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Welcome to Discovery Corps.
Discovery Corps, Inc. (DCI) is a leading-edge data visualization, data mining, and predictive analytics consultancy. Founded in 1998, DCI works with clients in a broad spectrum of industries, including life sciences, health care, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, direct marketing, and financial services, among others. This broad base of experience enables us to translate lessons learned in one domain into inventive solutions for another.
At DCI, we believe that "unique data has unique value". For you to realize the unique value from your corporate data stores, solutions need to be customized. Our people collaborate with you, combining your knowledge of your data with our expertise in visualization, analytics, and modeling. We combine best-practice processes with internally-developed and customized software tools to help you extract the competitive advantage you need from your corporate data assets.
We invite you to see how Discovery Corps can help you maximize profits and minimize expenses by exploring our website. A couple of good places to start are our Frequently Asked Questions page or the article below.
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Wake Up Call! Coffee Market Box
Make caffeine dreams come true with this coffee themed gift featuring two types of Premium French Roast, a creamy French Vanilla and rich Cappuccino, plus tasty treats like Dark Chocolate Rolled Wafers and Yeah! Rock Candy Swizzle Sticks! The first decision is which French Roast will one choose? The San Francisco Bay® Premium French Roast Coffee or the French Roast from the Peerless® Coffee & Tea Company. Well one probably has to drink them both and maybe stir in one of the Rock Candy Swizzle Sticks (fun!). And if one's stirring swizzle sticks then they must snack on creamy crunchy Crème de Pirouline® Dark Chocolate Rolled Wafers. Possibly one could then cleanse their palate with the Flavor Xotics® Premium French Vanilla Coffee or the rich and creamy Illy® Issmo® Cappuccino. What to do? The possibilities are so delicious.

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Fishing off the beaten path: the oxbow
By Babe Winkelman
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22, 2014]
If you're one part fisherman, one part
detective and one part bushwhacker, then this article is for you.
Having those characteristics can put you on fish that few anglers
will ever have the pleasure of battling.
A few
years ago there was an amazing crappie bite on a smallish lake not
far from where I live. I heard about it, and of course I wanted to
get in on the action. But the word had gotten out so much that
everyone and their brother was out there beating up on those fish. I
really didn't want to join that army.
So I did some research on the lake and saw on maps and satellite
images that it had a tiny feeder creek and an outgoing flowage that
spilled into a big wetland. Tracing the feeder creek up, I noted
that there was a spot about 15 miles away (and in the middle of
nowhere) where the creek made a sharp sweep and formed almost an
oxbow lake. Not big at all. Maybe 100 yards wide and 300 yards long.
I figured if that creek was swimmable by crappies, then surely
some of them must have migrated up. And if the oxbow had enough
depth, then there could be a mother lode in there!
Consulting a plat book, I found that the only access into that
water was via private land. So I found out who the property owner
was and called him up. A nice guy. He granted me permission and told
me the best way to get back there, on an old cow trail that hadn't
been used in years. Oh, and he also said I was "probably wasting my
time" because he didn't think there were any fish in it.
The next day I pulled my truck and Aluma trailer over where the
landowner had told me to park — off a dirt road next to an old
rickety gate. On the other side, I could (sort of) see the cow trail
that would wind back to the oxbow. He wasn't kidding about the trail
being unused for years. Muddy, brushy, terrible ... I wondered if
I'd make it!
After unloading my four-wheeler from the Aluma and strapping down
all my gear, I was off! It was an adventure, my friends, but after
getting stuck and unstuck a couple of times, I finally made it close
enough to walk in the rest of the way.
Upon arriving at the water's edge, I was thrilled to find good
footing on the bank. Judging by the lay of the land and how the
water's depth dropped from shore, I was pretty certain this little
waterway had some decent depth. To check it, I performed a simple
little test: I set my slip bobber to 5 feet and made a long cast.
The bobber stood up. That meant it was at least 5-plus feet deep
there. I reeled up and reset it to 10 feet. It still stood up.
Excellent! I kept doing this until I determined that there was
roughly 14 feet of depth out at my longest cast distance.
[to top of second column]
From there I set my slip bobber to be about a foot off the bottom
(13 feet) and hurled out a REAL cast with a fat waxworm on my
feather jig. A few seconds later a sound caught my attention — a "swirly-water"
sound to my right. I looked over to see the remnant ripples of a
swirl about 15 yards down the bank. Was it a fish? A muskrat? I
didn't know, but the sight of it made my confidence soar! "Oh,
please, let that be from a fish," I begged.
When I brought my eyes back to my bobber, it wasn't there!
I slowly reeled up my slack line and set the hook. BINGO! Fish
on! Right away I knew it wasn't fighting like a crappie. Nope,
instead it was a jumbo perch. And I mean JUMBO! Wow, I was so
excited I could barely stand it. I felt like a little kid.
As the afternoon trickled on, and without leaving my initial boot
prints, I caught fish after fish after fish. Crappies? My objective?
I only caught two. They were keepers: 9- to 10-inchers but perfect
eaters. I also caught a limit of huge bluegills! They were so
plentiful that I only kept the orange-throated males. A few decent
largemouth bass pounced on my jig too, along with a northern pike
that went about 4 pounds.
But the heyday was on those big perch. Holy smokes, did I clean
up on perch! Fortunately I had the foresight (and hope) that I'd
catch fish in that oxbow, so I brought my YETI cooler with ice that
kept my catch fresher than fresh.
When I got back to the road, and after loading all my gear back
on the Aluma, I paused to look down that cow trail as I closed the
owner's gate. I smiled as I thought about all those boats choked
into that little lake 15 miles away — connected by a small creek to
this secret oxbow. Without being part detective and part
bushwhacker, I would have never discovered that spot.
I would tell you exactly where that spot is. But hey, the fun is
in finding your own secret fishing hole, isn't it? So start
exploring, my friends. And when you discover yours, keep it under
your hat and off the beaten path.
Good fishing.
[By BABE WINKELMAN]
Babe Winkelman hosts "Good Fishing" and
"Outdoor Secrets," the most-watched fishing and hunting programs on
television. Tune in on NBC Sports Network, Destination America,
Velocity, Time Warner Sports Texas & New York, and many local
broadcast channels. Visit
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A wonderful winter wedding for Claire and Robert at the In and Out Club in London
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Douglas Fry
Douglas is a London based wedding photographer with over twenty years experience, working throughout the UK and Europe. He enjoys weddings and believes that this passion for contemporary wedding photography is crucial to creating stunning and memorable images, importantly using no flash. He uses top of the range Leica cameras and lenses.
Latest posts by Douglas Fry
- Afternoon Wedding at St John's Wood Synagogue - 14th November 2019
- Photography of 50th Birthday Party Near Oxford - 12th November 2019
- Two Temple Place – A Spectacular and Unusual London Venue - 10th October 2019


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|Brentwood, Tenn.
|High School:
|M.L.K. Magnet
2014 Outdoor: Won a bronze medal in the 400m dash and helped the 4x400m relay team claim gold at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships… After finishing fifth in the prelims of the 400m dash with a time of 56.83, she trimmed her time to 56.47 to finish third in the finals.
2013-14 Indoor: Set a career-best time of 1:14.54 while winning the 500m run at the NYU Team Challenge at The Armory… Her time ranks as the fourth-fastest in UMBC program history… Also competed in the 60m, 200m, 300m, and 400m events during the winter season… Qualified for the ECAC Championships for the 200m, 400m, and 500m competitions.
2013 Outdoor: Set a new school record in the 400m dash (55.63) while competing at the ECAC Championships at Princeton… Placed fifth in the event at the 2013 America East Championships at Binghamton… Also advanced to the finals in the 200m dash event at the conference meet, finishing seventh… Led off for the 4x100m relay and ran the third leg for the 4x400 team, both of whom won silver medals at America East Meet… Recorded a season-best 100m time of 12.25 at the Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium to move up to eighth all-time in Retriever history… Her time of 24.91 in the 200m dash at the same meet ranks fifth in the school record book.
2012-13 Indoor: Broke the school record in the 400m run with her career-best time of 55.80 at the ECAC Championships in Boston… Earned a bronze medal in the event at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Anchored the 4x400 relay team to a gold medal at the America East meet in Boston… Then led the same squad to a school-record time of 3:44.06 at the ECAC Championships… Also placed fourth in the 200m dash at the conference meet… Climbed to third in the UMBC record book in the 200m dash with a top career time of 24.52 at the ECAC meet… Jumped to fourth in school history, at the time, in the 500m event by setting a new personal-best time of 1:15.50 at the Gotham Cup in New York.
2012 Outdoor: Part of the 4x200m relay team that broke the school record with a time of 1:38.04 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia... Anchored the 4x400m relay team to a bronze medal at the America East Outdoor Championships... Finished tenth in the 200m dash and 12th in the 400m dash at the conference meet in Maine.
2011-12 Indoor: Helped the 4x400m relay team set a then-school record and win a bronze medal at the America East Indoor Championships with a time of 3:48.54... Also finished sixth in the 400m dash at the conference meet in Boston... Led off for the 4x200m relay team which broke the school record with a time of 1:41.38.
2011 Outdoor: Finished fourth overall (56.72) in the 400m dash at the America East Championships... Also a part of the 4x100m, 4x200m, and 4x400m relay team... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2010-2011 Indoor: Won a bronze medal in the 400m dash with a top performance time of 56.95 at the America East Indoor Championships… Also placed seventh overall in the 200m dash, (25.31) at the conference championships…Won the 500m run at the 10th Annual Gulden Relays with a time of 1:18.39.
Background: Won the 400-meter dash at the Tennessee State Championships in 2009-10… Helped lead M.L.K. Magnet to the state and city championship in 2010 and runner-up in Tennessee in 2009…
Personal: Daughter of David and Mala Jones… Has one sister, Ashlee… Majoring in management of aging sevices… Born July 3, 1992.


