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Title: Charles L. Franck and Franck-Bertacci
Charles L. Franck was a commercial photographer in New Orleans whose individual career and successors covered all but the first decade of the 20th century. In 1955, his studio was purchased by Alfred L. Bertacci Sr., who continued to operate within the same scope of assignments as Franck had done. Tens of thousands of photographs and negatives from the Franck and Franck-Bertacci studios, held at The Collection, chronicle the face and growth of Louisiana, and New Orleans in particular, during the 20th century. The change of the city through its photographed character focuses on major industries (the port, construction, transportation) during a period of racial integration, labor disputes, and urban growth. Social and cultural events–Mardi Gras, weddings, private parties–all feature in the collection as well. As the Franck Collection approaches the present day, the photographs of major building projects (the Louisiana Superdome, bridges across the Mississippi River, nuclear power plants, and petrochemical complexes) touch on issues of suburban and exurban expansion, and environmental issues.
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Title: Edith Dabney Doll Collection
The Edith Dabney Doll Collection contains approximately 80 dolls manufactured across the world, from the early 18th century to the late 20th century. A former Associate Professor of Speech at Louisiana State University, Edith Dabney's personal collection of dolls comprised over 300 dolls, 80 of which the University's Special Collections inherited after her death. From the glittering shores of Martinique to the urban streets of London, Dabney collected dolls that imitated fashion wear from across the globe. The digital collection reflects this cultural diversity while also demonstrating the evolution of doll-construction and materials.
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Title: Louisiana Sugar Resources Digital Collection
This collection is comprised of LSU Libraries materials related to the agriculture and manufacture of sugar. Materials were chosen by the LSU Sugar Research Station and funded in part by the American Sugar Cane League. A near complete run of The Sugar Bulletin is available in the collection.
Title: Loyola University New Orleans Electronic Theses
The electronic thesis collection consists of theses from Loyola graduate and
undergraduate students dating back to 1958. Some items are restricted for use to
on-campus Loyola users.
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Title: Loyola University New Orleans Scrapbook Collection
This collection showcases scrapbooks from various manuscript and archival collections in Loyola University's Special Collections & Archives.
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Title: LSU Libraries Civil War Collection
To mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, LSU's Special Collections staff has digitized selected items from the LSU Libraries Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC). This collection represents the cultural and political aspects of the conflict, and life in antebellum Louisiana. Sources include books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, state documents, and microfilm that support scholarly research in many areas, including religion, plantation management, slavery, French Creole identity and relations, and Southern nationalism.
Title: Maps from The Historic New Orleans Collection
The Historic New Orleans Collection has extensive holdings of significant manuscript and printed maps. Acquisition was begun by The Collection's founder, General L. Kemper Williams, in the 1920s and '30s. Since then considerable additions have been made including a wide range of maps dating from early colonial times to the present.
Title: Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Over the past three decades, New Orleans entrepreneur and art collector Roger Houston Ogden has assembled one of the finest collections of southern visual art.
Contact: Libra LaGrone; email@example.com; 504.539.9612
Title: Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
This digital collection highlights the newspapers, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera produced by student groups, leading civil rights organizations, and individuals, which document the efforts of civil rights efforts in the United States.
Contact: Jeff Rubin; firstname.lastname@example.com; 504-289-7168
Title: Social Framework: Photographs by Marion Palfi, 1945-1960
The "Social Framework: Photographs by Marion Palfi, 1945-1960," digital collection highlights images captured by socially conscious photographer Marion Palfi. Palfi's photographs depict various scenes of people and daily life from the 1940s-1960s. The photographs include scenes from the Harlem neighborhood in New York City, the City College of New York, Columbia University, New York Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Sydenham Hospital, World War II servicemen and war plants, Pittsburgh steel mills, Dillard University in New Orleans (Louisiana) American Missionary Association (AMA) schools, as well as the daily life of African Americans living in the segregated South.
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Rajshri Productions of the Barjatyas has always tried to bank upon their successful older stories. Be it remaking Jaya Bachchan starrer Uphaar into Abodh -Madhuri Dixit's Debut movie; Nadiya Ke Paar into the opulent Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, or Chitchor into Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, the Barjatya's have always recreated the old magic and it has paid off quite well most of the times.
Not just remakes, Rajshris have also tried their hit themes again and again. After the grandiose affair Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, came the opulent Hum Saath Saath hain & after Vivah came Ek Vivah Aisa Bhi.
This time around the story is a bit different. The Rajshri Production has roped in the pair of their 1978 Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se, actor – Director Sachin Pilgaonkar & Ranjeeta Kaur to make a sequel to the same movie. Titled Jaana Pehchaana, the movie showcases Arun(Sachin's character) life after Lily's(Ranjeeta's) Death and takes the story forward from where Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se ended. The film is set to release for September release at Liberty Cinema, Mumbai on September 16th, 2011.
While Sachin plays his old character Arun, Ranjeeta plays a lookalike of her old character Lily. Junior Mehmood and Birbal will also be seen as supporting cast playing the same roles as in the earlier film.
After disasters like Uuf Kya Jadoo Mohabbat Hai, Ek Vivah Aisa Bhi, Isi Life Mein, and Love U…Mr. Kalakaar!, they surely need a blockbuster. Hope the movie does great business for Rajshri Productions & brings the same success as its prequel.

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Join us in Moomin Valley for the latest adventure of cult Finnish classic – Moomins and the Comet Chase. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his worried friends embark on a challenging journey to the observatory to find out why everything in their valley is covered in thick grey dust and the sky continues to get redder by the day. They discover a comet is heading straight for them, but can they make it back to Moominhouse to get everyone to safety in time?
Moomins and the Comet Chase sees the world's favourite family of white trolls return for another adventure set in the fascinating and curious world of Moomin Valley. Based on the original stop-motion TV series, Comet in Moominland of the 1970s and 80s, the gang must work together and overcome potential dangers and peculiar creatures as they journey via boat and foot through Moomin Valley to beat the comet home and save everyone from disaster. Four days, four hours, four minutes, 44 seconds and counting – will they make it?
