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The Victorian Society is the charity championing Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales. Our Conservation Advisers help local planning authorities and churches to make better decisions about adapting Victorian and Edwardian buildings to the way we live now, while keeping what is special about them. We also seek to engage the public in our campaigns to help increase the likelihood of conserving buildings.
As a charity, our members' support, via donations and volunteering, is vital to our work. In return for joining, members receive our magazine 'The Victorian', our journal 'Studies in Victorian architecture and design' and get priority booking at our numerous events around the country.
Find out more about our work via the links below or click here to join the Victorian Society.
Linley Sambourne House, 18 Stafford Terrace, London, is a unique example of a late Victorian townhouse. Home to the cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and his family from 1874, it survives with almost all of its furniture and fittings intact. The first meeting of the Victorian Society was held here in 1958, and for a number of years the Society ran the house as a museum.
Much of our casework archive covering 1958-2005 is kept at the London Metropolitan Archives, under reference LMA/4460. Church case files and other records are generally retained in our office.
Dr William Filmer-Sankey takes a look back at the origins and early history of the Victorian Society, which was founded in 1958. This article was published in the first edition of our magazine, The Victorian, in 1998.
The Society is managed by a Board of Trustees. The trustees are also the directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act. Who are they, and how are they elected?
Victorian and Edwardian buildings are irreplaceable, cherished, diverse, beautiful, familiar and part of our everyday life. They contribute overwhelmingly to the character of places people love and places where people live. They belong to all of us. Their owners are really only custodians for future generations.
A bequest is a very effective way of making a gift to the Victorian Society. It may enable you to make a contribution of a size and significance which may not be possible during your lifetime.
As a charity, we don't have the resources to run a campaign for every threatened building. This page gives you the information you need to help run your own campaign.

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text: Mini Tank Battles is a comic styled multiplayer oriented 3rd person shooter/ tower defense crossover. The current state of the game is an early alpha. Please watch the video to see some shots from the game. The main gameplay is a fast paced 3rd person shooter with tower defense to support you in the battlefield. With 4 game modes and 4 classes to choose from. By leveling up, spending skillpoints and getting better gear you are able to overcome bigger challenges.


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Lee Enterprises reports Illinois' purchasing agency recently signed a nearly $1.6 million contract with a Chicago electric car dealer that could bring an additional 60 of the vehicles into the state's fleet.
Illinois Department of Central Management Services spokeswoman Anjali Julka says the agency has determined that electric vehicles are a better deal for taxpayers than some conventional, gasoline-powered vehicles.
However, a pilot project using 15 electric cars purchased with federal funds has highlighted some limitations of using battery-powered vehicles. With a limited 60-mile range, Agriculture Department spokesman Jeff Squibb said an electric car is unlikely to be used by meat inspectors and other agency officials who travel longer distances from the main office in Springfield.


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Rise from your grave, O thread of my creation! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Our world is in peril! Van Helsing, the Spirit of Vampire Hunters, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. He sends five magic rings to five special warriors. To Integra, the power of Dominance. To Pip, the power of Firepower. To Walter, the power of Dismemberment. To Seras, the power of Blood. And to Penwood, the power of Heart. When the five powers combine, they summon Earth's greatest champion, Captain Alucard.


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Hello, my name is J Verhagen and I am working for weervergelijker.nl. The current website main focus is about: 7 day weather forecast, days out and hotels of all towns in the Netherlands. We like a complete restructure of our website because we going to expand to the rest of Europe and we are going to offer 'short' holidays. 'Short' holidays will also be the new main focus of weervergelijker.nl (for about 80%).
On the image (see attachment or: http://www.weervergelijker.nl/doc/index.png ) you see a concept design of what elements the new index must have. Don't take the colors, positions and layout to serious. It is just a map. The current website is not very clean so we like a much cleaner version (a bit 2.0 style). Be creative and choose your own colors that matches our concept. We don't mind if the new website is going to look totally different.
At this time we only need 1 index page to be designed. But the winner of this contest will continue to make 5 more subpages.
People who are looking for short holidays, days out or a weather forecast in a certain town.
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Hope you enjoy all the great fun and projects and don't forget the Awesome blog candy Haidee has to offer!
Thanks for stopping by Big Blog Hugs Janet
I am loving the dog-hop! Such a cute card!
What a adorable card....and I agree with you....I will always have a pet in my home....
Super cute card! Thanks for sharing! :-)
Great lil dog and cute sentiment. TFS joy4umetoo at hotmail dot com
Cute card, with a lot of fun motion/action. Thank you for sharing!
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Cute card!!!! Thank you for sharing it and pictures of your babies!!!
Have a scrap- happy day,
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Hi, I love your card, it made me laugh though because I went into Michael's and asked the girl working there if "she had google eyes" I meant to buy but she looked at me like I was talking about her! So embarrassing! Anyway, I am a new follower! Stop by and follow me if you get a chance!
What a cute puppy:-) Did you use a Cricut cartridge? Love it! TFS:-)
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Both puppies are adorable! I love it! And the wobblie eyes are perfect to give the whole puppy dog eye effect.
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Hi, Janet! Your card is really cute but I especially love seeing the pictures of your fur friends. I have a cat named Munchkin that looks very much like your Gator! I also have 2 rescued Greyhounds and another rescued cat. They enrich my life in so many ways. TFS!
Wow Isn't it great when cats and dogs can live together in perfect harmony. Your card is to bark for.
Your babies are beautiful! I can't imagine life without a pet. My husband said that if we had a farm he would have tons of them..:)
Your card is super cute! Love the expression on that puppy's face..
Janet, this card is darling. Love it. So happy to be hopping along with you in this hop.
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What sweet furbabies. I absolutely LOVE your card, so cute! We have two rescued cats and a rescue dog. They are our furkids. Love them :-) tfs! :-)
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Cute doggie card! Yes dogs are family too! We have 4 of them! We rescued a Pug and when my dad died we took his dog in and we are her 'retirement home':)
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This has been just the most fun blog hop!!! Your fur babbies are so cute. I love the card you made. The sentiment is great!!
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Wonderful card and babies!!
Hi, I am back for day 2 and I REALLY, really hope you will go visit my blog and read about what happened to us within an hour of finishing your hop yesterday:-)
Cute card. Love it. TFS and scrappy hugs!
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Max is such a cutie patootie! Love your adorable creation too (and let's not forget about Gator!) ;) Very sweet! TFS! :0)
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Manager Manuel Pellegrini admitted Manchester City won ugly against Stoke but backed his misfiring strikers to regain their touch.
City needed a 70th-minute strike from Yaya Toure to break the resistance of the spirited Potters at the Etihad Stadium and claim three valuable Barclays Premier League points.
It was a hard-fought 1-0 victory but it would have been more convincing had Edin Dzeko not missed embarrassingly from two yards.
Just moments after Toure's strike, the unmarked Bosnian was presented with an open goal but contrived to fluff his shot.
With Alvaro Negredo still to regain top form after recent injury, Stevan Jovetic coming on as a substitute and then going off again, and Sergio Aguero out, City's prolific forward line has temporarily seized up.
Pellegrini said: "I think it is normal during the season that sometimes the strikers may lose (the chances) to score but I trust in all of them. I am sure they will recover their normal performance.
"We didn't create many chances because Stoke defended very well.
"All the team were behind the ball and near the box, but we had the patience for the 90 minutes and finally we scored."
Pellegrini said he had not lost any faith in Dzeko - who has still scored 17 goals this season - after his remarkable miss.
He said: "Every player can have a bad day. Maybe he had a bad day, maybe he was nervous after he failed that goal but I will continue trusting in him."
City's victory was a welcome one in title terms, coming after rivals Chelsea had won earlier in the day.
It was the response required after failure to win on their last two Premier League outings, as well as the midweek Champions League loss to Barcelona.
Pellegrini has spoken often of his desire to win in style but on this occasion he was simply happy with the points.
He said: "The satisfaction is the same. We cannot expect to win by three or four goals every match. It is important to know how to win both ways."
Pellegrini said Jovetic, who came on just before the hour, was forced off with cramp, while Aguero, after five games out with hamstring trouble, will return to training next week.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes felt his side acquitted themselves well but paid a heavy price for some errors.
Hughes, formerly manager at Eastlands, said: "I was pleased with what we produced.
"We had a game plan and whenever you have one, you have to execute it to the best of your ability and I thought we did that for most of the game.
"We made a couple of errors that led to the goal and consecutive errors tend to lead to goals. Apart from that we were resolute.
"We had a couple of efforts where we might have scored, most notably Charlie's (Adam) effort where Joe Hart made an outstanding save."
Hughes was not happy with all of City's tactics, feeling that some of the home players pushed the boundaries of legality.
Vincent Kompany - a player Hughes signed for City - was one player Hughes commented about.
He said: "I thought on a couple of occasions - call it professionalism or good play, or a bit of cynical play - we had good opportunities that were stopped because my players were being taken out.
"The player that you mentioned and on three or four other occasions Stoke players were taken out quite cynically in my view.
"It is part of the game and the ref, in fairness, booked the majority of them but maybe he should have looked to give another yellow card."