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Color has always recommended that you use their photo sharing app with other people who were near you (read: strangers). But what if the other people you really wanted to use Color with were scattered all across the country (read: your friends)? Color doesn't let you care about them! Thankfully, you can game Color by spoofing your iPhone's location with jailbroken apps (Fake Location, Location Spoofer) and start following whoever you want.
So even if you're actually in New York, you could rig your iPhone (with said spoofing apps) to think it's in LA. That way you can follow all your friends from back home aka the people your care about most and not follow that creepy guy down the hall. And hey, what would you know, using Color with your real friends actually makes the app worth using! [ZDNet]


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I've Got the VapoursJune 29, 2012
Corioliss introduces its K2 Professional Vapour Infusion Iron. It delivers heat-activated argan-oil treatment for mega shine. The steam-infused treatment leaves hair shiny and soft while deep cuticle repair improves shine and seals in moisture. The iron has black diamond-vented ceramic hybrid plates, an auto-sleep mode, a safety lock for safe storage, an adjustable temperature and patented variable steam settings.


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Tomy's My Do It All for the Nintendo DS further punctuates the possibilities of the handheld as a viable personal digital assistant, while staying on the safe side of the application versus toy line.
The Nintendo DS needs a day planner application. There are plenty of homebrew options out there, but for those of us not willing to go that route there's only been Hello Kitty Daily so far, and I'm pretty sure I fall outside of the target demographic. Tomy's My Do It All, due out in February for the DS, brings the DS as PDA concept closer to fruition, though still tries to be a fun toy for kids, allowing them to chat and change voices while they play multiplayer mini-games wirelessly. It looks handy, but still not quite what I am looking for.
I want a reason to buy a Nintendo DS for my mother. Or my stepfather. Personal Trainer: Cooking is a good start, but with the functionality of the DS we really need a good line of serious applications marketed towards adults. My Do It All shows us that the functionality is there. Let's take it a step further.


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Reception center: Johnson Mill, Audra Post, firstname.lastname@example.com
Announcement design: Polka Dots & Daisies, Mollie Openshaw, email@example.com
Groom's ring: Marya Jewelry (Etsy), Marya Williams
Videographer: None
Flowers: Branches Floral, Amanda Schelin, firstname.lastname@example.com
Catering: Culinary Concepts, Sara Riggs, firstname.lastname@example.com
Band: The Gatsby's, Grant Olsen, firstname.lastname@example.com
Cake: Cake-a-licious, Tasha Mitchell, firstname.lastname@example.com
Bride's dress: Alta Moda (Monique Lhuillier), firstname.lastname@example.com
Bride's shoes: Luichiny brand, bought on www.6pm.com
Bride's jewelry: Meg Jewelry (Alta Moda), Meg Lammers, email@example.com
Hair and makeup: Hair and Make Up by Steph, Stephanie Brinkerhoff, email@example.com
Bridesmaid dresses: Mixed dresses bought from different stores
Groom's suit: Seperates pieces
Pants- Banana Republic
Vest- Calvin Klein
Shoes-Aldo Shoes
Suspenders - Vintage
Groomsmen suits: Their own clothes
Photobooth/Candy Buffet: Smilenow Photobooths, Suzzi Williams, email@example.com
Choice of Johnson mill:
Having an outdoor wedding is always risky, especially when you have no indoor venue to escape to if the weather gets hairy. I knew I wanted to take the risk regardless because you can't beat having a gorgeous outdoor location. Midway is one of the most beautiful spots in Utah. But what really sold me on the venue was The Grove where the ceremony takes place. It was a magical moment the first visit when we were looking at venues. I knew in my heart it was the place as soon as I stepped foot in the middle of those beautiful trees and stood in front of the wooden arbor. I will never forget it.
Creating the invite with Molly was the first stir of excitement because it was the first tangible piece of the wedding. It was so rewarding to finally see all of my style inspirations merged together. I was inspired by old wooden fruit crates, burlap grain sacks, garden roses, and anything French country. Mollie pulled it off so perfectly; I couldn't wait to send them out. The cleverest part that I was thrilled over was our custom stamp that Mollie designed from the fruit crates I was inspired by. They had stamps on the sides of them and it reminded me of some beautiful furniture piece or décor from Pottery Barn. Even cleverer was that we used it to stamp as our return address! Lovely!
Ring Box:
I wanted something original for our ring box and I had browsed through lots of fun DIY projects from Pinterest that I thought might do the trick. I hadn't quite decided what I wanted to go with yet when I was searching at local vintage store for some cute hankies for my bridesmaids. I came across a glass cabinet of old jewelry boxes. My eyes set on a precious gold box with two pearly knobs that opened like French doors to two small and velvety jewelry drawers. It seemed almost made for my exact purpose. That box will be a keepsake that I can put out on my vanity and treasure always.
My mother's parents are the cutest couple that ever hit this planet. I can only hope to be as adorably in love as they are when I am their age with my honey. Instead of grandma and grandpa they are nanny and pappy in my family. My pappy had an eye surgery just before the wedding and said he would not be able to make it to the wedding. When I heard this from my mom it brought me to tears. He is the sweetest man and I don't get to see him very often. I knew my nanny was coming so I felt grateful in that. On the day of the wedding we had just had the most beautiful ceremony and finished up some pictures. As we came out to our dinner I saw my sweet pappy sitting at one of the tables. He wasn't in good shape but when he heard how I cried he said he couldn't miss it. It was a sweet moment that I won't forget.
With our French country theme we used aged, blue farmhouse tables, burlap runners, garden rose centerpieces, and rustic invites. I wanted to fit in something twall somewhere because it feels perfectly French country. We have a precious twall bench that sits in front of a fireplace at my parent's house. I wanted to incorporate it and so we designed our whole sweetheart table around it. My flower lady was brilliant and incorporated some twall fabric into the arbor décor instead of flowers. It gave it a simple romance in such a natural setting.


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It seems like the character archetypes in every successful TV ensemble show are a bit interchangable—there's the Rachel, the Ross, the Joey and the Chandler. Or the Samantha, the Carrie, and the Miranda. Or, if you watch NBC's Community, there's the Troy, the Abed, the Pierce and the Britta.
Apparently, the characters of video game ensembles are equally compatible. DeviantArtist kinjamin has put together this humorous mashup of the cast of Community and many of the most famous characters in Street Fighter. We've got Jeff as Guile, Annie as Chun-Li, Britta as Cammy, Pierce as Zangief (heh), and of course, Abed and Troy as Ryu and Ken.
And the best fit of all is Ken Jeong's Chang as… Blanka. Wait, did I say best? That one's actually kind of a stretch.
View the full-sized image here.
Streets Ahead [Kinjamin via Rampaged Reality]


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A number N is divisible by 10, 90, 98 and 882 but it is NOT divisible by 50 or 270 or 686 or 1764. It is also known that N is a factor of 9261000. What is N?
6! = 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1. The highest power of 2 that divides exactly into 6! is 4 since (6!) / (2^4 ) = 45. What is the highest power of two that divides exactly into 100!?
The number 12 = 2^2 × 3 has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?
Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.
Complete the following expressions so that each one gives a four digit number as the product of two two digit numbers and uses the digits 1 to 8 once and only once.
The flow chart requires two numbers, M and N. Select several values for M and try to establish what the flow chart does.
Think of any three-digit number. Repeat the digits. The 6-digit number that you end up with is divisible by 91. Is this a coincidence?
Great Granddad is very proud of his telegram from the Queen congratulating him on his hundredth birthday and he has friends who are even older than he is... When was he born?