Moomins and the Comet Chase enjoyed its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and features the familiar voices of many well known Swedish actors such as Stellan Skarsgård (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Good Will Hunting), Alexander Skarsgård (Melancholia, True Blood), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, Minority Report) and Peter Stormare (Fargo, The Big Lebowski). With The Comet Song written and performed by Björk – one of the Moomin's biggest fans!
The Moomins were created by Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson in the 1950s. The original books have been translated into 44 languages that have gone on to inspire television series and animated films. The Moomins are often regarded as one of Finland's biggest exports.
"Their world is full of exciting journeys and mysterious people met on the way. And the subtle wisdom that never tips into moralising is maybe unique to Jansson or the Nordic culture."
Director's Profile
Maria Lindberg has worked in a variety of areas including editing and research, with such filmmakers as the Canadian documentarian Ron Mann (on Genie Award-winning Grass and Genie Award- nominated Go Further) and with the Finnish feature filmmaker Jari Halonen (on the Jussi Award-nominated The Life of Aleksis Kivi). Most recently, Maria's focus has been on children's programming, with a variety of classic series. For the 2008 feature film Moomins and Midsummer Madness, she was in charge of direction, editing and graphic design, and she directed and edited Moomins and the Comet Chase.


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Friendly Personell,Restaurant is reasonable but cannot be put on the hotel bill. They switch off the aircon during the night and also between 10-13 in the morning ,when it is 30 degrees centigrade outside.Room too small :10m2 you get claustrofobia when staying in...
position and decor room was small dark and aircon useless and we were covered in insect bites
The breakfast is really good, the value for money is excellent, quiet neighborhood. It was a little too far from the center, about 30-35 mins from Termini with bus nr. 86.
Friendly staff made the stay very pleasant. Limited space for clothes (no cabinet)
everything was very good, nice and new hotel, good breakfast
Friendly staff, Clean room, breakfast good for italian standards (fresh fruit, eggs, bacon, bread, croissants, yoghurts), free Wifi Internet access, nice beds, free safe, airconditioning, flatscreen television with the posibility to connect my iPod. If I have to name something, it would be the time to travel to the centre by bus (84 or 86), but it was okay (30 minutes tot Termini, 40 minutes to Piazza Venezia).
Staff were nice enough and air conditioning was good The hotel is nowhere near a metro so if you like travelling by bus in stifling heat then ok. The room was dirty and we had to change to another room - the area is not great or accerssible, breakfast was basic but ok - I think for the money I spent I could have got a better hotel in a better location with more facilities.
Bed comfort and big LCD TV. Decoration was nice too. On the first night we were told there was a problem with the 1st floor and we would not be able to stay there. So they paid a taxi to a hotel nearby (hotel Carlos Magno, which we did not like much) where we stayed the first night. We were able to stay at Aniene for the next 2 nights, but there were small things which we did not like (some things were dirty and the shower was broken, though it was fixed after we talked at the reception).
I loved the contemporary interior design of the hotel. It was opened only 1 month earlier therefor all the facilities were new. The staff was excellent, very helpful and friendly. They play good music in the reception which creates in addition a welcoming feeling. The breakfast had a big choice. I definitely go back to this hotel if I am in Rome.
room is clean, modern design, free Internet it takes 15 min with Bus to the central, little bit far from the city.
Rooms were clean and the hotel staff was very helpful in providing information. Breakfast was poor with only few choices.
Un albergo perfetto!! I storongly recommend this hotel!! little bit far from city center, but if you take bus, you can reach easily.
most of the staff was very pleasant walls in the room were very dirty
Beutifull villas, nice restorant nearby too much stairs...
The hotel staff were very friendly and healpful. The room were small but very cute, also clean. We booked the room with a balcony, and we had it(it was big). We also liked the open terrace where we had breakfast. The only problem are stairs...
Free internet, decent buffet breakfast (all cold foods such as baked goods and juices). The staff was just okay. They did not really go out of their way for you too much. There was some frustration at times on the part of the staff due to the language barrier. At times they were just plain rude.
The hotel was clean, the breakfast was very good, very varied. The staff was really unfriendly and the rooms were very small.
It was very spacious and light and a lovely place to be, though a tad far from the centre but I have to say it's not bad when you take a bus and besides it's a big city so it's very good really :) We had to find the room being not cleaned and got charged for the coffee whilst waiting till it was done (aprox. 25 minutes), I reckon that was just an incident, other than that I can recommend it to anyone, specially price/quality-wise, it's definitely a nice hotel :)
Good circumstance Difficult to take taxi
I asked for non-smoking and was placed in a smoking room. The complimentary shuttle to the Vatican and other parts of Rome was not complimentary - there was a charge or I was told the shuttle did not go there.
did not think staff were particulary kind or helpful
residential distric, clean room, towels changed every day, polite staff breakfast (wide range but not very fresh and tasty - warm not hot coffee, unsvoury bread etc). Traffic to the centre (if I knew that buses are so crowdy, slow and unpredictable (marathon, demonstration, just stopping and not going further, road repair etc.),I would definitely choose a hotel near subway - but there are just 2 lines in a whole city). It is not about the hotel but closely related.
Breakfast was good TV so bad
The hotel was very well maintained, nicely furnished and exceptionally clean. We were happy to discover that the walls were thick and the hotel was well separated from street noise. The cleaning maids did their job quietly as well which made it possible for us to have a good sleep till noon. The heating did not work during the first night because the staff forgot to set it up in the system. The breakfast buffet was virtually non-existent, in fact the worst I have seen in my life. Sour coffee, overdone crossaints and not much more. Fortunately food in the neighbourhood made up for this. Traffic jams make commuting exhausting, but its everywhere the same in Rome.
The location, it was in Rome, and the price. The staff were of mixed quality - some very good, other much less helpful.
The room was very clean and the staff were always very friendly and approachable Could have done with an extra pillow and extra tissue paper/toilet paper
the employees were very servant to us, thank you for the help they provided us. also, we could park our car outside thehotel, without any problems, and without having to pay anything for parking. also, the cleaners were ok, and the air condition worked fine. in general, very cheap and well care hotel. the place is a bit far away from the centre of the rome, about 5 kms, but there is a bus passsing every 30 minutes in a distance of 200 meters away from the hotel, which is fine enought. the breakfast must be a little better, but the machine of making your own coffeee was excellent.
