economic and cultural contributions of the creative community while shedding light on piracy's harmful impact." Corante - Tech News: May 20, 2003
American publishers and authors have joined with colleagues from the bookselling and library communities in calling upon Congress to safeguard the right of every American to read freely, without the government's knowledge or intervention. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) was one of a group of 32 organizations and businesses that issued a statement calling for passage of H.R. 1157, The Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced in the House in March by Congressman Bernard Sanders (I-VT), the legislation at last count had 85 Democratic and Republican co-sponsors. H.R. 1157 would exempt bookstore sales records and library circulation records from Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which gives FBI agents the ability to seize bookstore and library records with an order obtained from a secret court without having to show probable cause or even reasonable grounds to believe that the person whose records are sought has been involved in a crime. Passage of the Freedom to Read Protection Act would still allow law enforcement authorities to obtain these records, but under closer supervision by the courts. The full text of the statement along with a complete list of signatories can be found on the Free Expression Network web site at: www.freeexpression.org/ftrpa.htm
On Tuesday, May 20, the Justice Department released documents revealing that public libraries have been contacted about 50 times by federal investigators as part of their anti-terrorism efforts, as reported by the Associated Press. The information was released as part of the House Judiciary Committee's efforts to oversee how the government and FBI are using their much-expanded investigative powers under the USA Patriot Act. The Department will not say whether or not they looked through or took information from library records, the AP article noted. Commenting on the Justice Department's revelations, American Library Association President Maurice J. Freedman noted that "the documents released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice raise more questions than they answer. Although the Justice Department referenced an informal survey, the real number of libraries visited and the circumstances of those visits are still not known." The American Civil Liberties Union also was not satisfied with the report, and said that the government did not provide enough details about the library investigations. Nonetheless, Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI)—who, along with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), first initiated the Committee's efforts to find out the extent of the government's use of its new powers under the Patriot Act—commended the "timing and thoroughness" of the Department's answers, AP reported. http://news.bookweb.org/
The New York Times is going to turn its popular e-mail alert tracker into a subscription service, charging at least $19.95 for a year ("a special introductory rate"). The current free service—a service with 500,000 subscribers—called NewsTracker will be eliminated after two weeks. As a promotion, the new subscribers will be offered a $10 gift certificate to The Times' online store. This is an interesting idea and one many have speculated sites might try. But with 500,000 subscribers, the NewsTracker e-mails offered a lot of advertising revenue potential. Rafat Ali reports on PaidContent.org that the new service won't have ads in it, even though the ad revenue from the free service would seem to have more revenue potential than the subscription fee from a paid service (which no doubt will have fewer subscribers). "What's most odd about this plan is that The Times is making its breaking news e-mail alerts exclusive to subscribers of this service. Since so many sites offer comparable breaking news alerts—and since their primary purpose is to drive traffic to the Web site—it seems odd that The Times is discontinuing this as a free service." May 28, 2003 http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000428.php
The Online Publishers Association reports that first-quarter ad revenue of two dozen of its members grew an average of 40.7% during the first quarter of the year. Total revenue among this group was up an average of 37.6 % over the same period last year. The companies surveyed included: About.com, Bankrate.com, Belo Interactive, CBS MarketWatch, CNET Networks, CondeNet, COXnet, Edmunds.com, ESPN.com, Forbes.com, Hearst, Internet Broadcasting Systems, Knight Ridder Digital, Meredith, MSNBC.com, New York Times Digital, Scripps Networks, Slate, SportingNews.com, Tribune Interactive, USATODAY.com, Wall Street Journal Online, weather.com and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. May 23, 2003 http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000414.php
ARKive LAUNCHES
Fred Pearce describes the launch of ARKive in the May 23 issue of The Scientist.
ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of The Wildscreen Trust (www.wildscreen.org.uk).