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If I had to code JavaScript I would use RubyJS.
Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
100% JavaScript
Works like Ruby
Easily port code from Ruby to JavaScript. Become productive in JavaScript in hours. Fully tested with rubyspec.
Fast and small
20 kilobytes minified and gzipped. It is as fast or faster than comparable libraries.
Utility belt or OO
Use RubyJS like a utility belt, transforming arrays, string and continue with native objects. Or use the fully-fledged RubyJS objects and make use of their mutator (aka bang) methods.
All-in-one Library
String, Array, Time, Numbers, Range, and more. RubyJS gives you the power of multiple 3rd party libraries, with one coherent API. So you only have to learn, manage and update one.
Ruby Features
Block arguments, destructive (bang-) methods, duck-typing, special variables, mixins.
It's about the standard library, not writing Ruby in JS
The main motive is to have a decent standard library for JavaScript. Instead of reinventing the wheel I took something that works already and people like, the Ruby core-lib. RubyJS does not implement the class, object, metaprogramming features of Ruby. The nice side-effect is that Rubyists get an immediate production boost.
How its different form underscore, stringjs, etc
RubyJS basically includes multiple libraries in one. There is one API, dependency, documentation and one way of doing things. Methods are chainable by design and chaining works across types.
arr = ['foo', 'bar']
str = _(arr).map(function (w) { return S(w).capitalize().s })
With RubyJS: one API. One chain.
R(arr, true).map(R.proc('capitalize'))
// In most cases calling toNative() is actually not necessary.
It does it the JavaScript way
RubyJS is simply a library for standard types like String or Arrays that gives you many convenience methods.
There are features that are simply included for the completeness sake and to comply with Rubyspec.
And then there's also Ruby features that were not ported as they felt to unnatural.
If the above is the JavaScript way, then so is the following:
RubyJS uses lightweight wrapper objects, much like other libraries. Method arguments are smartly typecasted and are only converted to RubyJS objects when really needed. The R function is heavily optimized and causes little overhead. Wrappers can also be significantly faster than extending native classes.
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Recently I met a chicken. She was the fluffy, pecking, chatty sort of chicken, keen on her afternoon snack of fresh thyme and stale graham cracker. I believe she said her name was Clark. Though, to be honest, I'm not sure I could distinguish her from her 23 compatriot Clarks. I admired her wholesome style, her sturdy coop and her warm nesting box, complete with wholesome, sturdy, warm egg. Which I picked up, admired and stole.
I did pay for the egg. But not in any way Clark might have appreciated.
I rinsed and dried and packed a dozen of the treasures home. I was surprised to learn, from my chicken-tending friend Laura, that the fresh-from-the-source egg needs no refrigeration. I arranged my collection in a ceramic bowl, still-life style.
Then I cracked one into the frying pan.
I staged a taste test, pitting farm-fresh against grocery store against convenience-case egg. Clark's egg ruled. Her white gleamed glossier and her yolk glistened brighter than the competition. Her egg offered a shockingly complex taste, richly flavored and free of that icky undertone I can only describe as, well, eggy. I felt like driving back to the farm and offering Clark and her crowd an extra helping of corn mash. She was doing some great work out there.
I tried to honor Clark's efforts. All week I whipped and scrambled. I constructed the airy omelet, the tall souffle, the creamy lemon curd. Ceramic bowl empty, I placed a frantic call to the coop. Laura said Clark was in, and happy to handle a refill. Which didn't surprise me. That chicken is a good egg.
Leah Eskin is a Tribune special contributor.
Lemon curd
10 minutes
7 minutes
2 cups
7 or 8 small Meyer lemons (or substitute 5 lemons and 1 orange)
cup sugar
stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut up
2 tablespoons whipping cream
4 eggs
Zest 2 lemons and cast the strips into a large heavy saucepan. Squeeze fruit and measure out
cup juice. Add juice to the pan along with remaining ingredients.
Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until thick, 7 minutes. Press through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean bowl. Chill, if you like.
Enjoy warm or cold over fresh berries, pound cake or just about anything else.


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Chattanooga, Aug 15th 1862"
My dearest Wife,
I arrived here last night on the cars
from Rome - our horse will be here tomorrow and then
I presume we shall move over the river on the
Nashville road The journey has been long and fatiguing
and I have got so dirty and ragged that I scarcely
expect to look decent and clean whilst in the army -
We are now within twenty eight miles of the enemy
and I presume as soon as the army is reorganized
that we shall advance upon them - I look for nothing
but active service from now until winter and I am
in hopes with good result to the Confederate cause -
We brought our guns and ammunition from Rome on platform
cars and we had to crowd in amongst the guns as best
we could. We are now at the Depot waiting orders to
unload and it is anything but a desirable place
for there are guards everywhere and we can scarcely
move from our cars without being stopped by them -
Water is very scarce and we can barely get enough to
drink and washing is out of the question. When we get
to our camping ground however we shall have plenty
and I am then going to make an effort to get clean -
I have not had an opportunity of [sending] to the P O
as yet but will try and do so during the day and
I hope to find a letter from you my dear Maggie -
It is so long since I heard from you that I am very
anxious t learn how you and my little darling are
doing. My thoughts are constantly going back to [home]
and those dear ones I have left behind - I would give
much to be with you my dear wife, if only for a short
time and I think if the war be of long continuation that
I will have to [employ] some of my friends at home to
get me an appointment at some of the Hospitals or Quartermaster's Dept - One
of our Co_ was appointed clerk of the Hospital at
Grenada last week - He is not discharged from