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There is a favorite saying in Mexico used when referring to one's aging and, ahem, no longer properly functioning husband — "cambia tu viejo."
It was this tongue in cheek motto that Mexican President Calderon appropriated for his plan to finally rid Mexico's electricity grid of a heavy burden — millions of aging and highly inefficient appliances, in particular the energy-sucking refrigerators so favored by Mexico's famously thrifty grandma contingent.
Calderon's sense of humor paid off, helping to launch one of Mexico's first and most successful energy-efficiency programs which to date has replaced more than 850,000 appliances and saved those old ladies tens of millions of pesos (along with tons of mitigated CO2).
It was one example the Mexican president used to describe what he feels is a paradigm shift in the way countries attack the climate problem — away from what he calls "the false dilemma" of economic growth vs. climate mitigation and poverty alleviation (i.e. developed vs. developing nations) — towards a model that looks for win-win solutions.
An inspiring example he gave is the work in Mexico to partner with indigenous people to put an end to deforestation and land degradation (which globally accounts for more than 20 percent of all CO2 emissions) while directly addressing poverty in those areas most affected by climate change.
Through a pilot program in Chiapas, the Mexican government pays indigenous forest communities for the environmental services their intact forests provide. The results are a perfect case study in win-winning. Where only five years ago the region was losing 350,000 hectares of forest per year, that rate has dropped to 150,000 and the goal of zero deforestation is on the horizon.
Calderon also made it clear that though the U.N. climate treaty process is vitally important, we can no longer wait on it. "It is nearly impossible to get even two countries to sign a treaty, and here we have 200." The process will take time, a lot of time, and it must continue but not in the absence of progress where progress can be immediately made.
Calderon said he thought there would indeed be real progress in Cancun. Not a "touchdown" but maybe a first-down — especially in the areas of deforestation, climate finance, technology transfer, and possibly a breakthrough in carbon accounting — and his hope is that every county and every city will stop the waiting game and the blaming game. The stakes are too high.
Mexico has seen the direct and dramatic impacts of climate change. In 2010, rainfall in the Tabasco region of Mexico broke historic records, not by an inch or two but by a factor of two times or more, resulting in the deaths of 60 people. In nearby Guatemala, the death toll was 1,000.
These kinds of impacts have heightened public urgency for climate action in Mexico. When you are up against a wall, you have to get creative. And Calderon hopes Mexico will lead other counties by example — both in creative solutions for reducing carbon emissions and in a policy stance that drops the developed vs. developing nation standoff and gets on with the work at hand.
Also on MNN: Keep up with coverage of the Cancun climate talks here


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A copy of the disc-only version of Rock Band 3 currently sells for $49.99 at GameStop. According to The Wall Street Journal's sources, that's exactly how much investment group Columbus Nova paid to take Harmonix off Viacom's hands.
MTV parent company Viacom revealed plans to offload the creators of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central in November of last year, a move we attributed to a slow year for game sales and a drop in consumer interest in rhythm games.
In December we learned that private investment group Columbus Nova purchased the developer from Viacom for an undisclosed sum, returning Harmonix to the independently owned development studio it once was.
Citing sources familiar with the transaction, Wall Street's Peter Kafka says the investment group paid a piddling $49.99 for the development studio in total.
It seems ridiculously cheap, but when you take into account that the group also bought all of Harmonix's debt, including licensing fees for the more than 2,000 songs now available for purchase in the Rock Band Music Store, the price begins to level out.
Kafka's sources also indicate that Viacom structured the deal in such a way that it would make somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million in tax benefits out of the transaction. Offloading a ton of financial liability while making back a substantial chunk of the $175 million Viacom originally paid for Harmonix seems like a good deal to me.
We've contacted Harmonix for comment on the rumor, and will update this post should we receive a response.
Update: Harmonix has no comment on this story at this time.
Viacom Sold Rock Band for a Song. A Really, Really Cheap Song. [The Wall Street Journal's MediaMemo]