It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era - the world's centralized digital library of films, photographs and associated recordings of species, accessible to all via the world wide web. ARKive is leading the virtual conservation effort - finding, sorting, cataloging and copying the key records of species, and building them into a comprehensive and enduring audio-visual record. For each species, we are selecting and digitizing an average of 10 minutes of moving footage, 6 - 10 stills and sound recordings (where appropriate), to compile a complete profile of the species' characteristic behavior and appearance. FOS News 5/28/03 http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030523/06
Richard Poynder reports on the sale of BertelsmannSpringer to Candover and Cinven (C&C) in the May 27 issue of Information Today. C&C plans to merge the giant publisher with Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP), which it bought last year, creating the world's second-largest academic publisher, behind Elsevier. Observers expect journal price hikes, the usual result of publisher consolidation. After quoting Mark McCabe and Andrew Odlyzko on the subject, Poynder concludes, "Such views are based on the now widespread conviction that STM publishers have been systematically overcharging customers, leading researchers to respond by adopting alternative publishing models, not least through self-archiving their papers on the Web." But Simon Leefe of C&C defends the acquisition: "Based on our experience at KAP, which we have owned now for a few months, and from the research we did on Springer, we have no sense that [library] budgets are in decline. FOS News 5/27/03 http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030527-1.shtml
The Information Access Alliance (IAA), comprised of six library organizations, is asking the Justice Department to stop the purchase of academic publisher BertelsmannSpringer by private equity firms Cinven and Candover. The IAA, which includes the American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, says the proposed deal would result in increase prices and reduced access to scholarly research.
Thomson Corporation has announced that it will sell off its healthcare publications, including titles such as Medical Economics and Drug Topics, by the end of the year. Thomson has made clear that it is exiting all print businesses, and it sold off newspaper properties in recent years. Its strategy is to be global, electronic, and a leader in providing content and tools to professionals in its main target markets, including finance, legal, science, health, and education. Remaining print properties in Thomson's portfolio should also be seen as candidates for divestiture. It's not clear to Outsell why print publications have to go in order for that strategy to be fulfilled, when their content is clearly relevant to sectors Thomson wishes to serve. The Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) space is evolving from a single sector to three distinct spaces dominated by Big S (Reed Elsevier's focus on pure sciences), Big M (Wolters Kluwer's focus on medical information), and Big T (Thomson's focus on technology, engineering, and applied science). Source: Outsell's e-briefs, May 23, 2003 www.outsellinc.com
The gathering of industry professionals in Manhattan last month generated an urgent call for action on several fronts. Since that May 5 meeting, the conversation has continued and in this article Publishers Weekly revisits the major themes and extends an analysis of how publishers can better compete in the current marketplace. http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?publication=publishersweekly
long after Apple Computer's new music service went online selling songs for 99
cents each, RealNetworks announced that its new Rhapsody music service would
charge just 79 cents per song. Rhapsody is based on the Listen.com service,
which RealNetworks acquired last month. According to RealNetworks's Dan Sheeran,
users who subscribe to the service for $9.95 per month will be able to download
songs for the
79-cent price. Sheeran said the revenues from subscriptions will allow the service to run at a profit. By comparison, Apple's service is available to anyone with a Mac, without a monthly subscription fee. Subscribers to the Rhapsody service will be allowed unlimited downloads and can burn any downloaded songs to CDs. Internet News, 28 May 2003 Edupage, May 28, 2003 http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/2213011
A partnership between Indiana University and the University of Michigan will create an online digital archive of video recordings and a searchable database of world music to be used for research and teaching, thanks to a Mellon Foundation grant and additional support from both universities. The Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA) Digital Archive project (http://www.indiana.edu/~eviada) will focus on video recordings made by ethnomusicologists to preserve traditional musical performances, which are increasingly threatened or destroyed by war and globalization. Although preservation is the driving issue behind the digital archive, an ultimate goal is to return the recordings to the cultures where they were originally recorded, a task that has often proved difficult with physical videotapes. The digital recordings will be made available to a global network of people, not only to those able to physically travel to archival institutions, as has been the case in the past. (AScribe Newswire 5 May 2003) ShelfLife, No. 108 (May 29 2003) http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20030505.113326&time=12%2042%20PDT&year=2003&public=1
The Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands) has inked an agreement with the CEO of Kluwer Academic Publishers to digitally archive all Kluwer electronic journals featured on its Kluwer Online Web site. Kluwer Online currently contains 235,000 articles from 670 journals and more than 600 e-books. Plans for this year call for adding more than 70,000 articles and 400 additional e-books. The Koninklijke Bibliotheek has made research and development on long-term digital archiving a top priority, working with IBM to develop the E-deposit system. The system, which was implemented last December, made the KB the first national library in the world to own an operational system for the deposit and long-term preservation of digital materials. In support of its mission, the KB is seeking to enter into similar agreements with all major scientific publishers. (Business Wire 19 May 2003) ShelfLife, No. 108 (May 29 2003) http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=NEWS_VIEW_POPUP_TYPE&newsId=20030519005163&newsLang=en&beanID=2133606841&viewID=news_view_popup
Federal legislation should require that, as a condition of accepting a federal research grant, scientists and scholars agree to place articles reporting their results in a free, publicly accessible repository within a specified period after publication in a journal. That was the case presented by University of Kansas provost David Shulenberger at a joint SPARC and ACRL panel session during the recent ACRL National Conference. Shulenberger's presentation offered participants a preview of an article he has co-authored, due to be published in the October issue of Change magazine. Also on the panel, entitled "Scholarly Communication: Taking Stock, Charting Next Steps," were James Neal, Columbia University, and Jean-Claude Guedon, University of Montreal. Neal examined the impact of low-price journal alternatives, open-access business models, and open archiving on the scholarly communications market. Dr. Guedon, a historian of science and outspoken critic of the current system, discussed faculty motives for publishing in the current system of scholarly communication. ACRL plans to offer a webcast version of the session. For more information, please visit the ACRL home page SPARC E-News April-May 2003 http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=g30#2
Carol Tenopir, Gayle Baker, and William Robinson, The Art of Conjuring E-Content, Library Journal, May 30, 2003. A survey of disappearing, reappearing, and transformation acts over the past 18 months, with a very useful series of 58 profiles of the major academic databases. FOS News 5/31/03 http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA296416&publication=libraryjournal
Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright, announced late last month that it would begin development of the Sampling License, a copyright tool designed to let artists encourage the creative transformation of their work, for profit or otherwise. Leading the public discussion and development of the license is Negativland, practitioners of "found sound" music as well as other forms of media manipulation. http://www.creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/3707
The United States District Court for the District of Hawaii granted the Defendant's motion on April 29, 2003, in regard to the case of Michael J. Rossi dba InternetMovies.com vs. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) et al. This decision rules that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not require a copyright holder to conduct an investigation to establish actual infringement prior to sending notice to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) requiring them to shut-down an allegedly infringing web site, or stopping service all together to an alleged violator. The DMCA states that a "good faith belief" of infringement does not require a copyright holder to make any investigation to act against the accused. Music Industry News Network JUNE 2, 2003 http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=52456
Confused about the implications of the impending FCC's on media cross-ownership rules? Here's a good guide from Poynter's Julie Moos on how to understand the FCC's ownership regulations, how they may change, and what that means to journalists, journalism, and news consumers. It includes a "5-Minute Guide to Deregulation," with a timeline, who's who, and a synopsis of the rules and proposed changes. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=35654
Presentations from A Community Commons: Libraries in the New Century - Association of Research Libraries 142nd Annual Meeting - Lexington, Kentucky - May 14-17, 2003 are now available. Included are presentations on The Role of Library Architecture in Building Community, Extending Library Participation in the Research Community, Insights Into User Behavior, and Realizing a Vision Through Architecture. The latter includes a presentation by Stephen Murray of Columbia University who will be part of the Future of the Library Symposium here on the UIUC campus on October 30 – open to all. Peter Scott's Library Blog, 5/29/03 http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/142/
A Q&A with Paul Kocher, who says he is developing a new technology to crack down on Internet piracy without invading Internet users' privacy. "Instead of trying to track everyone's habits and patterns, Kocher's code would create a forensic trail to allow law-enforcement authorities to hunt down criminals - but only after there is evidence that illegal copies have been made," reports Business Week. Kocher: "We're trying to create a
system where there will be consequences if people don't obey the laws, but anonymity will be protected if they do." Business Week says his ideas, though "still in the research stage," are "getting rave reviews from Hollywood studios, as well as DVD-player manufacturers." Kocher created the Secure Socket Layer a security protocol that allows Internet users to make secure online purchases. Corante News 6/2/03 http://businessweek.com/technology/content/may2003/tc20030529_4913_tc073.htm
