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BorgWarner Expects Record Net Earnings Of $5.15 To $5.45 Per Diluted Share In 2013 With Reported Sales Growth Of 2% To 6%
Jan 16, 2013, 09:00 EST
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) today provided 2013 earnings guidance of $5.15 to $5.45 per diluted share, which implies earnings growth of 5% to 9% compared with 2012 earnings guidance of $4.90 to $5.00 per diluted share, excluding non-recurring items.
2013 Guidance Highlights:
- Net earnings of $5.15 to $5.45 per diluted share, up 5% to 9% compared with 2012 net earnings guidance of $4.90 to $5.00 per diluted share, excluding non-recurring items.
- Reported sales growth of 2% to 6% compared with 2012 sales guidance. Excluding the impact of disposal activities in 2012, the company expects sales growth of 3% to 7%.
- Operating income margin of 11.5% or better.
- Capital expenditures, including tooling outlays, of $450 million to $500 million.
"In 2013, we expect another record year for sales and earnings," said James Verrier, BorgWarner President and CEO. "Our backlog of net new business is expected to drive sales growth of 2% to 6% in 2013 compared with 2012, despite a challenging environment for growth, particularly in Europe. Excluding the impact of disposal activities in 2012, our sales growth is expected to be 3% to 7% while global light vehicle production is expected to grow approximately 1%, and European light vehicle production is expected to decline approximately 3%, during the same period. Demand for our product technologies that improve fuel economy, emissions and performance, continues to accelerate around the globe."
The company expects its 2013 operating income margin to be 11.5% or better, in line with its operating income margin guidance for 2012. The expectation of stable margins can be largely attributed to incremental income from higher sales, restructuring actions taken in 2012 and an ongoing focus on cost reductions. Strong operational performance is expected to offset the costs of global growth, higher raw material costs and other inflationary cost pressures. The company expects an average U.S. Dollar to Euro exchange rate of $1.28 in 2013, flat with 2012.
Today, at approximately 10:15 am ET, the company will webcast its presentation at the Deutsche Bank Global Auto Industry Conference in Detroit, Michigan, which will include a discussion of its guidance. The webcast can be accessed at: http://www.borgwarner.com/en/Investors/Webcasts/default.aspx.
About BorgWarner
Auburn Hills, Michigan-based BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) is a technology leader in highly engineered components and systems for powertrain applications worldwide. Operating manufacturing and technical facilities in 57 locations in 19 countries, the company develops products to improve fuel economy, reduce emissions and enhance performance. Customers include VW/Audi, Ford, Toyota, Renault/Nissan, General Motors, Hyundai/Kia, Daimler, Chrysler, Fiat, BMW, Honda, John Deere, PSA, and MAN. For more information, please visit borgwarner.com.
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General David Petraeus has been named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2012!
The 60-year-old general retired from his position as director of the CIA after his extramarital affair was discovered during an FBI investigation. This is his second time being the most fascinating person of the year!
Other people to land on Barbara's list include: Ben Affleck, Prince Harry, Gabby Douglas, One Direction, Seth MacFarlane, Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James, Honey Boo Boo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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Two weeks in the West
"The farmers respect the law. (But in Sun Valley) people get mad and call their lawyers. This is typical America, the land of greed, where people just take, take, take."
—David Murphy, an Idaho water-rights cop, who is ticked off at wealthy owners of vacation homes for illegally taking water from rivers and streams to grow lush lawns and fill private fishing ponds, according to the Idaho Mountain Express.
Maybe it will save a few trees. In his 2007 proposed budget, President Bush has slashed $2 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's $2.5 million library program. The cuts will hit the program's 27 libraries across the country, which are used by reporters, EPA employees and the general public. The presidents of 16 unions, representing 10,000 EPA employees, have sent a letter of protest, urging Congress to restore funding to the libraries. The budget cuts, write the union leaders, will not only "demoralize its employees" but also make tens of thousands of original research documents unavailable to researchers and the public.
Confession in the gas fields. When Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne toured natural gas fields near Pinedale, Wyo., in late August, he told the Casper Star-Tribune he sees "significant progress" in attempts to limit the environmental impacts caused by drilling. But a few days later, the Washington Post revealed a confession of inadequacy by the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the drilling. BLM staffers, in an internal report, concluded that for the past six years, they've failed to protect air quality and wildlife around Pinedale.
Just a smidgen of rocket fuel won't hurt, will it? For years, government regulators, environmentalists and industry have battled over how much perchlorate — a component of rocket fuel and explosives — is safe in drinking water. Pregnant women, fetuses and children are particularly susceptible to the chemical, which prevents the thyroid from absorbing iodine. The feds have set a lax and unenforceable standard, leaving the states to fend for themselves. On Aug. 28, the California Department of Health Service announced that any drinking-water sources in the state with more than 6 parts per billion of perchlorate must be shut down. Industry representatives complained that meeting the standard would be staggeringly expensive. Still, the requirement is much more lenient than environmentalists asked for, and pales in comparison with the 2 parts per billion limit set by Massachusetts, the only other state with a drinking-water limit for perchlorate.
If the feds won't help ... After pleading futilely with the Bureau of Land Management to refrain from leasing land in the watershed from which it draws city drinking water, and even unsuccessfully attempting to buy the leases itself, Grand Junction, Colo., recently did its best to protect its own watershed. The city council on Sept. 6 voted unanimously to pass an ordinance imposing strict requirements on "high risk" activities in the watershed, including drilling. Companies must now post bonds to cover potential damages as well as prove that the proposed activity does not pollute drinking water. Last month, the BLM issued leases in Grand Junction's and nearby Palisade's watersheds.
Marching on Farmington. Approximately 1,000 Native Americans marched along the main highway into this northwestern New Mexico city on Sept. 2 to honor victims of racism and violence in Navajo Nation border towns. The march followed a year of mixed news regarding discrimination against Indians in this town of 44,000 people. Last fall, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission found that racial relations had improved since the 1970s, when "rolling" intoxicated Navajos was sport for young white men. But this summer, tension returned: Three Anglo men allegedly beat a Navajo man, and another tribal member was shot to death by a white police officer.
They don't like one another, either. The founders of the Minuteman border vigilante group, Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist, are fighting, and some of its members are calling for an audit to find what's become of more than $1.5 million in donations. According to the Arizona Republic, Simcox says Gilchrist is acting like the "lord and emperor" of the movement, while Simcox's private company has come under fire for not delivering the "Israeli-style border fence" it promised. So far, it's only laid out about two miles of a five-strand barbed wire fence.