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The Dupes (1972): Forgotten Masterpiece of Arab Cinema
A haggard man in extreme longshot lumbers over desert sands toward the viewer. A human skeleton foregrounds the shot. "Aghh, hackneyed symbolism of danger and morbidity," I thought to myself. Upon reflection, I realize that there was nothing hackneyed about such symbolism, because it was not facile but apt. Metaphor is integral to narrative films that wish to affirm a point of view while avoiding didacticism. Metaphor will have manifested effectively when we decide that a film "has meaning." Yet, most films' metaphors fall short of delivering on their ostensible promise to inculcate us in the lessons about the world to which they point.
In The Dupes (المخدوعون, also The Duped and The Deceived), the struggles of the film's four leads are both representative and metaphoric of the modern experience of the Palestinian people. It is precisely because The Dupes delivers as representation and as metaphor that it works; it is fine allegory. The Dupes draws a dramatic landscape that is poignant and credible in the realistic personal struggles of the main characters, drawn over space and time, while the metaphor grows the film's audience entangling tentacles of anguish, horror and morbidity, whose marks well outlast The Dupes' uncompromising ending.
As Viola Shafiq remarks in her book Arab Cinema, The Dupes is a Pan-Arabist film par excellence1 (though the adapted story of the film is anything but Pan-Arabist): a Syrian state production directed by Egyptian Tawfiq Saleh whose screenplay is based on the novella Men in the Sun by venerated Palestinian literary figure Ghassan Kanafani. Alignment of the principles' interests may explain the film's cohesiveness, its integrality. Syria's National Film Organization in 1972 was interested in stories of class oppression, because such stories were constituent to the school of social realism that a professedly socialist (a constitutionally secular socialist state) government sanctioned. It was also interested in stories about Palestinian struggle, an extension of the state's broadcast and much trumpeted support and sponsorship of Palestinian resistance. The National Film Organization's site indicates that of the sixteen films produced by it during the 1970s, six related topically to the Palestinian experience. Also notable is that fourteen of the sixteen credited the director as screenwriter (In most cases, such is in the case of The Dupes, the director was the sole credited screenwriter.)2
Ghassan Kanafani was himself a Palestinian refugee. Although he spent most of his boyhood in Yafa (Java), he was born in Akka (Aker) in 1936 and it was from Akka that he and his family fled Palestine, after the first attack on the city, in April of 1948. The family eventually settled in Damascus where he became involved with the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), upon his introduction to the group's founder George Habash, who would exert a marked influence over the development of Kanafani's own ideas of resistance, liberation, and self-determination for the Palestinian people. In 1955, Kanafani moved to Kuwait, a location that would figure mightily in Men in the Sun. In 1962, having moved to Beirut, Kanafani wrote the operative novella, his first. Its staunch repudiation of escapism and call for self-reliance foresaw the disappointment and dejection in Nasserism/Pan-Arabism, after the ignominious defeat of the 1967 War. Indeed, Habash would found the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) that very year and Kanafani would two years later found the organization's publication Al-Hadaf in Beirut, for which he served as editor until his assassination in 1972 by a car bomb, near certainly planted by the Mossad3. Kanafani did watch The Dupes, released earlier that year, according to Salem who reports having freighted a copy of the film personally by car, from Damascus to Beirut.4
If Kanafani's productivity had been cut short by his death then so was Tawfiq Saleh's—by career death. In total, Saleh directed a mere seven narrative features between the years of 1955 and 1980, of which I have seen five. Saleh had made his narrative feature debut with Fools' Alley, a film whose screenplay he had co-written with Najib Mahfouz, a film whose ironic realism was admired, though not at the box office.4 According to Saleh, it was his second film that won him the admiration of Nasser himself, who upon watching Struggle of the Heroes, had suddenly agreed to nationalize the film industry, having publicly resisted for three years. The second time Nasser would bear upon a film of Saleh's the latter had already grown wary of Nasser's regime, not least because the film in question, his fifth Diary of a Country Prosecutor (which I aim to write about soon), one of five on whose scripts he would work over the course of his career, was shot in 1968, in the wake of the startling and deflating defeat of Egypt in the 1967 War. According to Saleh, the film's release had been held up by the minister of interior, who had formed a committee to look into which content ought be censored. Then, upon learning of this and having seemingly watched Diary, Nasser insisted that the film be released in full.5
Saleh's exasperation came to a head with the censoring and criticism of his fourth film Mister Balti, shot in 1967, but released in '68, the same year as Diary. Salem took offense and soon thereafter, having had his proposal to make a film based on Men in the Sun rejected by the Egyptian General Organization (the state operated TV, radio and film production outfit), proposed the project to Syria's National Film Organization. Saleh must have noted the suitability of his proposed project to the production interests of the Organization, considering the organization's putatively nationalist, social realist persuasion, officially dubbed Alternative Cinema. He would make one more film, an Iraqi state production dubbed Long Days, in 1980. Soon thereafter, Saleh returned to Egypt where he still lives in Cairo.6
The Dupes is exceedingly faithful to the novella, except in two ways that I will later dwell on. Like the novella, the film is formed in two parts, the first involves the background of three impoverished Palestinians, readily representative of three generations of refugees, who journey from their diaspora communities (refugee camps in the case of at least two) to Shatt al-Arab in southern Iraq, with the intention of getting smuggled into nearby Kuwait, where they hope to locate work and opportunity to alley the various conditions of desperation they aspire to overcome. These backstories are presented convincingly, as memories being recalled by triggers, mostly during dialogue with the head of a an Iraqi smuggling outfit that all three men visit before deciding to take the risk of their lives in being smuggled in a water truck, driven by a soliciting competitor to the Iraqi smuggler, a Palestinian expat named Abul-khaizaran. The men do not choose Abul-khaizaran because he's Palestinian, but because his rate is ten dinars each, five less than that of his competitor.
The second part (about half) of the film involves the smuggling adventure. The three men (I hesitate for a moment to call sixteen year-old Marwan a man) agree to be smuggled by Abul-khaizaran in the tank of the water truck that he must drive back to its owner, his employer, in Kuwait. This second part does tell Abul-khaizaran's story, but mainly focuses on the hellish experience of Abu Qais, As'ad and Marwan, intermittently hiding in the suffocating water tank, smoldering in the August sun. It is in this second half, mostly linear narrative driven, that Saleh's compositional mastery shines. In their blindingly bright starkness, the images of the wretched smuggled and the equally doomed Abul-khaizaran on a decrepit capsule rolling the sands of hell have haunted me. The suspense generated by the adventure, whose participants I had come to care about, edited expertly by Saheb Haddad, engaged me thoroughly. Soon after the men embarked on their perilous journey, I recalled the frenzied and futile adventure in Clouzot's masterpiece The Wages of Fear. If Saleh hadn't been inspired by it then it must have been because he had not seen it. Saleh had concluded his stay in France at the end of 1953, year of the French thriller's release.7
If there is an advantage to watching The Dupes in its current deteriorated state of photography and sound (it begs for restoration more than any other Arab film I've seen), it is the relative agreement between live action and archival still footage in a montage of the two early in the film. This montage mostly depicts Palestinian displacement then settlement in refugee camps in 1948, the Nakba into which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had been plunged (or had plunged, as Kanafani might have preferred to see it), accompanied by a mournful expository narration. This review of Palestinian modern history does not exist in the novella, and considering that the footage depicts Farouq I of Egypt, Abdul-Aziz bin Saud of Saudi Arabia and multiple Hashemite monarchs, as the accompanying narration turns to decrying the treachery of Arab regimes, I wondered if this montage may have well been the only condition that the National Film Organization had attached to the production. Expectedly, the brazen accusations of betraying the Palestinian people would limit the film's exposure, which Saleh has since lamented, expressing that The Dupes was the film that had marked his maturation as a director.8 Tawfiq Saleh may have known that his film would speak for a regime as self-serving and oppressive as the one he had escaped, but at least the Syrians didn't tacitly require installation of a couple of song and dance numbers, which appear in all four Egyptian films of his that I have seen, including inexplicably in the one that had escaped the censor's scissors—Diary of a Country Prosecutor. They also (spoiler alert) didn't require the harrowing ending be altered to something more hopeful than written. The ending, in fact, involves the second marked departure from the novella.
Allegorical themes in Men in the Sun, which I have read, are mostly preserved in The Dupes: complicity and treachery of Arabs, including Palestinians themselves, against Palestinian liberation and self-determination; the futility of escapism and the imperative to stand to aggression through conscious and active resistance; the loss of land as tantamount to the loss of manhood; and the championing of secular resistance. Yet, other than the interpolation of the facile and manipulative montage discussed earlier, Saleh altered the novella's ending, (spoiler alert) wherein Kanafani mentions nothing of a struggle by the characters in the tank against the murderous heat that the three had to endure. Having dispensed of the men's bodies at a rubbish collection location then redoubled to take their valuables, Kanafani ends the novella by having an overwrought Abul-khaizaran repeatedly cry, "Why didn't you bang on the walls?"
Addressing the alteration to the ending, Saleh has remarked that Kanafani in his novella is saying that the people in the tank die without resisting.9 In the film, because of Saleh's seeming disapproval of Kanafani's fatalism, sounds of banging against the walls of the tank are heard, while Abul-khaizaran pleads and cajoles a Kuwaiti customs agent to stamp his papers. Moreover, Saleh makes the last shot of the film one of a stiff extended hand curled as if to knock.
I disagree with Saleh's assumption that Kanafani denied his characters the will to resist. Just because something is not depicted in the plot, doesn't mean it didn't happen in the story. I qualify that Kanafani wouldn't have cared to portray resistance from the characters in the tank, because he would have deemed their resistance at that point not merely futile, but inconsequential. As far as Kanafani was concerned, the three characters' lives and their will to resist had been doomed as soon as they had signed up to escape their realities as landless refugees and their imperative to resist.
The much debated discrepancy in the endings of the two works notwithstanding; there is evident parallelism between the lives of Kanafani and Saleh. Yet, what is special about The Dupes is that this parallelism between the lives of author and director, notable as it is, is surpassed in the pathos of the parallelism between the lives of Saleh and the principal characters in his film. In an interview several years ago, Saleh lamented not having been able to work in Egypt since his return from Iraq in the early 80s: "Perpetually, I am a stranger, a stranger and this is my fate … I mean that I am in a society of which I approve, but which doesn't approve of me. What do you do?"10 If Saleh's career has been doomed because he is a stranger in his own society then the characters in The Duped are doomed because they are compelled to live as strangers in societies to which they could never belong.
*The Dupes is available in the US through Arab Film Distribution.
Words Cited
1. Shafik, Viola. Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. 155. Print.
2. The General Organization for Cinema. The National Film Organization, 2012. Web. 22 Feb. 2012. <http://www.cinemasy.com/en>.
3. Kanafani, Adnan. Ghassan Kanafani: Pages Were Turned (in Arabic). 3rd ed. N.p.: Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Institute, 2001. N. pag. Adnan Kanafani's Website. Web. 23 Feb. 2012.<http://adnan-ka.com/modules/publisher/item.php?itemid=146>.
4. Ibrahim, Bashar. "Ghassan Kanafani ... Cinematically." Al-Kuwait Magazine. Al-Kuwait Magazine, 25 July 2010. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://www.kuwaitmag.com/index.jsp?inc=5&id=11543&pid=1620&version=121>.
5. "Tawfiq Saleh: The Cinema and the Failures of the Egyptian Revolution (in Arabic)." Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera, 26 May 2006. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BBAA5CCD-8718-416C-B7F0 D0E68F025C32.htm>.
6. Saleh, Tawfiq. "Tawfiq Saleh to [Al-Jazeera] Documentary: My Most Significant Films Are Without a Screenplay (in Arabic)." Interview by Samira Mazahi. Al-Jazeera Documentary. Al-Jazeera Documentary, 26 Jan. 2009. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://doc.aljazeera.net/followup/2009/01/ 2009122104148533299.html>.
7. D Weefi, Mohsen. The Cinema of Tawfiq Saleh (in Arabic). N.p.: The Cultural Development Fund, [c. 1998]. Digital Assets Repository. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://dar.bibalex.org/webpages/mainpage.jsf?PID=DAF-Job:71860&q=>.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) – After taking one round off from her utter domination of the LPGA Tour to get rested and reinvigorated, Yani Tseng is right back in her usual spot atop the leaderboard.
The world's top-ranked golfer shot her second straight 68 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship on Friday, moving into a one-stroke lead over Haeji Kang after the second round of the season's first major.
Lindsey Wright (71) and Sun Young Yoo (69) were third at 6 under, while Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak was three strokes back in fifth midway through the only major she has never won. Pak shot a 69 to move to 5 under, joined by Karin Sjodin and World No. 2 Na Yeon Choi.
Yet everybody in the talent-packed field realizes they're only chasing Tseng, who has won the tour's last two tournaments.
"She's a force to be reckoned with," said Australia's Wright, who shared the lead with Tseng for five holes. "I think it's great to have her up there again, but it's also great to be able to challenge her and try to give her a run for her money."
After finishing two strokes back on Thursday, Tseng produced yet another relentless round of long drives and steady putting. The 23-year-old Taiwanese star has led nine of the LPGA Tour's last 10 rounds, and the five-time major winner has won three of five tournaments this year and six of 12 overall.
And she still had enough energy after her stellar second round to play a little pickup basketball.
"You never get tired when you want to win a tournament," Tseng said. "I just figured out I'm tired after the last two wins when you come into this week, but after (Thursday), I had a good sleep, and I relaxed a few days, and I think I'm coming back with a fresh focus."
The rest of the field should be worried when the Orlando Magic fan has enough energy to hoop it up with her manager and friends. After fighting exhaustion during practice and in the first round Thursday, Tseng woke up fresh to resume her quest to become the youngest golfer to win six majors – three years younger than Tiger Woods, who was 26 when he won his sixth.
Tseng took control by exploiting her distance advantage over nearly everybody off the tee. After following a long birdie putt on her fourth hole with another birdie on her fifth, she birdied three of Mission Hills' four par-5s with soaring drives that aren't regularly matched by her fellow pros.
Pak stayed in contention with her second straight solid round despite playing through much of the warmest weather after starting with the final tee time of the morning group.
The 34-year-old Pak has won five majors, including three LPGA Championships, and has 25 tour victories overall, but the former prodigy and Korean golf pioneer has just one victory on the LPGA Tour since July 2007. She shares many concerns voiced by Wright on Thursday about the importance of adding balance and perspective to the grind of tour life.
"I'm having trouble for five or six years, actually," Pak said. "I still love golf, and I can't quit it because I still really want to play. It took a lot for myself to be happy. It was difficult to find out. … Slowly, I know I'm getting better and better, and my attitude and everything is getting slowly better. Starting last year around the fall, I don't know how, (but) everything is really calm for me."
Although Pak has four top-10 finishes in the Kraft Nabisco, she has never done better than ninth at Mission Hills, failing to finish the career grand slam.
"This is one of my goals I've set," said Pak, who won four majors before she turned 25. "Getting into the Hall of Fame, that's the biggest, and next, trying to win a major like this. This is the goal for me for 14, 15 years. This is the one I need, but this is the one that always gives me a hard time."
Kang birdied her final hole in the Palm Springs afternoon heat to conclude an eventful seven-birdie, three-bogey round, moving to 7 under with a 68. She has just two top-10 finishes in her four-year LPGA Tour career.
Wright was one stroke off the lead after the opening round, and she spent Friday morning reading supportive emails from around the world after she spoke about her comeback from depression and anxiety. After eight straight second-round pars, Wright put her iron shot on No. 9 on the front of the green, where it rolled straight in for an eagle.
"I didn't see it go in," Wright said. "I just heard the screaming."
Wright took a share of the lead with a birdie on the 10th, but fell back with a three-putt double bogey on the 15th.
Michelle Wie shot a 77 to finish 6 over, missing consecutive cuts for the first time since 2007. Opening-round leader Amy Yang dropped back into eighth with a 2-over 74 after starting with a 66.
Teenage rookie Jenny Shin finished 5 over, but the Los Angeles-area product won a Kia Optima with a hole-in-one on the 179-yard 17th.