Blackwell Publishing, ISI and Oxford University Press have announced that the online usage reports they supply to customers now comply with Release 1of the COUNTER Code of Practice. All three companies have signed formal declarations of compliance and the list of usage reports covered by each publisher may be found on the COUNTER website at www.projectCounter.org. A number of other leading vendors have declared their intention to become COUNTER compliant in the course of 2003 and are working towards this goal. They include: American Institute of Physics Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins BMJ Publishing Group Extenza CABI International HighWire Press EBSCO Ingenta Elsevier Science Institute of Physics Publishing Nature Publishing Group Issue 104, Internet Resources Newsletter
Reference publisher Gale has aligned its electronic product usage reports to the guidelines and requirements outlined by two authorities on electronic product usage statistics. The authorities, ICOLC (International Coalition of Library Consortium) and COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources), are international organizations dedicated to developing standards for the measurement and reporting of usage statistics. Beginning in July 2003, full-text record access will be displayed separately from abstract and citation record access on all Gale usage reports. Prior to July 2003, only the "Journal Retrievals" report displayed full-text record access separately from abstract record access. As new ICOLC and COUNTER requirements for usage reporting are published, Gale will respond with usage reporting updates that keep its statistics aligned with market needs. ICOLC published usage-reporting guidelines in November 1998, and updated those guidelines in December 2001. COUNTER published usage-reporting requirements on January 14, 2003, in their "Code of Practice" statement. http://www.econtentmag.com/?ArticleID=4484
Stevan Harnad writes that it is becoming apparent that our main challenge is not
creating institutional repositories, but creating policies and incentives for
filling them. Universities' "publish or perish" policies are intended to
encourage and reward researchers for doing research and for making their
findings public to all would-be users. It is a natural extension of "publish or
perish" to encourage and reward researchers for maximizing the impact of their
research output by maximizing would-be user access to it. An article on how this
can be done through national and university
research accessibility and accessibility policies (with the UK as a model) appeared recently in the Times Higher Education Supplement. It is a condensed version of the
following short article: "Enhance UK research impact and assessment by making the RAE webmetric" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html
Inadequate preservation is the greatest risk to future scholarship. Preservation, which encompasses everything that ensures information will be fit for future use, includes capture, curation, and storage and has traditionally been the realm of librarians. But who is responsible for preservation in the digital age? Librarians cannot do it alone anymore, yet few scholars are aware of their own roles in the preservation of the intellectual property they produce. These scholars, after all, arrived in the digital age rather abruptly. For the most part, their work habits were forged back in the analog era, when others traditionally handled the collection and preservation of their work. While libraries and publishers are beginning to step up to the challenge, the individual scholar must also assume some of the responsibility. In some sense, the creator—knowingly or not—makes the critical decisions about the life expectancy of a file in the first few hours after its conception: which software to encode it, which hardware to play it back, and how to name the files. A blue ribbon commission of the National Science Foundation recently urged the building of an infrastructure that will support reliable information creation and transmission over time. In the humanities, the challenge is helping individual scholars build work habits that will ensure the integrity of a digital project long after the scholar has moved on. Without preservation, after all, scholarship will indeed be a truly solitary pursuit, cut off from its connections with both the past and the future. (Educause Review May-Jun 2003) ShelfLife, No. 109 (June 5 2003)
Writing in the online magazine Ubiquity that the Web is slowly but surely transforming human beings from thinkers to "clickers," M.O. Thirunarayanan asks: "Why should a person take the time to think when he or she can click his or her way to an instantaneous answer to a question that might otherwise have necessitated some thinking on the part of the person to get an answer." Why all this clicking? "The act of clicking instills in human beings a sense of being in control. Clicking on a link gives a person who is doing the clicking the feeling that he or she is in charge of the situation. Clickers feel that they are the masters of their domains. On the other hand, there is uncertainty and a sense of lack of control when a person initially starts thinking about something. It should therefore come as no surprise that when a Web user's eye perceives a link, his or her fingers start clicking almost instantaneously." Thirunarayanan's solution? Get a life, he seems to say—and ends his article this way: "If you have finished reading this brief paper, please feel free to express your need to click your way out of this Web page. I hope that the information in this paper did not in any way result in further reinforcing your clicking behavior." (Ubiquity 13-19 May
2003) ShelfLife, No. 109 (June 5 2003)
