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Information Scotland
The Journal of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland
Issue contents | Journal contents | About the online edition of the journal
Nicola Harrison charts the growth of the national online library for engineering, based at Heriot Watt University and part of a national network of subject gateways.
The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project started in August 1995 with the aim of providing access to high quality online information resources at UK higher education establishments. It was a collaboration between the Institute for Computer-Based Learning (ICBL) and the Library at Heriot-Watt University with partners at five other UK universities and at the IEE.
A collection of records describing engineering-related websites was prepared and the service went live in September 1996. Each record consisted of a URL and title along with a short description of its coverage and contents, keywords, a subject classification and a resource type classification. The EEVL catalogue could be searched by keyword or browsed by subject heading.
Subject classifications were based on the Ei thesaurus subject divisions, although less detailed. As the collection expanded (from 2000 records in April 1997 to 22,000 today) further sub-divisions were made in areas with larger numbers of resources. So, for example: mining and mineral processing is a single top level heading, whereas electrical engineering, with nearly 3000 records, has been divided into nine secondary headings, some of which are divided down further into a third level of headings, with the aim of having not more than a couple of hundred records in each section for ease of browsing.
EEVL worked with a range of other projects including Offshore Engineering Information Service, Recent Advances in Manufacturing and AERADE. EEVL also produced a variety of extra services, including a searchable database of freely available full-text online engineering journals (called EESE), a listing of engineering-specific search engines and another of engineering news sources. As technology advanced, an RSS feed of news stories from a wide range of sources was developed.
The nature of the project changed over the years. In 2001, for example, it expanded to incorporate Computing and Mathematics. The name EEVL was retained, since it was well recognised in the UK academic library community, although it could no longer be expanded out to Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library. The engineering part of the new hub was thus called EEVL Engineering. Also in 2001, the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) launched the Virtual Training Suite, a series of tutorials on Internet searching strategies for UK students, lecturers and researchers. They are intended to address the needs of specific subject areas. EEVL staff created several of the tutorials, and are developing new ones.
In 2006 the name EEVL disappeared when EEVL Engineering became Intute Engineering.
Intute was formed from the staff and data resources of several major subject gateways which were part of the RDN funded by JISC. These gateways included: BIOME (Health and Life Sciences); GEsource (Geography and Environment); Humbul (Humanities); PSIgate (Physical Sciences); and EEVL (Engineering, Maths and Computing). EEVL had acquired resources from Mathgate (maths) and Aerade (aerospace) prior to the formation of Intute. The Virtual Training Suite was also incorporated into Intute.
Intute was formed to reduce the duplication of effort, and to allow searching across all subject areas by holding all the information in a single database.
The various RDN gateways had been created independently, so the software used, and the structure of the databases was entirely different. The first technical challenge was to create a dynamic database which was much larger than had been used before by any of the gateways. It also needed to be flexible, easy to access and to have response times to searches which were not noticeably slower than those of the services it replaced.
Intute is split into four primary hubs: Arts and Humanities; Health and Life Sciences; Science, Engineering and Technology; and Social Sciences. There is an ongoing project to link subject sections together where appropriate and to form new sections to reflect current practice in HE.
One of the early projects for Intute Engineering was to combine Materials Engineering and Materials Sciences into a single section, which involved collaboration with colleagues from Manchester University.
In addition to the basic catalogue of Internet resources, a number of additional features associated with Intute Engineering have been developed: an E-Journals Search Engine; a blog with weekly entries; and Newsround (a news aggregator service for sciences and engineering).
Nicola Harrison is Technical Librarian, Harley Haddow.
EEVL News and Enhancements
An Exceptionally "EEVL" Search Resource
The EEVL Metadata Format
About Intute
Raising the profile: Intute Engineering Online Library
Information Scotland Vol. 7(1) February 2009
Information Scotland is delivered online by the SAPIENS electronic publishing service based at the Centre for Digital Library Research. SLAINTE (Scottish libraries across the Internet) offers further information about librarianship and information management in Scotland.

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Los Angeles Galaxy admit to Beckham travel fears
Globetrotter David Beckham's draining trans-Atlantic schedule is beginning to concern his employers Los Angeles Galaxy.
The former England captain drew a blank, along with his team-mates, in Galaxy's 3-0 Major League Soccer derby defeat against Chivas USA on America's west coast last night - less than 30 hours after he had finished playing for his country against Germany around 5,500 miles away at Wembley.
Galaxy general manager Alexei Lalas responded by conceding there will come a point when Beckham's body can no longer sustain his double life.
Lalas told BBC Sport: 'We have a vested interest in this player and we have spent a tremendous amount of money to retain his services.
'We want to make sure we get our money's worth and that he is healthy and both physically and mentally ready to go when he plays for the Galaxy.
'I'm not going to deny there comes a point when your body can't do it any more.'
Lalas hinted too that Galaxy will not be afraid to try to stop Beckham - signed in a deal reportedly worth in excess of £120million - burning himself out with avoidable air miles.
'If at any point we felt it was detrimental to his health or ability to help our team we would take action,' Lalas added.
Beckham, who has been troubled by a well-chronicled ankle injury, made his long-awaited first start for his new team in New York last weekend - before flying to London for England's friendly against Germany on Wednesday.
The midfielder was used for the full 90 minutes of England's 2-1 defeat, having also played the whole game in New York - and then flew back to Los Angeles yesterday.
More of the same appears inevitable as Beckham tries to fulfil his commitments to two masters, with a glut of MLS matches set to come thick and fast while the 32-year-old continues his efforts to try to help England qualify for the Euro 2008 championships over the next two months.