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BLAIRMORE, Alta. - An Australian-based mining company is acquiring a portfolio of coal assets from Devon and Consol Energy in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass.
It totals more than 35,000 acres near Blairmore and Coleman.
Riversdale Resources will buy the coal properties and freehold land assets for more than $47 million.
Steve Mallyon, managing director for Riversdale, says the Crowsnest Pass is a great fit for them.
He says the municipality has helped the company engage the community and they'll start their program in about a month or so.
Mallyon says Riversdale sees the right combination of coal quality, geology, and infrastructure and more importantly they see a company which has a long history with coal and people living there who still work in the industry.
Crowsnest Pass Mayor Bruce Decoux says this will broaden the region's economic base and strengthen the local economy.
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Will tape have a second life with data protection in the cloud?
Disk and tape can be used in concert to meet your data protection requirements. Find out why tape may have a second life with data protection in the cloud.
Even though storage pundits have been predicting the demise of tape for years, tape technology shows no signs of slowing down. With recent innovations such as the Linear Tape File System, tape continues to innovate. But will data protection in the cloud change the game for tape? According to Terry McClure's latest Storage magazine column, the short answer is no.
Cloud storage discussions are typically centered on cost savings and keeping everything online and always available somewhere in the ether, but without taking up valuable space the way tape does. So, does the advent of cloud-based infrastructure and data protection in the cloud mean tape is finally going away? Surveying today's tape landscape, the answer is a definitive no… no matter how often we hear the death knell toll for tape.
In recent years, tape was focused on the data center and the middle-to-high end of the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) market with decreasing penetration below this level. Disk has been edging into tape's traditional backup and recovery role by using faster disk arrays that appear as tape libraries -- virtual tape libraries (VTLs) -- and disk-based deduplication to reduce the amount of storage needed. These days, tape is utilized by many businesses for low-access applications. The technology is positioning itself to compete in the fast-growing tier 3 storage opportunities that include fixed content and data kept for compliance reasons.
Tape remains a viable economic part of the data storage hierarchy due in part to its lower cost per GB, decreased operating expenses and reduced energy costs. And tape technology has added security features such as encryption and WORM, as well as a greatly enhanced media life (more than 30 years in some cases). The notion that "tape is dead" ignores all this. As we learned in early 2011 when Google admitted to restoring 40,000 cloud-based email accounts from tape, these advantages hold true even in the cloud.
Data protection in the cloud vs. traditional data protection
When considering data protection methodologies, IT organizations need to consider both physical and logical data protection. Physical protection ensures data is protected in the event of a disk, array or site failure. Logical data protection guards against the most common contributors to data loss, machine or human error (data corruption or accidental delete). A good backup plan provides both sorts of protection, which is why good backup is so expensive.
With the cloud, it's likely your cloud storage service provider handles physical data protection (disk failures, array failures, site failures) via some sort of mirroring or remote replication capabilities that are built into the per-GB price you pay. But chances are the provider doesn't handle logical data protection (user and machine errors), which is a key shortcoming of cloud data protection.
In many cases, disk and tape-based technologies can and should be used in concert to meet the spectrum of data protection requirements (see the chart "Data protection methods and levels"). Synchronous remote mirroring may be suitable for your organization's most mission-critical data and for full-site, near-zero data loss disaster recovery. Disk backup is for data that's a little less mission critical and can tolerate a little more data loss, while tape backup is typically for still less critical data or for affordably keeping long-term offline copies of data.
Why keep tape in the cloud?
Most organizations employ traditional backup software where the backup server software communicates with backup client software (which resides on the system where the data lives). That data is transferred from the client to the storage device across the local-area network (LAN) or from a client directly to the storage device across a storage-area network (SAN).
The data captured by the backup software might be a complete copy of an organization's production data (full backup), or just the incremental changes since the last full or incremental backup (incremental and differential). Best practices suggest having multiple copies of backup sets (one set to be stored offsite and one kept on site) with copies maintained for a specified period of time. Backup can be performed directly to tape (D2T) or to disk first, with a copy made to tape (D2D2T) outside the regular "backup window." Tape is a popular storage medium with a good shelf life and, over time, the Capex and Opex cost per GB declines substantially. Tape is scalable and provides true "capacity on demand" because you buy tapes as needed, rather than investing in spinning media that's filled over time. Tape is also low cost and portable, making it an ideal media for seeding cloud storage or migrating between cloud storage providers. Advancements in tape verification technology have made the technology a more reliable restore medium, and tape is searchable. Perhaps most importantly, tape is a good multitenant platform -- it supports partitioning, encryption and has strong key management -- so it addresses users' top concerns about cloud storage, security and privacy.
But a number of well-known issues remain with backup to tape. If a tape is stored offsite, retrieving it can easily take hours or even days. Because backup is typically a once-a-day event, the recovery point is whenever the last backup was performed, so a gap of 24 hours could exist. Tape media can also be rendered unreadable for a number of reasons, such as exposure to a magnetic field or damage to the case. Poor or insufficient media management and verification testing can exacerbate the situation. And tapes can be lost. But data still needs to be protected from logical errors like accidental deletions and software bugs. As shown in the table above, tape covers all the bases. Despite its shortcomings, and in light of cloud security concerns and today's prices for power, cooling and floor space, it's still difficult to beat the long-term value proposition of having backup copies of data on a medium that's offline and encrypted. That's why tape may have a second life in cloud data protection. Just ask Google.
About this author: Terri McClure is a senior storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Milford, Mass.
This article was previously published in Storage magazine.