"The point"? Not "the question"? No, not according to Shakespeare's original Quartos, a body of work largely unavailable to the average researcher. But Octavo, a unique publishing company that captures rare classic books and manuscripts, page by page, using the most modern of high-resolution digital media, is hoping to put Shakespeare's Quartos and thousands of other precious literary antiquities into the hands of scholars everywhere. Octavo produces CD-ROMs of books by the likes of Shakespeare, Galileo, Newton, Chaucer and Euclid, and is working on a version of the Gutenberg Bible. The PDF files on the discs open up into detailed photographs of every page. Viewers can click through the pages and zoom in to examine the smallest details, whether an embellishment on an illuminated letter or even a wormhole bored through the page of a work by Copernicus. Researchers affiliated with Octavo prepare transcriptions and translations of the works, and the text is fully searchable. Richard Kuhta of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, cites Octavo's philosophy as a major reason he opened up Folger's collection to the eyes of their cameras. "The attitude at Octavo appealed to us as much as the technology, along with the shared understanding that the digital environment offered, oddly, the opportunity to extend access to priceless material while at the same time reduce handling of physical objects." (East Bay Business Times 26 May 2003) ShelfLife, No. 109 (June 5 2003)
The Amico Library, which is an Internet archive with digital copies of more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, and photographs, was created through a collaboration of 39 museums (from the well-known, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to the less well-known, such as the Newark Museum. Amico is an acronym for Art Museum Image Consortium (www.amico.org), a nonprofit venture that has become almost self-sufficient since its founding in 1999, and has a current annual budget of $750,000. This month Amico's board of trustees voted to accept an invitation to merge with Artstor (www.artstor.org), a nonprofit venture supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The two organizations, when merged, will be under ArtStor's direction. (New York Times 22 May 2003) ShelfLife, No. 109 (June 5 2003)
In difficult times, scholarly presses stress solidarity, the need for new initiatives—and point to a few cheering bright spots. When the book business is suffering, as it is at present, university presses, whose task is to disseminate scholarship and only incidentally to make a profit if they can, are likely to be suffering even more. Peter Givler, executive director of the Association of American University Presses, winces visibly when asked how they are faring in today's rather bleak marketplace.
"Most of them are scrambling, month to month," he says. "The whole business is in the doldrums right now, but we're especially hard hit because the library market, which is important to us, is getting hammered. State budget cuts are affecting university libraries, and endowments are down. Everybody's struggling. At best, a university press will be pleased if it can hold level with last year—which wasn't a great year anyway."
Can he foresee press closings? "Some of the smaller state ones are certainly vulnerable, but I'd expect to see more firings of directors, in an attempt to turn things around, than actual closings," says Givler. And in fact one recent such firing, that of Bill Strachan at Columbia, had captured much attention because of the obvious conflict it revealed between a lively press's ambitions and the funds available to carry them out. http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA302166
The University of Massachusetts Press is fighting for its life under a current budget proposal that would discontinue its $340,000 annual subsidy. Under the current budget
scenario put forth by UMass Chancellor John Lombardi, the press would have to replace its subsidy or find a way to survive on the just over $1 million in annual revenues from
book sales. Like a large number of university systems across the country, UMass is struggling to close a major budget deficit and is trimming budgets across all
departments. UMass Press Director Bruce Wilcox confirmed that the press is facing an uncertain future. Wilcox said he was sympathetic to Lombardi, whom he termed "a smart and decent man" facing a "horrendous" financial situation. "[Lombardi] must make cuts of somewhere between $24 and $40 million on this campus [Amherst] for the fiscal
year that begins July 1," said Wilcox. Founded in 1963, the University of Massachusetts Press is regarded as one of the nation's finest small university presses. It has sold more than 1.8 million volumes and has over 900 titles in print. With a lean staff of 13
employees, the press publishes roughly 40 new titles annually in a variety of humanities and social sciences subjects. Wilcox said he hopes the press could find a way to survive should it lose part or its entire subsidy. Library Journal Academic News Wire: June 06, 2003
In the June 6 Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Monaghan profiles the open-access Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center and describes the efforts of E. Gene Smith to collect and digitize the texts on which it is based. All the TBRC texts are now available on disk, with the exception of a few passages on secret rites, omitted at the request of the Tibetan caretakers of the paper originals. The digital texts are slowly moving from disks to the web, where they are available without charge. Those who want texts not yet online may order them on disk and pay whatever they are moved to pay. Quoting Smith: "There is an uneasiness in the Tibetan tradition about selling books or images. We like to try at least to cover the cost of postage [but do not even require that]. The idea is that we just don't want to be selling back the Tibetan culture to the Tibetans." FOS News 6/6/03 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i39/39a04801.htm