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Condominium Conversion Ordinance
Condominium Conversion Ordinance as Amended June 13, 2006 (PDF)
On June 14, 2007, the California Coastal Commission unconditionally certified the Condominium conversion regulations adopted by the City Council on June 13, 2006. This means that the regulations are now also in effect within the Coastal Overlay Zone.
PROJECT IN PROCESS (deemed complete on or before June 13, 2006) and the tentative map is approved on or after the effective date of the ordinance (on July 27, 2006)
The project will be subject to all the regulations for condominium conversions except for parking (including those that became effective on March 9, 2006).
What this means for your project:
Regardless of where your project is in the review process, if it has not had a hearing by July 26, 2006, the project will be subject to the information below:
- The applicant must review the new regulations and provide additional or revised information as appropriate in order to conform with the new regulations (building conditions report and landscape plan prepared in accordance with the code requirements). This means the required building conditions report and landscape plan must be reviewed and accepted by staff before any hearings can be scheduled.
- Based on the above requirements, some projects may require deviations that were not anticipated at the time of original submittal. Please review this issue carefully.
- For project with 20 or more units, the designation of affordable units on-site is required: please contact Ann Kern at the Housing Commission (619) 578-7582.
- Contact Ann Kern at the Housing Commission (619) 578-7582 for requirements regarding Tenant Relocation and associated fees.
- Notices: refer to the sample notices below. Make sure your project includes all the new required notices.
- City staff will continue processing of all condominium conversion projects unless otherwise directed by the applicants. All such review is charged directly to the deposit account for the subject project and is non-refundable. If you wish staff to cease project processing, contact your City Development Project Manager immediately.
Please contact your assigned City Development Project Manager with any questions or submittal procedures.
The project will be subject to all of the regulations for condominium conversions (including parking).
- PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A VALID APPEAL of its environmental determination as of June 13, 2006.
The project will be subject to the regulations that were in effect at the time its submittal was deemed complete.
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Information concerning the City of San Diego and Subdivision Map Act regulations and procedures for converting existing rental apartment units into condominiums.
- Condominium Conversions Information Bulletin 539 (PDF)
Summarizes the City of San Diego and Subdivision Map Act regulations and procedures for converting existing rental apartment units into condominiums.
- Inclusionary Housing Information Bulletin 532 (PDF)
Provides basic information regarding the The Inclusionary Housing Ordinance.
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Flow chart that shows the most common sequence of events and notices for processing a typical condominium conversion.
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- Sample - Tenants Rights and Notices for
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- Sample - Tenant 60-Day Notice of Intent to Convert (PDF)
- Sample - Prospective Tenant Notice (PDF)
- Sample - Tenant 60-Day Notice to Terminate Tenancy (PDF)
- Condominium Conversion Certification of Tenant Notice (DS-561) (PDF)
Use to certify delivered of 60-days notice to tenants prior to filing a tentative map or map waiver for a condominium conversion.
- Condominium Conversion Staff Report for Project Certification (DS-562) (PDF)
Use to certify that a copy of the Staff Report for Public Hearing has been served on each tenant for a proposed condominium conversion project.
- Sample - Tenants Rights and Notices for
Condominium Conversion Workshops
- March 9, 2005
Joint meeting of the Land Use & Housing Committee and Planning Commission to discuss condo conversion regulations.
- March 3, 2005
Development Services Department - Industry Workshop
Condominium Process presentation that highlights key points about the approval process, tenant rights, noticing requirements, common processing pitfalls, and more...
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
Helpful Links
- Links to Government Code
- California Government Code (CGC)
- California Civil Code (CCC)
- San Diego Municipal Code (SDMC)


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Alexander Skarsgard: Wednesday Workout!
Alexander Skarsgard wears a black Nike top as he heads to the gym for a workout on Wednesday (August 24) in New York City.
The 34-year-old Swedish actor has made trips to the gym three days in a row this week to keep his body in shape.
Alex is currently in NYC while filming his next project, What Maisie Knew, which will be released in theaters next year.
Earlier in the week, it was announced that Alex is in negotiations to star opposite Brit Marling in The East, a thriller about a female agent infiltrating an eco-terrorism group.
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text: Here it comes! Thousands of runners are getting ready to literally invade the city of Brighton for the 99th consecutive year. The road race run is over a distance of 26 miles. On 2013 the race has reached a 20% increase on entries counting over 18.000. A massive number considering the narrow streets of tiny Brighton. Hopefully this year there won't be more or the whole town will face sudden sinking in the cold water of the sea…Thousands also will be the Brighton seagulls expected due to the obvious abundance of food from the participants and the audience. So bring an umbrella just in case. Here's further details.


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Two German citizens held by the National Liberation Army (ELN) since November 2012 were released today in a rural part of the Colombian department of Norte de Santander.
The civilians were handed over to a humanitarian team made up of delegates of the ICRC and two members of a committee set up to facilitate dialogue with the armed group.
"We're glad that the two men have been freed and will soon be reunited with their families," said Jordi Raich, head of the ICRC delegation in Colombia. "It's gratifying to be of service in this kind of operation. As an impartial, neutral and independent intermediary between all the parties to the conflict, the ICRC is always keen to help relieve the suffering of people who have been deprived of liberty."
A civilian helicopter bearing the ICRC emblem took the Germans to Aguas Claras airport in Ocaña, Norte de Santander, where they were handed over to officials from the German embassy in Colombia and representatives of the Colombian government. The Colombian Red Cross provided logistical and medical support for the operation.
In addition to this latest operation, since 1994 the ICRC has facilitated the release of more than 1,500 people being held by various armed groups in Colombia. So far in 2013, the ICRC has acted as an intermediary in the handover of 10 people.
The ICRC stands ready to do what it can to help relieve the suffering of people affected by the armed conflict in Colombia.


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Is it realistic to believe that Congress could act to bring all guns, or at least handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons like the AR-15, within a system of real background checks? The politics around guns will need to fundamentally change for that to happen, but the signs from student activists in the wake of last week's high school massacre are at least pointing to a renewed sense that this is a fight worth having. For the foreseeable future, however, it makes sense to pursue incremental improvements: Congress should extend NICS to all gun sales; expand certain of the "prohibited person" categories; and get serious about getting disqualifying records into the system. Trump is reportedly in favor of considering improvements to the background check system. If he's serious, he will start with the aforementioned low hanging fruit. It may not seem like a lot, but each small change will save lives. At this point, that should be every American's priority.