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Council Budgets and Spending
Coronavirus: We are following government advice and updates about any impact on our services will be added here as soon as possible: http://newforest.gov.uk/article/19348/Coronavirus-Information-about-council-services
The Council's Efficiency Plan [158kb] details the financial challenges that it faces over the next few years as a result of decreasing government grants and increasing costs. The plan provides information on the service reviews and strategies that have been put in place in order to achieve a balanced budget.
Efficiency Plan - Supporting Documents:
Executive Management Team Structure
The Council budgets and spending are monitored and controlled by the Accountancy Service.
The terms of reference for the Accountancy Service are determined by the Finance and Audit Service Manager, Alan Bethune, as the designated statutory responsible financial officer. The Service ensures that Codes of Practice and legislation are incorporated within the Council's financial framework.
The Accountancy Service is primarily responsible for:
- Provision of key strategic advice to Council, Cabinet, Committees, Review Panels and Officers;
- The production of statutory budgets;
- Ongoing monitoring and reporting of income and expenditure;
- Preparation and publication of the Council's statutory Annual Financial Report;
- Evaluating the implications of legislation on the Council's strategic financial framework for both revenue and capital expenditure;
- Management of the Council's investments and borrowing;
- Preparation of grant claims, financial and statistical returns, VAT returns, income allocation and the reconciliation of bank accounts.


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Memories, they peek at me
I brush off the abrasions they make,
as memories decided to make a come back.
What ifs took the center stage,
along with the memories hidden inside.
Unsteady heart, tearful eyes,
and evasive memories,
another night stolen,
as I shush those memories to sleep!
Linking with Three Word Wednesday prompts – Tearful, Unsteady, Abrasive.


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Quite the interesting director/star pairing looks to be in the works. A remake of the 1980s crime series The Equalizer has been in development for the past few years, with Denzel Washington most recently signing on to star. Last we heard, Sony was compiling a shortlist of directors for the project, and on that list was Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn. The studio has finally made a decision on who will take the helm of the project, and it is indeed Mr. Refn. Hit the jump for more details, including a release date for Refn's next film Only God Forgives.
Per Heat Vision, Sony Pictures is in early talks with Refn to direct the Equalizer remake. Apparently things will be moving quickly, as filming scheduled to get underway in late spring in anticipation of an April 11, 2014 release date. The TV series centered on a former covert operations officer who dedicated his life to helping people in trouble on his own accord. While this may sound like slightly familiar territory for Refn, I'm incredibly excited by the prospect of a collaboration between Refn and Washington.
Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2) penned the loosely adapted screenplay, and Washington remains onboard in the starring role. Refn most recently completed his Drive follow-up, Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling, and THR's report buries the news that it is set to open on May 23, 2013. He's also developing the graphic novel adaptation Button Man and a Logan's Run remake, though Gosling recently left the Logan's Run project due to a busy schedule.


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Late last week, SOFTPRO, one of the members of Adobe's Security Partner Community, announced one of the largest known deployments of electronic signature technology alongside Adobe® LiveCycle ES (now known as the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP), Adobe Reader and tablet PCs. The customer? Cintas Corporation.
Cintas provides specialized services—among them uniform delivery, document management, and cleanroom resources—around the world for clients in a variety of markets. Their trucks and personnel are recognizable the world over…and by the end of 2011, all Cintas sales representatives will be able to collect customer signatures directly on a tablet computer, eliminating the paper from their workflows and making the company both more efficient and more ecologically sustainable.
According to Brian Daniel, Director IT, at Cintas:
SOFTPRO is an excellent partner for us for two reasons. First, they understood our needs and worked closely with us to deploy and support our implementation. We knew we could count on them. Second, their solution is both robust and easy to implement. We are deploying a combination of technologies and SOFTPRO brings them all together. Both our sales team and customers have been quite pleased with this roll-out.
SOFTPRO's software integrates directly with Reader and LiveCycle ES, and allows Cintas to not only produce easy to use PDF forms with LiveCycle ES, but also easily electronically sign them in Reader.
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The Kentlands Clubhouse in Gaithersburg received state recognition Thursday for its newly installed geothermal heating and cooling system.
Doug Hinrichs, a solar energy planner at the Maryland Energy Administration, visited the community center Thursday to see the system and applaud the Kentlands Citizens Assembly and two local companies that specialize in geothermal systems on completion of the project.
Construction of the system, which began this past summer and ended in September, cost about $250,000. However, the project won a $120,000 grant from the state energy administration's Game Changer Program, which promotes innovative clean energy projects.
A geothermal heat pump was put in, using two standing column wells that were drilled 900 feet into the ground, said Mike Heavener, president of GeoSolar Energy. Systems with standing column wells are most commonly used in areas that have near-surface bedrock, like the Kentlands.
With this setup, water is drawn from the bottom of the deep rock well, passed through a heat pump, and returned to the top of the well. While the water is traveling downward it exchanges heat with the surrounding bedrock.
"It's the exact model system that we want in Maryland," Hinrichs said, referring to the "standing column wells" design, which typically requires 30 percent less drilling and therefore delivers a more efficient heat transfer. "We want to replicate the success of this project."
The grant program requires energy monitoring by the installing contractor and a final report after one year of system operation.
In April 2013, the Kentlands Citizen Assembly Board of Trustees voted to replace the clubhouse's conventional heating and cooling system with a sustainable alternative after one of the old system's three units died.
"We wanted to take the lead on doing this from a green point of view," said Tim Clarke, president of the Kentlands Citizen Assembly. "It is energy efficient, and it is a more progressive way of doing this kind of heating and air conditioning."
Harvey W. Hottel, Inc., a Gaithersburg-based plumbing contractor, and GeoSolar Energy submitted the grant application and installed the new system. GeoSolar Energy also is rooted in Gaithersburg and is the distributor of Bosch, the equipment used for the job.
"These jobs are fun," said Richard Hottel, chief executive officer of Harvey W. Hottel, Inc. "It's not something that some engineer drew up and we just estimated the cost and put it in. It's something we've created for this site."
Clarke said it is estimated that the new unit will give the clubhouse about a 40 percent electric utility reduction annually.
In the two months the system has been running, the clubhouse already has seen between a 20 and 25 percent decrease in its yearly electric bill, according to Clarke.
"It's already paying for itself," he said.