SPARC has announced a partnership with the open-access journal, Economics Bulletin. Quoting John Conley, professor of economics at Vanderbilt and co-founder of Economics Bulletin: "The problem as we see it is that the current business model employed by commercial publishers does more to inhibit than foster scholarly communication. Our hope is that the Economics Bulletin demonstrates that it [is] feasible to take back control of the publication process and produce high-quality, peer-reviewed journals on an open access basis within the academic community itself." For more details, see the SPARC press release. Conley moved to Vanderbilt from UIUC; the UIUC Library is committed to archiving the publication. http://www.topica.com/lists/fos-forum/read/message.html?mid=907830102&sort=d&start=776
Starting with the June issue, Searcher magazine will run a series of articles on "the genesis of the first online industry, which surfaced in the late 1960s, and served primarily information scientists; documentation experts; government researchers in educational, scientific, technical and medical fields; and librarians." The article in the June issue includes reminiscences by Carlos Cuadra (of ORBIT) and Roger Summit (of Dialog) on Medline, ERIC, and their interaction with early commercial services. FOS News 6/2/03 http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun03/ardito_bjorner.shtml
A significant percentage of American book buyers turn to used books to get the titles they want or need at a substantial discount. About 10 per cent of U.S. households bought at least one used book between April and December of last year. In total, these households purchased roughly 110 million used books or about $400 million in dollars spent, according to data released at BookExpo America by Ipsos BookTrends. Used books accounted for roughly 13% of unit volume and 5% of dollars spent on trade books (excluding children's books). Projecting purchase trends for the full year, Ipsos BookTrends estimates that American consumers bought about 145 million used books last year, for about $533 million. Nearly one-third of book buying households purchased both a new and a used book during the last nine months of 2002. Among used book buyers, most of who purchase both used and new books during the year, one out of every three book purchases was for a used book. Peter Scott's Library Blog 6/9/03 http://www.ipsos-pa.com/dsp_displaypr_us.cfm?id_to_view=1827
A Republican lawmaker is expected to announce a bill next week that would dramatically scale back the ability of record labels, movie studios and others to use anticopying technology. The bill, authored by Sen. Sam Brownback, would regulate digital rights management systems, granting consumers the right to resell copy-protected products and requiring digital media manufacturers to prominently disclose to consumers the presence of anticopying technology in their products. The Kansas Republican's proposal could also derail the recording industry's legal pursuit of the identity of a Verizon Communications subscriber by requiring that a copyright holder file a lawsuit in pursuit of the name of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate. That would amend the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which a federal court concluded does not require a judge's approval before a copyright holder can force the disclosure of a suspected pirate's identity. The main thrust of the Brownback bill, however, is to slap regulations on digital rights management (DRM) technology, which has become increasingly popular as a way to reduce widespread copyright infringement on the Internet. Last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stressed his company's support for DRM technology, and Apple Computer uses DRM to limit how customers can reuse music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. Some consumer groups argue that DRM infringes on the right to make "fair use" of copyrighted works and to back up legally purchased digital files. If the Brownback proposal were enacted, the Federal Trade Commission would have the power to ban DRM systems that limit a consumer's right to resell any "digital media product," a category that includes everything from computer software and e-books to copy-protected CDs and movies. It also says that companies selling such products must offer "clear and conspicuous notice or a label on the product" indicating the presence of anticopying technology that follows FTC regulations, starting one year after the law's enactment, unless the FTC determines that industry groups have created reasonable "voluntary" guidelines of their own. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/1013037.htm
This new SEPB version includes over 1,900 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources" directory includes over 230 related Web sites. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Blog 6/9/03 http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
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Where is photocatalysis situated in the broad field of catalysis? Photocatalysis is a term that combines the basic notion of a catalyst as a material that enhances the rate as a reaction approaches equilibrium without being consumed with the notion that the reaction is accelerated by photons, which of course are consumed. Thus, it is a hybrid concept. As with other areas of catalysis, it has its heterogeneous and its homogeneous dimensions with the former dominating the research literature. Nevertheless, the homogeneous opportunities should not be overlooked. A typical example of a homogeneous case can be found with a dye photocatalyst having two oxidation states where one state can achieve an electron transfer after excitation by light, where that reaction is not feasible from the ground state. If the resulting oxidation state is thermally or photochemically unstable, a catalytic cycle can be completed. Some non-dye examples of homogeneous photocatalysts include soluble ions with multiple oxidation states, including at least one readily excitable by light, such as the polyoxometallates of tungsten or Fenton's reagent. Although photochemists prefer the term "sensitizer", excited states that transfer energy to a molecule that then reacts can be viewed as photocatalysts.