His latest long-haul flight was to little avail - because he was unable to inspire Galaxy against Chivas, for whom Maykel Galindo scored two goals.
Beckham managed just two shots, both off target, and was involved in a skirmish in the 48th minute.
After he was fouled by midfielder Jesse Marsch, Chivas defender Alex Zotinca and Galaxy midfielder Kevin Harmse were ejected for violent conduct.
Zotinca head-butted Harmse, who had punched Zotinca.
After a scoreless first half, Galindo took a long ball which was miscontrolled by Galaxy defender Kyle Veris and sent a quick shot past goalkeeper Joe Cannon.
Galindo collected his 10th goal of the season after taking a pass from Francisco Mendoza in the 69th minute, doubling Chivas' lead.
Mendoza followed with his first goal of the season in the 88th minute - a left-footed shot from 12 yards.
Chivas goalkeeper Brad Guzan needed to make just one save en route to his eighth clean sheet of the season.
Lalas, meanwhile, was diplomatic as he spoke respectfully of Beckham's England ambitions.
'We would never stand in the way of a player representing their country,' he insisted.
'David's love of England and the honour that it is for him to represent his country is evident from the first time you talk to him.'
Even so, Galaxy know they must protect their prize asset.
'There will certainly be moments when we need to sit down with him and do what's best for our organisation and him,' Lalas continued.
'There are FIFA dates that we have to abide by and will continue to do so. But if it is a friendly game that doesn't fall on a FIFA date that is obviously something we will have to discuss with the player.'
Beckham's spokesman Simon Oliveira does not anticipate insurmountable problems in his client's schedule.
'We are not worried,' he said.
'David is very confident he will be in peak condition - both for England and his club.'


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Hillary Clinton appeared on "The Colbert Report" last night with host Stephen Colbert for what proved to be one of the worst media appearances related to her blitz for Hard Choices.
The show's host started off by highlighting instances from the book in which the former Secretary of State "name drops" celebrities and world leaders. After, the likely 2016 presidential hopeful "surprises" Colbert and joins him onstage. In a far too scripted back and forth, the two recall memories with Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Oprah.


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Nice review in WHFSAV but do these beasties actually exist.
The link on the review page just puts you through to Tannoy's home page and, as far as I can see, there is no mention of these speakers anywhere on the site.
The bog-standard DC6T's are there along with the signature version but no SE's.
Come on Andrew do tell if they are fabulous, in the real sense of the word, or name a few stockists it they do exist!


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In their second "Legendary Moments" segment, The Summer Set give a fan a chance to pursue her photography dreams with a shoot with the band. The "Legendary Moments" series is described as The Summer Set's "journey helping their fans across the country follow their dreams, overcome their fears, and be the best version of themselves they can be."
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From The Objective Standard, Vol. 11, No. 2.
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 336 pp. $28 (hardcover).
At the beginning of Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool ask why some people are so good at what they do. Is their greatness, for example, innate or is it earned—is it the product of their genes or of their choices?
To answer that question, Ericsson and Pool look at peculiarities from why some people have perfect pitch to why others have perfect jump shots, they look at the history of these people for clues as to how they achieved such greatness, and sometimes they quote what the people themselves think.
On that latter count, for example, they cite the testimony of Ray Allen, the greatest three-point shooter in the history of the National Basketball Association.
Some years back, ESPN columnist Jackie MacMullan wrote an article about Allen as he was approaching his record for most three-point shots made. In talking with Allen for that story, MacMullan mentioned that another basketball commentator had said that Allen was born with a shooting touch—in other words, an innate gift for three-pointers. Allen did not agree.
"I've argued this with a lot of people in my life," he told MacMullan. "When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. Ask anyone who has been on a team with me who shoots the most. Go back to Seattle and Milwaukee, and ask them. The answer is me." And, indeed, as MacMullan noted, if you talk to Allen's high school basketball coach you will find that Allen's jump shot was not noticeably better than his teammates' jump shots back then; in fact, it was poor. But Allen took control, and over time, with hard work and dedication, he transformed his jump shot into one so graceful and natural that people assumed he was born with it. (pp. xviii–xix)
For Allen, as for others who have achieved excellence in their fields, practice was indispensable—they were no more born with perfect pitch or a masterful chess game than they were born with the perfect jump shot.
In Peak, Ericsson and Pool focus on one kind of practice in particular, what Ericsson in his earlier research . . .


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Problems in the detection of an asymmetry by an activator-inhibitor systemIn the first simulations, it is shown that an activator-inhibitor interaction is very sensitive against imposed asymmetries. Assumed is that an external signal (blue) with an asymmetry of 2% over the cell diameter exists. It has an activating influence on the activator autocatalysis. Despite of the fact that 1% random fluctuations at each surface element blur this minute signal, the system is sensitive enough to detect this asymmetry. A local high activator maximum (green) emerges at the side pointing to the highest concentration (black arrow). The self-enhancement is antagonized by the rapidly spreading inhibitor (red).
Oscillating cells can maintain their sensitivityOne possibility to solve this problem is the use of an oscillating pattern forming systems (Meinhardt and Gierer, 1974). Then , the systems cycles through a phase in which it is sensitive to an external asymmetry, followed by a phase in which the imposed internal asymmetry is amplified, culminating in a strongly localized signal. The subsequent accumulation of the inhibitor leads to a collapse of the activation. After decay of the inhibitor, the system enters again into the sensitive phase in which a new direction can be chosen. Oscillations do occur if the inhibitor has a longer half life that the activator.