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nodyce brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 131 Designs von 38 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I need a 2-column webpage template created to generate subscriptions for my "60:30:10 Principle" report. This template should be much more graphical and "slick" than my current version.
60:30:10 Principle
I need a 2-column webpage template created to generate subscriptions for my "60:30:10" report that's currently live at:
The basic layout should be something like this:
...but the copy should remain the same as my current site (http://www.triadformula.com/index60-30.html)
There needs to be a headline at the top-left and there should be a graphical representation of this report (which is already done) to the right of the headline with arrows pointing to an email subscription form below the report.
It's VITAL that the email subscription form be "above the fold" in the design. In other words, when the design is converted to a webpage, the form should be visible without scrolling.
Above all else, the text on the site MUST be readable, and the subscription area where I'm asking for their email address should stand out.
As for the design itself, I'd like it to be fixed width, centered, with tables. I need to be able to tweak it a little, and I'm not skilled enough to edit full-blown, tableless CSS.
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Last day at emtacl and the morning after the conference dinner which had lovely food and somewhat unusual entertainment (music played with vegetables anyone?). Also nice to find out the brown cheese I tried the first morning (and didn't like) was like marmite - either love it or hate it!
Two keynotes this morning then I'll be trying to swap between strands...
Virtual research networks: Towards Research 2.0, Van den Brekel - Argh! lost my notes! That'll teach me not to save more often. Will try and go back later and fill in gaps...
Researchers using web 2.0 for collaboration, etc. - general tools and increasingly specialist web 2.0 tools.
Back on track now (just before the end!) - VREs (such as JISC VRE, MyExperiment, DARIAH, etc.). JISC leading the way (Hooray for JISC!). They help researchers from all disciplines to work collaboratively.
Key recommendations from JISC - "Scratch where it itches" - i.e. has to suit the researchers needs. More about community building than technology building. Need support from everyone. Key role for libraries. Preference for web 2.0 style of development. Needs to be driven by researchers. Benefits include faster research results and novel researh directions.
For libraries they act as a good way to feature library resources. Should be involved from the start.
Summary (key points for libraries). Need good communication with researchers. Play a key role in the sharing of information. Redefine the library services to match these needs. Brand and market the library.
Recommends supporting research students by Allan.
Engage, facilitate, stimulate - key message.
www.slideshare.net/digicmb - hopefully his slides will be up here (yes they are!) and I'll go back later to refresh my memory and fill in the gaps...
I've got Google, why do I need you? Aalen - A students perspective on academic libraries. Think we need an adjustable lectern.
Warning! She says she isn't a typical student. "I think of myself as a nerd" her obsession is reading about stuff online that should make her more effective, that she hasn't got time to use as she's spending all her time reading about them...
"I'm a paperless student" - for about a year! Studying is a whole lot more than reading.
Annoyed by all the tedious tasks you have to do as a student. When are the exams, what modules am I doing, Can I look at previous resources for courses to allow me to decide what to do? Would like the library to catalogue and make accessible these sort of resources.
Annoyed by copyright.
Annoyed by books (does the library have a book, does the bookshop have it, do 2nd hand bookshops have it, do her friends have a copy, etc?) - why can't we make it easier for her to find these things out.
Talking about notes. Printed stuff quite efficient for organising this stuff - think she's probably talking about a personalised learning environment for help with doing this electronically, linking between notes and other resources.
Hard to do this online, but many distractions with studying online as well.
Why did she go digital? Fast typist! Able to type while she reads. Showing Evernote - likes how this works (I like that I can use this on my iPhone & PC!). Also uses Google Docs. Running http://www.rescuetime.com/ on her computer - tells her what she's spending her time on, can block applications to allow you to focus. Love the idea of this!
Do these tools make her a better student? She seems very organised with her notes! She makes good notes from resources into her notes that she then refers to (I think this is a move back to how students used to work, but tend not to nowadays - really interesting!).
She uses http://quizlet.com/ to generate flashcards to test herself (really quick & easy).
Showed example of collaborative work for assignment - handed in a week early and got an A (really worked well for them). Needed to agree groundrules beforehand.
Is sorry she still has to deal with books at all - likes to take info from the book and then discard the book. Sounds like eBooks would work better for her (as long as she can cut & paste).
Does this make her a better student? Not sure. Thinks she knows a lot less than the previous generation, but has broad, shallow knowledge and is confident about searching for it again.
Finds Uni databases difficult. Gave up and went to Google Scholar instead.
Thinks the way she works is a hack, the internet, computer stone age... are we cavemen to the digital natives? Doesn't agree with digital native idea (hear, hear!) - "screentime does not make you competent!". The internet is not a place - "just because I can use a wooden spoon, doesn't mean I can use all utensils made out of wood". (ace!)
Nice quote from About face 3.o, page 42 about dropping out if you don't move quickly from being a beginner.
It's easy to forget what you don't practice. No use showing her a complicated interface to our resources in year 1 that she doesn't then use for a while. She want easy interface, that she doesn;t need to learn.
Shows video of 2 year old and a cat using an iPad - easy interface.
"The librarians logic is just as alien to me as the programmers"
"Should I adapt or you?
Really good, perceptive talk - slides available online.
How do new technologies challenge the users behaviour, Lauridsen - (From Serials Solutions. We've just bought their discovery tool summon, so will be interesting to me!) Following on from Primo demo (competitor!). Nice graph - amount spent on materials rising(ARL libraries). Perceived value of libray falling (Carol Tenopir).
People going to Google, not library. Lots of reasons why, list from http://projectinfolit.org/ Interesting that students will try the library first (but will then give up & go elsewhere).
Have tried to compete with Google in libraries ... single search across all collections. Federated search ("works to a certain extent", more +ve than I'd be!); discovery layers (over top of catalogue - lots of playing around with this, quite limited material so CAN play), now web-scale discovery (pre-harvested metadata, like Summon. Local versions of pre-harvested metadata have worked out too expensive / time consuming, hence move to web-scale).
Making the information world flat - everything equal in value, print not preffered, no "silos".
Showing stats from uni showing drop in use of abstracting & indexing materials, massive increase in "click through" to full text.
A few warning words -keep it simple, easy & fast. Resist the urge to display the complexities. Align our priorities / behaviours with reality. Stop doing lots of stuff that isn't appreciated.
What happens next? Life after 2.0 training in academic libraries, Buset & Lokse -
Just made it into here as they started! Very tight swapping rooms...
23 things course at one library (in 12 weeks) People seemed to enjoy the course, "discovered these things weren't dangerous" (great - people need to feel they won't "break" a tool if they play with it!). Some changes in behaviour - a library facebook page, 5 blogs, WIKI to complent intranet, some people using RSS feeds.