Heterogeneous photocatalysis owes its present prominence to the excitement generated by the report in
As the latest paper counts indicate, photocatalysis is an area of intense research activity globally. Papers on the subject are well represented in journals focused on catalysis, but perhaps they are even more prominent in the literature of environmental remediation of air, water and soil. The interested researchers form a continuum from chemists to materials scientists, to environmental scientists to engineers with the occasional solid state physicist contributing insight into fundamental processes important to the field. The evolution of knowledge of photcatalytic materials can be described, as Rajeshwar [
The first generation (1975–1985) focused primarily on the studies that provided the understanding of the semiconductor/solution interface under illumination from studies of single crystal semiconductor surfaces and the exploration of a wide variety of semiconductors. At the time it was already recognized that polycrystalline materials would be more suitable in most applications and the first generation of photocatalysis work did focus on suspensions of finely divided material. The second generation, the first important one for photocatalysis with exponential growth of the literature well underway, spans approximately 1986 through 2000. This phase featured work on polycrystalline thin films, efforts to dope semiconductors to exploit visible light, dye sensitization, and widespread use of suspensions to explore the scope of photocatalysis. It was in this period that the industry emerged. Dye sensitized photocatalysts have been extensively evaluated for destruction of dyes in waste streams. Unfortunately many of these papers use UV sources and do not distinguish dye sensitization from band gap excitation.
In the third generation period since 2000, photocatalysis research has continued to expand so that in the 2006–2010 period, publications on photocatalysis exceeded those aimed at energy conversion, 16,757 to 12,811 [
Independently of these developments, there has been continuing research on the design of photocatalytic reactors to achieve treatment of water and air at high flow rates competitive with such established technology as UV disinfection. This continues to be limited by the separation problems faced if slurries are used. Yet slurries offer the best way to achieve uniform distribution of photons over catalytic particles in a well stirred reactor that reduces the mass transport problem for delivering substrates to the active surface to crossing the diffusion layer. If the separation problem is overcome by design of fixed beds, the problems of uniform exposure of substrate to active sites and uniform illumination of photocatalyst must be addressed. Also, oxygen or other electron acceptors must be delivered in conjunction with the contaminants to be oxidized. So far, success in design of reactors that outperform slurries has remained a challenge.
This Special Issue aims to continue the conversation among researchers interested in the still fruitful approach to practical application inherent in the second generation approaches and researchers presenting third generation advances. The reactor designers can make a major contribution and this issue may lead to generating interest among some catalysis researchers, not now in this field, to consider its attractions and challenges.


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A North Allegheny student's artistic interpretation of a boys bathroom is part of a national tour this year.
Emma Munson, 18, of McCandless, earned a national gold medal in the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program for her acrylic painting "The Room."
"I was walking around the school and thought it would be kind of fun to paint the boys room," said Munson, who created the piece for a class assignment. "The idea came out of the blue. Everyone had familiar spaces, but this was a space where we're not allowed to go."
The piece is being featured in an exhibition — ART.WRITE.NOW. — which is taking place in four cities this school year: Detroit; Virginia Beach, Va.; Kansas City, Mo.; and Fort Worth, Texas.
Students in grades seven to 12 submit artwork and writing for the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program, which is judged on originality and technical skill. Munson first entered her piece in a regional competition last year.
An exhibition of works in this year's regional competition will be on display next month at La Roche College in McCandless.
Artists who earn a Gold Key — the highest honor in the regional competitions — have their work submitted for national judging.
Munson was one of 63 North Allegheny students to be awarded a regional Gold Key last year.
The nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers administers the awards, which have recognized more than 13 million students since 1923.
For Munson's assignment, the artwork needed to have depth. "Interior Spaces or Unusual Places" was an exercise in perspective.
It could have been a room or a tunnel, said her teacher, Frances Hawbaker.
Munson needed the custodian's permission to get inside the bathroom. She worked to capture the scene through sketches and photos.
"I make more ordinary things more interesting," Munson said. "I'm not interested in realism. I paint what I see, not what's there."
North Allegheny Senior High School art teacher Frances Hawbaker had to persuade Munson to enter the painting in the contest.
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While art is represented in the Munson family — a great-uncle was an artist — the teenager credits art teachers, such as Sarah LeDonne at Ingomar Middle School and Hawbaker for being strong instructors.
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As she selects a college, Munson, an NA senior, plans to stay involved in art no matter what major she pursues.
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The Author really tries to hold out two different realities. Half of the sections involve a declaration of opposites. We go deeper into the problem and the solution.
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Yes, I'm amazed that they can say the various volcanoes are not connected. It must come from a reductionist point of view. The idea of breaking things down to their smallest components to get an understanding of the whole. Dumb.