The staff was extremely helpful. The room was nice and it was close to where we wanted to stay in Rome. There was a rather long set of steps to get to the hotel from the main street. It was hard for my elderly mother in law.
The price was good The bed was a little small
Small and friendly. Distance from the main centre
Good hotel, satisfactory breakfast The single room was very small and it was impossible to stand in the shower even if you were 5ft 4inches tall due to sloping low ceiling. Larger room was better but the bathroom was needing a bit attention as the polish of marble around washhand basin was gone and the cabinet was badly damaged by water seeping into the joints. However the worst point was the rudeness of the receptionist in shift on the morning of 5th November 2010. It was more than enough to ruin an otherwise excellent break in Rome.
Room clean, staff english speaking, polite and rather helpful, when we requested tea/coffee making facilities those were brought in without any problems at no extra charge Breakfast is too sweet, almost no savoury things at all... although seems to be a typical Italian breakfast, since I asked people who stayed at other hotels and they said that had similar sweet breakfast; permanent strange smell on the ground floor next to reception gave me shivers; hotel's location is good to go to the centre by bus, but it is right on the main road, so ambulances passing every 5 min 24 hrs a day, dust and fumes coming from the road; the room with french bed they gave us first was extremely small, double bed was in fact 1.5 size, so we would not fit with our kid, had to change the room at an extra cost for a larger one
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The staff were kind and accomadating. I checked in early after a 12 hour flight. They understood and checked me in stright away.
It was an easy location to get to via the buses.. they stop right outside the hotel. It was very clean and had super friendly and helpful staff. Paolo (the waiter in the restaurant) was fabulous and increased the pleasure of our staff. Totally recommend eating in the restaurant. Greats breakfasts too! It is a little far out of town, but as long as you are not put off by a ten minute bus ride then its no problem.
Clean room, simple but nice. A new hotel with modern designs. Excellent reception and information provided. Could be better if the room was more spacious. The hotel is a bit far from the centre but next to a bus stop. Not the best/safest neighborhood to live in.
reception services and room equipment and cleanliness bus transportation when you do not have a car with
The Hotel was very good, But a good way out of town and about a half a mile from bus.
easy connection to the main railway station, clean rooms, pretty quiet
Very responsive staff. Free use of computer and printer in a special room. The overall relaxed atmosphere.
Wifi, quiet, cleanliness No safe
Very clean. Not very close to city center but easily accessible by public transport (line 90 and 60). Simple breakfast but plenty enough. Friendly staff but they can not speak english very well. Room was cold, shower too. I asked hotel staff and they told me that they usually turn heatings on in November.
Very friendly staff. Immaculately clean. Recently renovated. Rooms are plain and semi-religious (it is run by a group of sisters), yet comfortable and relaxing. Bus connections are very easy - you can be anywhere downtown in 20-30 minutes. great value for money. A bit far from center, otherwise great!
Staff very commodating and very friendly. Free parking with city transportation nearby. Very quiet and conducive to reflection. A challenge to find, but well worth the stay. Very economical.
The staff are very helpful and friendly nothing is too much trouble for them, and there are bars and restaurants near by.
I have been there several times with work and was happy to return on a private occasion. My boyfriend and I had a lovely time and the staff was great as usual.Would recommend it to anyone who wants to explore Rome. the only thing, and it's not really their fault, is that it's a drag to get to places. especially coming back late can be a bit of a mission, but to be fair, that's the case with a lot of places in Rome.
Rooms are quite separate from reception desk.
Hotel in the middle of nowhere a long way from Rome
Price and help of staff.
It was a very pleasant and comfortable stay, the staff was very good and willing to service you. A peacefull and quiet place, in a traditional-style manner, with basic, but good quality breakfast.
bed was comfortable and the staff was nice Room was not remodeled since the 70's and I was able to easily hear any noise made in the corridor.
Staff was not so friendly, Location is good if you have a car, othyerwise don't even think to take it.Services is fair enough, Breakfast is very good.
Excelent location for travellers with car, free and convinient parking, nice teritory with garden and swiming pool I did not like that additional fee 18 EUR per day was asked for using multimedia device. It was not possible to watch any TV channel free of charge (even news and sport channels)
Friendly, helpful staff, good clean dining area and the swimming pool no evening meal
good value for money far too remote from the city centre, both bus and train have to be taken to get to city centre
It has a verry nice pool. If you come by car in Rome I recomand it because in Rome it is hard and expensive to find a parking in Rome.
Very good value for money. Room was clean. Hotel is not too far from the city center.
the hotel is very nice. the room is very clean & tidy. staff was friendly and helpful. breakfast was available and pretty nice. the location is reachable by metro and bus, but still quite far from the city center. especially when it's a public holiday, the bus comes once every hour (with no time schedule) so we had to take a taxi to the metro station which cost us about 12 euro. however, for traveler with car, this hotel is great.
I like that in the room was fully functioning air conditioner with remote controller. The bed size is acceptable, it was two normal beds pushed together. There were no possibility to use fridge. Room was quite small. Around the hotel there were no shops or bars.
Staff were nice and helpful. Rooms spacious and clean. Hotel was a fair bit away from the attractions and city centre. Was on a busy road with no nearby amenities, however good public transport service.
towels have sour smell
Spacious and suitable room, helpful staff, hotel shuttle available, onsite good restaurant
Position is good to reach quite every part of the city. The free shuttle bus is really useful to reach city center. Personal is helpfulness and nice. Rooms are clean and spacious.
The location, and the hotel staff. Breakfast was bad, rooms are too crowded for 4 people. I would recommend the hotel be cause of the location and not the facilities, .
The location is far from everything, you should have a car if you want to stay here. The restaurant - which is not really cosy- serves surprisingly good pasta and steak for less than 15 Euro. We didn't take breakfast there since we prefer to have coffee and panini in the city centre. The rooms are a bit too pinky, but it was clean nevertheless.
nothing. I believe the owner of the Hotel Romulus is in the wrong business. He would be better off running a farm including all of the staff. The staff was terrible!! Not friendly at all. If you have any questions they will not be too nice. The location is not good. From the airport it took us almost 2 hrs to get there. They never mentioned that breakfast was included (I forgot) they said that they were too busy to do that. Breakfast is horrible and so is the restaurants food.