A permanent sensitivity results from a finite half life of the 'hot spots'In a situation as described above, a second antagonistic reaction that acts locally and that has a long time constant leads to a destabilization of once formed maximum. Since the total activated area is regulated, any local maximum that disappears makes place for a new one. It can emerge at a position governed by the external signal. The result is a permanent creation of hot spots and their disappearance after a certain time interval at the side exposed to the highest signal concentration (blue is again the distribution of the external signal around the cell; the asymmetry of 2% and the assumed 1% random fluctuation are hardly visible).
ConclusionA system of one autocatalytic reaction that is balanced by two antagonistic reactions with different time constants allow the generation of local activated regions on the cell cortex with a high sensitivity against external signals. The system is able to detect minute external asymmetries and can permanently adapt to changing conditions. In the absence of external asymmetries, nevertheless local are signals generated. This leads even in this situation to a dynamic regulation of protrusions - a well known feature of such cells.


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Jamal Crawford scored 28 points, including fourth 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, to help the Atlanta Hawks pull away from the Memphis Grizzlies for a 108-94 victory Tuesday night.
Crawford scored 14 points in the final period, and on 5 of 7 from 3-poin range in the game.
Josh Smith added 17 for the Hawks and Marvin Williams and Al Horford scored 15 each as Atlanta snapped a three-game road losing steak.
All-Star forward Zach Randolph had 20 points and 14 rebounds for Memphis, which enters the All-Star break on a four-game losing steak. Rudy Gay had 18 for the Grizzlies and O.J. Mayo finished with 16.


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JERUSALEM (Jun. 13)
The trial of Adolf Eichmann, charged with directing the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews in Nazi Europe, stood recessed today until next Tuesday, when Eichmann will start testifying in his own defense. The trial was adjourned until June 20, to give Eichmann's lawyer, Dr. Robert Servatius, time to prepare his defense.
When sessions are resumed, the prosecution will have its final round with a brief submission of those parts of the Sassen transcript which were ruled acceptable in a divided 2-1 decision by the three justices. The ruling in effect barred submission of a very large part of the tape-recorded statements taken by Willem Sassen, a former Nazi, from Eichmann in Argentina, portions of which were published in Life, a weekly picture magazine.
(At Buenos Aires, today, Sassen denied Eichmann was drunk when he dictated his memoirs, as alleged during the trial in Jerusalem yesterday by Eichmann's counsel. Sassen said there is a contradiction between statements that he would be arrested if he came to Israel and a report that Israel's prosecution would rely upon him as "a main witness" against Eichmann.)
Plans were disclosed today for a full-length film of the trial, based on the television tape recordings of the daily proceedings. The film will be made by the Israel Government Information Office and Capital Cities Company of New York which has an exclusive arrangement for the televising of the trial.
Edwin Shimron, the Israel attorney who has been attending cross-examination of Nazi witnesses in West German courts, returned to Israel today for a brief visit with a report that he had received "full, honest and helpful cooperation" in West Germany.
He also disclosed that, among the Nazis scheduled to testify under the cooperative arrangement, some were uncooperative, claiming fear of self-incrimination. Others, he said, talked freely, including Max Merten, Nazi administrator of Salonika, and Edmund Weesenmayer, the wartime German Minister in Budapest. Mr. Shimron said that, after Merten finished his testimony for the Eichmann trial, West German authorities charged him with making false statements.
There have been 74 sessions of the court since the trial was opened, last April 11, at the Beit Haam. More than 500 Journalists from all over the world were here when Eichmann entered his glass enclosed, bullet-proof dock in front of the eyes and the ears of the entire world, observing the trial through newspaper correspondents, by radio, newsreels and television.
The 112 witnesses have included men and women from Bnei Brak and Brazil, Luxembourg and Eilat, Montreal and Berlin, London and New Jersey, Paris and Vienna, Haifa and Pennsylvania. There have been housewives and famous scholars, laborers and farmers, an Israeli magistrate and teachers, a manicurist and a member of Israel's Knesset (Parliament), thorny-handed kibbutznicks and physicians, public servants and others who, by some miracle, have survived the Nazi holocaust and lived long enough to come before the three-man tribunal here to testify against Eichmann.
The witnesses have included some non-Jews-one of them an American Supreme Court Justice from Pennsylvania who acted as prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials; another, the dean of Protestant clergy in Berlin who had pleaded with Eichmann in efforts to save the Jews-and was sent to a concentration camp to be tortured.
The documents submitted by the prosecution-some of them obtained through the cooperation of various governments, including the United States and Poland-ranged from small memo pads to heavy dossiers that included Nazi correspondence, microfilms, minutes of various Nazi meetings, depositions and affidavits.
A large number of these documents were relied upon by the prosecution to prove Eichmann's direct responsibility for the program to annihilate European Jewry. They showed he was more than the mere "transport officer" or "small sausage" which he claims. he was. They proved to the satisfaction of the prosecution that he had personal authority in some instances greater than the authority possessed by Nazis of much higher rank.
Among the items submitted by the prosecution were originals of the yellow badge worn by Jews in the death factories; poems written by Jewish resistance fighters; spurious money used by camp inmates at the "model camp" of Theresienstadt; pajamas worn as the sole garment by inmates at Auschwitz; a pair of tattered child's shoes found by a survivor on a field containing 100,000 similar pairs of shoes worn by Jewish child victims of the Nazi slaughter; and postcards sent by camp victims to relatives as a ruse to make the outside world believe the victims were harbored in some happy vacationland Shangri-la called "Sea Grove."