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Deputy fatally shoots robbery suspect
A Harris County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a robbery suspect who grabbed a clerk by the throat early Monday morning at a gas station/convenience store in northwest Harris County, officials said.
The shooting happened about 1:45 a.m. at the Stripes store at 11720 Texas 249, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Officials said Deputy James Strech was called to the scene about a traffic hazard created by the way a car was parked. The deputy entered the store as the robbery was taking place.
As the attacker appeared to choke the employee, Strech ordered him to stop and show his hands. The attacker tossed a money bag at the deputy and reached into his pocket. Fearing the attacker was going to pull out a weapon, Strech fired one gunshot. The attacker died.
The deputy was not injured. Strech has been with the sheriff's office since 2000. He is assigned to patrol.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Junior co-captain
Christine Matera drained a three-pointer with 1.3 seconds left on
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win over Penn Friday at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson is 11-0 at
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Freshman Victoria Lippert led the Crimson with 15 points, while junior Jackie Alemany grabbed nine rebounds to pace the Crimson on the boards. Sophomore Caitlin Rowland tied a career-high with 11 points. Classmate Brogan Berry handed out six assists to move into seventh on the single season list with 149.
Lippert scored eight of Harvard's 10 points by the first media timeout as the Crimson held on to an 8-6 advantage. The teams traded leads over the next 12 minutes before Penn used a 11-2 run to turn a 21-20 deficit into a 31-23 lead with 1:21 remaining in the first frame. A three-pointer from Emma Golen cut the lead to 31-26 10 seconds later. But Penn's Sarah Bucar put up a basket with just two ticks on the clock to put the visiting team up 33-26 at the break.
A traditional three-point play by Berry three minutes into the second session cut Penn's lead to three at 37-34. Jess Knapp scored four straight to take the lead back out to seven with 16:09 remaining in the game. Rowland adds two free throws and a trey to pull the Crimson to within 43-39. After a called timeout by the Penn coach and a media timeout Lippert nailed a jumper and after a Quaker turnover drained a shot from beyond the line to give the Crimson its first lead of the second half, 44-43 with 10 minutes to play in the game.
Berry stole the ball off a Penn turnover and ran in for the fast-break lay-up to pull the home team to within 51-50 with 5:09 left on the clock. Markley sunk two free throws from the line with 1:19 left to give the Crimson a 52-51 lead. Knapp made 1-of-2 shot from the charity stripe to tie the game with 27 seconds on the clock. After a Harvard timeout, Maters drained the game-winning three with 1.3 seconds left. Penn called timeout and got a shot off but it was off the mark.
Harvard shot 41.2 percent from the field, while Penn hit 45.5 percent of its shots. The Crimson dominated the boards, outrebounding the Quakers, 32-24.
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Q- How difficult was it last year, to change from middle blocker to the outside hitter position?
BAILEY- Although I had played as an outside hitter before in high school, playing it at the college level has definitely been a challenge. The position itself is so multi-faceted because it requires a mastery of every skill of the game: serving, back row attacking, front row attacking, blocking, defense, and serve receive passing. I think for me, the hardest part about the transition was my mental approach. I learned that changing positions is difficult, and it takes a lot of focus, determination, and most of all patience throughout the process.
Q- Has it been difficult playing 11 of your first 12 matches away from RIMAC?
BAILEY- I think our team was so eager to start playing actual matches that we never even realized that we were on the road for that long. We train all year long just to compete, so where the gym is located is irrelevant. On another note, traveling for so many games early on gives us a lot of experience playing in other gyms and environments, so we take it as an advantage that we have gained over those teams who have not yet played on the road as much.
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BAILEY- Did I have a favorite?! Of course, Volleyball! The very first day that I tried out for the team my freshman year I fell in love with the sport. Everything about it was enjoyable to me. There was something about being able to hit a ball as hard as you could and not get a foul seemed appealing to me I guess. I enjoyed playing a lot of sports and I do miss basketball and softball at times, but they don't even come close to my love for volleyball.
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Q- What are your favorite professional sport teams?
BAILEY- Haha. Believe it or not, I do not watch a lot of sports on television. I will watch the occasional football game with my husband (GO CHARGERS), but I don't really watch too many other sports. I am sure that once I am done with my volleyball career, I will have a need for some adrenaline pumping competition, but for now all of my energy and athletic desires are spent on playing volleyball.
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BAILEY- I would have to say that I really enjoy watching LaDainian Tomlinson play. He is not only one of the best football players ever, but he is incredibly humble and a great teammate. I respect him because he practices hard, plays tough, breaks records, and yet still he treats others around him with dignity and respect.
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*Recently, the United Nations World Health Organization launched the Quality Rights Tool Kit, which supports countries in assessing and improving the quality of mental health care as a human rights condition. and civil society actors gathered together to lend their support to the project and to discuss how to promote the use of the Tool Kit in countries. Dr. Judy Kuriansky was there to chronicle the discussion for HUMNEWS.
FACT: Globally, one in four people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. Poor quality services and human rights violations in mental health facilities and social care homes are an everyday occurrence in many countries around the world. People living in mental health facilities are often exposed to inhuman and degrading treatment and many are subject to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. As a result, people with severe mental health conditions in some countries die as much as 10 years younger than the general population. (Source: WHO)
"Derogatory words are used to describe us, such as mentally disturbed, having unsound minds, idiots, lunatics, imbeciles and many other hurtful labels," declared Mrs. Robinah Alambuya of Uganda, to an invited audience of about 100 health professionals, UN agency officials, the UN Foundation academics, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, journalists and guests. The diverse group was gathered at the Millennium Hotel Diplomat Ballroom in New York City, across the street from the main United Nations headquarters, for an event sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighting abuses in the mental health care system and to launch a landmark product, the WHO QualityRights Toolkit, to address the problem.
"These words and the beliefs from which they derive, devalue us and form the basis of discrimination and the loss of inherent dignity," Alambuya said.
Representing African women and the voices of survivors of people with psychiatric and psychosocial problems in Africa, Alambuya made a plea for respecting those who deal with mental health distress. In her role as President of the Pan African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities monitoring inhumane health care systems, she applauded WHO's efforts to insure those rights in her keynote speech.
The `Tool Kit' is an awareness and training campaign to provide the public, the private sector, and government groups with actionable steps to stop human rights violations against people with mental health conditions, in order to improve the quality of care and to promote human rights as including mental health.
The recommendations can be implemented in developing and developed nations by all stakeholders, and even includes those with mental disabilities themselves.
Dr. Michelle Funk, Coordinator of Mental Health Policy and Service Development in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse department at WHO, pointed out the extent of the problem with "One in four people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime," she said.
Suicide is among the top three cause of death in young people aged 15-34 worldwide. Qualified caregivers are scarce with less than one psychiatrist serving 200,000 in almost half the world populations. Yet poor quality services and human rights violations are pervasive in social care homes and mental health facilities where patents are often exposed to inhuman and degrading treatment. And worse, to physical, emotional and even sexual abuse.
"It is a scandal that still today many mental health facilities are places of violence and harmful treatments practices rather than places of care and support," said Funk. "One of the most important points to note about this tool kit is that it establishes the key standards that need to be met in all inpatient and outpatient mental health and social care facilities across the world." She went on to praise the role of the governments of Spain and Portugal in providing funds to help produce the toolkit.
Panelists at the June 28th event represented a wide range of perspectives about the issue, including UN and government officials, an African woman with disabilities, and a former prisoner from the slums of India.
Hollywood film producer Gary Foster described his evolution to become a mental health advocate when producing the film "The Soloist" - a true life story about a former cello prodigy who developed a mental health condition and became homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. Foster, who also produced "Sleepless in Seattle" and "The Score" spent time on skid row where he discovered that all people have "dream for success."
Serving as an important example of how the campaign goals can be accomplished, Ambassador Carlos Enrique Garcia Gonzalez, Deputy Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the UN, described his government's recent advances in ambitious health care reform, including a social development component with a human rights approach - pointing out how abuses of mental health are not an isolated issue, because mental health care extends to all facets of society, and is integrally tied to attitudes and poverty.
Often times, people with psychosocial disabilities become homeless, are abandoned by their families, and are detained against their will by authorities - neglected in inferior conditions. Therefore, mental health services need to encompass access to decent work, education and quality of life.
Panelist Julian Eaton, a psychiatrist and mental health advisor from the West Africa Office of CBM in Togo, discussed how "the value of technology in such a campaign, particularly the use of mobile phones, is revolutionary".
The initiative builds on WHO's Mental Health and Development Report, published in 2010 and is also based on the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which asserts that "human rights standards that must be respected, protected and fulfilled in all facilities".
(Video: WHO)
A short film was shown of cruel and deplorable conditions in a care center, showing emaciated patients, chained to beds, crying out and lying in excrement. Ambassador Gonzalez pointed out that mental health workers themselves, who have to work in substandard conditions, are another victimized group.
As a psychologist who has worked in many mental health institutions with psychiatric patients, I asked Michele Funk whether a solution would be to allot needed funds for improvements in these facilities. "No", she responded, "They must be shut down, and new ones opened."
While generally lauded, the Toolkit is not without criticism. Alambuya expressed concern about the emphasis on a medical model of service delivery that does not adequately take into account the social problems faced by persons with mental disabilities, saying, "The voices of people with disabilities must be heard, using the popular phrase, `Nothing about us, without us'".
In a powerful close to the panel, Gregory David Roberts, speaking from personal experience of his being imprisoned and overcoming drug abuse, the author of the best-selling novel "Shantaram" recounted the story of a fellow inmate - mentally challenged - who had been abused by the other prisoners; and who despite consistently smiled. One day the man found unhatched eggs, and put them under his armpits until they hatched. The baby pigeons became valued and protected in the jail, eventually taming hard-hearted cruel prisoners. The experience prompted Roberts to learn lessons about his shame for not defending the man, and about the power of people of mental disability to transform others.
Roberts recounted another story of a mentally challenged young man who would have been arrested had it not been for the community people who chained him up near them, where he could be cared for and protected from arrest, underscoring his point that community-based programs are key.
More launches of the toolkit campaign will be held to gain more visibility for the project.
"Everyone should have access to mental health care," said His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Recommending mainstreaming of mental health care, he noted that his own state of Qatar introduced a resolution to the UN General Assembly to introduce and International Day of Autism. "If we all consider human rights together," he said, "We can make a difference."
- Dr. Judy Kuriansky is the Main United Nations NGO Representative for the International Association of Applied Psychology and a member HUM's Board of Advisors. A licensed clinical psychologist in the Departments of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College, she is world renowned as a humanitarian who has led workshops on peace, trauma recovery, crisis counseling and on her unique East/West intervention programs around the world, from Argentina to India, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Israel, the UAE, and Iran. She has worked in disaster relief and psychological first aid at Ground Zero after 9/11, after SARS in China, bombings in Jerusalem, earthquakes in Australia and Haiti, the tsunami in Sri Lanka and the tsunami/earthquake in Japan, information about which is on www.DrJudy.com. An award-winning journalist and accomplished author, she is a tireless advocate for media which sheds light.