I've been watching all the activity in NZ and it seems the whole place is waking up. The Christchurch quakes were the beginning, but the whole plate boundary area from top to bottom is squirming. Of course this is happening right around the Pacific and other places.
They're even wondering whether there might be some broader relationship between quakes and volcanoes. Talk about not putting two and two together.
It's also clear from them saying they didn't get any signs before this eruption and it's unusual, blah, blah, that they haven't really got a clue about it. About as useful as tits on a bullfrog.
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the idiots should read this thread, shouldnt they, lols
(instead they hate what i do here)
but seriously, you are correct in all you are saying, AC
M said days ago they should close the area, and she was right again
are the "experts" perhaps panicking and have no clue what to do atm?
btw i can see the ash on the coastal horizon, but cannot smell it yet
did you see the rotorua graphs i posted? likely a connection there too
local rotorua maori people who understand the big picture, and always have, say that the rotorua area is showing signs also, they said it months ago...
Yeah thanks, T. I'm not too familiar with the graphs, but I've had a look. The Maori are more likely to have the pulse of the place than the 'experts'.
Also, I guess the 'experts' have to be careful because of the tourist trade and so on. None of them want to be accused of being alarmist if nothing much comes of it.
It's really up to people themselves to take notice since it might save their lives if they're just a bit prepared. The ones (majority) who wait for the authorities to tell them what to do might be left twisting in the wind.
I've got a bad feeling it's only beginning. Best of luck and good management to all there.
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thank you friend xx
yes it is just beginning
the trouble is that people trust the 'experts' to warn them, same old story, i guess...
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Rumble in the Garden: Big East Blogger Roundtable: biggest loss
Pico from the St. John's blog "Rumble in the Garden" put together a great roundtable of all the BIG EAST bloggers out there. The first installment posed the question of who would be the biggest loss for their team. SHOCKER: Kevin from Friar Basketball and myself both picked Marshon. Many thanks to Pico for rounding up everyone and getting this out. Here is what I wrote:
Although the crowd might get confused about what to cheer about when they don't see Ray Hall come off the bench.The Friars will need to replace Marshon's great scoring ability used across an almost 30% possession percentage (49th in the nation). Friartown is praying the team's possession count drops considerably with an emphasis on defense and a more structured offense.
Friar Basketball: 38 in 76: #22 Cotton's Niche
Oh yeah, we have players that are playing this year! Kevin takes a look at the role Bryce Cotton will play with all the talent coming in at the guard position for the next two seasons.
Where does that leave Cotton? With a season to establish a niche on this team. Where that will most likely come is on the defensive end. The six foot guard is in phenomenal physical condition heading into this season. He is physically equipped to defend point guards at this level, but would certainly help his case as a member of next season's rotation if he proves he can hold his own against shooting guards in the conference (more specifically, shooting guards 6'4 and under).
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This morning, Coach La Fleur tweeted (IN ALL CAPS, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW HE ROLLS) that they had flown in somewhere to "get some friars". Well, we found out what he and Cooley were up to when Brewster Hoops of NH tweeted.
There were obviously there to see former St. John's commit JaKarr Sampson. They were not alone however, as @BrewsterHoops tweeted that the Baylor head coach was to visiting. Baylor was on Sampson's final three list before committing to the Johnnies (he was ruled ineligible this season and subsequently de-comitted). I hope Cooley has a little Marlo in him. Our turf Scott Drew!
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New York Knicks, (Brooklyn officially!) Nets. Fight to the death! I have no idea what this image is about, but Marshon is posing here with Knick Iman Shumpert.
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The subtle and expected name change – which isn't official until approved by the NBA's Board of Governors – was announced during a spectacle of a press conference Monday held in front of the construction site of the $1 billion Barclays Center. Minority owner Jay-Z made a grand entrance, proclaimed the team as "the Brooklyn Nets" – along with news that he'll open the arena with a concert in September of next year – and then was escorted out of the tent in a hurry.
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I don't think we are out of the woods yet by any means.
After a weekend of chaos and uncertainty the dust is finally starting to settle and everyone is breathing a little easier.Syracuse and Pitt are gone from the Big East starting in 2014, with their incendiary actions they also burn away the traditions and culture they built from the infant days in the Big East.
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"Beyond that, then you fall back to the Big East," he said "The Big East then has to rebuild itself to fill the loss of the two teams that left and has to worry about its ability to compete on the major sports of basketball and football in particular, as well as how do we make that work for student athletes."
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