All of this is in the record now. Eichmann is scheduled to be heard from next. Then Presiding Justice Moshe Landau, and Justices Yitzhak Raveh and Binyamin Halevi, must consider the completed case. Basis for the case is a 15-point indictment against the 54-year-old accused, charging him with crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity.


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Perl, PostgreSQL hacker; US politics junkie; Webapp developer; Portvangelist; profane iconoclast.
On CPAN see: DWHEELER [cpan.org].
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text: Manlio Perillo wrote: > The main problem, here, is that: > - recursion and pattern matching are explained in every tutorial about > functional programming and Haskell. > > This is the reason why I find them more "natural". > > - high level, Haskell specific, abstractions, are *not* explained in > normal tutorials or books. > The libraries where these concepts are implemented, are not well > documented. This latter point is indeed the problem. But it may be worth rephrasing a bit. The big problem with the Haskell tutorials I've seen is that they aim to teach orthodoxy rather than orthopraxy. Or to put it less religiously, they teach the nuts and bolts of how the language is _constructed_, instead of teaching the idioms and ideas of how the language is _used_. It's like learning C from Kernighan&Ritchie ---a fine book, don't get me wrong, but it teaches the words of the language instead of the community of the speakers. If you've memorized K&R you're still a novice C programmer. Given our history, this approach made sense. Haskell's been around for a long time, but most of that history has been in academia where it's assumed that people will know what to do if only they knew how to do it. More recently Haskell has been moving from academic toy to industrial tool, and that shift necessitates a similar shift from teaching the language as a collection of interesting features to teaching the language as a collection of interesting libraries. History hinders this transition--- both the internal history of those who know Haskell (and thus can teach it but only as they know it), and also the external history of the mainstream which understands imperativistic thinking but not functional declarative thinking (and thus we must teach the features in order to give the understanding necessary for teaching the libraries). Recently Galois has been focusing on developing the infrastructure necessary for having easy access to libraries. To this day CPAN is the reason why Perl is one of the best languages out there. Other languages have tried emulating that repository, but the only one I've seen that has the community necessary to make it fly has been Hackage; and the development of Cabal/Hackage is very recent and still very bleeding edge (with the scars to prove it). With Galois' support, I think most Haskellers are aware of Hackage now, however it still hasn't made it into the tutorials in the same way that CPAN is integral to the teaching of Perl. Real World Haskell is another groundbreaking, but recent, development. It's a great book in itself and groundbreaking for embracing open-development in the publishing industry, but it's also the first of this shift from teaching Haskell = Patterns + Recursion + Laziness + Class to teaching modern Haskell in a more holistic community-oriented way. It's worth reiterating that RWH was not the cause of the shift in the community, but is rather a result of the ongoing shift. The Typeclassopedia is another drop in this river: excellent, recent. So I agree that most of the tutorials are lagging behind the modern form of Haskell, but I think this is due in part to a very recent change in the growth and direction of the community. As always with avoiding success at all costs, whether we end up the better for it in the end will depend on holding onto enough newcomers who have only ever known this modern Haskell, because they are the ones who will have the proper perspective to write tutorials and teach the language as if it's always been this way. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. > Most of the "documentation" is in research papers, and a "normal" > programmer don't want to read these papers. Yes, and no. There is quite a bit of documentation in research papers, and mainstream programmers don't read research. However, this is a big part of what makes the Haskell community what it is. There are plenty of non-academics here, but they have the willingness to read these papers (even if it's out of the ordinary) and the desire to learn radical new things (because they're out of the ordinary). A good deal of the papers these days are eminently readable by the laity, moreso than other research papers in computer science or programming languages IMO. This is one of the big things that separates Haskell from the mainstream, but it's not something I see going away any time soon. Given the recent surge of interest from the mainstream, I think it's finally time that we take a more proactive approach in trying to teach this aspect as one of the tenants of our community. Presently there's still a "take it or leave it" tenor to these discussions, and that needs to be dispelled before it poisons the relations between the old guard and the young turks. New tutorials need to find some way of introducing non-academics to the idea that the academy is not an ivory tower and that part of what makes Haskell cool is the fact that it takes these theoretical ideas and applies them to the real world. It's challenging to fight anti-intellectualism anywhere, but it's become apparent to me that this is something that we need to develop an organized response to. -- Live well, ~wren


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Aubrey Menard '08 (left) and Gwen Mason '82 consult
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connections among Smith students and alumnae happen all the
time. Alumnae often offer new graduates valuable career advice
and host current students when the students visit new locales.
The Smith sisterhood is a lifetime
membership to a global club, and the connection between Aubrey
Menard 08 and Gwen Williams Mason 82 is
the latest example.
After graduating with a degree
in American government, Masons interest in public service led her to
a career at the Department of the Interior in Washington,
D.C., and a successful run for the Roanoke, Virginia, City
Council in 2006.
When a seat opened up in the
Virginia House of DelegatesAmericas oldest legislative bodyMason jumped
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Smith truly is a sisterhood, attests Menard, and we are proving that your
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Not only have her fellow Smith
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notes Menard, but several have come forward with donations of their time and
words of encouragement. In one such example, Masons classmate Amy Northcutt 82,
the deputy general counsel for the National Science Foundation, offered to travel
to Roanoke, in Masons district, to walk door-to-door alongside the candidate
talking to voters.
It has been amazing for me
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nearly 30 years after their graduation, she says. Gwens
talked to 1982-ers from California to Maine to Florida. And
shes seen friends from each of the
graduating Smith classes from her four years in Northampton.