It was Fantastic hotel..we would like to come again..Staff was very helpful ...very good breakfast..near to public transport..and very good and safe parking place...it is just wonderful hotel!!!
1. Very clean! 2. There is a swimmingpool 3. Very informative and friendly service Breakfast was only italian (sweet), we asked for some cheese or ham but we had to buy it by ourselves
Hotel confortable avec de grandes chambres, bien que proche de la voie rapide il n'y a pas de nuisances car les chambres sont bien insonorisées. Le personnel est discret et serviable.
The staff was very nice and friendly. The rooms were very clean.
they were friendly and warm. the hotel is far from the city center but it is really excited. i like this hotel and hotel owners.
It is quite a trek to reach the center of Rome.
it was quiet It was too far from Rome center, there was no instructions to direct the traveler that does not know Rome to get to the hotel, it was very unfriendly. The hotel service was not tailor to outside euro travelers and the services offered were very poor... this was more like motel on the side of the road
Very convenient off the Rome ring road for an overnight stay before heading north. Very clean room. Breakfast was ok, just not our taste.
I actually didnt like it at all, stayed there just one night because it was very late to move somewhere else.... The staff don't speak English, they didnt have my Reservation, they had no clue of anything and the service was very poor, the location was awful and definitely I would never stay there again.
I liked the rooms and the staff was nice and helped us with lot of information. It was far away from city center , at the end of Rome.


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Newcastle Real Estate market is making strong recovery from the global recession and it is unlikely that a further rise in interest rate could dampen the buoyant spirit of buyers. The weekly sale auction attracts homebuyers and investors alike, and properties are sold significantly above the reserve prices. These are clear signs of a rising property market with the median house price continuously heading northwards for the past several months. Auction clearance rates in the entire Hunter Valley are a mirror of what we see across the NSW. Despite a rising price trend, Newcastle still ranks high on affordability level. The median house price and the median unit price in the region are well below the $400,000 mark. The median house price in the Newcastle CBD area, on the other hand, has gone past the $500,000 mark which makes it a bit expensive to own a home here.
Newcastle metropolitan area is next only to Sydney in terms of population in New South Wales. The hub of the Greater Newcastle area and a predominant city within the Hunter region, the city of Newcastle is famous as the largest coal exporting harbour in the world. It is a great place to live also as there are many beaches, recreational facilities and a wide range of housing options. Together with the local government areas of the City of Lake Macquarie, City of Maitland, City of Cessnock and Port Stephens Council, it forms the Greater Newcastle area. The Hunter region is even bigger and it includes the areas administered by Dungog Shire Council, Gloucester Shire Council, Great Lakes Council, Muswellbrook Shire Council, Singleton Shire Council and Upper Hunter Shire Council, besides the Greater Newcastle area. The name is derived from the Hunter River that flows through the region along with several tributaries forming highland areas to the north and the south.
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Fordham head blasts Ann Coulter
Fordham head blasts Ann Coulter
Father Joseph McShane calls the College Republicans' guest speaker "hateful and needlessly provocative"
By Joan Walsh
McShane notes that Fordham has been blighted by ugly racial and homophobic incidents in the last few years, and he laments the lack of maturity shown by his young campus Republicans in inviting the provocateur Coulter. But he says he trusts the Fordham community to model the power of decency and reason to overcome hatred and prejudice. Lets hope that happens. Personally, I hope Coulter reads McShanes statement, withdraws from the engagement, and spends some time reflecting on why shes filled with so much hate. But Im a dreamer.
Heres the whole statement:
The College Republicans, a student club at Fordham University, has invited Ann Coulter to speak on campus on November 29. The event is funded through student activity fees and is not open to the public nor the media. Student groups are allowed, and encouraged, to invite speakers who represent diverse, and sometimes unpopular, points of view, in keeping with the canons of academic freedom. Accordingly, the University will not block the College Republicans from hosting their speaker of choice on campus.
To say that I am disappointed with the judgment and maturity of the College Republicans, however, would be a tremendous understatement. There are many people who can speak to the conservative point of view with integrity and conviction, but Ms. Coulter is not among them. Her rhetoric is often hateful and needlessly provocativemore heat than lightand her message is aimed squarely at the darker side of our nature.
As members of a Jesuit institution, we are called upon to deal with one another with civility and compassion, not to sling mud and impugn the motives of those with whom we disagree or to engage in racial or social stereotyping. In the wake of several bias incidents last spring, I told the University community that I hold out great contempt for anyone who would intentionally inflict pain on another human being because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or creed.
Disgust was the word I used to sum up my feelings about those incidents. Hate speech, name-calling, and incivility are completely at odds with the Jesuit ideals that have always guided and animated Fordham.
Still, to prohibit Ms. Coulter from speaking at Fordham would be to do greater violence to the academy, and to the Jesuit tradition of fearless and robust engagement. Preventing Ms. Coulter from speaking would counter one wrong with another. The old saw goes that the answer to bad speech is more speech. This is especially true at a university, and I fully expect our students, faculty, alumni, parents, and staff to voice their opposition, civilly and respectfully, and forcefully.
The College Republicans have unwittingly provided Fordham with a test of its character: do we abandon our ideals in the face of repugnant speech and seek to stifle Ms. Coulters (and the student organizers) opinions, or do we use her appearance as an opportunity to prove that our ideas are better and our faith in the academyand one anotherstronger? We have chosen the latter course, confident in our community, and in the power of decency and reason to overcome hatred and prejudice.
Joseph M. McShane, S.J., President
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:40 PM
Angry Dragon (29,743 posts)
1. is not open to the public nor the media
sounds like they have a lot to hide or are ashamed by their speaker
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:42 PM
babylonsister (154,368 posts)
2. No, clubs (College Democrats and College Republicans) host their guests;
it's an internal club thing, nothing nefarious. At least that's what I got out of it per Joan Walsh, top of column; her daughter goes/went there.