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In the Arctic, people can sometimes see and hear things that they cannot see or hear most other places on Earth. These phenomena are caused by special atmospheric conditions. Microscopic ice crystals are suspended in the air, changing how light and sound travel over distances. Layers of hot and cold air refract, or bend, light rays. Light bounces off the surfaces of clouds, water, and ice to create optical illusions.
People also sometimes report that they can hear noises from much further away in the Arctic. As with optical phenomena, this phenomenon occurs because cold atmospheric conditions bend sound waves differently than the air at lower latitudes. The air near the surface tends to be colder and more dense than air higher up, causing sound waves to tend to bend down toward the surface rather than up away from the earth as they do in more temperate latitudes where air temperature on average decreases with height. The range at which sound can be heard depends on the temperature of the air, the speed and direction of the wind, and the rate at which sound energy is absorbed by the earth's surface. For instance, soft snow absorbs sound energy very efficiently, effectively muting the transmission of sound. In contrast, a hard-crusted snow surface absorbs little energy and a smooth ice surface is an almost ideal reflector of sound. Given the right conditions, conversations can sometimes be heard up to three kilometers (1.88 miles) away.
"This is a crazy thing to happen two days from delivering a satellite," says Manchester. "We had already been vetted by the NASA office that actually does this for a living. It wasn't a problem before and it's not really a technical problem. It's more of an unfortunate bureaucratic situation... regulation gone awry."
While Manchester attempted to reason with the FCC, his NASA contacts tried to pull strings within the federal government, but to no avail. As months ticked into years, Manchester realized that an FCC license might never be forthcoming.
Eventually, NASA adopted KickSat-2 as an official NASA mission. Due to a regulatory quirk, NASA's own satellites are overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) rather than the FCC. KickSat-2 is now slated for launch late this year or early next. "But it's taken us three years and lots of lawyers to figure out," says Manchester.
Clear Skies?
IEEE Spectrum could find no record of any satellite smaller than 10 cm on any side having been licensed for launch by the FCC since the KickSat-2 fiasco. We gave the FCC multiple opportunities to explain its inconsistent approach to licensing small satellites, but it has yet to reply.
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The FCC attempted to shed some light on its thinking last month, with a proposed rule-making for streamlining the licensing procedures for small satellites. The main aim of the new rules, welcomed by every expert IEEE Spectrum spoke to, is to reduce the paperwork and time needed to license the launches of small, experimental satellites and CubeSats. But the rules explicitly exclude picosats, requiring satellites to be no less than 10 cm on any side "to ensure that the satellite will be trackable as a space object."
Walkinshaw points out that not only are all of today's PocketQube satellites (and Swarm's SpaceBees ) being successfully tracked by existing technology, a new S-Band " Space Fence " due to be deployed by the United States later this year will explicitly monitor objects with dimensions as small as 5 cm.
A bigger problem, thinks Manchester, is that "the FCC has been unwilling to consider licensing anything smaller than a CubeSat through the normal application process, and this new process does not seem to address that broader issue in any way."
When the Breakthrough Starshot initiative approached Manchester in 2015 offering to develop his Sprites into miniscule interstellar spacecraft for a journey to Alpha Centauri, it wanted to test them in Earth orbit first. "We didn't even try to go through the FCC," says Manchester. "We got an export licence from the State Department, which took a couple of weeks, and then I just took the satellites to Germany in my carry-on."
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Back for the third time, this challenging 70 mile ride starts from Crystal Palace and finishes in the historic south coast town of Hastings. Taking you through the 'Garden of England', the route leads over the North Downs and the High Weald before dipping down to finish by the sea.
Start Venue: The Terraces, Crystal Palace Park (off A214) London, SE19 2BB
Start time: 8.00 - 9.30am
Distance: 70 mile route
Adult entry fee: £20.00 (£18.50 in advance)
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Is housebreaking puppies in the winter significantly more difficult than at any other time of the year? Should the onset of winter make you think twice about bringing home a new puppy? In my opinion, the answer is a solid "no!" The essentials of housebreaking a new puppy remain the same. Our (my wife and I) dogs have been received housebreaking training during the winter and did just fine. In fact, they love the winter, but you, as owner, must take certain precautions due to the nature of the season.
There really is no need for concern where the winter weather is concerned. As mentioned above, the way housebreaking works does not really change. However, it is important to pay attention to the cold climate and understand that you may need to take extra care to be sure that your puppy is not at risk.
First, never turn your puppy outside by itself. That is particularly true for a very young puppy, but regardless, never leave your puppy unaccompanied. Stay outside with your pet until it ready to come inside.
The second main point to keep in mind is that puppies are much more vulnerable to cold weather than adult dogs. Because of this, the timing of when you take your puppy outside is important, and so you want to observe your dog carefully and notice when it looks as if it may need to go outside. This is important as puppies are especially sensitive to frostbite and hypothermia.
Hypothermia is a condition of too little warmth (hypo=not enough or under and thermia=heat). The puppy's body temperature falls too low to keep it warm. If you see your puppy start to shiver, take it inside immediately and warm it up. A rule of thumb to follow is that if you are cold so is your puppy. Take it inside.
Frostbite is tissue damage to the skin due to cold. You will notice damaged skin turn pale or white. The most vulnerable areas will be the webbing between toes, the ears, and possibly the tail area.
When housebreaking your puppy, follow these basic guidelines, and you won't go wrong:
(1)Start puppy housebreaking around 8 weeks old. (2)Establish a regular schedule. (3)Take your puppy outside when it looks like it wants to go. (4)Take the puppy outside approximately every two hours. (5)Be sure to take your puppy out not long after you have fed it. (6)Always stay outside with your puppy. (7)When weather is extreme, do not linger outside.
If you do nothing else but follow the pointers above, you and your puppy will survive a cold winter without problem. Even better, once the weather improves, your dog will continue to use its new skills as a housebroken pet.
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MIAMI (AP) When Udonis Haslem was trying to make the Miami Heat take notice of him a decade ago, assistant coach Keith Askins gave him one piece of advice.
He told Haslem every NBA player can score, but not everyone rebounds.
Haslem remembers that conversation so well that he's about to become the most prolific rebounder in Heat history.