Other library being discussed covered much less, 20 week course, focussing on small range of technologies, problem based learning. Focus was on the process, not on individual products. Results - good feedback, seems to be limited change in behaviour perhaps?
Follow up survey - showed usual suspects in what web 2.0 tools used, Blogs, Wikis, etc. Why don;t people use Web 2.0 at work - 44.4% said "Not relevant to my job" (! But most of these didn;t receive any training, so awareness of how usual these tools can be is an issue) next along was "I don;t have time", 33.3%.
What has been the most important effect of learning about web 2.0 - new ways of working (most), no-one said "improved contact with library users". Yet most people (44%) said the most important advantage for libraries was improved info for users.
Attitudes - some fairly -ve comments. "email is good enough for me at work"; "I define web 2.0 as more of a leisure activity" (suggests perhaps that problem is educating people about why different tools might be useful / relevant rather than how to use the tools? Changing attitudes not learning mechanics of a new tool?)
Though quotes also recognise that web 2.0 tools are important to users and relevant to libraries. Perhaps individuduals not seeing it as relevant to them though? Happy that other people doing it though...
Conference end Ole Husby - Summing up conference. The cloud is important (his presentation running from the cloud, also cloud of dust from Iceland has worried them in the week before!). Waves (from Chris Clarke's talk) are disruptive... People will use our data in ways we couldn't think of (if it's available). Important to do things from the bottom up... Twitter has been very active in conference (showing the twub). "Because I have twitter, I don't need to keep notes".
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Nathan seeks elusive World Series with Tigers
Closer has posted 341 saves over 13 big league seasons
DETROIT -- Joe Nathan was responsible for a lot of Tigers anguish when he became one of baseball's best closers in Minnesota. With nary a save opportunity blown against Detroit, just the sight of him on the mound would bring a feeling of dread around Comerica Park. The calendar says those days were long ago, but Nathan's success at age 39 does not.
He couldn't take the mound at Comerica Park on Wednesday, not with the field being readied for Winter Classic festivities. But the sight of him taking the podium inside the Tiger Club and donning a Detroit jersey sufficed. The shutdown closer Tigers fans always quietly wished could pitch for them was now theirs.
"Should be good for 100-plus saves the next couple years," team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski said as Nathan slipped the jersey on, his familiar No. 36 on the back.
"That's the plan," Nathan, fittingly 36-for-36 in save chances against Detroit for his career, said with a smile.
He did not come to finish off the Tigers this time, but complete them. With a two-year, $20 million contract, plus a club option for a third season, Nathan becomes the veteran closer the Tigers hope will help bolster their next run at a World Series title.
"We've tried to address our closing situation this wintertime," Dombrowski said. "We think that we've come up with one of the best in the game. We've seen him work throughout the years, and he really sets our bullpen situation up very well. We're thrilled to have him on board."
The Tigers, in turn, become Nathan's last shot at the World Series appearance that has eluded him for all these years.
"Why would I come here? Shoot, I think the question is why wouldn't I?" Nathan said. "This team is ready to win. They're ready to win now. It's not just about getting to the postseason, but for me it's about getting to the big one, to get into the World Series. It's something that's not been a part of my career. It has eluded me, and that's what it's all about now for me."
In this case, his dream was Dombrowski's priority. He promised the Tigers had moves coming after freeing up payroll space by trading Prince Fielder two weeks ago and Doug Fister on Monday.
It didn't take long, though it might have felt that way for Nathan. The Tigers had their share of candidates on the open market, topped by Nathan and Brian Wilson. The Tigers had also been in discussions with Wilson, who reportedly was seeking a three-year deal, before talks broke off on Monday.
"There were two guys that were really at the top of our list," Dombrowski said. "Joe and Brian Wilson were the two guys we thought were established closers that we liked a little bit more than the other guys, even though they were good out there. Those were the two guys we kept a focus on, but still kept a pulse of what was going on."
Nathan, meanwhile, kept the Tigers at the top of list.
"From the moment we became a free agent," he said, "this was the No. 1 club that we had our eyes set on and were hoping this day would happen. And for us to be sitting here and getting it done, signing the papers today and getting the chance to talk to you all, it's a dream come true."
If interest ever waned, there was a familiar face making sure to revive it. Both Dombrowski and Nathan said Torii Hunter, Nathan's old teammate in Minnesota, was a key recruiter, both encouraging the Tigers to make a run at him and telling Nathan to take a serious look at Detroit.
"We needed him," Hunter wrote Tuesday in a text message to MLB.com. "I had to sell the vision of winning it all to him."
He had to sell it with an old division rival.
Nathan has saved 340 games over the last 10 years and owns 341 saves over a 13-year Major League career, the most of any active pitcher now that Mariano Rivera has retired. The vast majority of those saves came with the Twins during their reign over the Tigers atop the AL Central.
Nathan has never blown a save against Detroit, going 36-for-36 in his opportunities while allowing just 33 hits over 62 2/3 innings with 23 walks and 75 strikeouts. He apologized for saying the 2009 AL Central tiebreaker at the Metrodome was the greatest game he has ever played, even though the extra-inning Twins victory that sent the Tigers home wasn't a game he could close.
"Obviously, the games that we played, the Minnesota-Detroit games, were unbelievable," Nathan said. "Honestly, I did not even realize the streak that I had going until a couple of years, because there were so many games I got my brains beat in by Detroit as well, but it just happened to be a non-save situation."
For that matter, Nathan has converted 90 percent of his save chances over his career, the highest conversion rate of any Major League pitcher with at least 200 career saves, just ahead of Rivera.
Just as important, at age 38, his statistics remained strong. He allowed 10 runs on 36 hits over 64 2/3 innings with 22 walks and 73 strikeouts for the Texas Rangers this past season, racking up 43 saves in the process. He has predictably lost some velocity on his fastball, down to a career low average of 92.2 mph this year, but he made up for it with a nasty slider that drew hitters to swing and miss a third of the time according to STATS.
After missing the 2010 season to surgery, Nathan has proven durable in his late thirties. He pitched three consecutive days on four different occasions this past season, and pitched four days in a row twice down the stretch. However, he pitched more than three outs in only one of his 67 outings, though that wasn't so much a restriction as the product of a deep Rangers bullpen.
He says he has no different approach at 39 compared to age 29, other than a two-seamer that has allowed him to pitch for contact outs.
"I think mentally I go out there, I don't want to say with more confidence, but I'd say I've learned some things along the way," Nathan said. "Some things I'd say I've consciously learned, but some things just kind of happened naturally when I'm out there. Just being out there so much, things just happen second nature, and I've definitely learned how to pitch in this league.
"I think everybody knows my velocity's not the same as it was when I first got to Minnesota, but at the same time, I've picked up pitches along the way."
He's no longer that overpowering, intimidating figure, but he's still as close to a sure thing as there is in the ninth inning. And as his last stop takes him to a familiar spot, he's hoping it takes him to a place he has never seen.
"Everybody has one goal in mind, not just to win but to win a championship," he said. "That's why we're here."