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:47 PM
Angry Dragon (29,743 posts)
3. sounds like a waste of money to bring in someone for a pep rally
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Fedora Project Board Starts into 2010
The project chair has appointed Red Hat employee Colin Walters to the board. John Poelstra begins the year with open feedback to the board's work.
With Red Hat developer Colin Walters, the last open position on the Fedora board has been filled. John Poelstra, who was appointed to the board by chair Paul Frields in June of 2009, nevertheless regretted in his blog the less than enthusiastic participation of the board. Halfway through his term, he writes, he wanted to evaluate its accomplishments. The two big themes were the Fedora trademark (as we reported) and the question of Fedora's mission, vision and target audience. Poelstra opened the discussion on the board mailing list in October 2009 after the issues apparently emerged in a board meeting shortly before.
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Interestingly the project released a questionnaire with some fanfare at the time of the December elections to help voting members decide. In other ways the history of the board leaves the impression that Red Hat is continuing to recruit from within. Tyler and Aillon were both previous members. Eight of the nine board members are Red Hat coworkers, with Tyler, as Canadian professor, the only exception.
ReHi Paul,
"Currently, six -- not eight -- out of nine members of the Board are Red Hat employees who are members of the Fedora community."
Thank you for your correction (I indeed seem to have misread the backround of Matt Domsch and Josh Boyer). As well, your additional details of how the Fedora board works are most welcome.
Clarifications and correctionsThis article makes some mistakes and omissions about the background and current status of the Board's composition that readers might find enlightening. Furthermore, the article notes that "[i]n other ways the history of the board leaves the impression that Red Hat is continuing to recruit from within," which is confusing.
Currently, six -- not eight -- out of nine members of the Board are Red Hat employees who are members of the Fedora community. Chris Tyler, Matt Domsch, and Josh Boyer are all volunteer members of the Fedora community. These facts are shown prominently in the Board's membership wiki page which the article references, but then fails to indicate properly:
Five seats on the Board are elected by the community, and four seats are appointed by the Fedora Project Leader. (Before I assumed the project leadership, the split went the other way.) Roughly half these seats turn over after each release of Fedora, approximately every six months. Therefore it's inaccurate to say that Red Hat is stacking the Board with Red Hat employees. The Fedora Project Leader makes appointments to the Board to include people who can bring their backgrounds, skills, and experience to help lead Fedora, regardless of their place of employment.
In the past, volunteer Fedora contributors have been appointed, just as the community sometimes elects Red Hat employee Fedora contributors. For instance, in the second previous election in June 2009, the Fedora community elected Red Hat employees to three Board seats -- Dennis Gilmore, Mike McGrath, and Tom Callaway -- while volunteer Josh Boyer was appointed. It is also interesting to note that the current project leader and Board chair is a former volunteer as well.
The article also doesn't take into account the fact that many Red Hat employees are involved with upstream projects as core contributors. Core contributors to upstream projects like Colin Walters, a long time contributor to the GNOME Project, bring significant insight and experience to the Board that's more relevant to their qualifications than where they happen to draw a paycheck. These traits are important to moving forward on broad and difficult issues such as the topics of mission, vision and target audience that opened significantly before John Poelstra's thoughtful October 2009 email. Work on these topics is reflected in the public archives of our minutes, notes, and mailing list starting in January 2009.
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Something else that will change: Without 3D printing, craft production has lower quality (more defects) than mass production for all the obvious reasons. With 3D printing, craft production will still have lower quality than mass production in that design flaws will still be more likely. The investment needed to track down design defects is a lot lower when you're spreading it over a few million items than when you're spreading it over just one unique one. But craft production will have no more manufacturing defects than mass production -- maybe fewer because items created on 3D printers will have few or no assembly steps in which mistakes can occur.
Of course, the fundamental difference, the point of craft production, won't change at all. It will still deliver excellence, just as it has since Rembrandt's day. But there's a major distinction: When Rembrandt painted one of his masterpieces, it was the only one of its kind. With 3D printing, buying an item once and having as many to use or resell as you like will be no more difficult than pirating a digital movie.
If you're interested in the macroeconomic impact of all this, read the feature in the Economist. Or if you'd like a more entertaining (although somewhat dated in style) account, get a copy of George O. Smith's 1950s-vintage "Complete Venus Equilateral," which described a similar sort of technology and predicted that it would cause economic collapse, followed by gradual development of a service economy to replace the manufacturing economy it devastated.
Be the company's early warning system for innovations
I don't do macroeconomics here in Advice Line (I'm not qualified). Instead, let's look at the impact on IT organizations, not at some fuzzy date in the indefinite future, but right now and over the next couple of years.
Start with this question: Does your company have customers for whom you make custom-tailored products? If not, does it have customers who would prefer custom-tailored products to the ones they currently buy from you? Or, turning it around, do you have suppliers who should be replacing off-the-shelf components to your company with custom-tailored alternatives? If the answer to any of this is yes and this is this the first you're hearing about 3D printing, there's a problem: Either IT management doesn't understand that they need to provide technology leadership to the company, or they haven't figured out how to go about it.
Yes, technology leadership, one of IT's most important jobs is to serve as the company's early warning system for innovations in and around information technology that could represent threats or opportunities to the company's competitive situation. 3D printing certainly could qualify.
One more question: Has anyone from the design or manufacturing departments approached IT to ask for advice on this subject or asked for support in implementing 3D printing? Or, for that matter, supply chain? If so, the final question to ask is, how did IT respond?
I sure hope the answer was, "You bet!" I sure hope it wasn't, "This doesn't conform to our standards." Or, even worse, "This isn't our job."
This story, "3D printing: A litmus test for IT leadership," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Bob Lewis' Advice Line blog on InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Willow Smith is such a star. How many 10-year-olds can say they shot a spread for Vanity Fair?
However, not everyone thinks it's that cool. Waiting To Exhale author Terry McMillan isn't a fan of the Smith kids' fame.
She tweeted that Willow and brother Jaden, 12, "are being pimped and exploited" by parents Will and Jada Smith.