Odds are, he'll have that title sometime Wednesday night, when the reigning NBA champion Heat start a homestand against the Milwaukee Bucks. Haslem will come into that game needing only two rebounds to pass Alonzo Mourning for Miami's all-time lead in that department - Mourning grabbed 4,807 rebounds in 593 regular-season Heat games, while Haslem is at 4,806 rebounds after 605 games.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said he knows that moment will be ``pretty special,'' especially considering that Haslem is a Miami native who practically had to fight his way into the arena to make the team after being undrafted out of Florida.
``It's a great story, coming from Liberty City, not being drafted and absolutely earning everything he's gotten in this league and for this organization,'' Spoelstra said. ``I've said this time and time again: We have core values for this organization. We can list them for you, we can define them for you, or we can just give a picture of UD. That will tell the whole story.
``He embodies all that we want in a Miami Heat basketball player.''
Miami is opening a stretch where it will play 10 of its next 11 (and 12 of its next 14) games at home. The Heat just went 4-2 on a Western road swing, playing three of those games without Dwyane Wade and winning the trip's finale even with LeBron James ailing with a bug that made its way around parts of the Miami locker room.
Haslem, if all goes to plan, won't be starting any of those games. He ceded that role in 2009, saying at the time it was best for the team. A year earlier as a starter, he grabbed 618 rebounds. That next season, playing exclusively as a reserve, he grabbed 629 rebounds - despite playing six fewer minutes a night.
And if becoming Miami's top rebounder wasn't enough, the chance to earn that title at home - the Heat play their next four games on their home floor, so the odds are pretty high that even if it doesn't happen Wednesday, Haslem will find those two boards before the team hits the road again - adds plenty more significance to the hometown guy.
``To do it in front of my family, in front of my friends, so many people that I love and care about, in front of my home fans that have supported me for so long, it's going to be a great accomplishment,'' Haslem said.
Haslem and Wade are the only Heat players to be part of both Miami championship teams, and they're 1-2 on the team's all-time list in games played, with Haslem ahead of his fellow co-captain by a single appearance.
He's been one of Miami's favorite basketball sons for going on two decades now. Best known, perhaps, for his much-bigger size when he played college ball with the Gators, it's often forgotten that Haslem scored a game-high 27 points when Florida lost the 2000 national championship game to Michigan State. Haslem's 10-for-12 shooting that night is still the third-best field-goal effort in NCAA title game history.
``UD always rises to the occasion,'' Wade said.
Imagine if he was taller. At Florida, he was listed at 6-foot-9. These days, the Heat say he's 6-foot-8.
Both, it turns out, are slightly generous. (''Ehhhh, 6-7. And a half. Three-quarters. With my shoes on,'' Haslem said.)
``We always talk about height not mattering,'' James said. ``It's about willpower and about strength and determination. I'll be happy for him when it happens. Wednesday can't get here fast enough.''
Haslem defends centers who are half-a-foot taller and in some cases half-a-foot wider, he plays through injuries whenever possible, and one of the iconic images of last season's playoff run came when he was bloodied in a game against the Indiana Pacers.
The Heat later handed out bandages that said UD-40, his moniker and jersey number, to fans as a tribute.
Soon, there will be another tribute: The team is already planning to collect the ball that will soon become rebound No. 4,808, ensuring the little piece of history gets to stay in Haslem's hands permanently.
``It's pride,'' Haslem said. ``It's just mental toughness. ... The way I was going to make my niche to make this team was to hit the boards and rebound. It's just a tribute to my mindset. If you put your mind to it, and I know people say it a lot, but if you put your mind to it, you can do it. I wasn't a great rebounder in college. Not nearly what I am now. I just really focused in and put my mind on chasing the boards.''


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What's awesome about PAX East is that it's a show for fans. If you bought a ticket, you're free to walk the floor and play the games that generally aren't out in stores. It's your chance to get behind the scenes and have previews and hands-ons that are all your own.
As rad as that is for fans, sometimes the videogame people show demos that we at IGN have already seen. We want you to have the chance to play those games, but if it's a demo we've previewed recently, we don't really want to sit here and write the same thing again - - that doesn't help you.
With that in mind, we've compiled the following list of previews. These games are at PAX East but showing stuff we've already seen, so we thought we'd link you to our previous impressions of those demos.
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Splinter Cell Conviction has been in the works for a long time, but it's finally almost here. Set for an April 13 release date for Xbox 360 and PC, Conviction is reinventing the entire series with a faster pace, all-new cover system and the ability to upgrade weapons. Judging by the four levels I played, gamers will be able to make it through...
Civilization V
Last week we had the good fortune to visit Firaxis and get a firsthand look at Civilization V from several of the game's creators. Not counting the Colonization mod, this is the series first return to the PC after making the leap to the console and handheld platforms with Civilization Revolution. Some fans feared that the leaner (and loonier) style...
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
I stopped playing the piano for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time – true story. Back in the day, there were these periods of time when the videogame industry just went dark and basically no games came out. During one of these times, I took up piano lessons and found myself getting into tickling the ivory keys.
Mafia II
Between Mafia II and Civilization V, 2K has quite a showing at this year's GDC. We covered Civ V in a comprehensive advance preview on Monday, so when we hit the 2K appointment on Tuesday, we headed right to the Mafia II demo. Senior producer Denby Grace walked us through a thrilling montage that set up the basic story of the game before turning us loose on the city.
During our trip to the Tokyo Game Show last year, one of our favorite discoveries outside the show was the arcade shooter DeathSmiles II. A "bullet hell" game created by the masters of the genre, Cave, this is a gothic horror shooter starring cute anime girls that fly around blasting the crap out of fantasy monsters.
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
The original BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger was a fantastic fighter from the talented folks at Japanese developer ARC System Works. The game, which hit the PS3 and 360 last year, combined the fast, chaotic gameplay the studio is known for with incredible high definition hand-drawn visuals. Even though the over-the-top character designs...
Puzzle Quest 2
Back in 2007 role-playing games and puzzlers were joined in holy matrimony to create the union that is Puzzle Quest (PQ). The hybrid had wide appeal with both casual and hardcore gamers and became an instant classic. Developer Infinite Interactive followed it up with Puzzle Quest: Galactrix last year, but the sci-fi game was a little too different to satisfy some players.
Earlier this month, we got a chance to check out Split/Second, the upcoming game from Black Rock Studios, which melds fast-paced racing with daredevil stunts to create a chaotic and fun driving experience. While previous demos have focused on airports and Freight Harbour (the level that takes place around the docks)...