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Child actresses turned luxury fashion designers Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen recently announced the release of patent Nile crocodile skin backpacks, some of which are covered with fake prescription drugs, as part of their fashion line.
These limited-edition backpacks—only 12 were made—were designed by renowned artist Damien Hirst and will cost an astronomical $55,000 each.
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While the price might be outrageous, what about the message? Prescription and over-the-counter drugs are already among the most commonly abused drugs by 12th graders—does this bag glamorize the problem?
In an interesting twist, the retailer has said that a portion of the proceeds from these bags will be donated to UNICEF—a children's rights organization that works on issues such as immunizations, childhood development, gender rights, and HIV/AIDS transmission around the world—but it is unclear how much will be donated.
What do you think? Fashion is about creativity and expressing one's individuality, and in the world of couture and high fashion, designers like to push the envelope…so is this "fashion statement" from Mary Kate and Ashley enough to influence how someone thinks about drug abuse? Or, is a purse just a purse? Does the fact that a portion of the proceeds will go to charity influence your opinion?
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I guess its good because some of the money is donated to a good cause but it sends out a message saying ''prescription pills are fashionable'' .I feel that its a bad idea,its just another way to advertise drugs.
Adding prescription drugs to a handbag is insensitive as well as disgusting. Thousands of parents are mourning the loss of their children due to prescription drugs. We have an epidemic in this country - prescription drugs to heroin. Every 19 minutes we lose someone to an overdose. I don't care if they give all the money to Unicef. This is a slap in the face to the parents who lost their children - and are fighting to bring awareness to the rest of America - about what is really going on in our neighborhoods.
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good fashion but think you should add mor details on the bag saying no to drugs im in a class called choices teachin kids not to do drugs write back NEW YORK YANKEES ROCK!!!!!!
Just awful simply awful!!!!!!!
for 55 thousand dollars those drugs better be good!
this is wierd
absolutley sick....as today and every day we are burying one of their generation because of these pills
Seriously? Looks like something a preschooler would design with the exception that a normal preschooler would have more sense than to promote drugs. Most children have a deeper concern for morality. What idiot would spend that kind of money on a bag anyway? Just donate to your favorite charity and pick a bag that matches your style. Now I suppose if you are an adict and are crying for help---buy the bag and best wishes on your recovery.
What an insensitive, money-mongering idea.