"The Smith children already act like child stars. There's an arrogance in their demeanor and behavior," she wrote. "I find it incredibly sad. It feels like the Smith children are being pimped and exploited. Or, they're already hungry for fame. What about 4th grade?"
McMillan's tweets have since been deleted, but she later apologized. "Twitter is not the best forum to express some things. I didn't know folks would take my opinion so personally," she wrote.
Willow's debut album, bolstered by the mega-successful single Whip My Hair, is due in March from Jay-Z's Roc Nation Label, and the rapper confirmed last week that she'll have the lead role in a remake of Annie. Additionally, she'll tour with family friend Justin Bieber when he kicks off his world tour next month.
Jaden had one of the biggest hits of the summer with last year's Karate Kid remake, which co-starred Jackie Chan. Jaden is also now onboard for director M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming movie, One Thousand A.E.
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Longtime Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray died Sunday at his Atlanta-area home. He was 68.
According to a report on the team's Web site, Caray took a nap Sunday afternoon and did not awaken. He is survived by his wife, Paula, two sons, Chip and Josh, tow daughters, Shayelyn and Cindy, and seven grandchildren.
"Our baseball community has lost a legend today," Braves president John Schuerholz said. "The Braves family and Braves fans everywhere will sadly miss him."
Caray, who began broadcasting Braves games in 1976 battled multiple ailments over the past year that he linked to diabetes. When he wasn't available to broadcast the weekend series with the Brewers, it was revealed that he was suffering from bronchitis.
Caray's son's will carry on the family's broadcasting tradition, which began with Skip's father Harry Caray, a Hall of Fame announcer. Josh currently calls game for the Braves' Class A affiliate in Rome, and Chip serves as both a Braves announcer and the play-by-play announcer for TBS' Major League Baseball coverage. He was broadcasting Sunday's game between the Angels and Yankees in New York when her heard the startling news about this father.
"I'm just in shock," Chip said. "I know he wasn't feeling good, but this was unexpected. He hung the moon for me. I got to talke to him (on Saturday), and the last thing I got to say to him was, 'I love you.'"
Caray was hospitalized during the latter portion of last season and face more complications after the season concluded.
Caray battled back and spent most of last winter fighting ailments that were affecting his liver, kidneys and heart.
When he returned to broadcast games at the beginning of this season, he talked about his near-death experience.
"I'm 68," he said on April 2. "If I go tonight, I've had a hell of a life."
Born in St. Louis, Caray was a graduate of the University of Missouri, with honors in journalism.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time.


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|mark harwood <markharw...@yahoo.co.uk>
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|Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:07:31 GMT
Update: The statement "...cost is field size (10 bytes ?) times number of documents" is wrong. What you actually have is the cost of the unique strings (estimated at 10 * 1460 -effectively nothing) BUT you have to add the cost of the array of object references to those strings so 30m x 8 bytes on 64bit java = 240mb or 30m x 4 bytes on 32bit = 120mb ....which is where the bulk of the cost comes in. How about using a field cache of "short" which is effectively: new short[reader.maxDoc] or 2bytes * 30 million = 60 meg. Each short could represent up to 65536 values - capable of representing a date range of 179 years. ----- Original Message ---- From: mark harwood <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2008 15:43:35 Subject: Re: Question regarding sorting and memory consumption in lucene I think you have your memory cost calculation wrong. The cost is field size (10 bytes ?) times number of documents NOT number of unique terms. The cache is essentially an array of size reader.maxDoc() which is indexed directly into on docId to retrieve field values. You are right in needing to factor in the cost of keeping one active cache while busy warming-up a new one so that effectively doubles the RAM requirements. ----- Original Message ---- From: Aleksander M. Stensby <email@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2008 15:25:29 Subject: Re: Question regarding sorting and memory consumption in lucene Unfortunately no, since the documents that are added may come form a new "source" containing old documents aswell..:/ I tried deploying our webapplication without any searcher objects and it consumes basically ~200mb of memory in tomcat. With 6 searchers the same applications manages to consume over 2.5 GB of memory when warming... :( I might have done some super-idiotic logic in the way I handle searching, but I can seriously not see what that might be... But I assume that people deal with much larger indexes than this, right? cheers, Aleksander On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:18:46 +0200, mark harwood <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Assuming content is added in chronological order and with no updates to > existing docs couldn't you rely on internal Lucene document id to give a > chronological sort order? > That would require no memory cache at all when sorting. > > Querying across multiple indexes simultaneously however may present an > added complication... > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Aleksander M. Stensby <email@example.com> > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2008 13:51:50 > Subject: Re: Question regarding sorting and memory consumption in lucene > > I'll follow up on my own question... > Let's say that we have 4 years of data, meaning that there will be > roughly > 4 * 365 = 1460 unique terms for our sort field. > For one index, lets say with 30 million docs, the cache should use approx > 100mb, or am I wrong? and thus for 6 indexes we would need approx 600 mb > for the caches? (and an additional 100mb every time we warm a new > searcher > and swap it out...) As far as the string versus int or long goes, I don't > really see any big gain in changig it since 1460 * 10 bytes extra memory > doesnt really make much difference. Or? > > I guess we should consider reducing the index size or at least only allow > sorted search on a subset of the index (or a pruned version of the > index...) ? Would that be better for us? > But then again, I assume that there are much larger lucene-based indexes > out there than ours, and you guys must have some solution to this issue, > right? :) > > best regards, > Aleksander > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:09:36 +0200, Aleksander M. Stensby > <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> Hello, I've read a lot of threads now on memory consumption and sorting, >> and I think I have a pretty good understanding of how things work, but I >> could still need some input here.. >> >> We currently have a system consisting of 6 different lucene indexes (all >> have the same structure, so you could say it is a form of sharding). We >> currently use this approach because we want to be able to give users >> access to different index (but not necessarily all indexes) etc. >> >> (We are planning to move to a solr-based system, but for now we would >> like to solve this issue with our current lucene-based system.) >> >> The thing is, the indexes are rather big (ranging from 5G to 20G per >> index and 10 - 30 million entries per index.) >> We keep one searcher object open per index, and when the index is >> changed (new documents added in batches several times a day), we update >> the searcher objects. >> In the warmup procedure we did a couple of searches and things work >> fine, BUT i realized that in our application we return hits sorted by >> date by default, and our warmup procedure did non-sorted queries... so >> still the first searches done by the user after an update was slow >> (obviously). >> >> To cope, I changed the warmup procedure to include a sorted search, and >> now the user will not notice slow queries. Good! >> But, the problem at hand is that we are running into memory problems >> (and I understand that sorting does consume a lot of memory...) But is >> there any way that is "best practice" to deal with this? The field we >> sort on is an un_indexed text field representing the date. typically >> "2008-10-10". I am aware that string field sorting consumes a lot of >> memory, so should we change this field to something different? Would >> this help us with the memory problems? >> >> As a sidenote / couriosity question: Does it matter if we use the search >> method returning Hits versus the search method returning TopFieldDocs? >> (we are not iterating them in any way when this memory issue occurs) >> >> Thanks in advance for any guidance we may get. >> >> Best regards, >> Aleksander M. Stensby >> >> >> > > > -- Aleksander M. 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> Oh and about the realteks: I'm using realtek's for a while now in the
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UPI Senior News Analyst
Washington (UPI) Apr 04, 2006
Despite President Bush's repeated denials, the figures are clear: 900 sectarian killings in a single month in Iraq means a civil war is well under way. Iraq is a nation of 25 million people. In the United States, that level of killing would proportionately equal almost 11,000 people killed in riots, reprisal killings and sectarian clashes in a single month.