As the House of Delegates campaign
kicks into high gear this fall, the candidate appreciates
the levity and camaraderie that comes with working alongside
her college mate.
Sometimes I feel like Aubrey lives on my hall in Wilder House, quips Mason. Weve
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"An accusation frequently leveled at the mining industry is that local people, towns and state received little in benefits from the extraction of irreplaceable natural resources. Homestake has been a clear exception on that score. The company stands in the forefront for its flair and equitable treatment of its workers and the town of Lead, and for its willingness to work with the state of South Dakota on an array of issues. From the days of George and Phoebe Hearst through World War II, paternalism in its best clothes has been a hallmark of the Homestake Mine and Lead. 'The town is the Homestake and the Homestake is the town,' commented one writer."
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The Homestake mine was not only a great gold deposit that produced for over a century and contributed enormously to the science of economic geology. It was also the heart of a mining camp that served as a striking example of how a mining town such as Lead could be a fine place to live and work in. It was quite unlike other mining towns of that era in the American West. In the words of Malone (1986), "the great Homestake gold mine was a bit of an anomaly: from its beginnings in 1877 and lasting until the outbreak of World War II, the Homestake venture generated great profits for its investors and regular paychecks for the miners."
The Homestake camp is a stark contrast to Butte, Montana, which will be the next camp to be described in this series. Both camps were founded on remote deposits that produced for over 100 years and made an internationally significant contribution to global production and geological knowledge. Moreover, both received their initial funding from the Hearst Syndicate and became the basis for multinational mining companies. The main difference between them was that Lead was a peaceful company town that was operated in a paternalistic manner, whereas Butte, which didn't have a single, benevolent, corporate owner for the first several decades, became the epitome of the Wild West on steroids.
Lead was fortunate that the local environment was largely unharmed because the treatment process did not require a smelter. Modern amenities, such as professional fire and police services, paved streets, and excellent modern schools and hospitals, were introduced in Lead as soon as they appeared in larger cities. The company strongly encouraged home ownership by assisting with home loans. Lots were provided free and the homeowner was required to pay taxes only on the home, not the land.
After George Hearst died in 1891, his majority ownership in Homestake Mining shares was inherited by his wife Phoebe, 22 years his junior. An educated and strong-willed woman whose social views were quite advanced for her era, she probably deserves much of the credit for the enlightened attitude subsequently adopted by senior management. In particular, she had strong ideas about industrial relations and the treatment of workers. Her policies were largely carried out by her protégé, a relative named Edward H. Clark, who served as a Homestake director for half a century (1894-1944) and as president for the last 30 years.
Phoebe's particular interests were in the fields of education and the general health of the workers. In 1894, she established a free library that subscribed to over 80 magazines and newspapers, many in foreign languages to serve the many nationalities represented in the workforce. In 1900, she established a free kindergarten, and provided generous support for churches and schools. She also believed in the 'Americanization' of the workers and their families by assisting them in learning English and qualifying for citizenship. To that end, night schools were introduced in 1906.
A free community centre was built in 1914 that included a pool hall, card room, gymnasium, bowling alley, theatre and swimming pool, while a recreation commission operated by the workers supported baseball, basketball, skating, rifle and pistol ranges, skiing and golf. Disability and sickness insurance were introduced in 1910 and retirement pensions in 1917, and after 1920, medical care was free. The Hearst family involvement in the company ended when Phoebe's son, William Randolph, sold the Homestake interest after her death from influenza in 1919. However, it continued its progressive and pioneering labour relations policies.
According to a report by John R. Commons, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, Homestake's welfare measures were far ahead of anything available in any similar industrial centres (Engineering & Mining Journal, August 8, 1914, p. 324 and October 2, 1914, p. 616). These working conditions at Lead, which were incomparably superior to those at Butte, have been described as "benevolent despotism." They had only one negative condition — "that the miner shall have nothing to say about it himself." The Homestake system of labour relations was, in effect, a welfare state that paid great dividends in workforce stability and productivity but avoided exploiting the workers. It also showed that treating workers decently was not terribly expensive.
In addition to the Homestake mine, the northern part of the Black Hills contains significant gold deposits of Tertiary age, although their production has been relatively small. These are generally oxidized replacements with manto-like shapes hosted by dolomite and limestone horizons of the Cambrian Deadwood Formation. The deposits display both structural and stratigraphic controls, are transected by higher grade mineralization in vertical fractures, and commonly have a close spatial association with Tertiary intrusions. In addition to size, the Tertiary ore bodies differ from the Homestake deposit in their lower average grades; lower gold to silver ratios (generally below 1:1); their sulphide composition, with pyrite as the dominant mineral; and their significant lead-zinc concentrations with traces of tungsten and telluride minerals.
In 1983, Wharf Resources introduced open pit mining and heap leaching with cyanide into the Black Hills at a mine in the Bald Mountain district, five kilometres southwest of Lead. Mineralization was discovered there in 1877 and about five million tonnes, with an average recovered grade of 6.5 g/t (0.19 oz/ton) gold and 17.5 g/t (0.51 oz/ton) silver, was mined intermittently between 1901 and 1959, some of which was treated in a small cyanide mill prior to 1915. Exploration was resumed around the former mines by a joint venture between Homestake and a Wharf predecessor in 1974 and continued after Wharf purchased the Homestake interest in 1979. To the end of 2007, Wharf had mined about 69 million tonnes, with an average grade of 1.1 g/t (0.032 oz/ton) from six separate zones with an average strip ratio of 1.85 to 1. It was processed on leach pads to recover approximately 1.81 million ounces of gold. Between 1983 and 1996, the recovery rate was about 76 per cent. A Canadian company, Goldcorp Inc. (formerly Dickenson Mines) has controlled Wharf since 1988. It has reported that sufficient reserves exist to operate until the end of 2010, at which time gold production may cease in the Black Hills for the first time in over 135 years.