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antipodean wrote:Kingsway being about a 5 minute walk from Tavistock Square.
To walk it in 5 minutes would take quite a fast pace, with no one in your way on the sidewalk. Still, it ain't very far.
antipodean wrote:Kingsway being about a 5 minute walk from Tavistock Square.
Kathryn Gilkison, has revealed the hurt caused by a series of online theories claiming that the London bombings were a media-created fake.
Other theories on a website - which the Sunday Star-Times has chosen not to name - claim that photos featuring those who were injured and killed in the bombings, were in fact actors.
"It is like a form of bullying . . . just because you can sit there hidden, you can put whatever you want out there and spend all that time doing it," Gilkison told the Star-Times.
"They have pictures of the buses . . . saying it was a movie scene. . . what do they think actually happened to the people [killed and injured in the bombings]?
"There is a whole industry fuelled by these clueless idiots, who anonymously write lies to counter what they call 'lies'," Gilkison said.
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She fucking died alright... in a Photoshop disaster.
hoi.polloi wrote:Everything to live for, but no soul to animate it! What a shame!
Nice to see your take, brianv. Please do stick around once in a while.
I notice that there is some problem with the narrative concerning whether Jenny Nicholson would have indeed been travelling on the train she is alleged to have been on.
She was a recent employee of Rhinegold Publishing 20 Rugby Street London WC1N 3QZ
Anonymous says
I used to work at Rhinegold Publishing although I never met her as she joined after my time. I also know Paddington commuter arrival location. She could not have been on the WESTBOUND Circle line unless she took Hammersmith & City to Edgware Road and then changed there to Westbound and intended to go down to Notting HIll to change for Central line. None of these journeys make much sense for Rhinegold office – the quickest would be, of course, Bakerloo.
Read more: http://fakeologist.com/2014/07/08/remem ... z3emmB9s3f
I have remembered one more thing which I keep coming back to - and then I must take a break from this as my life is going through flux and I am getting too upset reading everyone's comments etc. I will be back later this summer.
I arrived at work late that morning, having gone to Waterloo by train (as described in my first posting). The suspicious delays of Thames link northbound to King's X aside, completely ignorant of the true extent of the disaster, I arrived in my workplace. I chanced on a phone call made from inside the BMA in Tavistock Square. A doctor or BMA member was leaving a message for my boss "not to call him, he would call him himself later on...they had a meeting or a conference that morning...now with the [already known via Internet etc] bombs, he was concerned he would not get to Liverpool ST to take his train home...on top of everything, the police had told them not to leave the premises..."
I said politely that I would pass the message on and hoped everything would be allright for him. When the news broke of the bus explosion (I guess we got it off the internet to shich we were by then glued), I said ohmigod, the man was calling right from Tavistick Square and he never let on. My boss said patronisingly, "and quite right too, he did not want to spread panic" [he meant, this is what a real man would do]. Since then, I have realised this was not the case. A BMA member, a doctor, would not be maing a call to this company, which was trying to sell him their product, to way "don't call me, I'll call you" once they began tending to the victims. What a preposterous idea! And if he was trying to let the outside world know something had happened in Tavistock Square, he would not have chosen this small company to break the news via such a dippy, unrevealing call. I believe he was calling before the bus explosion. I will never know the exact time. I wonder if it is significant that the police had time (see another remark on this blog - how come they got to TS so quickly?)to imprison the BMA staff and visitors in the premises instead of letting them go or even evacuating them. Did they think they would need them later? Were they protecting them from something?
I found my way to Borough High Street and burst into the office at, probably, 10.15 at the earliest. The others had told me the news and I then must have looked on the internet, possibly went to the kitchen and the loo - both on a different floor so at least 10 minutes more. The call from BMA could then have happened anytime between, say, 10.25 and right up to 10.40. Certainly not before 10.25. We then must have later become aware of the bus blast as the news broke online, same as everyone else.
Anyway, I wanted to share this in the same way I shared the mystery of JN's route. You will know what to do with it, Bridget.
I can no longer verify any of this as I (thank god) no longer work for that company.
It would be nice to think that there are many more people who know something, they just don't think it is significant.
Take care.
antipodean wrote:I've just watched this video clip again, supposedly CCTV footage from within the BMA of the No.30 bus passing by.
The screen blanks out at 35secs which I thought was the end of the footage.
Then a few seconds later there is actual footage from inside the bus itself, on the upper deck. Weird !
Last Updated: Tuesday, 19 July, 2005, 15:58 GMT 16:58 UK
as cited here
http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/J7-Inquest ... idence.pdf…
That BBC fount of "witnesses" brings up an interesting name…
I work in the BMA building. When I heard the blast and looked out of the window the sight was shocking. My colleagues and I were going to go down to help, but the fire alarms went off and we were evacuated. I left via the fire exit with the smell of burning flesh getting more and more intense as I got closer to the ground floor. As I got to the ground floor there were people laying in the reception area covered in blood. When I stepped outside the first thing I saw was a body laying on the ground to my left. It was unrecognisable – just a heap of bloody flesh. My thoughts are with everyone that has been affected by this tragedy.
Toni Poole, Dagenham, UK
antipodean wrote:I've just watched this video clip again, supposedly CCTV footage from within the BMA of the No.30 bus passing by.
The screen blanks out at 35secs which I thought was the end of the footage.
Then a few seconds later there is actual footage from inside the bus itself, on the upper deck. Weird
The CCTV camera on the number 30 bus, which blew up near Tavistock Square, had reportedly not been working for some weeks. "It is a real pity as these would have been the easiest ones from which to identify the bomber," said Dr Silke*. "That is a real loss."
But the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber.
One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity.
"We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images."
The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle.
A camera on the upper deck of a busy Route 59 – traveling in front of the No 30 - showed people clambering on board, again oblivious to the horror which was about to unfold.
One couple, who were standing, laughed and chatted as they sipped their take-away coffees.
The horror on their faces was instant as the bus behind them exploded, ultimately killing 13 people.
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Hi guys,
New in Java so i have a lot of questions. Beginning with this one.
I'm trying to retrieve the next character of a character. A->B, B->C, ...., Z->A
using this code:
import java.util.*; import java.text.*; public class Letter { private char letter; public Letter() { // initialise instance variables letter = 'A'; } // Method public char getLetter() { return letter; } public char next(){ int intChar; intChar = this.letter.charCodeAt(); } }
The idea is (example) to convert 'A' to ASCII code (65), increase it (66) and convert this to 'B'
I know char is a primitive type, not an object. I tried several things with Character. No succes. What is going wrong.
The compiler complains about .charCodeAt: char cannot be dereferenced