By comparison, the 30 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968 to 1998 saw 3,600 people killed in a small population of 1.5 million. Proportionately, that would equate to 60,000 dead over 30 years in Iraq, or 2,000 killed per year. Instead, if the current Iraqi violence simply stays at the current level and does not escalate any further, it will take 10,800 Iraqi civilian lives this year. That rate would be more than five times the average rate of the Northern Irish conflict.
The rate of killings in Iraq is already as bad as during the horrendous 1975-1991 Lebanese Civil War, in which 150,000 to 200,000 people were killed over 16 years -- an average of between 9,375 and 12,500 people were killed there per year.
These comparisons, of course, can be misleading because in those conflicts, as in almost all civil wars, the rate of killing is not uniform but explodes in peaks and then settles down at lower levels for long periods of time.
But the comparisons are unfortunately revealing in another way -- once the kind of polarizing aimless cycle of sectarian retaliatory killings between paramilitary forces in the two communities that have lived together for many centuries begins, it is often impossible to end it for decades, or before hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or, as was the case in Lebanon, both disasters have happened.
The trigger for the current eruption of violence was the bombing of the historic Golden Mosque in Samara on Feb. 22, apparently by Sunni insurgents. But the real underlying cause of the massive Shiite retaliation was the outcome and consequences of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections that the Bush administration and its media supporters had for so long predicted would take the fight out of the Sunni insurgency.
Instead it did precisely the opposite: It propelled the most militant, Iranian-backed Shiite political groups and their powerful militia forces into the cockpit of power in Baghdad.
For Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari following the elections has had to lean upon Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Mahdi Army militia, as his main political ally in the Shiite community. And far from evolving into a strong and dependable ally of U.S. forces and policies in Iraq, the current Iraqi government is splitting from it at an accelerating and alarming rate.
At the same time, the United States appears to be increasingly losing operational control of the new Iraqi army and police it has invested so much effort to train. Angered, alienated and traumatized by the continuing Sunni insurgent onslaught on their forces, the army and police, especially the latter, appear to be harboring significant and growing numbers of killing squads and groups whose primary allegiance is to the Shiite militias in their midst.
The result of this, of course, has been to further empower the Sunni insurgents; the number of people in the five million-strong Sunni community who previously made no effort to support them and are now turning to them in revulsion or desperation in the face of the growing wave of retaliation from the militias of the 15 million-strong majority Shiite community is growing.
This growing empowerment of the Sunni insurgents has been tracked by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Iraq Index Project of the Brookings Institution, a major centrist Washington political think tank.
The IIP noted that the Pentagon's official figures for insurgent attacks through December, January and February remained not only high but suspiciously uniform, or rounded out. The figures are given as 75 such attacks per day through that entire three month period. And most of that was before the violence instigated by the Feb. 22 Golden Mosque attack erupted.
This suggests that the Pentagon analysts and the U.S. forces knew they were recording a very high level of attacks throughout that three month period but were unable to keep track of all of them, or suspected there were many more than they were being officially informed of, and therefore felt forced to round off their figures to compensate for their lack of specific intelligence.
The radically increased hostility of Prime Minister al-Jaafari towards the United States, the unprecedented political power and influence welded by al-Sadr since the Dec. 15 elections and the wave of anti-Sunni sectarian killings -- and the Sunni reprisals for them -- that have erupted mark a major strategic triumph for the Sunni insurgents.
For their primary aim was to break the alliance, and bonds of cooperation and trust, between U.S. forces in Iraq and the emerging Shiite political leadership by trying to convince the Shiites that neither U.S. military forces nor U.S. political policies could protect them.
They have not yet fully achieved that goal, but the emerging conflict between Jaafari and other Shiite political leaders backed by the United States and Britain who are now seeking to oust him shows that they have certainly come far further towards achieving that goal than anyone dreamed was possible six weeks ago.
Source: United Press International
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Outside View: Condoleezza's Folly
I do not know to whom she is referring by the "we," but as one who has been on the ground in Iraq since before the war I think it is high time to begin to first put the blame for Iraq where it clearly belongs. And second, to begin to put together a clear path for success.
Using the word "tactical" implies reference to the military, but I beg to differ. As I write, tears swell up in my eyes at the sight of young men and women giving their lives for the people of Iraq.
As an Assyrian Christian, the indigenous people of Iraq, I have nothing but deep appreciation and love for those very special people. Try as I might, I can never get them out of my mind.
Take the sweet, blonde girl who couldn't have been much over 20, leading a room full of Iraqis as they began to put together the beginnings of a non-profit sector.
Refusing to cover her hair and giving the women in the room equal treatment and standing up to a room full of "thugs," she was brilliant
Shouting them down when they tried to interrupt the meeting or when they demanded that the women sit down. She was brilliant!