Between 1989 and 1996, Wharf also operated a nearby mine, the Golden Reward, situated about one kilometre east of the mine discussed above, on the opposite side of a ski development. It recovered 276,000 ounces of gold and 361,000 ounces of silver from similar mineralization.
Another noteworthy gold producer in the Black Hills was the Deadwood camp, which produced about 285,000 ounces, starting in 1875. Most of this was placer gold from Deadwood Gulch, although a small amount came from three neighbouring creeks and tributaries. The first lode gold came from the Hidden Treasure mine, a so-called placer deposit at the base of the Deadwood Formation that was actually a gold-bearing conglomerate horizon of detrital origin that overlies and was probably derived from erosion of the Homestake Formation. It was treated in the first stamp mill to reach the Black Hills in September 1876 and produced about 1,000 ounces within a year. By 1878, 20 mills with 500 stamps were in operation, but lode mining ceased by 1881 when the ore was exhausted. The total amount of gold recovered is unknown. The equipment was presumably moved to the Homestake camp.
The Mascot mine, situated four kilometres southeast of Deadwood, was discovered in 1892, and the nearby Oro Fino deposit of Gilt Edge Mines Inc. was located the next year. The Tertiary Mascot ore is hosted by carbonate rocks of the Deadwood Formation, similar to the ore at the Wharf mine, whereas the adjacent Gilt Edge ore occurs in Tertiary intrusive rocks. Modern exploration of the Gilt Edge mine by Brohm Mining Corp. and Minven Gold Corp. in the 1980s outlined an oxide reserve of 6.2 million tonnes, with an average grade of 1.6 g/t (0.046 oz/ ton) gold. An open pit mine with a cyanide heap leach that opened in October 1988 was terminated almost immediately because of an acid rock drainage problem.
Four other camps in the district produced minor amounts of gold. The Cloverleaf mine on Elk Creek, about 13 kilometres southeast of Deadwood, produced about 44,000 ounces between 1878 and 1937, mostly before 1890, from a saddle-shaped mass of quartz containing native gold with galena, sphalerite and pyrite in the Proterozoic rocks. Another is the Ragged Top camp, about 11 kilometres northwest of Lead, which produced about 75,000 ounces between 1885 and 1906 from silicified breccias hosted in karst-like zones with narrow vertical feeder veins. The occurrences are hosted by silicified Mississippian limestone, contain traces of telluride minerals, and are associated with Tertiary porphyry bodies and a phonolite laccolith. The others are the Keystone camp, situated about 55 kilometres southeast of Lead, which produced about 130,000 ounces, mainly between 1892 and 1903, and the Hill City camp, about 15 kilometres closer to Lead, which produced about 35,000 ounces. Both are hosted by Proterozoic schist.
The complex structural deformation and higher grade metamorphism at the Homestake mine had seldom been encountered before within major European or U.S. mining districts, except perhaps in the Alps. It presented a new and difficult challenge to prospectors, miners and geologists searching for extensions of surface mineralization and determining its origin. Solving those problems represented an important advance in the field of economic geology. Study of the Homestake mine was a precursor, in a way, of the geological tools that would be required to explore mineral deposits in the prolific Proterozoic and Achaean gold and base metal camps of the Canadian Shield, and in other strongly deformed rocks worldwide. By lowering the economic cut-off grade for gold mining through improved mining and recovery methods, the Homestake mine expanded the scope of future mining ventures. As a result, many more opportunities were created in the field of economic geology through the study of new deposits.
The information on the industrial relations of the Homestake Mining Company has been derived from Cash (1973), Fielder (1970) and Robbins (1994). The descriptions of the other mines in the Black Hills was obtained from Koschmann and Bergendahl (1968), from published records of Wharf Resources and from personal communications with Jim Lessard, exploration/land manager, and R.E. 'Dutch' Van Tassell, former vice president of exploration, Wharf Resources.
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What he saw was a lot of "commotion" at the front, with about fifteen people gathered behind the gate leading from the house to the sidewalk. "At the front is a young woman with a baby in both hands," he remembers. "The door is ajar, I grab hold of it to pull it open so they can leave." They filed out, and he continued on -- but Lawrence didn't get any further than El Chapultepec when he felt someone grab him from behind.
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"Public intoxication is a problem," says DPD spokesman Sonny Jackson. "If you are, you can go to detox for it." And in fact, a couple of weeks ago the cops busted a soused member of The Real World cast. "He basically had been arguing with his girlfriend, then it continued on outside," Jackson explains. "They went ahead and called detox."
"It seemed like overkill," Lawrence says of his own forced dry-out. After all, he was already walking home -- and doesn't having someone interrupt the filming of The Real World just make it more, well, real?
That's not a point that The Real World crew is interesting in discussing. "Denver is a wonderful place to work and shoot," says Jim Johnson, who'd called Westword back in May to find out just what, exactly, Narcy was up to. And that's about all Johnson offers.