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"Cabin in the Woods" achieves a level of laughs, scares and craftsmanship that is exceedingly rare in the hybrid genre of horror-comedy. Just as impressive, the film masterfully deconstructs the horror genre, picking it apart trope by trope, without being overly cute or ironic. Director Drew Goddard, and his co-writer Joss Whedon, both clearly love a scary movie, but recognize that they often hinge on unspeakable stupidity.
The film is essentially the bloodiest and funniest episode of "Scooby Doo" ever made, with Scooby himself being the only element missing. There's a gangly redheaded stoner (Fran Kranz), a buff blonde slab of beefcake (Chris Hemsworth, now known as Thor, was an unknown when this was filmed), and two girls--one kinda sexy (Anna Hutchinson), the other more demure (Kristen Connolly). Heck, there's even a crusty old man whom they meet when they stop to get gas for their camper who tries to warn them not to go any farther. But of course they do, much to their ultimate chagrin.
Even to a young child, the frustrating thing about "Scooby Doo" was that the monsters were never real—why they continued to run in terror is anyone's guess. But not so here, as our heroes soon find themselves under siege from a relentless barrage of ghouls.
Along the way Goddard cleverly address a host of issues that have plagued horror films since "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Why on Earth do the kids in these films split up, thereby making it easy for the demons to pick them off one-by-one?
Goddard once worked for Whedon on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which was also where Marti Noxon honed her chops as a writer. Noxon's "Fright Night" was, like "Cabin," a deft blend of horror and comedy, proving that Whedon was running a tight ship over at "Buffy." Unfortunately, "Fright Night" was also one of 2011's criminally overlooked films, despite a great cast led by Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin. Why the film failed to find an audience, is anybody's guess. Let's hope "Cabin" doesn't suffer the same fate.
"Cabin in the Woods" is one of those films that's best seen knowing as little as possible. Yes, this is true of most films, but in an age when trailers have trailers, we're often inundated by so many spoilers, much of the magic can be lost. To go on at length in an effort to convince you to see it would inevitably take some of the shine off it—just believe us when we say that if you have a single horror-loving bone in your body, "Cabin in the Woods" is probably as much fun as you could hope to have this year.