I sat in the back of the room with tears rolling down my face as this nameless, young American woman turned the pages of history in newly liberated Iraq and stood up for what was right.
I also recall the exhausted eyes of a dust-covered young man after a long day slumped down in the bus next to me. "Why are you here," I asked.
His face lit up as he said: "Uh, sir, I am here so the Iraqis can have what we have. Just doing my job, sir."
The amazing part of it is that he meant it!
Another man, sitting on a white lawn chair under a tent on what must have been a 100 degree, was one of those special people who had come in on a classified mission before the war. He couldn't talk about the mission, but here he was manning a checkpoint in the center of Baghdad.
These are the true heroes of our day; tens of thousands of our brightest and best, who look at the world with uncomplicated valor. Without minds clouded by ideology, desire for fame and over-educated bias they sympathize and share the burden with the common people and have a faith that believes that all men are equal and that part of the responsibility of freedom is to expand its borders.
Then I turn to another group of people. Once again I cannot forget their eyes. The shifty eyes of the diplomat who when pressed as to why he refused to stand up to the thugs and on the side of take the people said, "Well the Iraqis, you know this is how they live. We have our system, they have theirs. We cannot impose ours on theirs."
Dr. Rice, how dare you even hint that Iraq is in this position because of some "tactical" mistakes of those precious young men and women? Iraq is in the present circumstances because these "simple" uneducated ones who understand more of the human condition, the yearning for freedom and the simplicity of right and wrong were shoved out of the way by the "experts" who systematically dismantled all the good those brave men and women had done.
I was there in the courtroom as an article 32 hearing was held for those who did terrible things at Abu Ghraib Prison. I was also there when my relative lifted up his shirt to show me the cigarette burns and slashes across his body from the same Abu Ghraib prison... under Saddam.
What he and others didn't understand was why the Americans were on trial for what they did at Abu Ghraib, while the Iraqis who tortured for Saddam got away ascot free.
No, Dr. Rice, Iraq is in the state it is today because of the so-called "experts," beginning with your State Department holding a completely different worldview than the rest of us. Is success in Iraq still possible? Yes it is.
What is happening in Iraq is a clash of two worldviews. The first is full of hope that believes in right and wrong and the equality of all men and women to whom God gave freedom; and the tired, old liberal view of relativity that cannot see anything of universal values or the triumph of good over evil.
Iraq can still be saved and can be the success it was meant to be if the United States and the other members of the free world will stop allowing the experts to dip their hands into the long suffering of the Iraqi people.
There is still time. First, replace the "experts" with professionals who will lay down the law and stand up for something instead of giving away the country to thugs.
Second, immediately remove, under threat of withdrawing all aid, all promulgated laws that are undemocratic, starting with the Iraqi Constitution.
This constitution, written much like the Afghanistan Constitution, which includes the chilling words "Islam is the official religion of the people," is the first step.
The original drafters of the Iraqi Constitution voted "There shall be no references to religion or ideology in the Constitution."
They were overruled by the "experts" who handed the Constitution to the thugs. I know, I was there!
Next, seal Iraq's borders, jam all Iranian TV and Radio into the country, launch a democratic TV Station and provide regional autonomy so the Assyrian Christians and other minorities can have a province of their own as provided in the Iraqi Constitution.
Can Iraq be saved? Yes it can!
Condoleezza, you owe us an apology! Clean up your house first. It is not too late!
Ken Joseph Jr. is a columnist and is currently completing a book on Iraq and is asking for individual stories from those who served in Iraq for inclusion in the book. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.
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Drifting Towards Civil War In Iraq
Washington (UPI) Apr 03, 2006
Over the past week in Iraq, the same pattern that we noted in our last Benchmarks column has held: Not many U.S. troops have been killed there but an awful lot keep getting wounded. This pattern has now held for a considerable period of time -- at least seven weeks.
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Alexandria, Egypt (AFP) July 28, 2009
Water ministers from Nile Basin countries on Tuesday delayed signing a water-sharing pact already rejected by Egypt and Sudan, who oppose any reduction in their traditional quotas.
Ministers from nine Nile Basin countries and Eritrea, which had observer status at the four-day meeting held in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Alexandria, put off finalising the treaty for six months.
"Six months was allocated to solve the problem," Ethiopian Minister of Water Resources Asfaw Dingamo told reporters at the end of the meeting.
"Before that our technical advisers will sit down and come up with a technical agreement to be signed," he said.
Other Nile Basin countries, some of which suffer periodic droughts, drafted the Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) in June at a Democratic Republic of Congo summit that omitted mention of Egypt and Sudan's historic claims.
"It is a big victory," a Sudanese official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said. "They were going to sign the agreement beginning August 1 regardless of Egypt and Sudan."
At the heart of the dispute is a 1929 agreement between Egypt and Great Britain, acting on behalf of its African colonies along the 5,584 kilometre (3,470 mile) river, which gave Egypt veto power over upstream projects.
An between Egypt and Sudan in 1959 allowed Egypt 55.5 billion cubic metres of water each year -- 87 percent of the Nile's flow -- and Sudan 18.5 billion cubic metres.
Some of the Nile Basin countries, which include Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and the DRC, say past treaties are unfair and they want an equitable water-sharing agreement that would allow for more irrigation and power projects.
Egypt, a mostly arid country that relies on the Nile for the majority of its water, argues that up-stream countries could make better use of rainfall and have other sources of water.
With almost 80 million people, Egypt's water demands are projected to exceed its supply by 2017, according to a government reported published earlier this month.
There is "no way" Egypt would allow a reduction of its quota, Mona Omar, Egyptian deputy foreign minister for African affairs, told reporters.
Egypt sought to downplay the differences after the summit, and said it is proposing economic incentives to the countries.
"It's normal that there are disagreements," cabinet spokesman Magdi Riyad said at a press conference. "(But) there was a unanimous agreement that the resources of the Nile Basin were more than enough if managed properly."
He said Egypt proposes widening the scope of the Nile Basin Initiative, the World Bank funded umbrella group of Nile Basin countries, to include other natural resources.
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