Jonathan Murray, executive producer of The Real World, had more to say to the New York Times, which ran a piece Sunday called "Reality TV, the Unwelcome Guest." In that story -- which prominently featured Westword's own Jared Jacang Maher discussing our fake Real World prank (see the video at www.westword.com) -- Murray said that all the attention hasn't been a problem for the Denver shoot, now in its seventeenth week. As he told the Times, "It's flattering that there are so many people who are intrigued by what we're doing that they're setting up Webcams and writing daily blogs about us."
Just don't open any gates. On public sidewalks. After you've had a couple of cocktails. On August 9, Lawrence plans to tell the judge all about it. "The situation's frustrating and silly," he concludes. And all too real.
Scene and herd: Making for even more real reality TV, the state's most famous murder case was invoked last Wednesday night on Project Runway. When Heidi Klum told hopeful designers they'd be making a Miss Universe pageant dress for Miss U.S.A. Tara Conner, Jefferey (the one with the tattooed throat) seemed nonplussed, explaining that "the word 'pageant' to me has weird connotations, you know, i.e., JonBenet Ramsey." His creation didn't win -- but then, neither did Conner.
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It's like band camp -- only better. Since Dan Crane, a.k.a. Bjorn Turoque, first participated in the U.S. Air Guitar Regionals (Beatdown, June 17, 2004), the hometown hero has channeled his invisible passion into national exposure. Crane is one of the stars of Air Guitar Nation, a new documentary that traces the rise of air-noodling since 2003 and is set to screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival next month. The 35-year-old Denver native also recently released a book, To Air Is Human. But to shred is divine.
Particularly if you're at the Denver Skate Park. Professional skaters Corey Duffel and Chet Childress and a few other members of Team Sessions stopped by the park this past weekend. Besides setting up local crumbsnatchers with a bunch of free Sessions gear, Duffel and Childress both commented on how sick the Mile High City skate scene is. Not only are there plenty of places to skate that are open late, they said, but unlike on the Left Coast, kids aren't compelled to wear pads and helmets at the park.
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The mall...
I will give you all the perspectives about this problem. For the last days, since it's opening on Saturday it's the number 1 subject in town.
I remember last summer having a discussion with one of the architects involved in the project. I was just explaining him the last impression after going to the mall in Bucharest, an ugly, small place crowded by low quality people. Though we agreed that a mall always ends up attracting all types of people (after all it's not a museum or school), Timisora needed badly such a place and a mall was the only chance to attract brands in such a town. Time proofed us right.
1 why we needed it
Timisoara's main shopping places are 2 boxes (not even big) in which you can mostly buy Chinese/ Turkish products. The old shopping center, build in the 70s is way too small to cover the needs of an ever expanding town and, though situated in the heart of the town and some desperate attempts to change its face, it never attracted investors. So the quality of the merchandise wasn't too different from the one in the boxes. Probably the place that attracts most people interested in buying stuff is not actually a shop but something more like a flea market. A friend from Germany told me he had heard that there are markets in Romania in which you can buy everything from the black-market. Like an organized and accessible black market. You can look at it like that but here, every local thinks of it like something natural/normal. Mostly on weekends people gather and sell whatever they can. Among the top products there are lots of things brought from Hungary/ Germany (partly this is a reminiscence from the past/ by now you find most of that products in local shops, maybe a little more expensive but still...; there is also the belief that products from the same brand have a higher quality in Germany then the ones sold here), brand clothes (by brand please understand nike, adidas, h&m etc), every latest computer game, DVD, program at 1.5 euro / CD (movies on DVD before they even get to cinema / I want to thank the academy members for this!) and of course, everything you could possibly think of at second, third, fourth hand (very often more expensive then their initial price). Did I mention that everything is organized by the city hall and that you have to pay entrance?
The only place susceptible of working as a nice shopping place is the town center (which is also the old center, mostly houses from the 19th century). Though the ground floor of most houses has a commercial or public function, it doesn't work. There are some shops that are ok but there is no continuity and you end up running trough the whole town for 4 shops situated in different places. I suppose this is also the main reason why big brands are not attracted by the town. If they find an appropriate location they can always end up having a second hand shop as a neighbor. No investment protection.
2 the architect
2-3 years ago a guy thought about making a mall in Timisoara. He had just opened another one in Iasi (big city in Romania, regional importance for Moldavia) and thought about expanding his investment. After some financial calculations he found out that is was easier for him to make his own architecture firm than to hire one. And so he did...
The chief architect is a former teacher of mine (one of the best), unfortunately only for one semester. I adore him. He is the kind of architect / person nobody can say anything mean of, everybody respects him.
His most acclaimed project is a house, here in Timisoara, made several years ago. A couple of month it was even published in "˜l'architecture d'aujourd'hui'.
I haven't heard his version of the story but I imagine he also thought about what monster could appear if he didn't get involved. I might be wrong. Other say it's just pride, after all it's the most important construction in Timisoara in the last and future couple of years (probably even for a longer period).
3 and then there came the mall
Due to the continuous cutting of funds and the inability of the constructor to respect the deadline (anything familiar?) the mall was opened last Saturday, about 1-2 month later then planed. I suppose the owner made himself some serious calculations as at the inauguration the mall was not even ready, mainly on the interior. In some parts there is no finishing yet, in other parts you can see everything was made in hurry (paving that already has to be replaced etc).
From an architectural point of view the most often thing I have heard was "˜eclectic'. Many different parts that are not connected, too many materials in other cases. On the other hand you find some very nice details.