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"At the end, no winner was declared in the face-off between pens and lenses. And that's a good thing. Whether with a pen or a camera, the act of recording things visually forces us to pay attention to our surroundings. It helps us see things with new eyes when we take the time to look. And that's all that matters." Gabriel Campanario, fundador do Movimento Internacional Urban Sketchers
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Welcome to the ALA Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) wiki
This wiki contains the most current GODORT information, including the GODORT Bylaws, Policies and Procedures Manual (PPM), and Directory. While many GODORT resources remain on the GODORT Web site, the Bylaws, PPM, and directory links on that site should not be used as this wiki contains the current information.
What is GODORT? GODORT is the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association.
The purposes of the Government Documents Round Table are:
(a) to provide a forum for the discussion of problems and concerns and for the exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents;
(b) to provide a nexus for initiating and supporting programs to increase the availability, use and bibliographic control of documents;
(c) to increase communication between documents librarians and the larger community of information professionals;
(d) to contribute to the education and training of documents librarians.
Who can be a member of GODORT?
Any member of ALA may elect to become a personal member of the Round Table upon payment of Round Table annual dues. Only Round Table members who are personal members of ALA receive the right to vote and hold office. ALA and GODORT offer special student membership dues rates for library school students.
- 1 2018 ALA Midwinter Conference - Denver, CO
- 2 2017 ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, IL
- 3 2017 ALA Midwinter Conference - Atlanta, GA
- 4 GODORT Fireside Chats
- 5 2016 ALA Annual Conference - Orlando, FL
- 6 2016 ALA Midwinter Conference - Boston, MA
- 7 2015 Annual ALA Conference - San Francisco, CA
- 8 GPO is Now the Government Publishing Office
- 9 GODORT Statements in response to COL FDLP task force survey 2014
- 10 The Serial Set: Its Make-up and Content
- 11 News and Announcements
- 12 Join or learn more about GODORT
- 13 GODORT Communication
- 14 Future of the FDLP Resources
- 15 GODORT Projects
- 16 Getting started on the wiki
2018 ALA Midwinter Conference - Denver, CO
Meetings and Events at Midwinter 2018
GODORT Social Events at ALA Midwinter 2018
- GODORT Happy Hour <http://connect.ala.org/node/272484>, Friday, February 9th, 4:00-6:30PM at Tarantula Billiards Bar & Grill <http://tarantulabilliards.com> 1520 Stout Street, Denver <https://goo.gl/maps/3ZeVQVGtwJF2>. All are welcome to attend!
- Research Round Robin <http://connect.ala.org/node/272485>,
Saturday February 10th, 3:00-4:00PM, Colorado Convention Center, Rm 712
All are welcome to join an informal discussion of existing and envisioned research projects related to government information content and access. We'll talk about documents, data, and media; collections, services, preservation, and much more!
- Government Information Preservation Forum <http://connect.ala.org/node/272486>,
Sunday, February 11th, 1:00-2:30PM, Grand Hyatt, Mt. Yale
Join GODORT to continue the government information preservation conversation as we ask, "where do we go from here?"
2017 ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, IL
Meetings and Events at ALA Annual 2017
Membership Vote on Bylaws Changes at 2017 Annual
GODORT Social Events at ALA Annual 2017
- GODORT Happy Hour, Friday, June 23, 4:30-6:30 at Miller's Pub, 134 S. Wabash Ave. Many thanks to our Happy Hour sponsor, Hein!
- 2017 GODORT Reception and Awards Ceremony Sunday, June 25th, 6:00 - 8:00pm at Kasbeer Hall 15th Floor of Corboy Law Center, Loyola University, Water Tower Campus, 25 East Pearson Street, Chicago IL 60611
Please RSVP by June 16th
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2017 ALA Midwinter Conference - Atlanta, GA
- GODORT Meetings at 2017 Midwinter
- GODORT Happy Hour! Sunday, January 22, 4:30-6:30. Pulse bar, Marriott Marquis Atlanta (265 Peachtree Center Avenue) view/download invitation
Membership Votes on Bylaws Changes at 2017 Midwinter
GODORT Fireside Chats
The Fireside Chats are ongoing conversations between GODORT leaders and members to address the future of the group.
- Recording of September 4, 2015 Fireside Chat with GODORT Chair and Past Chair
- Recording of October 9, 2015 Chat with Task Force Coordinators
- Recording of Nov 5, 2015 Chat with the Committee chairs from Education, Rare and Endangered, and Cataloging
- Recording of Jan 29, 2016 Chat about GODORT and advocacy with the Chair of Legislation and GODORT Councilor
- Recording of May 17, 2016 Fireside Chat: Last Lecture
2016 ALA Annual Conference - Orlando, FL
Join GODORT at ALA Annual 2016 in Orlando
- GODORT Meetings at ALA Annual
- GODORT and Other Meetings of Interest Grid
- bigger list of GODORT and Other Meetings of Interest Handout (ALA Annual 2016)
- Vendors distributing Government Information & Documents (ALA Annual 2016) + GODORT Guide to Elections Resources
GODORT Programs at ALA Annual 2016
- GODORT 101 Friday, June 24, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Hilton Orlando, Room Lake Highland A. (GODORT 101 Session Slides)
- Government Data Centers: A Look Under the Hood Monday, June 27th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Orange County Convention Center, Room W102A. View this Program on the ALA Schedule.
GODORT Social Events at ALA Annual 2016
- GODORT Happy Hour, Friday, June 24, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM at David's Club Bar & Grill in the Hilton Orlando, 6001 Destination Parkway, Orlando, FL, 32819.
- 2016 GODORT Reception and Awards Ceremony Sunday, June 26th, 5:30 - 7:30 in the Courtyard at the UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management, 9907 Universal Blvd, Orlando.
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Many thanks to our event hosts, without whom there would be no reception: Bernan, East View Information Services, GODORT, Marcive, Inc., OECD, ProQuest, Readex/NewsBank, Renouf Publishing Company, WorldBank Group.
2016 ALA Midwinter Conference - Boston, MA
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2015 Annual ALA Conference - San Francisco, CA
Join GODORT at ALA Annual 2015 in San Francisco
- GODORT Meetings at 2015 Annual No crossing Market Street on Sunday! (see note below)
- GODORT and Other Meetings of Interest Grid
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GODORT Programs at ALA Annual 2015
- Data Visualization in the Library: Collections, Tools and Scalable Services - GODORT/MAGIRT Joint Program, Saturday June 27, 1:00-4:00 p.m., Moscone Convention Center, 3001 (W)
- State Government Information and the Copyright Conundrum Program - GODORT Program, Monday June 29, 2015, 1:00-2:30 p.m., Moscone Convention Center, 2018 (W)
GODORT Social Events at ALA Annual 2015
- GODORT Happy Hour Friday, June 26, 2015 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Press Club (20 Yerba Buena Ln, San Francisco)
- 2015 GODORT Reception and Awards Ceremony Sunday, June 28th, 2015 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Cartoon Art Museum (655 Mission St, San Francisco CA 94105)
Follow this link for more Reception details: Powtoon Invitation Space is limited but you don't have to be a GODORT member to attend. Please RSVP [RSVP has closed as of 6/19/15] Many thanks to our event hosts who made this possible: Bernan, Data-Planet, GODORT, LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, Marcive, Inc., OCLC, OECDiLibrary, Paratext, ProQuest, Readex/NewsBank, Renouf Publishing Company, World Bank
No crossing Market Street on Sunday!
San Francisco's Pride Parade will take place on Sunday, June 28. The parade route runs down Market Street; thus, Market Street will be closed from approximately 6:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. The Moscone Convention Center and the Marriott Marquis are located on the south side of Market Street; all other hotels are on the north side.
- No one is allowed to cross Market Street during this period, even if there are breaks in the parade, including before the parade kicks off at 10:30 a.m. Your options are:
- Walk around the parade route
- Cut through the BART stations that go under Market Street (note there is ongoing construction at Powell St. which may cause long lines to exit)
- Take a conference shuttle bus. You can check the shuttle bus schedule here: http://alaac15.ala.org/files/alaac15/AC15_ShuttleFlyer_Final060315.pdf. Buses will start running at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, one hour earlier than normal.
More information about the Pride Parade and other events taking place this coming weekend can be found here: www.sfpride.org.
GPO is Now the Government Publishing Office
"An agency whose mission has been producing, publishing, and recording our Nation's history has made some history of its own. Section 1301 of H.R. 83, the legislation providing consolidated and further continuing appropriations for FY 2015 that was recently passed by Congress and signed into law last night by President Barack Obama, changes the name of the Government Printing Office to the Government Publishing Office. Publishing reflects the increasingly prominent role that GPO plays in providing access to Government information in digital formats through the agency's Federal Digital System, apps, eBooks, and related technologies. The information needs of Congress, Federal agencies, and the public have evolved beyond only print and GPO has transformed itself to meet its customers' needs." (from GPO Press Release)
Read the full GPO Press Release
Link to H.R. 83
GODORT Statements in response to COL FDLP task force survey 2014
The Serial Set: Its Make-up and Content
This book about various subjects, formats and time periods covered in the U.S. Serial Set is edited by Andrea Sevetson, a longtime member of GODORT, and many of the chapters are authored by GODORT members. The price of the book is $80.00. Proquest is donating all profits from the sale of the book to GODORT.
Read Barbara Miller's review in Government Information Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2015
Title Page and Table of Contents
News and Announcements
- Public Printer Names New Members to Depository Library Council Congratulations to David Cismowski, Daniel Cornwall, John Richard Gause, Jr., Scott Matheson, and Teri Taylor!
- FDLP Issues Within ALA Group established on ALA Connect. GODORT members are encouraged to join and participate in the discussion.
- GODORT Occasional Paper 6 published. - Details at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/GODORT_Occasional_Papers June, 2011.
- Actions Taken by the ALA Council at the 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting Annotated to Include Votes by the GODORT Councilor - posted 2/3/11
- Three GODORT members elected as at-large members of ALA Council. Congratulations to Mary Mallory, Barbara Miller, and Larry Romans!
- ALA Connect replaced the GODORT email list following the 2010 ALA Annual Conference - Details at http://connect.ala.org/node/99001
- The final recommendations of the ad hoc Committee on Communications have been approved by GODORT Steering - June 2010
Join or learn more about GODORT
Visit our New and Prospective Members page.
GODORT Communication
- GODORT on ALA Connect - Official GODORT channel for announcements and discussion, allows members to view members-only material and to choose options for email updates
- Documents to the People (DttP) - Official GODORT channel, members receive quarterly print issues and access to older issues online
- GODORT blog - Unofficial GODORT channel
Future of the FDLP Resources
Check out the Future of the FDLP Resources This page outlines current and historical documentation related to discussions of the future of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
GODORT Projects
- Education Committee Projects
- GODORT Exchange - Designed to assist with the successful management of government information, the Exchange is a set of resources providing access to government information librarian created content in one place. Find content or contribute your own to share with others.
- Competencies - Targeted to beginning government information librarians and to general reference librarians. Includes a survey and separate parts for federal, state, & international competencies.
- Pt. 1 - Federal Government Information Competencies and Guide Approved at ALA Annual 2011
- Pt. 2 - State Government Information Competencies - State Agencies Databases. Since state information varies widely, the State and Local Task Force decided proficiency in using these databases would demonstrate competency.
- Pt. 3 - International Government Information Competencies
- Annotated Bibliography on Librarian Education in Government Documents
- E-Government References for Further Reading | MS Word version
- Library Schools with Government Information Courses
- International Documents taskforce (IDTF) projects:
- IGO/NGO search: A project using Google to create a search engine for Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
- Publishing Policies and Practices: a project to document acquisitions and collection development information specific to international organizations, national governments and the vendors with whom they work.
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b. June 15, 1959
d. Aug. 23, 1974, Yuma Co. Az.
COD: Injured when tractor he was driving turned over
s/o Bill & Patricia Ann Murphy
Last resided in Kirkland, Az.
Site # S/024/B
Ruffner Funeral Home, Prescott, Az.
Buried March 29, 1976
Contributed on 7/17/11 by jlwight
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Record #: 80443
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Submitted: 7/17/11 • Approved: 7/17/11 • Last Updated: 5/5/19 • R80443-G0-S3