Joe Danger
Joe Danger is a very promising PlayStation Network game coming this spring. If Excitebike and Trials HD had a baby, it would look something like this. You are a motorcycle stunt rider crashing through a colorful cartoon world collecting stars and impressing the crowds. The developers at Hello Games are trying to recreate the thrill of playing Excitebike.
Halfbrick Studios, the independent Australian group behind a number of XNA Indie Games on Xbox 360, is preparing to release its first Xbox Live Arcade game in early 2010. The game, called Raskulls, is a fast-paced puzzle-platformer that plays a bit like Mr. Driller crossed with Super Mario Bros. It's lighthearted and inviting presentation give...


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Classrooms of children and groups of friends and families can share a fun book experience from Monday, Sept. 16 to Monday, Sept. 30.
That's because Great River Regional Library is taking part in the Big Library Read, an international program that gives library patrons simultaneous access to a popular title for a two-week period, creating a virtual, global book club. Parents and children will be able to download a book and enjoy it together with readers from around the world at the same time. They will also be able to join virtual book discussions on Facebook and Twitter.
The book is "Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth," a juvenile mystery chapter book that will be available in unlimited quantities in eBook and eAudiobook formats as a download through the Great River Digital Library. All GRRL cardholders will be able to check out either version without waitlists.
The Big Library Read program is an initiative of OverDrive, a company that provides the platform for Digital Library programs at more than 20,000 libraries around the world. For the Big Library Read, and by agreement with HarperCollins Publishers and author Jane O'Connor, OverDrive is making "Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth" available without limits.
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Christopher Andreoff (AN'-dree-off) made the comment Wednesday, a day after a federal judge ordered bond for Dr. Farid Fata be increased from $170,000.
Prosecutors asked for the higher bond for fear the 48-year-old Fata would flee the country. They say FBI tracing shows Fata and his wife have $9 million in liquid assets.
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First State Ballet Theatre's production of Shakespeare's classic comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which debuts April 13, 2013 in Copeland Hall at the Grand Opera House, will be the first performance of the ballet in Delaware history. Artistic Director Pasha Kambalov chose FSBT dancer and choreographer Alex Buckner to create the new work.
Buckner said, "I was very excited when Pasha asked me to choreograph 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' This is the biggest undertaking of career.
"I was lucky in preparing "Midsummer" because the Delaware Shakespeare Festival hired me to create dances for some of the actors in their production of the drama last summer.
"I started to prepare by thinking about music. The score by Felix Mendelsohn forms the basis of the ballet, but I had to choose additional music for short transitional scenes. A friend who's a DJ offered several great suggestions. The music is mostly traditional, but we're also using some edgy contemporary music where I needed it to carry the action.
"I began developing the actual choreography by myself and have been working with the dancers in the studio seeing how it works on them and what they can add to my ideas.
"The crux of the comedy—and the play is very amusing and entertaining—is the struggles people sometimes experience in finding the person they're meant to love. Each dancer has to use movement and mime to express his or her thoughts and feelings of love, hate, confusion, obsession, disagreement, and finally, discovery of the person they're destined to be with."
Robert Grenfell, FSBT's president and executive director said, "Our 'Midsummer' premiere continues our strategy of introducing our audience to a new ballet every spring. From what I've seen in rehearsals, this production will be one of the most beautiful and moving we have ever presented. Alex's choreography is clear, elegant, empathetic and, above all, entertaining and ranges from rollicking exuberance to piquant humor to heart-melting beauty.
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- Two Army scientists and a university professor earned a patent for the forerunner of a powerful quantum neural dynamics computer chip.
- Using different mathematics scientists are clearing the way for ultra high-speed computing.
- Researchers believe one day they will effectively harness individual atoms to build complex super-computers.
Two Army scientists and a university professor earned a patent for the forerunner of a powerful quantum neural dynamics computer chip. The device uses nonstandard mathematics to accomplish analog problem solving at high speed.
"The patent covers different ways to make computer chips," said Army scientist and principal investigator Ronald E. Meyers. "These computer chips can represent biological and physical processes."
Meyers and his colleague, Army mathematician Keith Deacon, joined forces with Gert Cauwenberghs, a professor of bioengineering and biology and co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California at San Diego.
"This is as a first step toward large-scale non-Lipschitz intelligent information processing systems," Cauwenberghs said.
Cauwenberghs worked with Meyers and Deacon to map the mathematics onto an analog "continuous-time neural architecture." He also designed and tested the integrated circuit implementing the architecture.
"Experimental data from our silicon integrated circuit demonstrated the elements of terminal repulsion and attraction in neural dynamics and synaptic coupling," he said.
In other words, by using different mathematics, the scientists potentially removed a limit on how fast functions can change -- clearing the way for ultra high-speed computing.
"The chip has a lot of application to both the military and civilian use," Meyers said.
A unique aspect of the research is the use of synaptic connections for interfacing neurons and learning through feedback, which is modeled after biological systems, Meyers said.
It's all part of the futuristic vision of quantum computing. Researchers believe one day they will effectively harness individual atoms to build complex super-computers.
Meyers delves into quantum physics research projects at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Currently his project is to invent a secure communications system immune to the awesome power of future quantum computers.
"Quantum computing will give unparalleled computational ability," he said. "We're talking about an ability to compute that exceeds exponentially millions of times greater than any of the computers that exist or are on the drawing boards using conventional approaches."
Meyers said neural chips can be made with classical computers or in the future with quantum computers.
"This is a different type of chip that we've developed and it's somewhat in between," Meyers said. "It's not a classical approach, and it's not quantum yet. But, we're wanting to evolve the concepts into quantum computing."
The research took several years. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent Sept. 11.
"It looks like a breakthrough to others but it's just a lot of hard work, continuous work," Meyers said. "When you put something out it's a milestone. It means you're able to explain it in a way that the Patent Office understands, or that other scientists understand. So what happened here is we're looking into one of the most important problems that the Army faces and it turns out -- from my perspective, the ones that are not solved and are most important."
Meyers is listed as the inventor on 14 patents. He co-authored a book, "From Instability to Intelligence: Complexity and Predictability in Nonlinear Dynamics," -- covering nonlinear equations in math, physics and biology, and authored a plethora of scientific papers.
"Problems are unsolved because they're difficult to tackle," he said. "I tend to seek out a different path to go toward solving problems that before have not been solved. I think I have a background that can do that. I've gained some insight. It's putting together your experience and you're trying to project it into the future. And so in my mind I see how things can be applied in the future and I look at how to solve these. Quite often if you go for the hardest unsolved problem, that's the one that gives you the most benefit."