It is indeed very easy to jump at the neck of such a project, like most people in town did. But I have to say I like it (speaking of the interior, the atmosphere, the stone on the façade). I feel good inside, it's not too crowded, it's nice, some beautiful details enjoy your eyes (and some Mies chairs - I love them). And it's incomparable to the malls in Bucharest. I don't know how to say it exactly, don't want it to sound like "˜for Timisoara it's ok', but... I can see its negative points, things I dislike, would have preferred in a different manner but it also has a bright side. For a mall it is extremely enjoyable and I'm one of the very few who are not destroying it with criticism just because it is so handy to do it (not that it is that bad but there are some obvious things you can very easily comment upon)...
As about finding stuff to buy... Timisoara has been upgraded and you have finally access to the world's oldest and most efficient therapy: shopping.
here are some pics/ i wasn't able to make my own but will asap.
no pictures? oana i love your pictures! need pictures
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Two days, two insightful editorials. Too bad they came after the election.
Chico's haste on the Climate Action Plan is not "odd"; it is business as usual practiced consistently by this progressive City Council — but only when the students are not needed to thwart the voice of concerned citizens or the business community. You wrote there was $124,000 spent in tax dollars on this plan. Are you kidding me? A drop in the bucket when you consider that a city staff person has worked almost exclusively getting this mayor's sustainability agenda approved at a taxpayer cost of a minimum of $250,000 (salary and benefits) over the last four years. And that's only if you believe only 48 percent of personnel time is spent on "environmental services." And they aren't done yet. There is more to come.
As to the "Reorganization will aid Chico police" (Ann Schwab's letter to the editor), I'd rather hear from the police chief and not the mayor. As a matter of fact, why is it that we hear from the council on a twice monthly basis all the meetings they have attended and purposes they have furthered (e.g. plastic bag bans, smoking bans, corporate personhood, sewer fee increases, etc.), but we don't hear, even on a monthly basis, what our Police Department has been asked to accomplish without adequate staff and inadequate equipment? Opportunism is what the mayor is practicing (look it up).
We need the city manager to reset the city priorities now.
— Stephanie L. Taber, Chico


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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2007/08/27 - Based on its recent analysis of engine technologies, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present Scuderi Group LLC with the 2007 Frost & Sullivan North American Technology Innovation Award in the field of engine technologies.
This Award recognizes the innovative Scuderi split cycle engine, which uses a large number of conventional parts, but, with a different design, has the potential to achieve better performance than conventional engines.
While engine technology has improved over the years, the basic design is still the same as a hundred years ago. What has changed is the engineering that goes into the modern engine and the advances in metallurgical sciences that have contributed to engines running longer without maintenance.
The Scuderi split cycle engine, keeps the conventional four-stroke cycle and the components that make up a normal engine with some modifications. Its design splits the cycle into two physically distinct areas, which each handle two strokes of the four-stroke cycle. The use of conventional components would considerably lower the entry cost for manufacturers hoping to gain from this new design.
"The split-cycle design of the Scuderi engine provides greater design flexibility than a conventional engine," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Sivam Sabesan. "For example, supercharging the power cylinder can be accomplished internally simply by increasing the diameter of the compression cylinder. The split cycle design is also supposed to improve fuel efficiency by 15 to 30 percent and reduce nitrous oxides (NOx) emissions by 50 to 80 percent."
Moreover, the existing concept has been further extended to air hybrid technology. The revision takes advantage of the fact that the cycle is split to store energy as compressed air.
Adding a small storage tank to hold compressed air and valves to control the flow would enable the split cycle engine to temporarily store energy that would be otherwise lost during braking. It might be possible to recover energy from the exhaust cycle with the whole design being applicable for both gasoline and diesel engines.
"Being honored with such a prestigious award from such a world-renowned growth consulting company is very clear validation that the Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine is poised to positively change the automotive world," said Sal Scuderi, president of the Scuderi Group. "We are committed to bringing this technology to market so that the worlds auto makers can deliver the most fuel-efficient, environmentally-friendly internal combustion engine being developed today."
The Scuderi Group has already been granted over ten patents by the patent offices in the United States, Taiwan, China, and South Korea. The company also has an extensive patent portfolio with a number of patents pending in 45 countries. It invests extensively in research pertaining to the split cycle engine and is aggressively building up its patent portfolio.
"The company has employed a judicious mixture of good engineering with manufacturability, an issue that has been the bane of most unconventional designs in the last century," says Sabesan. "The focus on platform technology, something that can be used with all internal combustion engines, also points to a clear focus by the company on addressing the problems at a very broad level."
Recognizing the Scuderi Groups platform design and its potential to change the face of engine technology, Frost & Sullivan is pleased to award the Scuderi Group, the 2007 Technology Innovation Award in the field of engine technologies.
Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to a company that has carried out new research, which has resulted in innovations that have brought, or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. This award recognizes the quality and depth of a companys research and development program as well as the vision and risk-taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
About Scuderi Group, LLC
Based in West Springfield, Mass., The Scuderi Group (scuderigroup.com) is an engine development company focused on improving the performance of the internal combustion engine. The revolutionary Scuderi Engine Technology is the most significant improvement in engine performance in decades and can be applied to any internal combustion engine including gasoline, diesel, bio-diesel, and natural gas. The Scuderi Engine, along with its Air-Hybrid feature, is expected to almost double vehicle mileage and reduce toxic emissions by as much as 80 percent. Besides improving efficiency and reducing emissions, the Scuderi Air-Hybrid Technology also improves power and performance at a cost that is thousands of dollars below the current hybrid systems. The Scuderi Technology is patented worldwide with six patents issued and several pending in over 45 countries. For more information call 413-439-0343 or visit the website.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics.
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