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Officials said Wildes was sentenced to 23 months for robbery and second-degree burglary. He is described as a white man, 6 feet 2 inches tall, 190 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.
Authorities said Wildes is a pre-release security level inmate housed at the Baltimore City Correctional Center and was working on an outside detail. Offenders working on a road crew or work detail in the community are low-risk, minimum security inmates nearing the end of their sentence and are supervised by a correctional officer, authorities said.
Schools within the Lake Clifton complex were on lockdown for a short time.
Baltimore City police have been notified and a retake warrant was issued. Anyone with any information on Wildes should call 911.


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Alan Turing
British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician and cryptographer who is considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science.
- Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.
- "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," section 11: The purpose of ordinal logics (1938), published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, series 2, vol. 45 (1939)
- In a footnote to the first sentence, Turing added: "We are leaving out of account that most important faculty which distinguishes topics of interest from others; in fact, we are regarding the function of the mathematician as simply to determine the truth or falsity of propositions."
- Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
- "Proposed Electronic Calculator" (1946), a report for National Physical Laboratory, Teddington; published in A. M. Turing's ACE Report of 1946 and Other Papers (1986), edited by B. E. Carpenter and R. W. Doran, and in The Collected Works of A. M. Turing (1992), edited by D. C. Ince, Vol. 3.
- A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
- "Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing," (Summer 1948), submitted to the National Physical Laboratory (1948) and published in Key Papers: Cybernetics, ed. C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson (1968) and, in variant form, in Machine Intelligence 5, ed. B. Meltzer and D. Michie (1969).
- Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
- Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.
- The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
- Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954).
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)Edit
- Published in Mind – A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, vol. 59, #236 (1950). This paper describes what has come to be known as the Turing Test. At the time it was written, the term "computer" was a job title describing an individual who processed figures by hand. - Full text online
- "Can machines think?"... The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game." It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart front the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B... We now ask the question, "What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?" Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, "Can machines think?"
- We do not wish to penalise the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor to penalise a man for losing in a race against an aeroplane. The conditions of our game make these disabilities irrelevant.
- May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
- We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well.
- The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
- p. 436.
- A digital computer can usually be regarded as consisting of three parts: (i) Store. (ii) Executive unit. (iii) Control. ...The executive unit is the part which carries out the various individual operations involved in a calculation. ...It is the duty of the control to see that...[the table of] instructions are obeyed correctly and in the right order. ...A typical instruction might say—"Add the number stored in position 6809 to that in 4302 and put the result back into the latter storage position." Needless to say it would not occur in the machine expressed in English. It would more likely be coded in a form such as 6809430217. Here 17 says which of various possible operations [add] is to be performed on the two numbers. ...It will be noticed that the instruction takes up 10 digits and so forms one packet of information...
- Suppose Mother wants Tommy to call at the cobbler's every morning on his way to school to see if her shoes are done, she can ask him afresh every morning. Alternatively she can stick up a notice once and for all in the hall which he will see when he leaves for school and which tells him to call for the shoes, and also to destroy the notice when he comes back if he has the shoes with him.
- If one wants to make a machine mimic the behaviour of the human computer in some complex operation one has to ask him how it is done, and then translate the answer into the form of an instruction table. Constructing instruction tables is usually described as "programming."
- I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
- p. 442.
- I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, "And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day" (Joshua x. 13) and "He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time" (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.
- pp. 443-444.
- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- p. 450.
- The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.
- p. 451.
- Another simile would be an atomic pile of less than critical size: an injected idea is to correspond to a neutron entering the pile from without. Each such neutron will cause a certain disturbance which eventually dies away. If, however, the size of the pile is sufficiently increased, the disturbance caused by such an incoming neutron will very likely go on and on increasing until the whole pile is destroyed. Is there a corresponding phenomenon for minds, and is there one for machines? There does seem to be one for the human mind. The majority of them seem to be "sub-critical," i.e., to correspond in this analogy to piles of sub-critical size. An idea presented to such a mind will on average give rise to less than one idea in reply. A smallish proportion are super-critical. An idea presented to such a mind may give rise to a whole "theory" consisting of secondary, tertiary and more remote ideas. Animals minds seem to be very definitely sub-critical. Adhering to this analogy we ask, "Can a machine be made to be super-critical?"
- p. 454.
- Presumably the child-brain is something like a note-book as one buys it from the stationer's. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.
- p. 456.
- We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- p. 460.
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Quotes about TuringEdit
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- Alan Turing was the first to make a careful analysis of the potential capabilities of machines, inventing his famous "Turing machines" for the purpose. He argued that if any machine could perform a computation, then some Turing machine could perform it. The argument focuses on the assertion that any machine's operations could be simulated, one step at a time, by certain simple operations, and that Turing machines were capable of those simple operations. Turing's first fame resulted from applying this analysis to a problem posed earlier by Hilbert, which concerned the possibility of mechanizing mathematics. Turing showed that in a certain sense, it is impossible to mechanize mathematics: We shall never be able to build an "oracle" machine that can correctly answer all mathematical questions presented to it with a "yes" or "no" answer. In another famous paper Turing went on to consider the somewhat different question, "Can machines think?." It is a different question, because perhaps machines can think, but they might not be any better at mathematics than humans are; or perhaps they might be better at mathematics than humans are, but not by thinking, just by brute-force calculation power. These two papers of Turing lie near the roots of the subjects today known as automated deduction and artificial intelligence.
- Michael J. Beeson, "The Mechanization of Mathematics," in Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker (2004).
- Beyond any doubt, the most important thing that has happened in cognitive science was Turing's invention of the notion of mechanical rationality.
- Jerry Fodor, "The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism" London Review of Books, Vol. 20 No. 2, 22 January 1998, pp.11-13.
- From a very young age, I knew about the legend of Alan Turing – among awkward, nerdy teenagers, he is a patron saint. He never fit in, but accomplished these wonderful things, as part of a secret queer history of computer science.
And so I always dreamt of writing something about him, and I thought that there had never been a proper narrative treatment of his life, that he deserved. I by chance met the producers of the film at a party, and one of them told me they had optioned a biography. When I asked who it was, they said, 'it's a mathematician that you've never heard of.' When they told me it was Alan Turing, I almost tackled them, and I told them I'd do anything to write this film, I'd write it for free. It was all about luck and passion.
- Here's the thing. Alan Turing never got to stand on a stage like this and look out at all of these disconcertingly attractive faces. I do. And that's the most unfair thing I've ever heard. So in this brief time here, what I wanted to do was say this: When I was 16-years-old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different, and I felt like I did not belong. And now I'm standing here — and so I would like this moment to be for this kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different or she doesn't fit in anywhere: Yes, you do. I promise you do. Stay weird, stay different — and then, when it's your turn, and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next person who comes along.
- Graham Moore, in his acceptance speech for best adapted screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards presentations, quoted in "Oscars 2015: Graham Moore Tells Kids to 'Stay Weird, Stay Different'" in ABC News (22 February 2015).
- I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. … I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless I always identified with him so much.
- His high-pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
- Andrew Hodges, describing an incident which occurred in the New York AT & T lab cafeteria in 1943, in Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983), p. 251.
- He wondered what one might ask in a structured conversation to decide if one's interlocutor was a human being or a computer. ...but the ultimate Turing test might be to pose the question "How would a guilt-stricken homosexual commit suicide?" Would a computer ever conceive of eating an apple laced with cyanide?
- Theodore Roszak, The Gendered Atom (1999).
- Although a mathematician, Turing took quite an interest in the engineering side of computer design. There was some discussion in 1947 as to whether a cheaper substance than mercury could not be found for use as an ultrasonic delay medium. Turing's contribution to this discussion was to advocate the use of gin, which he said contained alcohol and water in just the right proportions to give a zero temperature coefficient of propagation velocity at room temperature.
- Maurice V. Wilkes, "Computers Then and Now", Journal of the ACM 15 (1), (January 1968), pp. 1-7.
- Turing had a strong predeliction for working things out from first principles, usually in the first instance without consulting any previous work on the subject, and no doubt it was this habit which gave his work that characteristically original flavor. I was reminded of a remark which Beethoven is reputed to have made when he was asked if he had heard a certain work of Mozart which was attracting much attention. He replied that he had not, and added "neither shall I do so, lest I forfeit some of my own originality."
- James H. Wilkinson, "Some Comments from a Numerical Analyst", 1970 Turing Award lecture, Journal of the ACM 18:2 (February 1971), pp. 137–147.
- He was particularly fond of little programming tricks (some people would say that he was too fond of them to be a "good" programmer) and would chuckle with boyish good humor at any little tricks I may have used.
- James H. Wilkinson, "Some Comments from a Numerical Analyst", 1970 Turing Award lecture, Journal of the ACM 18:2 (February 1971), pp. 137–147.


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Collection Summary
|John Sherman papers, 1836-1900
|Span Dates
|Bulk Dates
|(bulk 1857-1894)
|ID No.
|Sherman, John, 1823-1900
|130,000 items ; 618 containers plus 1 oversize ; 132 linear feet ; 2 microfilm reels
|Collection material in English
|Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
|Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, and United States senator and representative from Ohio. Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers chiefly relating to Sherman's role in Ohio politics after 1850. Includes family correspondence during Sherman's school years, general correspondence during his years in Congress and the cabinet, and papers relating to Kansas in the 1850s when he was a member of the House of Representatives committee investigating conditions in the territory.
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