Inspired by difficult problems, Meyers said he and his small team of scientists and mathematicians is focused on the end-user of this technology.
"We work for the Soldier," Meyers said. "We work for the warfighter and that's what our thinking is. That's why we're trying to solve these difficult problems. As Army scientists we are responsible to really help these Soldiers operate in a way that can defend the country and protect them and anticipate any threats and deal with them in an effective manner."


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National viewing trends not always reflected locally
I've always found what television shows Western New Yorkers watch to be instructive about our community.
I mean, who would have thought the zombies of "The Walking Dead" on AMC would have outdrawn "The Bible" on the History Channel and the skating dead Buffalo Sabres on Easter Sunday in a community with so many Roman Catholics and fans that treat pro hockey as a religion?
While the nation has fallen in love with ABC's "Good Morning America" and overwhelmingly rejects "The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley," WNY has kept NBC's "Today" as a strong No. 1 on Channel 2 and put Pelley's newscast in second place here behind "The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams."
Obviously, Western New Yorkers often – but not always – see things differently than the rest of the nation.
When it comes to broadcast television shows, this region is pretty much in line with the rest of the country, although viewers here watch broadcast shows at a much higher level than is done nationally. About a dozen shows averaged double-digit ratings here during the February sweeps.
I'll try not to bore you with too many numbers, but here are the Top 20 broadcast series during the February sweeps, according to local household ratings. 1. "NCIS" 2. "Big Bang Theory" 3. "Two and a Half Men" 4. "Person of Interest" 5. "Grey's Anatomy" 6. "Modern Family" 7. "Criminal Minds" 8. "NCIS: Los Angeles" 9. "How I Met Your Mother" 10. "CSI" 11. "Blue Bloods" 12. "Elementary" 13. "Chicago Fire" 14. "Two Broke Girls" 15. "Law & Order: SVU" and "Vegas" 17. "American Idol" 18. "CSI: NY" 19. "Mike & Molly" 20. "Undercover Boss."
If you're scoring at home, CBS (carried by Channel 4) has 15 of the Top 20 here, NBC (carried by Channel 2) and ABC (carried by Channel 7) have two each, and Fox (carried by Channel 29) has one.
This really isn't much of a surprise since Western New York is an older community, and CBS shows generally appeal to older viewers.
The household ratings can be a little deceptive, which is one reason why some local residents are stunned when their favorite shows are canceled. The demographics – which are the key to advertisers – tell a different story here.
The Top 20 shows here in February with viewers age 18-49 that are important to advertisers: 1. "Big Bang." 2. "Modern Family" 3. "How I Met Your Mother" 4. "Two and a Half Men" 5. "American Idol" 6. "NCIS" and "The Biggest Loser" 8. "Two Broke Girls" 9. Criminal Minds" and "Rules of Engagement" (tie) 11. "Mike & Molly" 12. "Grey's Anatomy," "New Girl" and "Law & Order: SVU" (tie) 15. "Person of Interest" and "The Amazing Race" 17. "Chicago Fire" and "The Middle" 19. "The Office" 20. "The Following."
You might be surprised not to see ABC's attention-getting "Scandal" on the Top 20 demo list. It gets a low 18-49 audience here and barely beats NBC's "Smash" among viewers 25-54.
CBS has been trumpeting "Elementary," the new take on Sherlock Holmes that stars Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, as the No.1 new show of the year. It is one-tenth of a point ahead of NBC's "Chicago Fire" here for the honor of being the No. 1 new show in household ratings.
But the demographics tell a different story. "Chicago Fire" gets almost twice as many viewers in the age 18-34 demographic and gets about 15 percent more viewers in the age 18 through 49 demographic here. "Elementary" wins in the older 25-54 demographic.
Similarly, the new Dennis Quaid series "Vegas" is a Top 20 series in households. However, it was moved to Fridays and is danger of being canceled because of its national demographics. In WNY, "Vegas" gets 18-49 demographics that are about half of the Tuesday series that replaced it on Tuesday – "Golden Boy."
Many critics – including myself – lamented that the Julianna Margulies series, "The Good Wife," appeared to be in danger of cancellation. It was renewed for another season on Thursday. CBS carried only one original episode in February but the results show why it was in trouble. Put simply, "The Good Wife" doesn't have good demographics. Its household rating was higher than ABC's "Revenge" here, but "The Good Wife" had a much lower 18-49 audience and a lower age 25-54 audience.
While "NCIS" is the most-watched series in Western New York, it isn't as valuable as second place "Big Bang" because advertisers get more bang from their buck with the comedy series. "Big Bang" is No. 1 by a wide margin in all demographic categories here, almost doubling the 18-49 audience that "NCIS" gets.
Another CBS series that scores well with the young audience that advertisers love is "How I Met Your Mother," which may explain why it was renewed for another season. "Mother" was only the No. 9 rated series in households here in February. It was No. 3, only behind "Big Bang" and ABC's "Modern Family," among viewers 18-49 here and No. 2 in 18-34 viewers, only behind "Big Bang."
A Fox series that has experienced big national audience declines, "American Idol," remains a hit by demographic standards. It is barely in the Top 20 in household ratings here, but it gets more viewers than "NCIS" in the 18-49 demo. It does best in the age 25-54 demo, which often happens with older series.
The audience of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," which is No. 5 in household ratings in WNY, also is aging with its cast. It doesn't do as well as "Criminal Minds" in the age 18-49 demo here and is tied with the "New Girl" with viewers in that category even though its overall audience is almost three times higher.
Finally, let's look at some of NBC's comedies, none of which get any local or national household ratings to talk about. They survive because they are popular with the so-called "right" audience.
Amy Poehler's "Parks and Recreation" averages an extremely low 3.9 household rating. However, it gets better demos than "Elementary" and does as well with the 18-49 crowd as "Survivor" and the aging "CSI," which has just been renewed.
Finally, there's NBC's "The Office," which ends its series run next month with an hour finale. Like "Parks and Rec," "The Office" gets a low rating here. But its 18-49 viewership is higher than "Elementary" and almost as high as "Person of Interest," which is No. 4 in household ratings here.
Additionally, "The Office" always has had a large viewership of people who make more than $100,000, and they're worth more to advertisers.
Even a businessman as dense as Michael Scott would know that made it worth keeping around all these low-rated years.
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Arrived in Tasmania onboard the "Thomas" on 10 August 1833 with his wife Mary Simpson and sons George and Alexander. I believe they settled in Hobart, as son Alexander was apprenticed to the boatbuilder John Watson in 1845. The only death notice I can find of Alexander (Senior) was through TAMIOT. There is a headstone in the Ross Military Cemetery, Ross, with the following details:
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Open Source Library Systems: Getting Started
(c) 1999 by Dan Chudnov
note: a significantly edited version of this article appeared in the August 1, 1999 issue of Library Journal. You might prefer their edited version to this version. You are free to reproduce the text of this version for any purpose and in any format, provided that you reproduce it in its entirety (including this notice) and refer to the url from which it is available: http://oss4lib.org/readings/oss4lib-getting-started.php
The biggest news in the software industry in recent months is open source. Every week in the technology news we can read about IBM or Oracle or Netscape or Corel announcing plans to release flagship products as open source or a version of these products that runs on an open source operating system such as Linux. In its defense against the Department of Justice, Microsoft has pointed to Linux and its growing market share as evidence that Microsoft cannot exert unfair monopoly power over the software industry. Dozens of new open source products along with regular news of upgrades, bug fixes, and innovative new features for these products are announced every day at web sites followed by thousands.
The vibe these related events and activities send out is one of fundamental change in the software industry, change that alters the rules of how to make software--and how to make money selling software. What is all the noise about, and what does it mean for libraries?
Open Source: What it is and Why it Works
If you've ever used the internet, you've used open source software. Many of the servers and applications running on machines throughout the wired world rely on software created using the open source process. Examples of such software are Apache, the most widely used web server in the world, and sendmail, "the backbone of the Internet's email server hardware." [TOR] Open source means several things:
- Open source software is typically created and maintained by developers crossing institutional and national boundaries, collaborating by using internet-based communications and development tools;
- Products are typically a certain kind of "free", often through a license that specifies that applications and source code (the programming instructions written to create the applications) are free to use, modify, and redistribute as long as all uses, modifications, and redistributions are similarly licensed; [GPL]
- Successful applications tend to be developed more quickly and with better responsiveness to the needs of users who can readily use and evaluate open source applications because they are free;
- Quality, not profit, drives open source developers who take personal pride in seeing their working solutions adopted;
- Intellectual property rights to open source software belong to everyone who helps build it or simply uses it, not just the vendor or institution who created or sold the software.
More succinctly, from the definition at www.opensource.org:
"Open source promotes software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of source code. To be certified as open source, the license of a program must guarantee the right to read, redistribute, modify, and use it freely." [OSS]
Software peer review is much like the peer review process in research. Peer review bestows a degree of validity upon the quality of research. Publications with a high "trust factor" contribute ideas in published works to the knowledge base of the entire communities they serve.
It is the same for software. As described in the seminal open source work, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond, author of the popular email program fetchmail, the debugging process can move faster when more individuals have both access to code and an environment in which constructive criticism is roundly welcomed. [ER] This leads to extremely rapid improvements in software and a growing sense of community ownership of an open source application. The feeling of community ownership strengthens over time because each new participant in the evolution of a particular application-- as a programmer, tester, or user--adds their own sense of ownership to the growing community pool because they are truly owners of the software. This community effect seems similar to the network effect seen across the internet, whereby each additional internet user adds value to all the other users (simply because each new user means there are more people with whom everyone else might communicate). For open source products which grow to be viable alternatives to closed-source vendor offerings, this growing community ownership begins to exert pressure on the vendors to join in. [NYT]
This tendency shares a striking similarity to the economic value of libraries. A library gives any individual member of the community it serves access to a far richer range of materials than what that individual might gather alone. At an extremely low marginal cost to each citizen expensive reference works, new hardcover texts, old journals, historical documents and even meeting rooms might be available through a local library. The library building, its collections, and its staff are infrastructure. This infrastructure serves as a kind of community monopoly in a local market for the provision of information. Instead of reaping monopoly profits for financial gain, however, a library returns the benefits of its monopoly to individual users. The costs of maintaining this monopoly are borne by the very community which holds the monopoly. To the extent which this model works in a given community, a library is a natural yet amenable monopolistic force. If this sounds mistaken, consider whether your community has libraries which compete or cooperate.
Library Software Today
No software is perfect. Office suites and image editors are pretty good; missile defense systems are, for all we know, appropriately effective; search engines could use improvement but usually get the job done. While there is constant innovation in library software, for many of us online catalog systems mean a clunky old text interface that often is less effective than browsing stacks. Often, this is due to the obstacles we face in managing legacy systems; new systems might be vastly improved, but we are slow to upgrade when we consider the costs of migrating data, staff retraining, systems support, and on and on. Sometimes, new versions of systems we currently use are just not good enough to warrant making a switch.
This is not surprising. The library community is largely made up of not-for-profit, publicly funded agencies which hardly command a major voice in today's high tech information industry. As such, there is not an enormous market niche for software vendors to fill our small demand for systems. Indeed the 1997 estimated library systems revenue was only $470 million, with the largest vendor earning $60 million. [BBP] Because even the most successful vendors are very small relative to the Microsofts of this world (and because libraries cannot compete against industry salary levels), there are relatively few software developers available to build library applications, and therefore a relatively small community pool of software talent.
What are we left with? Some good systems, some bad. Few systems truly serve the access needs of all of our users, failing to meet a goal--access for everyone--that most public libraries strive to achieve at more fundamental levels of service. Because libraries are community resources, we tend to be quite liberal about intellectual and physical access issues, including support of freedom of speech and ADA-related physical plant modifications. At the same time, librarians are very conservative about collections and data (remember the difficult issues when you last weeded?). Is it not odd, then, that market forces lead us to be extremely conservative about online systems software? After all, online systems are no less about access to information than having an auto-open front door or an elevator in a library building.
We read of exciting technological innovations in library-related systems. Innovations in advanced user interfaces and metadata-enabled retrieval environments and other areas have the potential to make online access more and more seamless and easy to use. Our systems, though, are too old--or not standardized enough, or too familiar to change--to take advantage of these advances. And creative ideas from exciting research seems not to make headway in real systems.
Libraries, if they indeed hold the kind of community monopoly described above, might do well to enhance their services by leveraging community-owned information systems--which open source seems to promise.
Open Source and Libraries
How could open source improve library services? First, open source systems, when licensed in the typical "general license" manner, cost nothing (or next to nothing) to use--whether they have one or one thousand users. Although the costs of implementing and supporting the systems on which software runs might not change, imagine removing the purchase price of a new search interface (or ILL tool, or circulation module, etc.) from your budget for next year. Rather than spending thousands on systems, such funds might be reallocated for training, hiring, or support needs, areas where libraries tend toward chronic shortfalls.
Second, open source product support is not locked in to a single vendor. The community of developers for a particular open source product tends to be a powerful support structure for Linux and other products because of the pride in ownership described above. Also, anyone can go into business to provide support for software for which the very source code is freely available. Thus even if a library buys an open source system from one vendor, it might choose down the road to buy technical support from another company--or to arrange for technical support from a third-party at the time of purchase. On top of this flexibility, any library with technical staff capable of understanding source code might find that its own staff might provide better internal support because the staff could have a better understanding of how the systems work.
Third, the entire library community might share the responsibility of solving information systems accessibility issues. Few systems vendors make a profit by focusing their products on serving the needs of users who cannot operate in the windows/icons/menus/pointer world. If developers building systems for the vision impaired and other user groups requiring alternative access environments were to cooperate on creating a shared base of user interfaces, these shared solutions might be freely built into systems around the world far more rapidly and successfully than ever before.
A Three-Step Process
If you are still reading, you probably suspect something here might be a good idea. You might even want to help make ideas discussed above happen. Where to begin?
Understand the Phenomenon
Axiomatic business notions have shown weaknesses throughout the information age; the utility of the internet for knowledge sharing demanded rethinking of what constitutes an information product. If nothing else, it is important for the international community of librarians to understand the open source phenomenon as part of the technology-driven shift in our understanding of the nature of information. Because the ethos and style of the open source initiative is so akin to the traditions of librarianship we hold at the core of our professionalism, we should find within open source the appropriate points of entry for the similar service and resource-sharing objectives we choose to achieve every day.
The seminal works on open source are mostly technical, but they provide an envigorating view of the current state of software engineering. All are available on the internet, and they form a core of knowledge that might one day be fundamental to our discipline. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," by Eric Raymond [ER], is widely cited as the pivotal tome describing the technical and social processes open source entails. "The Open-Source Revolution," by Tim O'Reilly [TOR], founder of O'Reilly and Associates, Inc., a highly respected publisher of pragmatic computer-related titles, gives a broader view of the social phenomenon, in particular relating open source software development to the scientific method. Finally, www.opensource.org is a central point of focus for the Open Source Initiative. It is led in part by Mr. Raymond and appeals to both the technical and non-technical sides of the community.
To foster communication regarding open source systems in libraries, we have created a web site, www.med.yale.edu/library/oss4lib, and a listserv, firstname.lastname@example.com. They are intended as forums for announcement, discussion, and sharing of broad information; look for instructions on how to join the list along with a list of current open source projects for libraries the oss4lib site.
Use Open Source Systems Where You Are
Armed with understanding, we can find opportunities to leverage existing open source systems in our own institutions. The Linux operating system [LINUX], Apache web server [APACHE], and MySQL database [MYSQL] form a powerful, free platform for building online systems. Consider the value of these and other open source systems when making design and purchase decisions at your institution; you might find tremendous savings and increased product performance at the same time.
Beyond merely using open source products, however, we must create them. Are you already working on any new applications at your institution? Perhaps you've put a year or two into a homegrown search interface, or an online reference services tool, or a data model and retrieval code for an image archive. Is there a good reason why you wouldn't want to share that work? For those of you who realize that someone else might benefit from what you've done--and that you might benefit from the ability to share in the work of others--consider thoroughly the implications of releasing your code under an open source license. [FH] If the benefits outweigh the negatives, get started sanitizing and documenting your code as well as you can, and set it free.
Another ideal opportunity at this stage is for library and information science researchers to open their projects up for the entire community to review and develop as appropriate. Grant-funded systems builders might find an afterlife for their work by releasing their source. Faculty might design courses around building a retrieval system or improving an existing open source tool. Indeed this model is already widely used by computer science professors--at Yale, for instance, undergraduate students might work on aspects of the Linux kernel in their Operating Systems course.
Grow the Phenomenon
As the library community moves in this direction, there will be many roles for individuals in our profession to fill. Most visible is application development; there is a major need for software engineering resources to be devoted to creating community-owned library systems. This does not in any way marginalize those of us who are not programmers or database administrators. In the open source community there exists a tremendous need for exactly the skills librarians have always used in making information resources truly useful. In particular, systems testing, evaluation, and feedback to open source designers is welcome and even sought after; documentation for open source systems is always needing improvement; instructional materials for open source products are often lacking. These are all areas in which librarians excel. For the more technically minded among us, www.freshmeat.net provides constant updates and announcements of general open source projects replete with contact information for those wishing to participate. For all of us, the oss4lib listserv and website will highlight additional library-specific opportunities as they come around.
Playing a role in the larger open source community will strengthen our ability as professionals and service providers to understand how best to shape our own systems. Additionally, it might make significant inroads in demonstrating how the ethics and practice of librarianship is more vital to the movement of information than ever before. As the software industry shifts to appropriately incorporate open source models, systems in other industries might even grow to utilize products the library community creates.
An argument I have already heard against these ideas is based on experience: "We tried building our own OPAC in the eighties--it was an impossible project and we gave it up after a few years because it just cost too much." In 1999, however, we know that the internet has changed the landscape. Because it is so very easy to share ideas and software and code using the internet, software developers have already found that the old way of doing things--particularly building monolithic homegrown systems in our own institutions--makes no sense anymore. As the open source vision and culture continue to mature, librarians would be remiss not to find our profession playing a major role in that culture. For all we have done so far, our online systems are not good enough yet. We can do better.
[APACHE]Apache Server Project
[BBP] Barry, J, Bilal D, and Penniman WD. "The Competitive Struggle," Library Journal, April 1, 1998, p. 43.
[ER] Raymond, ES. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
[FH] Hecker, F. "Setting up Shop: The Business of Open-Source Software," Aug 3, 1998. [MS] Microsoft analysis of open source
[GPL]GNU General Public License
[LINUX]Linux Online
[MYSQL]MySQL Home Page
[NYT] Harmon, A and Markoff J. "Internal Memo Shows Microsoft Executives' Concern Over Free Software", New York Times, November 3, 1998, Sect. C, pg. 8, col. 1.
[OSS]Open Source Initiative Home


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